Engine Shut Off Without Warning problems of the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze

My screen for the radio starts to flicker, and the entire car shuts down. After waiting for 5 or 10 minutes the car powers back up and starts. Another time, while I was still parked the radio starts to flicker again. So I turn off the car, but the key is stuck in the ignition and when you turn the key you get nothing. It doesn't start and you get no power. After waiting a few minutes again the car powers up on its own while key is still in the ignition. This also happened once while I was driving. Luckily I was just taking off, so I wasn't going very fast.

I was sitting in my vehicle with the engine running and the air conditioner on, since it is August and very hot in las vegas. I had been in my vehicle for approximately five minutes about to leave when my air conditioner stopped blowing cold air. I smelt an electrical smell in coming through the vents. Then my car shut off and smoke began pouring out from underneath the hood. I quickly exited my vehicle and called the fire department. Within a couple minutes, the entire front of my vehicle was in engulfed in flames. I have not done any mechanical maintenance or work to my vehicle recently. I had my oil changed approximately 1000 miles ago. I had not had any problems with my vehicle until it caught on fire spontaneously and randomly without warning.

Intermittently the anti-theft light goes on, without warning at an high speeds or when parked and shuts down all systems, immobilizing the car. This includes the radio, steering, motor. Two days ago I was driving and this happened, the car shut down, I couldn't steer or drive the car, a very dangerous situation. This has also happened when trying to start the car, the ant-theft system shuts down the car. There is no way to know when this will happen. When taken to auto dealer, the car works fine. The car has 66,000 miles. This has happened at least 6 times, but the last one was the worst, travelling at high speed and losing control of the car. What happened is similar to what happened with the ignition switch in cobalts where the car just stopped, that is pretty much what happened with me.

In April of 2013 my 2013 chevy Cruze shut off while attempting to drive off from a red light that just turned green, as soon as I stepped on the gas pedal the car just shut off. There were no other vehicles behind me so I immediately tried turning the car on but I had to put it park then start it again and continued en route and did not think anything of it. This happened twice within the next few months. The fourth incident I had a car full of family member and we were getting on the freeway on ramp slowing to come to a stop when the light turned green so as soon as I stepped on the gas pedal the car shut down and I had no control and was almost hit from behind luckily there was no car in the lane over so the truck behind me swerved into the next lane and I once again put the car in park started again and immediately called the dealership and took the vehicle into the dealership. I was told by the service department a few weeks later that they figured the problem was a low octane gas and I just needed to start using chevron only and they would give me $250 in chevron gas cards. I refused to pick up the car because I already only used chevron gas in the vehicle since I purchased it in December 2012 with only 3 miles. After 2 months of arguing back in forth about them not having a fix for the car I returned the rental and purchased a different vehicle elsewhere and filed a complaint with gm which also gave me the run around about the vehicle being fixed when it wasn't ever worked on to this day they have the car and I am now in collections and continuing this headache with gm. They said its not a recall but I have spoken to several other people including the rental company that has had the chevy Cruze shut off on them as well.