{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"'Ghost car' finance fraud uncovered, Blue Motor Finance rumoured to be exiting, and Nissan to adjust Sunderland production – with Andrew Edmiston, episode 257","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/ghost-car-finance-fraud-uncovered-blue-motor-finance-rumoured-to-be-exiting-and-nissan-to-adjust-sunderland-production-with-andrew-edmiston-episode-257","audioUrl":"https://anchor.fm/s/45e120cc/podcast/play/119716114/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-8%2F97567ff2-4566-26f6-87f7-c1b01a2fa0b0.m4a","description":"Land Rover Discovery named Britain’s most unreliable used car as brand dominates listRevealed: The used vehicles that even car dealers avoid buying at all costsBlue Motor Finance ‘teetering on the brink of collapse’ with £50m redress bill – reportsExclusive: Police investigating huge £10m ‘Ghost Car’ finance fraud after dealers ‘go rogue’Nissan to close production line at Sunderland plant as part of Europe-wide restructure\n"},"annotations":[{"startTime":224.1,"endTime":233.0,"type":"car","title":"Polestar 5","url":"/cars/polestar/5","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/2024_Polestar_3_2.jpg","quote":"No, I've been on a, I went on a Polestar launch, which was quite exciting.\n[228.8s] Which one?\n[230.0s] It was the Polestar 5, which is their big...","canonicalId":"car:polestar:5","priority":0.55,"confidence":0.95,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"Polestar 5 is Polestar’s flagship, positioned as a high-end electric grand tourer. 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They use the finance system to get money approved, then the lender later finds out something doesn’t match what was promised."}},{"startTime":2404.6,"endTime":2409.3,"type":"concept","title":"indemnify the lender","url":"/glossary/indemnify-the-lender","quote":"That money's disappeared. The dealer goes pop and the broker is unfortunately the one left holding the can because they indemnify the lender for that money they've lent.","canonicalId":"concept:indemnify-the-lender","priority":0.6,"confidence":0.86,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"To “indemnify the lender” means the broker promises to cover the lender’s losses if the deal goes wrong. In these scams, once the lender realizes the money was sent based on a fraudulent transaction, the broker can end up financially responsible.","simplifiedExplanation":"“Indemnify the lender” means the broker has to pay back the lender if the lender loses money. 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