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Undercover Investigation Exposes Deteriorating Auto Lending Standards...
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenOver the weekend we wrote a note about how the European auto lenders are becoming just about as ridiculously undisciplined as their counterparts in the United States. Apparently an ever-growing reliance of European millennials on lease financing has auto ABS investors worried about a potential crash in used car prices at some point in the not so distant future...that sound familiar to anyone?
But a new undercover investigation by the Daily Mail exposes just how "undisciplined" the auto lending market has become in England. Here are the headlines:
Reckless car loan salesmen exposed: How dealers are luring young drivers into massive debt by offering them new top-brand cars with NO cash up front
Salesman are offering customers cars worth up to £20,000 for no deposit
The deals make the customers pay back hundreds of pounds a month for years
The cars are being offered to those on low wages and with poor credit rating
Experts in the City fear the huge numbers could default and cause a crash
If drivers fall behind on payments the cars can be automatically repossessed