Essentially, auto loans are secured loans, with the vehicle itself acting as a sort of collateral against default (i.e., if you don't pay back your loan, the lender can sell the car to get their money back), which
means less risk to the lender.
Not exact matches
In practise though,
lenders aren't so keen on that scenario, they would rather have shareholders sharing the
risk, and lending a
less than 100 % proportion of the total of a companies finance
means they are much more likely
to get their money back if things go horribly wrong.
Banks deal with
less risk meaning that they can offer rates as low as 2.7 %
to customers but if private
lenders take this approach, it could have dire consequences.
This
means that a borrower still owns 15 % of the property, which is sufficient for our private
lender but anything
less than that is too huge a
risk to bear.