The next payment would have come to about $4 million a team.
From 1991 through this year, even though the center was not meeting expenses, those payments came to $198 million.
Interest and principal payments would come from the industry's resources.
Under current terms, large payments would be coming due starting next year.
Such an American special payment might come to at least $2 billion.
When the payments finally came due, many buyers just walked away from their cars.
Total payments came to $495,000 over the life of the contract.
The down payment on his house came from fishing, he said.
He estimated that the payment, including penalties and interest, would come to about $3,000.
Any payment would come from the agency's reserves, which total more than $4 billion.