General Motors announced this morning that effective April 1st, 2011, Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chairman Chris Liddell will leave the company after just over a year of service with the company calling all of the financial shots around the world.

Late last month, Ford Motor Company announced a recall of around 150,000 units of the Ford F150 pickup over a concern of airbags deploying on their own but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reportedly wants Ford to recall a great deal more, spurring a congressional hearing on the matter.

While the sales figures aren’t setting the world on fire, the 2011 Chevrolet Volt is currently winning the war for the top electric car in the US market but with deliveries slowed by lagging production, GM is planning to add a second shift for Volt production starting early in 2012.

While it isn’t the fastest vehicle in the BMW M series lineup of high performance vehicles, the new 1-Series M Coupe is one of the most eagerly anticipated cars to come from BMW in years and you can now build your own dream M Coupe on the BMWUSA.com website.

A recent post by NGV America says Mercedes-Benz is rolling out its new E 200 NGT BlueEFFICIENCY with bi-fuel natural gas drive to European sales partners this month, in parallel with its appearance at the Geneva Show.

The cost of anti-collision technology is getting cheaper thanks to a new microcontroller from Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. according to R. Colin Johnson, writing for EETimes.com. This new Qorivva 32-bit microcontrollers, based on Freescale's Power Architecture, will go a long way to make collision avoidance systems standard equipment on many more models, rather than just high-end luxury vehicles.

Having only been available in Japan since 1997 and elsewhere beginning in 2000, Toyota recently announced sales of hybrids have topped 3 million units as of February of this year. Remarkably, the last million have been sold in the short span of time since August 2009.

The folks at TrueCar.com have decided to have a little fun and ride the media wave (some would say disaster) that is Charlie Sheen by coming up with a list of The Top 10 Winning Cars for 2011 with the key phrase being winning, which is the former Two-and-a-Half Men star's buzzword.

During Richard Petty’s incredible racing career, he competed in a great many different makes and models of race cars but few stand out more than his legendary Plymouth Superbird and thanks to help from the folks at Heide Performance Products, Petty’s Garage is offering a modern, high performance Superbird based on the new Dodge Challenger.

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla expects to begin delivering their new electric luxury sedan – the Tesla Model S – in the middle of 2012 and the company has recently announced some production information, including a few drivetrain options and the price of the upcoming Tesla sedan.