With $1,000 down and payments of $369 per month; you can lease a Mercedes c250 with leather seats, navigation and rear back up camera.
The whole "It's who you know, not what you know" moniker is really tried and true. My whole family's worked for Ford, from my grandfather, my father, uncles and cousins, on down to my brother. I'll be getting a new 2014 Mustang GT that actually went into construction today, and I'll be leasing for considerably less than a Fiesta.
Leasing is pretty dumb unless you are writing it off through work...or have one of those hookups listed. hoop fam
I wonder if the banking field isn't getting overzealous again. After the crash to get a home loan you needed to put 20% down so the crisis wouldn't repeat. Now, you can buy a home with 3.5% down. I don't trust that the too big to fail idea didn't doom America to repeat our problems.
Like I said, we're still uber-fucked. The next year will be crazy then when interest rates go up everything is going to fall off a cliff.