GM, subprime car loans, um, did that work for houses?

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Here is the story about Government, ur, General Motors making more subprime loans to get people into their cars...are other companies doing this as well? Did anyone learn anything about this from the housing market and government pressuring banks to make subprime loans?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/28/GM-Increasing-Use-of-Subprime-Loans

[h=2]A story published Friday inInvestors Business Daily suggests part of GM growth can be attributed to increased use of subprime auto loans.[/h]As with home financing, a potential car buyer's credit score is rated on a scale between 300 and 850. In 2010, GM bought "subprime specialist" Americredit and renamed it GM Financial. GM Financial provides more than 8 percent of loans offered by GM. And of those, 93 percent are to buyers with credit scores below 660, the cutoff between prime and subprime.
Not only is government-owned GM making more subprime loans than before, the loans it is making are increasingly going to those with worse credit scores. IBD notes "From Q4 2010 to Q1 2012, GM Financial loans to customers with the worst FICO scores — below 540 — shot up 79% to more than $2.3 billion."
A GM spokesman says credit losses "have not risen above 5.5% since late 2010." However, that would certainly change if the country was to enter another recession. As we learned in 2008, risky loans don't appear to be a problem when the market is growing. It's only when the music stops that risky investments becomes losses. Given that the taxpayers still own 500 million shares of GM, this is a risk that concerns all of us.
 

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8 % * 93 % is 7.44 %

From zero to 7.44 %

Is this more than other industries?
 

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