Trust Agreement



 EXHIBIT 4.2 

 
  
 TRUST AGREEMENT 
 BETWEEN 

ALLY AUTO ASSETS LLC, 
 DEPOSITOR 
 AND 

BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, 
 OWNER TRUSTEE 
 DATED AS OF JANUARY 18, 2012 

 
  







 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
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	 ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
	  	 	1	  
			
	 SECTION 1.1
	 	DEFINITIONS	  	 	1	  
		
	 ARTICLE II ORGANIZATION
	  	 	1	  
			
	 SECTION 2.1
	 	NAME	  	 	1	  
	 SECTION 2.2
	 	OFFICE	  	 	2	  
	 SECTION 2.3
	 	PURPOSES AND POWERS	  	 	2	  
	 SECTION 2.4
	 	APPOINTMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	3	  
	 SECTION 2.5
	 	INITIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTION OF OWNER TRUST ESTATE	  	 	3	  
	 SECTION 2.6
	 	DECLARATION OF TRUST	  	 	3	  
	 SECTION 2.7
	 	LIABILITY OF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS	  	 	3	  
	 SECTION 2.8
	 	TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY	  	 	3	  
	 SECTION 2.9
	 	SITUS OF TRUST	  	 	4	  
	 SECTION 2.10
	 	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DEPOSITOR	  	 	4	  
	 SECTION 2.11
	 	TAX TREATMENT	  	 	5	  
		
	 ARTICLE III THE CERTIFICATES
	  	 	5	  
			
	 SECTION 3.1
	 	INITIAL CERTIFICATE OWNERSHIP	  	 	5	  
	 SECTION 3.2
	 	FORM OF THE CERTIFICATES	  	 	5	  
	 SECTION 3.3
	 	EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY	  	 	6	  
	 SECTION 3.4
	 	REGISTRATION OF CERTIFICATES; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND
EXCHANGE OF CERTIFICATES	  	 	6	  
	 SECTION 3.5
	 	MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN CERTIFICATES	  	 	8	  
	 SECTION 3.6
	 	PERSONS DEEMED CERTIFICATEHOLDERS	  	 	9	  
	 SECTION 3.7
	 	ACCESS TO LIST OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS’ NAMES AND
ADDRESSES	  	 	9	  
	 SECTION 3.8
	 	MAINTENANCE OF CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE	  	 	9	  
	 SECTION 3.9
	 	APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT	  	 	10	  
	 SECTION 3.10
	 	DEPOSITOR AS CERTIFICATEHOLDER	  	 	10	  
		
	 ARTICLE IV ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE
	  	 	11	  
			
	 SECTION 4.1
	 	PRIOR NOTICE TO CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
MATTERS	  	 	11	  
	 SECTION 4.2
	 	ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN
MATTERS	  	 	11	  
	 SECTION 4.3
	 	ACTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO BANKRUPTCY	  	 	11	  
	 SECTION 4.4
	 	RESTRICTIONS ON CERTIFICATEHOLDERS’ POWER	  	 	12	  
	 SECTION 4.5
	 	MAJORITY CONTROL	  	 	12	  
		
	 ARTICLE V APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES
	  	 	12	  
			
	 SECTION 5.1
	 	ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION ACCOUNT	  	 	12	  
	 SECTION 5.2
	 	APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS	  	 	13	  
	 SECTION 5.3
	 	METHOD OF PAYMENT	  	 	14	  
	 SECTION 5.4
	 	ACCOUNTING AND REPORTS TO THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS, THE
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND OTHERS	  	 	14	  
	 SECTION 5.5
	 	SIGNATURE ON RETURNS; OTHER TAX MATTERS	  	 	14	  
		
	 ARTICLE VI THE OWNER TRUSTEE
	  	 	15	  
			
	 SECTION 6.1
	 	DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	15	  
	 SECTION 6.2
	 	RIGHTS OF OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	16	  
	 SECTION 6.3
	 	ACCEPTANCE OF TRUSTS AND DUTIES	  	 	16	  
	 SECTION 6.4
	 	ACTION UPON INSTRUCTION BY CERTIFICATEHOLDERS	  	 	18	  
	 SECTION 6.5
	 	FURNISHING OF DOCUMENTS	  	 	18	  


  
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	 SECTION 6.6
	 	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	18	  
	 SECTION 6.7
	 	RELIANCE; ADVICE OF COUNSEL	  	 	19	  
	 SECTION 6.8
	 	OWNER TRUSTEE MAY OWN CERTIFICATES AND NOTES	  	 	20	  
	 SECTION 6.9
	 	COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY	  	 	20	  
	 SECTION 6.10
	 	REPLACEMENT OF OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	20	  
	 SECTION 6.11
	 	MERGER OR CONSOLIDATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	21	  
	 SECTION 6.12
	 	APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE OR SEPARATE TRUSTEE	  	 	21	  
	 SECTION 6.13
	 	ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR OWNER TRUSTEE	  	 	23	  
	 SECTION 6.14
	 	COMPLIANCE WITH THE FDIC RULE	  	 	23	  
		
	 ARTICLE VII TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT
	  	 	23	  
			
	 SECTION 7.1
	 	TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT	  	 	23	  
		
	 ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS
	  	 	24	  
			
	 SECTION 8.1
	 	AMENDMENTS WITHOUT CONSENT OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OR
NOTEHOLDERS	  	 	24	  
	 SECTION 8.2
	 	AMENDMENTS WITH CONSENT OF CERTIFICATEHOLDERS AND NOTEHOLDERS	  	 	25	  
	 SECTION 8.3
	 	FORM OF AMENDMENTS	  	 	26	  
		
	 ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS
	  	 	26	  
			
	 SECTION 9.1
	 	NO LEGAL TITLE TO OWNER TRUST ESTATE	  	 	26	  
	 SECTION 9.2
	 	LIMITATIONS ON RIGHTS OF OTHERS	  	 	26	  
	 SECTION 9.3
	 	DERIVATIVE ACTIONS	  	 	27	  
	 SECTION 9.4
	 	NOTICES	  	 	27	  
	 SECTION 9.5
	 	SEVERABILITY	  	 	27	  
	 SECTION 9.6
	 	COUNTERPARTS	  	 	27	  
	 SECTION 9.7
	 	SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS	  	 	27	  
	 SECTION 9.8
	 	NO PETITION	  	 	28	  
	 SECTION 9.9
	 	NO RECOURSE	  	 	28	  
	 SECTION 9.10
	 	HEADINGS	  	 	29	  
	 SECTION 9.11
	 	GOVERNING LAW	  	 	29	  
	 SECTION 9.12
	 	INDEMNIFICATION BY AND REIMBURSEMENT OF THE SERVICER	  	 	29	  
	 SECTION 9.13
	 	EFFECT OF AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT	  	 	29	  
	 SECTION 9.14
	 	INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED BY THE OWNER
TRUSTEE	  	 	29	  

  

			
	 EXHIBIT A
	 	Form of Certificate
		
	 EXHIBIT B
	 	Certificate of Trust
		
	 EXHIBIT C
	 	Form of Undertaking Letter


  
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 TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of January 18, 2012, between ALLY AUTO ASSETS LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, in its capacity as a depositor (the “Depositor”), and BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee and not in its individual capacity (the “Owner Trustee”).

 WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee previously entered into a certain Trust Agreement, dated November 22, 2011
(the “Original Trust Agreement”), that contemplated this Trust Agreement; and 
 WHEREAS, the Depositor and the
Owner Trustee desire hereby to amend and restate the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, the Depositor
and the Owner Trustee hereby agree as follows: 
 ARTICLE I 

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 
 Section 1.1 Definitions. Certain capitalized terms used in this Trust Agreement shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in Part I of Appendix A to the Servicing Agreement of even date
herewith among the Depositor, the Servicer and the Trust (as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time, the “Servicing Agreement”). All references herein to “the Agreement” or “this
Agreement” are to this Trust Agreement. All references herein to Articles, Sections and subsections are to Articles, Sections and subsections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The rules of construction set forth in Part
II of Appendix A to the Servicing Agreement shall be applicable to this Agreement. 
 ARTICLE II 

ORGANIZATION 
 Section 2.1 Name. The Trust continued hereby shall be known as Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2012-1, in which name the Owner Trustee may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts
and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued on behalf of the Trust. The Owner Trustee has filed the Certificate of Trust on behalf of the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Act. 







 Section 2.2 Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the Owner Trustee at
the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the Certificateholders and the Depositor. 
 Section 2.3 Purposes and Powers. The purpose of the Trust is, and the Trust shall have the power and authority, to engage in the following activities: 

(a) to acquire, manage and hold the Receivables; 

(b) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell, transfer or
exchange the Notes and the Certificates; 
 (c) to acquire certain property and assets from the Depositor on the
Closing Date pursuant to the Trust Sale Agreement and any other Further Transfer Agreements, to make payments to the Noteholders and the Certificateholders, to make deposits into and withdrawals from the Reserve Account and to pay the
organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust; 
 (d) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge,
mortgage and convey the Owner Trust Estate pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the Servicing Agreement any portion of the Trust Estate
released from the lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture; 
 (e) to enter into and perform
its obligations and exercise its rights under the Basic Documents to which it is to be a party; 
 (f) to enter
into interest rate swaps and caps and forward contracts, only in connection with the Offered Notes on the Closing Date; 
 (g) [reserved]; 
 (h) to engage in those activities, including
entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and 
 (i) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the
Securityholders. 
 The Trust shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents. 

  
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 Section 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby appoints the Owner
Trustee as trustee of the Trust to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein. 
 Section 2.5 Initial Capital
Contribution of Owner Trust Estate. The Depositor sold, assigned, transferred, conveyed and set over to the Owner Trustee, as of November 22, 2011, the sum of one dollar. The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges receipt in trust from the
Depositor, as of November 22, 2011, of the foregoing contribution which constituted the initial Owner Trust Estate. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee,
promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee. 
 Section 2.6 Declaration of
Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares that it shall hold the Owner Trust Estate (in the name of the Trust and not in the Owner Trustee’s name for the Trust, except as required by, and in accordance with, Section 2.8) in trust
upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a statutory
trust under the Statutory Trust Act, that this Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust and that the Certificates represent the beneficial interests therein. The rights of the Certificateholders shall be determined as
set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Act and the relationship between the parties hereto created by this Agreement shall not constitute indebtedness for any purpose. Effective as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights,
powers and duties set forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Act with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. 

Section 2.7 Liability of the Certificateholders. Certificateholders and holders of beneficial interests therein shall be entitled
to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. 
 Section 2.8 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the Owner Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where applicable law in any jurisdiction
requires title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be deemed to be transferred to and vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be. Any
such trustee shall take such part of the Owner Trust Estate subject to the security interest of the Indenture Trustee therein established under the Indenture. Such trustee’s acceptance of its appointment shall constitute acknowledgment of such
security interest and shall constitute a Grant to the Indenture Trustee of a security interest in all property held by such trustee. Any such trustee shall prepare and file all such financing statements naming such trustee as debtor that are
necessary or advisable to perfect, make effective or continue the lien and security interest of the Indenture Trustee. 

  
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 Section 2.9 Situs of Trust. The Trust shall be located and administered in the States
of Delaware or New York. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the State of New York. The Trust shall not have any employees in any State other than the State of
Delaware; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the State of Delaware. Payments shall be received by the Trust only in the State of Delaware or the
State of New York, and payments shall be made by the Trust only from the State of Delaware or the State of New York. The only office of the Trust shall be the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee in the State of Delaware. 

Section 2.10 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor. The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee
that: 
 (a) The Depositor has been duly formed and is validly existing as an entity in good standing under the
laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its business as such properties are presently owned and such business is presently conducted and had at all relevant times, and now has, power, authority
and legal right to acquire and own the Receivables contemplated to be transferred to the Trust pursuant to the Trust Sale Agreement. 
 (b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign entity in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of
property or the conduct of its business requires such qualifications. 
 (c) The Depositor has the power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and any other Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party and to carry out its terms, the Depositor has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned to and
deposited with the Trust as part of the Owner Trust Estate and the Depositor has duly authorized such sale and assignment to the Trust by all necessary limited liability company action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
have been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary limited liability company action. 
 (d) The
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party, and the fulfillment of the terms of this Agreement and any other Basic Documents to which the Depositor is a party do
not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the certificate of formation or limited liability company agreement of the Depositor, or any
indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party or by which it is bound, or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other
instrument (other than pursuant to the Basic Documents), or violate any law or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or State regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or any of its properties. 

  
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 Section 2.11 Tax Treatment. As long as the Depositor or an Affiliate that is treated
as the same Person as the Depositor for federal income tax purposes is the sole owner of the Certificates, the Depositor and Owner Trustee, by entering into this Agreement, express their intention that the Trust will be disregarded for federal
income tax purposes and will be treated as a division of the Depositor (or, if the Depositor is disregarded as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, the Depositor’s first direct or indirect parent entity that is not disregarded as
a separate entity for federal income tax purposes). If the Depositor is not the sole owner of the Certificates, through sale of the Certificates, issuance by the Trust of additional Certificates to a Person other than the Depositor or otherwise, the
Depositor and the Owner Trustee, by entering into this Agreement, and the Certificateholders, by acquiring any Certificates or interest therein, (i) express their intention that the Certificates will qualify as equity interests in either
(A) a division of an entity which is not disregarded as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, or (B) a partnership or grantor trust for federal income tax purposes if the Certificates are owned by more than one Person (as long
as (1) such Persons are not disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes and (2) if such Persons are disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes, such Persons are not treated as a division of the
same Person) and (ii) unless otherwise required by the appropriate taxing authorities, agree to treat the Certificates as equity interests in an entity as described in clause (i) of this Section 2.11 for the purposes of federal
income taxes, State and local income and franchise taxes, and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by, or based upon gross receipts or gross or net income. The parties agree that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Trust
shall file or cause to be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with such characterization of the Trust for such tax purposes. 
 ARTICLE III 
 THE CERTIFICATES 

Section 3.1 Initial Certificate Ownership. Since the formation of the Trust by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to
Section 2.5, the Depositor has been the sole Certificateholder. 
 Section 3.2 Form of the Certificates.

 (a) The Certificates shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A. The Certificates shall represent
the entire beneficial interest in the Trust. The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee. Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be duly issued, fully paid and non-assessable beneficial interests in the Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals
or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Certificates. 

  
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 (b) The Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved
or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders) all as determined by the officers executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of such Certificates. The Certificates shall be fully registered.

 (c) The Certificates shall be issued in fully-registered form. The terms of the Certificates set forth in
Exhibit A shall form part of this Agreement. 
 Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. Concurrently
with the sale of the Receivables to the Trust pursuant to the Trust Sale Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause a single Certificate representing the entire beneficial interest in the Trust to be executed on behalf of the Trust, authenticated and
delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president or any vice president, without further limited liability company action by the Depositor. Such Certificate shall be issued to and held by the
Depositor, as the initial Certificateholder. No Certificate shall entitle its holder to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the Owner Trustee or the Owner Trustee’s authenticating agent, by manual signature. Such authentication shall constitute conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall have been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their authentication. 
 Section 3.4
Registration of Certificates; Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates. 
 (a) The
Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner Trustee shall
provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Certificates as provided herein. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware shall be the initial Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of a Certificate Registrar, the Owner
Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Certificate Registrar. 
 (b) The Certificateholder may at any time, without consent of the Noteholders, sell, transfer, convey or assign in any manner its rights to and interests in the Certificates (including its right to
distributions from the Reserve Account), provided that: (A)(i) such transfer, conveyance or assignment is made to the Depositor or Domestic Asset Management LLC or either such entity pledges its rights and interests in the Certificates or
(B) (i) such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the rating of any class of Notes, (ii) the Certificateholder provides to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee an opinion of independent counsel that such
action will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes, (iii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent
with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iv) the conditions set forth in Section 3.4(g) and (h) have been satisfied and (v) in connection with any transfer of less than all of the
interests in the Certificates, the transferor and transferee shall specify the respective interests in the Certificates 

  
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to be held by the transferor and transferee, which interests may be determined by a formula or on any other basis agreed by the transferor and transferee. No Certificate (other than the
Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the
Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). In addition, no
transfer of a Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar an opinion of counsel that in connection with such transfer no registration of the Certificates is required
under the Securities Act or applicable State securities law or that such transfer is otherwise being made in accordance with all applicable federal and State securities laws. If agreed by the transferor and transferee, different interests may be
used for distributions of proceeds and for purposes of voting the Certificates. The transferor shall notify the Owner Trustee of any such agreement in connection with such transfer. 

(c) In the event that the Depositor is no longer the sole Certificateholder, the Administrator will promptly prepare
amendments (subject to the provisions regarding amendments in the applicable Basic Documents) to the Basic Documents to the extent necessary to reflect the establishment of the Certificate Distribution Account and the making of distributions to the
Certificateholders and such other matters as shall be agreed between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee. The expense of the foregoing amendments shall be paid by the Administrator. 

(d) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new
Certificates of a like aggregate percentage interest in the Trust dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. 
 (e) At the option of a Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of a like percentage interest in the Trust, as shown on the applicable Certificates, upon surrender of the Certificates
to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its
authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) one or more Certificates dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. Such Certificates shall be delivered to the Holder making the exchange. 

  
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 (f) Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing and such other documents and
instruments as may be required by Section 3.4(b). Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the Owner Trustee or Certificate Registrar
in accordance with its customary practice. 
 (g) The Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed and any other expenses of the Owner Trustee in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. 

(h) The Certificates may not be acquired by or for the account of a Benefit Plan other than an “insurance company
general account,” as defined in Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60, whose underlying assets include less than 25% plan assets and for which the purchase and holding of Certificates is eligible and satisfies all conditions for relief
under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60. The Certificates also may not be acquired by or for the account of an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code
(including foreign or governmental plans) if such acquisition would result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

 Section 3.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates. 

(a) If (i) any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Certificate Registrar, or the Certificate Registrar
receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii) there is delivered to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Trust such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold
each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee that such Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Owner Trustee shall execute on behalf of the Trust and the Owner Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a replacement Certificate of a like percentage interest in
the Trust, as shown on the Certificate; provided, however, that if any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, but not a mutilated Certificate, shall have become or within seven (7) days shall be payable, then instead of
issuing a replacement Certificate the Owner Trustee may make distributions to such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate when so payable. 
 (b) If, after the delivery of a replacement Certificate or payment in respect of a destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate pursuant to Section 3.5(a), a protected purchaser of the original
Certificate in lieu of which such replacement Certificate was issued presents for payment or distribution such original Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Certificate (and any distributions or payments made
with respect thereto) or such payment or distribution from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Certificate from such Person to whom such replacement Certificate was delivered or any assignee of such Person,
except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Owner Trustee in connection therewith. 

  
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 (c) In connection with the issuance of any replacement Certificate under
this Section 3.5, the Owner Trustee may require the payment by the Holder of such Certificate of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other reasonable expenses
(including the fees and expenses of the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar) connected therewith. 
 (d)
Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 3.5 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional beneficial interest in the Trust, whether or not the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall be found at any time or be enforced by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates duly issued hereunder. 

(e) The provisions of this Section 3.5 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other
rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates. 
 Section
3.6 Persons Deemed Certificateholders. Prior to due presentation of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate shall be registered in the
Certificate Register as the Certificateholder of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Article V and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary. 
 Section 3.7 Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses.
The Certificate Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Servicer and the Depositor, within fifteen (15) days after receipt by the Certificate Registrar of a request therefor from the Servicer or the Depositor in writing, a list
of the names and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. Each Holder, by receiving and holding a Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Servicer, the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or
the Owner Trustee accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived. 
 Section 3.8 Maintenance of Corporate Trust Office. The Owner Trustee shall maintain an office or offices or agency or agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee initially designates its office located at 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102, Newark, Delaware
19711, as its principal office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, to the Servicer and to the Certificateholders of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or
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 Section 3.9 Appointment of Paying Agent. Except as otherwise provided in
Section 5.2, the Paying Agent shall make distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 5.2 and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee and the
Servicer; provided, however, that no such reports shall be required so long as the Depositor is the sole Certificateholder. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Certificate Distribution Account for
the purpose of making the distributions referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations
under this Agreement in any material respect. The Paying Agent shall initially be BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, and any co-paying agent chosen by BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware. BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent
upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to the Owner Trustee. If BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware shall no longer be the Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company).
The Owner Trustee shall cause such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the Owner Trustee to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall
agree with the Owner Trustee that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Owner
Trustee. The provisions of Sections 6.3, 6.6, 6.7 and 6.9 shall apply to the Owner Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent or Certificate Registrar for so long as the Owner Trustee shall act as Paying Agent or
Certificate Registrar and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent, certificate registrar or authenticating agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the
context requires otherwise. 
 Section 3.10 Depositor as Certificateholder. The Depositor in its individual or any other
capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates and may otherwise deal with the Owner Trustee or its Affiliates as if it were not the Depositor. 

  
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 ARTICLE IV 
 ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE 
 Section 4.1 Prior Notice to
Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not take action with respect to the following matters, unless (i) the Owner Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders in writing of the proposed action at
least thirty (30) days and not more than forty-five (45) days before the taking of such action, and (ii) the Certificateholders shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that
such Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction: 
 (a) the initiation of any
claim or lawsuit by the Trust (other than an action to collect on a Receivable or an action by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture) and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Trust (other than an action
to collect on a Receivable or an action by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture); 
 (b) except as may
be required under the Statutory Trust Act, the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust, a conformed copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit B; 

(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is
required; 
 (d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in circumstances where the consent of
any Noteholder is not required and such amendment materially adversely affects the interests of the Certificateholders; 
 (e) the amendment, change or modification of the Administration Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or to amend or supplement any provision in a manner that would not materially adversely affect the
interests of the Certificateholders; or 
 (f) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of its obligations
under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable. 
 Section 4.2 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain
Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written direction of the Certificateholders, to remove the Administrator under the Administration Agreement pursuant to Section 10 thereof, appoint a successor
Administrator pursuant to Section 10 of the Administration Agreement, remove the Servicer under the Servicing Agreement pursuant to Section 7.02 thereof or, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables or any
interest therein after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon written instructions signed by the Certificateholders. 

Section 4.3 Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy. Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the
Owner Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary case under Title 11 of the United States Code or any successor provision relating to the Trust without the unanimous prior approval of all Certificateholders (including the Depositor)
and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such Certificateholder of a certificate certifying that such Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent; provided, however, that under no circumstances shall the
Owner Trustee commence or join in commencing any such case prior to the date that is one year and one day after the termination of the Trust. 

  
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 Section 4.4 Restrictions on Certificateholders’ Power. The Certificateholders
shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement, including Section 2.3 of this Agreement,
or any of the other Basic Documents, nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given. The Certificateholders shall not and shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of
Section 6.1 and, if given, the Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to follow any such direction. 
 Section 4.5
Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any action that may be taken or consent that may be given or withheld by the Certificateholders under this Agreement shall be effective if such action is taken or such consent is given or
withheld by the Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Voting Interests as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date. Except as expressly provided herein, any written notice, instruction, direction or other document
of the Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by Holders of Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Voting Interests at the time of the delivery of such notice. 

ARTICLE V 

APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES 
 Section 5.1 Establishment of Certificate Distribution Account. 
 (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.2, the Servicer, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, shall establish and maintain in the name of the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account
known as the Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2012-1 Certificate Distribution Account (the “Certificate Distribution Account”), bearing an additional designation clearly indicating that the funds deposited therein are held for the
benefit of the Certificateholders. 
 (b) The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in and to all
funds on deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in all proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise provided herein, in the Indenture or in the Servicing Agreement, the Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole
dominion and control of the Owner Trustee for the benefit of the Certificateholders. If, at any time, the Certificate Distribution Account ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Servicer on behalf of the Owner Trustee,
if the Certificate Distribution Account is not then held by the Owner Trustee or an Affiliate thereof) shall within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days, as to which each Rating Agency may
consent) establish a new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall transfer any cash and/or any investments to such new Certificate Distribution Account. 

  
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 Section 5.2 Application of Trust Funds. 

(a) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent shall distribute to the Certificateholders, on a pro
rata basis, amounts equal to the amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account pursuant to Section 4.06 and Section 4.07 of the Servicing Agreement on or prior to such Distribution Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing or
anything else to the contrary in this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, if and for so long as Certificates representing in the aggregate a 100% beneficial interest in the Trust are held by the Depositor, (i) no Certificate Distribution
Account shall be required to be established or maintained and (ii) all distributions and payments on the Certificates (including the final distribution as contemplated by Section 7.1(c) hereof) required hereunder or under the
Servicing Agreement shall be made directly to the Depositor by the Indenture Trustee (whether or not the Servicing Agreement otherwise contemplates deposit into the Certificate Distribution Account) and the Owner Trustee shall have no duty or
liability to see to such distribution. 
 (b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall send to each
Certificateholder the statement provided to the Owner Trustee by the Servicer pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Servicing Agreement on such Distribution Date; provided that no such statement shall be required to be sent by the Owner
Trustee if and for so long as the Depositor is the sole Certificateholder. 
 (c) If any withholding tax is
imposed on the Trust’s payment (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the Certificateholder in accordance with this Section 5.2; provided that the Owner
Trustee or the Paying Agent shall not have an obligation to withhold any such amount if and for so long as the Depositor is the sole Certificateholder. The Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts
otherwise distributable to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent from contesting any such tax in
appropriate proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to such
Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S.
Certificateholder), the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 5.2(c). If a Certificateholder wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner
Trustee or the Paying Agent shall reasonably cooperate with such Certificateholder in making such claim so long as such Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred. 

(d) If the Indenture Trustee holds escheated funds for payment to the Trust pursuant to Section 3.3(e) of the
Indenture, the Owner Trustee shall, upon notice from the Indenture Trustee that such funds exist, submit on behalf of the Trust an Issuing Entity Order to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3(e) of the Indenture instructing the
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 Section 5.3 Method of Payment. Subject to Section 7.1(c), distributions
required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the related Record Date by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account of such Holder at a bank or other entity
having appropriate facilities therefore, if such Certificateholder shall have provided to the Certificate Registrar appropriate written instructions at least five (5) Business Days prior to such Record Date or if not, by check mailed to such
Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the Certificate Register. 
 Section 5.4 Accounting
and Reports to the Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others. The Owner Trustee shall maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting, deliver to each
Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations or otherwise, such information as may be required to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its federal income tax return, file such tax returns relating to the
Trust and make such elections as may from time to time be required or appropriate under any applicable State or federal statute or rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust’s characterization as an entity described in clause
(a) of Section 2.11 for federal income tax purposes, cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law and collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with
Section 5.2(c) with respect to income or distributions to Certificateholders. If the Trust were to become a partnership in accordance with Section 2.11 or that the Internal Revenue Service were to contend successfully that
the Trust is not a disregarded entity but is rather a partnership for federal income tax purposes, the Trust shall allocate items of income, gain, deduction and loss to the partners of the Trust in accordance with their economic interests in the
Trust. With respect to interest expense of the Trust, the Trust shall allocate to the Certificateholders their share of the entire amount of such interest expense. 
 Section 5.5 Signature on Returns; Other Tax Matters. The Owner Trustee shall sign on behalf of the Trust any and all tax returns of the Trust, unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder to
sign such documents, in which case such documents shall be signed by the Depositor. To the extent one may be required, the Depositor shall be the “tax matters partner” of the Trust pursuant to the Code. 

  
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 ARTICLE VI 
 THE OWNER TRUSTEE 
 Section 6.1 Duties of Owner Trustee. 

(a) The Owner Trustee undertakes to perform such duties, and only such duties, as are specifically set forth in this
Agreement and the other Basic Documents, including the administration of the Trust in the interest of the Certificateholders, subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. No implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement. 
 (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to
have discharged its duties and responsibilities hereunder and under the other Basic Documents to the extent the Administrator has agreed in the Administration Agreement to perform any act or to discharge any duty of the Trust or the Owner Trustee
hereunder or under any other Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or failure of the Administrator to carry out its obligations under the Administration Agreement. 

(c) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Owner Trustee may conclusively rely upon certificates or opinions
furnished to the Owner Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement in determining the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions contained therein; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall have
examined such certificates or opinions so as to determine compliance of the same with the requirements of this Agreement. 
 (d) The Owner Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 

(i) this Section 6.1(d) shall not limit the effect of Section 6.1(a) or 6.1(b); 

(ii) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer unless it
is proved that the Owner Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 
 (iii) the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 4.1, 4.2 or 6.4. 

(e) Subject to Sections 5.1 and 5.2, monies received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need not be segregated
in any manner except to the extent required by law or the Servicing Agreement and may be deposited under such general conditions as may be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any interest thereon. 

(f) The Owner Trustee shall not take any action that (i) is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.3 or (ii) would, to the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee, result in the Trust’s becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. The Certificateholders shall not direct
the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of this Section 6.1. 

  
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 Section 6.2 Rights of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee is authorized and directed to
execute and deliver the Basic Documents and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party, in such form as the Depositor shall approve as evidenced
conclusively by the Owner Trustee’s execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is
further authorized from time to time to take such action as the Administrator recommends and directs in writing with respect to the Basic Documents. 
 Section 6.3 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. Except as otherwise provided in this Article VI, in accepting the trusts hereby created, BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware acts solely as Owner
Trustee hereunder and not in its individual capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall look only to the Owner Trust Estate for
payment or satisfaction thereof. The Owner Trustee accepts the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with respect to such trusts but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all
monies actually received by it constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable or accountable hereunder or under any other Basic Document under any circumstances, except for
its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct or in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in Section 6.6 and expressly made by the Owner Trustee. In particular,
but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence): 
 (a) the
Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for, or with respect to, the legality, validity and enforceability of any Receivable, or the perfection and priority of any security interest created by any Receivable in any
Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for, or with respect to, the sufficiency of the Owner Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to Certificateholders under this Agreement or to
Noteholders under the Indenture, including: the existence, condition and ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any computer or other record
thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Receivable to the Trust or of any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Receivable; the performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the compliance by the Depositor or the Servicer with any
warranty or representation made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the accuracy of any such warranty or representation or any action of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee or the Servicer or any sub-servicer taken in the
name of the Owner Trustee; 
 (b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the Administrator or any Certificateholder; 

(c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under any other Basic Document, if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
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 (d) under no circumstances shall the Owner Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including the principal of and interest on the Notes; 
 (e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of and makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of any provision of this Agreement other than as explicitly set forth
herein or for the due execution hereof by the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust Estate or for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of the Notes, the Certificates
(other than the certificate of authentication on the Certificates), the other Basic Documents, any Receivables or any related documents, and the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any liability, duty or obligation to any Noteholder or
to any Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in the other Basic Documents; 
 (f)
the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor or the Servicer under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation or liability
to perform the obligations of the Trust under this Agreement or the Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Administrator under the Administration Agreement, the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the Servicer under the
Servicing Agreement; 
 (g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this Agreement or any other Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any of the
Certificateholders, unless such Certificateholders have offered to the Owner Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The right of the
Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or willful misconduct in the
performance of any such act; and 
 (h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other
Basic Document, and notwithstanding any Person’s right to instruct the Owner Trustee, neither the Owner Trustee nor any agent, employee, director or officer of the Owner Trustee shall have any obligation to execute, deliver or certify on behalf
of the Trust or any other Person any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments required pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, and the refusal to comply with any such
instructions shall not constitute a default or breach under any Basic Document. In the event that the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, does not execute, deliver or certify any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments required
under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, an Authorized Officer of the Administrator shall, on behalf of the Trust, execute, deliver or make such certification. 

  
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 Section 6.4 Action upon Instruction by Certificateholders. 

(a) Subject to Section 4.4, the Certificateholders may by written instruction direct the Owner Trustee in the
management of the Trust. Such direction may be exercised at any time by written instruction of the Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.5. 
 (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder or under any other Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably determined, or shall
have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law. 

(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative courses of action permitted or required by the
terms of this Agreement or any other Basic Document, or is unsure as to the application, intent, interpretation or meaning of any provision of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form as
shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and, to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the
Owner Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instructions within ten (10) days of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be
specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action which is consistent, in its view, with this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, and as it shall
deem to be in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and the Owner Trustee shall have no liability to any Person for any such action or inaction. 
 Section 6.5 Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish to the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices,
requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents. 
 Section 6.6 Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, that: 

(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of its
incorporation. It has satisfied the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.13. 
 (b) It has
full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement. 

  
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 (c) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement
(i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the banking and trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to the Owner Trustee
or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Owner Trustee or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or
result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust pursuant to the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could
reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Owner Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties as Owner Trustee under this Agreement or on the transactions contemplated in this Agreement. 

(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Owner Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
agreement of the Owner Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by
general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. 

Section 6.7 Reliance; Advice of Counsel. 
 (a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or
paper believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties and need not investigate any fact or matter in any such document. The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of
directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence that such resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination of which
is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice president or by the treasurer or other authorized officers of the relevant party, as to such fact or
matter, and such certificate shall constitute full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in reliance thereon. 

(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in the performance of its duties and obligations under
this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee may act directly or through its agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees (including The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. who will perform administrative duties on behalf of
the BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware as Owner Trustee) pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees if such agents,
attorneys, custodians or nominees shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care; and may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled professionals to be selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee
shall not be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such Persons and not contrary to this Agreement or any other Basic Document.


  
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 Section 6.8 Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes. BNY Mellon Trust of
Delaware or any successor Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee and the Servicer in transactions in
the same manner as it would have if it were not the Owner Trustee. 
 Section 6.9 Compensation and Indemnity. The Owner
Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof between the Servicer and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee, any paying agent, registrar, authenticating
agent or co-trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Servicer for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, custodians, nominees, representatives, experts and
external counsel as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder. The Servicer shall indemnify the Owner Trustee, any paying agent, registrar, authenticating agent or co-trustee
and its successors, assigns, agents and servants in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.01 of the Servicing Agreement. The indemnities contained in this Section 6.9 shall survive the resignation or removal of the Owner
Trustee or the termination of this Agreement. Any amounts paid to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall be deemed not to be a part of the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment. 

Section 6.10 Replacement of Owner Trustee. 

(a) The Owner Trustee may give notice of its intent to resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by giving
notice thereof to the Administrator provided that no such resignation shall become effective, and the Owner Trustee shall not resign, prior to the time set forth in Section 6.10(c). If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been appointed
pursuant to Section 6.10(b) and have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the giving of such notice, the Owner Trustee giving such notice may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall remove the Owner Trustee if: 
 (i) the Owner Trustee shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.13 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Administrator; 
 (ii) the Owner Trustee shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent; 

(iii) a receiver or other public officer shall be appointed or take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; or 
 (iv) the Owner Trustee
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 (b) If the Owner Trustee gives notice of its intent to resign or is removed
or if a vacancy exists in the office of Owner Trustee for any reason, the Administrator shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate (one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner
Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee) and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. 
 (c) Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall not become effective, and no such
resignation shall be deemed to have occurred, until a written acceptance of appointment is delivered by the successor Owner Trustee to the outgoing Owner Trustee and the Administrator and all fees and expenses due to the outgoing Owner Trustee are
paid. Costs associated with the resignation of the Owner Trustee and the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee will be borne by the Servicer. Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 6.10 shall be eligible to act
in such capacity in accordance with Section 6.13 and, following compliance with the preceding sentence, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like
effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The Administrator shall provide notice of such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies. 

(d) The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all
documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement. The Administrator and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and certainly
vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. 
 (e)
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.10, the Administrator shall mail notice of the successor of such Owner Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and
the Rating Agencies. 
 Section 6.11 Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any Person into which the Owner Trustee
may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate
trust business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 6.13, and without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or consolidation to the Depositor, who promptly shall notify the Rating Agencies. 

Section 6.12 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee. 

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement
of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Owner Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located, the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly shall, at the expense of the Servicer, have the power and shall, at the
expense of the Servicer, execute and deliver all instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Owner Trustee to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as 

  
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separate trustee or trustees, of all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person (in the name of the Trust and not in such Person’s name for the Trust, except to the
extent otherwise required by, and in accordance with, Section 2.8), in such capacity, such title to the Trust, or any part thereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.12, such powers, duties, obligations,
rights and trusts as the Administrator and the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or desirable. If the Administrator shall not have joined in such appointment within fifteen (15) days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Owner
Trustee alone shall have the power to make such appointment. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee pursuant to Section 6.13 and no notice of the
appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 6.10. 
 (b)
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions: 
 (i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts
are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust or any portion thereof in any such
jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Owner Trustee; 
 (ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement; and 

(iii) the Administrator and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any
separate trustee or co-trustee. 
 (c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and the conditions of this
Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner Trustee or separately, as may be
provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument
shall be filed with the Owner Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrator. 
 (d) Any separate trustee
or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If
any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without
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 Section 6.13 Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall at
all times satisfy the requirement of Section 26(a)(1) of the Investment Company Act. The Owner Trustee shall at all times: (a) be a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of the Statutory Trust Act; (b) be
authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; (c) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and be subject to supervision or examination by federal or State authorities; and (d) have (or have a parent which has) a
long-term unsecured debt rating of at least BBB- by, or such other rating as is acceptable to, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and at least Baa3 by, or such other rating as is acceptable to, Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. If
such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section 6.13, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 6.13, the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.10. 
 Section 6.14 Compliance with the FDIC Rule. The Owner Trustee agrees to use reasonable efforts to comply with any request of the Depositor or the Servicer to facilitate compliance with Article XII
of the Indenture by the Ally Parties. 
 ARTICLE VII 

TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT 
 Section 7.1 Termination of Trust Agreement. 
 (a) The Trust
shall dissolve in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Act immediately prior to the final distribution by the Owner Trustee of all monies or other property or proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture, the Servicing Agreement (including the exercise by the Servicer of its option to purchase the Receivables pursuant to Section 8.01(a) of the Servicing Agreement) and Article V. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death
or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, (y) entitle such Certificateholder’s legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or proceeding in
any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of the Trust or the Owner Trust Estate or (z) otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto. 

(b) Neither the Depositor nor any Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust or this Agreement.

 (c) Subject to Section 5.2(a), notice of any dissolution of the Trust, specifying the Distribution
Date upon which the Certificateholders shall surrender their Certificates to the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall be given by the Owner 

  
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Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed within five (5) Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 8.01(c) of the
Servicing Agreement, stating: (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated;
(ii) the amount of any such final payment; and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the
Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon presentation and surrender of
the Certificates, the Paying Agent shall cause to be distributed to Certificateholders amounts distributable on such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 5.2. 

(d) If all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their Certificates for cancellation within six (6) months
after the date specified in the written notice referred to in Section 7.1(c), the Owner Trustee shall give a second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their Certificates for cancellation and receive the final
distribution with respect thereto. If within one (1) year after the second notice all the Certificates shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate
steps, to contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Subject to applicable laws with respect
to escheat of funds, any funds remaining in the Trust after exhaustion of such remedies in the preceding sentence shall be deemed property of the Depositor and distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Depositor, and the Owner Trustee shall have no
further liability to the Certificateholders with respect thereto. 
 (e) Upon the winding up and termination of
the Trust in accordance with Section 3808 of the Statutory Trust Act and this Section 7.1 at the written direction and expense of the Certificateholders, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by
filing a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the Statutory Trust Act. Thereupon, this Agreement (other than Sections 6.9, 9.8 and 9.9) and the Trust
shall terminate. 
 ARTICLE VIII 
 AMENDMENTS 
 Section 8.1 Amendments Without Consent of
Certificateholders or Noteholders. This Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee without the consent of any of the Noteholders or any other Persons who may be Certificateholders (but with prior notice to each of the Rating
Agencies from the Depositor), to (i) cure any ambiguity, (ii) correct or supplement any provision in this Agreement that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision in this Agreement or any other Basic Document,
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such addition shall affect any class of Noteholders or Certificateholders differently from any other class of Noteholders or Certificateholders, then such addition shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any class of the Noteholders or Certificateholders), (iv) add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Depositor or the Owner Trustee, (v) evidence
and provide for the acceptance of the appointment of a successor trustee with respect to the Owner Trust Estate and add to or change any provisions as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee pursuant to Article VI, and (vi) add, change or eliminate any other provision of this Agreement in any manner that shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the
Noteholders or Unaffiliated Certificateholders. 
 Section 8.2 Amendments With Consent of Certificateholders and
Noteholders. This Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of Noteholders whose Notes evidence not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close
of the preceding Distribution Date and, if any Person other than the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor holds any Certificates, the consent of Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less than a majority of the Voting Interest as
of the close of the preceding Distribution Date (which consent, whether given pursuant to this Section 8.2 or pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement, shall be conclusive and binding on such Person and on all future holders of
such Notes or Certificates and of any Notes or Certificates issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon the Notes or Certificates) for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall
(a) without the consent of the holder of the affected Note, increase or reduce the interest rate or principal amount of any Note or change any Distribution Date or the Final Scheduled Distribution Date of any Note or distributions on the
Certificates (without the consent of the holders hereof), (b) increase or reduce the amount of the required Specified Reserve Account Balance without the consent of all of the Noteholders or Certificateholders then outstanding,
(c) adversely affect the rating of any Securities by any of the Rating Agencies without the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the Outstanding Amount of an affected class of Notes or two-thirds of the Voting Interests of affected
Certificates, as appropriate, each as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date or (d) reduce the aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all Notes and Certificates then
outstanding. The Depositor shall furnish notice to each of the Rating Agencies prior to obtaining consent to any proposed amendment under this Section 8.2. 

  
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 Section 8.3 Form of Amendments. 

(a) Promptly after the execution of any amendment, supplement or consent pursuant to Section 8.1 or
8.2, the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each Unaffiliated Certificateholder and the Indenture Trustee. 

(b) It shall not be necessary for the consent of Certificateholders, the Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 8.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of
Unaffiliated Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Unaffiliated Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the
Owner Trustee may prescribe. 
 (c) Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of Trust,
the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the Secretary of State. 
 (d) Prior to the
execution of any amendment to this Agreement or the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and conclusively rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this
Agreement. The Owner Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Owner Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise. 

ARTICLE IX 

MISCELLANEOUS 
 Section 9.1 No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive
distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with Articles V and VII. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title, and interest of the Certificateholders to and in
their ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner Trust Estate.

 Section 9.2 Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for Section 9.12, the provisions of this Agreement are
solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the Certificateholders, the Administrator and, to the extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied,
shall be construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein. 

  
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 Section 9.3 Derivative Actions. Any provision contained herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, the right of any Certificateholder to bring a derivative action in the right of the Trust is hereby made expressly subject to the following limitations and requirements: 

(a) such Certificate Owner must meet all requirements set forth in the Statutory Trust Act; and 

(b) no Certificateholder may bring a derivative action in the right of the Trust without the prior written consent of
Certificateholders owning, in the aggregate, beneficial interests in Certificates representing at least 50% of the Voting Interests. 
 Section 9.4 Notices. All demands, notices and communications upon or to the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Rating Agencies under this
Agreement shall be delivered as specified in Appendix B to the Servicing Agreement. 
 Section 9.5 Severability. If any
one or more of the covenants, agreements, provisions or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid, then such covenants, agreements, provisions or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining covenants, agreements,
provisions or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof. 

Section 9.6 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. 

Section 9.7 Successors and Assigns. 
 (a) All covenants and agreements contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and each Certificateholder and their respective successors and
permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind the successors and assigns of such Certificateholder. 

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, this Trust Agreement may be assigned by the
Depositor without the consent of any other Person, but with notice to the Rating Agencies to a corporation, limited liability company or other entity that is a successor (by merger, consolidation or purchase of assets) to the Depositor, or 25% or
more of the voting interests of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by General Motors or by Ally Financial, provided that such entity executes an agreement of assumption, as provided in Section 3.03(a) of the Trust Sale Agreement.


  
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 Section 9.8 No Petition. The Owner Trustee by entering into this Trust Agreement and
each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner, by accepting a Certificate (or interest therein) issued hereunder, hereby covenant and agree that they shall not (nor shall they join with or solicit another person to), prior to the day that is one year
and one day after the termination of the Trust and of each other trust heretofore formed by the Depositor, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor or the Trust to invoke in any court or government authority for the purpose of
commencing or sustaining a case against the Depositor or the Trust under any federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the
Depositor or the Trust or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Trust under a federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding. 

Section 9.9 No Recourse. Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner by accepting a Certificate (or any interest therein)
acknowledges that such Person’s Certificate (or interest therein) represents beneficial interests in the Trust only and does not represent interests in or obligations of the Depositor, the Servicer, the Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse, either directly or indirectly, may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the Certificates or the other Basic
Documents. Except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, none of the Depositor, the Servicer or the Owner Trustee in their respective individual capacities, or any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors,
employees or successors or assigns, shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the distribution of any amount with respect to the Certificates or the Trust’s performance of, or omission to perform, any
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Certificates, this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, it being expressly understood that such Certificateholder obligations have been made solely by the Trust. Each Certificateholder by the
acceptance of a Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) agrees that except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the event of nonpayment of any amounts with respect to the Certificates, it shall have no claim against any of the
foregoing Persons for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom. In the event that any of the foregoing covenants of each Certificateholder and Certificate Owner is prohibited by, or declared illegal or otherwise unenforceable against any such
Certificateholder or Certificate Owner under applicable law by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction, and, as a result, a Certificateholder or Certificate Owner is deemed to have an interest in any assets of the Depositor or any
Affiliate of the Depositor other than the Trust, each Certificateholder and Certificate Owner agrees that (i) its claim against any such other assets shall be, and hereby is, subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of other
Persons to whom rights in the other assets have been expressly granted, including to the payment in full of all amounts owing to such entitled Persons, and (ii) the covenant set forth in the preceding clause (i) constitutes a
“subordination agreement” within the meaning of, and subject to, Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. 

  
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 Section 9.10 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and Sections herein are
for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof. 
 Section 9.11
Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, AND THE OBLIGATIONS,
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. 
 Section 9.12
Indemnification by and Reimbursement of the Servicer. The Owner Trustee acknowledges and agrees to reimburse (i) the Servicer and its directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with Section 6.03(b) of the Servicing
Agreement and (ii) the Depositor and its directors, officers, employees and agents in accordance with Section 3.04 of the Trust Sale Agreement. The Owner Trustee further acknowledges and accepts the conditions and limitations with respect
to the Servicer’s obligation to indemnify, defend and hold the Owner Trustee harmless as set forth in Section 6.01(a)(iv) of the Servicing Agreement. 
 Section 9.13 Effect of Amendment and Restatement. It is the intent of the parties hereto that this Trust Agreement shall, as of January 18, 2012, replace in its entirety the Original Trust
Agreement; provided, however, that with respect to the period of time from November 22, 2011 through January 18, 2012, the rights and obligations of the parties shall be governed by the Original Trust Agreement; provided further, that the
amendment and restatement of the Original Trust Agreement shall not affect any of the grants, conveyances or transfers contemplated by the Original Trust Agreement to have occurred prior to the date hereof. 

Section 9.14 Information to be Provided by the Owner Trustee. 

(a) The Owner Trustee agrees to cooperate in good faith with any reasonable request by the Depositor for information
regarding the Owner Trustee which is required in order to enable the Depositor to comply with the provisions of Items 1104(e), 1121(c), 1117 and 1119 of Regulation AB and Rule 15Ga-1 under the Exchange Act as it relates to the Owner Trustee or to
the Owner Trustee’s obligations under this Agreement; provided that with respect to Rule 15Ga-1, and Items 1121(c) and 1104(e), the Owner Trustee shall not be deemed a “securitizer” under Regulation AB or under the Exchange Act.

 (b) Except to the extent disclosed by the Owner Trustee in subsection (c) or (d) below, the Owner
Trustee shall be deemed to have represented to the Depositor on the first day of each Monthly Period with respect to the prior Monthly Period that to the best of its knowledge there were no legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be
contemplated) against BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware or any property of BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware that would be material to any Noteholder or, to the extent that the Certificates are registered under the Securities Act for public sale, any holder
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 (c) The Owner Trustee shall, as promptly as practicable following notice to
or discovery by the Owner Trustee of any changes to any information regarding the Owner Trustee as is required for the purpose of compliance with Item 1117 of Regulation AB, provide to the Depositor, in writing, such updated information.

 (d) The Owner Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 (or, if such date is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day) of each year, beginning with March 15, 2013, a report of a representative of the Owner Trustee with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year certifying, on behalf of the Owner Trustee,
that except to the extent otherwise disclosed in writing to Depositor, to the best of his or her knowledge there were no legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated) against BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware or any property of
BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware that would be material to any Noteholder or, to the extent that the Certificates are registered under the Securities Act for public sale, any holder of such Certificates. 

(e) The Owner Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor on or before March 15 (or, if such date is not a Business Day,
the next succeeding Business Day) of each year, beginning with March 15, 2013, a report of a representative of the Owner Trustee with respect to the immediately preceding calendar year providing to the Depositor such information regarding the
Owner Trustee as is required for the purpose of compliance with Item 1119 of Regulation AB. Such information shall include, at a minimum, a description of any affiliation between the Owner Trustee and any of the following parties to this
securitization transaction, as such parties are identified to the Owner Trustee by the Depositor in writing in advance of this securitization transaction: 
 (i) the Depositor; 
 (ii) Ally Bank, as sponsor; 

(iii) the Trust; 
 (iv) the Servicer; 
 (v) the Indenture Trustee; and 

(vi) any other material transaction party. 

(f) In connection with the parties listed in clauses (i) through (vi) above, the Owner Trustee
shall include a description of whether there is, and if so, the general character of, any business relationship, agreement, arrangement, transaction or understanding that is entered into outside the ordinary course of business or is on terms other
than would be obtained in an arm’s length transaction with an unrelated third party, apart from this securitization transaction, that currently exists or that existed during the past two years and that is material to an investor’s
understanding of the asset backed securities issued in this securitization transaction. 
 (g) The Owner Trustee
shall provide the Depositor with notification, as soon as practicable and in any event within five Business Days, of all demands delivered to a Reporting Officer of the Owner Trustee for the repurchase or replacement of any Receivable pursuant to
Section 2.03 of the Trust Sale Agreement or Section 2.11 of the Servicing Agreement, as applicable. Subject to this Section 9.14, the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation to take any other action with respect to any demand. Except as set
forth in the Basic Documents, in no event shall the Owner Trustee have (i) any responsibility or liability in connection with any filing to be made by a securitizer under the Exchange Act or Regulation AB or (ii) any duty or obligation to undertake
any investigation or inquiry related to repurchase activity or otherwise to assume any additional duties or responsibilities except as expressly set forth in this Section 9.14. 

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by
their respective officers, hereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	 BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,
 as Owner Trustee and Paying Agent

		
	By:	 	/s/ Kristine K. Gullo
	Name:	 	Kristine K. Gullo
	Title:	 	Vice President


  

			
	 ALLY AUTO ASSETS LLC,
 as Depositor

		
	By:	 	/s/ R. C. Farris
	Name:	 	R. C. Farris
	Title:	 	President









 EXHIBIT A 
 FORM OF CERTIFICATE 
  

					
	 NO. R-
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 SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS 
 THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), OR THE VARIOUS STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE MADE
UNLESS SUCH TRANSFER IS MADE IN A TRANSACTION THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE ACT OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND IS OTHERWISE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT. 

THIS CERTIFICATE (OR AN INTEREST HEREIN) MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF (1) AN “EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN,” AS DEFINED IN
SECTION 3(3) OF THE UNITED STATES EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (2) A “PLAN” SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”), OR (3) ANY ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE PLAN ASSETS BY REASON OF INVESTMENT BY AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN IN SUCH ENTITY OTHER THAN AN “INSURANCE COMPANY
GENERAL ACCOUNT,” AS DEFINED IN PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 95-60 (“PTCE 95-60”), WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE LESS THAN 25% PLAN ASSETS AND FOR WHICH THE PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF CERTIFICATES IS ELIGIBLE AND
SATISFIES ALL CONDITIONS FOR RELIEF UNDER PTCE 95-60. THIS CERTIFICATE (OR AN INTEREST THEREIN) ALSO MAY NOT BE ACQUIRED BY OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN THAT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION
4975 OF THE CODE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOREIGN OR GOVERNMENTAL PLANS) IF SUCH ACQUISITION WOULD RESULT IN A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER, OR A VIOLATION OF, ANY APPLICABLE LAW THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO TITLE I OF ERISA OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE. EACH HOLDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE, BY ACCEPTING THIS CERTIFICATE, WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS AND, IF REQUESTED TO DO SO BY THE DEPOSITOR, SUCH
PERSON SHALL EXECUTE AND DELIVER TO THE OWNER TRUSTEE AN UNDERTAKING LETTER TO SUCH EFFECT IN THE FORM SPECIFIED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT. 

  
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 ALLY AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2012-1 

ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATE 

evidencing a fractional undivided interest in the Trust, as defined below, the property of which includes a pool of retail instalment sale contracts and
direct purchase money loans secured by new or used automobiles and light trucks and sold to the Trust by Ally Auto Assets LLC. 
 (This
Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of Ally Bank, Ally Auto Assets LLC or Ally Financial Inc. or any of their respective affiliates, except to the extent described in the Basic Documents.) 

THIS CERTIFIES THAT
                                     is the registered owner
of a nonassessable, fully-paid fractional undivided interest in Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2012-1 (the “Trust”) formed by Ally Auto Assets LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Depositor”). 

The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2011, between the Depositor and BNY Mellon Trust of
Delaware, as owner trustee (the “Owner Trustee”), as amended and restated as of January 18, 2012 (the “Trust Agreement”), a summary of certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the
extent not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement. 
 This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates designated as Asset Backed Certificates (the “Certificates”). This Certificate is issued under and is subject to the terms,
provisions and conditions of the Trust Agreement, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such
holder is bound. 
 Under the Trust Agreement there shall be distributed on the 15th day of each month, or if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day, commencing on
February 15, 2012 (each, a “Distribution Date”), to the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered on the related Record Date, such amount as is provided in the Basic Documents. The “Record Date,” with
respect to any Distribution Date, means the last day of the preceding Monthly Period. 
 The distributions in respect of this
Certificate are payable in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. All payments made by the Trust with respect to this Certificate shall be applied in
respect of this Certificate. 
 The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its rights to receive distributions
in respect of this Certificate are subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as and to the extent described in the Servicing Agreement. 

  
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 It is the intent of the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificateholders that, for
purposes of federal income, State and local income and franchise taxes and any other taxes imposed upon, measured by or based upon gross or net income, the Trust shall be treated as either (A) a division of an entity which is not disregarded as
a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, or (B) a partnership if the Certificates are owned by more than one Person (as long as (1) such Persons are not disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes and
(2) if such Persons are disregarded as separate entities for federal income tax purposes, such Persons are not treated as a division of the same Person). Except as otherwise required by appropriate taxing authorities, the Depositor and the
other Certificateholders by acceptance of a Certificate agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the treatment of, the Certificates for such tax purposes as interests in such a disregarded entity or partnership as described in the
previous sentence. 
 Each Certificateholder or Certificate Owner by its acceptance of a Certificate (or an interest therein)
covenants and agrees that such Certificateholder or Certificate Owner shall not (nor shall it join with or solicit another person to), prior to the date which is one year and one day after the termination of the Trust and of each other trust
heretofore formed by the Depositor, acquiesce, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Depositor, the Owner Trustee or the Trust to invoke the process of any court or governmental authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a case
against the Depositor or the Owner Trustee under any federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Depositor
or the Trust or any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Depositor or the Trust under a federal or State bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding. 

Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement, distributions on this Certificate shall be made as provided in the Trust Agreement
by the Owner Trustee by wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding
the above, the final distribution on this Certificate shall be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the office maintained for such purpose by
the Owner Trustee. 
 Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof,
which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
 Unless the certificate of
authentication hereon shall have been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee by manual signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Servicing Agreement or be valid
for any purpose. 
 THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW THEREOF OR OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust and not in its individual
capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly executed. 
  

							
	Dated: January 18, 2012	 		 	ALLY AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2012-1
				
		 		 	By:	 	 BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,

not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

		 		 		 	
				
		 		 	By:	 	 
		 		 	Name:	 	
		 		 	Title:	 	

 OWNER TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement. 

 

			
	 BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE,
 not in its individual capacity but solely as
 Owner Trustee

		
	By:	 	 
	 Name:
	 	
	 Title:
	 	


  
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 REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE 

The Certificate does not represent an obligation of, or an interest in, Ally Bank, the Depositor, the Servicer, Ally Financial Inc., the
Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee or any affiliates of any of them and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated herein or in the Trust Agreement or the other Basic
Documents. In addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and recoveries with respect to the Receivables (and certain other amounts), all as
more specifically set forth herein and in the other Basic Documents. A copy of each of the other Basic Documents may be examined during normal business hours at the principal office of the Depositor, and at such other places, if any, designated by
the Depositor, by any Certificateholder upon written request. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Certificate and the terms of the other Basic Documents, the terms of the other Basic Documents shall govern. 

The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust Agreement at any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee with the consent of the Holders of the Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Controlling Class as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date and the consent of Certificateholders whose Certificates evidence not less than a majority of the Voting Interests as of the close of the preceding Distribution Date.
Any such consent by the Holder of this Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such Holder and on all future Holders of this Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether
or not notation of such consent is made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Certificates or the Notes. 

As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registerable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained by the Owner Trustee, accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory
to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates evidencing the same aggregate percentage interest in the
Trust will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware. 
 The Certificate is issuable only as a registered Certificate. As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Certificate is exchangeable for a new
Certificate. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge payable in connection
therewith. 
 The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may
treat the Person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. 

  
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 The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and the Trust created
thereby shall terminate in accordance with Article VII of the Trust Agreement. 

  
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 ASSIGNMENT 
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto 
 PLEASE INSERT
SOCIAL SECURITY 
 NUMBER OR OTHER IDENTIFYING 
 NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 
  

 
 (please print or type name and address,
including postal zip code, of assignee) 
  
  

the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing 
                                  
                                         
                                         
                                         
                     attorney to transfer said Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of substitution in the
premises. 
  

							
				
	Dated:	 		 	  	 	*
		 		 	  
 Signature Guaranteed:
	 	
				
	 	 		 	  	 	*

  

	*	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered owner as it appears upon the face of the within Certificate in every
particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change whatsoever. Such signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company. 


  
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 EXHIBIT B 
 CERTIFICATE OF TRUST 
 OF ALLY AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST 2012-1

 THIS Certificate of Trust of Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2012-1 (the “Trust”) is being duly executed
and filed by the undersigned, as trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. C. § 3801 et seq.) (the “Act”). 
 1. Name. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2012-1. 
 2. Delaware Trustee. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust having its principal place of business in the State of Delaware are BNY Mellon Trust of Delaware, 100 White Clay
Center, Suite 102, Newark, DE 19711. 
 3. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate of trust in accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.

  

			
	BNY MELLON TRUST OF DELAWARE, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
		
	By:	 	 
	Name:	 	
	Title:	 	



  
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 EXHIBIT C 
 UNDERTAKING LETTER 
 Ally Auto Assets LLC 

Corporation Trust Center 
 1209 Orange Street

 Wilmington, DE 19801 
 BNY Mellon
Trust of Delaware, 
 as Owner Trustee of Ally Auto Receivables Trust 2012-1 
 100 White Clay Center, Suite 102 
 Newark, DE 19711 

Ladies and Gentlemen: 
 In
connection with our purchase of record or beneficial ownership of the R-             Asset Backed Certificate (the “Certificate”) of Ally Auto Receivables Trust
2012-1, the undersigned purchaser, record owner or beneficial owner hereby acknowledges, represents and warrants that such purchaser, record owner or beneficial owner: 
 (1) is not, and has not acquired the Certificate by or for the benefit of, (a) (i) an “employee benefit plan,” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” subject to Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
“Code”), or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of investment by an employee benefit plan or plan in such entity other than an “insurance company general account,” as defined in
Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60, whose underlying assets include less than 25% plan assets and for which the purchase and holding of Certificates is eligible and satisfies all conditions for relief under Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption 95-60, or (b) an employee benefit plan or plan that is not subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (including, without limitation, foreign or governmental plans) if such acquisition would result
in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under, or a violation of, any applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code; and 
 (2) acknowledges that you and others will rely on our acknowledgments, representations and warranties made in connection with our purchase of record or beneficial ownership of the Certificate and agrees
to notify you promptly in writing if any of our representations or warranties herein cease to be accurate and complete. 

  
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	Name of Certificate Owner
		
	By:	 	 
	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 
	Date:	 	 



  
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