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How Much Can I Borrow for a Vehicle?

What determines your vehicle loan borrowing capacity and how to maximise it.

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How much you can borrow for a vehicle depends on the asset, your business, and how the deal is documented. Here’s what sets the ceiling.

What drives your borrowing capacity

Lenders look at the vehicle’s value as security, your business income and existing commitments, your credit profile, and whether you’re going full-doc or low-doc. Funding runs from around $20k up to $10M+ for fleets, so most single-vehicle purchases are comfortably within range.

Low-doc caps

Low-doc (no full financials) is commonly available up to around $500k on asset-backed deals; beyond that, lenders usually want full financials to support the larger limit.

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