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Your three to five year old Toyota Prius or Ford Focus may not be worth what it was in June, at the recent peak of gasoline prices, but it’s still likely worth 10% to 30% more than it was at the beginning of the year, according to the latest projections from the NADA Used Car Guide due out Friday, reports the Auto Monster Cars Blog.

As I've written before, my husband owns a Prius. The funniest thing is that we didn't actually buy a Prius to conserve gas. Here are the pros and cons we see of owning a Prius.

Case in point: the new Honda Civic HF, a model that Consumer Reports recommends avoiding if a driver is looking to save money. High MPG ratings from the EPA look attractive to drivers right now with fuel prices skyrocketing, but it's important that car buyers keep things in perspective.

Reports from credit agencies aren’t the only files on your behavior. There are other companies that collect information on your various consumer habits. These reports can be accessed by interested third parties, and might impact decisions about you.

While the world may have yet to see its first mass-marketed, functioning hoverboard, Ford Motor Company's going back to the future to forecast self-driving cars for the coming years.

Bill Ford Jr, the great-grandson of motoring pioneer Henry Ford and executive chairman of Ford, recently told an international conference that self-driving cars could be populating roads worldwide as soon as 2017.

Toyota has been a constant in the mainstream media over the last few months and it seems things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. Earlier this week it was announced that Toyota has more than 320 pending lawsuits in federal and state court