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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.1

                                                         [LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT]

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                                 TRUST AGREEMENT

                             Dated as of [     ], 2000

                                     between

                                RCL TRUST 2000-1,
                                  as Depositor

                                       and

                        THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
                                as Lease Trustee

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                    ARTICLE I
                                   DEFINITIONS
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Section 1.1       Capitalized Terms.............................................................1
Section 1.2       Other Definitional Provisions.................................................4

                                   ARTICLE II
                                  ORGANIZATION
Section 2.1       Name..........................................................................5
Section 2.2       Office........................................................................5
Section 2.3       Purposes and Powers...........................................................5
Section 2.4       Appointment of Lease Trustee..................................................6
Section 2.5       Initial Capital Contributions of Trust Estate.................................6
Section 2.6       Declaration of Trust..........................................................6
Section 2.7       Liability of the Depositor....................................................6
Section 2.8       Title to Trust Property.......................................................7
Section 2.9       Representations and Warranties of the Depositor...............................7
Section 2.10      Tax Reporting.................................................................8

          ARTICLE III LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATES, SUBORDINATED NOTES AND
                              TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
Section 3.1       Initial Ownership.............................................................8
Section 3.2       The Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated Notes.......................9
Section 3.3       Authentication of Lease Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes............12
Section 3.4       Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Lease Trust Certificates
                  and Subordinated Notes.......................................................12
Section 3.5       Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Lease Trust Certificates or
                  Subordinated Notes...........................................................21
Section 3.6       Persons Deemed Lease Trust Certificateholders or Subordinated
                  Noteholders..................................................................21
Section 3.7       Access to List of Lease Trust Certificateholders' and Subordinated
                  Noteholders' Names and Addresses.............................................21
Section 3.8       Maintenance of Office or Agency..............................................22
Section 3.9       Appointment of Lease Trust Paying Agent......................................23
Section 3.10      Ownership of Lease Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes by
                  Depositor....................................................................23
Section 3.11      Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates;  Temporary Lease Trust
                  Certificates.................................................................24
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                                             ARTICLE IV
                                      ACTIONS BY LEASE TRUSTEE
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Section 4.1       Prior Notice to Lease Trust Certificateholders with Respect to
                  Certain Matters..............................................................26
Section 4.2       Action by Lease Trust Certificateholders with Respect to Certain
                  Matters......................................................................26
Section 4.3       Restrictions on Action by Lease Trustee with Respect to
                  Bankruptcy...................................................................27
Section 4.4       Restrictions on Lease Trust Certificateholders' Power........................27
Section 4.5       Majority Control.............................................................27

                                              ARTICLE V
                           APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS, CERTAIN DUTIES AND
                                 SUBORDINATED NOTE EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Section 5.1       Establishment of Lease Trust Distribution Account............................28
Section 5.2       Cash Collateral Account Certificate; Disbursement and Payment
                  Instructions.................................................................29
Section 5.3       Distribution of Funds........................................................31
Section 5.4       Method of Payment............................................................37
Section 5.5       Accounting and Reports to the Senior Noteholders, Subordinated
                  Noteholders, Lease Trust Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue
                  Service and Others...........................................................38
Section 5.6       Subordinated Note Events of Default..........................................39
Section 5.7       Acceleration of Maturity.....................................................39
Section 5.8       Waiver of Past Defaults......................................................40

                                             ARTICLE VI
                                AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF LEASE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1       General Authority............................................................41
Section 6.2       General Duties...............................................................41
Section 6.3       Action upon Instruction......................................................41
Section 6.4       No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions...........43
Section 6.5       No Action Unless Specifically Authorized.....................................43
Section 6.6       Restrictions.................................................................43

                                             ARTICLE VII
                                    CONCERNING THE LEASE TRUSTEE
Section 7.1       Acceptance of Trusts and Duties..............................................44
Section 7.2       Furnishing of Documents......................................................45
Section 7.3       Representations and Warranties...............................................46
Section 7.4       Reliance; Advice of Counsel..................................................46
Section 7.5       Not Acting in Individual Capacity............................................47
Section 7.6       Lease Trustee Not Liable for Lease Trust Certificates or
                  Subordinated Notes...........................................................47
Section 7.7       Lease Trustee May Own Lease Trust Certificates, Subordinated
                  Notes and Senior Notes.......................................................48
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                                          ARTICLE VIII
                                  COMPENSATION OF LEASE TRUSTEE
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Section 8.1       Lease Trustee's Fees and Expenses............................................48
Section 8.2       Indemnification..............................................................48

                                           ARTICLE IX
                              TERMINATION OF LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT
Section 9.1       Termination of Lease Trust Agreement.........................................49
Section 9.2       Redemption of the Subordinated Notes; Prepayment of the Lease
 ......            Trust Certificates...........................................................50

                                            ARTICLE X
                     SUCCESSOR LEASE TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL LEASE TRUSTEES
Section 10.1      Eligibility Requirements for Lease Trustee...................................52
Section 10.2      Resignation or Removal of Lease Trustee......................................52
Section 10.3      Successor Lease Trustee......................................................53
Section 10.4      Merger or Consolidation of Lease Trustee.....................................54
Section 10.5      Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee................................54

                                           ARTICLE XI
                                           TAX MATTERS
Section 11.1      Income Tax Characterization..................................................56

                                           ARTICLE XII
                                          MISCELLANEOUS
Section 12.1      Supplements and Amendments...................................................56
Section 12.2      No Legal Title to Lease Trust Estate in Lease Trust
 ......            Certificateholders or Subordinated Noteholders...............................59
Section 12.3      Limitations on Rights of Others..............................................59
Section 12.4      Notices......................................................................59
Section 12.5      Severability.................................................................60
Section 12.6      Counterparts.................................................................60
Section 12.7      Successors and Assigns.......................................................61
Section 12.8      No Petition..................................................................61
Section 12.9      No Recourse..................................................................61
Section 12.10     Headings.....................................................................61
Section 12.11     GOVERNING LAW................................................................62

Exhibit A-1       Form of Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate                                   A-1
Exhibit A-2       Form of Lease Trust Certificate Issued to the Depositor pursuant to
                  Section 3.10(a)                                                             A-2
Exhibit B         Form of Subordinated Note                                                   B-1
Exhibit C         Form of Rule 144A Transferor Certificate                                    C-1
Exhibit D         Form of Investment Letter - Qualified Institutional Buyer                   D-1
Exhibit E         Form of Investment Letter - Institutional Accredited Investor               E-1
Exhibit F         Form of Custodial Agreement                                                 F-1
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                  LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of [ ], 2000 between (i) RCL
TRUST 2000-1, a Delaware business trust, as Depositor, and (ii) THE BANK OF NEW
YORK (DELAWARE), a Delaware banking corporation, acting hereunder not in its
individual capacity but solely as trustee under this Agreement (in such
capacity, together with any successor or permitted assign, "Lease Trustee").

                                    ARTICLE I

                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 1.1 Capitalized Terms. Unless otherwise defined
herein, capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the respective
meanings assigned to them, or incorporated by reference, in Appendix A attached
hereto. References to "this Agreement" are to this Lease Trust Agreement, and
all references to Articles, Sections, subsections and exhibits are to Articles,
Sections, subsections and exhibits of this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

                  "Authenticating Agent" shall mean any Person authorized by the
Lease Trustee to act on behalf of the Lease Trustee to authenticate and deliver
the Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated Notes.

                  "Certificate Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to the
Lease Trust Certificates on any Payment Date, the seven-digit decimal equivalent
of a fraction, the numerator of which is the Aggregate Certificate Balance on
such Payment Date (after giving effect to any payment of principal on such
Payment Date) and the denominator of which is the Aggregate Certificate Balance
on the Closing Date.

                  "Certificate Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Purchase
Agreement, dated as of _________, 2000, among Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith Incorporated, [ ], RCL Trust 2000-1 and Ford Credit.

                  "Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, with respect to the Lease
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Lease Trustee which, as of
the date hereof, is located at 101 Barclay Street - 12E, New York, New York
10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at such other address as
the Lease Trustee may designate by notice to the Lease Trust Certificateholders,
the Subordinated Noteholders and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust
office of any successor Lease Trustee (the address of which the successor

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Lease Trustee will notify the Lease Trust Certificateholders, the Subordinated
Noteholders and the Depositor).

                  "Custodial Agreement": Each Custodial Agreement entered into
between a Custodian and any purchaser of a Lease Trust Certificate, as the same
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time and in
effect in accordance with the terms thereof.

                  "Custodian": Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated and [          ], solely in their respective capacity as custodian
under each Custodial Agreement, and any successor thereto.

                  "Custodian Office": The principal corporate office of the
Custodian, in the case of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated,
currently located at 250 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10281, Attention: [ ],
and in the case of [ ], currently located at [ ], Attention: [ ], or such other
address as a Custodian may designate from time to time by notice to the Lease
Trust Certificateholders, the Administrative Agent, the Depositor and the Lease
Trustee, or the principal corporate office of any successor Custodian.

                  "Depositary" shall mean The Depository Trust Company, its
nominee, and their respective successors.

                  "Depositor" shall mean the RCL Trust 2000-1 in its capacities
as depositor, as holder of the Lease Trust Certificates issued to it pursuant to
Section 3.10(a) and as holder of the Subordinated Notes issued to it pursuant to
Section 3.10(b).

                  "Expenses" shall mean all liabilities, obligations, losses,
damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all costs, expenses and
disbursements (including legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature
whatsoever.

                  "Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 8.2.

                  "Initial Purchaser" shall mean Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith Incorporated and [ ], each as initial purchaser pursuant to the
Certificate Purchase Agreement.

                  "Lease Trust Certificate Owner" shall mean any holder of the
beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates registered in the
Lease Trust Certificate Ownership Register.

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                  "Lease Trust Certificates Ownership Register" shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 3.4(d).

                  "Lease Trust Distribution Statement" shall mean the statement
delivered pursuant to Section 5.3(j).

                  "Lease Trust Register" and "Lease Trust Registrar" shall mean
the register mentioned and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.4(a).

                  "Opinion of Counsel" shall mean one or more written opinions
of legal counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided for herein, be
employees of or counsel to the Depositor, the Administrative Agent or an
Affiliate of either.

                  "Prepayment Price" shall mean an amount equal to Aggregate
Certificate Balance plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon plus interest on
any overdue interest at the Certificate Interest Rate to but excluding the
Redemption Date.

                  "Redemption Date" shall mean the Payment Date specified by the
Administrative Agent or the Lease Trustee pursuant to Section 9.2(a).

                  "Redemption Price" shall mean an amount equal to the unpaid
principal amount of the Subordinated Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon plus interest on any overdue interest at the Subordinated Note
Interest Rate to but excluding the Redemption Date.

                  "Responsible Officer" shall mean any officer of the Lease
Trustee, including any Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant
Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or any other officer of the Lease Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other
officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct
responsibility for the administration of this Agreement.

                  "Revised Article 8" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5.1(c).

                  "Rule 144A" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3.4(g).

                  "Rule 144A Information" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section

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3.4(h).

                  "Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates" shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 3.2(a).

                  "Subordinated Note Default" shall mean any occurrence that is,
or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, a Subordinated Note
Event of Default.

                  "Subordinated Note Event of Default" shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 5.6.

                  "Subordinated Note Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to
the Subordinated Notes on any Payment Date, the seven-digit decimal equivalent
of a fraction, the numerator of which is the Outstanding Amount of the
Subordinated Notes on such Payment Date (after giving effect to any payment of
principal on such Payment Date) and the denominator of which is the Outstanding
Amount of the Subordinated Notes on the Closing Date.

                  "Transfer" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a).

                  "Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including
proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein
to specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include
analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.

                  "Void Transfer" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3.2(a).

                  Section 1.2  Other Definitional Provisions.

                  (a) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.

                  (b) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto, accounting terms not defined in this
Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and accounting terms
partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document to
the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under
generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document
are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under generally accepted
accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Agreement or in any
such certificate or other document shall control.

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                                   ARTICLE II

                                  ORGANIZATION

                  Section 2.1 Name. The trust created hereby shall be known as
"Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1," in which name the Lease Trustee may
engage in activities as permitted by the Basic Documents on behalf of the Lease
Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Lease
Trust and sue and be sued, to the extent provided herein.

                  Section 2.2 Office. The office of the Lease Trust shall be in
care of the Lease Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address
as the Lease Trustee may designate by written notice to the Lease Trust
Certificateholders, the Subordinated Noteholders and the Depositor.

                  Section 2.3 Purposes and Powers. (a) The purpose of the Lease
Trust is, and the Lease Trust shall have the power and authority, to engage
solely in the following:

                           (i) to issue the Senior Notes pursuant to the
         Indenture, to issue the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust
         Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell or transfer the
         Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates
         upon the written order of the Depositor;

                           (ii) to acquire the Series 2000-1 Certificates and
         other assets from the Depositor pursuant to Section 2 of the Transfer
         Agreement in exchange for the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and
         the Lease Trust Certificates;

                           (iii) to pay interest on and principal of the Senior
         Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates;

                           (iv) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and
         convey the Lease Trust Estate pursuant to the Indenture as security for
         the Senior Notes and to hold and distribute to the Subordinated
         Noteholders and the Lease Trust Certificateholders pursuant to the
         terms of this Agreement any portion of the Lease Trust Estate released
         from the lien

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         of, and remitted to the Lease Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;

                           (v) to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
         under the Basic Documents to which it is to be a party; and

                           (vi) to engage in other transactions, including
         entering into agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to
         accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected
         therewith.

                  The Lease Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the
foregoing. The Lease 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.

                  Section 2.4 Appointment of Lease Trustee. The Depositor hereby
(i) appoints the Lease Trustee as trustee of the Lease Trust effective as of the
date hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein and (ii)
authorizes and directs the Lease Trustee to enter into the Basic Documents to
which it is a party.

                  Section 2.5 Initial Capital Contributions of Trust Estate. The
Depositor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Lease
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $10, which the Lease Trustee shall
deposit into the Lease Trust Distribution Account. The Lease Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Lease Trust Estate.

                  Section 2.6 Declaration of Trust. The Bank of New York
(Delaware) hereby declares and agrees that it will, and in its capacity as the
Lease Trustee does, hold the Lease Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the
conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Lease Trust
Certificateholders and the Depositor, subject, however, to the lien of the
Indenture and to the obligations of the Lease Trust under the Subordinated Notes
and the Basic Documents.

                  Section 2.7 Liability of the Depositor. (a) The holder of the
Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated Notes required to be retained by
the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10 shall defend, indemnify, and hold
harmless the Lease Trust and the Lease Trustee from and against any and all
taxes that may at any time be asserted against the Lease Trust and the Lease
Trustee with respect to the transactions contemplated herein, including, without
limitation, any sales, use, gross receipts, general corporation, tangible
personal property, privilege, license or income taxes, taxes on or measured by
income, or any state or local taxes assessed on the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee and the Lease Trust Paying Agent resulting from the location of assets
of the Lease Trust or the

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presence of the Lease Trustee or the Lease Trust Paying Agent and costs and
expenses in defending against the same; provided, however, that the foregoing
indemnity shall not include income taxes on any fees payable to the Lease
Trustee or the Lease Trust Paying Agent.

                  (b) No Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust
Certificateholder shall have any personal liability for any liability or
obligation of the Lease Trust except the holder of the Lease Trust Certificates
and Subordinated Notes required to be retained by the Depositor pursuant to
Section 3.10 to the extent set forth in Section 2.7(a).

                  Section 2.8 Title to Trust Property. Legal title to all the
Lease Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Lease Trust, except where
applicable law in any jurisdiction requires title to any part of the Lease Trust
Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in which case title shall be
deemed to be vested in the Lease Trustee, a co-trustee or a separate trustee, as
the case may be.

                  Section 2.9 Representations and Warranties of the Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Lease Trustee that:

                  (a) The Depositor is duly organized and validly existing as a
business trust in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with
the power and authority to own its properties and to conduct its activities as
such properties are currently owned and such activities are presently conducted.

                  (b) The Depositor is duly qualified, is in good standing, and
has obtained all necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions in which
the failure to so qualify or to obtain such license or approval would (i) render
unenforceable any rights the Lease Trust may have under any of the Basic
Documents which would otherwise be enforceable by the Depositor, the
Administrative Agent or the Lease Trustee, or (ii) otherwise have a material
adverse effect on the Lease Trust.

                  (c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power
and authority to transfer the Series 2000-1 Certificates to and deposit them
with the Lease Trust and the Depositor shall have duly authorized such transfer
and deposit to the Lease Trust by all necessary action; and the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly authorized by the
Depositor by all necessary action.

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                  (d) This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Depositor enforceable in accordance with its terms.

                  (e) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, nor constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the RCL Trust Agreement, or
any indenture, agreement or other instrument to which the Depositor is a party
or by which it is bound; nor 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); nor
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 its properties.

                  (f) There are no proceedings or investigations pending, or to
the Depositor's best knowledge, threatened, before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction
over the Depositor or its properties: (i) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents, the Senior Notes,
the Subordinated Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates, (ii) seeking to prevent
the issuance of the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes or the Lease Trust
Certificates or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, the Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents, (iii) seeking any
determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect the
performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the validity or
enforceability of, this Agreement, the Indenture, any of the other Basic
Documents, the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes or the Lease Trust
Certificates or (iv) which might adversely affect the federal income tax or
state income or franchise tax attributes of the Senior Notes, the Subordinated
Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates.

                  Section 2.10 Tax Reporting. Consistent with the treatment of
the Lease Trust as a security device for income and franchise tax purposes,
unless otherwise required by appropriate tax authorities, the Lease Trust will
not file or cause to be filed annual or other income or franchise tax returns
and will not obtain any taxpayer identification numbers.

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                                   ARTICLE III

                  LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATES, SUBORDINATED NOTES
                            AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS

                  Section 3.1 Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Lease
Trust by the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.5 and until the
issuance of the Lease Trust Certificates, RCL Trust 2000-1 shall be the sole
beneficiary of the Lease Trust. In connection with the issuance of the Senior
Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates as contemplated
in Section 2.3(a)(i), the Depositor may (i) execute and file, or cause its
beneficiary to execute and file, on behalf of the Lease Trust, any registration
statement to be filed with the Securities Exchange Commission or otherwise and
(ii) prepare, or cause to be prepared, for filing with such registration
statement, balance sheets, income statements and any other financial statements
of the Lease Trust.

                  Section 3.2 The Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated
Notes. (a) Except as provided below, the Lease Trust Certificates shall be
issued in one or more permanent global certificates in definitive, fully
registered form, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 (each, a "Rule 144A
Lease Trust Certificate"), in minimum denominations of at least $10,000,000 and
integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided, however, that
Lease Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a) in
a registered, definitive, physical certificate, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A-2, shall be issued in such denominations as to represent in the
aggregate at least 1% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance. The Subordinated
Notes shall be issued in one or more registered, definitive, physical
certificates, in substantially the form of Exhibit B, in minimum denominations
of at least $1,000,000; provided, however, that Subordinated Notes issued to the
Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(b) shall be issued in such denominations as
to represent in the aggregate at least 1% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Subordinated Notes. Except for (i) the transfer of Lease Trust Certificates to
the Initial Purchasers and the subsequent transfer of the Lease Trust
Certificates as contemplated by the Certificate Purchase Agreement, (ii) the
transfer of Lease Trust Certificates to the Depositor pursuant to Section
3.10(a), (iii) the transfer of the Subordinated Notes to the Depositor pursuant
to Section 3.10(b) and (iv) the assignment and pledge of the Subordinated Notes
to the Lease Trust and the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Program Operating
Lease, no Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note may be sold, transferred,
assigned, participated, pledged, or otherwise disposed of (any such act, a
"Transfer") to any Person except in accordance with the provisions of Section
3.4 and any attempted Transfer in violation of Section 3.4 shall be null and
void (each, a "Void Transfer").

                  Neither the Lease Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor
pursuant to Section 3.10(a) nor any beneficial interest therein may be

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transferred to any Person, and any attempted Transfer thereof shall be null and
void; provided that upon a dissolution of or termination of the Depositor, any
Lease Trust Certificates held by the Depositor, including the Lease Trust
Certificates issued pursuant to Section 3.10(a), may be distributed to the
beneficiary of the Depositor.

                  One or more Lease Trust Certificates (other than the Lease
Trust Certificate issued to the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a)) in the
form of the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates shall be deposited, on behalf of
the subscribers for such Lease Trust Certificates, with the Lease Trustee as
custodian for the Depositary and shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co.,
the nominee of the Depositary, for the accounts of the Custodians. The Aggregate
Certificate Balance of the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates may from time to
time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Lease
Trustee or the Depositary, or their respective nominees, as the case may be, as
hereinafter provided.

                  Each Custodian shall have no rights under this Agreement with
respect to any Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate held on its behalf by the Lease
Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, or under the Rule 144A Lease Trust
Certificate, and the Depositary may be treated by the Administrative Agent, the
Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Registrar or the Authenticating Agent as the
absolute owner of such Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate for all purposes
whatsoever (except to the extent otherwise provided herein). Notwithstanding the
foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent, the Lease
Trust, the Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Registrar or the Authenticating Agent
from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization
furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and a
Custodian, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the
rights of a holder of any Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate.

                  Except as provided in Section 3.11, owners of beneficial
interests in Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates shall not be entitled to receive
physical delivery of Lease Trust Certificates.

                  Neither the Subordinated Notes issued to and required to be
retained by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(b) nor any beneficial
interest therein may be transferred to any Person, and any attempted Transfer
thereof shall be a Void Transfer; provided that upon a dissolution of or
termination of the Depositor, any such Subordinated Notes held by the Depositor
may be distributed to the beneficiary of the Depositor. The Subordinated Notes
shall be

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issued in the name of the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(b).

                  The Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated Notes shall
be in printed or in typewritten form, and shall be executed on behalf of the
Lease Trust by manual or facsimile signature of a Responsible Officer. Lease
Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes 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 Lease Trust, shall be validly
issued and entitled to the benefits of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated
Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of
such Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated Notes.

                  The Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated Notes shall
include a recitation limiting the obligation represented by the Lease Trust
Certificates or the Subordinated Notes, as the case may be, to the Series 2000-1
Assets and the related Specified Interests. The Lease Trust Certificates and the
Subordinated Notes shall also include an acknowledgment and agreement by the
holder thereof to the effect that, if an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to
any Titling Company, any claim that the holder of such Lease Trust Certificates
or such Subordinated Notes, as the case may be, may seek to enforce against the
Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company
other than the Specified Interest within such Titling Company represented by the
Series 2000-1 Certificate ("Other Specified Interests") shall be subordinate to
the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the claims of the
holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets allocated to Other
Specified Interests of such Titling Company. The Lease Trust Certificates and
the Subordinated Notes shall also include a recitation that the Lease Trust
Agreement constitutes a subordination agreement for purposes of Section 510(a)
of the Bankruptcy Code.

                  If Transfer of the Lease Trust Certificates or the
Subordinated Notes is permitted pursuant to Section 3.4, a transferee of a Lease
Trust Certificate or a Subordinated Note shall become a Lease Trust
Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder, as the case may be, and shall be
entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations hereunder of a Lease Trust
Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder, as applicable, upon due
registration of such Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note in such
transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.4.

                  (b) Interest shall accrue on the Subordinated Notes at the
Subordinated Note Interest Rate during each Interest Accrual Period based on the
Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes as of the close of business on the
Payment Date occurring in the calendar month in which such Interest Accrual
Period commences. Interest accrued during each Interest Accrual

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Period on the Subordinated Notes shall be due and payable on each Payment Date.
Interest on the Subordinated Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months. To the extent that interest on the Subordinated
Notes is accrued but not paid in full on any Payment Date, such overdue interest
will be due on the next Payment Date together with interest on such amount (to
the extent lawful) at the Subordinated Note Interest Rate. Payments of interest
and principal will be payable to Subordinated Noteholders in accordance with
Section 5.3.

                  (c) Interest shall accrue on the Lease Trust Certificates at
the Certificate Interest Rate during each Interest Accrual Period based on the
Aggregate Certificate Balance of the Lease Trust Certificates as of the close of
business on the Payment Date occurring in the calendar month in which such
Interest Accrual Period commences. Interest accrued during each Interest Accrual
Period on the Lease Trust Certificates shall be due and payable on each Payment
Date. Interest on the Lease Trust Certificates shall be calculated on the basis
of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. To the extent that interest on the
Lease Trust Certificates is accrued but not paid in full on any Payment Date,
such overdue interest will be due on the next Payment Date together with
interest on such amount (to the extent lawful) at the Certificate Interest Rate.
Payments of interest and principal will be payable to Lease Trust
Certificateholders in accordance with Section 5.3.

                  Section 3.3 Authentication of Lease Trust Certificates and
Subordinated Notes. Concurrently with the transfer of the Series 2000-1
Certificates to the Lease Trust pursuant to the Transfer Agreement, the Lease
Trustee shall cause Lease Trust Certificates in an aggregate principal amount
equal to $[          ] and Subordinated Notes in an aggregate principal amount
equal to $[        ] to be executed on behalf of the Lease Trust, authenticated
and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, in authorized
denominations. No Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note shall entitle its
holder to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be valid for any purpose,
unless there shall appear on such Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit
A-1, Exhibit A-2 or Exhibit B, as applicable, executed by the Authenticating
Agent, by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute conclusive
evidence that such Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note shall have been
duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Lease Trust Certificates and
Subordinated Notes shall be dated the date of their authentication.

                  Section 3.4 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Lease
Trust

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Certificates and Subordinated Notes. (a) The Lease Trust Registrar shall keep or
cause to be kept at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a
Lease Trust Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Lease Trustee shall provide for the registration of Lease Trust
Certificates and Subordinated Notes and of Transfers and exchanges of Lease
Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes as herein provided. The Lease Trustee
shall be the initial Lease Trust Registrar and shall maintain such register as
agent for the Depositor. No Transfer of a Lease Trust Certificate or
Subordinated Note shall be recognized except upon registration of such Transfer.

                  (b) The Subordinated Notes may not be transferred unless an
Opinion of Counsel in form and content acceptable to the Lease Trustee and, if
any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee is delivered to
the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the
Indenture Trustee and prior notice is given to each Rating Agency. Among other
things, such Opinion of Counsel shall state that such Transfer shall not (i)
affect the treatment of the Senior Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates as
debt for federal income tax purposes and (ii) cause either the Lease Trust or
any Titling Company to be classified as an association (or publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes; provided,
however, that the Subordinated Notes issued to and required to be retained by
the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(b) may not be transferred except upon a
dissolution of or termination of the Depositor as provided in Section 3.2(a)
above.

                  (c) The Lease Trust Certificates may not be transferred unless
an Opinion of Counsel in form and content acceptable to the Lease Trustee and,
if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee is delivered
to the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the
Indenture Trustee and prior notice is given to each Rating Agency. Among other
things, such Opinion of Counsel shall state that such Transfer shall not (i)
affect the treatment of the Senior Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates as
debt for federal income tax purposes and (ii) cause either the Lease Trust or
any Titling Company to be classified as an association (or publicly traded
partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes; provided,
however, that no Lease Trust Certificate may be transferred (i) unless this
Agreement is amended to provide for the accounting for income, gain, loss, and
deductions of the Lease Trust in the event it is classified as a partnership and
the Lease Trust Certificates are not classified as debt of such partnership for
federal income tax purposes or (ii) to Ford Credit; provided, further, that the
Lease Trust Certificates issued to and required to be retained by the Depositor
pursuant to Section 3.10(a) may not be transferred except upon a dissolution of
or termination of the Depositor as provided in Section 3.2(b) above.

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                  (d) The Lease Trustee shall cause each Custodian to maintain a
register (the "Lease Trust Certificates Ownership Register") at the respective
Custodian Office in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, such each Custodian shall provide for the registration of beneficial
interests in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates and the registration of
transfers of beneficial interests in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates
subject to the applicable requirements of this Section 3.4.(c) and the related
Custodial Agreements. Upon any resignation or removal of a Custodian, the Lease
Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or, in the absence of such
appointment, assume the duties of such Custodian.

                  Upon any resignation or removal of a Custodian, the Lease
Trustee and the Depositor shall have the right to inspect the Lease Trust
Certificates Ownership Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies
thereof and the Lease Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate
executed on behalf of the Custodian by an Authorized Officer thereof as to the
names and addresses of the holders of the beneficial interests in the Rule 144A
Lease Trust Certificates and the principal amounts of such beneficial interests
and numbers of such holders.

                  (e) The Subordinate Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates may
not be transferred unless such Transfer is exempt from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act and is exempt under applicable state
securities laws. The Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate shall bear the legend set
forth below:

                  THIS RULE 144A LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL
NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES
ACT"), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAW OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THE LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATES IN RESPECT
OF WHICH THIS RULE 144A LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED, AGREES FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE LEASE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT SUCH LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE
MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN A
DENOMINATION OF AT LEAST $10,000,000 AND IN INTEGRAL MULTIPLES OF $1,000,000,
ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, AND ONLY
(1) TO PERSONS OTHER THAN FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, (2) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A") TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER, WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A (A
"QIB"), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB,

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WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE, OR
OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, SUBJECT TO (A) THE
RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR AND THE CUSTODIAN OF A
CERTIFICATE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT C TO THE LEASE TRUST
AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR AND
THE CUSTODIAN OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT D TO THE
LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT, (3) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED
BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), SUBJECT TO THE RECEIPT BY
THE LEASE TRUST AND THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR OF SUCH EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE
LEASE TRUST THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH
THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, (4)
TO AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING THEREOF IN RULE
501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PURSUANT TO
ANY OTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT,
SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR AND THE
CUSTODIAN OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT E TO THE
LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT OR (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST
REGISTRAR AND THE CUSTODIAN OF SUCH OTHER EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE LEASE TRUST
THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LEASE
TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, OR (5) TO THE
DEPOSITOR OR ITS AFFILIATES, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF THE
STATES OF THE UNITED STATES.

                  (f) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, so
long as a Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate remains outstanding and is held by
the Lease Trustee on behalf of the Depositary, transfers of a Rule 144A Lease
Trust Certificate, in whole or in part, shall only be made in accordance with
Section 3.2(a) and this Section 3.4(f).

                           (i) Subject to clause (ii) of this Section 3.4(f),
         Transfers of a Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate shall be limited to
         transfers of such Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate in whole, but not
         in part, to nominees of the Depositary or to a successor of the
         Depositary or such successor's nominee.

                           (ii) In the event that a Rule 144A Lease Trust
         Certificate is

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         exchanged for a definitive Lease Trust Certificate pursuant to Section
         3.11, such definitive Lease Trust Certificate may be exchanged for
         another definitive Lease Trust Certificate only in accordance with the
         procedures that are substantially consistent with this Section 3.4
         (including certification requirements intended to insure that such
         transfers comply with Regulation 144A), and as may be from time to time
         adopted by the Lease Trustee.

                           (iii) No transfer of any beneficial interest in a
         Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate shall be permitted if, after giving
         effect to such proposed transfer, (A) there would be more than [ ]
         owners in the aggregate of Subordinated Notes and Lease Trust
         Certificates (as determined for purposes of United States Treasury
         Regulation 1.7704-1(h)) or (B) there would be more than 90 holders of
         direct or indirect interests in any Titling Company.

                  (g) If a Lease Trust Certificate Owner wishes at any time to
transfer all or a portion of its interest in a Rule 144A Lease Trust
Certificate, such Lease Trust Certificate Owner, subject to the rules and
procedures of the applicable Custodian, may transfer, or cause the transfer of,
such interest in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate only in accordance with
the certification and other requirements in the related Custodial Agreement;
provided that the transferee shall enter into a Custodial Agreement with a
Custodian on or prior to the date of such Transfer in which such transferee
shall be required to represent in writing to the Lease Trust and the Custodian
the following:

                           (i) It has neither acquired nor will it transfer any
         Lease Trust Certificate it purchases (or any interest therein) or cause
         any such Lease Trust Certificates (or any interest therein) to be
         marketed on or through an "established securities market" within the
         meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Code, including, without
         limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation
         system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.

                           (ii) It either (A) is not, and will not become, a
         partnership, Subchapter S corporation, or grantor trust for U.S.
         federal income tax purposes, or (B) is such an entity, but none of the
         direct or indirect beneficial owners of any of the interests in such
         transferee have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause, 80% or more
         (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to the
         time of such proposed Transfer) of the value of such interests to be
         attributable to such transferee's ownership of Lease Trust
         Certificates.

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                           (iii) It understands that no subsequent Transfer of
         the Lease Trust Certificates is permitted unless (A) such Transfer is
         of a Lease Trust Certificate with a denomination of at least
         $10,000,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000,000, (B) it causes its
         proposed transferee to provide to the Issuer, the Lease Trust Registrar
         and the Custodian a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D
         or Exhibit E, as applicable, or such other written statement as the
         Depositor shall prescribe, (C) before the Transfer of the Lease Trust
         Certificates, it causes the proposed transferee to enter into a
         Custodial Agreement with the Custodian and (D) the Depositor consents
         in writing to the proposed Transfer, which consent shall be granted
         unless the Depositor determines that such Transfer would create a risk
         that the Lease Trust or any Titling Company would be classified for
         federal or any applicable State tax purposes as an association or
         publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation; provided,
         however, that any attempted Transfer that would either cause (i) the
         number of holders of Lease Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes to
         exceed [ ] or (ii) the number of holders of direct or indirect
         interests in any Titling Company to exceed ninety, shall be a Void
         Transfer.

                           (iv) It understands that the Opinion of Counsel that
         the Lease Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a
         corporation is dependent in part on the accuracy of the representations
         in paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) above.

                           (v) It is not (A) an employee benefit plan, as
         defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I of ERISA,
         (B) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (C) a
         governmental plan, as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any
         federal, State or local law which is, to a material extent, similar to
         the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, (D)
         an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a
         plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department of
         Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101) or (E) a person investing
         "plan assets" of any such plan (including without limitation, for
         purposes of this clause (E), any insurance company general account but
         excluding any entity registered under the Investment Company Act of
         1940, as amended).

                           (vi) It is a Person who is either (A)(1) a citizen or
         resident of the United States, (2) a corporation, partnership or other
         entity organized in or under the laws of the United States or any
         political subdivision thereof, other than a partnership treated as a
         foreign person under U.S. Treasury regulations, unless in the case of a
         partnership, U.S. Treasury regulations enacted in the future provide
         otherwise or (3) a Person not described in (A)(1) or (2) whose
         ownership of the Lease Trust Certificates

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         is effectively connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or
         business within the United States (within the meaning of the Code) and
         its ownership of any interest in a Lease Trust Certificate will not
         result in any withholding obligation with respect to any payments with
         respect to the Lease Trust Certificates by any Person (other than
         withholding, if any, under Section 1446 of the Code), (B) an estate the
         income of which is includible in gross income for United States federal
         income tax purposes, regardless of source or (C) a trust, if either (1)
         a United States court is able to exercise primary supervision over the
         administration of such trust and one or more United States persons have
         the authority to control substantial decisions of the trust or (2) it
         was in existence on August 20, 1996 and elected to be treated as a
         United States person (within the meaning of the Code) thereafter. It
         agrees that it will provide a certification of non-foreign status
         signed under penalties of perjury and, alternatively, that if it is a
         person described in clause (A)(3) above, it will furnish to the
         Depositor and the Lease Trustee a properly executed IRS Form 4224 and a
         new IRS Form 4224 upon the expiration or obsolescence of any previously
         delivered form (and such other certifications, representations or
         opinions of counsel as may be requested by the Depositor and the Lease
         Trustee).

                           (vii) It understands that any purported Transfer of
         any Lease Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) in contravention
         of any of the restrictions and conditions in this Section 3.4 shall be
         a Void Transfer, and the purported transferee in a Void Transfer shall
         not be recognized by the Lease Trust or any other Person as a Lease
         Trust Certificateholder for any purpose.

                  (h) By acceptance of any Lease Trust Certificate represented
by an interest in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate, the Lease Trust
Certificateholder specifically agrees with and represents to the Depositor, the
Lease Trust, and the applicable Custodian, that no Transfer of such Lease Trust
Certificate shall be made unless the registration requirements of the Securities
Act and any applicable State securities laws are complied with, or such Transfer
is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act because
the Transfer satisfies one of the following:

                           (i) such Transfer is in compliance with Rule 144A
         under the Securities Act ("Rule 144A"), to a transferee who the
         transferor reasonably believes is a Qualified Institutional Buyer that
         is purchasing for its own account or for the account of a Qualified
         Institutional Buyer

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         and to whom notice is given that such Transfer is being made in
         reliance upon Rule 144A under the Securities Act and (x) the transferor
         executes and delivers to the Lease Trust, and the Custodian, a Rule
         144A transferor certificate substantially in the form attached as
         Exhibit C and (y) the transferee executes and delivers to the Lease
         Trust, and the Custodian an investment letter substantially in the form
         attached as Exhibit D;

                           (ii) after the appropriate holding period, such
         Transfer is pursuant to an exemption from registration under the
         Securities Act provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act and the
         transferee, if requested by the Lease Trust, and the Custodian,
         delivers an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance satisfactory to
         the Lease Trust; and

                           (iii) such Transfer is to an institutional accredited
         investor as defined in rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D
         promulgated under the Securities Act in a transaction exempt from the
         registration requirements of the Securities Act, such Transfer is in
         accordance with any applicable securities laws of any State of the
         United States or any other jurisdiction, and such investor executes and
         delivers to the Lease Trust, and the Custodian an investment letter
         substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E.

                  (i) The Lease Trustee shall make, or cause to be made,
available to the prospective transferor and transferee of a Lease Trust
Certificate information requested to satisfy the requirements of paragraph
(d)(4) of Rule 144A (the "Rule 144A Information"). The Rule 144A Information
shall include any or all of the following items requested by the prospective
transferee:

                           (i) the offering circular relating to the Lease Trust
         Certificates dated [ ], 2000, and any amendments or supplements
         thereto;

                           (ii) each Lease Trust Distribution Statement
         delivered to Lease Trust Certificateholders on each Payment Date
         preceding such request; and

                           (iii) such other information as is reasonably
         available to the Lease Trustee in order to comply with requests for
         information pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

                  None of the Depositor, the Lease Trust Registrar or the Lease
Trustee is under an obligation to register any Lease Trust Certificate under the
Securities Act or any other securities law.
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                  (j) Upon surrender for registration of Transfer of any Lease
Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note at the office or agency maintained
pursuant to Section 3.8 and upon compliance with any provisions of this
Agreement relating to such Transfer, the Lease Trustee shall, or shall cause the
Authenticating Agent to, execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Lease Trust Certificates
or Subordinated Notes, as the case may be, in authorized denominations of a like
class and aggregate face amount dated the date of such authentication.

                  Subject to Section 3.4(b), at the option of a Subordinated
Noteholder, Subordinated Notes (other than the Subordinated Notes issued to and
required to be retained by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(b)) may be
exchanged for other Subordinated Notes in authorized denominations of a like
aggregate amount upon surrender of the Subordinated Notes to be exchanged at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Subject to Section 3.4(c),
at the option of a Lease Trust Certificateholder, Lease Trust Certificates
(other than the Lease Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor pursuant to
Section 3.10(a)) may be exchanged for other Lease Trust Certificates in
authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Lease
Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant
to Section 3.8.

                  Whenever any Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated Notes
are so surrendered for exchange, a Responsible Officer shall execute, an
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and the Lease Trust Registrar shall
deliver the Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated Notes, as the case may be,
which the Lease Trust Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.

                  The Lease Trust Registrar shall require that every Lease Trust
Certificate or Subordinated Note presented or surrendered for registration of
Transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
and accompanied by IRS Form 4224 or W-9 in form satisfactory to the Lease Trust
Registrar duly executed by the Lease Trust Certificateholder or Subordinated
Noteholder, as the case may be, or such Person's attorney duly authorized in
writing.

                  No service charge shall be made to a Lease Trust
Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder for any registration of Transfer or
exchange of Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated Notes, as the case may be,
but the

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Lease Trustee or the Lease Trust Registrar may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of Transfer or exchange of Lease Trust
Certificates or Subordinated Notes.

                  The Lease Trust Registrar shall cancel and retain or destroy,
in accordance with the Lease Trust Registrar's retention policy then in effect,
all Lease Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes surrendered for registration
of Transfer or exchange and shall upon written request certify to the Depositor
as to such retention or destruction.

                  (k) The provisions of this Section 3.4 and of this Agreement
generally are intended to prevent the Lease Trust from being characterized as a
"publicly traded partnership" within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, in
reliance on Treas. Reg. ss.ss. 1.7704-1(e) and (h), and the Depositor shall take
such intent into account in determining whether or not to consent to any
proposed Transfer of any Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note.

                  The preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding,
the Lease Trustee shall not make and the Lease Trust Registrar shall not
register any Transfer or exchange of Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated
Notes for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment
with respect to the Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated Notes, as the case
may be.

                  Section 3.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Lease Trust
Certificates or Subordinated Notes. If (a) any mutilated Lease Trust Certificate
or Subordinated Note is surrendered to the Lease Trust Registrar, or if the
Lease Trust Registrar receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction,
loss or theft of any Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note and (b) there
is delivered to the Lease Trust Registrar and the Lease Trustee such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the
absence of notice that such Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note has
been transferred to or is in the possession of a third party purchaser, the
Lease Trustee on behalf of the Lease Trust shall execute and the Authenticating
Agent shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated
Note, a new Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note, as the case may be, of
like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new
Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note under this Section 3.5, the Lease
Trustee or the Lease Trust Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in

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connection therewith. Any duplicate Lease Trust Certificate issued pursuant to
this Section 3.5 shall constitute conclusive evidence of an ownership interest
in the Lease Trust, and any duplicate Subordinated Note issued pursuant to this
Section 3.5 shall constitute conclusive evidence of an additional contractual
obligation of the Lease Trust, in each case as if originally issued, whether or
not the lost, stolen or destroyed Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note
shall be found at any time.

                  Section 3.6 Persons Deemed Lease Trust Certificateholders or
Subordinated Noteholders. Prior to due presentation of a Lease Trust Certificate
or Subordinated Note for registration of Transfer, the Lease Trustee or the
Lease Trust Registrar may treat the Person in whose name any Lease Trust
Certificate or Subordinated Note shall be registered in the Lease Trust Register
as the owner of such Lease Trust Certificate or Subordinated Note for the
purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to Section 5.3 and for all other
purposes whatsoever, and neither the Lease Trustee nor the Lease Trust Registrar
shall be bound by any notice to the contrary; provided, however, that the
Depositary shall be deemed the owner of the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates,
and the owners of beneficial interests in Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates
shall not be considered the owners of any Lease Trust Certificates for the
purpose of receiving notices.

                  Section 3.7 Access to List of Lease Trust Certificateholders'
and Subordinated Noteholders' Names and Addresses. The Lease Trustee shall
furnish or cause to be furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Depositor,
or to the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, within 15 days after receipt by
the Lease Trustee of a request therefor from the Administrative Agent or the
Depositor or the Indenture Trustee in writing, a list, in such form as the
requesting party may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Lease
Trust Certificateholders or the Subordinated Noteholders, as applicable, as of
the most recent Record Date. In any event, the Lease Trustee shall provide such
list to the Indenture Trustee on each Record Date until the Outstanding Amount
of the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero. If (i) two or more Lease Trust
Certificateholders or (ii) one or more Lease Trust Certificateholders of Lease
Trust Certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the Aggregate Certificate
Balance apply in writing to the Lease Trustee and such application states that
the applicants desire to communicate with other Lease Trust Certificateholders
with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Lease Trust
Certificates and such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication
that such applicants propose to transmit, then the Lease Trustee shall, within
five Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such applicants
access during normal business hours to the current list of Lease Trust
Certificateholders. If (x) two or more Subordinated Noteholders or (y) one or
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Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated
Notes apply in writing to the Lease Trustee, and such application states that
the applicants desire to communicate with other Subordinated Noteholders with
respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Subordinated Notes and
such application is accompanied by a copy of the communication that such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Lease Trustee shall, within five
Business Days after the receipt of such application, afford such applicants
access during normal business hours to the current list of Subordinated
Noteholders. Each Lease Trust Certificateholder, by receiving and holding a
Lease Trust Certificate and each Subordinated Noteholder, by receiving and
holding a Subordinated Note, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of
the Depositor, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be
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 Office or Agency. The Lease Trustee
shall maintain in the State of New York, an office or offices or agency or
agencies where Lease Trust Certificates may be surrendered for registration of
Transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Lease Trustee
in respect of the Lease Trust Certificates, the Subordinated Notes and the Basic
Documents to which the Lease Trustee is a party may be served. The Lease Trustee
initially designates The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street - 12E, New York,
New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration as its principal
corporate trust office for such purposes. The Lease Trustee shall give prompt
written notice to the Depositor, the Lease Trust Certificateholders and the
Subordinated Noteholders of any change in the location of the Lease Trust
Register or any such office or agency.

                  Section 3.9 Appointment of Lease Trust Paying Agent. The Lease
Trust Paying Agent shall make distributions to Subordinated Noteholders and
Lease Trust Certificateholders pursuant to written instruction delivered to it
by the Lease Trustee and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the
Lease Trustee. The Lease Trust Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to
withdraw funds from the Lease Trust Distribution Account for the purpose of
making the distributions referred to above. The Lease Trust Paying Agent shall
have no obligation to make any payments nor shall it incur any liability if
sufficient funds are not available in the Lease Trust Distribution Account. The
Lease Trustee may revoke such power and remove the Lease Trust Paying Agent if
the Lease Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the Lease Trust Paying
Agent has failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement in any material
respect. The Lease Trust Paying Agent shall initially be The Chase

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Manhattan Bank. Any co-paying agent chosen by the Depositor, and acceptable to
the Lease Trustee shall also be the Lease Trust Paying Agent. The Chase
Manhattan Bank may resign as Lease Trust Paying Agent upon 30 days' written
notice to the Lease Trustee. In the event that The Chase Manhattan Bank shall no
longer be the Lease Trust Paying Agent, the Lease Trustee shall appoint a
successor to act as Lease Trust Paying Agent (which shall be a bank or trust
company). The Lease Trustee shall cause such successor Lease Trust Paying Agent
or any additional Lease Trust Paying Agent appointed by the Lease Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Lease Trustee an instrument in which such successor
Lease Trust Paying Agent or additional Lease Trust Paying Agent shall agree with
the Lease Trustee that as Lease Trust Paying Agent, such successor Lease Trust
Paying Agent or additional Lease Trust Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any,
held by it for payment to the Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust
Certificateholders, as applicable, in trust for the benefit of the Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, as applicable, entitled thereto
until such sums are paid to such Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust
Certificateholders. The Lease Trust Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed
funds to the Lease Trustee and upon removal of the Lease Trust Paying Agent such
Lease Trust Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the
Lease Trustee. The provisions of Sections 7.1, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7 and 8.2 shall
apply to The Chase Manhattan Bank, in its capacity as Lease Trust Paying Agent,
and to any other paying agent appointed hereunder, including the Lease Trustee
(in which case, the provision of Section 7.3 also shall apply to the Lease
Trustee in its capacity as Lease Trust Paying Agent).

          Section 3.10 Ownership of Lease Trust Certificates and Subordinated
Notes by Depositor. (a) On and after the Closing Date, the Depositor shall
acquire and retain beneficial and record ownership of Lease Trust Certificates
evidencing at least 1% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance. Any attempted
Transfer of the Lease Trust Certificate required to be retained by the Depositor
shall be a Void Transfer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon a dissolution or
termination of the Depositor, the Lease Trust Certificate held by it shall be
distributed to the beneficiary of the Depositor without regard to the provisions
of Section 3.2. The Lease Trustee shall cause the Lease Trust Certificate held
by the Depositor pursuant to this Section 3.10(a) to bear a legend stating "THIS
LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN THE EVENT OF THE
DISSOLUTION OR TERMINATION OF RCL TRUST 2000-1 WHEN IT IS THE HOLDER HEREOF, AND
ANY TRANSFER IN VIOLATION OF THIS PROVISION SHALL BE NULL AND VOID."

          (b) On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire beneficial and
record ownership of the entire initial principal amount of the Subordinated
Notes. On and after the Closing Date, the Depositor shall be required to retain
beneficial and record ownership of Subordinated Notes evidencing at least 1%

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of the Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes. Any attempted Transfer of
the Subordinated Notes required to be retained by the Depositor shall be a Void
Transfer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon a dissolution or termination of
the Depositor, the Subordinated Notes required to be retained by it shall be
distributed to the beneficiary of the Depositor without regard to the provisions
of Section 3.2.

          Section 3.11 Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates; Temporary Lease Trust
Certificates. (a) A Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate deposited with the
Depositary pursuant to Section 3.2(a) shall be transferred to the beneficial
owners thereof only if such transfer complies with Section 3.4 of this Agreement
and if (i) the Administrative Agent advises the Lease Trustee in writing that
the Depositary is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Lease Trust Certificates, and the
Administrative Agent is unable to locate a qualified successor or (ii) the
Administrative Agent at its option advises the Lease Trustee in writing that it
elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Depositary.

          (b) Any Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate that is transferable to the
beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 3.11 shall be surrendered by
the Depositary to the Lease Trustee's office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.8, or to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part,
without charge, and the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver,
upon such transfer of each portion of such Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate, an
equal aggregate principal amount of Lease Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations. Any portion of a Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate Transferred or
exchanged pursuant to this Section 3.11 shall be executed by the Lease Trustee
on behalf of the Lease Trust and authenticated and delivered by the
Authenticating Agent, only in the minimum denominations and in integral
multiples of the amounts set forth in Section 3.2(a). Any Lease Trust
Certificate delivered in exchange for an interest in a Rule 144A Lease Trust
Certificate shall bear the legend set forth in Exhibit A-1 and shall be subject
to the transfer restrictions referred to in such legend. The Holder of such a
registered individual Lease Trust Certificate may transfer such Lease Trust
Certificate by surrendering it at the office or agency maintained by the Lease
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.8.

          (c) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.11(b) above, the registered
holder of a Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate may grant proxies and otherwise
authorize any Person to take any action which a holder is entitled to take under
this Agreement or the Lease Trust Certificates.

          (d) In the event of the occurrence of either of the events specified
in Section 3.11(a), pending the preparation of definitive Lease Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Section 3.11, the Lease Trustee may, on behalf of
the Lease Trust, execute and the Authenticating Agent may authenticate and
deliver, temporary Lease Trust Certificates that are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise reproduced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Lease Trust
Certificates in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Authorized
Officers executing such Lease Trust Certificates may determine, as conclusively
evidenced by their execution of such Lease Trust Certificates.

          If temporary Lease Trust Certificates are issued, the Lease Trustee
shall cause definitive Lease Trust Certificates to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. The definitive Lease Trust Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved, or provided by any combination thereof, or in any
other manner permitted by the rules and regulations of any applicable securities
exchange, all as determined by the Authorized Officers executing such definitive
Lease Trust Certificates. After the preparation of definitive Lease Trust
Certificates, the temporary Lease Trust Certificates shall be exchangeable for
definitive Lease Trust Certificates upon surrender of the temporary Lease Trust
Certificates at the office or agency maintained by the Lease Trustee pursuant to
Section 3.8 without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any
one or more temporary Lease Trust Certificates, the Lease Trustee, on behalf of
the Lease Trust, shall execute and the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate
and deliver, in exchange therefor the same aggregate principal amount of
definitive Lease Trust Certificates of authorized denominations. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Lease Trust Certificates shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as definitive Lease Trust
Certificates.

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                                   ARTICLE IV

                            ACTIONS BY LEASE TRUSTEE

          Section 4.1 Prior Notice to Lease Trust Certificateholders with
Respect to Certain Matters. With respect to the following matters, the Lease
Trustee shall not take action unless (i) the Lease Trustee has notified the
Lease Trust Certificateholders and the Rating Agencies in writing of the
proposed action at least 30 days before the taking of such action, and (ii)
Lease Trust Certificateholders representing at least 25% of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance have not notified the Lease Trustee in writing prior to the
30th day after such notice is given that such Lease Trust Certificateholders
have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:

          (a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Lease Trust and the
compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or against the Lease Trust
(other than an action brought by the Administrative Agent on behalf of any
Titling Company and Persons having interests in the Series 2000-1 Certificates
to collect amounts owed under a Series 2000-1 Lease);

          (b) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Senior Noteholder is required;

          (c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture in
circumstances where the consent of any Senior Noteholder is not required and
such amendment materially adversely affects the interests of the Lease Trust
Certificateholders; or

         (d) the amendment of any other Basic Document if such amendment
materially adversely affects the interests of the Lease Trust
Certificateholders.

          Section 4.2 Action by Lease Trust Certificateholders with Respect to
Certain Matters. To the extent that the Lease Trustee is deemed to be the
"Holder" of the Series 2000-1 Certificates pursuant to Section 8.6 of the Series
2000-1 Supplement, the Lease Trustee shall take such actions as directed (in
writing) by Lease Trust Certificateholders holding Lease Trust Certificates
evidencing at least 662/3% of the Aggregate Certificate Balance; provided,
however, that so long as the lien of the Indenture is outstanding, such
direction shall be subject to the consent of the Indenture Trustee.

          Section 4.3 Restrictions on Action by Lease Trustee with Respect to
Bankruptcy. The Lease Trustee shall not have the power to commence a voluntary
proceeding in bankruptcy relating to the Lease Trust without the unanimous prior
approval of all Lease Trust Certificateholders, Subordinated Noteholders and
Senior Noteholders and the delivery to the Lease Trustee by each such Lease
Trust Certificateholder, Subordinated Noteholder and Senior Noteholder of a
certificate certifying that such Lease Trust Certificateholder, Subordinated
Noteholder or Senior Noteholder reasonably believes that the Lease Trust is
insolvent.

          Section 4.4 Restrictions on Lease Trust Certificateholders' Power. The
Lease Trust Certificateholders shall not direct the Lease Trustee to take or
refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to
any obligation of the Lease Trust or the Lease Trustee under this Agreement or
any of the other Basic Documents nor shall the Lease Trustee be obligated to
follow any such direction, if given.

          Section 4.5 Majority Control. (a) Except as expressly provided herein,
any action that may be taken by the Lease Trust Certificateholders under this
Agreement may be taken by the Lease Trust Certificateholders holding not less
than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance. Except as expressly
provided herein, any written notice of the Lease Trust Certificateholders
delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by Lease Trust
Certificateholders holding not less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate
Balance at the time of the delivery of such notice.

          (b) Except as expressly provided herein, any action that may be taken
by the Subordinated Noteholders under this Agreement may be taken by the
Subordinated Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Subordinated Notes. Except as expressly provided herein, any
written notice of the Subordinated Noteholders delivered pursuant to this
Agreement shall be effective if signed by Subordinated Noteholders holding not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes at the
time of the delivery of such notice.

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                                    ARTICLE V

                   APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS, CERTAIN DUTIES
                     AND SUBORDINATED NOTE EVENTS OF DEFAULT

          Section 5.1 Establishment of Lease Trust Distribution Account. (a)
Subject to Section 5.1(c), the Lease Trustee shall establish and maintain an
account in the name of the Lease Trustee, at an Eligible Institution in the name
of the Lease Trustee, to be designated as the "Lease Trust Distribution
Account". The Lease Trust Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion
and control of the Lease Trustee; provided that the Administrative Agent may
make withdrawals from the Lease Trust Distribution Account in accordance with
Section 5.2(e) of the Series 2000-1 Supplement and the Lease Trust Paying Agent
may make withdrawals therefrom in accordance with Section 3.9 hereof. All
deposits to and withdrawals from the Lease Trust Distribution Account shall be
made only upon the terms and conditions of the Basic Documents. The Lease Trust
Distribution Account shall initially be at The Chase Manhattan Bank.

          (b) Any amounts on deposit in the Lease Trust Distribution Account
shall be invested by the Lease Trustee, in Permitted Investments which mature on
the Business Day preceding the next succeeding Payment Date. No such investment
shall be sold prior to maturity. All investment earnings on amounts deposited to
the Lease Trust Distribution Account, including any proceeds thereof, shall be
credited to the Cash Collateral Account, and losses, if any, and investment
expenses resulting from Permitted Investments in the Lease Trust Distribution
Account shall be charged to the Cash Collateral Account. All such investment
income shall be reported for federal income tax purposes as earned by RCL Trust
2000-1 and shall be reported by Ford Credit as sole beneficial owner of RCL
Trust 2000-1. If the institution at which the Lease Trust Distribution Account
is established ceases to be an Eligible Institution, then the Lease Trust
Distribution Account shall be reestablished at an Eligible Institution within 10
Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed 30 calendar days as to which
each Rating Agency may consent).

          (c) Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, the Lease Trust
Distribution Account shall only be established at an Eligible Institution that
agrees in writing that (i) all investments of amounts on deposit in the Lease
Trust Distribution Account shall be promptly credited to the Lease Trust
Distribution Account, (ii) all securities, cash or other property credited to
the Lease Trust Distribution Account shall be treated as a "financial asset"
within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(9) of the Uniform Commercial Code of the
State of New York ("Revised Article 8"), (iii) at all times prior to being
notified in writing by the Indenture Trustee that the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, it will comply with "entitlement orders"
(as defined in Section 8-102(a)(8) of Revised Article 8) originated by the
Indenture Trustee without further consent of the Program Lessee or any other
person and (iv) the Lease Trust Distribution Account shall be governed by the
law of the State of New York as the same may be amended from time to time.

          Section 5.2 Cash Collateral Account Certificate; Disbursement and
Payment Instructions. (a) On or prior to the second Business Day preceding the
Payment Date on which the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been
reduced to zero and on the second Business Day preceding each Payment Date
thereafter, the Lease Trustee shall cause the Administrative Agent, on behalf of
the Lease Trust, to deliver to the Lease Trustee a certificate (the "Cash
Collateral Account Certificate") setting forth the following information with
respect to such Payment Date:

               (i) the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee for the preceding
     Collection Period;

               (ii) the Required Payment;

               (iii) the Cash Collateral Amount on the Business Day
     preceding such Payment Date; and

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               (iv) the Cash Collateral Required Draw Amount and the Cash
     Collateral Additional Draw Amount, if any.

          (b) On the second Business Day preceding the Payment Date on which the
Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero and on the
second Business Day preceding each Payment Date thereafter, the Lease Trustee
shall cause the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lease Trust, to deliver
to the Lease Trustee a certificate (the "Disbursement and Payment Instructions")
including the following information with respect to such Payment Date, the
related Collection Period and Series 2000-1:

               (i) the amount of interest accrued during the preceding Interest
     Accrual Period on the Subordinated Notes, the amounts payable with respect
     to such interest (net of amounts paid pursuant to Section 6.6 of the
     Program Operating Lease), and any resulting shortfall (separately stated);

               (ii) the amount of interest accrued during the preceding Interest
     Accrual Period on the Lease Trust Certificates, the amounts payable with
     respect to such interest, and any resulting shortfall (separately stated);

               (iii) the amount of the Monthly Pool Balance Decline;

               (iv) the amount of Monthly Payment Advances outstanding on the
     last day of the related Collection Period which the Administrative Agent
     has determined will not be reimbursed from Series 2000-1 Collections with
     respect to the related Series 2000-1 Lease;

               (v) the sum, with respect to each Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle
     which was sold or otherwise disposed of by the Administrative Agent during
     the related Collection Period, of the excess, if any, of the Sale Proceeds
     Advances made with respect to such Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle, over the
     Sale Proceeds or Auction Proceeds received with respect to such Series
     2000-1 Leased Vehicle;

               (vi) the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee for the related
     Collection Period;

               (vii) the amount, if any, to be distributed by the Lease Trustee
     to the Lease Trust Paying Agent for deposit to the Cash Collateral Account
     as payment of principal of the Subordinated Notes (after giving effect to
     the aggregate amounts required to be deposited to the Cash Collateral
     Account

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     pursuant to Sections 5.3(g)(vi) on such Payment Date (net of amounts paid
     to the Lease Trust pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program Operating
     Lease)), the amounts available to pay such principal and any resulting
     shortfall (separately stated);

               (viii) the amount, if any, to be distributed by the Lease Trustee
     to the Lease Trust Paying Agent for payment of principal on the Lease Trust
     Certificates, the amounts available to pay such principal and any resulting
     shortfall (separately stated); and

               (ix) the amount, if any, to be withdrawn from the Lease Trust
     Distribution Account on such Payment Date and paid to the RCL Trust 2000-1
     on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 3.2(c) of the Program Operating
     Lease.

          (c) The Lease Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to verify or
confirm the accuracy of any of the information or numbers set forth in any of
the certificates required to be delivered to the Lease Trustee in accordance
with this Section 5.2 and the Lease Trustee shall be fully protected in relying
upon such certificates.

          Section 5.3 Distribution of Funds. (a) Pursuant to Section 5.2(e) of
the Series 2000-1 Supplement, on the Business Day preceding each Payment Date,
the Administrative Agent shall withdraw an amount equal to the Available Sale
Proceeds from the Series 2000-1 Collection Account and deposit such amount in
the Series 2000-1 Payments Account. Pursuant to Section 5.2(e) of the Series
2000-1 Supplement, on the Business Day preceding each Payment Date, the
Administrative Agent shall withdraw an amount equal to the Cash Collateral
Deposit Amount from the Series 2000-1 Collection Account and deposit such amount
into the Cash Collateral Account.

          (b) On each Payment Date through and including the Payment Date on
which the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes shall have been reduced to
zero, the Lease Trustee shall, pursuant to Section 6.5 of the Program Operating
Lease, to the extent of the funds available in the Lease Trust Distribution
Account, pay interest due on the Subordinated Notes (net of amounts paid
pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program Operating Lease) by withdrawing from the
Lease Trust Distribution Account and distributing to the Lease Trust Paying
Agent for deposit to the Cash Collateral Account, the amount, if any, deposited
to the Lease Trust Distribution Account by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 8.4(b)(v) or 8.4(c)(v) of the Indenture and, if applicable, clause FIFTH
of Section 5.6(b) of the Indenture.

          (c) On each Payment Date on which the Indenture Trustee has made a
deposit to the Lease Trust Distribution Account pursuant to Sections 8.4(b)(ix)
and 8.4(c)(ix) of the Indenture, the Lease Trustee shall, in accordance with the
Disbursement and Payment Instructions (as set forth in Section 5.2(b)),

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withdraw such amounts from the Lease Trust Distribution Account and pay such
amounts to the RCL Trust 2000-1 pursuant to Section 3.2(c) of the Program
Operating Lease.

          (d) On each Payment Date through and including the Payment Date on
which the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes shall have been reduced to
zero, the Lease Trustee shall transfer the amounts deposited by the Indenture
Trustee into the Lease Trust Distribution Account pursuant to Section 8.4(b)(vi)
or 8.4(c)(vi) of the Indenture and, if applicable, clause SIXTH of Section
5.6(b) of the Indenture, for the payment of interest due on the Lease Trust
Certificates, to the Lease Trust Paying Agent, which shall pay such interest to
Lease Trust Certificateholders, on a pro rata basis.

          (e) On the Business Day preceding each Payment Date after the Payment
Date on which the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to
zero, the Lease Trustee shall, in accordance with the Cash Collateral Account
Certificate received from the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 5.2(a),
withdraw from the Cash Collateral Account and deposit in the Series 2000-1
Payments Account (i) the Cash Collateral Required Draw Amount and (ii) after
giving effect to the aggregate amount required to be deposited to the Cash
Collateral Account pursuant to Section 5.3(g)(vi), the Cash Collateral
Additional Draw Amount, if any, for such Payment Date.

          (f) On the Payment Date on which the Outstanding Amount of the Senior
Notes has been reduced to zero, the Lease Trustee shall, in accordance with the
Disbursement and Payment Instructions (as set forth in Section 5.2(b)), withdraw
from the Lease Trust Distribution Account the amounts deposited therein pursuant
to the last sentence of Sections 8.3(c) of the Indenture and make the deposits,
distributions and payments specified in clauses (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) and
(viii) of Section 5.3(g), to the extent of funds then on deposit in the Lease
Trust Distribution Account, in accordance with the priorities set forth in
Section 5.3(g).

          (g) On each Payment Date after the Payment Date on which the
Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, the Lease
Trustee shall, in accordance with the Disbursement and Payment Instructions (as
set forth in Section 5.2(b)), withdraw from the Series 2000-1 Payment Account
the Available Funds on deposit therein (net of any Additional Fee Released
Amount) and make deposits, distributions and payments, to the extent of funds
then on deposit in the Series 2000-1 Payment Account, in accordance with the
following priorities:

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               (i) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to any Monthly
     Payment Advances outstanding on the last day of the related Collection
     Period which the Administrative Agent has determined will not be reimbursed
     from Series 2000-1 Collections with respect to the related Series 2000-1
     Lease;

               (ii) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to the sum,
     with respect to each Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle which was sold or
     otherwise disposed of by the Administrative Agent during the related
     Collection Period, of the excess, if any, of the Sale Proceeds Advances
     made with respect to Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle and the Sale Proceeds or
     Auction Proceeds received with respect to such Series 2000-1 Leased
     Vehicles;

               (iii) to the Administrative Agent, the Series 2000-1
     Administrative Fee for the preceding Collection Period;

               (iv) pursuant to Section 6.5 of the Program Operating Lease, to
     the Lease Trust Paying Agent for deposit to the Cash Collateral Account, an
     amount equal to the interest accrued on the Outstanding Amount of the
     Subordinated Notes at the Subordinated Note Interest Rate plus any overdue
     interest and interest on any overdue interest at the Subordinated Note
     Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period (net of amounts
     paid pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program Operating Lease);

               (v) to the Lease Trust Paying Agent for payment to the Lease
     Trust Certificateholders, pro rata, an amount equal to the interest accrued
     on the Aggregate Certificate Balance at the Certificate Interest Rate plus
     any overdue interest and interest on any overdue interest at the
     Certificate Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period;

               (vi) subject to Section 5.3(h), to the Lease Trust Paying Agent
     for deposit to the Cash Collateral Account, as payment of principal of the
     Subordinated Notes in accordance with Section 6.5 of the Program Operating
     Lease, an amount equal to (x) the Monthly Pool Balance Decline for the
     preceding Collection Period minus (y) the Outstanding Amount, if any, of
     the Senior Notes on the preceding Payment Date, after giving effect to all
     payments made on such preceding Payment Date; provided that if the amount
     on deposit in the Cash Collateral Account on any Payment Date after giving
     effect to any payment pursuant to this Section 5.3(g)(vi) on such Payment
     Date is less than the Bond Balance, the Lease Trustee shall withdraw from
     the Cash Collateral Account an amount equal to the lesser of (x) such
     shortfall and (y) the Cash Collateral Amount, and apply such amount to pay
     each of the items specified in Section 5.3(g) without duplication of the
     amounts already paid or deposited on such Payment Date;

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               (vii) subject to Section 5.3(h), to the Lease Trust Paying Agent
     for payment to the Lease Trust Certificateholders, pro rata, in reduction
     of the Aggregate Certificate Balance of the Lease Trust Certificates, until
     such Aggregate Certificate Balance has been reduced to zero; and

               (viii) to the Cash Collateral Account, all remaining Available
     Funds.

          (h) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no payments shall
be made under Section 5.3(g)(vi) or 5.3(g)(vii) on any Payment Date unless,
after giving effect to any such payments, the Bond Balance shall have been
reduced to zero. On the first Payment Date on which the Cash Collateral Amount
is at least equal to the Bond Balance after giving effect to the aggregate
amounts required to be deposited therein pursuant to Section 5.3(g)(vi), the
Lease Trustee shall withdraw an amount equal to the Bond Balance from the Cash
Collateral Account and pay such amounts to the Lease Trust Paying Agent for
payment to the Subordinated Noteholders and the Lease Trust Certificateholders,
pro rata, until the Bond Balance shall have been reduced to zero.

          (i) On the Payment Date on which the Bond Balance has been reduced to
zero, the Lease Trustee shall release to the RCL Trust 2000-1 all of the Lease
Trust's right, title and interest in, to and under any remaining Cash Collateral
Account Property.

          (j) Lease Trust Distribution Statements. The Lease Trustee shall send
to each Subordinated Noteholder and each Lease Trust Certificateholder on each
Payment Date a report (a "Lease Trust Distribution Statement") based on
information supplied by the Administrative Agent. Such Lease Trust Distribution
Statement shall include the following information as to the Subordinated Notes
and the Lease Trust Certificates to the extent applicable with respect to such
Payment Date and the related Collection Period:

               (i) the Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes on the
     immediately preceding Payment Date, or if the first Payment Date has not
     yet occurred, on the Closing Date;

               (ii) the Aggregate Certificate Balance of the Lease Trust
     Certificates on the immediately preceding Payment Date, or if the current
     Payment Date is the first Payment Date, on the Closing Date;

               (iii) the aggregate amount of interest accrued and paid on the
     Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates during such Collection
     Period (separately stated);

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               (iv) the aggregate amount of principal paid with respect to the
     Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates on such Payment Date
     (separately stated);

               (v) the Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes and the
     Aggregate Certificate Balance of the Lease Trust Certificates after giving
     effect to any payments of principal on such Payment Date;

               (vi) the Subordinated Note Pool Factor and the Certificate Pool
     Factor (after giving effect to payments made on such Payment Date);

               (vii) the aggregate amount of Series 2000-1 Collections deposited
     in the Series 2000-1 Collection Account (stating separately the components
     thereof);

               (viii) the Aggregate Net Monthly Payment Advances for such
     Collection Period;

               (ix) the aggregate amount of Sale Proceeds Advances reimbursed
     with Available Funds;

               (x) the aggregate amount of Monthly Payment Advances reimbursed
     with Available Funds;

               (xi) the Available Sale Proceeds (stating separately the
     components thereof);

               (xii) the Cash Collateral Required Draw Amount and the Cash
     Collateral Additional Draw Amount (separately stated);

               (xiii)  the Available Funds;

               (xiv) the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee for the preceding
     Collection Period;

               (xv) the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and the Pool
     Balance (separately stated);

               (xvi) the Cash Collateral Amount and the Required Cash Collateral
     Amount (after giving effect to any withdrawals and deposits to the Cash
     Collateral Account for such Payment Date);

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               (xvii) the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Securitization Net Credit
     Losses for such Collection Period and as a percentage of the Pool Balance
     as of the first day of such Collection Period;

               (xviii) the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Residual Losses for the
     Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles sold or otherwise disposed of during such
     Collection Period and as a percentage of the Pool Balance as of the first
     day of such Collection Period;

               (xix) if the Payment Date immediately follows a Collection Period
                      during the Revolving Period, the Excess Cash Amount as of
                      the first day of such Collection Period and the percentage
                      equivalent of a fraction, (x) the numerator of which is
                      the Excess Cash Amount as of the first day of such
                      Collection Period and (y) the denominator of which is the
                      Bond Balance;

               (xx) for the preceding three consecutive Collection Periods, the
     average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection Period, the
     numerator of which is the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Securitization Net Credit
     Losses for such Collection Period and the denominator of which is the Pool
     Balance as of the first day of such Collection Period;

               (xxi) for the preceding three consecutive Collection Periods, the
     average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection Period, the
     numerator of which is the aggregate Securitization Value as of the last day
     of such Collection Period of the Series 2000-1 Leases and Series 2000-1
     Leased Vehicles for which the related Monthly Payment is at least 61 days
     past due as of the last day of such Collection Period and the denominator
     of which is the Pool Balance as of the first day of such Collection Period;
     and

               (xxii) for the preceding three consecutive Collection Periods,
     the average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection Period, the
     numerator of which is the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Residual Losses for the
     Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles sold or otherwise disposed of during such
     Collection Period following the Normal Termination or the Early Normal
     Termination of the related Series 2000-1 Lease, and the denominator of
     which is the aggregate Residual Values of such Series 2000-1 Leased
     Vehicles.

          The information required to be reported in such Lease Trust
Distribution Statement may be included with such other information or reports
delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Lease Trustee in connection with
the making of payments pursuant to the Basic Documents.

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          (k) Withholding Taxes. In the event that any withholding tax is
imposed on the Lease Trust's payment (or, if the Lease Trust is treated as a
partnership for federal income tax purposes, allocations of income) to a Lease
Trust Certificateholder or a Subordinated Noteholder, such tax shall reduce the
amount otherwise distributable to such Lease Trust Certificateholder or
Subordinated Noteholder in accordance with this Section 5.3. The Lease Trustee
is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable
to such Lease Trust Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder sufficient
funds for the payment of any withholding tax that is legally owed by the Lease
Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Lease Trustee 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 Lease Trust
Certificateholder or a Subordinated Noteholder shall be treated as cash
distributed to such Lease Trust Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder, as
the case may be, at the time it is withheld by the Lease Trust for remittance to
the appropriate taxing authority. If the Lease Trustee determines that there is
a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution,
the Lease Trustee may in its sole discretion withhold such amounts in accordance
with this Section 5.3(k). In the event that a Lease Trust Certificateholder or
Subordinated Noteholder wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding
tax, the Lease Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with such Lease Trust
Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder in making such claim so long as
such Lease Trust Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder agrees to
reimburse the Lease Trustee for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred.

          (l) Lease Trustee Not Liable for Losses on Investments. Subject to
Section 7.1, the Lease Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by reason of
any insufficiency in the Series 2000-1 Payment Account, the Series 2000-1
Collection Account, the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account, the Lease Trust
Distribution Account or the Cash Collateral Account resulting from any loss on
any Permitted Investment, as applicable, included therein except for losses
attributable to the Lease Trustee's failure to make payments on any such
Permitted Investments issued by the Lease Trustee, in its commercial capacity as
principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

          (m) Indenture Trustee's Duties and Obligations. The Indenture Trustee,
in such capacity, shall have no duties or obligations to the Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders.

          Section 5.4 Method of Payment. (a) Subject to Section 9.1(c),

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distributions required to be made to Lease Trust Certificateholders on any
Payment Date shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to an
account maintained by the Depositary, or its nominee, or, if a wire transfer
cannot be effected, by a check in immediately available funds delivered to the
Depositary or its nominee. It is expected that the Depositary or its nominee,
upon receipt of any distributions in respect of a Rule 144A Lease Trust
Certificate held by the Depositary or its nominee, shall immediately credit the
applicable Custodian's account with payments in amounts proportionate to the
respective beneficial interests in such Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate as
shown on the records of the Depositary or its nominee. It is also expected that
distributions by each Custodian to owners of beneficial interests in such Rule
144A Lease Trust Certificate held through the Custodian shall be governed by
standing instructions and customary practices, as is now the case with
securities held for the accounts of customers registered in the name of nominee
for such customers. Such distributions shall be the responsibility of each
Custodian. Neither the Lease Trustee nor the Lease Trust Paying Agent shall have
any responsibility or liability for any aspects of the records maintained by the
Depositary or its nominee or each Custodian relating to or for payments made
thereby on account of beneficial interests in a Rule 144A Lease Trust
Certificate.

          Subject to the provision of Section 9.1(c), the Holders of the Lease
Trust Certificates as of the Record Date in respect of a Payment Date shall be
entitled to any distribution made on such Lease Trust Certificates on such
Payment Date.

          (b) Subject to Section 9.1(c) of this Agreement and Section 6.5 of the
Program Operating Lease, distributions required to be made to Subordinated
Noteholders on any Payment Date shall be made to each Subordinated Noteholder of
record on the preceding Record Date either by wire transfer, in immediately
available funds, to the account of such Subordinated Noteholder at a bank or
other entity having appropriate facilities therefor, if such Subordinated
Noteholder shall have provided to the Lease Trust Registrar appropriate written
instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date or, if not,
by check mailed to such Subordinated Noteholder at the address of such
Subordinated Noteholder appearing in the Lease Trust Register.

          Section 5.5 Accounting and Reports to the Senior Noteholders,
Subordinated Noteholders, Lease Trust Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue
Service and Others. (a) The Lease Trustee shall, based on information provided
by the Depositor, (i) maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the
Lease Trust on a calendar year basis on the accrual method of accounting, (ii)
deliver to each Lease Trust Certificateholder and Subordinated Noteholder such
information as may be required by the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations
with respect to instruments such as the Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated
Notes, as the case may be, that is consistent with the position that

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the Lease Trust Certificates (other than the Lease Trust Certificates issued to
the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a)) will be treated as debt for federal
income tax and state income and franchise tax purposes, and (iii) in addition to
the Lease Trustee's rights under Section 5.3(k), take such action as instructed
by the holder of the Lease Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor pursuant
to Section 3.10(a) to collect or cause to be collected and paid over to
applicable authorities any withholding tax as described in and in accordance
with Section 5.3(k) with respect to income or distributions to Lease Trust
Certificateholders or Subordinated Noteholders.

          (b) The Depositor shall maintain such books and records, and shall
prepare and file such reports and returns, as are required pursuant to Sections
2.10 and 5.2.

          Section 5.6 Subordinated Note Events of Default. Effective after all
of the Senior Notes have been paid in full, the following events constitute
"Subordinated Note Events of Default" (whatever the reason for such Subordinated
Note Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any
court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body):

               (i) default in the payment of any interest on any Subordinated
     Note when the same becomes due and payable on each Payment Date, and such
     default shall continue for a period of five days;

               (ii) default in the payment of the principal of any Subordinated
     Note at Stated Maturity;

               (iii) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court
     having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Lease Trust or any
     substantial part of the Lease Trust Estate in an involuntary case under any
     applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now
     or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
     custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Lease Trust or
     for any substantial part of the Lease Trust Estate, or the winding-up or
     liquidation of the Lease Trust's affairs, and such decree or order shall
     remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

               (iv) the commencement by the Lease Trust of a voluntary case
     under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or

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     other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the consent by the Lease
     Trust to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any
     such law, or the consent by the Lease Trust to the appointment or taking
     possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
     sequestrator or similar official of the Lease Trust or for any substantial
     part of the Lease Trust Estate, or the making by the Lease Trust of any
     general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the failure by the
     Lease Trust generally to pay its debts as such debts become due, or the
     taking of action by the Lease Trust in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

          Section 5.7 Acceleration of Maturity. If a Subordinated Note Event of
Default should occur and be continuing, then and in each such case the
Subordinated Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Subordinated Notes may declare all the Subordinated Notes to be
immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Lease Trustee, and
upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount of such Subordinated
Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of
acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable; provided, however, that
so long as any Senior Notes are Outstanding, no such declaration of acceleration
of the Subordinated Notes is permitted to be made.

          At any time after a declaration of acceleration of maturity of the
Subordinated Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of
the money due has been obtained by the Subordinated Noteholders, the
Subordinated Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Subordinated Notes, by written notice to the Lease Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

               (i) the Lease Trust has paid all payments of principal of and
     interest on all Subordinated Notes and all other amounts that would then be
     due upon such Subordinated Notes if the Subordinated Note Event of Default
     giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; and

               (ii) all Subordinated Note Events of Default, other than the
     nonpayment of the principal of the Subordinated Notes that has become due
     solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived.

          No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereto.

          Section 5.8 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Subordinated Notes as provided above,
Subordinated Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding
Amount of the Subordinated Notes may waive any past Subordinated Note Default or
Subordinated Note Event of Default and its consequences except a Subordinated
Note Default in payment of principal of or interest on any of the Subordinated
Notes. In the case of any such waiver, the Lease Trust and the Subordinated
Noteholders shall be restored to their former positions and rights under the
Subordinated Notes and under this Agreement; but no such waiver shall extend to
any subsequent or other Subordinated Note Default or impair any right consequent
thereto.

          Upon any such waiver, such Subordinated Note Default shall cease to
exist and be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any
Subordinated Note Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of the Subordinated Notes
and this Agreement; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
Subordinated Note Default or Subordinated Note Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereto.

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                                   ARTICLE VI

                      AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF LEASE TRUSTEE

          Section 6.1 General Authority. To the extent permitted by Section 2.3,
the Lease Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Basic
Documents to which the Lease Trust is to be a party and each certificate or
other document attached as an exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents
to which the Lease Trust is to be a party, in each case, in such form as the
Depositor shall approve as evidenced conclusively by the Lease Trustee's
execution thereof and the Depositor's execution of this Agreement, and to direct
the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver Senior Notes in the aggregate
principal amount not to exceed $[ ]. In addition to the foregoing, the Lease
Trustee is authorized to take all actions required of the Lease Trust pursuant
to the Basic Documents. The Lease Trustee is further authorized from time to
time to take such action on behalf of the Lease Trust as is permitted by the
Basic Documents and which the Administrative Agent recommends with respect to
the Basic Documents, except to the extent that this Agreement expressly requires
the consent of Lease Trust Certificateholders or Subordinated Noteholders for
such action.

          Section 6.2 General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Lease Trustee
to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which it is to be a
party and to administer the Lease Trust in the interest of the Lease Trust
Certificateholders, subject to the lien of the Indenture and to the obligations
of the Lease Trust under the Subordinated Notes, and in accordance with
provisions of this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which it is a
party.

          Section 6.3 Action upon Instruction. (a) Subject to Article IV, the
Depositor, as holder of the Lease Trust Certificates issued pursuant to Section
3.10(a), may by written instruction direct the Lease Trustee in the
administration of the Lease Trust, subject to, and in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement; provided that no such instruction shall, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, materially adversely affect the Senior Noteholders,
Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders.

          (b) The Lease Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Lease 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 Lease Trustee or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any other Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.

          (c) Whenever the Lease Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or any
other Basic Document, the Lease Trustee shall promptly give notice (in such form
as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Lease Trust
Certificateholders requesting instruction as to the course of action to be
adopted, and to the extent the Lease Trustee acts in good faith in accordance
with any written instruction of the Lease Trust Certificateholders holding not
less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, the Lease Trustee
shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the Lease
Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten 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, not inconsistent with
this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best
interests of the Lease Trust Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to
any Person for such action or inaction.

          (d) In the event that the Lease Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document or
any such provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be,
in conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement

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or any other Basic Document permits any determination by the Lease Trustee or is
silent or is incomplete as to the course of action that the Lease Trustee is
required to take with respect to a particular set of facts, the Lease Trustee
may give notice (in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances)
to the Lease Trust Certificateholders requesting instruction and, to the extent
that the Lease Trustee acts or refrains from acting in good faith in accordance
with any such instruction received from Lease Trust Certificateholders holding
not less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance and in accordance
with Sections 6.4 and 6.5, the Lease Trustee shall not be liable, on account of
such action or inaction, to any Person. If the Lease Trustee shall not have
received appropriate instruction within 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, not inconsistent with this Agreement or the
other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests of the Lease
Trust Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such
action or inaction.

          Section 6.4 No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Lease Trustee shall not have any right, duty, or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of or
otherwise deal with the Lease Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Lease Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Lease Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any other Basic Document against the Lease
Trustee. The Lease Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing
or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise
perfect or maintain the perfection of any ownership or security interest in the
Lease Trust Estate or to prepare or file any Securities and Exchange Commission
filing, if any, for the Lease Trust or to record this Agreement or any other
Basic Document.

          Section 6.5 No Action Unless Specifically Authorized. The Lease
Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or otherwise deal with
any part of the Lease Trust Estate except (a) in accordance with the powers
granted to and the authority conferred upon the Lease Trustee pursuant to this
Agreement, (b) in accordance with the other Basic Documents to which the Lease
Trust or the Lease Trustee is a party and (c) in accordance with any document or
instruction delivered to the Lease Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3. In
particular, the Lease Trustee shall not transfer, sell, pledge, assign or convey
the Series 2000-1 Certificates except as specifically required or permitted by
the Basic Documents.

          Section 6.6 Restrictions. The Lease Trustee shall not take any action
(a) that is contrary to the purposes of the Lease Trust set forth in Section 2.3
or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Lease Trustee, would (i) affect the
treatment of the Senior Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (ii) be
deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Senior Notes for federal income tax
purposes or (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the Depositor or any Titling Company or
any portion thereof to be taxable as an association or publicly traded
partnership taxable as a corporation for federal or Delaware income tax
purposes. The Lease Trust Certificateholders and Subordinated Noteholders shall
not direct the Lease Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of
this Section 6.6.

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                                   ARTICLE VII

                          CONCERNING THE LEASE TRUSTEE

          Section 7.1 Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Lease 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 and no implied
duties shall be read into this Agreement against the Lease Trustee. The Lease
Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it constituting
part of the Lease Trust Estate upon the terms of this Agreement and the other
Basic Documents to which the Lease Trust or the Lease Trustee is a party. The
Lease Trustee shall not be answerable or accountable hereunder or under any
other Basic Document under any circumstances, except (i) for its own willful
misconduct, bad faith or negligence or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any
representation or warranty contained in Section 7.3 expressly made by the Lease
Trustee. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the
exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):

          (a) the Lease Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made by a Responsible Officer of the Lease Trustee;

          (b) the Lease Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of any
Lease Trust Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder, the Indenture Trustee,
the Depositor or the Administrative Agent;

          (c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall
require the Lease 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 Lease Trustee shall have reasonable
grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity
satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or
provided to it;

          (d) under no circumstances shall the Lease Trustee be liable for
indebtedness evidenced by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes or the
Lease Trust Certificates;

          (e) the Lease Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of
the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by
the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Lease Trust Estate or for or in respect of the validity
or sufficiency of the other Basic Documents, other than the certificates of
authentication on the Lease Trust Certificates and the Subordinated Notes, and
the Lease Trustee shall in no event be deemed to have assumed or incurred any
liability, duty or obligation to any Senior Noteholder, Subordinated Noteholder
or Lease Trust Certificateholder or any third party dealing with the Lease Trust
or the Lease Trust Estate, other than as expressly provided for herein and in
the other Basic Documents;

          (f) the Lease Trustee shall not be liable for the misfeasance,
malfeasance or nonfeasance of the Administrative Agent, the Depositor or the
Indenture Trustee, under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise, and the Lease
Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of the
Lease Trust under this Agreement or other Basic Documents that are required to
be performed by the Administrative Agent under the Administrative Agency
Agreement or the Series 2000-1 Supplement, the Depositor under the Transfer
Agreement or the Program Operating Lease, or the Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture; and

          (g) the Lease 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 Lease Trust Certificateholders or Subordinated Noteholders, unless such
Lease Trust Certificateholders or Subordinated Noteholders, as the case may be,
have offered to the Lease Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it
against the Expenses that may be incurred by the Lease Trustee therein or
thereby. The right of the Lease 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 Lease Trustee shall not be answerable for other
than its bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of any

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such act.

          Section 7.2 Furnishing of Documents. The Lease Trustee shall furnish
to any Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder promptly upon
receipt of a written request by such Lease Trust Certificateholder or
Subordinated Noteholder (at the expense of the requesting Lease Trust
Certificateholder or Subordinated Noteholder) therefor, duplicates or copies of
all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates, financial statements and
any other instruments furnished to the Lease Trustee under the Basic Documents.

          Section 7.3 Representations and Warranties. The Lease Trustee hereby
represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the Subordinated
Noteholders and Lease Trust Certificateholders, that:

          (a) It is a banking corporation duly organized and validly existing in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It has all requisite
corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations
under this Agreement.

          (b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize the
execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute
and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.

          (c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this Agreement,
nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby nor
compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene any
federal or Delaware law, governmental rule or regulation governing the banking
or trust powers of the Lease Trustee or any judgment or order binding on it, or
constitute any default under its charter documents or by-laws or any indenture,
mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which
any of its properties may be bound.

          (d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by it and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of it, enforceable against
the Lease Trustee 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.

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               Section 7.4 Reliance; Advice of Counsel. (a) The Lease Trustee
may conclusively rely upon, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, and
shall incur no liability to anyone in acting or refraining from acting upon any
signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent, order, certificate,
report, opinion, bond or other document or paper (whether in its original or
facsimile form) believed by it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by
the proper party or parties. The Lease 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
Lease 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 Lease 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 Lease Trustee (i) may act directly or through its
agents or attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and
the Lease Trustee shall not be liable for the conduct or misconduct of such
agents or attorneys if such agents or attorneys shall have been selected by the
Lease Trustee with reasonable care and (ii) may consult with counsel,
accountants and other skilled persons to be selected with reasonable care and
employed by it. The Lease 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.

               Section 7.5 Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as provided
in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created The Bank of New York
(Delaware) acts solely as Lease Trustee hereunder and not in its individual
capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Lease Trustee by reason of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Basic Document
shall look only to the Lease Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.

               Section 7.6 Lease Trustee Not Liable for Lease Trust Certificates
or Subordinated Notes. The recitals contained herein and in the Lease Trust
Certificates and the Subordinated Notes (other than the signature and
countersignature of the Lease Trustee on the Lease Trust Certificates and the
Subordinated Notes and its representations and warranties in Section 7.3) shall
be taken as the statements of the Depositor and the Lease Trustee assumes no
responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Lease Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of any
other Basic Document or of the Lease Trust Certificates or Subordinated Notes
(other than the signature and countersignature of the Lease Trustee on the Lease
Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes) or the Senior Notes or any offering
document relating to any of them. The Lease Trustee shall at no time have any
responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity or
enforceability of any Basic Document to which the Lease Trustee is to be a party
(except for enforceability against the Lease Trustee), or the perfection and
priority of any security interest created by or under any Basic Document, or the
maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the
sufficiency of the Lease Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to
be distributed to Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders
under this Agreement or the Senior Noteholders under the Indenture, or for the
validity of the transfer of the Series 2000-1 Certificates to the Lease Trust
pursuant to the Transfer Agreement, or for the lease of the Series 2000-1
Certificates to RCL Trust 2000-1 pursuant to the Program Operating Lease, or for
the compliance by the Depositor or the Administrative Agent with any warranty or
representation made under any Basic Document or for the accuracy of any such
warranty or representation or for any action of the Administrative Agent or the
Indenture Trustee taken in the name of the Lease Trustee.

               Section 7.7 Lease Trustee May Own Lease Trust Certificates,
Subordinated Notes and Senior Notes. The Lease Trustee in its individual or any
other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Lease Trust Certificates,
Subordinated Notes or Senior Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the
Administrative Agent and the Indenture Trustee, and their respective Affiliates,
in banking transactions with the same rights as it would have if it were not
Lease Trustee.

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                                  ARTICLE VIII

                          COMPENSATION OF LEASE TRUSTEE

               Section 8.1 Lease Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Lease Trustee
shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as have been
separately agreed upon in writing before the date hereof between the beneficiary
of the Depositor and the Lease Trustee. The Administrative Agent (in exchange
for receipt of the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee) has agreed pursuant to the
Series 2000-1 Supplement to pay such fees of the Lease Trustee as are agreed
upon by the Depositor and the Lease Trustee, and shall reimburse the Lease
Trustee for its other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses and disbursements of such agents, representatives,
experts and counsel as the Lease Trustee may employ in connection with the
exercise and performance of its rights and its duties hereunder. The
Administrative Agent shall make no claim upon the Lease Trust Estate for the
payment or reimbursement of such fees and expenses.

               Section 8.2 Indemnification. The Depositor as the holder of the
Lease Trust Certificates and Subordinated Notes issued pursuant to Section 3.10
shall be liable as primary obligor for, and shall indemnify the Lease Trustee
and its successors, assigns, agents, servants, officers and employees
(collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against, any and all Expenses
which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against any
Indemnified Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the
other Basic Documents, the Lease Trust Estate, the administration of the Lease
Trust Estate or the action or inaction of the Lease Trustee hereunder, except
only that the holders of such Lease Trust Certificates shall not be liable for
or required to indemnify the Indemnified Parties from and against Expenses
arising or resulting from any of the matters described in the third sentence of
Section 7.1. The indemnities contained in this Section 8.2 shall survive the
resignation or termination of the Lease Trustee or the termination of this
Agreement. In the event of any claim, action or proceeding for which indemnity
will be sought pursuant to this Section 8.2, the Lease Trustee's choice of legal
counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Depositor, which approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld. The Depositor as the holder of the Lease Trust
Certificates and Subordinated Notes issued pursuant to Section 3.10 shall make
no claim upon the Lease Trust Estate for the payment of such Expenses.

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                                   ARTICLE IX

                      TERMINATION OF LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT

               Section 9.1 Termination of Lease Trust Agreement. (a) This
Agreement (other than Article VIII) and the Lease Trust shall terminate and be
of no further force or effect, (i) upon the final distribution by the Lease
Trustee of all moneys or other property or proceeds of the Lease Trust Estate in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture and this Agreement or (ii) at the
times provided in Section 9.2. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, or
termination, death or incapacity of any Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust
Certificateholder shall not (x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Lease
Trust, nor (y) entitle such Subordinated Noteholder's or Lease Trust
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 Lease Trust or Lease Trust Estate nor (z) otherwise affect
the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.

               (b) Except as provided in Section 9.1(a), none of the Depositor,
any Lease Trust Certificateholder or any Subordinated Noteholder shall be
entitled to revoke or terminate the Lease Trust.

               (c) Notice of any termination of this Agreement pursuant to
Section 9.1(a) shall be given by the Lease Trustee by letter to Lease Trust
Certificateholders and Subordinated Noteholders mailed within five Business Days
of receipt of notice of such termination from the Administrative Agent, stating
(i) the Payment Date upon or with respect to which final payment of the
Subordinated Notes and Lease Trust Certificates shall be made upon presentation
and surrender of the Subordinated Notes and Lease Trust Certificates at the
office of the Lease Trust Paying Agent therein designated, (ii) the amount of
any such final payment with respect to the Subordinated Notes or Lease Trust
Certificates, as applicable; and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise applicable
to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made only upon
presentation and surrender of the Subordinated Notes and Lease Trust
Certificates at the office of the Lease Trust Paying Agent therein specified.
The Lease Trustee shall give such notice to the Lease Trust Registrar (if other
than the Lease Trustee) and the Lease Trust Paying Agent at the time such notice
is given to Subordinated Noteholders and Lease Trust Certificateholders. Upon
presentation and surrender of the Subordinated Notes or the Lease Trust
Certificates, the Lease Trust Paying Agent shall cause to be paid to
Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, as applicable,
amounts payable to them on such Payment Date pursuant to Section 5.3.

               In the event that all of the Subordinated Noteholders and Lease
Trust Certificateholders shall not surrender their Subordinated Notes or Lease
Trust Certificates, as the case may be, for cancellation within six months after
the date specified in the above mentioned written notice, the Lease Trustee
shall give a second written notice to the remaining Subordinated Noteholders and
Lease Trust Certificateholders to surrender their Subordinated Notes or Lease
Trust Certificates, as the case may be, for cancellation and receive the final
distribution with respect thereto. If within one year after the second notice
all the Subordinated Notes or Lease Trust Certificates shall not have been
surrendered for cancellation, the Lease Trustee may take appropriate steps, or
may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact the remaining
Subordinated

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Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, as the case may be, concerning
surrender of their Subordinated Notes or Lease Trust Certificates, as
applicable, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets
that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Lease
Trust Estate after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the Lease
Trustee to the Edison Institute in Dearborn, Michigan.

               Section 9.2 Redemption of the Subordinated Notes; Prepayment of
the Lease Trust Certificates.

               (a) The Subordinated Notes shall be redeemed in whole, but not in
part, at the Redemption Price and the Lease Trust Certificates shall be prepaid
in whole, but not in part, at the Prepayment Price on any Payment Date on which
the Administrative Agent exercises its option to purchase the Series 2000-1
Certificates pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Series 2000-1 Supplement; provided,
however, that the Lease Trust has available funds sufficient to redeem all of
the outstanding Senior Notes, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture
and to pay the Redemption Price and the Prepayment Price. The Administrative
Agent or the Lease Trustee shall furnish the Rating Agencies notice of such
redemption and prepayment. In accordance with Section 7.1 of the Series 2000-1
Supplement, the Administrative Agent shall give each Titling Company and the
Holders of the Series 2000-1 Certificates (which for such purposes shall be the
Lease Trustee, and prior to the Payment Date on which the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, the Indenture Trustee) at least
thirty days' prior written notice of the Payment Date on which the
Administrative Agent intends to exercise such option, and shall, on the Business
Day preceding such Payment Date, deposit to the Series 2000-1 Collection Account
an amount in immediately available funds equal to the aggregate Securitization
Value of the Series 2000-1 Assets as of the last day of the preceding Collection
Period plus accrued interest and interest on any overdue interest on the Senior
Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates to such Payment
Date, whereupon all of the Subordinated Notes and Lease Trust Certificates shall
be due and payable on the Redemption Date upon the furnishing of a notice
complying with Section 9.2(b) to each Subordinated Noteholder and Lease Trust
Certificateholder, as the case may be.

               (b) Notice of redemption or prepayment under Section 9.2(a) shall
be given by the Lease Trustee by facsimile or by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, transmitted or mailed at least thirty days prior to the Redemption Date
to each Subordinated Noteholder and Lease Trust Certificateholder, on the Record
Date preceding the Redemption Date, at the address of such Subordinated
Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder, as the case may be, appearing in
the Lease Trust Register.

               All notices of redemption or prepayment shall state:

                    (i) the Redemption Date;

                    (ii) the Redemption Price or Prepayment Price, as
     applicable; and

                    (iii) the place where the Subordinated Notes and Lease Trust
     Certificates are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price or
     Prepayment Price, as applicable (which shall be the office or agency of the
     Lease Trustee to be maintained as provided in Section 3.8).

               Notice of redemption of the Subordinated Notes and of prepayment
of the Lease Trust Certificates shall be given by the Lease Trustee in the name
and at the expense of the Lease Trust. Failure to give notice of redemption or
prepayment, or any defect therein, to any Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust
Certificateholder, as the case may be, shall not impair or affect the validity
of the redemption or prepayment of any other Subordinated Note or Lease Trust
Certificate, as applicable.

               (c) The Subordinated Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice
of redemption as required by Section 9.2(b) on the Redemption Date become due
and payable at the Redemption Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall default in
the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption
Price for any period from and including the Redemption Date. The Lease Trust
Certificates to be prepaid shall, following notice of prepayment as required by
Section 9.2(b) on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Prepayment
Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall default in the payment of the Prepayment
Price) no interest shall accrue on the Prepayment Price for any period from and
including the Redemption Date.

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                                   ARTICLE X

             SUCCESSOR LEASE TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL LEASE TRUSTEES

               Section 10. 1 Eligibility Requirements for Lease Trustee. The
Lease Trustee shall at all times be authorized to exercise corporate trust
powers and be a Person with a long-term debt rating of at least Baa3 (or its
equivalent) by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. (or is otherwise acceptable to
the Rating Agencies) and having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or State
authorities. If such Person 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 10. 1, the combined
capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital
and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. In
case at any time the Lease Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 10. 1, the Lease Trustee shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.2.

               Section 10.2 Resignation or Removal of Lease Trustee. The Lease
Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created
by giving written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent, the Depositor and
the Lease Trust Certificateholders. The Lease Trustee shall not be obligated to
accept record title to the Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles (or part thereof) after
notice of resignation but before appointment of a successor and shall have no
liability to any Person (including any Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust
Certificateholder) as a result of such inaction. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Lease Trustee by
written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be
delivered to the resigning Lease Trustee and one copy to the successor Lease
Trustee. If no successor Lease Trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Lease Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Lease Trustee.

               If at any time the Lease Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10. 1 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Administrative Agent, the Depositor or Lease
Trust Certificateholders holding not less than a majority of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance, or if at any time the Lease Trustee shall be legally unable
to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Lease
Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Lease Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then the Administrative
Agent, the Depositor or such Lease Trust Certificateholders may remove the Lease
Trustee. If the Administrative Agent, the Depositor or Lease Trust
Certificateholders holding not less than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate
Balance shall remove the Lease Trustee under the authority of the immediately
preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent or the Depositor shall promptly
appoint a successor Lease Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy
of which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Lease Trustee so removed

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and one copy to the successor Lease Trustee.

               Any resignation or removal of the Lease Trustee and appointment
of a successor Lease Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section
10.2 shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor
Lease Trustee pursuant to Section 10.3 and payment of all fees and expenses owed
to the outgoing Lease Trustee. The Depositor shall provide notice of such
resignation or removal of the Lease Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies, the
Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trust Certificateholders.

               Section 10.3 Successor Lease Trustee. Any successor Lease Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.2 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Administrative Agent and to its predecessor Lease Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and thereupon the resignation
or removal of the predecessor Lease Trustee shall become effective and such
successor Lease Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, 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
Lease Trustee. The predecessor Lease Trustee shall upon payment of its fees and
expenses deliver to the successor Lease Trustee all documents and statements and
monies held by it under this Agreement; and the Depositor and the predecessor
Lease 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 Lease Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and
obligations.

               No successor Lease Trustee shall accept appointment as provided
in this Section 10.3 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Lease
Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1.

               Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Lease Trustee
pursuant to this Section 10.3, the Depositor shall mail notice of the successor
of such Lease Trustee to all Lease Trust Certificateholders, the Indenture
Trustee, and the Rating Agencies. If the Depositor shall fail to mail such
notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Lease
Trustee, the successor Lease Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Depositor.

               Section 10.4 Merger or Consolidation of Lease Trustee. Any Person
into which the Lease 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 Lease Trustee shall be a party, or any Person

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succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Lease Trustee, shall be the successor of the Lease Trustee hereunder, provided
such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1, without the execution or
filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of any of the parties
hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, further that
the Lease Trustee shall mail notice of such merger, conversion, or consolidation
to the Rating Agencies, the Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trust
Certificateholders.

               Section 10.5 Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part
of the Lease Trust Estate may at the time be located, the Depositor and the
Lease Trustee acting jointly shall have the power and shall execute and deliver
all instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as co-trustee, jointly
with the Lease Trustee, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any
part of the Lease Trust Estate, and to vest in such Person, in such capacity,
such title to the Lease Trust Estate, or any part thereof, and, subject to the
other provisions of this Section 10.5, such powers, duties, obligations, rights
and trusts as the Depositor and the Lease Trustee may consider necessary or
desirable. If the Depositor shall not have joined in such appointment within 15
days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the Lease 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 10.1 and no notice of the appointment of
any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.3.
The Bank of New York is hereby appointed to act as co-trustee.

               Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:

               (a) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Lease Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or
performed by the Lease 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 Lease 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 Lease 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 Lease 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 Lease
Trustee;

               (b) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally liable by
reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this Agreement, and

               (c) jointly may at any time accept the resignation of or remove
any separate trustee or co trustee.

               Any notice, request or other writing given to the Lease 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 X. 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 Lease
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 Lease Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Lease
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Administrative Agent and the Depositor.

               Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Lease Trustee, 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 Lease Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor trustee.
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                                   ARTICLE XI

                                   TAX MATTERS

               Section 11.1 Income Tax Characterization. (a) It is the intention
of the parties hereto that the Lease Trust not constitute a separate entity for
federal income tax or state income or franchise taxes. If, however, the Lease
Trust is characterized as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, it
is the intention of the parties that it qualify as a partnership for such
purposes.

               (b) It is the intent of the Depositor and Lease Trust
Certificateholders that the Lease Trust Certificates be treated as indebtedness
of the Depositor for purposes of federal income tax and state income and
franchise taxes. If, however, the Lease Trust is characterized as a separate
entity and the Lease Trust Certificates are not characterized as indebtedness of
such entity for federal income tax purposes, it is the intention of the parties
that the Lease Trust qualify as a partnership for such purposes and the Lease
Trust Certificateholders (including the Depositor) will be treated as partners
in that partnership. The Depositor and the other Lease Trust Certificateholders,
by acceptance of a Lease Trust Certificate, agree to take no action inconsistent
with such tax treatment of the Lease Trust Certificates.

               (c) It is the intent of the Depositor and Subordinated
Noteholders that the Subordinated Notes be treated as a direct ownership
interest in the assets of the Lease Trust for purposes of federal income tax and
state income and franchise taxes. If, however, the Lease Trust is characterized
as a separate entity for federal income tax purposes, it is the intention of the
parties that it qualify as a partnership for such purposes and the Subordinated
Noteholders (including the Depositor) will be treated as partners in that
partnership. The Depositor and the other Subordinated Noteholders, by acceptance
of a Subordinated Note, agree to take no action inconsistent with such tax
treatment of the Subordinated Notes.
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                                   ARTICLE XII

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

               Section 12.1 Supplements and Amendments.

               (a) Without Consent of the Senior Noteholders, Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders. This Agreement may be amended by
the Depositor and the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice by the Depositor
to the Rating Agencies, without the consent of any of the Senior Noteholders,
Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, to cure any
ambiguity or defect, to correct or supplement any provisions in this Agreement,
to add any provisions to or change in any manner or eliminate any of the
provisions in this Agreement or to modify in any manner the rights of the Senior
Noteholders, Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders;
provided, however, that such action shall not, (i) as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, materially adversely affect the interests of the Indenture Trustee, any
Senior Noteholder, Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder
unless 100% of the holders of the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the
Lease Trust Certificates materially adversely affected thereby have consented to
such amendment, (ii) as confirmed by each Rating Agency then rating each Class
of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates, cause the then current
rating of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates to be withdrawn or
reduced or (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the Depositor or any Titling Company to
be taxable as an "association" or publicly traded partnership taxable as a
corporation for federal income tax purposes,

               This Agreement also may be amended in connection with an
assignment by the Depositor of Lease Trust Certificates, by the Depositor and
the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice by the Depositor to the Rating
Agencies, without the consent of any of the Senior Noteholders, Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, to provide for the accounting for
income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the event it is
classified as a partnership and the Lease Trust Certificates are not classified
as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes.

               (b) With Consent of the Senior Noteholders and Lease Trust
Certificateholders. This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Depositor and the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies, with the consent of Senior Noteholders holding not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and, to the extent
affected thereby, the consent of Lease Trust Certificateholders holding not less
than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, 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 Senior
Noteholders, Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders;
provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any
manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of distributions that
are required to be made for the benefit of the Senior Noteholders or Lease Trust
Certificateholders, or (b) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance of the Lease Trust
Certificates required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of
the holders of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes or of 100% of
the Aggregate Certificate Balance, as the case may be, and provided, further
that an Opinion of Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture Trustee and the
Lease Trustee to the effect that such amendment shall not (i) affect the
treatment of the Senior Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (ii) be
deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Senior Notes for federal income tax
purposes, (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the Depositor or any Titling Company to
be classified as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation for federal income tax purposes or (iv) as confirmed by each Rating
Agency then rating each Class of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust
Certificates, cause the then current rating of the Senior Notes or the Lease
Trust Certificates to be withdrawn or reduced.

               (c) With Respect to Certain Tax Matters. Notwithstanding the

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foregoing, this Agreement may be amended at any time by the Depositor (acting at
the direction of Ford Credit) and the Lease Trustee to the extent reasonably
necessary to assure that none of the Lease Trust, the Depositor or any Titling
Company will be classified as an association (or publicly traded partnership)
taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes; provided, however,
that such action shall not materially adversely affect the interests of any
Senior Noteholder, the Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder.

               (d) General Matters Concerning Amendments and Consents. The Lease
Trustee and the Depositor shall provide prior written notice of any such
amendment to each Rating Agency, and promptly after the execution of any such
amendment or consent, the Lease Trustee shall furnish written notification of
the substance of such amendment or consent to each Lease Trust Certificateholder
and the Indenture Trustee.

               It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Lease Trust
Certificateholders, the Senior Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
this Section 12.1 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 Lease
Trust Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic
Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Lease
Trust Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the
Lease Trustee may prescribe.

               Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the
Lease Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this
Agreement and that all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of
such amendment have been satisfied. The Lease Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects the Lease Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

               Section 12.2 No Legal Title to Lease Trust Estate in Lease Trust
Certificateholders or Subordinated Noteholders. (a) The Lease Trust
Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any part of the Lease Trust
Estate. The Lease Trust Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive
distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest in the Least
Trust only in accordance with Articles V and IX No transfer, by operation of law
or otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Lease Trust
Certificateholders to and in their ownership interest in the Lease Trust Estate
shall operate to terminate this

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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 Lease Trust Estate.

               (b) The Subordinated Noteholders shall not have legal title to
any part of the Lease Trust Estate. The Subordinated Noteholders shall be
entitled to receive payments with respect to their Subordinated Notes only in
accordance with Articles V and IX. No transfer, by operation of law or
otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Subordinated Noteholders to
and in their Subordinated Notes 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 Lease Trust Estate.

               Section 12.3 Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for Sections
2.7 and 12. 1, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of
the Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Paying Agent, the Depositor, the Subordinated
Noteholders, the Lease Trust Certificateholders and the Administrative Agent and
the Indenture Trustee and the Senior Noteholders, as third-party beneficiaries,
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
Lease Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any covenants,
conditions or provisions contained herein.

               Section 12.4 Notices. (a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or
permitted by the terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given upon receipt by the intended recipient or three Business Days after
mailing if mailed by certified mail, postage prepaid (except that service of
process in connection with any litigation hereunder shall be effected in
accordance with applicable law and that notice to the Lease Trustee shall be
deemed given only upon actual receipt by the Lease Trustee), or, as to each
party, at the address of such party specified below or at such other address as
shall be designated by such party in a written notice to each other party.

                          1) If to the Lease Trustee:

                             The Bank of New York (Delaware)
                             White Clay Center
                             Route 273
                             Newark, Delaware 19711

                             with a copy to:

                             The Bank of New York
                             10 1 Barclay Street - 12E
                             New York, New York 10286
                             Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

                          2) If to the Depositor:

                             RCL Trust 2000-1
                             c/o First Union Trust Company, National Association
                             One Rodney Square
                             Suite 102
                             920 King Street
                             Wilmington, Delaware 19801
                             Attention: Corporate Trust Department
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               (b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder shall be given by
first-class mail, confirmed, facsimile or overnight courier, postage prepaid, at
the address of such Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder as
shown in the Lease Trust Register. Any notice so mailed within the time
prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly
given, whether or not the Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust
Certificateholder receives such notice.

               Section 12.5 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that
is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

               Section 12.6 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 but one and the same instrument.

               Section 12.7 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the
Depositor, the Lease Trustee and its successors, each Subordinated Noteholder
and its successors and permitted assigns and each Lease Trust Certificateholder
and its successors and permitted assigns, all as herein provided. Any request,
notice, direction, consent, waiver or other instrument or action by a
Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder shall bind the
successors and assigns of such Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust
Certificateholder.

               Section 12.8 No Petition. The Lease Trustee and the Depositor, by
entering into this Agreement, each Lease Trust Certificateholder, by accepting a
Lease Trust Certificate, each Subordinated Noteholder, by accepting a
Subordinated Note, the Indenture Trustee and each Senior Noteholder by accepting
the benefits of this Agreement, hereby covenants and agrees that, for a period
of one year and one day after payment in full of the Series 2000-1 Certificates,
they will not at any time institute against the Depositor or the Lease Trust or
join in any institution against, the Depositor or the Lease Trust of any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings,
or other proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Lease Trust
Certificates, the Subordinated Notes, the Senior Notes, this Agreement or any of
the other Basic Documents.

               Section 12.9 No Recourse. Each Lease Trust Certificate and each
Subordinated Note entities the holder thereof to the respective rights and
benefits set forth in this Agreement and in the Lease Trust Certificates or the
Subordinated Notes, as applicable. The Lease Trust Certificates and the
Subordinated Notes do not represent interests in or obligations of the
Administrative Agent, the Depositor, the Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Paying
Agent, the Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had
against such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or
contemplated in the Lease Trust Certificates, the Subordinated Notes, this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents.

               Section 12.10 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 12.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, 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 parties hereto have caused this Trust
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly
authorized, as of the day and year first above written.

                                 THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
                                  as Lease Trustee

                                 By:
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                    Name:
                                    Title:

                                 RCL Trust 2000-1

                                 By:FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY,
                                    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                    not in its individual capacity but solely as
                                    trustee of RCL Trust 2000-1

                                 By:
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                    Name:
                                           Edward L. Truitt, Jr.
                                    Title: Vice President

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                                                                     EXHIBIT A-1

                  [FORM OF RULE 144A LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE]

NUMBER
R-

                      SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

               THIS RULE 144A LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT
BE REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES
ACT"), OR UNDER ANY STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAW OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THE LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATES IN RESPECT
OF WHICH THIS RULE 144A LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED, AGREES FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE LEASE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE
MAY BE REOFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN A
DENOMINATION OF AT LEAST $10,000,000 AND IN INTEGRAL MULTIPLES OF $1,000,000,
ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, AND ONLY
(1) TO PERSONS OTHER THAN FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, (2) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A") TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER, WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A
(A "Q113"), PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE
HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE, OR OTHER
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY
THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR AND THE RELATED CUSTODIAN OF A
CERTIFICATE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT C TO THE LEASE TRUST
AGREEMENT AND (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR AND
THE RELATED CUSTODIAN OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT
D TO THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT, (3) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), SUBJECT TO THE
RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST AND THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR OF SUCH EVIDENCE
ACCEPTABLE TO THE LEASE TRUST THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR TRANSFER IS
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER
APPLICABLE LAWS, (4) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE
MEANING

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THEREOF IN RULE 501 (a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO (A) THE RECEIPT BY THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST
REGISTRAR AND THE RELATED CUSTODIAN OF A LETTER SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM
ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT E TO THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT OR (B) THE RECEIPT BY THE
LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUST REGISTRAR AND THE RELATED CUSTODIAN OF SUCH OTHER
EVIDENCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE LEASE TRUST THAT SUCH REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR
TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE SECURITIES ACT
AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS, OR (5) TO THE DEPOSITOR OR ITS AFFILIATES, IN EACH
CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND
SECURITIES AND BLUE SKY LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED STATES.

               ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE
FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN, UNLESS THIS LEASE TRUST
CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE LEASE TRUST, THE LEASE TRUSTEE OR
THEIR AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT AND ANY LEASE
TRUST CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR OF SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY
PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO.).

               TRANSFERS OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO
TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMTNEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR
THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S NONIFNEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS LEASE
TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.

               THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS DISTRIBUTABLE AS
SET FORTH IN THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL
OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON
THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

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                    [ ]% ASSET BACKED LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE

evidencing an interest in certain distributions of the Lease Trust, as defined
below, the property of which includes: (1) the right to receive certain payments
as program lessor under the Program Operating Lease pursuant to which
certificates representing a beneficial interest in and certificates representing
a limited liability company interest in certain specified retail automobile and
light truck leases were leased to the program lessee; and (2) an interest in the
Series 2000-1 Certificates upon the expiration of such Program Operating Lease.
The property of the Lease Trust has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture to secure the payment of the Senior Notes issued
thereunder.

(This Lease Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of
the depositor, Ford Motor Credit Company or any of their respective Affiliates,
except to the extent described below.)

               THIS CERTIFIES THAT CEDE & CO. or registered assignees is the
registered owner of                DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial
ownership interest in Lease Trust Certificates having an initial Aggregate
Certificate Balance of $[ ] of Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease
Trust") formed by RCL Trust 2000-1 (the "Depositor"). The Aggregate Certificate
Balance of the Lease Trust Certificates bear interest at a rate of [ ]% per
annum (the "Certificate Interest Rate").

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                 LEASE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

The Bank of New York (Delaware)                         or The Bank of New York
(Delaware)
as Lease Trustee                                as Lease Trustee

By                                              By
  --------------------------                      ------------------------------
                                                        Authenticating Agent

<PAGE>   64

          The Lease Trust was created pursuant to a Lease Trust Agreement, dated
as of [ ], 2000 (the "Lease Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and The
Bank of New York (Delaware), as trustee (the "Lease Trustee"), 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 Lease Trust Agreement and the definitions
appendices incorporated by reference therein.

          This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Lease Trust
Certificates designated as "[ ]% Asset Backed Lease Trust Certificates" (the
"Lease Trust Certificates"). Also issued under the Lease Trust Agreement are the
[ ]% Asset Backed Subordinated Notes (the "Subordinated Notes") and issued under
the Indenture, dated as of [ ], 2000 (the "Indenture"), between the Lease
Trustee and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"), are
the Class A-1 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes, the Class A-2 [ ]% Asset Backed
Senior Notes, the Class A-3 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes, the Class A-4 [ ]%
Asset Backed Senior Notes and the Class A-5 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes
(collectively, the "Senior Notes"). This Lease Trust Certificate is issued under
and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Lease Trust
Agreement, to which the holder of this Lease Trust Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Lease Trust Certificateholder is
bound. The property of the Lease Trust includes (i) the rights of the Lease
Trust under the Series 2000-1 Certificates, (ii) the rights as lessor under the
Program Operating Lease, (iii) subject to the pledge thereof to the Indenture
Trustee, the Series 2000-1 Collection Account, the Series 2000-1 Payahead
Account, the Series 2000-1 Payment Account and the Lease Trust Distribution
Account and all funds on deposit from time to time therein and all investments
including all income thereon and proceeds thereof, (iv) the rights of the
Depositor under the Asset Contribution Agreement, (v) the rights of the Lease
Trust as the holder of the Series 2000-1 Certificates under the Administrative
Agency Agreement and the Series 2000-1 Supplement, (vi) the security interest of
the Lease Trust in the Subordinated Notes pursuant to the Program Operating
Lease and in amounts credited to the Cash Collateral Account and the right to
make withdrawals from the Cash Collateral Account and (vii) all proceeds of the
foregoing. THE RIGHTS OF THE LEASE TRUSTEE IN THE FOREGOING PROPERTY OF THE
LEASE TRUST HAVE BEEN PLEDGED TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF
THE SENIOR NOTES.

          The Lease Trust Certificates represent interests in the Lease Trust
only and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of the
Depositor, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

          Under the Lease Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 15th
day of each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day,

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the next Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [ ], to the Person in
whose name this Lease Trust Certificate is registered on the last day of the
calendar month preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). The Lease Trust
will pay interest on this Lease Trust Certificate at the Certificate Interest
Rate on each Payment Date until the principal of this Lease Trust Certificate is
paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Lease Trust
Certificate outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to
all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date). Interest on this
Lease Trust Certificate will accrue from and including the [15th] day of the
calendar month preceding the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs to
but excluding the [15th] day of the calendar month in which the Payment Date
occurs or, if no interest has yet been paid, from and including [ ], 2000.
Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months. No principal will be paid on this Lease Trust Certificate on any Payment
Date occurring during the Revolving Period. On each Payment Date during the
Amortization Period after the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and the
Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes have been reduced to zero, the
principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment Date in accordance with
the terms of the Lease Trust Agreement will be paid. The Amortization Period
will commence on [ ], unless an Early Amortization Event occurs prior to such
date. If an Early Amortization Event occurs, the Amortization Period will
commence.

          THE HOLDER OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES
THAT ITS RIGHTS TO RECEIVE PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE
ARE SUBORDINATED TO THE RIGHTS OF THE SENIOR NOTEHOLDERS AND SUBORDINATED
NOTEHOLDERS TO THE EXTENT DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND THE LEASE TRUST
AGREEMENT.

          It is the intent of the Depositor and Lease Trust Certificateholders
that the Lease Trust Certificates be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor
for purposes of federal income tax and state income and franchise taxes. The
Depositor and the other Lease Trust Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Lease
Trust Certificate, agree to take no action inconsistent with such tax treatment
of the Lease Trust Certificates.

          The obligation represented by this Lease Trust Certificate is limited
to the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest.
The Lease Trust Certificateholder by accepting a Lease Trust Certificate
acknowledges and agrees (i) that if an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to
any Titling Company, any claim that such Lease Trust Certificateholder may seek
to enforce against such Titling Company or the Specified Assets allocated

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to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company other than the Specified
Interest represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate ("Other Specified Interest")
shall be subordinated to the payment in full, including post-petition interest,
of the claims of the holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets
allocated to such Other Specified Interests and (ii) that the Lease Trust
Agreement constitutes a subordination agreement for purposes of Section 510(a)
of the Bankruptcy Code.

          The Lease Trust Certificateholder by accepting this Lease Trust
Certificate further covenants and agrees for a period of one year and one day
after payment in full of the Series 2000-1 Certificates, it will not institute
against the Depositor or the Lease Trust, or join in the institution against the
Depositor or the Lease Trust of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United
States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Lease Trust Certificates, the Subordinated Notes,
the Senior Notes, the Lease Trust Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents.

          Distributions on this Lease Trust Certificate will be made as provided
in the Lease Trust Agreement by the Lease Trustee by wire transfer or check
mailed to Person whose name appears as the registered holder of this Lease Trust
Certificate (or one or more predecessor Lease Trust Certificates) on Lease Trust
Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with
respect to Lease Trust Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of DTC (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be
made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to an account maintained by
such nominee. Except as otherwise provided in the Lease Trust Agreement and
notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Lease Trust
Certificate will be made after due notice by the Lease Trustee of the pendency
of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Lease
Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained for the purpose by the
Lease Trustee in Delaware.

          Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Lease Trust
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 Lease Trustee, by manual signature,
this Lease Trust Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit
under the Lease Trust Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

          THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, 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 Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust
and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Lease Trust Certificate to
be duly executed.

Dated:  [  ], 2000

                                   FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                                   By: THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE)
                                       as Lease Trustee

                                   By:
                                      ---------------------------------
                                          Authorized Officer

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                      (Reverse of Lease Trust Certificate)

          The Lease Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Depositor, the Administrative Agent, the Lease 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 Lease Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. In addition, this Lease
Trust Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or
instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and
recoveries (and certain other amounts) respecting the assets of the Lease Trust,
all as more specifically set forth in the Indenture and the Lease Trust
Agreement. The Lease Trustee will furnish, upon the request of any holder of a
Lease Trust Certificate, such information as is specified in paragraph (d)(4) of
Rule 144A with respect to the Lease Trust. A registration statement, which
includes the Lease Trust Agreement as an exhibit thereto, has been filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission with respect to the Senior Notes of the
Lease Trust issued concurrently with this Lease Trust Certificate.

          The Lease Trust Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the
Lease Trustee, with prior written notice by the Depositor to the Rating
Agencies, without the consent of any of the Senior Noteholders, Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity or defect,
to correct or supplement any provisions in the Lease Trust Agreement, to add any
provisions to or change in any manner or eliminate any of the provisions in the
Lease Trust Agreement or to modify in any manner the rights of the Senior
Noteholders, the Subordinated Noteholders or the Lease Trust Certificateholders;
provided, however, that such action shall not, (i) as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, materially adversely affect the interests of the Indenture Trustee, any
Senior Noteholder, Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder
unless 100% of the holders of the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the
Lease Trust Certificates materially adversely affected thereby have consented to
such amendment, (ii) as confirmed by each Rating Agency the then current rating
of each Class of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates cause the then
rating of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates to be withdrawn or
reduced or (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the Depositor or any of the Titling
Companies to be classified as an "association" (or publicly traded partnership)
taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.

          The Lease Trust Agreement also may be amended in connection with an
assignment by the Depositor of the Lease Trust Certificates, by the Depositor
and the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice by the Depositor to the

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Rating Agencies, without the consent of any of the Senior Noteholders,
Subordinated Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, to provide for the
accounting for income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the
event it is classified as a partnership and the Lease Trust Certificates are not
classified as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes

          The Lease Trust Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Depositor and the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies, with the consent of the Senior Noteholders holding not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and, to the extent
affected thereby, the consent of Lease Trust Certificateholders holding not less
than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, for the purpose of adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of the Lease Trust Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Senior Noteholders, the Subordinated Noteholders or the Lease Trust
Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) increase
or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of
distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Senior
Noteholders or the Lease Trust Certificateholders, (b) reduce the percentage of
the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of
100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes or of 100% of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance, as the case may be, or (c) as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel to the Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trustee to the effect that such
amendment shall not (i) affect the treatment of the Senior Notes as debt for
federal income tax purposes, (ii) be deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the
Senior Notes for federal income tax purposes, (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the
Depositor or any of the Titling Companies to be taxable as an "association" or
publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes or (iv) as confirmed by each Rating Agency then rating each Class of
the Senior Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates, cause the then current rating
of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates to be withdrawn or reduced.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Lease Trust Agreement may be
amended at any time by the Depositor (acting at the direction of Ford Credit)
and the Lease Trustee to the extent reasonably necessary to assure that none of
the Titling Companies, the Lease Trust or the Depositor will be classified as an
association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes; provided, however, that such action shall not
materially adversely affect the interests of any Senior Noteholder, the
Subordinated

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Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder.

          This Least Trust Certificate may be transferred only under the
circumstances described on the face of this Lease Trust Certificate and in
Section 3.4 of the Lease Trust Agreement, which, among other things, requires
that each prospective transferee represent in writing in the form provided as an
exhibit to the Lease Trust Agreement that it will not acquire or transfer the
Lease Trust Certificate through an established securities market, is not and
will not become, except in certain circumstances, a partnership, Subchapter S
corporation or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and will not
acquire the Lease Trust Certificate for or on behalf of an employee benefit
plan, except in certain limited circumstances.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Lease Trust Certificates may not
be transferred unless an Opinion of Counsel in form and content acceptable to
the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the
Indenture Trustee is delivered to the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are
then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee and prior notice is given to each
Rating Agency. Among other things, such Opinion of Counsel shall state that such
Transfer shall not (i) affect the treatment of the Senior Notes and the Lease
Trust Certificates as debt for federal income tax purposes and (ii) cause either
the Lease Trust or any Titling Company to be classified as an association (or
publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes; provided, however, that no Lease Trust Certificate may be transferred
(i) unless the Lease Trust Agreement is amended to provide for the accounting
for income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the event it is
classified as a partnership and the Lease Trust Certificates are not classified
as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes or (ii) to Ford
Credit; provided, further, that the Lease Trust Certificates issued to and
required to be retained by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a) of the
Lease Trust Agreement may not be transferred except upon a dissolution of or
termination of the Depositor as provided in Section 3.2(b) of the Lease Trust
Agreement.

          Any attempted transfer in contravention of the restrictions and
conditions on the face of this Lease Trust Certificate and in the Lease Trust
Agreement shall be null and void. As provided in the Lease Trust Agreement, the
transfer of this Lease Trust Certificate is registerable in the Lease Trust
Register upon surrender of this Lease Trust Certificate for registration of
transfer at the offices or agencies of the Lease Trust Registrar maintained by
the Lease Trustee in New York, New York, accompanied by the written
representations required by the Lease Trust Agreement and a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Lease Trust Registrar duly executed by
the Lease Trust Certificateholder hereof or such Lease Trust Certificateholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Lease Trust
Certificates of

<PAGE>   71

authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination will be
issued to the designated transferee. The initial Lease Trust Registrar appointed
under the Lease Trust Agreement is The Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street -
12E, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.

          Except for Lease Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor, the Lease
Trust Certificates are issuable only as registered Lease Trust Certificates
without coupons in denominations of $10,000,000 and in integral multiples of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof. Lease Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new
Lease Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate denomination, as requested by the Lease Trust Certificateholder
surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such registration
of transfer or exchange, but the Lease Trustee or the Lease Trust Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge
payable in connection therewith. This Lease Trust Certificate may not be
transferred by the Depositor or any other holder hereof to Ford Credit.

          The Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Registrar and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or the Lease Trust Registrar may treat the Person in whose name
this Lease Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes,
and none of the Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Registrar or any such agent shall
be affected by any notice to the contrary.

          The obligations and responsibilities created by the Lease Trust
Agreement and the Lease Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment
to Lease Trust Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them
pursuant to the Lease Trust Agreement and the Indenture and the disposition of
all property held as part of the Lease Trust.

<PAGE>   72

                                   ASSIGNMENT

          FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
the within Lease Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby
irrevocably constituting and appointing

                                                   Attorney to transfer said
---------------------------------------------------
Lease Trust Certificate on the books of the Lease Trust Registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:
                                                                              *
                                             ---------------------------------
                                                  Signature Guaranteed:

                                                                              *
                                             ---------------------------------

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

<PAGE>   73

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-2

                   [FORM OF LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE ISSUED TO
                   THE DEPOSITOR PURSUANT TO SECTION 3.10(a)]

NUMBER
R-

                                                            THIS LEASE TRUST
                                                            CERTIFICATE MAY NOT
                                                            BE TRANSFERRED BY A
                                                            STOCK POWER BUT ONLY
                                                            AS SET FORTH BELOW

                       SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

          THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN THE EVENT
OF THE DISSOLUTION OR TERMINATION OF RCL TRUST 2000-1 WHEN IT IS THE HOLDER
HEREOF, AND ANY TRANSFER IN VIOLATION OF THIS PROVISION SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.

          THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE IS DISTRIBUTABLE AS SET
FORTH IN THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT. ACCORDINGLY, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF
THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON
THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                    [ ]% ASSET BACKED LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE

evidencing an interest in certain distributions of the Lease Trust, as defined
below, the property of which includes: (1) the right to receive certain payments
as program lessor under the Program Operating Lease pursuant to which
certificates representing a beneficial interest in and certificates representing
a limited liability company interest in certain specified retail automobile and
light truck leases were leased to the program lessee; and (2) an interest in the
Series 2000-1 Certificates upon the expiration of such Program Operating Lease.
The property of the Lease Trust has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture to secure the payment of the Senior Notes issued
thereunder.

(This Lease Trust Certificate does not represent an interest in or obligation of
the Depositor, Ford Motor Credit Company or any of their respective Affiliates,
except to the extent described below.)

          THIS CERTIFIES THAT RCL TRUST 2000-1 is the registered owner of
                   DOLLARS nonassessable, fully-paid, beneficial ownership
interest in Lease Trust Certificates having an initial Aggregate Certificate
Balance of $[              ] of Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease
Trust") formed by RCL Trust 2000-1 (the "Depositor"). The Aggregate Certificate
Balance of the Lease Trust Certificates bear interest at a rate of [ ]% per
annum (the "Certificate Interest Rate").

<PAGE>   74

                  LEASE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

The Bank of New York (Delaware)                        or The Bank of New York
(Delaware)
as Lease Trustee                                  as Lease Trustee

By                                               By
  ------------------------                         ----------------------------
                                                       Authenticating Agent

<PAGE>   75

          The Lease Trust was created pursuant to a Lease Trust Agreement, dated
as of [ ], 2000 (the "Lease Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and The
Bank of New York (Delaware), as trustee (the "Lease Trustee"), 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 Lease Trust Agreement and the definitions
appendices incorporated by reference therein.

          This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Lease Trust
Certificates designated as "[ ]% Asset Backed Lease Trust Certificates" (the
"Lease Trust Certificates"). Also issued under the Lease Trust Agreement are the
[ ]% Asset Backed Subordinated Notes (the "Subordinated Notes") and issued under
the Indenture, dated as of [ ], 2000 (the "Indenture"), between the Lease
Trustee and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as trustee (the "Indenture Trustee"), are
the Class A-1 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes, the Class A-2 [ ]% Asset Backed
Senior Notes, the Class A-3 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes, the Class A-4 [ ]%
Asset Backed Senior Notes and the Class A-5 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes
(collectively, the "Senior Notes"). This Lease Trust Certificate is issued under
and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Lease Trust
Agreement, to which the holder of this Lease Trust Certificate by virtue of the
acceptance hereof assents and by which such Lease Trust Certificateholder is
bound. The property of the Lease Trust includes (i) the rights of the Lease
Trust under the Series 2000-1 Certificates, (ii) the rights as lessor under the
Program Operating Lease, (iii) subject to the pledge thereof to the Indenture
Trustee, the Series 2000-1 Collection Account, the Series 2000-1 Payahead
Account, the Series 2000-1 Payment Account and the Lease Trust Distribution
Account and all funds on deposit from time to time therein and all investments
including all income thereon and proceeds thereof, (iv) the rights of the
Depositor under the Asset Contribution Agreement, (v) the rights of the Lease
Trust as the holder of the Series 2000-1 Certificates under the Administrative
Agency Agreement and the Series 2000-1 Supplement, (vi) the security interest of
the Lease Trust in the Subordinated Notes pursuant to the Program Operating
Lease and in amounts credited to the Cash Collateral Account and the right to
make withdrawals from the Cash Collateral Account and (vii) all proceeds of the
foregoing. THE RIGHTS OF THE LEASE TRUSTEE IN THE FOREGOING PROPERTY OF THE
LEASE TRUST HAVE BEEN PLEDGED TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE TO SECURE THE PAYMENT OF
THE SENIOR NOTES.

          The Lease Trust Certificates represent interests in the Lease Trust
only and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of the
Depositor, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

Under the Lease Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 15th day of
each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next

<PAGE>   76

Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [                 ], to the
Person in whose name this Lease Trust Certificate is registered on the last day
of the calendar month preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). The Lease
Trust will pay interest on this Lease Trust Certificate at the Certificate
Interest Rate on each Payment Date until the principal of this Lease Trust
Certificate is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of
this Lease Trust Certificate outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date).
Interest on this Lease Trust Certificate will accrue from and including the
[15th] day of the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which the
Payment Date occurs to but excluding the [15th] day of the calendar month in
which the Payment Date occurs or, if no interest has yet been paid, from and
including [                ], 2000. Interest will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months. No principal will be paid on this Lease
Trust Certificate on any Payment Date occurring during the Revolving Period. On
each Payment Date during the Amortization Period after the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes and the Outstanding Amount of the Subordinated Notes have been
reduced to zero, the principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment
Date in accordance with the terms of the Lease Trust Agreement will be paid. The
Amortization Period will commence on [                ], unless an Early
Amortization Event occurs prior to such date. If an Early Amortization Event
occurs, the Amortization Period will commence.

          THE HOLDER OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES
THAT ITS RIGHTS TO RECEIVE PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE
ARE SUBORDINATED TO THE RIGHTS OF THE SENIOR NOTEHOLDERS AND SUBORDINATED
NOTEHOLDERS TO THE EXTENT DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND THE LEASE TRUST
AGREEMENT.

          It is the intent of the Depositor and Lease Trust Certificateholders
that the Lease Trust Certificates be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor
for purposes of federal income tax and state income and franchise taxes. The
Depositor and the other Lease Trust Certificateholders, by acceptance of a Lease
Trust Certificate, agree to take no action inconsistent with such tax treatment
of the Lease Trust Certificates.

          The obligation represented by this Lease Trust Certificate is limited
to the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest.
The Lease Trust Certificateholder by accepting a Lease Trust Certificate
acknowledges and agrees (i) that if an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to
any Titling Company, any claim that such Lease Trust Certificateholder may seek
to enforce against such Titling Company or the Specified Assets allocated

<PAGE>   77

to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company other than the Specified
Interest represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate ("Other Specified Interest")
shall be subordinated to the payment in full, including post-petition interest,
of the claims of the holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets
allocated to such Other Specified Interests and (ii) that the Lease Trust
Agreement constitutes a subordination agreement for purposes of Section 510(a)
of the Bankruptcy Code.

          The Lease Trust Certificateholder by accepting this Lease Trust
Certificate further covenants and agrees for a period of one year and one day
after payment in full of the Series 2000-1 Certificates, it will not institute
against the Depositor or the Lease Trust, or join in the institution against the
Depositor or the Lease Trust of any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United
States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Lease Trust Certificates, the Subordinated Notes,
the Senior Notes, the Lease Trust Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents.

          Distributions on this Lease Trust Certificate will be made as provided
in the Lease Trust Agreement by the Lease Trustee by wire transfer or check
mailed to Person whose name appears as the registered holder of this Lease Trust
Certificate (or one or more predecessor Lease Trust Certificates) on Lease Trust
Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except that with
respect to Lease Trust Certificates registered on the Record Date in the name of
the nominee of DTC (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be
made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to an account maintained by
such nominee. Except as otherwise provided in the Lease Trust Agreement and
notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this Lease Trust
Certificate will be made after due notice by the Lease Trustee of the pendency
of such distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Lease
Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained for the purpose by the
Lease Trustee in Delaware.

          Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Lease Trust
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 Lease Trustee, by manual signature,
this Lease Trust Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit
under the Lease Trust Agreement or be valid for any purpose.

          THIS LEASE TRUST CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW
PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

<PAGE>   78

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

Dated:  [  ], 2000

                                   FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                                   By:  THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE)
                                        as Lease Trustee

                                   By:
                                      ----------------------------------
                                               Authorized Officer

<PAGE>   79

                      (Reverse of Lease Trust Certificate)

               The Lease Trust Certificates do not represent an obligation of,
or an interest in, the Depositor, the Administrative Agent, the Lease 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 Lease Trust Agreement or the other Basic Documents. In addition, this Lease
Trust Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or
instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections and
recoveries (and certain other amounts) respecting the assets of the Lease Trust,
all as more specifically set forth in the Indenture and the Lease Trust
Agreement.

          The Lease Trust Agreement may be amended by the Depositor and the
Lease Trustee, with prior written notice by the Depositor to the Rating
Agencies, without the consent of any of the Senior Noteholders, Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity or defect,
to correct or supplement any provisions in the Lease Trust Agreement, to add any
provisions to or change in any manner or eliminate any of the provisions in the
Lease Trust Agreement or to modify in any manner the rights of the Senior
Noteholders, the Subordinated Noteholders or the Lease Trust Certificateholders;
provided, however, that such action shall not, (i) as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel, materially adversely affect the interests of the Indenture Trustee, any
Senior Noteholder, Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder
unless 100% of the holders of the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the
Lease Trust Certificates materially adversely affected thereby have consented to
such amendment, (ii) as confirmed by each Rating Agency the then current rating
of each Class of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates cause the then
rating of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates to be withdrawn or
reduced or (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the Depositor or any of the Titling
Companies to be classified as an "association" (or publicly traded partnership)
taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.

          The Lease Trust Agreement also may be amended in connection with an
assignment by the Depositor of the Lease Trust Certificates, by the Depositor
and the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice by the Depositor to the Rating
Agencies, without the consent of any of the Senior Noteholders, Subordinated
Noteholders or Lease Trust Certificateholders, to provide for the accounting for
income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the event it is
classified as a partnership and the Lease Trust Certificates are not classified
as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes.

<PAGE>   80

          The Lease Trust Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Depositor and the Lease Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating
Agencies, with the consent of the Senior Noteholders holding not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and, to the extent
affected thereby, the consent of Lease Trust Certificateholders holding not less
than a majority of the Aggregate Certificate Balance, for the purpose of adding
any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of the Lease Trust Agreement or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Senior Noteholders, the Subordinated Noteholders or the Lease Trust
Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (a) increase
or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of
distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Senior
Noteholders or the Lease Trust Certificateholders, (b) reduce the percentage of
the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes and the Aggregate Certificate Balance
required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of
100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes or of 100% of the Aggregate
Certificate Balance, as the case may be, or (c) as evidenced by an Opinion of
Counsel to the Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trustee to the effect that such
amendment shall not (i) affect the treatment of the Senior Notes as debt for
federal income tax purposes, (ii) be deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the
Senior Notes for federal income tax purposes, (iii) cause the Lease Trust, the
Depositor or any of the Titling Companies to be taxable as an "association" or
publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes or (iv) as confirmed by each Rating Agency then rating each Class of
the Senior Notes and the Lease Trust Certificates, cause the then current rating
of the Senior Notes or the Lease Trust Certificates to be withdrawn or reduced.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Lease Trust Agreement may be
amended at any time by the Depositor (acting at the direction of Ford Credit)
and the Lease Trustee to the extent reasonably necessary to assure that none of
the Titling Companies, the Lease Trust or the Depositor will be classified as an
association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes; provided, however, that such action shall not
materially adversely affect the interests of any Senior Noteholder, the
Subordinated Noteholder or Lease Trust Certificateholder.

          As provided in the Lease Trust Agreement, the transfer of this Lease
Trust Certificate is prohibited; provided, that upon a dissolution or
termination of the Depositor this Lease Trust Certificate, if held by the
Depositor,

<PAGE>   81

shall be distributed to the beneficiaries of the Depositor in accordance with
their percentage interests therein.

          Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Lease Trust Certificates may not
be transferred unless an Opinion of Counsel in form and content acceptable to
the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the
Indenture Trustee is delivered to the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are
then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee and prior notice is given to each
Rating Agency. Among other things, such Opinion of Counsel shall state that such
Transfer shall not (i) affect the treatment of the Senior Notes and the Lease
Trust Certificates as debt for federal income tax purposes and (ii) cause either
the Lease Trust or any Titling Company to be classified as an association (or
publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax
purposes; provided, however, that no Lease Trust Certificate may be transferred
(i) unless the Lease Trust Agreement is amended to provide for the accounting
for income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the event it is
classified as a partnership and the Lease Trust Certificates are not classified
as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes or (ii) to Ford
Credit; provided, further, that the Lease Trust Certificates issued to and
required to be retained by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a) of the
Lease Trust Agreement may not be transferred except upon a dissolution of or
termination of the Depositor as provided in Section 3.2(b) of the Lease Trust
Agreement.

          Any attempted transfer in contravention of the restrictions and
conditions on the face of this Lease Trust Certificate and in the Lease Trust
Agreement shall be null and void. As provided in the Lease Trust Agreement, the
transfer of this Lease Trust Certificate is registerable in the Lease Trust
Register upon surrender of this Lease Trust Certificate for registration of
transfer at the offices or agencies of the Lease Trust Registrar maintained by
the Lease Trustee in New York, New York, accompanied by the written
representations required by the Lease Trust Agreement and a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Lease Trust Registrar duly executed by
the Lease Trust Certificateholder hereof or such Lease Trust Certificateholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Lease Trust
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate
denomination will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Lease
Trust Registrar appointed under the Lease Trust Agreement is The Bank of New
York, 101 Barclay Street - 12E, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration.

          Except for Lease Trust Certificates issued to the Depositor, the Lease
Trust Certificates are issuable only as registered Lease Trust Certificates
without coupons in denominations of $10,000,000 and in integral multiples of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof. Lease Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new
Lease Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate denomination, as requested by the Lease Trust Certificateholder
surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such registration
of transfer or exchange, but the Lease Trustee or the Lease Trust Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge
payable in connection therewith. This Lease Trust Certificate may not be
transferred by the Depositor or any other holder hereof to Ford Credit.

          The Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Registrar and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or the Lease Trust Registrar may treat the Person in whose name
this Lease Trust Certificate is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes,
and none of the Lease Trustee, the Lease Trust Registrar or any such agent shall
be affected by any notice to the contrary.

          The obligations and responsibilities created by the Lease Trust
Agreement and the Lease Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment
to Lease Trust Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them
pursuant to the Lease Trust Agreement and the Indenture and the disposition of
all property held as part of the Lease Trust.

<PAGE>   82

                                   ASSIGNMENT

          FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
the within Lease Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby
irrevocably constituting and appointing

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
______________________________________________________ Attorney to transfer said
Lease Trust Certificate on the books of the Lease Trust Registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:

                                                                               *
                                                  -----------------------------
                                                    Signature Guaranteed:

                                                                               *
                                                  -----------------------------

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

<PAGE>   83
                                                                       EXHIBIT B

                           [FORM OF SUBORDINATED NOTE]

                                                          THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE
                                                          MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
                                                             BY A BOND POWER BUT
                                                         ONLY AS SET FORTH BELOW

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                       [ ]% ASSET BACKED SUBORDINATED NOTE

                  Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"), a
trust created pursuant to a trust agreement, dated as of [ ], 2000 (the "Lease
Trust Agreement"), between RCL Trust 2000-1, as Depositor and The Bank of New
York (Delaware), not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the
Lease Trust (the "Lease Trustee"), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
RCL TRUST 2000-1, upon presentation and surrender of this Subordinated Note the
principal sum of                      DOLLARS (U.S. $          ) on October 15,
2004 Payment Date, or earlier, all in accordance with the Lease Trust Agreement.
The Lease Trust will pay interest on this Subordinated Note at the rate per
annum shown above on each Payment Date until the principal of this Subordinated
Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this
Subordinated Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect
to all payments of principal made on such preceding Payment Date) in accordance
with the Lease Trust Agreement.

                  THE HOLDER OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES
THAT ITS RIGHTS TO RECEIVE PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF THIS SUBORDINATED NOTE ARE
SUBORDINATED TO THE RIGHTS OF THE SENIOR NOTEHOLDERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE
INDENTURE AND THE LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT, AS APPLICABLE.

                  The obligation represented by this Subordinated Note is
limited to the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified
Interest. The Subordinated Noteholder by accepting this Subordinated Note
acknowledges and agrees (i) that if an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to
any Titling Company, any claim that such Subordinated Noteholder may seek to
enforce against such Titling Company or the Specified Assets allocated to any
Specified Interest of such Titling Company other than the Specified Interest
represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate ("Other Specified Interest") shall be
subordinated to the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the
claims of the holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets
allocated to such Other Specified Interests and (ii) that the Lease Trust
Agreement constitutes a subordination agreement for purposes of Section 510(a)
of the Bankruptcy Code.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Lease Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature, this
Subordinated Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Lease Trust
Agreement, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

<PAGE>   84

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trust has caused this instrument to be
signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date set
forth below.

Dated: [  ], 2000

                                    FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1, by THE
                                       BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not in its
                                       individual capacity but solely as Lease
                                       Trustee under the Lease Trust Agreement

                                       By:
                                          --------------------------------------
                                            Name:
                                            Title:

<PAGE>   85

                  LEASE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Subordinated Notes designated above and
referred to in the within-mentioned Lease Trust Agreement.

Dated: [  ], 2000

                                            THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not
                                            in its individual capacity but
                                            solely as Lease Trustee under the
                                            Lease Trust Agreement

                                            By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                                     Authorized Signatory

<PAGE>   86

                                   ASSIGNMENT

         Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying
number of assignee
                   -----------------------------------

         FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells,
assigns and transfers unto
                           ----------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                         (name and address of assignee)

the within Subordinated Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints                  , attorney, to transfer said
Subordinated Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of
substitution in the premises.

Dated:
      --------------------
                                                     --------------------*
                                                     Signature Guaranteed:

                                                     --------------------

--------------------------

--------------------
*        Note: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
         the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within
         Subordinated Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement
         or any change whatsoever.

<PAGE>   87

                                                                       EXHIBIT C

                   [FORM OF RULE 144A TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE]

                                                                          [Date]

The Bank of New York (Delaware)
  as Lease Trustee and Lease Trust Registrar
101 Barclay Street - 12E
New York, New York 10286
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
                    Incorporated
  as Initial Purchaser in connection with
  the Offering Circular referred to below
250 Vesey Street
New York, New York 10281
Attention: [                     ]

[                                ]
  as Initial Purchaser in connection with
  the Offering Circular referred to below
[                                      ]
[                                      ]
[                                      ]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

                  This is to notify you as to the transfer of $ [*] in
denomination of Asset Backed Lease Trust Certificates (the "Certificates") of
Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Issuer").

                  The undersigned is the holder of the Certificates and with
this notice hereby deposits with the Lease Trustee $ [*] in denomination of
Certificates and requests that Certificates in the same aggregate denomination
be issued, executed and authenticated and registered to the purchaser on
           ,     , as specified in the Lease Trust Agreement dated as of [ ],
-----------  ----
2000 relating to the Certificates, as follows:

                  Name:                              Denominations:
                  Address:
                  Taxpayer I.D. No:

                  The undersigned represents and warrants that the undersigned
(i) reasonably believes the purchaser is a "qualified institutional buyer," as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"),
(ii) such purchaser has acquired the Certificates in a transaction effected in
accordance with the exemption from the registration requirements of the Act
provided by Rule 144A, (iii) if the purchaser has purchased the Certificates for
an account for which it is acting as fiduciary or agent, such account is a
qualified institutional buyer and (iv) the purchaser is acquiring Certificates
for its own account or for an institutional account for which it is acting as
fiduciary or agent in a minimum amount equivalent to not less than $10,000,000
and integral multiples of $1,000,000.

                                            Very truly yours,

                                            [NAME OF HOLDER OF CERTIFICATES]

                                            By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:

<PAGE>   88

                                                                       EXHIBIT D

                           [FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER
                         QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER]

                                                                          [Date]

Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1
  as Issuer
The Bank of New York (Delaware)
  as Lease Trustee and Lease Trust Registrar
101 Barclay Street - 12E
New York, New York 10286
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
                    Incorporated
  as Initial Purchaser in connection with
  the Offering Circular referred to below
250 Vesey Street
New York, New York 10281
Attention: [                     ]

[                                ]
  as Initial Purchaser in connection with
  the Offering Circular referred to below
[                                      ]
[                                      ]
[                                      ]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         In connection with our proposed purchase of the [ ]% Asset Backed Lease
Trust Certificates (the "Certificates") of Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1
(the "Issuer"), a trust formed by RCL Trust 2000-1 (the "Depositor") pursuant to
the Trust Agreement, dated as of [ ], 2000 (the "Lease Trust Agreement"),
between the Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), as Lease Trustee, we
confirm that:

                  1. We have received a copy of the Offering Circular (the
"Offering Circular") dated [ ], 2000, relating to the Certificates and such
other information as we deem necessary in order to make our investment
decision. We
<PAGE>   89

understand that the Offering Circular speaks only as of its date and that the
information contained therein may not be correct or complete as of any time
subsequent to such date.

                  2. We agree to be bound by the restrictions and conditions set
forth under the heading "Notice to Investors" in the Offering Circular relating
to the Certificates and the undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to
resell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of (any such
act, a "Transfer") the Certificates except in compliance with, such restrictions
and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act").

                  3. We have neither acquired nor will we transfer any
Certificate we purchase (or any interest therein) or cause any such Certificates
(or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an "established
securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), including, without limitation, an
over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly
disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.

                  4. We either (a) are not, and will not become, a partnership,
Subchapter S corporation, or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes
or (b) are such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners
of any of the interests in us have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause,
80% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to
the time of such proposed Transfer) of the value of such interests to be
attributable to our ownership of Certificates.

                  5. We understand that no subsequent Transfer of the
Certificates is permitted unless (A) such Transfer is of a Certificate with a
denomination of at least $10,000,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000,000,
(B) we cause our proposed transferee to provide to the Issuer, the Lease Trust
Registrar and the Initial Purchasers a letter substantially in the form of
Exhibit D or Exhibit E to the Lease Trust Agreement, as applicable, or such
other written statement as the Depositor shall prescribe, (C) before the
Transfer of the Certificates, we cause the proposed transferee to enter into a
Custodial Agreement with a custodian and (D) the Depositor consents in writing
to the proposed Transfer.

                  6. We understand that the Opinion of Counsel that the Issuer
is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in
part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 above.

                  7. We are a "qualified institutional buyer" (within the
meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act) (a "QIB") and we are acquiring
the Certificates for our own account or for a single account (which is a QIB and
from
<PAGE>   90

which no resale, pledge, or other transfer may be made) as to which we
exercise sole investment discretion.

                  8. We are not (A) 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 Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in Section
4975(e)(1) of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in Section 3(32) of
ERISA, subject to any federal, State or local law which is, to a material
extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code, (D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a
plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department of Labor
Regulation 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101) or (E) a person investing "plan assets" of
any such plan (including without limitation, for purposes of this clause (E),
any insurance company general account, but excluding any entity registered under
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended).

                  9. We are a Person who is either (A) (i) a citizen or resident
of the United States, (ii) a corporation, partnership or other entity organized
in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof,
other than a partnership treated as a foreign person under U.S. Treasury
regulations, unless in the case of a partnership, U.S. Treasury regulations
enacted in the future provide otherwise or (iii) a Person not described in
(A)(i) or (ii) whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected with
such Person's conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within
the meaning of the Code) and its ownership of any interest in a Certificate will
not result in any withholding obligation with respect to any payments with
respect to the Certificates by any Person (other than withholding, if any, under
Section 1446 of the Code), (B) an estate the income of which is includible in
gross income for United States federal income tax purposes, regardless of source
or (C) a trust, if either (i) a United States court is able to exercise primary
supervision over the administration of such trust and one or more United States
persons have the authority to control substantial decisions of the trust or (ii)
it was in existence on August 20, 1996 and elected to be treated as a United
States person (within the meaning of the Code) thereafter. We agree that we will
provide a certification of non-foreign status signed under penalties of perjury
and, alternatively, that if we are a person described in clause (A)(iii) above,
we will furnish to the Depositor and the Lease Trustee a properly executed IRS
Form 4224 and a new IRS Form 4224 upon the expiration or obsolescence of any
previously delivered form (and such other certifications, representations or
opinions of counsel as may be requested by the Depositor and the Lease Trustee).
<PAGE>   91

                  10. We understand that any purported Transfer of any
Certificate (or any interest therein) in contravention of any of the
restrictions and conditions above shall be null and void (each, a "Void
Transfer"), and the purported transferee in a Void Transfer shall not be
recognized by the Issuer or any other Person as a Lease Trust Certificateholder
for any purpose.

         We understand that pursuant to Section 3.4(c) of the Lease Trust
Agreement, the Certificates may not be transferred unless an Opinion of Counsel
in form and content acceptable to the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are
then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee, is delivered to the Lease Trustee
and, if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee and
prior notice is given to each Rating Agency. Among other things, such Opinion of
Counsel shall state that such Transfer shall not (i) affect the treatment of the
Senior Notes and the Certificates as debt for federal income tax purposes and
(ii) cause either the Lease Trust or any Titling Company to be classified as an
association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes; provided, however, that the Certificates may not be
transferred (i) unless the Lease Trust Agreement is amended to provide for the
accounting for income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the
event it is classified as a partnership and the Certificates are not classified
as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes or (ii) to Ford
Credit; provided, further, that the Certificates issued to and required to be
retained by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a) of the Lease Trust
Agreement may not be transferred except upon a dissolution of or termination of
the Depositor as provided in Section 3.2(b) of the Lease Trust Agreement.

         We understand that the obligation represented by the Certificate is
limited to the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified
Interest. We acknowledge and agree (i) that if an Insolvency Event occurs with
respect to any Titling Company, any claim that we may seek to enforce against
such Titling Company or the Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest
of such Titling Company other than the Specified Interest represented by a
Series 2000-1 Certificate ("Other Specified Interest") shall be subordinated to
the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the claims of the
holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets allocated to such
Other Specified Interests and (ii) that the Lease Trust Agreement constitutes a
subordination agreement for purposes of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

         You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably
authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in
any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the
capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Lease
Trust Agreement and the definitions appendices incorporated by reference
therein.

                                                 Very truly yours,

                                                 By:
                                                    ----------------------
                                                   Name:
                                                   Title:

Securities To Be Purchased:
$ ___________ principal amount of Certificates

<PAGE>   92

                                                                       EXHIBIT E

                           [FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER
                       INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR]

                                                                          [Date]

Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1
  as Issuer
The Bank of New York (Delaware)
  as Lease Trustee and Lease Trust Registrar
101 Barclay Street - 12E
New York, New York 10286
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
             Incorporated
  as Initial Purchaser in connection with
  the Offering Circular referred to below
250 Vesey Street
New York, New York 10281
Attention: [                                              ]

[                                                 ]
  as Initial Purchaser in connection with
  the Offering Circular referred to below
[                                      ]
[                                      ]
[                                      ]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         In connection with our proposed purchase of the [ ]% Asset Backed Lease
Trust Certificates (the "Certificates") of Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1
(the "Issuer"), a trust formed by RCL Trust 2000-1 (the "Depositor") pursuant to
the Trust Agreement, dated as of [ ], 2000 (the "Lease Trust Agreement"),
between the Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), as Lease Trustee, we
confirm that:

                  1. We have received a copy of the Offering Circular (the
"Offering Circular") dated [      ], 2000, relating to the Certificates and such
other information as we deem necessary in order to make our investment
decision. We understand that the Offering Circular speaks only as of its date
and that the information
<PAGE>   93

contained therein may not be correct or complete as of any time subsequent to
such date.

                  2. We agree to be bound by the restrictions and conditions set
forth under the heading "Notice to Investors" in the Offering Circular relating
to the Certificates and the undersigned agrees to the bound by, and not to
resell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of (any such
act, a "Transfer") the Certificates except in compliance with, such restrictions
and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act").

                  3. We have neither acquired nor will we transfer any
Certificate we purchase (or any interest therein) or cause any such Certificates
(or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an "established
securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), including, without limitation, an
over-the-counter-market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly
disseminates firm buy or sell quotations.

                  4. We either (a) are not, and will not become, a partnership,
Subchapter S corporation, or grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes
or (b) are such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect beneficial owners
of any of the interests in us have allowed or caused, or will allow or cause,
80% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may establish prior to
the time of such proposed Transfer) of the value of such interests to be
attributable to our ownership of Certificates.

                  5. We understand that no subsequent Transfer of the
Certificates is permitted unless (A) such Transfer is of a Certificate with a
denomination of at least $10,000,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000,000,
(B) we cause our proposed transferee to provide to the Issuer, the Lease Trust
Registrar and the Initial Purchasers a letter substantially in the form of
Exhibit D or Exhibit E to the Lease Trust Agreement, as applicable, or such
other written statement as the Depositor shall prescribe, (C) before the
Transfer of the Certificates, we cause the proposed transferee to enter into a
Custodial Agreement with a Custodian and (D) the Depositor consents in writing
to the proposed Transfer.

                  6. We understand that the Opinion of Counsel that the Issuer
is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent in
part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 above.

                  7. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined
in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) and we are
acquiring the
<PAGE>   94

Certificates for our own account.

                  8. We are not (A) 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 Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described in Section
4975(e)(1) of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in Section 3(32) of
ERISA, subject to any federal, State or local law which is, to a material
extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code, (D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a
plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department of Labor
Regulation 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101) or (E) a person investing "plan assets" of
any such plan (including without limitation, for purposes of this clause (E),
any insurance company general account, but excluding any entity registered under
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended).

                  9. We are a Person who is either (A) (i) a citizen or resident
of the United States, (ii) a corporation, partnership or other entity organized
in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof,
other than a partnership treated as a foreign person under U.S. Treasury
regulations, unless in the case of a partnership, U.S. Treasury regulations
enacted in the future provide otherwise or (iii) a Person not described in
(A)(i) or (ii) whose ownership of the Certificates is effectively connected with
such Person's conduct of a trade or business within the United States (within
the meaning of the Code) and its ownership of any interest in a Certificate will
not result in any withholding obligation with respect to any payments with
respect to the Certificates by any Person (other than withholding, if any, under
Section 1446 of the Code), (B) an estate the income of which is includible in
gross income for United States federal income tax purposes, regardless of source
or (C) a trust, if either (i) a United States court is able to exercise primary
supervision over the administration of such trust and one or more United States
persons have the authority to control substantial decisions of the trust or (ii)
it was in existence on August 20, 1996 and elected to be treated as a United
States person (within the meaning of the Code) thereafter. We agree that we will
provide a certification of non-foreign status signed under penalties of perjury
and, alternatively, that if we are a person described in clause (A)(iii) above,
we will furnish to the Depositor and the Lease Trustee a properly executed IRS
Form 4224 and a new IRS Form 4224 upon the expiration or obsolescence of any
previously delivered form (and such other certifications, representations or
opinions of counsel as may be requested by the Depositor and the Lease Trustee).

                  10. We understand that any purported Transfer of any
Certificate (or any interest therein) in contravention of any of the
restrictions and conditions above shall be null and void (each, a "Void
Transfer"), and the purported transferee in a Void Transfer shall not be
recognized by the Issuer or any other
<PAGE>   95

Person as a Lease Trust Certificateholder for any purpose.

         We understand that pursuant to Section 3.4(c) of the Lease Trust
Agreement, the Certificates may not be transferred unless an Opinion of Counsel
in form and content acceptable to the Lease Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are
then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee, is delivered to the Lease Trustee
and, if any Senior Notes are then Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee and
prior notice is given to each Rating Agency. Among other things, such Opinion of
Counsel shall state that such Transfer shall not (i) affect the treatment of the
Senior Notes and the Certificates as debt for federal income tax purposes and
(ii) cause either the Lease Trust or any Titling Company to be classified as an
association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes; provided, however, that the Certificates may not be
transferred (i) unless the Lease Trust Agreement is amended to provide for the
accounting for income, gain, loss, and deductions of the Lease Trust in the
event it is classified as a partnership and the Certificates are not classified
as debt of such partnership for federal income tax purposes or (ii) to Ford
Credit; provided, further, that the Certificates issued to and required to be
retained by the Depositor pursuant to Section 3.10(a) of the Lease Trust
Agreement may not be transferred except upon a dissolution of or termination of
the Depositor as provided in Section 3.2(b) of the Lease Trust Agreement.

         We understand that the obligation represented by the Certificate is
limited to the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified
Interest. We acknowledge and agree (i) that if an Insolvency Event occurs with
respect to any Titling Company, any claim that we may seek to enforce against
such Titling Company or the Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest
of such Titling Company other than the Specified Interest represented by a
Series 2000-1 Certificate ("Other Specified Interest") shall be subordinated to
the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the claims of the
holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets allocated to such
Other Specified Interests and (ii) that the Lease Trust Agreement constitutes a
subordination agreement for purposes of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

         You are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably
authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in
any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the
matters covered hereby. To the extent not otherwise defined herein, the
capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Lease
Trust Agreement and the definitions appendices incorporated by reference
therein.

                                                 Very truly yours,

                                                 By:
                                                    -------------------------
                                                    Name:
                                                    Title:

Securities To Be Purchased:

$_____________  principal amount of Certificates

<PAGE>   96

                                                                       EXHIBIT F

                          [FORM OF CUSTODIAL AGREEMENT]

                                                                          [Date]

[Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
            Incorporated
250 Vesey Street
New York, New York 10281
Attention: [                 ]]

[or]

[[                                                  ]
[                                                  ]
[                                                  ]
Attention: [                 ]]

                  Re:      Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1
                           [     ]% Asset Backed Lease Trust Certificates

Ladies and Gentlemen:

                  The undersigned intends to purchase $
                                                       --------------------
in principal amount of [ ]% Asset Backed Lease Trust Certificates (the "Lease
Trust Certificates") issued by Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the
"Issuer") pursuant to the Lease Trust Agreement dated as of [       ], 2000 (the
"Lease Trust Agreement") among the Issuer, The Bank of New York (Delaware), as
Lease Trustee (the "Lease Trustee") and RCL Trust 2000-1, as Depositor (the
"Depositor") appearing as Exhibit B hereto. Capitalized terms used but not
defined in this letter agreement (together with the Exhibits attached hereto,
this "Custodial Agreement") shall have the respective meanings given to them in
the Lease Trust Agreement.

                  The Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates are represented by one
or more permanent global certificates in definitive, fully registered form, and
registered in the name of, Cede & Co., the nominee of the Depositary. The
Depositary will allocate all of the interests in each global Rule 144A Lease
Trust Certificate to [Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated]
[            ], as Custodian for the beneficial owners from time to time of each
outstanding Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificate, as reflected in the Lease Trust
Certificates
<PAGE>   97

Ownership Register maintained by the Custodian. Ownership of beneficial
interests in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates will be evidenced, and
transfers thereof will be effected, solely on the books and records of the
Custodian.

                  The following terms have the following respective meanings
when used in this agreement:

                  "Transfer" means, with respect to any legal or beneficial
interest in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates, a sale, transfer,
assignment, gift, pledge, hypothecation or other disposition or encumbrance of
any nature of or on such interest (including a transfer as a result of a merger
or consolidation involving the holder of such an interest or a sale of all or
substantially all of the assets of the holder of such an interest).

                  "Transferee" means, with respect to any legal or beneficial
interest in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates, the Person to whom the
Transferor of such interest desires to transfer such interest.

                  "Transferor" means, with respect to any legal or beneficial
interest in the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates, the Holder desiring to
transfer such interest.

                  In consideration of your agreement to act as Custodian in
respect of the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates as contemplated hereby and by
the Lease Trust Agreement and the Offering Circular, we hereby agree with you as
follows:

         1. In the event of any inconsistency between this Custodial Agreement
and any other agreement relating to your custody of the Rule 144A Lease Trust
Certificates, the terms of this Custodial Agreement shall prevail.

         2. We hereby represent to the Issuer and the Custodian that:

                  (i) we have neither acquired nor will we transfer any Lease
Trust Certificate we purchase (or any interest therein) or cause any such Lease
Trust Certificates (or any interest therein) to be marketed on or through an
"established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b)(1) of the
Code, including, without limitation, an over-the-counter-market or an
interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell
quotations;

                  (ii) we either (A) are not, and will not become, a
partnership, Subchapter S corporation, or grantor trust for U.S. federal income
tax purposes, or (B) are such an entity, but none of the direct or indirect
beneficial owners of any of the interests in us have allowed or caused, or will
allow or cause, 80% or more (or such other percentage as the Depositor may
establish prior to the time of such proposed Transfer) of the value of such
interests to be attributable to our ownership of Lease Trust Certificates;
<PAGE>   98

                  (iii) we understand that no subsequent Transfer of the Lease
Trust Certificates is permitted unless (A) such Transfer is of a Lease Trust
Certificate with a denomination of at least $10,000,000 and in integral
multiples of $1,000,000, (B) the Transferee causes its proposed Transferee to
provide to the Lease Trust and the Custodian a certificate substantially in the
form of Exhibit D or Exhibit E, as applicable, to the Lease Trust Agreement or
such other written statement as the Depositor shall prescribe, (C) before the
Transfer of the Lease Trust Certificates, we cause the proposed Transferee to
enter into a Custodial Agreement with the Custodian and (D) the Depositor
consents in writing to the proposed Transfer, which consent shall be granted
unless the Depositor determines that such Transfer would create a risk that the
Lease Trust or any Titling Company would be classified for federal or any
applicable State tax purposes as an association or publicly traded partnership
taxable as a corporation; provided, however, that any attempted Transfer that
would either cause (i) the number of holders of Lease Trust Certificates and
Subordinated Notes to exceed twelve or (ii) the number of holders of direct or
indirect interests in any Titling Company to exceed ninety, shall be a Void
Transfer;

                  (iv) we understands that the Opinion of Counsel that the Lease
Trust is not a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation is dependent
in part on the accuracy of the representations in paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii)
above;

                  (v) we are not (A) an employee benefit plan, as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (B) a plan described
in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (C) a governmental plan, as defined in
Section 3(32) of ERISA, subject to any federal, State or local law which is, to
a material extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section
4975 of the Code, (D) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of Department of
Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. ss. 2510.3-101) or (E) a person investing "plan
assets" of any such plan (including without limitation, for purposes of this
clause (E), any insurance company general account but excluding any entity
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended);

                  (vi) we are a Person who is either (A)(1) a citizen or
resident of the United States, (2) a corporation, partnership or other entity
organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision
thereof, other than a partnership treated as a foreign person under U.S.
Treasury regulations, unless in the case of a partnership, U.S. Treasury
regulations enacted in the future provide otherwise or (3) a Person not
described in (A)(1) or (2) whose ownership of the Lease Trust Certificates is
effectively connected with such Person's conduct of a trade or business within
the United States (within the
<PAGE>   99

meaning of the Code) and its ownership of any interest in a Lease Trust
Certificate will not result in any withholding obligation with respect to any
payments with respect to the Lease Trust Certificates by any Person (other than
withholding, if any, under Section 1446 of the Code), (B) an estate the income
of which is includible in gross income for United States federal income tax
purposes, regardless of source or (C) a trust, if either (1) a United States
court is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of such
trust and one or more United States persons have the authority to control
substantial decisions of the trust or (2) it was in existence on August 20, 1996
and elected to be treated as a United States person (within the meaning of the
Code) thereafter. We agree that we will provide a certification of non-foreign
status signed under penalties of perjury and, alternatively, that if we are a
person described in clause (A)(3) above, we will furnish to the Depositor and
the Lease Trustee a properly executed IRS Form 4224 and a new IRS Form 4224 upon
the expiration or obsolescence of any previously delivered form (and such other
certifications, representations or opinions of counsel as may be requested by
the Depositor and the Lease Trustee); and

                  (vii) we understands that any purported Transfer of any Lease
Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) in contravention of any of the
restrictions and conditions in Section 3.4 of the Lease Trust Agreement shall be
a Void Transfer, and the purported Transferee in a Void Transfer shall not be
recognized by the Custodian or any other Person as a Lease Trust Certificate
Owner for any purpose.

         3. We shall in no event transfer to any Person all or any interest in
the Rule 144A Lease Trust Certificates purchased by us unless:

                  (i)      the Transferee and the Custodian execute a
letter agreement substantially in the form of this Custodial
Agreement;

                  (ii) we deliver to the Custodian and the Issuer, for the
benefit of the Custodian and the Issuer, a completed Rule 144A transferor
certificate substantially in the form attached to Exhibit C to the Lease Trust
Agreement;

                  (iii) the Transferee delivers to the Custodian and the Issuer,
for the benefit of the Custodian and the Issuer, a completed investment letter
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D or Exhibit E, as applicable, to
the Lease Trust Agreement;

                  (iv) the Transferee delivers to the Custodian, the Lease
Trustee and, if any Senior Notes are Outstanding, to the Indenture Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel as required by Section 3.4(c) of the Lease Trust Agreement;

                  (v) we receive IRS Form 4224 or W-9 in form satisfactory to us
and the Lease Trustee, duly executed by the Transferor or such Person's attorney
duly authorized in writing;
<PAGE>   100

                  (vi) the Depositor consents to such proposed Transfer, which
consent will be granted unless the Depositor determines that such Transfer would
create a risk that the Lease Trust or any Titling Company would be classified
for federal or any applicable State tax purposes as an association or publicly
traded partnership taxable as a corporation; and

                  (vii) the Transferee agrees to bear all expenses and costs of
such Transfer and registration in the Lease Trust Certificates Ownership
Register including, without limitation, any legal fees and filing fees of the
Issuer and the Custodian and any duty, tax or governmental charge that may be
imposed in relation to such Transfer or registration.

         4. Any Transfer made in violation of paragraph 3 above shall be void
and of no effect, and the Custodian will be entitled to cause the further
Transfer of such Lease Trust Certificates in a permitted Transfer (in accordance
with the provisions of paragraph 3) at any readily available price for the sole
account of the Person to whom such Transfer was improperly made.

         5. Unless we have previously, or hereafter, entered into a separate
custody agreement with [Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated]
[        ] (in which case the terms of such custody agreement, to the extent not
inconsistent with this Custodial Agreement, are incorporated herein by reference
and made a part hereof), we hereby appoint the Custodian as our custodian and
authorize the Custodian to perform such services, exercise such rights and take
such actions on our behalf as are contemplated hereby and by the Lease Trust
Agreement and the Offering Circular, in each case, together with such authority
and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In exercising its powers and
performing its duties as Custodian, the Custodian shall exercise such powers and
perform such duties consistent with applicable law and with the care, skill,
prudence and diligence that an ordinarily prudent individual in a like position
would use under similar circumstances; provided, that none of the Custodian, any
affiliate of the Custodian, or any officer, agent, stockholder, partner, member,
director or employee of the Custodian or any affiliate of the Custodian shall,
except to the extent otherwise expressly provided by applicable law, have any
liability to us, whether direct or indirect and whether in contract, tort or
otherwise, (i) for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them in
connection herewith unless there has been a final judicial determination that
such act or omission was performed or omitted in bad faith or constituted gross
negligence or willful misconduct or (ii) for any action taken or omitted to be
taken by the Custodian at our express direction.

                  This Custodial Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the law of the State of New York.

                                Very truly yours,

                                [NAME OF PURCHASER]

                                            By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:

ACCEPTED BY:

[Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
                         Incorporated]

By:
   --------------------------------
   Name:
   Title:

[or]

[                                                     ]

By:
   --------------------------------
   Name:
   Title:

<PAGE>   101

                                            Exhibit A to the Custodial Agreement

                     CORRESPONDENCE AND PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS
                      (TO BE COMPLETED BY ALL TRANSFEREES)

[To:     Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
                 Incorporated
         250 Vesey Street
         New York, New York 10281
         Attention: [                 ]]

[or]

[To:     [                                                     ]
         [                                                  ]
         [                                                  ]
         Attention: [                 ]]

1.       I prefer to have correspondence sent to me at this address:

Name of Transferee:
                   ------------------------------

           Address:
                   ------------------------------

                   ------------------------------
                   c/o Company Name if Applicable

                   ------------------------------------------------
                   Number and Street - Post Office Box Unacceptable

                   -----------------------------------------------------
                   City                  State                  Zip Code

                   Telephone Number:             Telefax Number:
                                    -------------               ----------------
                                   Area Code Number             Area Code Number

2.       In addition, I would like the following to receive copies of all
correspondence:

<PAGE>   102

Name:
     ---------------------------------
Title:
      --------------------------------
Address:
        ------------------------------

                 Number and Street - Post Office Box Unacceptable

        ---------------------------------------------------------------------
           City                      State                      Zip Code

                 Telephone Number:                Telefax Number:
                                  ----------------               ------------
                                  Area Code Number             Area Code Number

3. For distributions of cash, please wire funds to the following bank account:

ABA Number:
           -----------------------------------
Bank Name:
           -----------------------------------
Bank Location:
              --------------------------------
Account Number:
               -------------------------------
Account Name:
             ---------------------------------
For further credit to:
                      ------------------------
(if any)

Account Number:
               -------------------------------
Account Name:
             ---------------------------------
Reference:
          ------------------------------------

4. For distributions in-kind, please:

         [ ]      Credit securities to my brokerage account at the
                  following firm:

     Firm Name:
               -------------------------------
     Address:
             ---------------------------------
     Account Name:
                  ----------------------------
     Account Number:
                    --------------------------

         [ ]      Deliver the securities in certificate form (this will
                  typically take longer than a book entry transfer to a
                  brokerage account)

<PAGE>   103

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed these Correspondence and
Payment Instructions this       day of
                          -----       ----------, -----.

                     -------------------------------------
                        Type or Print Name of Subscriber

----------------------------------------       -------------
Type or Print Name of Individual Signing         Signature

<PAGE>   104

                                            Exhibit B to the Custodial Agreement

                             [LEASE TRUST AGREEMENT]<PAGE>   1
                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.2

================================================================================

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                    Class A-1 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes
                    Class A-2 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes
                    Class A-3 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes
                    Class A-4 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes
                    Class A-5 [ ]% Asset Backed Senior Notes

                            ------------------------

                                    INDENTURE

                   Dated as of [                     ], 2000

                            ------------------------

                            THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
                                Indenture Trustee

================================================================================

<PAGE>   2

                             CROSS REFERENCE TABLE(1)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
      TIA                                                                               Indenture
    Section                                                                              Section
   ---------                                                                            ---------

<S>   <C>                                                                          <C>
310   (a)(1)                                                                              6.11
      (a)(2)                                                                              6.11
      (a)(3)                                                                              6.10
      (a)(4)                                                                              N.A.2
      (a)(5)                                                                              6.11
      (b)                                                                                 6.8; 6.11
      (c)                                                                                 N.A.
311   (a)                                                                                 6.12
      (b)                                                                                 6.12
      (c)                                                                                 N.A.
312   (a)                                                                                 7.1
      (b)                                                                                 7.2
      (c)                                                                                 7.2
313   (a)                                                                                 7.4
      (b)(1)                                                                              7.4
      (b)(2)                                                                              7.4
      (c)                                                                                 11.5
      (d)                                                                                 7.4
314   (a)                                                                                 7.3
      (b)                                                                                 11.14
      (c)(1)                                                                              11.1
      (c)(2)                                                                              11.1
      (c)(3)                                                                              11.1
      (d)                                                                                 11.1
      (e)                                                                                 11.1
      (f)                                                                                 11.1
315   (a)                                                                                 6.1
      (b)                                                                                 6.5; 11.5
      (c)                                                                                 6.1
      (d)                                                                                 6.1
      (e)                                                                                 5.13
316   (a)(last sentence)                                                                  2.7
      (a)(1)(A)                                                                           5.11
      (a)(1)(B)                                                                           5.12
      (a)(2)                                                                              N.A.
      (b)                                                                                 5.7
      (c)                                                                                 N.A.
317   (a)(1)                                                                              5.3
      (a)(2)                                                                              5.3
      (b)                                                                                 3.3
318(a)                                                                                    11.6
</TABLE>

-----------------

(1) Note:  This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
           be part of this Indenture.
(2) N.A. means Not Applicable.
<PAGE>   3
                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

<TABLE>
<S>          <C>                                                                                                       <C>
                                                             ARTICLE I
                                             DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.1      Definitions ........................................................................................   2

                                                             ARTICLE II
                                                          THE SENIOR NOTES

Section 2.1      Form ...............................................................................................  10
Section 2.2      Execution, Authentication and Delivery .............................................................  11
Section 2.3      Temporary Senior Notes .............................................................................  12
Section 2.4      Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange ................................................  13
Section 2.5      Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Senior Notes ..................................................  15
Section 2.6      Persons Deemed Owners ..............................................................................  16
Section 2.7      Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest ..............................................  16
Section 2.8      Cancellation .......................................................................................  17
Section 2.9      Release of Collateral ..............................................................................  18
Section 2.10     Book-Entry Senior Notes ............................................................................  19
Section 2.11     Notices to Clearing Agency .........................................................................  20
Section 2.12     Definitive Senior Notes ............................................................................  20
Section 2.13     Authenticating Agents ..............................................................................  21

                                                            ARTICLE III
                                                             COVENANTS

Section 3.1      Payment of Principal and Interest ..................................................................  22
Section 3.2      Maintenance of Office or Agency ....................................................................  22
Section 3.3      Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust .............................................................  22
Section 3.4      Existence ..........................................................................................  24
Section 3.5      Protection of Indenture Trust Estate ...............................................................  24
Section 3.6      Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate ..............................................................  25
Section 3.7      Performance of Obligations; Administration of Specified Assets .....................................  26
Section 3.8      Negative Covenants .................................................................................  27
Section 3.9      Annual Statement as to Compliance ..................................................................  28
Section 3.10     No Other Activities ................................................................................  28
Section 3.11     No Borrowing .......................................................................................  29
Section 3.12     Administrative Agent's Obligations .................................................................  29
Section 3.13     Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities ..................................................  29
Section 3.14     Capital Expenditures ...............................................................................  29
Section 3.15     Notice of Events of Default ........................................................................  29
Section 3.16     Further Instruments and Acts .......................................................................  29

                                                             ARTICLE IV
                                                     SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

Section 4.1      Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture ............................................................  30
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<S>              <C>                                                                                                   <C>
Section 4.2      Application of Trust Money .........................................................................  31
Section 4.3      Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent ...........................................................  31

                                                            ARTICLE V

                                                     DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 5.1      Early Amortization Events ..........................................................................  32
Section 5.2      Events of Default ..................................................................................  34
Section 5.3      Notice of Events of Default; Potential Event of Default; Early Amortization
                   Events; Potential Early Amortization Events ......................................................  36
Section 5.4      Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment .................................................  36
Section 5.5      Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee ..........................  37
Section 5.6      Remedies; Priorities ...............................................................................  40
Section 5.7      Optional Preservation of the Series 2000-1 Assets ..................................................  43
Section 5.8      Limitation of Suits ................................................................................  43
Section 5.9      Unconditional Rights of Senior Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest .......................  44
Section 5.10     Restoration of Rights and Remedies .................................................................  44
Section 5.11     Rights and Remedies Cumulative .....................................................................  45
Section 5.12     Delay or Omission Not a Waiver .....................................................................  45
Section 5.13     Control by Senior Noteholders ......................................................................  45
Section 5.14     Waiver .............................................................................................  46
Section 5.15     Undertaking for Costs ..............................................................................  46
Section 5.16     Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws ...................................................................  47
Section 5.17     Action on Senior Notes .............................................................................  47
Section 5.18     Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations .................................................  47

                                                             ARTICLE VI
                                                       THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

Section 6.1      Duties of Indenture Trustee ........................................................................  48
Section 6.2      Rights of Indenture Trustee ........................................................................  50
Section 6.3      Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee .............................................................  51
Section 6.4      Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer .....................................................................  51
Section 6.5      Reports by Indenture Trustee to Senior Noteholders .................................................  51
Section 6.6      Compensation and Indemnity .........................................................................  51
Section 6.7      Replacement of Indenture Trustee ...................................................................  52
Section 6.8      Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger ..............................................................  54
Section 6.9      Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee ..................................  54
Section 6.10     Eligibility; Disqualification ......................................................................  56
Section 6.11     Preferential Collection of Claims Against Lease Trust ..............................................  56
Section 6.12     Indenture Trustee as Holder of Series 2000-1 Certificates ..........................................  56

                                                            ARTICLE VII
                                               SENIOR NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS

Section 7.1      Lease Trustee To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Senior
                    Noteholders .....................................................................................  57
</TABLE>
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<TABLE>
<S>              <C>                                                                                                   <C>
Section 7.2      Preservation of Information; Communications to Senior Noteholders ..................................  57
Section 7.3      Reports by Lease Trust .............................................................................  57
Section 7.4      Reports by Indenture Trustee .......................................................................  58

                                                            ARTICLE VIII
                                                ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

Section 8.1      Collection of Money ................................................................................  58
Section 8.2      Accounts ...........................................................................................  59
Section 8.3      Cash Collateral Account Certificate; Disbursement and Payment Instructions .........................  62
Section 8.4      Disbursement of Funds ..............................................................................  64
Section 8.5      General Provisions Regarding Accounts ..............................................................  72
Section 8.6      Release of Indenture Trust Estate ..................................................................  72

                                                             ARTICLE IX
                                                      SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Section 9.1      Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Senior Noteholders ......................................  72
Section 9.2      Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Senior Noteholders .........................................  74
Section 9.3      Execution of Supplemental Indentures ...............................................................  76
Section 9.4      Effect of Supplemental Indenture ...................................................................  76
Section 9.5      Conformity With Trust Indenture Act ................................................................  77
Section 9.6      Reference in Senior Notes to Supplemental Indentures ...............................................  77

                                                             ARTICLE X
                                                     REDEMPTION OF SENIOR NOTES

Section 10.1     Redemption .........................................................................................  77
Section 10.2     Form of Redemption Notice ..........................................................................  78
Section 10.3     Senior Notes Payable on Redemption Date ............................................................  78

                                                             ARTICLE XI
                                                           MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1     Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. Note: ...................................................  79
Section 11.2     Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee ...................................................  80
Section 11.3     Acts of Senior Noteholders .........................................................................  81
Section 11.4     Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Lease Trustee and Rating Agencies .............................  82
Section 11.5     Notices to Senior Noteholders; Waiver ..............................................................  83
Section 11.6     Conflict with Trust Indenture Act ..................................................................  83
Section 11.7     Effect of Headings and Table of Contents ...........................................................  84
Section 11.8     Successors and Assigns .............................................................................  84
Section 11.9     Separability .......................................................................................  84
Section 11.10    Benefits of Indenture ..............................................................................  84
Section 11.11    Legal Holidays .....................................................................................  84
Section 11.12    Governing Law ......................................................................................  84
Section 11.13    Counterparts .......................................................................................  85
Section 11.14    Recording of Indenture .............................................................................  85
Section 11.15    Trust Obligation ...................................................................................  85
Section 11.16    No Petition ........................................................................................  86
Section 11.17    Inspection .........................................................................................  86
Section 11.18    Submission of Jurisdiction .........................................................................  86

Exhibit A-1      Form of Class A-1 Senior Note ......................................................................  A-1
Exhibit A-2      Form of Class A-2 Senior Note ......................................................................  A-2
Exhibit A-3      Form of Class A-3 Senior Note ......................................................................  A-3
Exhibit A-4      Form of Class A-4 Senior Note ......................................................................  A-4
Exhibit A-5      Form of Class A-5 Senior Note ......................................................................  A-5
</TABLE>
<PAGE>   6
               INDENTURE dated as of [ ], 2000, between THE BANK OF NEW YORK
(DELAWARE), a Delaware banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but
solely as trustee (together with its successors under the Lease Trust Agreement,
the "Lease Trustee") of FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"),
and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, a New York corporation, not in its individual
capacity but solely as trustee hereunder (together with its successors
hereunder, the "Indenture Trustee").

                              PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

               The Lease Trustee is duly authorized to execute and deliver this
Indenture on behalf of the Lease Trust to provide for the Senior Notes issuable
as provided in this Indenture. All covenants and agreements made by the Lease
Trust herein are for the benefit and security of the Senior Noteholders and the
Indenture Trustee. The Lease Trustee is entering into this Indenture on behalf
of the Lease Trust, and the Indenture Trustee is accepting the trusts created
hereby, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged.

               All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of
the Lease Trust in accordance with the agreement's terms have been done.

                                 GRANTING CLAUSE

               The Lease Trust hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the
Closing Date, as Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Senior Noteholders,
all of the Lease Trust's right, title and interest in and to (i) the Lease Trust
Estate and (ii) all present and future claims, demands, causes and choses in
action in respect of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under
and all proceeds of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of
the foregoing, including all proceeds of the conversion, voluntary or
involuntary, into cash or other liquid property, all cash proceeds, accounts,
accounts receivable, notes, drafts, acceptances, chattel paper, checks, deposit
accounts, insurance proceeds, condemnation awards, rights to payment of any and
every kind and other forms of obligations and receivables, instruments and other
property which at any time constitute all or part of or are included in the
proceeds of any of the foregoing (collectively, the "Collateral").
<PAGE>   7

               The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of
principal of and interest on, and any other amounts owing in respect of, the
Senior Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction
except as set forth herein, and to secure compliance with the provisions of this
Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture.

               The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Senior Noteholders, acknowledges such Grant and accepts the trusts under this
Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

                                    ARTICLE I

                   DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

               Section 1.1 Definitions. (a) Whenever used in this Indenture
capitalized terms have the meanings assigned to them herein or, if not defined
herein, as defined in Appendix A attached hereto. To the extent that the
definitions set forth herein conflict with the definitions set forth in Appendix
A, or incorporated by reference therein, the definitions set forth herein shall
be controlling. All references to Articles, Sections, subsections or exhibits
are to Articles, Sections, subsections or exhibits in this Indenture unless
otherwise specified.

               "Act" has the meaning set forth in Section 11.3(a).

               "Administrative Agent Default" has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.7(d).

               "Authenticating Agent" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.13.

               "Authorized Officer" means, with respect to the Lease Trust, any
officer within the Lease Trustee Corporate Trust Department, including without
limitation, any secretary, assistant secretary, vice president, assistant vice
president, senior corporate trust officer, corporate trust officer, assistant
treasurer, senior trust administration officer, trust administration officer,
senior trust operations officer or trust operations officer and, so long as the
Administrative Agency Agreement is in effect, any person who is authorized to
act for the Administrative Agent in matters

<PAGE>   8
relating to the Lease Trust and to be acted upon by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to the Administrative Agency Agreement and who is identified on the
list of authorized persons delivered by the Administrative Agent to the
Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or
supplemented from time to time thereafter); provided, however, that for purposes
of Section 3.9, such officer of the Administrative Agent must be any of the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal
accounting officer.

               "Book-Entry Senior Notes" means a beneficial interest in the
Senior Notes, ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book
entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 2.10.

               "Cash Collateral Account Certificate" has the meaning set forth
in Section 8.3(a).

               "Class A-1 Senior Notes" means the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed
Senior Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1.

               "Class A-2 Senior Notes" means the [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed
Senior Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.

               "Class A-3 Senior Notes" means the [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed
Senior Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3.

               "Class A-4 Senior Notes" means the [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed
Senior Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4.

               "Class A-5 Senior Notes" means the [ ]% Class A-5 Asset Backed
Senior Notes, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-5.

               "Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.

               "Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.

               "Collateral" has the meaning set forth in the Granting Clause of
this Indenture.

               "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

               "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the
Indenture

<PAGE>   9
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered which office at the date of the execution of this Indenture is
located at 450 West 33rd Street, New York, New York 10001; or at such other
address as the Indenture Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to
the Senior Noteholders and the Lease Trustee, or the principal corporate trust
office of any successor Indenture Trustee (the address of which the successor
Indenture Trustee will notify the Senior Noteholders and the Lease Trustee).

               "Definitive Senior Notes" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10.

               "Depository Agreement" means the agreement among the Lease Trust,
the Indenture Trustee and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing
Agency, dated as of the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

               "Disbursement and Payment Instructions" has the meaning set forth
in Section 8.3(b).

               "Early Amortization Event" has the meaning set forth in Section
5.1.

               "Event of Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2.

               "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.

               "Executive Officer" means, with respect to any corporation, the
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer,
President, Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Secretary or the
Treasurer of such corporation; and with respect to any partnership, any general
partner thereof.

               "Grant" means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate,
remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create and grant a lien upon and a
security interest in and right of set-off against, deposit, set over and confirm
pursuant to this Indenture. A Grant of the Collateral or of any other agreement
or instrument shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the
obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including the immediate and
continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal
and interest payments in respect of the Collateral and all other moneys payable
thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make
waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and

<PAGE>   10
options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise and
generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be
entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

               "Indenture Trust Estate" means all money, instruments, rights and
other property that are subject or intended to be subject to the lien and
security interest of this Indenture for the benefit of the Senior Noteholders
(including, without limitation, the Collateral Granted to the Indenture
Trustee), including all proceeds.

               "Independent" means, when used with respect to any specified
Person, that the Person (a) is in fact independent of the Lease Trust, any other
obligor upon the Senior Notes, RCL Trust 2000-1, the Administrative Agent and
any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, (b) does not have any direct
financial interest or any material indirect financial interest in the Lease
Trust, any such other obligor, RCL Trust 2000-1, the Administrative Agent or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the
Lease Trust, any such other obligor, RCL Trust 2000-1, the Administrative Agent
or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee,
promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar
functions.

               "Independent Certificate" means a certificate or opinion to be
delivered to the Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and
otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1, made by
an Independent appraiser or other expert appointed by an Issuer Order and
approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, and such
opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of
"Independent" in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the
meaning thereof.

               "Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request" means a written order or
request of the Lease Trust signed in the name of the Lease Trust by any one of
its Authorized Officers and delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

               "Lease Trustee Corporate Trust Department" shall mean, with
respect to the Lease Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Lease
Trustee located at 101 Barclay Street - 12E, New York, New York 10286,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at such other address as the Lease
Trustee may designate by notice to the Lease Trust Certificateholders, the
Subordinated Noteholders and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust
office of any successor Lease Trustee (the address of which the successor Lease
Trustee will notify the Lease Trust Certificateholders, the Subordinated
Noteholders and the Depositor).

                  "Note Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to any Class of
Senior Notes on any Payment Date, the seven-digit decimal equivalent of a
fraction the numerator of which is the Outstanding Amount of such Class on the
Payment Date (after giving effect to any payment of principal on such Payment
Date) and the

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denominator of which is the Outstanding Amount of such Class on the Closing
Date.

               "Notice of Default" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2(iv).

               "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by any
Authorized Officer of the Lease Trustee, under the circumstances described in,
and otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section 11.1, and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any reference in
this Indenture to an Officers' Certificate shall be to an Officer's Certificate
of any Authorized Officer of the Lease Trustee.

               "Opinion of Counsel" means one or more written opinions of
counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be
employees of or counsel to the Lease Trustee or the Administrative Agent and who
shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and which opinion or opinions
shall be addressed to the Indenture Trustee, shall comply with any applicable
requirements of Section 11.1, and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee.

               "Outstanding" means, as of the date of determination, all Senior
Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture except:

                    (i) Senior Notes theretofore cancelled by the Senior Note
     Registrar or delivered to the Senior Note Registrar for cancellation;

                    (ii) Senior Notes or portions thereof the payment for which
     money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
     Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the related Senior
     Noteholders (provided, however, that if such Senior Notes are to be
     redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
     Indenture or provision therefor, satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee);
     and

                    (iii) Senior Notes in exchange for or in lieu of other
     Senior Notes which have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
     Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee is presented
     that any such Senior Notes are held by a bona fide purchaser;

provided that in determining whether Senior Noteholders holding the requisite
Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any other
Basic Document, Senior Notes owned by the Lease Trust, RCL Trust 2000-1, the

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Administrative Agent or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Indenture Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Senior Notes that a Responsible Officer knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Senior Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Indenture Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Senior
Notes and that the pledgee is not the Lease Trust, RCL Trust 2000-1, the
Administrative Agent or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.

               "Paying Agent" means the Indenture Trustee or any other Person
that meets the eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee set forth in
Section 6.10 and is authorized by the Lease Trustee to make the payments to and
distributions from the Series 2000-1 Payment Account and the other accounts
forming part of the Indenture Trust Estate, including payment of principal of or
interest on the Senior Notes on behalf of the Lease Trust.

               "Potential Early Amortization Event" means any occurrence that
is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Early
Amortization Event.

               "Potential Event of Default" means any occurrence that is, or
with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

               "Predecessor Senior Note" means, with respect to any particular
Senior Note, every previous Senior Note evidencing all or a portion of the same
debt as that evidenced by such particular Senior Note; and, for the purpose of
this definition, any Senior Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.5
in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Senior Note shall be deemed
to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Senior
Note.

               "Proceeding" means any suit in equity, action at law or other
judicial or administrative proceeding.

               "Rating Agency Condition" means, with respect to any action, that
each Rating Agency shall have been given 10 days' prior notice thereof and that
the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Administrative Agent and the
Indenture Trustee in writing that such action will not result in a reduction or
withdrawal of the then current ratings of the Senior Notes.

               "Record Date" means, with respect to a Payment Date or Redemption
Date, the close of business on the fourteenth day of the calendar month in which
such Payment Date or Redemption Date occurs (or, if definitive Senior Notes are
issued, the last day of the preceding calendar month).
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               "Redemption Date" means the Payment Date specified by the
Administrative Agent or the Lease Trustee pursuant to Section 10.1.

               "Redemption Price" means an amount equal to the unpaid principal
amount of the Senior Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon
plus interest on any defaulted interest at the applicable Senior Note Interest
Rate to but excluding the Redemption Date.

               "Registered Holder" means the Person in whose name a Senior Note
is registered on the Senior Note Register on the applicable Record Date.

               "Responsible Officer" means any officer within the Corporate
Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, including any Vice President, Assistant
Vice President, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or any other officer of
the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also, with respect to a
particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of
such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

               "Senior Note Owner" means, with respect to a Book-Entry Senior
Note, the Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Senior Note, as
reflected on the books of the Clearing Agency, or on the books of a Person
maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency
Participant or as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the
rules of such Clearing Agency).

               "Senior Note Register" and "Senior Note Registrar" have the
respective meanings set forth in Section 2.4.

               "Senior Notes" means the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2
Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the
Class A-5 Senior Notes.

               "Stamp" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.4.

               "State" means any one of the 50 states of the United States of
America or the District of Columbia.

               "Stated Maturity" means when used with respect to any security,

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including a Senior Note, the date specified in such security as the fixed date
which the final payment of principal on such security is due and payable or, if
such date is not a Business Day, the next following Business Day.

               "Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 as amended and as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise
specifically provided.

               (b) All terms defined in this Indenture shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.

               (c) As used in this Indenture and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto, accounting terms not defined in this
Indenture or in any such certificate or other document, and accounting terms
partly defined in this Indenture or in any such certificate or other document to
the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under
generally accepted accounting principles. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms in this Indenture or in any such certificate or other document
are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms under generally accepted
accounting principles, the definitions contained in this Indenture or in any
such certificate or other document shall control.

               (d) Interest on the Senior Notes shall be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months for all purposes of this Indenture.

               Section 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following
TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

               "indenture securities" means the Senior Notes.

               "indenture security holder" means a Senior Noteholder.

               "indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.

               "indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the
Indenture Trustee.

               "obligor" on the indenture securities means the Lease Trust and
any other obligor on the indenture securities.

               All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by
the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission
rule have the meaning assigned to them by such definitions.
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                                   ARTICLE II

                                THE SENIOR NOTES

               Section 2.1 Form. The form of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, Class
A-2 Senior Notes, Class A-3 Senior Notes, Class A-4 Senior Notes and Class A-5
Senior Notes together with the Indenture Trustee's certificate of
authentication, shall be in substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A-1,
Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit A-5, respectively, with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as
may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Senior
Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Senior Notes. Any portion of the
text of any Senior Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an
appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Senior Note.

               The definitive Senior Notes 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 Authorized Officers
executing such Senior Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Senior
Notes.

               Each Senior Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The terms of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, Class A-2 Senior Notes, Class A-3
Senior Notes, Class A-4 Senior Notes and Class A-5 Senior Notes set forth in
Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit A-5 are part of
the terms of this Indenture.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

Asset Backed               Original                  Senior Note
Senior Notes               Principal                 Interest           Stated
Designation                Amount                    Rate               Maturity
-----------                ------                    -----------        --------

<S>                        <C>                       <C>                <C>
Class A-1                  $                             %                    15, 200
                                                                       -------       --

Class A-2                  $                             %                    15, 200
                                                                       -------       --

Class A-3                  $                             %                    15, 200
                                                                       -------       --

Class A-4                  $                             %                    15, 200
                                                                       -------       --

Class A-5                  $                             %                    15, 200
                                                                       -------       --
</TABLE>
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               Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. The Senior
Notes shall be executed by the Lease Trustee by any of its Authorized Officers
on behalf of the Lease Trust. The signature of any such Authorized Officer on
the Senior Notes may be manual or facsimile.

               Senior Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
individuals who were at any time Authorized Officers of the Lease Trust shall
bind the Lease Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have
ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Senior Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Senior Notes.

               The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Order authenticate and
deliver the Class A-1 Senior Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal
amount of $[ ], the Class A-2 Senior Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $[ ], the Class A-3 Senior Notes for original issue in an
aggregate principal amount of $[ ], the Class A-4 Senior Notes for original
issue in an aggregate principal amount of $[ ] and the Class A-5 Senior Notes
for original issue in an aggregate amount of $[ ]. The aggregate principal
amount of Class A-1 Senior Notes, Class A-2 Senior Notes, Class A-3 Senior
Notes, Class A-4 Senior Notes and Class A-5 Senior Notes outstanding at any time
may not exceed the respective amounts except as provided in Section 2.5.

               The Senior Notes shall be issuable as registered Senior Notes in
minimum denominations of $1,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof.

               No Senior Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Senior Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
provided for herein executed by the Indenture Trustee by the manual signature of
one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Senior Note
shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Senior Note has
been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

               The Senior Notes shall include a recitation limiting the
obligation represented by the Senior Notes to the Series 2000-1 Assets and the
related Specified Interests. The Senior Notes shall also include an
acknowledgment and agreement by the holder thereof to the effect that, if an
Insolvency Event occurs with respect to any Titling Company, any claim that the
holder of such Senior Notes may seek to enforce against the Specified Assets
allocated to any other Specified Interest of such Titling Company shall be
subordinate to the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the
claims of the holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets
allocated
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to such other Specified Interests.

               Section 2.3 Temporary Senior Notes. Pending the preparation of
definitive Senior Notes, the Lease Trustee may execute, on behalf of the Lease
Trust, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, temporary Senior Notes which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, substantially of
the tenor of the definitive Senior Notes in lieu of which they are issued and
with such variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as the
officers executing the temporary Senior Notes may determine, as evidenced by
their execution of such temporary Senior Notes.

               If temporary Senior Notes are issued, the Lease Trust will cause
definitive Senior Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Senior Notes, the temporary Senior Notes shall be
exchangeable for definitive Senior Notes upon surrender of the temporary Senior
Notes at the office or agency of the Lease Trustee to be maintained as provided
in Section 3.2, without charge to the Senior Noteholder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Senior Notes, the Lease Trustee shall
execute, on behalf of the Lease Trust, and the Indenture Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Senior Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Senior Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Senior Notes.

               Section 2.4 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Lease Trustee shall cause to be kept a register (the "Senior Note Register")
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Lease
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Senior Notes and the registration
of transfers of Senior Notes. The Indenture Trustee is hereby appointed "Senior
Note Registrar" for the purpose of registering Senior Notes and transfers of
Senior Notes as herein provided. Upon any resignation of any Senior Note
Registrar, the Lease Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects
not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Senior Note Registrar.

               If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the
Lease Trustee as Senior Note Registrar, the Lease Trustee will give the
Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Senior Note
Registrar and of the location, and any further change in such location, of the
Senior Note Register, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect
the Senior Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof,
and the Indenture Trustee shall have the

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right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Senior Note Registrar
by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Senior
Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such Senior Notes.

               Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Senior Note at
the office or agency of the Lease Trustee to be maintained as provided in
Section 3.2, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a)(1) of the UCC are met, the
Lease Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Lease Trust, and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and the Senior Noteholder shall obtain from the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one
or more new Senior Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a
like aggregate principal amount.

               At the option of the Senior Noteholder, Senior Notes may be
exchanged for other Senior Notes of the same Class in any authorized
denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Senior Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Senior Notes
are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a)(1) of
the UCC are met, the Lease Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Lease Trust,
the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Senior Noteholder shall obtain
from the Indenture Trustee, the Senior Notes which the Senior Noteholder making
the exchange is entitled to receive.

               All Senior Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Senior Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Lease Trust,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Senior Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.

               Every Senior Note presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be (i) duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
duly executed by, the Senior Noteholder thereof or such Senior Noteholder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
"eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Senior Note
Registrar which requirements include membership or participation in Securities
Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("Stamp") or such other "signature guarantee
program" as may be determined by the Senior Note Registrar in addition to, or in
substitution for, Stamp, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii)
accompanied by such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require.

               No service charge shall be made to a Senior Noteholder for any
registration of transfer or exchange of Senior Notes, but the Indenture Trustee
may

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require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or
exchange of Senior Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.3 or 9.6
not involving any transfer.

               The preceding provisions of this Section 2.4 notwithstanding, the
Lease Trust shall not be required to make and the Senior Note Registrar need not
register transfers or exchanges of Senior Notes selected for redemption or of
any Senior Note for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment
with respect to the Senior Note.

               Section 2.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Senior Notes. If
(i) any mutilated Senior Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the
Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss
or theft of any Senior Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Lease
Trust, the Lease Trustee and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Lease Trustee, the Senior Note Registrar or the
Indenture Trustee that such Senior Note has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are
met, the Lease Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Lease Trust, and upon
Issuer Request the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange
for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Note, a
replacement Senior Note of the same Class; provided, however, that if any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Note, but not a mutilated Senior Note, shall
have become or within seven days shall become due and payable, or shall have
been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Senior Note, the
Lease Trust may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Note when so due or
payable or upon the Redemption Date. If, after the delivery of such replacement
Senior Note or payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Note pursuant to
the proviso to the preceding sentence, a bona fide purchaser of the original
Senior Note in lieu of which such replacement Senior Note was issued presents
for payment such original Senior Note, the Lease Trust and the Indenture Trustee
shall be entitled to recover such replacement Senior Note (or such payment) from
the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Senior
Note from such Person to whom such replacement Senior Note was delivered or any
assignee of such Person, except a bona fide 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 Lease Trust or the Indenture
Trustee in connection therewith.

               Upon the issuance of any replacement Senior Note under this
Section 2.5, the Lease Trustee may require the payment by the Senior Noteholder
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 Indenture Trustee) connected therewith.
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                  Every replacement Senior Note issued pursuant to this Section
2.5 in replacement of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Note shall
constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Lease Trust,
whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Note shall be at
any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of
this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Senior Notes
duly issued hereunder.

                  The provisions of this Section 2.5 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 Senior Notes.

                  Section 2.6 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment
for registration of transfer of any Senior Note, the Lease Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name any Senior Note is registered (as of the day
of determination) as the owner of such Senior Note for the purpose of receiving
payments of principal of and interest, if any, on such Senior Note and for all
other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Senior Note be overdue, and
neither the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee nor any agent of the Lease
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  Section 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted
Interest. (a) The Class A-1 Senior Notes, Class A-2 Senior Notes, Class A-3
Senior Notes, Class A-4 Senior Notes and Class A-5 Senior Notes shall accrue
interest during each Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Senior Note
Interest Rate specified in Section 2.1. Interest on the Senior Notes shall be
due and payable on each Payment Date immediately following the related Interest
Accrual Period. Any installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any
Senior Note which is punctually paid or duly provided for by the Lease Trust on
the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such
Senior Note (or one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) is registered on the
Record Date, by check mailed first-class, postage prepaid to such Person's
address as it appears on the Senior Note Register on such Record Date, except
that, unless Definitive Senior Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 2.12,
with respect to Senior Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the
nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.),
payment will be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the
account designated by such nominee and except for the final installment of
principal payable with respect to such Senior Note on a Payment Date or on the
Stated Maturity of such Senior Note (and except for the Redemption Price for any
Senior Note called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.1) which shall be
payable as provided below. The funds

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represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance
with Section 3.3.

                  (b) During the Revolving Period, no principal will be paid on
the Senior Notes of any Class. During the Revolving Period, on each Payment
Date, the Lease Trust will reinvest an amount up to the Monthly Pool Balance
Decline for the preceding Collection Period in Additional Series 2000-1 Leases
and Additional Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles.

                  During the Amortization Period, the Lease Trust will not
purchase Additional Series 2000-1 Leases and Additional Series 2000-1 Leased
Vehicles and the principal of the Senior Notes of each Class shall be payable in
installments in accordance with the priorities set forth in Section 8.4(c) on
each Payment Date until the Outstanding Amount of each Class of Senior Notes has
been reduced to zero as provided in the forms of the Senior Notes set forth
respectively in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4 and Exhibit
A-5. However, if an Event of Default has occurred and the entire unpaid
principal amounts of the Senior Notes becomes due and payable by declaration of
acceleration, principal payments will be made on a pro rata basis to holders of
the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior
Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior Notes based on their
respective Outstanding Amounts without distinction among Classes. All principal
payments made during the Amortization Period on the Senior Notes shall be made
pro rata to the Senior Noteholders of the Class or Classes entitled thereto. The
Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Senior Note is
registered on the Record Date preceding the Payment Date on which the Lease
Trustee expects that the final installment of principal of and interest on such
Senior Note will be paid. Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by
facsimile prior to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final
installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Senior
Note and shall specify the place where such Senior Note may be presented and
surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with
redemptions of Senior Notes shall be mailed to Senior Noteholders as provided in
Section 10.2.

                  (c) If the Lease Trust defaults in a payment of interest on
the Senior Notes, the Lease Trust shall pay defaulted interest (plus interest on
such defaulted interest to the extent lawful at the applicable Senior Note
Interest Rate specified in Section 2.1) in any lawful manner from the day
following the day on which such interest was due until such defaulted interest
is paid.

                  Section 2.8 Cancellation. All Senior Notes surrendered for
payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered
to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture
Trustee and shall be
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promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Lease Trustee may at any time
deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Senior Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Lease Trustee may have acquired
in any manner whatsoever, and all Senior Notes so delivered shall be promptly
cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No Senior Notes shall be authenticated in
lieu of or in exchange for any Senior Notes cancelled as provided in this
Section 2.8, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled
Senior Notes may be held or disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance
with its standard retention or disposal policy as in effect at the time unless
the Lease Trustee shall direct by an Issuer Order that they be destroyed or
returned to it and so long as such Issuer Order is timely and the Senior Notes
have not been previously disposed of by the Indenture Trustee.

                  Section 2.9 Release of Collateral. (a) Subject to Section 11.1
and the terms of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release
property from the lien of this Indenture only upon receipt of an Issuer Request
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and Independent
Certificates in accordance with TIA Section 314(c) and 314(d)(1) or an Opinion
of Counsel in lieu of such Independent Certificates to the effect that the TIA
does not require any such Independent Certificates. If the Commission shall
issue an exemptive order under TIA Section 304(d) modifying the Lease Trustee's
obligations under TIA Section 314(c) and 314(d)(1) subject to Section 11.1 and
the term of the Basic Documents, the Indenture Trustee shall release property
from the lien of this Indenture in accordance with the conditions and procedures
set forth in such exemptive order; provided that no such Issuer Request,
Officers' Certificate ,[Opinion of Counsel and Independent Certificate] shall
be required in connection with (i) the release of the Additional Fee Released
Amounts pursuant to Section 2.9(b), (ii) the release of Leases and Leased
Vehicles in respect of which the Administrative Agent has deposited an amount
equal to the related Series 2000-1 Administrative Purchase Amount to the Series
2000-1 Collection Account, or (iii) following the termination of any Series
2000-1 Lease, the release of the related Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle upon the
sale or other disposition of such Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle by the
Administrative Agent and the deposit by the Administrative Agent of the related
sale proceeds (or a Sale Proceeds Advance) in the Series 2000-1 Collection
Account.

                  (b) On the Business Day preceding each Payment Date, the
Indenture Trustee hereby irrevocably agrees to release from the Collateral,
when, as and if received, that portion of the Series 2000-1 Collections to which
it is otherwise entitled, in an amount equal to the Additional Fee Released
Amounts with respect to each Collection Period to the Lease Trustee immediately
upon identification thereof,
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which release shall be automatic and shall require no further act by the
Indenture Trustee; provided that the Indenture Trustee shall execute and deliver
such instruments of release and assignment, or otherwise confirm the foregoing
release of the Additional Fee Released Amounts, as may reasonably be requested
by the Lease Trustee. Upon such release of Additional Fee Released Amounts, such
amounts shall not constitute and shall not be included in the Collateral. The
Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trustee agree that any Additional Fees required
to be deposited to the Cash Collateral Account by, or on behalf of the Lease
Trustee, and any Additional Fee Released Amount required to be released to the
Lease Trustee pursuant to this Section 2.9(b), may be paid and released by the
Lease Trustee and the Indenture Trustee on a net basis. However, the Indenture
Trustee and the Lease Trustee each agrees to account for all payments and
releases of Additional Fees and Additional Fee Released Amounts as if such
amounts were paid and released separately.

                  Section 2.10 Book-Entry Senior Notes. The Senior Notes, upon
original issuance, will be issued in the form of typewritten Senior Notes
representing the Book-Entry Senior Notes, to be delivered to The Depository
Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Lease
Trust. Such Senior Notes shall initially be registered on the Senior Note
Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency,
and no Senior Note Owner will receive a Definitive Senior Note (as defined
below) representing such Senior Note Owner's interest in such Senior Note,
except as provided in Section 2.12. Unless and until definitive, fully
registered Senior Notes (the "Definitive Senior Notes") have been issued to
Senior Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.12:

                  (a) the provisions of this Section 2.10 shall be in full force
and effect;

                  (b) the Senior Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall
be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Indenture
(including the payment of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes and the
giving of instructions or directions hereunder) as the sole Senior Noteholder,
and shall have no obligation to the Senior Note Owners;

                  (c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 2.10
conflict with any other provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this
Section 2.10 shall control;

                  (d) the rights of Senior Note Owners shall be exercised only
through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and
agreements between such Senior Note Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the
Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Depository Agreement, unless and
until Definitive Senior Notes are issued pursuant to
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Section 2.12, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers among
the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal
of and interest on the Senior Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants; and

                  (e) whenever this Indenture requires or permits actions to be
taken based upon instructions or directions of Senior Noteholders evidencing a
specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes, the Clearing
Agency shall be deemed to represent such percentage only to the extent that it
has received instructions to such effect from Senior Note Owners and/or Clearing
Agency Participants owning or representing, respectively, such required
percentage of the beneficial interest in the Senior Notes and has delivered such
instructions to the Indenture Trustee.

                  Section 2.11 Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or
other communication to the Senior Noteholders is required under this Indenture,
unless and until Definitive Senior Notes shall have been issued to Senior Note
Owners pursuant to Section 2.12, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such
notices and communications specified herein to be given to Senior Noteholders to
the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to the Senior Note Owners.

                  Section 2.12 Definitive Senior Notes. If (i) the
Administrative Agent advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing
Agency is no longer willing or able properly to discharge its responsibilities
with respect to the Senior Notes, and the Administrative Agent is unable to
locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Administrative Agent at its option
advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that it elects to terminate the
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after the occurrence of
an Event of Default, Senior Note Owners representing beneficial interests
aggregating at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes
advise the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry
system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of the
Senior Note Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Senior Note Owners
and the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of Definitive Senior Notes to Senior Note Owners requesting the
same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Senior Note or
Senior Notes representing the Book-Entry Senior Notes by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Lease Trustee shall execute, on
behalf of the Lease Trust, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
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the Definitive Senior Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing
Agency. None of the Lease Trustee, the Senior Note Registrar or the Indenture
Trustee shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
Upon the issuance of Definitive Senior Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall
recognize as Senior Noteholders the Persons whose names are registered in the
Senior Note Register.

                  Section 2.13 Authenticating Agents. Upon the request of the
Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall, and if the Indenture Trustee so
chooses the Indenture Trustee may, appoint one or more Persons (each, an
"Authenticating Agent") with power to act on its behalf and subject to its
direction in the authentication of Senior Notes in connection with issuance,
transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.2, 2.4, 2.5 and 9.6, as fully to all
intents and purposes as though each such Authenticating Agent had been expressly
authorized by those Sections to authenticate such Senior Notes. For all purposes
of this Indenture, the authentication of Senior Notes by an Authenticating Agent
pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be deemed to be the authentication of Senior
Notes "by the Indenture Trustee."

                  Any Person into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged
or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from
any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall
be a party, or any Person succeeding to the corporate trust business of any
Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent
hereunder, without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act
on the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such successor
Person.

                  Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving
written notice of resignation to the Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trustee.
The Indenture Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating
Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and
the Lease Trustee. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such a
termination, the Indenture Trustee shall promptly appoint, if necessary, a
successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of such appointment
to the Lease Trustee.

                  The Indenture Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating
Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, and
reimbursement for its reasonable expenses relating thereto and the Indenture
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments in accordance with
Section 6.6. The provisions of Sections 2.8 and 6.4 shall be applicable to any
Authenticating Agent.

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                                   ARTICLE III

                                    COVENANTS

                  Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Lease Trust
will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Senior Notes
in accordance with the terms of the Senior Notes and this Indenture. Without
limiting the foregoing, the Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust, will
cause the Indenture Trustee or the Paying Agent to distribute to Senior
Noteholders and the Lease Trust Distribution Account all amounts on deposit in
the Series 2000-1 Payment Account payable to the Senior Noteholders, the
Subordinated Noteholders and the Lease Trust Certificateholders pursuant to
Section 8.4. Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a
payment to any Senior Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be
considered to have been paid by the Lease Trust to such Senior Noteholder for
all purposes of this Indenture.

                  Section 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Senior Note
Registrar, on behalf of the Lease Trustee, will maintain at the Corporate Trust
Office or at such other location in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, chosen by the Senior Note Registrar, acting for the Lease Trustee an
office or agency, where Senior Notes may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Lease Trustee
in respect of the Senior Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Lease
Trustee hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to receive all such
surrenders, notices and demands.

                  Section 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. As
provided in Sections 8.4(b), 8.4(c) and 5.6(b), all payments of amounts due and
payable with respect to any Senior Notes that are to be made from amounts
withdrawn from the Series 2000-1 Payment Account shall be made on behalf of the
Lease Trust by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts
so withdrawn therefrom for payments of Senior Notes shall be paid over to the
Lease Trust except as provided in this Section 3.3.

                  On or before each Payment Date and Redemption Date, the Lease
Trustee shall, on behalf of the Lease Trust, deposit or cause to be deposited in
the Series 2000-1 Payment Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts
then becoming due under the Senior Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless the Paying Agent is the
Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or
failure so to act.

                  The Lease Trustee will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee to execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an instrument
in
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which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Indenture Trustee (and if the
Indenture Trustee acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees to the extent
relevant), subject to the provisions of this Section 3.3, that such Paying Agent
will:

              (i)      hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due
         with respect to the Senior Notes in trust for the benefit of the
         Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons
         or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such
         Persons as herein provided;

             (ii) give the Indenture Trustee notice of any default by the Lease
        Trust of which it has actual knowledge (or any other obligor upon the
        Senior Notes) in the making of any payment required to be made with
        respect to the Senior Notes;

            (iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon
        the written request of the Indenture Trustee, forthwith pay to the
        Indenture Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent;

            (iv) immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the
        Indenture Trustee all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Senior
        Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards required to be met
        by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment; and

            (v) comply with all requirements of the Code with respect to the
        withholding from any payments made by it on any Senior Notes of any
        applicable withholding taxes imposed thereon and with respect to any
        applicable reporting requirements in connection therewith.

                  The Lease Trustee may at any time, for the purpose of
obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other
purpose, by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay to the Indenture Trustee
all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by
such Paying Agent; and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.

                  Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds,
any money held by the Indenture Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the
payment of any amount due with respect to any Senior Note and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be
discharged from such trust and
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be paid to the Lease Trust on Issuer Request; and the Senior Noteholder of such
Senior Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Lease Trust for payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid
to the Lease Trust by the Indenture Trustee or the Paying Agent), and all
liability of the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such
trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee
or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at
the expense of the Lease Trust cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money
remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be
less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Lease Trust. The Indenture
Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Lease Trust, any
other reasonable means of notification of such repayment (including, but not
limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to Senior Noteholders whose Senior
Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose
right to or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable
from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last
address of record for each such Senior Noteholder).

                  Section 3.4 Existence. The Lease Trust will keep in full
effect its existence, rights and franchises under the laws of its jurisdiction
of organization, and will obtain and preserve its qualification to do business
in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be necessary to
protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Senior Notes, the
Collateral and the Indenture Trust Estate.

                  Section 3.5 Protection of Indenture Trust Estate. The Lease
Trustee on behalf of the Lease Trust will from time to time execute and deliver
all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements,
continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments,
and will take such other action necessary or advisable to:

                           (i) maintain or preserve the lien and security
         interest (and the priority thereof) of this Indenture or carry out more
         effectively the purposes hereof;

                           (ii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the
         validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture;

                           (iii) enforce any of the Collateral; or

                           (iv) preserve and defend title to the Indenture Trust
         Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
         Noteholders in such Indenture Trust Estate against the claims of all
         Persons and parties.
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The Lease Trust hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement or
other instrument required by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.5;
provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to
prepare, file or monitor the need or the status of any such financing statement,
continuation statement or other instrument required under this Section 3.5.

                  Section 3.6 Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate. (a)
Promptly after the execution of this Indenture, the Lease Trustee shall furnish
to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the
recording and filing of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto, and
any other requisite documents, and with respect to the execution and filing of
any financing statements and continuation statements and any other action that
may be required by law, as are necessary to perfect and make effective the lien
and security interest of this Indenture and reciting the details of such action,
or stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to
make such lien and security interest effective.

                  (b) On or before April 30 in each calendar year, beginning in
2001, the Lease Trustee shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has
been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of
this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite
documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing
statements and continuation statements and any other action that may be required
by law as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture and reciting the details of such action or stating that in the
opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien and
security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording,
filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental
hereto and any other requisite documents and the execution and filing of any
financing statements and continuation statements that will, in the opinion of
such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and security interest of this
Indenture until April 30 in the following calendar year.

                  Section 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Administration of
Specified Assets. (a) The Lease Trust will not take any action and will use its
best efforts not to permit any action to be taken by others, including but not
limited to the Administrative Agent, that would release any Person from any of
such Person's material covenants or obligations under any instrument or
agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate
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or that would result in the amendment, hypothecation, subordination, termination
or discharge of, or impair the validity or effectiveness of, any such instrument
or agreement, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents.

                  (b)     The Lease Trustee may contract with other Persons to
assist it in performing its duties under this Indenture, and any performance of
such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture Trustee in an Officers'
Certificate of the Lease Trustee shall be deemed to be action taken by the Lease
Trustee. The Administrative Agent shall assist the Lease Trustee in performing
its duties under this Indenture in accordance with the terms of the
Administrative Agency Agreement and the Series 2000-1 Supplement.

                  (c)    The Lease Trust will, and shall cause the
Administrative Agent to, punctually perform and observe all of the Lease Trust's
obligations and agreements contained in this Indenture, the other Basic
Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in the Indenture Trust
Estate, including but not limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC
financing statements and continuation statements required to be filed by the
terms of this Indenture and the other Basic Documents in accordance with and
within the time periods provided for herein and therein. Except as otherwise
expressly provided therein, the Lease Trust, as a party to the other Basic
Documents and as a Holder of the Series 2000-1 Certificates, shall not, and
shall cause the Administrative Agent not to, waive, amend, modify, supplement or
terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof without the consent of the
Indenture Trustee, to the extent applicable, or the Senior Noteholders of Senior
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes or such greater percentage as may be specified in the particular
provision.

                  (d)    If the Lease Trustee shall have knowledge of the
occurrence of an event of default by the Administrative Agent under the
Administrative Agency Agreement ("Administrative Agent Default"), the Lease
Trustee shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies and
shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Lease Trustee is taking in
respect of such default. If an Administrative Agent Default shall arise from the
failure of the Administrative Agent to perform any of its duties or obligations
under the Administrative Agency Agreement with respect to the Series 2000-1
Assets, the Lease Trustee shall take all reasonable steps available to it to
remedy such failure.

                  (e)    Upon any termination of the Administrative Agent's
rights and powers pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.3 of the Administrative Agency
Agreement or resignation of the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.2 of
the Administrative Agency Agreement, the Lease Trustee shall promptly, but in
any event within two Business Days, notify the Indenture Trustee. As soon as a
substitute Administrative Agent is appointed pursuant to Section 8.1 of the
Administrative Agency Agreement or a successor Administrative Agent is appointed
pursuant to Section 8.3 of the
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Administrative Agency Agreement, the Lease Trustee shall notify the Indenture
Trustee of such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of
such substitute or successor Administrative Agent.

                  Section 3.8  Negative Covenants.  So long as any Senior Notes
are Outstanding, the Lease Trust shall not:

                           (i) other than the lease of the Series 2000-1
         Certificates pursuant to the Program Operating Lease, which lease is
         subject to the lien of this Indenture, and except as expressly
         permitted by this Indenture or the other Basic Documents, sell,
         transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the properties or
         assets of the Lease Trust, including those included in the Indenture
         Trust Estate, unless directed to do so by the Indenture Trustee;

                           (ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from
         the principal or interest payable in respect of, the Senior Notes
         (other than amounts properly withheld from such payments under the Code
         or applicable State law) or assert any claim against any present or
         former Senior Noteholder by reason of the payment of the taxes levied
         or assessed upon any part of the Indenture Trust Estate; or

                           (iii) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of
         this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the lien of this Indenture to
         be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or
         permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations
         under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B)
         permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or
         other encumbrance (other than the lien of this Indenture) to be created
         on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the Indenture Trust
         Estate or any part thereof or any interest therein or the proceeds
         thereof (other than tax liens, mechanics' liens and other liens that
         arise by operation of law, in each case on any Series 2000-1 Assets and
         arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the related
         Lessee) or (C) permit the lien of this Indenture not to constitute a
         valid first priority (other than with respect to any such tax,
         mechanics' or other lien) security interest in the Indenture Trust
         Estate.

                  Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Lease
Trustee will deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the end of
each calendar year (commencing with the year 2000), an Officers' Certificate
stating, as to the Authorized Officer signing such Officers' Certificate, that:
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                           (i) a review of the activities of the Lease Trust
         during such year and of performance under this Indenture has been made
         under such Authorized Officer's supervision; and

                           (ii) to the best of such Authorized Officer's
         knowledge, based on such review, the Lease Trust has complied with all
         conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year, or,
         if there has been a default in the compliance of any such condition or
         covenant, specifying each such default known to such Authorized Officer
         and the nature and status thereof.

                  Section 3.10 No Other Activities. The Lease Trust shall not
engage in any activities other than financing, acquiring, owning, leasing
(subject to the lien of this Indenture), pledging and managing the Series 2000-1
Certificates in the manner contemplated by this Indenture and the other Basic
Documents and activities incidental thereto.

                  Section 3.11 No Borrowing. Other than as contemplated by the
Basic Documents, the Lease Trust shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or
otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness.

                  Section 3.12 Administrative Agent's Obligations. The Lease
Trust shall cause the Administrative Agent to comply with the terms and
provisions of the Basic Documents to which the Administrative Agent is a party.

                  Section 3.13 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other
Liabilities. Except as contemplated by or this Indenture or other Basic
Documents, the Lease Trust shall not make any loan or advance or credit to, or
guarantee (directly or indirectly or by an instrument having the effect of
assuring another's payment or performance on any obligation or capability of so
doing or otherwise), endorse or otherwise become contingently liable, directly
or indirectly, in connection with the obligations, stocks or dividends of, or
own, purchase, repurchase or acquire (or agree contingently to do so) any stock,
obligations, assets or securities of, or any other interest in, or make any
capital contribution to, any other Person.

                  Section 3.14 Capital Expenditures. Except as contemplated by
the Basic Documents, the Lease Trust shall not make any expenditure (by
long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or
personalty).

                  Section 3.15 Notice of Events of Default. The Lease Trustee
agrees to give the Indenture Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written
notice of each Event of Default hereunder on the part of the Administrative
Agent and each Lease Event of Default on the part of RCL Trust 2000-1 as lessee
under the Program Operating Lease.

                  Section 3.16 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the
Indenture Trustee, the Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust, will execute
and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be
reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this
Indenture.
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                                   ARTICLE IV

                           SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

                  Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to the Senior Notes
except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii)
substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Senior Notes, (iii) rights
of Senior Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest
thereon, (iv) Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.10 and 3.11, (v) the rights,
obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the
rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.6 and the obligations of the
Indenture Trustee under Section 4.2) and (vi) the rights of Senior Noteholders
as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property so deposited with the
Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture Trustee, on
demand and at the expense and on behalf of the Lease Trust, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

                  (A)      either

                  (1)      all Senior Notes theretofore authenticated and
                  delivered (other than (i) Senior Notes that have been
                  mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been
                  replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.5 and (ii) Senior
                  Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited
                  in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Lease Trust
                  and thereafter repaid to the Lease Trust or discharged from
                  such trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered to
                  the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or

                  (2)      all Senior Notes not theretofore delivered to the
                  Indenture Trustee for cancellation

                           (i)  have become due and payable,

                           (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
         Maturity within one year, or

                           (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year
         under arrangements satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee for the giving
         of notice of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and at
         the expense, of the Lease Trust,

                           and the Lease Trust, in the case of (i), (ii) or
         (iii) above, has (x) received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
         the release of the Collateral or the release of the Lease Trust from
         the liability hereunder will not be treated
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         as a repayment of the Senior Notes or an exchange pursuant to Section
         1001 of the Code and (y) irrevocably deposited or caused to be
         irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct
         obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of
         America (which will mature prior to the date such amounts are payable),
         in trust for such purpose, in an amount sufficient without reinvestment
         to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Senior Notes
         (including interest) not theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee
         for cancellation when due to their Stated Maturity or Redemption Date
         (if Senior Notes shall have been called for redemption pursuant to
         Section 10.1), as the case may be, and all fees due and payable to the
         Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee;

                  (B) the Lease Trust has paid or caused to be paid all other
         sums payable hereunder by the Lease Trust; and

                  (C) the Lease Trustee has delivered to the Indenture Trustee
         an Officers' Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required to by
         the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an Independent Certificate from a
         firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable
         requirements of Section 11.1 and each stating that all conditions
         precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
         discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

                  Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All moneys deposited
with the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Senior Notes and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent, as the
Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Senior Noteholders of the particular
Senior Notes for the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been
deposited with the Indenture Trustee of all sums due and to become due thereon
for principal and interest, but such moneys need not be segregated from other
funds except to the extent required herein or in the Administrative Agency
Agreement or required by law.

                  Section 4.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In
connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to
the Senior Notes, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such
Senior Notes shall, upon demand of the Lease Trustee, be paid to the Indenture
Trustee to be held and applied according to Section 3.3 and thereupon such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
moneys.
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                                    ARTICLE V

                              DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

                  Section 5.1  Early Amortization Events.  "Early Amortization
Event," wherever used herein, means any one of the following events:

                           (i) failure by the Administrative Agent (a) to make
         any payment or deposit required under the Basic Documents within five
         Business Days after the date such payment or deposit is required to be
         made, or (b) to deliver an Administrative Agent's Certificate within
         ten Business Days after the date required in the Administrative Agency
         Agreement;

                           (ii) failure by the Administrative Agent to observe
         or perform in any material respect any covenant or agreement made by
         the Administrative Agent in any Basic Documents to which it is a party
         (other than the failure by the Administrative Agent to observe or
         perform a covenant or agreement, which is elsewhere in this Section 5.1
         specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty of the
         Administrative Agent made in any Basic Document to which it is a party
         or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or
         thereto or in connection herewith or therewith proving to have been
         incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall
         have been made, and such failure shall continue or not be cured, or the
         circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or
         warranty was incorrect shall not have been eliminated or otherwise
         cured, for a period of 60 days or in the case of a materially incorrect
         representation or warranty, 30 days, after there shall have been given,
         by registered or certified mail, to the Administrative Agent by the
         Indenture Trustee or to the Administrative Agent and the Indenture
         Trustee by the Senior Noteholders holding not less than 25% of the
         Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes, a written notice specifying
         such default or incorrect representation or warranty and requiring it
         to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Early
         Amortization Event" hereunder;

                           (iii) the occurrence of an Insolvency Event with
         respect to the Administrative Agent;

                           (iv) the occurrence of an Event of Default;

                           (v) creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a
         parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any part of the
         Lease Trust Estate, which lien is not released within 60 days of its
         creation;
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                           (vi) the Commission or other regulatory body having
         jurisdiction reaches a final determination that the Lease Trust or any
         Titling Company becomes subject to registration as an "investment
         company" within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
         amended;

                           (vii) with respect to any Collection Period during
         the Revolving Period, the percentage equivalent of a fraction, (x) the
         numerator of which is the Excess Cash Amount as of the first day of the
         Collection Period, and (y) the denominator of which is the Bond
         Balance, is more than [0.5]%;

                           (viii) on any Payment Date the Cash Collateral Amount
         is less than [95]% of the Required Cash Collateral Amount;

                           (ix) with respect to any three consecutive Collection
         Periods, the average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection
         Period, the numerator of which is the Aggregate Series 2000-1
         Securitization Net Credit Losses for such Collection Period and the
         denominator of which is the Pool Balance as of the first day of such
         Collection Period, is greater than [2.5]%;

                           (x) with respect to any three consecutive Collection
         Periods, the average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection
         Period, the numerator of which is the aggregate Securitization Value as
         of the last day of such Collection Period of Series 2000-1 Leases and
         Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles for which the related Monthly Payment is
         at least 61 days past due as of the last day of such Collection Period
         and the denominator of which is the Pool Balance as of the first day of
         such Collection Period, is greater than [1.5]%; or

                           (xi) with respect to any three consecutive Collection
         Periods, the average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection
         Period, the numerator of which is the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Residual
         Losses for the Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles sold or otherwise disposed
         of during such Collection Period following the Normal Termination or
         the Early Normal Termination of the related Series 2000-1 Lease, and
         the denominator of which is the aggregate Residual Values of such
         Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles, is greater than [20]%.

                  The Lease Trustee shall, or shall cause the Administrative
Agent to, deliver to the Indenture Trustee, within five days after the
occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers' Certificate of
any event which a Responsible Officer
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of the Lease Trustee has actual knowledge of and which, with the giving of
notice and the lapse of time, would become an Early Amortization Event under
clause (ii) above, its status and what action the Lease Trustee or the
Administrative Agent is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

                  Upon the occurrence of the Early Amortization Event described
in clause (ii), after the applicable grace period set forth in such clause, the
Indenture Trustee, acting at the direction of Senior Noteholders holding not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes, may declare
by notice then given in writing to the Administrative Agent, the Titling Company
Agent, the Lease Trustee and the RCL Trustee (with a copy to each Rating Agency)
that the Early Amortization Period shall have commenced and that the payment of
principal on the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust
Certificates in accordance with Section 8.4(c) shall commence on the following
Payment Date. Upon the occurrence of any of the Early Amortization Events
described in clause (i) and clauses (iii) through (xi), the Amortization Period
shall commence without further action by the Indenture Trustee or the Senior
Noteholders and payment of principal on the Senior Notes, the Subordinated Notes
and the Lease Trust Certificates in accordance with Section 8.4(c) shall
commence on the following Payment Date.

                  Section 5.2 Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever
used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected
by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

                           (i) default in the payment of any interest on any
         Senior Note when the same becomes due and payable on each Payment Date,
         and such default shall continue for a period of five days;

                           (ii) default in the payment of the principal of any
         Senior Note at Stated Maturity or upon the Redemption Date;

                           (iii)  the occurrence of a Lease Event of Default;

                           (iv) default in the observance or performance of any
         covenant or agreement of the Lease Trust made in this Indenture (other
         than a covenant or agreement, a default in the observance or
         performance of which is elsewhere in this Section 5.2 specifically
         dealt with), or any representation or warranty of the Lease Trust made
         in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered
         pursuant hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been
         incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall
         have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the
         circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or
         warranty was incorrect
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         shall not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 90
         days or in the case of a materially incorrect representation or
         warranty, 60 days, after there shall have been given, by registered or
         certified mail, to the Lease Trustee by the Indenture Trustee or to the
         Lease Trustee and the Indenture Trustee by the Senior Noteholders
         holding not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior
         Notes, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect
         representation or warranty and requiring it to be remedied and stating
         that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder;

                           (v) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a
         court having jurisdiction in the premises in respect of the Lease Trust
         or any substantial part of the Indenture Trust Estate in an involuntary
         case under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency or
         other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or appointing a receiver,
         liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar
         official of the Lease Trust or for any substantial part of the
         Indenture Trust Estate, or the winding-up or liquidation of the Lease
         Trust's affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in
         effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

                           (vi) the commencement by the Lease Trust of a
         voluntary case under any applicable federal or State bankruptcy,
         insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or the
         consent by the Lease Trust to the entry of an order for relief in an
         involuntary case under any such law, or the consent by the Lease Trust
         to the appointment or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator,
         assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the
         Lease Trust or for any substantial part of the Indenture Trust Estate,
         or the making by the Lease Trust of any general assignment for the
         benefit of creditors, or the failure by the Lease Trust generally to
         pay its debts as such debts become due, or the taking of action by the
         Lease Trust in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

                  The Lease Trustee shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee,
within five days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an
Officers' Certificate of any event which a Responsible Officer of the Lease
Trustee has actual knowledge of and which, with the giving of notice and the
lapse of time, would become an Event of Default under clauses (iv) and (v)
above, its status and what action the Lease Trustee is taking or proposes to
take with respect thereto.

                  Section 5.3 Notice of Events of Default; Potential Event of
Default; Early Amortization Events; Potential Early Amortization Events. (a) If
an Event of
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Default or an Early Amortization Event occurs and is continuing and if it is
known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
shall notify the Rating Agencies and mail to each Senior Noteholder notice of
the occurrence of the Event of Default or Early Amortization Event within two
Business Days after the Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee had
knowledge of the occurrence of the Event of Default or Early Amortization Event.

                  (b) If a Potential Event of Default or a Potential Early
Amortization Event occurs and is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible
Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall notify the Rating
Agencies and mail to each Senior Noteholder notice of the occurrence of the
Potential Event of Default or Potential Early Amortization Event within 30 days
after the Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee had knowledge of the
occurrence of the Potential Event of Default or Potential Early Amortization
Event.

                  Section 5.4 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment. If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing, then and in
every such case the Indenture Trustee or the Senior Noteholders of Senior Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior
Notes may declare all the Senior Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a
notice in writing to the Lease Trustee (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by
Senior Noteholders), and upon any such declaration the unpaid principal amount
of such Senior Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through
the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.

                  At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity
has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has
been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as hereinafter set forth in this Article
V, the Senior Noteholders of Senior Notes evidencing not less than a majority of
the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes, by written notice to the Lease
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences if:
                           (i)  the Lease Trust has paid or deposited with the
         Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

                           (A) all payments of principal of and interest on all
                  Senior Notes and all other amounts that would then be due
                  hereunder or upon such Senior Notes if the Event of Default
                  giving rise to such acceleration had not occurred; and
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                           (B) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture
                  Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
                  disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its
                  agents and counsel; and

                           (ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment
         of the principal of the Senior Notes that has become due solely by such
         acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.14.

                  No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or
impair any right consequent thereto.

                  Section 5.5 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Indenture Trustee. (a) The Lease Trust covenants that if (i)
default is made in the payment of any interest on any Senior Note when the same
becomes due and payable, and such default continues for a period of five days,
or (ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of any Senior Note at
Stated Maturity or the Redemption Date, the Lease Trust will, upon demand of the
Indenture Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of such Senior Noteholders, the
whole amount then due and payable on such Senior Notes for principal and
interest, with interest upon the overdue principal, and, to the extent payment
at such rate of interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments
of interest, at the applicable Senior Note Interest Rate borne by the Senior
Notes and in addition thereto such further amount as shall be sufficient to
cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and
its agents, attorneys and counsel.

                  (b) In case the Lease Trust shall fail forthwith to pay such
amounts upon such demand, the Indenture Trustee, in its own name and as trustee
of an express trust, may institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums
so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final
decree, and may enforce the same against the Lease Trust or other obligor upon
such Senior Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property
of the Lease Trust or other obligor upon Such Senior Notes, wherever situated,
the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

                  (c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, as more particularly provided in Section 5.6, in its
discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Senior Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee
shall deem most effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for
the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in
aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper
remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this
Indenture or by law; provided that the Series 2000-1 Certificates may be sold
only as provided in Section 5.6 of this Indenture, Section 11.1(c) of the
Program Operating Lease, Section 6.5 of the Lease Trust Agreement or Section 7.1
of
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the Series 2000-1 Supplement.

                  (d) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Lease
Trust or any other obligor upon the Senior Notes or any Person having or
claiming an ownership interest in the Indenture Trust Estate, Proceedings under
Title 11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or
trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar
official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Lease Trust or
its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable
judicial Proceedings relative to the Lease Trust or other obligor upon the
Senior Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Lease Trust or such other
obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any
Senior Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall
have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.5, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:

                           (i) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole
         amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
         Senior Notes and to file such other papers or documents as may be
         necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Indenture
         Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the
         Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, and their
         respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all
         expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances and disbursements
         made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee,
         except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Senior
         Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

                           (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and
         regulations, to vote on behalf of the Senior Noteholders in any
         election of a trustee, a standby trustee or Person performing similar
         functions in any such Proceedings;

                           (iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other
         property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute
         all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Senior
         Noteholders and of the Indenture Trustee on their behalf; and

                           (iv) to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
         documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims
         of the Indenture Trustee or the Senior Noteholders allowed in any
         judicial proceedings relative
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         to the Lease Trust, its creditors and its property;

and any trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official in
any such Proceeding is hereby authorized by each of such Senior Noteholders to
make payments to the Indenture Trustee, and, in the event that the Indenture
Trustee shall consent to the making of payments directly to such Senior
Noteholders, to pay to the Indenture Trustee such amounts as shall be sufficient
to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee, each predecessor
Indenture Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all
other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances and disbursements
made, by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee except as
a result of negligence or bad faith, and any other amounts due the Indenture
Trustee under Section 6.6.

                  (e) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Indenture Trustee to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Senior Noteholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Senior Notes or the rights of any
related Senior Noteholder or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Senior Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as
aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar
Person.

                  (f) All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Senior Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture
Trustee without the possession of any of the Senior Notes or the production
thereof in any trial or other Proceedings relative thereto, and any such action
or Proceedings instituted by the Indenture Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to
the payment of the expenses, advances, disbursements and compensation of the
Indenture Trustee, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel shall be for the ratable benefit of the Senior
Noteholders in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

                  (g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and
also any Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this
Indenture to which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture
Trustee shall be held to represent all the Senior Noteholders, and it shall not
be necessary to make any Senior Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

                  Section 5.6 Remedies; Priorities. (a) If an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may do one or more
of the following (subject to Section 5.7):

                           (i) institute Proceedings in its own name and as
         trustee of an express trust for the collection of all amounts then
         payable on the Senior Notes
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         or under this Indenture with respect thereto, whether by declaration or
         otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Lease
         Trust and any other obligor upon such Senior Notes moneys adjudged due;

                 (ii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete
         or partial foreclosure of this Indenture with respect to the Indenture
         Trust Estate;

                 (iii) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC
         and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights
         and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Senior Noteholders; and

                 (iv) after a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the
         Senior Notes pursuant to Section 5.4, sell the Indenture Trust Estate
         or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or more
         public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by
         law;

         provided, however, the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise
         liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate following an Event of Default,
         other than an Event of Default described in Section 5.2(i) or (ii),
         unless (A) Senior Noteholders holding 100% of the Outstanding Amount of
         the Senior Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or
         liquidation are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due
         and unpaid upon the Senior Notes for principal and interest and all
         amounts payable to the Subordinated Noteholders and the Lease Trust
         Certificateholders or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines (but shall
         have no obligation to make such determination) that the Indenture Trust
         Estate will not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of
         principal of and interest on the Senior Notes as they would have become
         due if the Senior Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the
         Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Senior Noteholders holding not
         less than 66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes,
         provided further that the Indenture Trustee may not sell the Indenture
         Trust Estate unless it shall first have obtained an Opinion of Counsel
         that such sale will not cause any Titling Company or an interest
         therein or portion thereof to be classified as an association (or
         publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal
         income tax purposes. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency
         with respect to clauses (B) and (C), the Indenture Trustee may, but
         need not, obtain, at the expense of the Lease Trust, and rely upon an
         opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of
         national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and
         as to the sufficiency of the Indenture Trust Estate for such purpose.

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                  (b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property
pursuant to this Article V upon sale of the Indenture Trust Estate, it shall pay
out such money or property held as Collateral for the benefit of the Senior
Noteholders in the following order:

                  FIRST: to the Indenture Trustee for all amounts due under
         Section 6.6;

                  SECOND:  to the Administrative Agent for reimbursement of all
         outstanding Sale Proceeds Advances and Monthly Payment Advances;

                  THIRD: to the Administrative Agent for due and unpaid Series
         2000-1 Administrative Fees;

                  FOURTH: to Senior Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on
         the Senior Notes for interest plus interest on any defaulted interest
         at the applicable Senior Note Interest Rate, in respect of which or for
         the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
         preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and
         payable on the Senior Notes for interest;

                  FIFTH: to the Lease Trust Distribution Account for amounts due
         and unpaid on the Subordinated Notes for interest plus interest on any
         overdue interest at the Subordinated Note Interest Rate, in respect of
         which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected;

                  SIXTH: to the Lease Trust Distribution Account for amounts due
         and unpaid on the Lease Trust Certificates for interest plus interest
         on any overdue interest at the Certificate Interest Rate, in respect of
         which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected;

                  SEVENTH: to the Senior Noteholders of Class A-1 Senior Notes,
         the Senior Noteholders of Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Senior
         Noteholders of Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Senior Noteholders of Class
         A-4 Senior Notes and the Senior Noteholders of Class A-5 Senior Notes
         in payment of the principal amount due and unpaid on the Senior Notes,
         ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
         principal amount due and payable on the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the
         Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4
         Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior Notes; and

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                  EIGHTH: to the Lease Trustee for distributions in respect of
         principal to the Subordinated Noteholders and the Lease Trust
         Certificateholders in accordance with the terms of the Subordinated
         Notes, the Lease Trust Certificates and the Lease Trust Agreement;
provided, however, that any money or property deposited to the Cash Collateral
Account pursuant to Section 6.5 of the Program Operating Lease and clause FIFTH,
shall be withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee and paid out in accordance with
clauses FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH and EIGHTH above, in that order of priority.

                  The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date
for any payment to Senior Noteholders pursuant to this Section 5.6(b). At least
15 days before such record date, the Lease Trustee shall mail to each Senior
Noteholder and the Indenture Trustee a notice that states the record date, the
payment date and the amount to be paid.

                  Section 5.7 Optional Preservation of the Series 2000-1 Assets.
If the Senior Notes have been declared to be due and payable under Section 5.4
following an Event of Default and such declaration and its consequences have not
been rescinded and annulled, the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, elect to
maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate. It is the desire of the
parties hereto and the Senior Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient
funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes, and the
Indenture Trustee shall take such desire into account when determining whether
or not to maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate. In determining
whether to maintain possession of the Indenture Trust Estate, the Indenture
Trustee may, but need not, obtain at the expense of the Lease Trust and rely
upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking or accounting firm of
national reputation as to the feasibility of such proposed action and as to the
sufficiency of the Indenture Trust Estate for such purpose.

                  Section 5.8 Limitation of Suits. No Senior Noteholder shall
have any right to institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect
to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any
other remedy hereunder, unless:

                          (i) such Senior Noteholder has previously given
         written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a continuing Event of
         Default;

                          (ii) Senior Noteholders holding not less than 25% of
         the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes have made written request to
         the

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         Indenture Trustee to institute such Proceeding in respect of such Event
         of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee hereunder;

                          (iii) such Senior Noteholder or Senior Noteholders
         have offered to the Indenture Trustee reasonable indemnity against the
         costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in complying with such
         request;

                          (iv) the Indenture Trustee for 60 days after its
         receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to
         institute such Proceedings; and

                          (v) no direction inconsistent with such written
         request has been given to the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day
         period by the Senior Noteholders holding not less than a majority of
         the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes;

it being understood and intended that no Senior Noteholder, or group of Senior
Noteholders, shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by
availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the
rights of any other Senior Noteholders or to obtain or to seek to obtain
priority or preference over any other Senior Noteholders or to enforce any right
under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided.

                  In the event the Indenture Trustee shall receive conflicting
or inconsistent requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Senior
Noteholders, each representing less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine
what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Indenture.

                  Section 5.9 Unconditional Rights of Senior Noteholders To
Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provisions in this
Indenture, any Senior Noteholder shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on
its Senior Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such
Senior Note or in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment,
and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Senior
Noteholder.

                  Section 5.10 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Indenture Trustee or any Senior Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to
enforce any right or

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remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely to the Indenture
Trustee or to such Senior Noteholder, then and in every such case the Lease
Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior Noteholders shall, subject to any
determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Indenture Trustee and the Senior Noteholders shall continue as though no such
Proceeding had been instituted.

                  Section 5.11 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the
Senior Noteholders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and
in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

                  Section 5.12 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or
omission of the Indenture Trustee or any Senior Noteholder to exercise any right
or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or
remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the
Indenture Trustee or to the Senior Noteholders may be exercised from time to
time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or by
the Senior Noteholders, as the case may be.

                  Section 5.13 Control by Senior Noteholders. The Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Indenture Trustee with
respect to the Senior Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Indenture Trustee; provided that

                          (i)   such direction shall not be in conflict with any
         rule of law or with this Indenture;

                          (ii)  subject to the express terms of Section 5.6, any
         direction to the Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Indenture
         Trust Estate shall be by the Senior Noteholders holding not less than
         100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes;

                          (iii) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.7 have
         been satisfied and the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Indenture
         Trust Estate pursuant to such Section 5.7, then any direction to the
         Indenture Trustee by Senior Noteholders holding less than 100% of the
         Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes to sell or liquidate the
         Indenture Trust Estate shall be of no force and

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         effect; and

                          (iv) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action
         deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee that is not inconsistent with
         such direction;

provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it
determines might expose it to personal liability or might materially adversely
affect or unduly prejudice the rights of any Senior Noteholders not consenting
to such action.

                  Section 5.14 Waiver. Prior to the declaration of the
acceleration of the maturity of the Senior Notes as provided in Section 5.4,
Senior Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes may waive any past Event of Default and its consequences except
an Event of Default (a) in payment of principal of or interest on any of the
Senior Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of each Senior Noteholder. In the case
of any such waiver, the Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
Noteholders shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder,
respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event
of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

                  Upon any such waiver, such Event of Default shall be deemed to
have been cured and not to have occurred, for every purpose of this Indenture;
but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of Default or
impair any right consequent thereto.

                  No waiver of an Event of Default pursuant to this Section 5.14
shall constitute a waiver of any Early Amortization Event.

                  Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Senior Noteholder by such Senior Noteholder's
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Indenture Trustee for any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it as Indenture Trustee, the filing by any party
litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that
such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant;
but the provisions of this Section 5.15 shall not apply to (a) any suit
instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any suit instituted by any Senior
Noteholder, or group of Senior Noteholders, in each case holding in the
aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding

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Amount of the Senior Notes or (c) any suit instituted by any Senior Noteholder
for the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Senior
Note on or after the respective Stated Maturity expressed in such Senior Note
and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption
Date).

                  Section 5.16 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Lease Trust
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any
time insist upon, or plead or in any manner whatsoever, claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of
this Indenture; and the Lease Trust (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants
that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

                  Section 5.17 Action on Senior Notes. The Indenture Trustee's
right to seek and recover judgment on the Senior Notes or under this Indenture
shall not be affected by the seeking, obtaining or application of any other
relief under or with respect to this Indenture. Neither the lien of this
Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Indenture Trustee or the Senior
Noteholders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture
Trustee against the Lease Trust or by the levy of any execution under such
judgment upon any portion of the Indenture Trust Estate or upon any of the
assets of the Lease Trust.

                  Section 5.18 Performance and Enforcement of Certain
Obligations. (a) Promptly following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do
so, the Lease Trustee, on behalf of and at the expense of the Lease Trust,
agrees to take all such lawful action as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably
request to compel or secure the performance and observance by RCL Trust 2000-1
and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, of each of their obligations to the
Lease Trust under or in connection with the Program Operating Lease and the
Administrative Agency Agreement, respectively, in accordance with the terms
thereof, and to exercise any and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges
lawfully available to the Lease Trust under or in connection with each such
agreement to the extent and in the manner reasonably directed by the Indenture
Trustee, including the transmission of notices of default on the part of RCL
Trust 2000-1 or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, thereunder and the
institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or
secure performance by RCL Trust 2000-1 or the Administrative Agent, as the case
may be, of its obligations under the Program Operating Lease or the
Administrative Agency Agreement, as applicable.

                  (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Indenture Trustee may, and, at the direction (which direction shall be in
writing or by telephone (confirmed in writing promptly thereafter)) of Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims
of the Lease Trust against the RCL Trustee and the Administrative Agent under or
in connection with the Program Operating Lease and the Administrative Agency
Agreement as supplemented by the respective Series 2000-1 Supplement,
respectively, including the right or power to take any action to compel or
secure performance or observance by RCL Trust 2000-1 or the Administrative
Agent, as the case may be, of its obligations to the Lease Trust thereunder and
to give any consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension or waiver
under the Program Operating Lease or the Administrative Agency Agreement, and
any right of the Lease Trust to take such action shall be suspended.

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                                   ARTICLE VI

                              THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE

                  Section 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee. (a) If an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the
rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care
and skill in their exercise as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such Person's own affairs.

                  (b)  Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

                           (i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such
         duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
         Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
         this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and

                           (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the
         Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
         statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
         certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and
         conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided, however,
         that the Indenture Trustee shall examine any such certificates and
         opinions, which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be
         furnished to the Indenture Trustee, to determine whether or not they
         conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

                  (c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability
for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own wilful
misconduct, except

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that:

                           (i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of
         Section 6.1(b);

                           (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for
         any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer
         unless it is proved that the Indenture Trustee was negligent in
         ascertaining the pertinent facts; and

                           (iii) the Indenture 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 5.13.

                  (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates
to the Indenture Trustee is subject to Sections 6.1(a), (b), (c) and (g).

                  (e) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for interest on
any money received by it except as the Indenture Trustee may agree in writing
with the Lease Trustee.

                  (f) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law or the terms of
this Indenture or the Administrative Agency Agreement.

                  (g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability
in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that
repayments of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it.

                  (h) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct
or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Indenture Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1 and to the provisions of
the TIA.

                  (i) The Indenture Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of any Potential Event of Default or Potential Early Amortization
Event or other event unless a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge thereof
or has received written notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.

                  Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The Indenture
Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon
any resolution,

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certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Indenture
Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in any such document.

                  (b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting,
it may require an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture
Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good
faith in reliance on the Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

                  (c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or
powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee
shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for
the supervision of, the Administrative Agent, any co-trustee or separate trustee
appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.9 or any other such
agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.

                  (d) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action
it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee's
conduct does not constitute wilful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

                  (e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the
advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel relating to this Indenture and
the Senior Notes shall be full and complete authorization and protection from
liability in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in
good faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.

                  (f) The Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture or to honor
the request or direction of any of the Senior Noteholders pursuant to this
Indenture unless such Senior Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture
Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the reasonable costs, expenses,
disbursements, advances and liabilities which might be incurred by it, its
agents and its counsel in compliance with such request or direction.

                  (g) Any request or direction of the Lease Trust mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request.

                  Section 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The
Indenture Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or pledgee of Senior Notes and may otherwise deal with the Lease Trust or its
Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Indenture Trustee.
Any Paying Agent, Senior

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Note Registrar, co-registrar, co-paying agent, co-trustee or separate trustee
may do the same with like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee must comply
with Section 6.10.

                  Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer. The Indenture
Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the
validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Senior Notes, it shall not be
accountable for the Lease Trust's use of the proceeds from the Senior Notes, and
it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Indenture or in any
document issued in connection with the sale of the Senior Notes or in the Senior
Notes, all of which shall be taken as the statements of the Lease Trust, other
than the Indenture Trustee's certificate of authentication.

                  Section 6.5 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Senior
Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee shall deliver, if provided to the Indenture
Trustee by the Lease Trust, to each Senior Noteholder such information as may be
required to enable such holder to prepare its federal and state income tax
returns.

                  Section 6.6 Compensation and Indemnity. Pursuant to Section
4.1 of the Series 2000-1 Supplement, the Administrative Agent shall pay to the
Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services
rendered by it hereunder and reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses, advances and disbursements incurred or made by it,
including costs of collection. The Indenture Trustee's compensation shall not be
limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The
expenses of the Indenture Trustee to be reimbursed shall include the reasonable
compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee's
agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Lease Trust shall, or shall cause
the Administrative Agent to, indemnify the Indenture Trustee individually or in
its capacity as Indenture Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any and
all loss, liability or expense (including attorneys' fees) incurred by it in
connection with the acceptance or the administration of this trust and the
performance of its duties hereunder including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise
or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The Indenture Trustee
shall notify the Lease Trustee and the Administrative Agent promptly of any
claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so
notify the Lease Trustee and the Administrative Agent shall not relieve the
Lease Trust or the Administrative Agent of its obligations hereunder. The Lease
Trust shall or shall cause the Administrative Agent to defend the claim if so
requested by the Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may have separate
counsel and the Lease Trust shall or shall cause the Administrative Agent to pay
the fees and expenses of such counsel.

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Neither the Lease Trust nor the Administrative Agent need reimburse any expense
or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture
Trustee through the Indenture Trustee's own wilful misconduct, negligence or bad
faith.

                  The Lease Trust's payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this Section 6.6 shall survive the discharge of this Indenture. When
the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Potential Event
of Default set forth in Section 5.2(v) or (vi) with respect to the Lease Trust,
the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Title
11 of the United States Code or any other applicable federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.

                  Section 6.7 Replacement of Indenture Trustee. Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes may remove the Indenture Trustee without cause by so notifying the
Lease Trustee and the Indenture Trustee and following such removal may appoint a
successor Indenture Trustee. The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so
notifying the Lease Trustee and the Senior Noteholders. The Lease Trustee shall
remove the Indenture Trustee if:

                          (i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section
         6.10;

                          (ii) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged to be a
         bankrupt or insolvent;

                          (iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge
         of the Indenture Trustee or its property; or

                          (iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable
         of acting.

                  If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed by Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes or by the Lease Trustee or if a vacancy exists in the office of
Indenture Trustee for any reason (the Indenture Trustee in such event being
referred to herein as the retiring Indenture Trustee), the Lease Trustee shall
promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.

                  A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written
acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Lease
Trustee. Thereupon, if all sums due the retiring Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.6 have been paid in full, the resignation or removal of the retiring
Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall have all the rights, powers
and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture subject to satisfaction
of the Rating Agency Condition. The successor Indenture Trustee shall mail a
notice of its succession to Senior Noteholders, which

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shall include the name of the successor Indenture Trustee and the address of its
principal corporate trust office. If all sums due the retiring Indenture Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.6 have been paid in full, the retiring Indenture Trustee
shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the
successor Indenture Trustee.

                  If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within
60 days after the retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring
Indenture Trustee, the Lease Trust or Senior Noteholders holding not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

                  If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.10,
any Senior Noteholder who has been a bona fide Senior Noteholder for at least
six months may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

                  Any resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and
appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions
of this Section 6.7 shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment
by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.7 and payment in
full of all sums due to the retiring Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.6.
Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Section 6.7, the Lease Trust's and the Administrative Agent's obligations under
Section 6.6 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Indenture Trustee.

                  Section 6.8 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the
Indenture Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all
or substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another Person
or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee Person without
any further act shall be the successor Indenture Trustee; provided that such
Person or banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under
Section 6.10. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies prior
written notice of any such transaction.

                  In case at the time such successor or successors by merger,
conversion or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts
created by this Indenture any of the Senior Notes shall have been authenticated
but not delivered, any such successor to the Indenture Trustee may adopt the
certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such
Senior Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Senior Notes
shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Indenture Trustee may
authenticate such Senior Notes either in the name of any

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predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee;
and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is
anywhere in the Senior Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate
of the Indenture Trustee shall have.

                  Section 6.9 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate
Indenture Trustee. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture,
at any time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirement of any
jurisdiction in which any of the Collateral may at the time be located, the
Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all
instruments to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or
co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate trustees, of all or any part of the
Collateral, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the
benefit of the Senior Noteholders, such title to the Collateral, or any part
hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.9 , such powers,
duties, obligations, rights and trusts as the Indenture Trustee may consider
necessary or desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee under Section
6.10 and no notice to Senior Noteholders of the appointment of any co-trustee or
separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.7.

                  (b) Every 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 Indenture Trustee shall be conferred or
         imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Indenture 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 Indenture 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 Indenture 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 Indenture Trust Estate 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 Indenture
         Trustee;

                           (ii) no separate trustee or co-trustee hereunder
         shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any
         other trustee hereunder; and

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                           (iii) the Indenture Trustee 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
Indenture 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 Indenture and the conditions of this Article VI. 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 Indenture Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein,
subject to all the provisions of this Indenture, specifically including every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability
of, or affording protection to, the Indenture Trustee. Every such instrument
shall be filed with the Indenture Trustee.

                  (d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time
constitute the Indenture Trustee, 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 Indenture 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 Indenture Trustee, to the extent permitted by law,
without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

                  Section 6.10 Eligibility; Disqualification. The Indenture
Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA Section 310(a), shall
have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 as set forth in its
most recent published annual report of condition and shall have a long-term debt
rating of investment grade or better by the Rating Agencies. The Indenture
Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).

                  Section 6.11 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Lease
Trust. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any
creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). An Indenture Trustee who has
resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent
indicated.

                  Section 6.12 Indenture Trustee as Holder of Series 2000-1
Certificates. So long as any Senior Notes are Outstanding, to the extent that
the Lease Trustee has rights as a "Holder" of the Series 2000-1 Certificates or
is entitled to consent to any actions taken by RCL Trust 2000-1 or the holders
of the Lease Trust Certificates issued to RCL Trust 2000-1 on the Closing Date,
the Lease Trustee may initiate such action or grant such consent only with
consent of the Indenture Trustee. To the extent that the Indenture Trustee has
rights as a "Holder" of the Series 2000-1 Certificates, or has the right to
consent or withhold consent with respect to actions taken by RCL Trust 2000-1 or
the holders of the Lease Trust Certificates issued to RCL Trust 2000-1 on the
Closing Date or the Lease Trustee (acting on behalf of the Lease Trust), such
rights shall be exercised, or consent granted (or withheld) upon the written
direction of Senior Noteholders holding a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes; provided that with respect to the right of the Indenture
Trustee, as Holder, to remove the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section
8.1(b)(ii) of the Administrative Agency Agreement and the right of
the Indenture Trustee, as Holder, to direct the applicable Titling Company to
distribute the Series 2000-1 Assets, pursuant to the Titling Company Agreements,
such direction shall require the written direction of Senior Noteholders holding
66-2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes; provided, further, that
with respect to the right of the Indenture Trustee, as Holder, to remove the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.1(d) of the Administrative Agency
Agreement and the right of the Indenture Trustee, as Holder, to direct the
applicable Titling Company to distribute the Series 2000-1 Assets, pursuant to
the Titling Company Agreements, such direction shall require the written
direction of Senior Noteholders holding 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes.

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                                   ARTICLE VII

                      SENIOR NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS

                  Section 7.1 Lease Trustee To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names
and Addresses of Senior Noteholders. The Lease Trustee will furnish or cause to
be furnished to the Indenture Trustee (i) not more than five days after each
Record Date, a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Senior Noteholders as of such Record
Date, (ii) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after receipt by the Lease Trustee of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 10 days prior to the time
such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as (i) the Indenture
Trustee is the Senior Note Registrar or (ii) the Senior Notes are issued as
Book-Entry Senior Notes, no such list shall be required to be furnished to the
Indenture Trustee.

                  Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to
Senior Noteholders. (a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a
form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of the Senior
Noteholders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture Trustee
as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Senior Noteholders
received by the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Senior Note Registrar. The
Indenture Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section
7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

                  (b) Senior Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section
312(b) with other Senior Noteholders with respect to their rights under this
Indenture or under the Senior Notes. Upon receipt by the Indenture Trustee of
any request by three or more Senior Noteholders or by one or more Senior
Noteholders holding not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Senior
Notes to receive a copy of the

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current list of Senior Noteholders (whether or not made pursuant to TIA Section
312(b)), the Indenture Trustee shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent by
providing to the Administrative Agent a copy of such request and a copy of the
list of Senior Noteholders produced in response thereto.

                  (c) The Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior Note
Registrar shall have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).

                  Section 7.3 Reports by Lease Trust. (a) The Lease Trust shall:

                          (i)   file with the Indenture Trustee, within 15 days
after the Lease Trust is required to file the same with the Commission, copies
of the annual reports and of information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time
by rules and regulations prescribe) that the Lease Trust may be required to file
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

                          (ii)   file with the Indenture Trustee and the
Commission in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to
time by the Commission such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Lease Trust with the conditions and covenants of
this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and

                          (iii)   supply to the Indenture Trustee (and the
Indenture Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Senior Noteholders described in
TIA Section 313(c)) such summaries of any information, documents and reports
required to be filed by the Lease Trust pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this
Section 7.3 and by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission.

                  (b) Unless the Lease Trust otherwise determines, the fiscal
year of the Lease Trust shall end on December 31 of each year.

                  Section 7.4 Reports by Indenture Trustee. (a) If required by
TIA Section 313(a), within 60 days after each May 15, beginning with May 15,
200_, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each Senior Noteholder as required by
TIA Section 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that complies with TIA
Section 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA Section 313(b).

                  (b) A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Senior
Noteholders shall be filed by the Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each
stock exchange, if any, on which the Senior Notes are listed.

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                                  ARTICLE VIII

                      ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

                  Section 8.1 Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, the Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and
shall receive and collect, directly and without intervention or assistance of
any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other property payable to
or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The Indenture
Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs
in the making of any payment or performance under any agreement or instrument
that is part of the Indenture Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee may take such
action as may be appropriate to enforce such payment or performance, including
the institution and prosecution of appropriate Proceedings. Any such action
shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Potential Event of Default,
Potential Early Amortization Event, Event of Default or Early Amortization Event
under this Indenture and any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article
V.

                  Section 8.2 Accounts. (a) Pursuant to Section 5.1(c) of the
Series 2000-1 Supplement, the Administrative Agent shall establish and maintain
an account in the name of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter in the name of the
Lease Trustee, at an Eligible Institution (which initially shall be The Chase
Manhattan Bank), to be designated as the "Series 2000-1 Payment Account." The
Series 2000-1 Payment Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of
the Indenture Trustee, until the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been
reduced to zero, and thereafter under the sole dominion and control of the Lease
Trustee; provided, that the Administrative Agent may make deposits to or request
the Indenture Trustee to make deposits to or withdrawals from the Series 2000-1
Payment Account in accordance with Sections 8.4(b) and (c) of this Indenture and
Section 5.2(e) of the Series 200-1 Supplement. All monies deposited from time to
time in the Series 2000-1 Payment Account pursuant to this Indenture and the
Series 2000-1 Supplement shall be held by the Indenture Trustee as part of the
Collateral and shall be applied only upon the terms and conditions of the Basic
Documents.

                  Any amounts on deposit in the Series 2000-1 Payment Account
shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter by the Lease Trustee, in
Permitted Investments which mature on the Business Day preceding the next
succeeding Payment Date. No such investment shall be sold prior to maturity. All
investment

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earnings on amounts deposited to the Series 2000-1 Payments Account, including
any proceeds thereof, shall be credited to the Administrative Agent, and losses,
if any, and investment expenses resulting from Permitted Investments in the
Series 2000-1 Payments Account shall be charged to the Administrative Agent. All
such investment income shall be reported for federal income tax purposes as
earned by the Administrative Agent. The authority of the Administrative Agent to
make deposits to the Series 2000-1 Payment Account is revocable at any time by
the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of Senior Notes has been
reduced to zero, and thereafter by the Lease Trustee. If the institution at
which the Series 2000-1 Payments Account is established ceases to be an Eligible
Institution, then the Series 2000-1 Payments Account shall be moved to an
institution at which the Series 2000-1 Payment Account shall be an Eligible
Institution within 10 Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed 30
calendar days as to which each Rating Agency may consent).

                  (b) Pursuant to Section 5.1(a) of the Series 2000-1
Supplement, the Administrative Agent shall establish and maintain an account in
the name of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the Senior
Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter in the name of the Lease Trustee,
at an Eligible Institution (which initially shall be The Chase Manhattan Bank),
which is designated as the Specified Assets Collection Account, Series 2000-1
(the "Series 2000-1 Collection Account"). The Series 2000-1 Collection Account
shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee until the
Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter
under the sole dominion and control of the Lease Trustee; provided that the
Administrative Agent may make deposits to and withdrawals from or request the
Indenture Trustee to make withdrawals from the Series 2000-1 Collection Account
in accordance with the applicable Titling Company Agreement, Section 7.2(c) of
the Administrative Agency Agreement and Sections 3.2(b), 5.2(a), 5.2(c), 5.2(d),
5.2(e), 5.4(a), 5.5 and 7.1 of the Series 2000-1 Supplement. All deposits to and
withdrawals from the Series 2000-1 Collection Account shall be made only upon
the terms and conditions of the Basic Documents.

                  Any amounts on deposit in the Series 2000-1 Collection Account
shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter by the Lease Trustee, in
Permitted Investments which mature on the Business Day preceding the next
succeeding Payment Date. No such investment shall be sold prior to maturity. All
investment earnings on amounts deposited to the Series 2000-1 Collection
Account, including any proceeds thereof, shall be credited to the Series 2000-1
Collection Account, and losses, if any, and investment expenses resulting from
Permitted Investments in the

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Series 2000-1 Collection Account shall be charged to the Series 2000-1
Collection Account. All such investment income shall be reported for federal
income tax purposes as earned by RCL Trust 2000-1 and shall be reported by Ford
Credit as sole beneficial owner of RCL Trust 2000-1. The authority of the
Administrative Agent to make deposits to and withdrawals from the Series 2000-1
Collection Account is revocable at any time by the Indenture Trustee until the
Outstanding Amount of Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter by
the Lease Trustee. If the institution at which the Series 2000-1 Collection
Account is established ceases to be an Eligible Institution, then the Series
2000-1 Collection Account shall be moved to an Eligible Institution within 10
Business Days (or such longer period not to exceed 30 calendar days as to which
each Rating Agency may consent).

                  (c) Pursuant to Section 5.1(b) of the Series 2000-1
Supplement, the Administrative Agent shall establish and maintain an account in
the name of the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the Senior
Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter in the name of the Lease Trustee,
at an Eligible Institution (which initially shall be The Chase Manhattan Bank),
which is designated as the "Series 2000-1 Payahead Account." The Series 2000-1
Payahead Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture
Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to
zero, and thereafter under the sole dominion and control of the Lease Trustee;
provided, that the Administrative Agent may make deposits to and withdrawals
from or request the Indenture Trustee to make withdrawals from the Series 2000-1
Payahead Account in accordance with Section 7.1(a) of the Administrative Agency
Agreement and Section 5.2(b) of the Series 2000- 1 Supplement. All deposits to
and withdrawals from the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account shall be made only upon
the terms and conditions of the Basic Documents.

                  Any amounts on deposit in the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account
shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter by the Lease Trustee, in
Permitted Investments which mature on the Business Day preceding the next
succeeding Payment Date. No such investment shall be sold prior to maturity. All
investment earnings on amounts deposited to the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account,
including any proceeds thereof, shall be credited to the RCL Account, and
losses, if any, and investment expenses resulting from Permitted Investments in
the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account shall be charged to the RCL Account. All such
investment income shall be reported for federal income tax purposes as earned by
RCL Trust 2000-1 and shall be reported by Ford Credit as sole beneficial owner
of RCL Trust 2000-1. The authority of the Administrative Agent to make deposits
to and withdrawals from the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account is revocable at any
time by the Indenture Trustee until the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes
has been reduced to zero, and thereafter by the Lease Trustee. If the
institution at which the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account is established ceases to
be an Eligible Institution, then the Series 2000-1

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Payahead Account shall be moved to an Eligible Institution within 10 Business
Days (or such longer period not to exceed 30 calendar days as to which each
Rating Agency may consent).

                  (d) Pursuant to Section 3.5(a) of the Program Operating Lease,
there has been established and there shall be maintained an account (the "Cash
Collateral Account") at an Eligible Institution which agrees to the provisions
of Section 3.7 of the Program Operating Lease, in the name of "RCL Trust 2000-1,
subject to the security interest of The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Indenture
Trustee, and Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1, as secured parties" and which
initially shall be The Chase Manhattan Bank. The Cash Collateral Account has
been initially established at The Chase Manhattan Bank. The Cash Collateral
Account shall be under the sole dominion and control of the Indenture Trustee
until the Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and
thereafter, under the sole dominion and control of the Lease Trustee. Cash
Collateral Account Property shall be invested by the Indenture Trustee until the
Outstanding Amount of the Senior Notes has been reduced to zero, and thereafter
by the Lease Trustee, in Permitted Investments. All investment earnings on
amounts deposited to the Cash Collateral Account, including any proceeds
thereof, shall be credited to the Cash Collateral Account, and losses, if any,
and investment expenses resulting from Permitted Investments in the Cash
Collateral Account shall be charged to the Cash Collateral Account. All such
investment income shall be reported for federal income tax purposes as earned by
RCL Trust 2000-1 and shall be reported by Ford Credit as sole beneficial owner
of RCL Trust 2000-1. If the institution at which the Cash Collateral Account is
maintained ceases to be an Eligible Institution, then the Cash Collateral
Account shall be moved to an Eligible Institution within ten Business Days (or
such longer period not to exceed 30 calendar days as to which each Rating Agency
may consent).

                  Section 8.3 Cash Collateral Account Certificate; Disbursement
and Payment Instructions. (a) On or before the second Business Day preceding
each Payment Date, the Lease Trustee shall cause the Administrative Agent, on
behalf of the Lease Trust, to deliver to the Indenture Trustee a certificate
(the "Cash Collateral Account Certificate") setting forth the following
information with respect to such Payment Date:

                          (i) the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee for the
         preceding Collection Period;

                          (ii) the Required Payment;

                          (iii) the Cash Collateral Amount on the Business Day
         preceding

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         such Payment Date; and

                          (iv) the Cash Collateral Required Draw Amount and the
         Cash Collateral Additional Draw Amount.

                  (b) On the second Business Day preceding each Payment Date,
the Lease Trustee shall cause the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lease
Trust, to deliver to the Indenture Trustee a certificate (the "Disbursement and
Payment Instructions") including the following information with respect to such
Payment Date, the related Collection Period and Series 2000-1:

                          (i) the amount of interest accrued during the
         preceding Interest Accrual Period on the Senior Notes, the amounts
         payable with respect to such interest, and any resulting shortfall
         (separately stated);

                          (ii) the amount of interest accrued during the
         preceding Interest Accrual Period on the Subordinated Notes, the
         amounts payable with respect to such interest (net of amounts paid
         pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program Operating Lease), and any
         resulting shortfall (separately stated);

                          (iii) the amount of interest accrued during the
         preceding Interest Accrual Period on the Lease Trust Certificates, the
         amounts payable with respect to such interest, and any resulting
         shortfall (separately stated);

                          (iv) the amount of the Monthly Pool Balance Decline,
         the Monthly Reinvestment Amount and the Excess Cash Amount (separately
         stated);

                          (v) the amount of principal required to be paid on the
         Senior Notes, the amount to be paid with respect to such principal and
         any resulting shortfall (separately stated);

                          (vi) the amount of Monthly Payment Advances
         outstanding on the last day of the related Collection Period which the
         Administrative Agent has determined will not be reimbursed from Series
         2000-1 Collections with respect to the related Series 2000-1 Lease;

                          (vii) the sum, with respect to each Series 2000-1
         Leased Vehicle which was sold or otherwise disposed of by the
         Administrative Agent during the related Collection Period, of the
         excess, if any, of the Sale Proceeds Advance made with respect to such
         Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle and the Sale

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         Proceeds or Auction Proceeds received with respect to such Series
         2000-1 Leased Vehicle;

                           (viii) the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee for the
         related Collection Period;

                           (ix) the amount, if any, to be distributed to the
         Lease Trustee for payment of principal of the Subordinated Notes (net
         of amounts paid pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program Operating
         Lease), the amounts available with respect to such principal and any
         resulting shortfall (separately stated); and

                           (x) the amount, if any, to be distributed to the
         Lease Trustee for payment of principal of the Lease Trust Certificates,
         the amounts available with respect to such principal and any resulting
         shortfall (separately stated).

                  (c) The Indenture Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to
verify or confirm the accuracy of any of the information or numbers set forth in
any of the certificates required to be delivered to the Indenture Trustee in
accordance with this Section 8.3 and the Indenture Trustee shall be fully
protected in relying upon such certificates.

                  Section 8.4 Disbursement of Funds. (a) Pursuant to Section
5.2(e) of the Series 2000-1 Supplement, on the Business Day preceding each
Payment Date, the Administrative Agent shall withdraw an amount equal to the
Available Sale Proceeds from the Series 2000-1 Collection Account and deposit
such amount in the Series 2000-1 Payment Account. Pursuant to Section 5.2(e) of
the Series 2000-1 Supplement, on the Business Day preceding each Payment Date,
the Administrative Agent shall withdraw an amount equal to the Cash Collateral
Deposit Amount from the Series 2000-1 Collection Account and deposit such amount
into the Cash Collateral Account.

                  On the Business Day preceding each Payment Date, the Indenture
Trustee shall, in accordance with the Cash Collateral Account Certificate
received from the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.3(a), withdraw from
the Cash Collateral Account and deposit in the Series 2000-1 Payment Account the
Cash Collateral Required Draw Amount.

                  (b) On each Payment Date during the Revolving Period, the
Indenture Trustee shall, in accordance with the Disbursement and Payment
Instructions received from the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.3(b),
withdraw from the Series 2000-1 Payment Account the Available Funds on deposit
therein (net of any Additional Fee Released Amount) and apply such amounts in
accordance with the following priorities:

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                           (i) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to
         any Monthly Payment Advances outstanding on the last day of the related
         Collection Period which the Administrative Agent has determined will
         not be reimbursed from Series 2000-1 Collections with respect to the
         related Series 2000-1 Lease;

                           (ii) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to
         the sum, with respect to each Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle which was
         sold or otherwise disposed of by the Administrative Agent during the
         related Collection Period, of the excess, if any, of the Sale Proceeds
         Advance made with respect to such Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle and the
         Sale Proceeds or Auction Proceeds received with respect to such Series
         2000-1 Leased Vehicle;

                           (iii) to the Administrative Agent, the Series 2000-1
         Administrative Fee for the preceding Collection Period;

                           (iv) to the Senior Noteholders, pro rata, without any
         priority between Classes, an amount equal to the interest accrued at
         the applicable Senior Note Interest Rate set forth in Section 2.1
         during the preceding Interest Accrual Period on all Outstanding Classes
         of Senior Notes plus any overdue interest and interest on any overdue
         interest at the applicable Senior Note Interest Rate; provided however,
         that if there are not sufficient funds to pay the entire amount of
         accrued and unpaid interest then due on the Senior Notes, such funds
         shall be applied to the payment of such interest on each Class of
         senior Notes pro rata on the basis of the total of such interest due on
         the Senior Notes including any overdue interest at the applicable
         Senior Note Interest Rate;

                           (v) to the Lease Trust Distribution Account, an
         amount equal to the interest accrued on the Outstanding Amount of the
         Subordinated Notes at the Subordinated Note Interest Rate plus any
         overdue interest and interest on any overdue interest at the
         Subordinated Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual
         Period (net of amounts paid pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program
         Operating Lease);

                           (vi) to the Lease Trust Distribution Account, an
         amount equal to the interest accrued on the Aggregate Certificate
         Balance at the Certificate Interest Rate plus any overdue interest and
         interest on any overdue interest at the Certificate Interest Rate
         during the preceding Interest Accrual Period;

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                           (vii) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to
         the Monthly Reinvestment Amount for the preceding Collection Period, to
         be paid to the Holders of the Non-Specified Interests as the purchase
         price for the Titling Company Interest in Leases and Leased Vehicles
         designated as Additional Series 2000-1 Leases and Additional Series
         2000-1 Leased Vehicles as of the first day of the Collection Period in
         which such Payment Date occurs;

                           (viii) to the Cash Collateral Account until the
         amount on deposit therein is equal to the Required Cash Collateral
         Amount on such Payment Date; and

                           (ix) to the Lease Trust Distribution Account, all
         remaining Available Funds.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, on any Payment Date occurring
after the maturity of the Senior Notes has been accelerated following an Event
of Default pursuant to Section 5.4, amounts to be applied pursuant to clauses
(vii), (viii), and (ix) shall be paid as principal to the Senior Noteholders of
each Class, ratably, without preference of priority of any kind, according to
the principal amount due and payable on the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class
A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the
Class A-5 Senior Notes.

                  (c) On each Payment Date during the Amortization Period, the
Indenture Trustee shall, in accordance with the Disbursement and Payment
Instructions received from the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.3(b),
withdraw from the Series 2000-1 Payment Account the Available Funds on deposit
therein (net of any Additional Fee Released Amount) and apply such amounts in
accordance with the following priorities:

                           (i) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to
         any Monthly Payment Advances outstanding on the last day of the related
         Collection Period which the Administrative Agent has determined will
         not be reimbursed from Series 2000-1 Collections with respect to the
         related Series 2000-1 Lease;

                           (ii) to the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to
         the sum, with respect to each Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle which was
         sold or otherwise disposed of by the Administrative Agent during the
         related Collection Period, of the excess, if any, of the Sale Proceeds
         Advance made with respect to such Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicle and the
         Sale Proceeds or Auction Proceeds received with respect to such Series
         2000-1 Leased Vehicle;

                           (iii) to the Administrative Agent, the Series 2000-1

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         Administrative Fee for the preceding Collection Period;

                           (iv) to the Senior Noteholders, pro rata, an amount
         equal to the interest accrued at the Senior Note Interest Rate during
         the preceding Interest Accrual Period on all Outstanding Senior Notes
         plus any overdue interest and interest on any overdue interest at the
         Senior Note Interest Rate;

                           (v) to the Lease Trust Distribution Account, an
         amount equal to the interest accrued on the Outstanding Amount of the
         Subordinated Notes at the Subordinated Note Interest Rate plus any
         overdue interest and interest on any overdue interest at the
         Subordinated Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual
         Period (net of amounts paid pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program
         Operating Lease);

                           (vi) to the Lease Trust Distribution Account, an
         amount equal to the interest accrued on the Aggregate Certificate
         Balance at the Certificate Interest Rate plus any overdue interest and
         interest on any overdue interest at the Certificate Interest Rate
         during the preceding Interest Accrual Period;

                           (vii) to the Senior Noteholders, in the following
         order of priority, as payment of principal of the Senior Notes, an
         amount equal to the Monthly Pool Balance Decline for the preceding
         Collection Period (plus, in the case of the first Payment Date in the
         Amortization Period, the Excess Cash Amount) plus any principal of the
         Senior Notes due but not paid on a prior Payment Date, until all
         Classes of the Senior Notes are paid in full:

                                    (A) to Senior Noteholders of Class A-1
                  Senior Notes pro rata, until the Class A-1 Senior Notes have
                  been paid in full;

                                    (B) to Senior Noteholders of Class A-2
                  Senior Notes pro rata, until the Class A-2 Senior Notes have
                  been paid in full;

                                    (C) to Senior Noteholders of Class A-3
                  Senior Notes pro rata, until the Class A-3 Senior Notes have
                  been paid in full;

                                    (D) to Senior Noteholders of Class A-4
                  Senior Notes pro rata, until the Class A-4 Senior Notes have
                  been paid

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                  in full; and

                                    (E) to Senior Noteholders of Class A-5
                  Senior Notes pro rata, until the Class A-5 Senior Notes have
                  been paid in full;

                           (viii) to the Cash Collateral Account until the
         amount on deposit therein is equal to the Required Cash Collateral
         Required Amount on such Payment Date;

                           (ix) if the Pool Balance as of the last day of the
         preceding Collection Period is greater than 80% of the Initial Pool
         Balance, to the Lease Trust Distribution Account, all remaining
         Available Funds; provided, however, that on any Payment Date occurring
         after the occurrence of an Early Amortization Event, amounts to be
         applied pursuant to this clause (ix) shall be paid as principal to the
         Senior Noteholders in the order of priority stated in clause (vii)
         above until all Classes of the Senior Notes are paid in full; and

                           (x) if the Pool Balance as of the last day of the
         preceding Collection Period is less than or equal to 80% of the Initial
         Pool Balance, to the Senior Noteholders, in the order of priority
         stated in clause (vii) above as payment of principal of the Senior
         Notes, an amount equal to the Additional Payment until all Classes of
         the Senior Notes have been paid in full.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, on any Payment Date occurring after the maturity
of the Senior Notes has been accelerated following an Event of Default pursuant
to Section 5.4, amounts to be applied pursuant to clauses (vii), (viii), (ix)
and (x) shall be paid as principal to the Senior Noteholders of each Class,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the principal
amount due and payable on the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior
Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5
Senior Notes, until all Classes of the Senior Notes have been paid in full.

                  Amounts remaining, if any, after the application of funds
pursuant to clauses (i) through (x) above shall be deposited to the Lease Trust
Distribution Account for distribution by the Lease Trustee in accordance with
the terms of the Subordinated Notes and the Lease Trust Agreement.

                  (d) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall, in
accordance with the Cash Collateral Account Certificate received from the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.3(a), withdraw the Cash Collateral
Additional Draw Amount from the Cash Collateral Account and apply such amounts
to pay each of the items specified in Section 8.4(b) during the Revolving Period
and Section 8.4(c) during the Amortization Period, in each case without
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such Payment Date, in accordance with the priorities set forth therein.

                  (e) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee shall send, by
first-class mail, a report to each Person who was a Senior Noteholder on the
prior Record Date including the following information with respect to such
Payment Date and the Related Collection Period:

                           (i) the Note Pool Factor of each Class of the Senior
         Notes;

                           (ii) the amount of interest paid on each Outstanding
         Class of Senior Notes;

                           (iii) the amount of the Monthly Pool Balance Decline
         and the amount thereof paid as principal to each Outstanding Class of
         the Senior Notes (separately stated);

                           (iv) the aggregate amount of Series 2000-1
         Collections deposited in the Series 2000-1 Collection Account (stating
         separately the components thereof);

                           (v) the Aggregate Net Monthly Payment Advances
         deposited in the Series 2000-1 Collection Account;

                           (vi) the aggregate amount of Sale Proceeds Advances
         reimbursed with Available Funds;

                           (vii) the aggregate amount of Monthly Payment
         Advances reimbursed with Available Funds;

                           (viii) the amount of Available Sale Proceeds
         deposited in the Series 2000-1 Collection Account (stating separately
         the components thereof);

                           (ix) the Cash Collateral Required Draw Amount and the
         Cash Collateral Additional Draw Amount;

                           (x)  the Available Funds;

                           (xi) the Series 2000-1 Administrative Fee for the
         preceding Collection Period;

                           (xii) the amount deposited to the Lease Trust
         Distribution

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         Account for payment of interest (after giving effect to amounts paid
         pursuant to Section 6.6 of the Program Operating Lease) to the
         Subordinated Noteholders;

                           (xiii) the amount deposited to the Lease Trust
         Distribution Account for payment of interest to the Lease Trust
         Certificateholders;

                           (xiv) the Outstanding Amount of each Class of Senior
         Notes and of the Subordinated Notes, the Aggregate Certificate Balance
         and the Pool Balance (separately stated);

                           (xv) the Cash Collateral Amount and the Required Cash
         Collateral Amount (after giving effect to all deposits to and
         withdrawals from the Cash Collateral Account with respect to such
         Payment Date);

                           (xvi) the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Securitization Net
         Credit Losses for such Collection Period and as a percentage of the
         Pool Balance as of the first day of such Collection Period;

                           (xvii) the Aggregate Series 2000-1 Residual Losses
         for the Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles sold or otherwise disposed of
         during such Collection Period and as a percentage of the Pool Balance
         as of the first day of such Collection Period;

                           (xviii) if the Payment Date immediately follows a
         Collection Period during the Revolving Period, the Excess Cash Amount
         as of the first day of such Collection Period and the percentage
         equivalent of a fraction, (x) the numerator of which is the Excess Cash
         Amount as of the first day of such Collection Period and (y) the
         denominator of which is the Bond Balance;

                           (xix) the percentage equivalent of a fraction, the
         numerator of which is the aggregate Securitization Value as of the last
         day of such Collection Period of the Series 2000-1 Leases and Series
         2000-1 Leased Vehicles for which the related Monthly Payment is at
         least 61 days past due as of the last day of such Collection Period,
         and the denominator of which is the Pool Balance as of the first day of
         such Collection Period;

                           (xxi) for the preceding three consecutive Collection
         Periods, the average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection
         Period, the numerator of which is the Aggregate Series 2000-1
         Securitization Net Credit Losses for such Collection Period and the
         denominator of which is the Pool Balance as of the first day of such
         Collection Period;

                           (xxii) for the preceding three consecutive Collection
         Periods,

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         the average of a fraction calculated for each such Collection Period,
         the numerator of which is the aggregate Securitization Value as of the
         last day of such Collection Period of the Series 2000-1 Leases and
         Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles for which the related Monthly Payment is
         at least 61 days past due as of the last day of such Collection Period
         and the denominator of which is the Pool Balance as of the first day of
         such Collection Period; and

                           (xxiii) for the preceding three consecutive
         Collection Periods, the average of a fraction calculated for each such
         Collection Period, the numerator of which is the Aggregate Series
         2000-1 Residual Losses for the Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles sold or
         otherwise disposed of during such Collection Period following the
         Normal Termination or the Early Normal Termination of the related
         Series 2000-1 Lease, and the denominator of which is the aggregate
         Residual Values of such Series 2000-1 Leased Vehicles.

                  Section 8.5 General Provisions Regarding Accounts. Subject to
Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by
reason of any insufficiency in the Series 2000-1 Payments Account, the Series
2000-1 Collection Account, the Series 2000-1 Payahead Account, or the Cash
Collateral Account resulting from any loss on any Permitted Investment included
therein except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee's failure to
make payments on any such Permitted Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee,
in its commercial capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in
accordance with their terms.

                  Section 8.6 Release of Indenture Trust Estate. The Indenture
Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Senior Notes Outstanding and all
sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.6 have been paid,
release any remaining portion of the Indenture Trust Estate that secured the
Senior Notes from the lien of this Indenture, release to the Lease Trustee or
any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Series 2000-1
Payments Account and deliver the Subordinated Notes to the Lease Trustee which
shall hold the Subordinated Notes in accordance with Section 6.4 of the Program
Operating Lease. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of
this Indenture pursuant to this Section 8.6 only upon receipt of an Issuer
Request accompanied by an Officers' Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if
required by the TIA) Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections
314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.1.

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                                   ARTICLE IX

                             SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

                  Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Senior
Noteholders. (a) Without the consent of the Senior Noteholders, but with prior
notice to the Rating Agencies, the Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust,
and the Indenture Trustee, when requested by an Issuer Request, at any time and
from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto
(which shall conform to the provisions of the TIA as in force at the date of the
execution thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of
the following purposes:

                           (i) to correct or amplify the description of any
         property at any time subject to the lien of this Indenture, or better
         to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property
         subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or
         to subject to the lien of this Indenture additional property;

                           (ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with
         the applicable provisions hereof, of another Person to the Lease Trust,
         and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Lease
         Trust herein and in the Senior Notes contained;

                           (iii) to add to the covenants of the Lease Trust, for
         the benefit of the Senior Noteholders, or to surrender any right or
         power herein conferred upon the Lease Trust;

                           (iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge
         any property to or with the Indenture Trustee;

                           (v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement
         any provision herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be
         defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein or in any
         supplemental indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to
         matters or questions arising under this Indenture or in any
         supplemental indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the
         provisions of this Indenture; provided that such other provisions shall
         not adversely affect the interests of the Senior Noteholders; or

                           (vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of
         the appointment hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the
         Senior Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
         Indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the
         trusts hereunder by more than one trustee, pursuant to the requirements
         of Article VI; or

                           (vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions
         of this

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         Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the
         qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar
         federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such
         other provisions as may be expressly required by the TIA.

                  The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture and to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained.

                  (b) The Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust, and the
Indenture Trustee, when requested by an Issuer Request, may, also without the
consent of the Senior Noteholders, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner (other than the modifications set forth in Section 9.2
which require consent of the Holder of each Senior Note affected thereby) the
rights of the Senior Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that
(i) such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, materially
adversely affect the interests of any Senior Noteholder, (ii) the Rating Agency
Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such action and (iii) such
action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, (x) affect the
treatment of the Senior Notes as debt for federal income tax purposes, (y) be
deemed to cause a taxable exchange of the Senior Notes for federal income tax
purposes or (z) cause the Lease Trust, RCL Trust 2000-1 or any Titling Company
to be taxable as an "association" or publicly traded partnership taxable as a
corporation for federal income tax purposes.

                  Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Senior
Noteholders. The Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust, and the Indenture
Trustee, when requested by an Issuer Request, also may, with the consent of
Senior Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes, by Act of such Senior Noteholders delivered to the Lease
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Senior Noteholders under this
Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without
the consent of the Senior Noteholder of each Outstanding Senior Note affected
thereby:

                           (i) change the Stated Maturity of or the date of
         payment of any installment of principal of or interest on any Senior
         Note, or reduce the

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         principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or the Redemption
         Price with respect thereto, change the provisions of this Indenture
         relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds of the
         sale of, the Indenture Trust Estate to payment of principal of or
         interest on the Senior Notes, or change any place of payment where, or
         the coin or currency in which, any Senior Note or the interest thereon
         is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement
         of the provisions of this Indenture requiring the application of funds
         available therefor, as provided in Article V, to the payment of any
         such amount due on the Senior Notes on or after the respective due
         dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the
         Redemption Date);

                           (ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount
         of the Senior Notes, the consent of the Senior Noteholders of which is
         required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the
         Senior Noteholders of which is required for any waiver of compliance
         with provisions of this Indenture including, without limitation, the
         provisions of this Indenture relating to Potential Events of Default,
         Events of Default, Potential Early Amortization Events or Early
         Amortization Events and their consequences;

                           (iii) modify or alter the provisions of the proviso
         to the definition of the term "Outstanding";

                           (iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount
         of the Senior Notes required to direct the Indenture Trustee to direct
         the Lease Trustee to sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate
         pursuant to Section 5.6 if the proceeds of such sale would be
         insufficient to pay the Outstanding Amount plus accrued but unpaid
         interest on the Senior Notes;

                           (v) modify any provision of this Section 9.2 except
         to increase any percentage specified herein or to provide that certain
         additional provisions of this Indenture or the other Basic Documents
         cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Senior
         Noteholder of each Outstanding Senior Note affected thereby;

                           (vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture
         in such manner as to affect the calculation of the amount of any
         payment of interest or principal due on any Senior Note on any Payment
         Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of
         such calculation);

                           (vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior
         to or on a parity with the lien of this Indenture with respect to any
         part of the Indenture Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or
         contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any
         property at any time subject hereto or deprive any Senior Noteholder of
         the security provided by the lien of this

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Indenture; or

                           (viii) impair the right to institute suit for the
         enforcement of payment as provided in Section 5.9.

                  Any such supplemental indenture shall be executed only upon
delivery of an Opinion of Counsel to the same effect as in Section
9.1(b)(iii)(z) above. The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine
whether or not any Senior Notes would be affected by any supplemental indenture
and any such determination shall be conclusive upon all Senior Noteholders,
whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The
Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good
faith.

                  It shall not be necessary for any Act of Senior Noteholders
under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the
substance thereof.

                  Promptly after the execution by the Lease Trustee, on behalf
of the Lease Trust, and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Section 9.2, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Senior
Noteholders to which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice
setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any
failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein,
shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such
supplemental indenture.

                  Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing, or permitting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the
trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The
Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such
supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee's own rights, duties,
liabilities or indemnities under this Indenture or otherwise.

                  Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this
Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance
therewith with respect to the Senior Notes affected thereby, and the respective
rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities
under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee and the Senior Noteholders thereafter be determined, exercised and
enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments,
and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and
be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and
all purposes.

                  Section 9.5 Conformity With Trust Indenture Act. Every
amendment of this Indenture and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant
to this Article IX shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in
effect so long as this Indenture is required to be qualified under the TIA.

                  Section 9.6 Reference in Senior Notes to Supplemental
Indentures. Senior Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if required by the
Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture
Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Senior Notes so
modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Lease
Trustee, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust, and authenticated and delivered by
the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Senior Notes.

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                                    ARTICLE X

                           REDEMPTION OF SENIOR NOTES

                  Section 10.1 Redemption. The Senior Notes shall be redeemed in
whole, but not in part, for a purchase price equal to the Redemption Price on
any Payment Date on which the Administrative Agent exercises its option to
purchase the Series 2000-1 Certificates pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Series
2000-1 Supplement; provided, however, that the Lease Trust has available funds
sufficient to pay the Redemption Price. The Administrative Agent or the Lease
Trustee shall furnish the Rating Agencies notice of such redemption. If the
Senior Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section 10.1, the Lease Trustee
shall or shall cause the Administrative Agent to furnish notice of such election
to the Indenture Trustee not later than forty-five days (unless a shorter notice
shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee) prior to the Redemption Date.
Pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Series 2000-1 Supplement, on the Business Day
preceding the Redemption Date, the Administrative Agent shall deposit the Series
2000-1 Asset Amount plus an amount equal to one month's interest calculated at a
rate equal to the weighted average Retail Operating Lease Factor for such Series
2000-1 Assets with the Indenture Trustee in the Series 2000-1 Collection Account
whereupon all such Senior Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption Date
upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.2 to each Senior
Noteholder.

                  Section 10.2 Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption
under Section 10.1 shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by facsimile or by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, transmitted or mailed at least thirty days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Senior Noteholder, on the Record Date
immediately preceding the Redemption Date, at such Senior Noteholder's address
appearing in the Senior Note Register.

                  All notices of redemption shall state:

                           (i)  the Redemption Date;

                           (ii)  the Redemption Price;

                           (iii) the place where the Senior Notes to be redeemed
         are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price (which shall
         be the office or agency of the Lease Trustee to be maintained as
         provided in Section 3.2); and

                           (iv) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption
         Price will become due and payable upon each such Senior Note and that
         interest thereon shall cease to accrue from and after said date.

                  Notice of redemption of the Senior Notes shall be given by the
Indenture Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Lease Trust. Failure to
give notice of redemption, or any defect therein, to any Senior Noteholder shall
not impair or affect the validity of the redemption of any other Senior Note.

                  Section 10.3 Senior Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The
Senior Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by
Section 10.2, become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the Redemption
Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall default in the payment of the Redemption
Price) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption Price for any period from and
including the Redemption Date.

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                                   ARTICLE XI

                                  MISCELLANEOUS

                  Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. (a)
Upon any application or request by the Lease Trustee to the Indenture Trustee to
take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Lease Trustee shall
furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officers' Certificate stating that all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that
in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with and (iii) (if required by the TIA) an Independent Certificate from
a firm of certified public accountants meeting the applicable requirements of
this Section 11.1, except that, in the case of any such application or request
as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.

                  Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

                           (i) a statement that each signatory of such
         certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the
         definitions herein relating thereto;

                           (ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of
         the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
         contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

                           (iii) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
         signatory, such signatory has made such examination or investigation as
         is necessary to enable such signatory to express an informed opinion as
         to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with;
         and

                           (iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of
         each such signatory, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

                  (b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other
property or securities with the Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis
for the release of any property or securities subject to the lien of this
Indenture, the Lease Trustee shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in
Section 11.1(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee
an Officers' Certificate certifying as to the fair value (within 90 days of such
deposit) to the Lease Trust of the Collateral or other property or securities to
be so deposited.

                           (ii) Whenever any property or securities are to be
         released from

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         the lien of this Indenture, the Lease Trustee shall also furnish to the
         Indenture Trustee an Officers' Certificate certifying the fair value
         (within 90 days of such release) of the property or securities proposed
         to be released and stating that in the opinion of such Person the
         proposed release will not impair the security under this Indenture in
         contravention of the provisions hereof.

                           (iii) Notwithstanding Section 2.9 or any other
         provision of this Section 11.1, the Lease Trustee may (A) collect,
         liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of the Collateral as and to the
         extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (B) make cash
         payments out of the Series 2000-1 Payments Account as and to the extent
         permitted or required by the Basic Documents.

                  Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by
an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters
be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that
they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may
certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other
such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

                  Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or opinion of counsel
may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the Administrative
Agent, the RCL Trustee or the Lease Trustee, stating that the information with
respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Administrative
Agent, the RCL Trustee or the Lease Trustee, unless such officer or counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

                  Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.

                  Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application
or certificate or report to the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Lease
Trustee shall deliver, on behalf of the Lease Trust, any document as a condition
of the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Lease Trust's
compliance with any term hereof, it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at
the time of the granting of such

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application or at the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case
may be), of the facts and opinions stated in such document shall in such case be
conditions precedent to the right of the Lease Trust to have such application
granted or to the sufficiency of such certificate or report. The foregoing shall
not, however, be construed to affect the Indenture Trustee's right to rely upon
the truth and accuracy of any statement or opinion contained in any such
document as provided in Article VI.

                  Section 11.3 Acts of Senior Noteholders. (a) Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Senior Noteholders may be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Senior Noteholders in person or by agents duly appointed in
writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Indenture Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Lease
Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Senior
Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any
such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in
favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trustee, if made in the manner
provided in this Section 11.3.

                  (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner that the Indenture
Trustee deems sufficient.

                  (c) The ownership of Senior Notes shall be proved by the
Senior Note Register.

                  (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the holder of any Senior Note shall bind the
holder of every Senior Note issued upon the registration thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to
be done by the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Senior Note.

                  Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Lease
Trustee and Rating Agencies. Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or Act of Senior Noteholders or other documents provided
or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to or filed
with:

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                  (a) the Indenture Trustee by any Senior Noteholder, the
Administrative Agent or the Lease Trustee shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Indenture
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or

                  (b) the Lease Trustee by the Indenture Trustee, or by any
Senior Noteholder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing
and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid, to the Lease Trustee addressed to:
Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1, in care of The Bank of New York, 101
Barclay Street - 12E, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Indenture Trustee by the Lease Trustee. The Lease Trustee shall promptly
transmit any notice received by it from the Senior Noteholders to the Indenture
Trustee; provided, however, that service of process in connection with any
litigation hereunder shall be effected in accordance with applicable law.

                  Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the
Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered
or mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested to (i) in the case of
Moody's Investors Service, Inc., at the following address: 99 Church Street ,
New York, NY 10007, Attention: ABS Monitoring Group; with a copy to [ ] and (ii)
in the case of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, at the following address:
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, 55 Water Street (41st Floor), New York, New
York 10041, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department; or as to each of
the foregoing, at such other address as shall be designated by written notice to
the other parties.
                  Section 11.5 Notices to Senior Noteholders; Waiver. Where this
Indenture provides for notice to Senior Noteholders of any event, such notice
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed, first-class, postage prepaid to each Senior Noteholder
affected by such event, at his address as it appears on the Senior Note
Register, not later than the latest and not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Senior
Noteholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any
defect in any notice so mailed to any particular Senior Noteholder shall affect
the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Senior Noteholders, and any
notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be
presumed to have been duly given.

                  Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by any Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Senior Noteholders shall be filed with the
Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the
validity of any action taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

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                  In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service
as a result of a strike, work stoppage or similar activity, it shall be
impractical to mail notice of any event of Senior Noteholders when such notice
is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any
manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee
shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.

                  Where this Indenture provides for notice to the Rating
Agencies, failure to give such notice shall not affect any other rights or
obligations created hereunder, and shall not under any circumstance constitute
an Event of Default or Early Amortization Event.

                  Section 11.6 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any
provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof
that is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by any of the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required or deemed provision shall
control. The provisions of TIA ss.ss. 310 through 317 that impose duties on any
person (including the provisions automatically deemed included herein unless
expressly excluded by this Indenture) are a part of and govern this Indenture,
whether or not physically contained herein:

                  Section 11.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

                  Section 11.8 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture and the Senior Notes by the Lease Trust shall bind
its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

                  All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture
shall bind its successors.

                  Section 11.9 Separability. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Senior Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.

                  Section 11.10 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Senior Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than
the parties hereto and their successors hereunder, and the Senior Noteholders
(and, with respect

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to Sections 8.3 and 8.4, the Subordinated Noteholders and the Lease Trust
Certificateholders), and any other Person with an ownership interest in any part
of the Indenture Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.

                  Section 11.11 Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on
which any payment is due shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of the Senior Notes or this Indenture) payment need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest
shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.

                  Section 11.12 GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

                  Section 11.13 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in
any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.

                  Section 11.14 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is
subject to recording in any appropriate public recording offices, such recording
is to be effected by the Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease Trust,
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture
Trustee or any other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to
the effect that such recording is necessary either for the protection of the
Senior Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for the enforcement
of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

                  Section 11.15 Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken,
directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Lease Trust, the
Lease Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee on the Senior Notes or under this
Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith
or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their
individual capacities, (ii) any Subordinated Noteholder, (iii) any Lease Trust
Certificateholder or (iv) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer,
director, employee or agent of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in
their individual capacities, any Subordinated Noteholder, any Lease Trust
Certificateholder, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee of any successor
or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual
capacities, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being
understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Lease Trustee have no such
obligations in their individual

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capacities) and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be
fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid
consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any
installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this Indenture, in
the performance of any duties or obligations of the Lease Trust hereunder, the
Lease Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms
and provisions of Article VI, VII and VIII of the Lease Trust Agreement.

                  Section 11.16 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering
into this Indenture, and each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by
accepting a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial
interest in a Senior Note, each hereby covenants and agrees that for a period of
one year and one day after payment in full of the Series 2000-1 Certificates,
they will not institute against any Titling Company, RCL Trust 2000-1 or the
Lease Trust, or join in any institution against any Titling Company, RCL Trust
2000-1 or the Lease Trust of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United
States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Senior Notes, this Indenture or any of the other
Basic Documents. Nothing in this Section 11.16 shall preclude, or be deemed to
stop, the Indenture Trustee (i) from taking any action prior to the expiration
of the aforementioned one year and one day period in (A) any case or proceeding
voluntarily filed by the Lease Trust or (B) any involuntary insolvency
proceeding filed or commenced by a Person other than the Indenture Trustee, or
(ii) from commencing against the Lease Trust or any of its properties any legal
action which is not a bankruptcy, moratorium or liquidation.

                  Section 11.17 Inspection. The Lease Trust agrees that, on
reasonable prior notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture
Trustee, during the Lease Trust's normal business hours, to examine all the
books of account, records, reports, and other papers of the Lease Trust, to make
copies and extracts therefrom, to cause such books to be audited by Independent
certified public accountants, and to discuss the Lease Trust's affairs, finances
and accounts with the Lease Trust's officers, employees, and Independent
certified public accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as may
be reasonably requested. The Indenture Trustee shall and shall cause its
representatives to hold in confidence all such information except to the extent
disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable applications for
confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the extent that the
Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent
with its obligations hereunder.

                  Section 11.18 Submission of Jurisdiction. The Lease Trust
hereby submits to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the federal and state courts
in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding
arising out of or relating to this Indenture or the transactions contemplated
hereby.

                  [THIS SPACE LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK]

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trustee, on behalf of the Lease
Trust, and the Indenture Trustee have caused this Indenture to be duly executed
by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized, all as of the day and
year first above written.

                                 FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                                 By:     THE BANK OF NEW YORK
                                         (DELAWARE), not in its individual
                                         capacity but solely as Lease Trustee

                                 By:
                                      ----------------------------------------
                                      Name:
                                      Title:

                                 THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
                                 individual capacity but solely as Indenture
                                 Trustee

                                  By:
                                      ----------------------------------------
                                      Name:
                                      Title:

<PAGE>   86

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-1

                        [Form of Class A-1 Senior Notes]

REGISTERED

No. R-1

                       SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

                                                              CUSIP NO. [     ]

                  Unless this Senior Note is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to the Lease Trustee or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or
payment, and any Senior Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or
in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and
any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

                  AS SET FORTH HEREIN, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF
THIS SENIOR NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN
ON THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                     [ ]% CLASS A-1 ASSET BACKED SENIOR NOTE

                  Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"), a
trust created pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of [ ], 2000 between RCL
Trust 2000-1, as Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), acting
thereunder not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Lease
Trust (the "Lease Trustee"), for value received, hereby promises to pay CEDE &
CO., or registered assigns, upon presentation and surrender of this Senior Note
the principal sum of [ ] (U.S. $[ ]) on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Stated Maturity") and the Redemption

<PAGE>   87

Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. The Lease Trust will
pay interest on this Senior Note at the rate per annum shown above (the "Senior
Note Interest Rate") on each Payment Date until the principal of this Senior
Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this
Senior Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to
all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date). Interest on this
Senior Note will accrue from and including the [15th day] of the calendar month
preceding the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs to but excluding
the [15th] day of the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs or, if no
interest has yet been paid, from and including [ ], 2000. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The principal
of and interest on this Senior Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

                  The principal of and interest on this Senior Note 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 Lease Trust with respect to this Senior Note shall be applied first
to interest due and payable on this Senior Note as provided above and then to
the unpaid principal of this Senior Note.

                  Reference is made to the further provisions of this Senior
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though
fully set forth on the face of this Senior Note.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature,
this Senior Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

<PAGE>   88

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trust has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date
set forth below.

Date: [  ], 2000

                                   FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1,

                                   By: THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not in
                                   its individual capacity but solely as Lease
                                   Trustee under the Lease Trust Agreement

                                   By:
                                         --------------------------------------
                                         Name:
                                         Title:
<PAGE>   89

                INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Class A-1 Senior Notes designated above and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Date:  [  ], 2000

                                   THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
                                   individual capacity but solely as Indenture
                                   Trustee

                                  By:
                                      ----------------------------------------
                                                Authorized Officer
<PAGE>   90
                             REVERSE OF SENIOR NOTE

                  This Senior Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Senior
Notes of the Lease Trust, designated as its "[ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed Senior
Notes" (herein called the "Class A-1 Senior Notes") issued under an Indenture,
dated as of [ ], 2000 (as supplemented or amended, the "Indenture"), between the
Lease Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture), to which the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
Noteholders. Also issued under the Indenture are the [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed
Senior Notes (the "Class A-2 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Senior
Notes (the "Class A-3 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-4 Senior Notes"), and [ ]% Class A-5 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-5 Senior Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the
Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes and the Class A-4 Senior
Notes, the "Senior Notes"). The Senior Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture. All terms used in this Senior Note that are defined in the Indenture,
as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or
pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.

                  All of the Senior Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the Collateral as provided in the Indenture.

                  Under the Indenture, interest will be payable on the 15th day
of each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [ ], 2000, to the Person in
whose name this Senior Note is registered on the last day of the calendar month
preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). On each Payment Date, there
shall be distributed to such Senior Noteholder the interest accrued at the
Senior Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period on the
Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on such Payment Date) or with
respect to the first Payment Date, on the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note
on [ ], 2000. No principal will be paid on this Senior Note on any Payment Date
occurring during the Revolving Period. On each Payment Date during the
Amortization Period, there shall be distributed to the Senior Noteholders the
principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment Date in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture; provided, that no principal shall be paid on the
Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes
and the Class A-5 Senior Notes until the Class A-1 Senior Notes have been paid
in full. The Amortization Period will commence on [ ], 2001 unless an Early
Amortization Event occurs prior to such date. If an Early Amortization Event
occurs, the Amortization Period will commence and principal on this Senior Note
will

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be payable commencing on the Payment Date occurring in the Collection Period
following the Collection Period in which the Early Amortization Event occurred.

                  As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Senior Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Stated Maturity and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Senior
Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or Senior Noteholders
of Senior Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes have declared the Senior Notes to be immediately due and
payable in the manner provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture. On and after
such date, all principal payments on the Senior Notes shall be made to the
Senior Noteholders of the Class A- 1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A- 4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes ratably and without preference or priority of any kind until the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes each has been reduced to zero.

                  Payments of interest on this Senior Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the payments of principal, if any, to the
extent not in full payment of this Senior Note, shall be made by check mailed to
the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Senior Note (or
one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) on the Senior Note Register as of the
close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect to Senior Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the
address of such Person as it appears on the Senior Note Register as of the
applicable Record Date without requiring that this Senior Note be submitted for
notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Senior Note
(or any one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) effected by any payments made on
any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Senior Noteholders of this
Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If
funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in
full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Senior Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the
Lease Trust, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of
the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed prior to such
Payment Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of this Senior Note at the Indenture Trustee's
principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's
agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

<PAGE>   92

                  The Lease Trust shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Senior Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful.

                  As provided in the Indenture, the Senior Notes shall be
redeemed in whole, but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after the date on
which the Pool Balance is less than ten percent of the initial Pool Balance and
on which the Administrative Agent exercises its option to purchase the Series
2000-1 Certificates. The Senior Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of
redemption as required by Section 10.2 of the Indenture, become due and payable
on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the
Redemption Price for any period from and including the Redemption Date.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Senior Note may be
registered on the Senior Note Register upon surrender of this Senior Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Lease Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture, (i) duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Senior Note Registrar which
requirements include membership or participation in Securities Transfer Agent's
Medallion Program ("Stamp") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may
be determined by the Senior Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, Stamp, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii) accompanied by
such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or
more new Senior Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of
this Senior Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

                  The obligation represented by this Senior Note is limited to
the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest. The
Senior Noteholder by accepting this Senior Note acknowledges and agrees that, if
an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to any Titling Company, any claim that
such Senior Noteholder may seek to enforce against such Titling Company or the
Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company
other than the Specified Interest represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate
shall be subordinated to the payment in full, including post-petition interest,
of the claims of the holders of any

<PAGE>   93

Securities related to the Specified Assets allocated to such other Specified
Interests of such Titling Company.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Senior Notes or under the Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Lease Trust or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture
Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Lease Trust, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease
Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have
expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be
fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid
consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any
installment or call owing to such entity.

                  The Senior Notes represent obligations of the Lease Trust only
and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of RCL Trust
2000-1, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the
Indenture that such Senior Noteholder will not at any time institute against the
Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1, or join in any institution
against the Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1 of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings
under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Senior Notes, the Indenture or the other
Basic Documents.

                  Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of
this Senior Note, the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Senior Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be
specified in the Indenture) is

<PAGE>   94

registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Senior Note
be overdue, and neither the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee nor any such
agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Lease Trust and the rights of the Senior Noteholders under
the Indenture at any time by the Lease Trust with the consent of Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Senior
Noteholders holding specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes, on behalf of all Senior Noteholders, to waive compliance by the
Lease Trust with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note (or any one of more Predecessor Senior
Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Senior Noteholder and upon all
future Senior Noteholders of this Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon
the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Senior Note.
The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Senior
Noteholders.

                  The term "Lease Trust" as used in this Senior Note includes
any successor to the Lease Trust under the Indenture.

                  The Senior Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.

                  THIS SENIOR NOTE AND THE INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Senior Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Lease Trust, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Senior Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.

                  Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither The Bank of New York
(Delaware) in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Lease Trust, nor 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 payment of
principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of
the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Senior Note or
the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations
and indemnifications have been made by the Lease Trustee for the sole purpose of
binding the interests of the Lease Trustee in the assets of the Lease Trust. The
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that
except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of
Default under the Indenture, the Senior Noteholder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Lease Trust for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this
Senior Note.

<PAGE>   95

                                   ASSIGNMENT

                  Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number
of assignee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
               -----------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         (name and address of assignee)

the within Senior Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Senior Note
on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in
the premises.

Dated:                                                                       ***
      ----------------------                      ---------------------------
                                                     Signature Guaranteed:

                                                  ---------------------------

----------------------------

***      Note: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
         the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Senior
         Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
         whatsoever.

<PAGE>   96

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-2

                        [Form of Class A-2 Senior Notes]

REGISTERED

No. R-1

                       SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

                                                           CUSIP NO. [         ]

                  Unless this Senior Note is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to the Lease Trustee or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or
payment, and any Senior Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or
in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and
any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

                  AS SET FORTH HEREIN THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS SENIOR
NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                     [ ]% CLASS A-2 ASSET BACKED SENIOR NOTE

                  Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"), a
trust created pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of [ ], 2000 between RCL
Trust 2000-1, as Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), acting
thereunder not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Lease
Trust (the "Lease Trustee"), for value received, hereby promises to pay CEDE &
CO., or registered assigns, upon presentation and surrender of this Senior Note
the principal sum of [    ] (U.S. $[ ]) on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date
(the "Stated Maturity") and the Redemption

<PAGE>   97

Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. The Lease Trust will
pay interest on this Senior Note at the rate per annum shown above (the "Senior
Note Interest Rate") on each Payment Date until the principal of this Senior
Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this
Senior Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to
all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date). Interest on this
Senior Note will accrue from and including the [15th day] of the calendar month
preceding the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs to but excluding
the [15th] day of the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs or, if no
interest has yet been paid, from and including [ ], 2000. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The principal
of and interest on this Senior Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

                  The principal of and interest on this Senior Note 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 Lease Trust with respect to this Senior Note shall be applied first
to interest due and payable on this Senior Note as provided above and then to
the unpaid principal of this Senior Note.

                  Reference is made to the further provisions of this Senior
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though
fully set forth on the face of this Senior Note.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature,
this Senior Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

<PAGE>   98

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trust has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date
set forth below.

Date: [  ], 2000

                        FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1,

                        By:  THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
                              not in its individual capacity but solely as Lease
                              Trustee under the Lease Trust Agreement

                                 By:
                                     ----------------------------------------
                                     Name:
                                     Title:

<PAGE>   99

                INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Class A-2 Senior Notes designated above and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Date:  [  ], 2000

                                  THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
                                  individual capacity but solely as Indenture
                                  Trustee

                                  By:
                                      ----------------------------------------
                                                  Authorized Officer

<PAGE>   100

                             REVERSE OF SENIOR NOTE

                  This Senior Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Senior
Notes of the Lease Trust, designated as its "[ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Senior
Notes" (herein called the "Class A-2 Senior Notes") issued under an Indenture,
dated as of [ ], 2000 (as supplemented or amended, the "Indenture"), between the
Lease Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture), to which the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
Noteholders. Also issued under the Indenture are the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed
Senior Notes (the "Class A-1 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Senior
Notes (the "Class A-3 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-4 Senior Notes"), and [ ]% Class A-5 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-5 Senior Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the
Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes and the Class A-4 Senior
Notes, the "Senior Notes"). The Senior Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture. All terms used in this Senior Note that are defined in the Indenture,
as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or
pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.

                  All of the Senior Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the Collateral as provided in the Indenture.

                  Under the Indenture, interest will be payable on the 15th day
of each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [ ], 2000, to the Person in
whose name this Senior Note is registered on the last day of the calendar month
preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). On each Payment Date, there
shall be distributed to such Senior Noteholder the interest accrued at the
Senior Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period on the
Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on such Payment Date) or with
respect to the first Payment Date, on the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note
on [ ], 2000. No principal will be paid on this Senior Note on any Payment Date
occurring during the Revolving Period. On each Payment Date during the
Amortization Period, there shall be distributed to the Senior Noteholders the
principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment Date in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture; provided, that no principal shall be paid on the
Class A-2 Senior Notes until the Class A-1 Senior Notes have been paid in full;
provided, further, that no principal shall be paid on the Class A-3 Senior
Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior Notes until the Class
A-2 Senior Notes have been paid in full. The Amortization Period will commence
on [       ], 2001 unless an Early Amortization Event occurs prior to such date.
If an Early

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Amortization Event occurs, the Amortization Period will commence and
principal on this Senior Note will be payable commencing on the Payment Date
occurring in the Collection Period following the Collection Period in which the
Early Amortization Event occurred.

                  As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Senior Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Stated Maturity and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Senior
Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or Senior Noteholders
of Senior Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes have declared the Senior Notes to be immediately due and
payable in the manner provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture. On and after
such date, all principal payments on the Senior Notes shall be made to the
Senior Noteholders of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes ratably and without preference or priority of any kind until the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes each has been reduced to zero.

                  Payments of interest on this Senior Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the payments of principal, if any, to the
extent not in full payment of this Senior Note, shall be made by check mailed to
the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Senior Note (or
one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) on the Senior Note Register as of the
close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect to Senior Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the
address of such Person as it appears on the Senior Note Register as of the
applicable Record Date without requiring that this Senior Note be submitted for
notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Senior Note
(or any one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) effected by any payments made on
any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Senior Noteholders of this
Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If
funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in
full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Senior Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the
Lease Trust, will notify the Person who

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was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment
Date by notice mailed prior to such Payment Date and the amount then due and
payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Senior
Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in
The City of New York.

                  The Lease Trust shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Senior Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful.

                  As provided in the Indenture, the Senior Notes shall be
redeemed in whole, but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after the date on
which the Pool Balance is less than ten percent of the initial Pool Balance and
on which the Administrative Agent exercises its option to purchase the Series
2000-1 Certificates. The Senior Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of
redemption as required by Section 10.2 of the Indenture, become due and payable
on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the
Redemption Price for any period from and including the Redemption Date.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Senior Note may be
registered on the Senior Note Register upon surrender of this Senior Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Lease Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture, (i) duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Senior Note Registrar which
requirements include membership or participation in Securities Transfer Agent's
Medallion Program ("Stamp") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may
be determined by the Senior Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, Stamp, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii) accompanied by
such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or
more new Senior Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of
this Senior Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

                  The obligation represented by this Senior Note is limited to
the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest. The
Senior Noteholder by accepting this Senior Note acknowledges and agrees that, if
an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to any Titling Company, any claim that
such Senior Noteholder may seek to enforce against such Titling Company or the
Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company
other than the

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Specified Interest represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate shall be
subordinated to the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the
claims of the holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets
allocated to such other Specified Interests of such Titling Company.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Senior Notes or under the Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Lease Trust or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture
Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Lease Trust, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease
Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have
expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be
fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid
consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any
installment or call owing to such entity.

                  The Senior Notes represent obligations of the Lease Trust only
and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of RCL Trust
2000-1, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the
Indenture that such Senior Noteholder will not at any time institute against the
Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1, or join in any institution
against the Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1 of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings
under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Senior Notes, the Indenture or the other
Basic Documents.

                  Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of
this Senior Note, the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or

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the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Senior Note (as of
the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not
this Senior Note be overdue, and neither the Lease Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Lease Trust and the rights of the Senior Noteholders under
the Indenture at any time by the Lease Trust with the consent of Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Senior
Noteholders holding specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes, on behalf of all Senior Noteholders, to waive compliance by the
Lease Trust with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note (or any one of more Predecessor Senior
Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Senior Noteholder and upon all
future Senior Noteholders of this Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon
the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Senior Note.
The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Senior
Noteholders.

                  The term "Lease Trust" as used in this Senior Note includes
any successor to the Lease Trust under the Indenture.

                  The Senior Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.

                  THIS SENIOR NOTE AND THE INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Senior Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Lease Trust, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Senior Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.

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                  Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither The Bank of New York
(Delaware) in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Lease Trust, nor 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 payment of
principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of
the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Senior Note or
the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations
and indemnifications have been made by the Lease Trustee for the sole purpose of
binding the interests of the Lease Trustee in the assets of the Lease Trust. The
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that
except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of
Default under the Indenture, the Senior Noteholder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Lease Trust for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this
Senior Note.

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

                  Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number
of assignee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
              ------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         (name and address of assignee)

the within Senior Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Senior Note
on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in
the premises.

Dated:                                                                      ****
      -----------------------                     --------------------------
                                                     Signature Guaranteed:

-----------------------------
DF

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****     Note: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
         the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Senior
         Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
         whatsoever.

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                                                                     EXHIBIT A-3

                        [Form of Class A-3 Senior Notes]

REGISTERED

No. R-1

                       SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

                                                            CUSIP NO. [        ]

                  Unless this Senior Note is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to the Lease Trustee or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or
payment, and any Senior Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or
in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and
any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

                  AS SET FORTH HEREIN THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS SENIOR
NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                     [ ]% CLASS A-3 ASSET BACKED SENIOR NOTE

                  Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"), a
trust created pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of [ ], 2000 between RCL
Trust 2000- 1, as Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), acting
thereunder not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Lease
Trust (the "Lease Trustee"), for value received, hereby promises to pay CEDE &
CO., or registered assigns, upon presentation and surrender of this Senior Note
the principal sum of [ ] (U.S. $[ ]) on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Stated Maturity") and the Redemption

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Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. The Lease Trust will
pay interest on this Senior Note at the rate per annum shown above (the "Senior
Note Interest Rate") on each Payment Date until the principal of this Senior
Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this
Senior Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to
all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date). Interest on this
Senior Note will accrue from and including the [15th day] of the calendar month
preceding the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs to but excluding
the [15th] day of the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs or, if no
interest has yet been paid, from and including [ ], 2000. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The principal
of and interest on this Senior Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

                  The principal of and interest on this Senior Note 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 Lease Trust with respect to this Senior Note shall be applied first
to interest due and payable on this Senior Note as provided above and then to
the unpaid principal of this Senior Note.

                  Reference is made to the further provisions of this Senior
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though
fully set forth on the face of this Senior Note.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature,
this Senior Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trust has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date
set forth below.

Date: [  ], 2000

                              FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1,

                              By:  THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
                              not in its individual capacity but solely as Lease
                              Trustee under the Lease Trust Agreement

                              By:
                                 -----------------------------------------------
                                      Name:
                                      Title:

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                INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Class A-3 Senior Notes designated above and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Date:  [  ], 2000

                                 THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
                                 individual capacity but solely as Indenture
                                 Trustee

                                 By:
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                                Authorized Officer

<PAGE>   110
                             REVERSE OF SENIOR NOTE

                  This Senior Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Senior
Notes of the Lease Trust, designated as its "[ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Senior
Notes" (herein called the "Class A-3 Senior Notes") issued under an Indenture,
dated as of [ ], 2000 (as supplemented or amended, the "Indenture"), between the
Lease Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture), to which the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
Noteholders. Also issued under the Indenture are the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed
Senior Notes (the "Class A-1 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Senior
Notes (the "Class A-2 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-4 Senior Notes"), and [ ]% Class A-5 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-5 Senior Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the
Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes and the Class A-4 Senior
Notes, the "Senior Notes"). The Senior Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture. All terms used in this Senior Note that are defined in the Indenture,
as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or
pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.

                  All of the Senior Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the Collateral as provided in the Indenture.

                  Under the Indenture, interest will be payable on the 15th day
of each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [ ], 2000, to the Person in
whose name this Senior Note is registered on the last day of the calendar month
preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). On each Payment Date, there
shall be distributed to such Senior Noteholder the interest accrued at the
Senior Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period on the
Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on such Payment Date) or with
respect to the first Payment Date, on the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note
on [ ], 2000. No principal will be paid on this Senior Note on any Payment Date
occurring during the Revolving Period. On each Payment Date during the
Amortization Period, there shall be distributed to the Senior Noteholders the
principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment Date in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture; provided, that no principal shall be paid on the
Class A-3 Senior Notes until the Class A-1 Senior Notes and the Class A-2 Senior
Notes have been paid in full; provided, further, that no principal shall be paid
on the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior Notes until the Class A-3
Senior Notes have been paid in full. The Amortization Period will commence on
[    ], 2001 unless an Early Amortization Event occurs prior to such date.
If an Early

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Amortization Event occurs, the Amortization Period will commence and
principal on this Senior Note will be payable commencing on the Payment Date
occurring in the Collection Period following the Collection Period in which the
Early Amortization Event occurred.

                  As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Senior Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Stated Maturity and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Senior
Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or Senior Noteholders
of Senior Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes have declared the Senior Notes to be immediately due and
payable in the manner provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture. On and after
such date, all principal payments on the Senior Notes shall be made to the
Senior Noteholders of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes ratably and without preference or priority of any kind until the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes each has been reduced to zero.

                  Payments of interest on this Senior Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the payments of principal, if any, to the
extent not in full payment of this Senior Note, shall be made by check mailed to
the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Senior Note (or
one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) on the Senior Note Register as of the
close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect to Senior Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the
address of such Person as it appears on the Senior Note Register as of the
applicable Record Date without requiring that this Senior Note be submitted for
notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Senior Note
(or any one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) effected by any payments made on
any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Senior Noteholders of this
Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If
funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in
full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Senior Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the
Lease Trust, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of
the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed prior to such
Payment Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of this Senior Note at the Indenture Trustee's
principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture

<PAGE>   112

Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

                  The Lease Trust shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Senior Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful.

                  As provided in the Indenture, the Senior Notes shall be
redeemed in whole, but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after the date on
which the Pool Balance is less than ten percent of the initial Pool Balance and
on which the Administrative Agent exercises its option to purchase the Series
2000-1 Certificates. The Senior Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of
redemption as required by Section 10.2 of the Indenture, become due and payable
on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the
Redemption Price for any period from and including the Redemption Date.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Senior Note may be
registered on the Senior Note Register upon surrender of this Senior Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Lease Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture, (i) duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Senior Note Registrar which
requirements include membership or participation in Securities Transfer Agent's
Medallion Program ("Stamp") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may
be determined by the Senior Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, Stamp, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii) accompanied by
such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or
more new Senior Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of
this Senior Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

                  The obligation represented by this Senior Note is limited to
the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest. The
Senior Noteholder by accepting this Senior Note acknowledges and agrees that, if
an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to any Titling Company, any claim that
such Senior Noteholder may seek to enforce against such Titling Company or the
Specified Assets allocated to any

<PAGE>   113

Specified Interest of such Titling Company other than the Specified Interest
represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate shall be subordinated to the payment
in full, including post-petition interest, of the claims of the holders of any
Securities related to the Specified Assets allocated to such other Specified
Interests of such Titling Company.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Senior Notes or under the Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Lease Trust or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture
Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Lease Trust, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease
Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have
expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be
fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid
consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any
installment or call owing to such entity.

                  The Senior Notes represent obligations of the Lease Trust only
and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of RCL Trust
2000-1, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the
Indenture that such Senior Noteholder will not at any time institute against the
Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1, or join in any institution
against the Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1 of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings
under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Senior Notes, the Indenture or the other
Basic Documents.

                  Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of
this Senior Note, the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or

<PAGE>   114

the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Senior Note (as of
the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not
this Senior Note be overdue, and neither the Lease Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Lease Trust and the rights of the Senior Noteholders under
the Indenture at any time by the Lease Trust with the consent of Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Senior
Noteholders holding specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes, on behalf of all Senior Noteholders, to waive compliance by the
Lease Trust with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note (or any one of more Predecessor Senior
Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Senior Noteholder and upon all
future Senior Noteholders of this Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon
the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Senior Note.
The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Senior
Noteholders.

                  The term "Lease Trust" as used in this Senior Note includes
any successor to the Lease Trust under the Indenture.

                  The Senior Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.

                  THIS SENIOR NOTE AND THE INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Senior Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Lease Trust, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Senior Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.

                  Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither The Bank of New York
(Delaware) in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Lease Trust, nor 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 payment of
principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of
the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Senior Note or
the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations
and indemnifications have been made by the Lease Trustee for the sole purpose of
binding the interests of the Lease Trustee in the assets of the Lease Trust. The
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that
except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of
Default under the Indenture, the Senior Noteholder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Lease Trust for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this
Senior Note.

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

    Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number of assignee

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
               -----------------------------------------------------------------

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         (name and address of assignee)

the within Senior Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Senior Note
on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in
the premises.

Dated:                                                                       ***
      ----------------------                         ------------------------
                                                     Signature Guaranteed:

                                     -------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------

*****    Note: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
         the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Senior
         Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
         whatsoever.

<PAGE>   116

                                                                     EXHIBIT A-4

                        [Form of Class A-4 Senior Notes]

REGISTERED

No. R-1

                       SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

                                                               CUSIP NO. [     ]

                  Unless this Senior Note is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to the Lease Trustee or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or
payment, and any Senior Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or
in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and
any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

                  AS SET FORTH HEREIN, THE OUTSTANDING AMOUNT OF THIS SENIOR
NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                  [ ]% CLASS A-4 ASSET BACKED SENIOR NOTE

                  Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"), a
trust created pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of [ ], 2000 between RCL
Trust 2000-1, as Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), acting
thereunder not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Lease
Trust (the "Lease Trustee"), for value received, hereby promises to pay CEDE &
CO., or registered assigns, upon presentation and surrender of this Senior Note
the principal sum of [ ] (U.S. $[ ]) on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Stated Maturity") and the Redemption

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Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. The Lease Trust will
pay interest on this Senior Note at the rate per annum shown above (the "Senior
Note Interest Rate") on each Payment Date until the principal of this Senior
Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this
Senior Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to
all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date). Interest on this
Senior Note will accrue from and including the [15th day] of the calendar month
preceding the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs to but excluding
the [15th] day of the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs or, if no
interest has yet been paid, from and including [ ], 2000. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The principal
of and interest on this Senior Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

                  The principal of and interest on this Senior Note 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 Lease Trust with respect to this Senior Note shall be applied first
to interest due and payable on this Senior Note as provided above and then to
the unpaid principal of this Senior Note.

                  Reference is made to the further provisions of this Senior
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though
fully set forth on the face of this Senior Note.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature,
this Senior Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trust has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date
set forth below.

Date: [  ], 2000

                              FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1,

                              By:  THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
                              not in its individual capacity but solely as
                              Lease Trustee under the Lease Trust Agreement

                              By:
                                 ------------------------------------
                                 Name:
                                 Title:

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                INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Class A-4 Senior Notes designated above and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Date:  [  ], 2000

                                  THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
                                  individual capacity but solely as
                                  Indenture Trustee

                                  By:
                                     --------------------------------
                                      Authorized Officer

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                             REVERSE OF SENIOR NOTE

                  This Senior Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Senior
Notes of the Lease Trust, designated as its "[ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Senior
Notes" (herein called the "Class A-4 Senior Notes") issued under an Indenture,
dated as of [         ], 2000 (as supplemented or amended, the "Indenture"),
between the Lease Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture trustee (the
"Indenture Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under
the Indenture), to which the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
Noteholders. Also issued under the Indenture are the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed
Senior Notes (the "Class A-1 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Senior
Notes (the "Class A-2 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-3 Senior Notes"), and [ ]% Class A-5 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-5 Senior Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the
Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes and the Class A-4 Senior
Notes, the "Senior Notes"). The Senior Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture. All terms used in this Senior Note that are defined in the Indenture,
as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or
pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.

                  All of the Senior Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the Collateral as provided in the Indenture.

                  Under the Indenture, interest will be payable on the 15th day
of each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [         ], 2000, to the
Person in whose name this Senior Note is registered on the last day of the
calendar month preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). On each Payment
Date, there shall be distributed to such Senior Noteholder the interest accrued
at the Senior Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period on
the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on such Payment Date) or with
respect to the first Payment Date, on the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note
on [ ], 2000. No principal will be paid on this Senior Note on any Payment Date
occurring during the Revolving Period. On each Payment Date during the
Amortization Period, there shall be distributed to the Senior Noteholders the
principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment Date in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture; provided, that no principal shall be paid on the
Class A-4 Senior Notes until the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior
Notes and the Class A-3 Senior Notes have been paid in full; provided, further
that no principal shall be paid on the Class A-5 Senior Notes until the Class
A-4 Senior Notes have been paid in full. The Amortization Period will commence
on [          ], 2001 unless an Early Amortization Event occurs prior to such
date. If an Early

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Amortization Event occurs, the Amortization Period will commence and principal
on this Senior Note will be payable commencing on the Payment Date occurring in
the Collection Period following the Collection Period in which the Early
Amortization Event occurred.

                  As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Senior Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Stated Maturity and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Senior
Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or Senior Noteholders
of Senior Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes have declared the Senior Notes to be immediately due and
payable in the manner provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture. On and after
such date, all principal payments on the Senior Notes shall be made to the
Senior Noteholders of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes ratably and without preference or priority of any kind until the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes each has been reduced to zero.

                  Payments of interest on this Senior Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the payments of principal, if any, to the
extent not in full payment of this Senior Note, shall be made by check mailed to
the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Senior Note (or
one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) on the Senior Note Register as of the
close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect to Senior Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the
address of such Person as it appears on the Senior Note Register as of the
applicable Record Date without requiring that this Senior Note be submitted for
notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Senior Note
(or any one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) effected by any payments made on
any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Senior Noteholders of this
Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If
funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in
full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Senior Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the
Lease Trust, will notify the Person who

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was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment
Date by notice mailed prior to such Payment Date and the amount then due and
payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Senior
Note at the Indenture Trustee's principal Corporate Trust Office or at the
office of the Indenture Trustee's agent appointed for such purposes located in
The City of New York.

                  The Lease Trust shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Senior Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful.

                  As provided in the Indenture, the Senior Notes shall be
redeemed in whole, but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after the date on
which the Pool Balance is less than ten percent of the initial Pool Balance and
on which the Administrative Agent exercises its option to purchase the Series
2000-1 Certificates. The Senior Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of
redemption as required by Section 10.2 of the Indenture, become due and payable
on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the
Redemption Price for any period from and including the Redemption Date.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Senior Note may be
registered on the Senior Note Register upon surrender of this Senior Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Lease Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture, (i) duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Senior Note Registrar which
requirements include membership or participation in Securities Transfer Agent's
Medallion Program ("Stamp") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may
be determined by the Senior Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, Stamp, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii) accompanied by
such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or
more new Senior Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of
this Senior Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

                  The obligation represented by this Senior Note is limited to
the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest. The
Senior Noteholder by accepting this Senior Note acknowledges and agrees that, if
an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to any Titling Company, any claim that
such Senior Noteholder may seek to enforce against such Titling Company or the
Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company
other than the

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Specified Interest represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate shall be
subordinated to the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the
claims of the holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets
allocated to such other Specified Interests of such Titling Company.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Senior Notes or under the Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Lease Trust or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture
Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Lease Trust, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease
Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have
expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be
fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid
consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any
installment or call owing to such entity.

                  The Senior Notes represent obligations of the Lease Trust only
and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of RCL Trust
2000-1, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance
of a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Senior Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the
Indenture that such Senior Noteholder will not at any time institute against the
Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1, or join in any institution
against the Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1 of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings
under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Senior Notes, the Indenture or the other
Basic Documents.

                  Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of
this Senior Note, the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or

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the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Senior Note (as of
the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not
this Senior Note be overdue, and neither the Lease Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Lease Trust and the rights of the Senior Noteholders under
the Indenture at any time by the Lease Trust with the consent of Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Senior
Noteholders holding specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes, on behalf of all Senior Noteholders, to waive compliance by the
Lease Trust with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note (or any one of more Predecessor Senior
Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Senior Noteholder and upon all
future Senior Noteholders of this Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon
the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Senior Note.
The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Senior
Noteholders.

                  The term "Lease Trust" as used in this Senior Note includes
any successor to the Lease Trust under the Indenture.

                  The Senior Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.

                  THIS SENIOR NOTE AND THE INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Senior Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Lease Trust, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Senior Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.

                  Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither The Bank of New York
(Delaware) in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Lease Trust, nor 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 payment of
principal of or interest on, or performance of, or omission to perform, any of
the covenants, obligations or indemnifications contained in this Senior Note or
the Indenture, it being expressly understood that said covenants, obligations
and indemnifications have been made by the Lease Trustee for the sole purpose of
binding the interests of the Lease Trustee in the assets of the Lease Trust. The
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that
except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of
Default under the Indenture, the Senior Noteholder shall have no claim against
any of the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided,
however, that nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to,
and enforcement against, the assets of the Lease Trust for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this
Senior Note.

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

                  Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number
of assignee

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
               -----------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         (name and address of assignee)

the within Senior Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Senior Note
on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in
the premises.

Dated:
                                                                          ******
      --------------------------                     ---------------------
                                                     Signature Guaranteed:

                                                     ---------------------

---------------------------------------------

******   Note: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
         the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Senior
         Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
         whatsoever.

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                                                                     EXHIBIT A-5

                        [Form of Class A-5 Senior Notes]

REGISTERED

No. R-1

                       SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

                                                               CUSIP NO. [     ]

                  Unless this Senior Note is presented by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"),
to the Lease Trustee or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or
payment, and any Senior Note issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or
in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and
any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

                  AS SET FORTH HEREIN, THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL OF THIS SENIOR
NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE HEREOF.

                       FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1

                  [ ]% CLASS A-5 ASSET BACKED SENIOR NOTE

                  Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust 2000-1 (the "Lease Trust"), a
trust created pursuant to a trust agreement dated as of [ ], 2000 between RCL
Trust 2000-1, as Depositor and The Bank of New York (Delaware), acting
thereunder not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee of the Lease
Trust (the "Lease Trustee"), for value received, hereby promises to pay CEDE &
CO., or registered assigns, upon presentation and surrender of this Senior Note
the principal sum of [ ] (U.S. $[ ]) on the earlier of the [ ] Payment Date (the
"Stated Maturity") and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of
the Indenture. The Lease Trust will pay

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interest on this Senior Note at the rate per annum shown above (the "Senior Note
Interest Rate") on each Payment Date until the principal of this Senior Note is
paid or made available for payment, on the principal amount of this Senior Note
outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on the preceding Payment Date). Interest on this Senior Note
will accrue from and including the [15th day] of the calendar month preceding
the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs to but excluding the [15th]
day of the calendar month in which the Payment Date occurs or, if no interest
has yet been paid, from and including [ ], 2000. Interest will be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The principal of and
interest on this Senior Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

                  The principal of and interest on this Senior Note 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 Lease Trust with respect to this Senior Note shall be applied first
to interest due and payable on this Senior Note as provided above and then to
the unpaid principal of this Senior Note.

                  Reference is made to the further provisions of this Senior
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which shall have the same effect as though
fully set forth on the face of this Senior Note.

                  Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Indenture Trustee whose name appears below by manual signature,
this Senior Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
referred to on the reverse hereof, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lease Trust has caused this instrument
to be signed, manually or in facsimile, by its Authorized Officer as of the date
set forth below.

Date: [  ], 2000

                              FORD CREDIT AUTO LEASE TRUST 2000-1,

                              By:  THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
                              not in its individual capacity but solely as Lease
                              Trustee under the Lease Trust Agreement

                              By:
                                 -----------------------------------------------
                                 Name:
                                 Title:

                INDENTURE TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

                  This is one of the Class A-5 Senior Notes designated above and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

Date:  [  ], 2000

                                 THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, not in its
                                 individual capacity but solely as Indenture
                                 Trustee

                                 By:
                                    -----------------------------------------
                                    Authorized Officer

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                             REVERSE OF SENIOR NOTE

                  This Senior Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Senior
Notes of the Lease Trust, designated as its "[ ]% Class A-5 Asset Backed Senior
Notes" (herein called the "Class A-5 Senior Notes") issued under an Indenture,
dated as of [ ], 2000 (as supplemented or amended, the "Indenture"), between the
Lease Trust and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as indenture trustee (the "Indenture
Trustee", which term includes any successor Indenture Trustee under the
Indenture), to which the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and
obligations thereunder of the Lease Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Senior
Noteholders. Also issued under the Indenture are the [ ]% Class A-1 Asset Backed
Senior Notes (the "Class A-1 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-2 Asset Backed Senior
Notes (the "Class A-2 Senior Notes"), [ ]% Class A-3 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-3 Senior Notes"), and [ ]% Class A-4 Asset Backed Senior Notes
(the "Class A-4 Senior Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the
Class A-2 Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes, the "Senior Notes"). The Senior Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture. All terms used in this Senior Note that are defined in the Indenture,
as supplemented or amended, shall have the meanings assigned to them in or
pursuant to the Indenture, as so supplemented or amended.

                  All of the Senior Notes are and will be equally and ratably
secured by the Collateral as provided in the Indenture.

                  Under the Indenture, interest will be payable on the 15th day
of each calendar month or, if any such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (each, a "Payment Date"), commencing [          ], 2000 to the
Person in whose name this Senior Note is registered on the last day of the
calendar month preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date"). On each Payment
Date, there shall be distributed to such Senior Noteholder the interest accrued
at the Senior Note Interest Rate during the preceding Interest Accrual Period on
the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note on the preceding Payment Date (after
giving effect to all payments of principal made on such Payment Date) or with
respect to the first Payment Date, on the Outstanding Amount of this Senior Note
on [ ], 2000. No principal will be paid on this Senior Note on any Payment Date
occurring during the Revolving Period. On each Payment Date during the
Amortization Period, there shall be distributed to the Senior Noteholders the
principal, if any, available to be paid on such Payment Date in accordance with
the terms of the Indenture; provided, however that no principal shall be paid on
the Class A-5 Senior Notes until the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2
Senior Notes, the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the
Class A-5 Senior Notes have been paid in full. The Amortization Period will
commence on [ ], 2001 unless an Early Amortization Event occurs prior to such
date. If an Early Amortization Event occurs, the Amortization Period will
commence and principal on

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this Senior Note will be payable commencing on the Payment Date occurring in the
Collection Period following the Collection Period in which the Early
Amortization Event occurred.

                  As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this
Senior Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the Stated Maturity and
the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of the Senior
Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or Senior Noteholders
of Senior Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes have declared the Senior Notes to be immediately due and
payable in the manner provided in Section 5.3 of the Indenture. On and after
such date, all principal payments on the Senior Notes shall be made to the
Senior Noteholders of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A- 4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes ratably and without preference or priority of any kind until the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Senior Notes, the Class A-2 Senior Notes,
the Class A-3 Senior Notes, the Class A-4 Senior Notes and the Class A-5 Senior
Notes each has been reduced to zero.

                  Payments of interest on this Senior Note due and payable on
each Payment Date, together with the payments of principal, if any, to the
extent not in full payment of this Senior Note, shall be made by check mailed to
the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Senior Note (or
one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) on the Senior Note Register as of the
close of business on each Record Date, except that with respect to Senior Notes
registered on the Record Date in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency
(initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payments will be made by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such
nominee. Such checks shall be mailed to the Person entitled thereto at the
address of such Person as it appears on the Senior Note Register as of the
applicable Record Date without requiring that this Senior Note be submitted for
notation of payment. Any reduction in the principal amount of this Senior Note
(or any one or more Predecessor Senior Notes) effected by any payments made on
any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Senior Noteholders of this
Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If
funds are expected to be available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in
full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Senior Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the
Lease Trust, will notify the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of
the Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed prior to such
Payment Date and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of this Senior Note at the Indenture Trustee's
principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee's
agent appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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                  The Lease Trust shall pay interest on overdue installments of
interest at the Senior Note Interest Rate to the extent lawful.

                  As provided in the Indenture, the Senior Notes shall be
redeemed in whole, but not in part, on any Payment Date on or after the date on
which the Pool Balance is less than ten percent of the initial Pool Balance and
on which the Administrative Agent exercises its option to purchase the Series
2000-1 Certificates. The Senior Notes to be redeemed shall, following notice of
redemption as required by Section 10.2 of the Indenture, become due and payable
on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price and (unless the Lease Trust shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the
Redemption Price for any period from and including the Redemption Date.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations set forth therein, the transfer of this Senior Note may be
registered on the Senior Note Register upon surrender of this Senior Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Lease Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture, (i) duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly
executed by, the Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor
institution" meeting the requirements of the Senior Note Registrar which
requirements include membership or participation in Securities Transfer Agent's
Medallion Program ("Stamp") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may
be determined by the Senior Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution
for, Stamp, all in accordance with the Exchange Act, and (ii) accompanied by
such other documents as the Indenture Trustee may require, and thereupon one or
more new Senior Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of
this Senior Note, but the transferor may be required to pay a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any such registration of transfer or exchange.

                  The obligation represented by this Senior Note is limited to
the Series 2000-1 Specified Assets and the Series 2000-1 Specified Interest. The
Senior Noteholder by accepting this Senior Note acknowledges and agrees that, if
an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to any Titling Company, any claim that
such Senior Noteholder may seek to enforce against such Titling Company or the
Specified Assets allocated to any Specified Interest of such Titling Company
other than the Specified Interest represented by a Series 2000-1 Certificate
shall be subordinated to

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the payment in full, including post-petition interest, of the claims of the
holders of any Securities related to the Specified Assets allocated to such
other Specified Interests of such Titling Company.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance of
a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest in a
Senior Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Lease Trust, the Lease
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the Senior Notes or under the Indenture or
any certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii)
any owner of a beneficial interest in the Lease Trust or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture
Trustee or the Lease Trustee in their individual capacities, any holder of a
beneficial interest in the Lease Trust, the Lease Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Lease
Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person may have
expressly agreed and except that any such partner, owner or beneficiary shall be
fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law, for any unpaid
consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any
installment or call owing to such entity.

                  The Senior Notes represent obligations of the Lease Trust only
and do not represent interests in, recourse to or obligations of RCL Trust
2000-1, Ford Credit or any of their respective affiliates.

                  Each Senior Noteholder or Senior Note Owner, by acceptance
of a Senior Note or, in the case of a Senior Note Owner, a beneficial interest
in a Senior Note, covenants and agrees that by accepting the benefits of the
Indenture that such Senior Noteholder will not at any time institute against the
Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1, or join in any institution
against the Lease Trust, any Titling Company or RCL Trust 2000-1 of, any
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings
under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or similar law in connection
with any obligations relating to the Senior Notes, the Indenture or the other
Basic Documents.

                  Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of
this Senior Note, the Lease Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the
Lease Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Senior Note (as of the

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day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified in the
Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not
this Senior Note be overdue, and neither the Lease Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

                  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Lease Trust and the rights of the Senior Noteholders under
the Indenture at any time by the Lease Trust with the consent of Senior
Noteholders holding not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Senior
Noteholders holding specified percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the
Senior Notes, on behalf of all Senior Noteholders, to waive compliance by the
Lease Trust with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Senior Noteholder of this Senior Note (or any one of more Predecessor Senior
Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Senior Noteholder and upon all
future Senior Noteholders of this Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon
the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Senior Note.
The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain terms
and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of the Senior
Noteholders.

                  The term "Lease Trust" as used in this Senior Note includes
any successor to the Lease Trust under the Indenture.

                  The Senior Notes are issuable only in registered form in
denominations as provided in the Indenture, subject to certain limitations
therein set forth.

                  THIS SENIOR NOTE AND THE INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Senior Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Lease Trust, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
interest on this Senior Note at the times, place, and rate, and in the coin or
currency herein prescribed.

                  Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, except as
expressly provided in the Basic Documents, neither The Bank of New York
(Delaware) in its individual capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the
Lease Trust, nor any of their respective partners, beneficiaries, agents,
officers, directors, employees or

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successors or assigns shall be personally liable for, nor shall recourse be had
to any of them for, the payment of principal of or interest on, or performance
of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in this Senior Note or the Indenture, it being
expressly understood that said covenants, obligations and indemnifications have
been made by the Lease Trustee for the sole purpose of binding the interests of
the Lease Trustee in the assets of the Lease Trust. The Senior Noteholder of
this Senior Note by the acceptance hereof agrees that except as expressly
provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event of Default under the
Indenture, the Senior Noteholder shall have no claim against any of the
foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that
nothing contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement
against, the assets of the Lease Trust for any and all liabilities, obligations
and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Senior Note.

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

                  Social Security or taxpayer I.D. or other identifying number
of assignee

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                  FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
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                         (name and address of assignee)

the within Senior Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints _____________, attorney, to transfer said Senior Note
on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in
the premises.

Dated:                                                                     *****
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                                                   Signature Guaranteed:

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*******  Note: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of
         the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within Senior
         Note in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any change
         whatsoever.

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