Pays $220 Million After Lawsuit Over Illegally Selling Drivers' Data: TDS

General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to 36 states to settle allegations that it sold drivers’ data to brokers, who then provided it to insurance companies that used it to raise rates. The settlement also calls for a third-party audit of GM’s privacy programs to ensure the practice doesn’t recur. In other updates, Honda confirmed at SEMA in Las Vegas that an upcoming HRC version of the Civic Type R—first teased as a concept in January at the Tokyo Auto Salon—will be sold in the U.S., featuring aero upgrades and an Akrapovic exhaust, with rumors of an engine revision using experience from Japan’s Super Taikyu. Volkswagen also suspended all-electric Golf development in Wolfsburg.