lampy2k4 said:it would take some balls to do that (because media will be all over the "poor disabled woman") but perhaps that would teach some lessons to these people who can't reap what they sow.

I doubt people will feel bad for her though. If she got a 700K house then maybe "evil bank trying to kick disabled person out of her house" would work, but with a 100K car probably wouldn't.

On a side note, I think I know what might inspire her law suite Link This one ended up spending a year in mental institution, and settled with AMEX without paying anything.

This woman sounds like the type of person that posts on Creditboards.

My favorite part:

"a $30,000 down payment which consisted of her entire retirement savings."

I actually believe the dealer based on that & what he stated:

She was so passionate about wanting that car and would have done anything to get that car," Long said.

Cue a screening of 'Idiocracy'

...idiot.

CoffeeEater said:$30k down payment + $1300 a month for a lease? Geez.

If you use a calculator on BMWNA, with 30K down, a monthly payment is $650-750 depending on the miles driven / yr. I'm pretty sure ~15K of her original downpayment ended in salesperson's / finance manager's pockets.

I was about to buy a used 2006 converitable this weekend. But (unfortunately) after reading this news, I have decided to postpone my purchase.
The car I eyed , the original MSRP was more than 27k, but dealer is only asking for 17k now. I thought that is a good deal. But it looks like if I can wait a little longer, I can get an even better deal on other used cars.

Few sources have pointed out, 20% of the auto loan issued between 2005~2007 are subprime loans.
We should expect to see used (luxury) cars selling for pennies on dollar in the near future.

$10 to the first person to post a pic of the car parked outside Vivian's trailer.

raringvt said:$10 to the first person to post a pic of the car parked outside Vivian's trailer.

If you click the video on http://cbs5.com/local/auto.loan.defaults.2.645976.html , you will find out
she lives in a townhome with a 1 car garage. I am curious did she buy that townhome on subprime mortgage
too? Sooner or later, we would see the same woman crying on T.V. saying "they sold me a house I can not afford!!"

Did I qualify for that $10 ?

No offence or anything, but I don't understand the term "disability" very well. What kind of disabilities are there were you can go around driving (a $100,000 car no less!), but are considered unable to work? I mean even driving is a profession, isn't it?
Again, I am not trying to offend people who have medical problems, it is just that in other countries you can easily tell people who are on "disability" and most often drive cars that are modified to accomodate their specific medical situation.