Transfer Of Financial Assets Accounted For As Sales, New Total Eligible Amount To Be Sold

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Transfer Of Financial Assets Accounted For As Sales, Number Of Agreement Types

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Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to purchases of previously transferred financial assets (or its underlying collateral) related to a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets).

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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-Publisher FASB
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The cash outflow for the purchase of amounts due from customers, clients, lessees, borrowers, or others under the terms of its agreements therewith.

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Reflects, by transferred financial asset type, the amount of sales proceeds in excess of or deficient from the sum of the carrying amounts of transferred financial assets plus transaction costs, including those transactions in which the seller/transferor has continuing involvement with the financial assets that have been transferred.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of derecognized financial assets from transactions which comprise an initial transfer and an agreement entered into in contemplation of the initial transfer resulting in retention of substantially all of the exposure to the economic return throughout the term of the transaction, at the date of derecognition.

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Finance Receivable Sale Agreements - Narrative (Details)		12 Months Ended
	May 07, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) agreementType	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Jan. 13, 2023 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2022 USD ($)	Mar. 22, 2022 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($)
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Number of agreement types \| agreementType		2
Subsequent Event
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Line of credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity (up to)						$ 300,000,000
Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement \| Revolving Credit Facility \| Ally Bank \| Line of Credit
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Line of credit facility, maximum borrowing capacity (up to)	$ 350,000,000
Consumer Loan
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Payments to repurchase financing receivables	34,000,000
Payments for purchase of finance receivables					$ 128,000,000
Consumer Loan \| Debt And Other Liabilities
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Payments to repurchase financing receivables	106,000,000
Consumer Loan \| Financing Receivable
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Payments to repurchase financing receivables	$ 140,000,000
Consumer Loan \| MPSA
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Commitment of purchaser, current availability financing, principal balances of finance receivables (up to)								$ 5,000,000,000	$ 5,000,000,000	$ 4,000,000,000
Principal balances of finance receivables through securitization transactions, sold		$ 3,800,000,000	$ 2,100,000,000	$ 2,200,000,000
Consumer Loan \| MPSA \| Subsequent Event
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Commitment of purchaser, current availability financing, principal balances of finance receivables (up to)							$ 4,000,000,000
Consumer Loan \| Master Purchase and Sale Agreement and Master Transfer Agreements
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Gain on loan sales		411,000,000	718,000,000	218,000,000
Consumer Loan \| 2017 Master Transfer Agreement
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Principal balances of finance receivables through securitization transactions, sold					$ 139,000,000
Securitization Transaction
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Principal balances of finance receivables through securitization transactions, sold		$ 2,400,000,000	5,000,000,000	900,000,000
Fixed Pool Loan
Securitization or Asset-backed Financing Arrangement, Financial Asset for which Transfer is Accounted as Sale [Line Items]
Principal balances of finance receivables through securitization transactions, sold			$ 0	$ 320,000,000