According to the Telegraph the most expensive address in the UK has seen its first repossessions in more than 14 years.
And Corby is streets ahead of the second most repossession-blighted local authority in the country, Barking and Dagenham, with 6.6 per 1,000.
A spokesperson for GMAC successor Ally said the company "requires its third party repossession agencies to follow certain procedures and all applicable laws when recovering a vehicle.
Repossessions in the second quarter represented just 0.05% of all outstanding loans.
The record figure comes as the number of landlord repossession claims – the first step of the legal process leading to an eviction – also rose.
The third ended in a successful repossession, the sad sack watching from his front porch as his sedan was hooked up to the tow truck and hauled out of sight.
The three-month figure represents a 7% fall on the number of home repossessions recorded in the second quarter of 2010 and takes the total number in the first half of 2011 to 18,100 compared with 19,500 in 2010.
But inside, the bold lines, stylish materials and careful use of bright colours against mainly white walls is a world away from the run-down repossession that the pair first looked round.
Yet the public who provided a bailout have had to pay a second time in terms of unemployment, house repossession and frozen wages, and a third time by a denial of legal redress.
On the contentious repossession rules, it wants more first homes to be exempt.
