Audi and Peugeot fight for the lead in the first six hours, but the main fact was the horrifying crash of Alan McNish's Audi.
Jerome d'Ambrosio will start Sunday's Canadian grand prix despite failing to qualify.
German driver Sebastian Vettel put his Renault-powered Red Bull RB7 on pole position for Sunday's Grand Prix du Canada held in Montreal.
BMW has lined up a run of 20 M3 Coupes for the U.S. market with a special Frozen Black Edition package to promote its BMW Individual custom-ordering program.
Also in today's show: General Motors says it won't sell Opel, the feds get blunt about distracted driving and we go inside the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
AAA is flagging June 10 as one of the 10 deadliest days for teenagers to be on the road. Recent crash data show that six of these 10 days fall between Memorial Day and Labor Day--and five are in July.
GM plans to invest $47 million to boost production of parts for fuel-efficient engines at its Defiance, Ohio, powertrain plant. Tooling and other equipment will be purchased to allow GM to increase components used in the automaker's Ecotec 1.
Chip Yates, Swigz.com Pro Racing USA team owner and driver who is fresh off a blistering top-speed run in the Mojave Desert, is now in Colorado Springs, Colo.
General Motors is changing up its certified used-vehicle program to include two years of oil changes, tire rotations and multipoint inspections, the company said on Friday.
Chrysler Financial has been renamed TD Auto Finance, after its new owner, TD Bank Group announced today. Toronto Dominion acquired Chrysler Financial in April for $6.3 billion from Cerberus Capital Management LP.
Toronto-Dominion Bank's new auto-lending unit is about 25 percent ahead of targets for signing agreements with U.S. car dealers. Toronto-Dominion acquired Chrysler Financial for about $6.
Toyota will face the first test trial in 2013 of lawsuits combined in federal court that claim a defect causes the automaker's vehicles to speed up uncontrollably, a judge said today in a provisional ruling. U.S. District Judge James V.
Tesla may lose an exemption that has allowed it to sell a $109,000 electric roadster with air bags that don't meet U.S. safety standards. NHTSA may stop giving waivers to an 11-year-old regulation that cars sold in the U.S.
The latest news in General Motors' ongoing US$2bn roll-out of investments in its US plants is a US$47m spend at Defiance Powertrain in Ohio.
Ford, weeks before entering contract talks with the UAW, plans to lay off 150 workers in New York state who make body panels for the soon-to-be-discontinued Lincoln Town Car.
Detroit area Cadillac dealer Don Massey, widely known as the Cadillac King, died early this morning. He was 83.