The car repo business is booming as Americans fall behind on their increasingly expensive car payments.

Tight household budgets are pushing drivers toward financial strain.

Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated 3 ...

When you signed the financing agreement that enabled you to buy a car on payments, you made a legally binding promise to make those payments on time every month. If you miss a single payment by 30 ...

A concerned grandson recently shared a troubling story that drew serious concern from the personal finance community: their grandfather had his car repossessed after falling behind on payments for a ...

ATLANTA — More Americans are falling behind on their car payments as 2025 comes to a close, with auto repossessions nearing levels not seen since the Great Recession. WSB consumer expert Clark Howard ...

A Georgia car dealership put the brakes on a young man’s ride when it repossessed his vehicle after allegedly stopping the automatic withdrawals he’d arranged for the sky-high 34.9% interest loan. (1) ...