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| **Variable Interest Entity and Securitizations [Abstract]** |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          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| VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES (As Restated)                    | NOTE 7. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES (As Restated)The Company transfers retail installment contracts and leases into newly-formed Trusts that then issue one or more classes of notes payable backed by collateral. The Company’s continuing involvement with the Trusts is in the form of servicing assets held by the Trusts and, generally, through holding residual interests in the Trusts. These transactions are structured without recourse. The Trusts are considered VIEs under GAAP and, when the Company holds the residual interest, are consolidated because the Company has: (a) power over the significant activities of the entity as servicer of its financial assets and (b) residual interest and, in some cases of debt securities held by the Company, an obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits from the VIE which are potentially significant to the VIE. When the Company does not retain any debt or equity interests in its securitizations or subsequently sells such interests it records these transactions as sales of the associated retail installment contracts.Revolving credit facilities generally also utilize Trusts that are considered VIEs. The collateral, borrowings under credit facilities and securitization notes payable of the Company's consolidated VIEs remain on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company recognizes finance charges and fee income on the retail installment contracts and leased vehicles and interest expense on the debt, and records a provision for loan losses to cover probable inherent losses on the contracts. All of the Trusts are separate legal entities and the collateral and other assets held by these subsidiaries are owned by them and not available to other creditors.NOTE 7. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES (As Restated) (continued)SCUSA also uses a titling trust to originate and hold its leased vehicles and the associated leases, in order to facilitate the pledging of leases to financing facilities or the sale of leases to other parties without incurring the costs and administrative burden of retitling the lease vehicles. This titling trust is considered a VIE.On-balance sheet variable interest entitiesThe following table summarizes the assets and liabilities related to the above mentioned VIEs that are included in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements as of the date indicated:   September 30, 2015 December 31, 2014       (in thousands)Assets    Restricted cash $1,756,312 $1,626,257Loans(1) 23,354,692 20,557,168Leased vehicles, net 6,062,106 4,848,593Various other assets 587,590 555,108Total Assets $31,760,700 $27,587,126Liabilities    Notes payable $30,461,521 $27,892,669Various other liabilities 83,815 55,795Total Liabilities 30,545,336 27,948,464(1)Includes $1.6 billion of RICs held for sale at September 30, 2015.The Company retains servicing responsibility for receivables transferred to the Trusts and receives a monthly servicing fee on the outstanding principal balance. Supplemental fees, such as late charges, for servicing the receivables are reflected in miscellaneous income. As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, the Company was servicing $26.9 billion and $23.2 billion, respectively, of retail installment contracts that have been transferred to consolidated Trusts. The remainder of the Company’s retail installment contracts remains unpledged.Below is a summary of the cash flows received from the Trusts for the period indicated:  Three-Month PeriodEnded September 30,  Nine-Month PeriodEnded September 30, Period from January 28, 2014 to September 30,   2015 2014 2015 2014       (in thousands)Receivables securitized $4,761,341 $3,166,785 $14,828,478 $10,499,489         Net proceeds from new securitizations 3,840,369 2,592,845 11,816,224 8,814,810Cash received for servicing fees 182,960 164,325 518,563 417,838Cash received upon release from reserved and restricted cash accounts — — — —Net distributions from Trusts 486,377 468,207 1,558,772 1,315,164Total cash received from securitization trusts $4,509,706 $3,225,377 $13,893,559 $10,547,812NOTE 7. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES (As Restated) (continued)Off-balance sheet variable interest entitiesThe Company has completed sales to VIEs that met sale accounting treatment in accordance with the applicable guidance. Due to the nature, purpose, and activity of these transactions, the Company determined for consolidation purposes that it either does not hold potentially significant variable interests or is not the primary beneficiary as a result of the Company's limited further involvement with the financial assets. For such transactions, the transferred financial assets are removed from the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. In certain situations, the Company remains the servicer of the financial assets and receives servicing fees that represent adequate compensation. The Company also recognizes a gain or loss in the amount of the difference between the cash proceeds and carrying value of the assets sold. During the three-month and nine-month periods endedSeptember 30, 2015, the Company sold zero and $768.6 million of gross RICs in an off-balance sheet securitization. For the three-month period endedSeptember 30, 2014, and the period from January 28, 2014 to September 30, 2014, the company sold $1.0 billion and $1.8 billion of gross RICs in off-balance sheet securitizations, respectively, for a gain of approximately $39.1 million and $71.6 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, the Company was servicing $2.2 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively, of gross RICs that have been sold in the off-balance sheet Chrysler Capital securitizations. As of September 30, 2014, the Company was servicing $2.4 billion of gross RICs that have been sold in these off-balance sheet Chrysler Capital securitizations. Other than repurchases of sold assets due to standard representations and warranties, the Company has no exposure to loss as a result of its involvement with these VIEs.A summary of the cash flows received from the off-balance Trusts for the periods indicated is as follows:  Three-Month PeriodEnded September 30,  Nine-Month PeriodEnded September 30, Period from January 28, 2014 to September 30,   2015 2014 2015 2014  (in thousands)Receivables securitized $— $1,028,278 $768,561 $1,802,461         Net proceeds from new securitizations $— $1,078,202 $785,983 $1,894,052Cash received for servicing fees 5,955 3,925 17,578 10,897Total cash received from securitization trusts $5,955 $1,082,127 $803,561 $1,904,949 During the three months ended September 30, 2015, the Company settled a transaction to sell its residual interests in certain Trusts and certain retained bonds in those Trusts to an unrelated third party. The Company received cash proceeds of $661.7 million for the three-month period endedSeptember 30, 2015 related to the sale of these residual interests and retained bonds. The Company retained an investment in the notes issued by one of these SDART trusts with a carrying value of $5.6 million, which also approximated fair value on the date of settlement. Each of these Trusts was previously determined to be a VIE. Prior to the sale of these residual interests, the associated Trusts were consolidated by the Company because the Company held a variable interest in each VIE and had determined that it was the primary beneficiary of the VIE. Although the Company will continue to service the loans in the associated Trusts and, therefore, will have the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the Trusts, the Company concluded that it was no longer the primary beneficiary of the Trusts upon the sale of its residual interests. As a result, the Company deconsolidated the assets and liabilities of the corresponding Trusts upon their sale.Upon settlement of these transactions in the third quarter of 2015, the Company de-recognized $1.9 billion in assets and $1.2 billion in notes payable and other liabilities of the trust. During the three-month period endedSeptember 30, 2015, the Company received cash of $5.9 million for servicing fees from the related trusts that were de-consolidated. |

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