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FCA issues warning on logbook loans

VULNERABLE people who use their car as security to take out a loan are finding themselves squeezed even harder financially and even threatened, the City regulator has found. The Financial Conduct Authority warned it will put firms offering logbook loans out of action if they do not "dramatically" improve their standards, after finding evidence of poor behaviour including little or no affordability checks being carried out and some applicants being encouraged to manipulate details of their income. It said lenders are failing to properly spell out exactly how expensive such debts will be, with the true cost often masked by an emphasis on "low" weekly repayments and key terms and conditions buried in small print.

Fiat 500: US Spec Fiat 500 revealed in LA

U.S. Spec Fiat 500 revealed at the Los Angeles Motor Show It would have been completely unthinkable just a few years ago; a small Fiat not just entering the US market but doing so amid much domestic anticipation and razzmatazz. But it’s happened – the car buyers of America have been introduced to the Fiat 500 at the Los Angeles Motor Show.

Raging Artists gives its take on the minivan

What would a minivan commercial look like if it was made by minivan drivers instead of agency suits? A lot less boring than you'd think, as it turns out. The Raging Artists public-relations firm created a strangely comedic video called “A Family Man is Still a Man” with a group of RA employees that owns four minivans among them.