Ok so just playing around on gmr, suddenly my money starts pouring away all the way down to like nothing (from 2 and a half million) and the game decides I've (sort of) become nothing again because the joining message about starting money appeared, despite all my car parts remaining fully upgraded and all g-flops intact O.o
While I really don't care about the money since it's worthless, take this more of a bug report than anything, might be worth a look into. Apparently Redzi22 also said this happened to him a couple months back.
Weird