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Ban cars from populated areas
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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The first time I heard about rolling negative equity I gasped audibly.
Cars are a depreciating asset unless they’re very rare. They’re always going to have negative equity. This is financial flim-flammery disguised with fancy corpo words.
Negative equity just means you owe more on something than it's worth. So whether you have negative equity on a car loan is a "it depends". On a new car, probably yes because of the big deprecation hit as soon as the car is driven off the lot, but on a car where the loan is almost paid off probably not.