The purpose of this consumer education module is to provide information and skills, and the ability to raise questions and find answers, while seeking the best automobile or motorcycle buy available for the money. The module may be used for a full or part semester course. The five sections (cars and the consumer, renting and leasing cars, cars and the energy crisis, cars and consumer safety, and cycles and the consumer) emphasize the improvement of consumer skills and the provision of specific information which can be put to immediate use. The subsections are presented in the form of detailed discussion of questions and topics that should be raised. In all subsections the material is organized under the headings of understandings, suggested pupil and teacher activities, and sources for further information. (SA)