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EXHIBIT 4.2

 

Exhibit 4.2

INDENTURE

between

GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

as Issuer

and

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Indenture Trustee

Dated as of August 19, 2005

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS, USAGE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 1.1 Definitions and Usage
	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE II THE NOTES
	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.1 Form
	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery
	 	 	3	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.3 Temporary Notes
	 	 	4	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.4 Tax Treatment
	 	 	4	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.5 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange
	 	 	4	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.6 Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
	 	 	6	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.7 Persons Deemed Owners
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.8 Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest
	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.9 Cancellation
	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.10 Release of Collateral
	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.11 Book-Entry Notes
	 	 	9	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.12 Notices to Clearing Agency
	 	 	9	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.13 Definitive Notes
	 	 	10	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 2.14 Authenticating Agents
	 	 	10	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE III COVENANTS
	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest
	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency
	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.3 Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust
	 	 	11	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.4 Existence
	 	 	13	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.5 Protection of Indenture Trust Estate
	 	 	13	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.6 Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.7 Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables
	 	 	14	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.8 Negative Covenants
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance
	 	 	15	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.10 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms
	 	 	16	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.11 Successor or Transferee
	 	 	17	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.12 No Other Business
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.13 No Borrowing
	 	 	18	 

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	Section 3.14 Servicer’s Obligations
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.15 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.16 Capital Expenditures
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.17 [Reserved]
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.18 Restricted Payments
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 3.19 Notice of Events of Default
	 	 	18	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
	 	 	19	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
	 	 	19	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money
	 	 	19	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Note Paying Agent
	 	 	20	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE V REMEDIES
	 	 	20	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.1 Events of Default
	 	 	20	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
	 	 	21	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Indenture Trustee
	 	 	22	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.4 Remedies; Priorities
	 	 	24	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Receivables
	 	 	26	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.6 Limitation of Suits
	 	 	27	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive
Principal and Interest
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.11 Control by Controlling Class
	 	 	28	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults
	 	 	29	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs
	 	 	29	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.15 Action on Notes
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VI THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.1 Duties of Indenture Trustee
	 	 	30	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee
	 	 	32	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee
	 	 	32	 

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	Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.5 Notice of Defaults
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity
	 	 	33	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee
	 	 	34	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger
	 	 	35	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.10 Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate
Indenture Trustee
	 	 	35	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification
	 	 	36	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer
	 	 	37	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.13 Waiver of Setoffs
	 	 	37	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 6.14 Representations and Warranties
	 	 	37	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VII NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.1 Note Registrar To Furnish Indenture Trustee and
Owner Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.3 Reports by Issuer
	 	 	38	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 7.4 Reports by Indenture Trustee
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE VIII ACCOUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.1 Collection of Money
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.2 Trust Accounts
	 	 	39	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts
	 	 	43	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.4 Release of Indenture Trust Estate
	 	 	44	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 8.5 Opinion of Counsel
	 	 	44	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	 	 	45	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders
	 	 	45	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders
	 	 	46	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures
	 	 	47	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indenture
	 	 	48	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
	 	 	48	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 9.6 Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures
	 	 	48	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE X PREPAYMENT
	 	 	48	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 10.1 Optional Prepayment
	 	 	48	 

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	Section 10.2 Form of Prepayment Notice
	 	 	49	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 10.3 Notes Payable on Prepayment Date
	 	 	49	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS
	 	 	49	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc
	 	 	49	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee
	 	 	51	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.3 Acts of Noteholders
	 	 	52	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and
Rating Agencies
	 	 	52	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver
	 	 	53	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions
	 	 	53	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.9 Successors and Assigns
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.10 Separability
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.11 Benefits of Indenture
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.12 Legal Holidays
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.13 GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL
	 	 	54	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.14 Counterparts
	 	 	55	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.15 Recording of Indenture
	 	 	55	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.16 Trust Obligation
	 	 	55	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.17 No Petition
	 	 	56	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.18 Subordination Agreement
	 	 	56	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.19 No Recourse
	 	 	56	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Section 11.20 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee
	 	 	56	 

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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE1

	 	 	 	 	 
	TIA
	 	 	 	Indenture
	Section
	 	 	 	Section
	310
	 	(a) (1)	 	6.11
	 
	 	(a) (2)	 	6.11
	 
	 	(a) (3)	 	6.10; 6.11
	 
	 	(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)	 	7.4
	 
	 	(d)	 	7.4
	314
	 	(a)	 	3.9
	 
	 	(b)	 	3.6; 11.15
	 
	 	(c) (1)	 	11.15
	 
	 	(c) (2)	 	11.1
	 
	 	(c) (3)	 	11.1
	 
	 	(d)	 	11.1
	 
	 	(e)	 	11.1
	 
	 	(f)	 	N.A.
	315
	 	(a)	 	6.1(b)
	 
	 	(b)	 	6.1(b)
	 
	 	(c)	 	6.1(a)
	 
	 	(d)	 	6.1(c)
	 
	 	(e)	 	5.13
	316
	 	(a) (1) (A)	 	5.11
	 
	 	(a) (1) (B)	 	5.12
	 
	 	(a) (2)	 	N.A.
	 
	 	(b)	 	5.7
	 
	 	(c)	 	5.6(b)
	317
	 	(a) (1)	 	5.3(b)
	 
	 	(a) (2)	 	5.3(d)
	 
	 	(b)	 	3.3
	318
	 	(a)	 	11.7

 

			
	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.

 

 

     This INDENTURE, dated as of August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented
or otherwise modified and in effect, this “Indenture”), is between GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1, a
Delaware statutory trust, as Issuer, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national
banking association (“JPMorgan Chase”), as Trustee and not in its individual capacity (in such
capacity, the “Indenture Trustee”).

     Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and, subject to the
subordination provisions of this Indenture, for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the
Notes:

GRANTING CLAUSE

     The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date, as Indenture Trustee
for the benefit of the Indenture Secured Parties, all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest,
whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising, in to and under (i) the Trust
Property and (ii) all present and future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in
respect of any or all of the Trust Property 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 thereof, 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”).

     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 Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice,
priority or distinction, except as provided in this Indenture, and to secure compliance with the
provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture. This Indenture is a security
agreement within the meaning of the UCC.

     The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Indenture Secured Parties,
acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions
of this Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture and the other Basic
Documents to which the Indenture Trustee is a party in accordance with the terms of this Indenture
and the other Basic Documents to which the Indenture Trustee is a party to the end that the
interests of the Indenture Secured Parties may be adequately and effectively protected.

     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.10, without limiting the foregoing Grant, any
Receivable repurchased or purchased under Section 2.3 or Section 3.6, respectively, of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement shall be deemed to automatically be released from the lien of this Indenture
without any action being taken by the Indenture Trustee upon payment to the Issuer of the related
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ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS, USAGE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     Section 1.1 Definitions and Usage. Except as otherwise specified herein or as the
context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein are defined
in Appendix A to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (the “Sale and
Servicing Agreement”) by and among the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and Goldman Sachs Asset
Backed Securities Corp., which also contains rules as to usage that shall be applicable herein.

     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” shall mean the Notes.

     “indenture security holder” shall mean a Noteholder.

     “indenture to be qualified” shall mean this Indenture.

     “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” shall mean the Indenture Trustee.

     “obligor” on the indenture securities shall mean the Issuer and any other obligor on the
indenture securities.

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

ARTICLE II

THE NOTES

     Section 2.1 Form. (a) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes,
the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes, together with the
Indenture Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be in substantially the form set forth in
Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B, Exhibit C and Exhibit D,
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 Notes, as evidenced by their execution thereof. Any
portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate
reference thereto on the face of the Note.

     (b) The Definitive 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 officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

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     (c) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth
in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B, Exhibit C and Exhibit D, are part
of the terms of this Indenture and are incorporated herein by reference.

     (d) The Issuer in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP,” “CINS” and “ISIN” numbers (if then
generally in use), and the Indenture Trustee shall use CUSIP, CINS and ISIN numbers, as the case
may be, in notices as a convenience to Noteholders and no representation shall be made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in a notice to
Noteholders.

     Section 2.2 Execution, Authentication and Delivery. (a) The Notes shall be executed
on behalf of the Issuer by any of its Authorized Officers. The signature of any such Authorized
Officer on the Notes may be manual or by facsimile.

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

     (c) The Indenture Trustee shall, upon Issuer Order, authenticate and deliver the Notes for
original issue in the Classes and initial aggregate principal amounts as set in the table below.

	 	 	 	 	 
	Class	 	Initial Aggregate Principal Amount
	Class A-1 Notes
	 	$	306,000,000	 
	Class A-2 Notes
	 	$	372,061,000	 
	Class A-3 Notes
	 	$	396,354,000	 
	Class A-4 Notes
	 	$	110,594,000	 
	Class B Notes
	 	$	42,793,000	 
	Class C Notes
	 	$	42,792,000	 
	Class D Notes
	 	$	20,408,000	 

The aggregate principal amount of the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3
Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes, Outstanding
at any time may not exceed those respective amounts except as provided in Section 2.6.

     Each Note authenticated and delivered by the Note Registrar to or upon Issuer Order on the
Closing Date shall be dated as of the Closing Date. All other Notes that are authenticated after
the Closing Date for any other purpose under this Indenture shall be dated the date of their
authentication.

     (d) The Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes shall be
issuable as Book-Entry Notes in minimum denominations of $1,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000
in excess thereof, except that one Class C Note may be issued in multiples of $1.

     (e) No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication

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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 Note shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder.

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

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

     Section 2.4 Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this Indenture, and the Notes
shall be issued, with the intention that, for federal, State and local income and franchise tax
purposes, the Notes shall qualify as indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust
Estate. The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a
Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of an interest in the applicable Book-Entry Note),
agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as
indebtedness of the Issuer.

     Section 2.5 Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. (a) The Issuer
shall cause to be kept a register (the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the
registration of transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee initially shall be the “Note Registrar”
for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. Upon any
resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, if it elects
not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar. If a Person other than the
Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, (i) the Issuer shall give the
Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note Registrar and of the
location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register, (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall
have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof,
and (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf
of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the
Noteholders and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.

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

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

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

     (e) Every 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 Noteholder thereof or such Noteholder’s attorney duly
authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution”
meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar and (ii) accompanied by such other documents or
evidence as the Indenture Trustee may require.

     (f) No service charge shall be made to a Noteholder for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes, but the Note Registrar may 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 Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.3 or 9.6 not involving any transfer.

     (g) The preceding provisions of this Section 2.5 notwithstanding, the Issuer shall not be
required to make and the Note Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Notes selected
for redemption or of any Note for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the Payment Date for any
payment with respect to such Note.

     (h) No sale, pledge or other transfer of a Class D Note shall be made unless such sale, pledge
or other transfer is (I)(A) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act, (B) for so long as the Class D Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A to a Person
the transferor reasonably believes after due inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” as
defined in Rule 144A that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified
institutional buyer to whom notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule
144A, or (C) pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and (II) in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any State of the
United States and any other relevant jurisdiction. The Depositor and the Indenture Trustee may

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require an opinion of counsel to be delivered to it in connection with any transfer of the
Class D Notes pursuant to clauses (I) (A) or (C) above.

     (i) The Class D Notes shall bear legends stating that they have not been registered under the
Securities Act and are subject to the restrictions on transfer described in this Section 2.04.
Each transferee of a Class D Note that is a Book-Entry Note, by acceptance of such Note, shall be
deemed to have accepted such Note subject to the restrictions on transferability set forth in the
immediately preceding paragraph and in the typewritten Note representing such Book-Entry Note
delivered to the Clearing Agency. A Class D Note in the form of a Definitive Note may not be
transferred, directly or indirectly, to any Person, other than the Initial Purchaser, unless (A)
the transferee of the Class D Note certifies in an investment letter, substantially in the form of
Exhibit E attached hereto, to the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee that such Person is a
“qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A) or (B) the transferee of the Class D Note
delivers to the Depositor and the Indenture Trustee an opinion of counsel that such transfer is
permitted pursuant to clause (I)(A) or (C) of the immediately preceding paragraph. Any opinions of
counsel required in connection with a transfer shall be by counsel reasonably acceptable to the
Depositor and the Indenture Trustee.

     (j) Each Person that acquires a Note shall be required to represent to the Depositor and the
Indenture Trustee, or in the case of a Note in book-entry form, will be deemed to represent by its
acceptance of the Note, that (i) it is not, and is not acquiring the Note on behalf of or with
“plan assets” (as determined under Department of Labor Regulation §2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a
Plan, or any employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (ii) its acquisition, holding and
disposition of a Class A Note, Class B Note or Class C Note will not result in a nonexempt
prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or any Similar Law.
Any attempted or purported transfer of a Note with respect to which neither of the foregoing
representations is true shall be void ab initio.

     (k) In order to preserve the exemption for resales and transfers provided by Rule 144A under
the Securities Act, the Issuer shall provide to any Holder of a Class D Note and any prospective
purchaser designated by such Holder, upon request of such Holder or such prospective purchaser,
such information required by Rule 144A as will enable the resale of such Class D Note to be made
pursuant to Rule 144A. The Servicer, the Note Registrar and the Indenture Trustee shall cooperate
with the Issuer in providing the Issuer such information regarding the Class D Notes, the Trust
Property and other matters regarding the Issuer as the Issuer shall reasonably request to meet its
obligations under the preceding sentence.

     Section 2.6 Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. (a) If (i) any mutilated Note is
surrendered to the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar, or the Indenture Trustee receives
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is
delivered to the Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note
Registrar or the Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, as
defined in Section 8-303 of the UCC, and provided that the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC
are met, the Issuer shall execute, and upon Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a
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Note, but not a mutilated Note, shall have become or within seven (7) days shall be due and
payable, or shall have been called for redemption, instead of issuing a replacement Note, the
Issuer may pay such destroyed, lost or stolen Note when so due or payable or upon the Prepayment
Date without surrender thereof. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note or payment of a
destroyed, lost or stolen Note pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, a protected
purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for
payment such original Note, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such
replacement Note (or such payment) from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking
such replacement Note from such Person to whom such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee
of such Person, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or
indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the
Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection therewith.

     (b) Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 2.6, the Issuer may require
the payment by the Noteholder of such Note 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 or Note Registrar and their counsel)
connected therewith.

     (c) Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.6 in replacement of any
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen 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 Notes duly issued hereunder.

     (d) The provisions of this Section 2.6 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 Notes.

     Section 2.7 Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment for registration of
transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of
determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and
interest, if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

     Section 2.8 Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest. (a) The Class A-1
Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes and the
Class C Notes shall accrue interest at the Class A-1 Interest Rate, the Class A-2 Interest Rate,
the Class A-3 Interest Rate, the Class A-4 Interest Rate, the Class B Interest Rate and the Class C
Interest Rate, respectively, and such interest shall be payable on each Payment Date as specified
therein, subject to Section 3.1 and Section 8.2. The Class D Notes shall not bear interest. Any
installment of interest or principal, if any, payable on any Note that is punctually paid or duly
provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name
such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record Date by check mailed
first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note Register on

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such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note Owners
pursuant to Section 2.13, with respect to Notes registered on the Record Date in the name of the
nominee of the Clearing Agency (initially, such nominee to be Cede & Co.), payment shall be made by
wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee at least ten
Business Days prior to such Payment Date, and except for the final installment of principal payable
with respect to such Note on a Payment Date, Prepayment Date or the applicable Final Scheduled
Payment Date, which shall be payable as provided below. The funds represented by any such checks
returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.3.

     (b) The principal of each Note shall be payable in installments on each Payment Date as
provided in Section 8.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of each
Class of Notes and all accrued interest thereon shall be due and payable, if not previously paid,
on the earlier of (i) the date on which an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
if the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
principal amount of the Controlling Class have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable
in the manner provided in Section 5.2 and (ii) with respect to any Class of Notes, on the Final
Scheduled Payment Date for such Class. All principal payments on each Class of Notes shall be made
pro rata to the Noteholders of such Class entitled thereto. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the
Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on the Record Date preceding the
Payment Date on which the Indenture Trustee expects that the final installment of principal of and
interest on such Note shall be paid. Such notice shall be mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior
to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final installment shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the place where such Note may be
presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in connection with redemption of
Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.2.

     Section 2.9 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer
or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture Trustee, be delivered to
the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. The Issuer may at
any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Notes so
delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in
lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section 2.9, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled 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 Issuer 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 Notes have not been previously disposed of by the
Indenture Trustee.

     Section 2.10 Release of Collateral. 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 Order accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and
Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA Sections 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

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Section 304(d) modifying the Issuer’s obligations under TIA Sections 314(c) and 314(d)(1),
subject to Section 11.1 and the terms 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.

     Section 2.11 Book-Entry Notes. The Notes, upon original issuance, shall be issued in
the form of typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes, to be delivered to The Depository
Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency, by, or on behalf of, the Issuer. The Book-Entry Notes
shall be registered initially on the Note Register in the name of Cede & Co., the nominee of the
initial Clearing Agency, and no Note Owner thereof shall receive a Definitive Note (as defined
below) representing such Note Owner’s interest in such Note, except as provided in Section 2.13.
Unless and until definitive, fully registered Notes (the “Definitive Notes”) have been issued to
such Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.13:

     (i) the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall be in full force and effect;

     (ii) the 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 Book-Entry Notes and the giving of instructions or directions hereunder)
as the sole Noteholder, and shall have no obligation to the Note Owners;

     (iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 2.11 conflict with any other
provisions of this Indenture, the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall control;

     (iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and
shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Note Owners and the
Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants pursuant to the Note Depositary
Agreement. Unless and until Definitive Notes are issued to Note Owners pursuant to Section
2.13, the initial Clearing Agency shall make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency
Participants and receive and transmit payments of principal of and interest on the
Book-Entry Notes to such Clearing Agency Participants; and

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

     Section 2.12 Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other communication to
the Noteholders of Book-Entry Notes is required under this Indenture, unless and until Definitive
Notes shall have been issued to the Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.13, the Indenture Trustee

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shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to Noteholders of
Book-Entry Notes to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Note Owners.

     Section 2.13 Definitive Notes. With respect to any Class or Classes of Book-Entry
Notes, if (i) the Depositor advises the Indenture Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no
longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to such Class of
Book-Entry Notes and the Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Depositor,
at its sole 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
or an Event of Servicing Termination, Note Owners of such Class of Book- Entry Notes evidencing
beneficial interests aggregating not less than a majority of the principal amount of such Class
advise the Indenture Trustee and 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 such Class of
Note Owners, then the Clearing Agency shall notify all Note Owners of such Class and the Indenture
Trustee of the occurrence of such event and of the availability of Definitive Notes to the Note
Owners of the applicable Class requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Indenture Trustee of the
typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by
registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the
Issuer, the 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 fully protected in relying on, such
instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes to Note Owners, the Indenture Trustee shall
recognize the holders of such Definitive Notes as Noteholders.

     Section 2.14 Authenticating Agents. (a) The Indenture Trustee, at the request of the
Issuer, 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 Notes in connection with issuance,
transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 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 Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an
Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be deemed to be the authentication of
Notes “by the Indenture Trustee.” The Indenture Trustee shall be the Authenticating Agent in the
absence of any appointment thereof.

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

     (c) Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to
the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer. 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 Issuer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such a

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termination, the Indenture Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and shall give
written notice of any such appointment to the Issuer.

     (d) The provisions of Sections 2.9 and 6.4 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent.

ARTICLE III

COVENANTS

     Section 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer shall duly and punctually
pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes
and this Indenture. Without limiting the foregoing, and subject to Section 8.2, on each Payment
Date the Issuer shall cause to be paid pursuant to Section 8.2 all amounts on deposit in the
Collection Account which represent Available Funds for such Payment Date and the Principal
Distribution Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such Payment Date and
deposited therein pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Amounts properly withheld under the
Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest and/or principal shall be
considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.
The final interest payment on each Class of Notes is due on the earlier of (a) the Payment Date
(including any Redemption Date) on which the principal amount of that Class of Notes is reduced to
zero or (b) the applicable Final Scheduled Payment Date for that Class of Notes.

     Section 3.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer shall maintain in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the
Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuer shall give prompt
written notice to the Indenture Trustee of the location, and of any change in the location, of any
such office or agency. If, at any time, the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency
or shall fail to furnish the Indenture Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices
and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, and the
Issuer 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. (a) As provided in Sections 8.2
and 5.4(b), all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made
from amounts withdrawn from the Trust Accounts shall be made on behalf of the Issuer by the
Indenture Trustee or by another Note Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from the Trust
Accounts for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer, except as provided in this Section
3.3.

     (b) On or before each Payment Date and Prepayment Date, the Issuer shall deposit or cause to
be deposited in the Collection Account an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming
due under the Notes, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons

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entitled thereto, and (unless the Note Paying Agent is the Indenture Trustee) shall promptly
notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

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

     (i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the 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 Issuer (or any other
obligor upon the Notes) of which it has actual knowledge in the making of any payment
required to be made with respect to the 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 Note Paying Agent;

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

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

     (d) The Issuer 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 Note Paying Agent to pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Note 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 Note Paying
Agent; and upon such payment by any Note Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Note Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

     (e) Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the
Indenture Trustee or any Note Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect
to any Note and remaining unclaimed for two (2) years after such amount has become due and payable
shall be discharged from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Order; and the Noteholder
of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for
payment thereof (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer), and all liability of
the Indenture Trustee or such Note Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon
cease; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee or such Note Paying Agent,

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before being required to make any such repayment, shall at the expense and direction of the
Issuer 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
thirty (30) days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining shall be repaid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall also adopt and employ, at the
expense and direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment
(including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to Noteholders whose Notes have
been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in monies
due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the Indenture Trustee or of any
Note Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Noteholder).

     Section 3.4 Existence. The Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights and
franchises as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware (unless it becomes, or any
successor Issuer hereunder is or becomes, organized under the laws of any other State or of the
United States of America, in which case the Issuer shall keep in full effect its existence, rights
and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and shall 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 Notes, the Collateral
and each other instrument or agreement included in the Indenture Trust Estate.

     Section 3.5 Protection of Indenture Trust Estate. (a) The Issuer shall 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
shall 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 Noteholders in such Indenture Trust Estate against the claims of
all Persons.

     The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee as its agent and attorney-in-fact to
execute any financing statement or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this
Section 3.5 that has been prepared by the Issuer and delivered to the Indenture Trustee for
execution; provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee shall be under no obligation to prepare or
file any such financing statement or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this
Section 3.5. The Issuer hereby designates each of the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee as
its agent and attorney-in-fact to prepare, execute and file any continuation statements required
pursuant to this Section 3.5. Notwithstanding any statement to the contrary contained herein or

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in any other Basic Document, the Issuer shall not be required to notify any Dealer or any
insurer with respect to any Insurance Policy about any aspect of the transactions contemplated by
the Basic Documents. The costs associated with such preparation, execution and filing are not
included in the Indenture Trustee Fee and any such costs shall be paid by the Issuer.

     (b) The Issuer further makes all the representations and warranties set forth in Exhibit F.

     Section 3.6 Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate.

     (a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause to be furnished 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, 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 on April 30, 2006, the Issuer 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 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 shall, 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; Servicing of Receivables.

     (a) The Issuer shall not take any action and shall use its best efforts not to permit any
action to be taken by others 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
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 this Indenture and the other Basic Documents.

     (b) The Issuer 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 Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the Issuer.
Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the Owner Trustee to assist the Issuer
in performing its duties under this Indenture.

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     (c) The Issuer shall punctually perform and observe all of its 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 financing statements required to be filed under the UCC by the terms of this Indenture
and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for
herein and therein. The Issuer shall file or cause to be filed all continuation statements required
under the UCC by the terms of this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance
with and within the time periods provided for herein and therein. Except as otherwise expressly
provided therein, the Issuer shall not waive, amend, modify, supplement or terminate any Basic
Document or any provision thereof except in accordance with the amendment provisions set forth in
such Transaction Document.

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

     (i) 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 Issuer,
including those included in the Indenture Trust Estate;

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

     (iii) dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part; or

     (iv) (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 with
respect to the Notes 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 assets of the Issuer, including those included in 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
of the Financed Vehicles and arising solely as a result of an action or omission of the
related Obligor) 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.

Notwithstanding any statement to the contrary contained herein or in any other Basic Document, the
Issuer shall not be required to notify any Dealer or any insurer with respect to any Insurance
Policy about any aspect of the transactions contemplated by the Basic Documents.

     Section 3.9 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each calendar year (commencing April 30, 2006),
an Officer’s Certificate stating that:

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     (i) a review of the activities of the Issuer during such year and of its 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
Issuer has complied in all material respects with all conditions and covenants under this
Indenture throughout such year (or since the Closing Date in the case of the first such
Officer’s Certificate), or, if there has been a default in any material respect in its
compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to such
Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.

     Section 3.10 Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms. (a) The Issuer
shall not consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, unless:

     (i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or
merger shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America or any State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the
performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of
the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein;

     (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Unmatured Event of Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

     (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such
transaction;

     (iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered
copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have
any material adverse federal tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;

     (v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture shall have been taken; and

     (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such consolidation or merger and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filing
required by the Exchange Act) in all material respects.

     (b) Other than as specifically contemplated by the Basic Documents, the Issuer shall not
convey or transfer any of its properties or assets, including those included in the Indenture Trust
Estate, to any Person, unless:

     (i) the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the
Issuer the conveyance or transfer of which is hereby restricted shall (A) be a

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United States citizen or a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United
States of America or any State, (B) expressly assumes, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on all Notes and the
performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of this Indenture on the part of
the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided herein, (C) expressly agrees by
means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and interest so conveyed or
transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of Noteholders, (D) unless
otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to indemnify, defend and
hold harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense arising under or
related to this Indenture and the Notes, and (E) expressly agrees by means of such
supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified
Person) shall make all filings, if any, with the Commission (and any other appropriate
Person) required by the Exchange Act in connection with the Notes;

     (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Unmatured Event of Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

     (iii) the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such
transaction;

     (iv) the Issuer shall have received an Opinion of Counsel (and shall have delivered
copies thereof to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such transaction will not have
any material adverse federal tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder or any
Certificateholder;

     (v) any action that is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by
this Indenture shall have been taken; and

     (vi) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such conveyance or transfer and such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article III and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with (including any filing
required by the Exchange Act) in all material respects.

     Section 3.11 Successor or Transferee. (a) Upon any consolidation or merger of the
Issuer in accordance with Section 3.10(a), the Person formed by or surviving such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Issuer) shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every
right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Person had been
named as the Issuer herein.

     (b) Upon a conveyance or transfer of all the assets and properties of the Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.10(b), the Issuer shall be released from every covenant and agreement of this Indenture
to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to the Notes immediately upon
the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that the Issuer is to be so
released.

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     Section 3.12 No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business other
than financing, acquiring, owning and pledging the Receivables in the manner contemplated by this
Indenture and the Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto.

     Section 3.13 No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or
otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness except for the Notes and the
Certificates.

     Section 3.14 Servicer’s Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the Servicer to comply
with the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     Section 3.15 Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as
contemplated by this Indenture and the other Basic Documents, the Issuer 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 3.16 Capital Expenditures. The Issuer shall not make any expenditure (by
long-term or operating lease or otherwise) for capital assets (either realty or personalty).

     Section 3.17 [Reserved].

     Section 3.18 Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly, (i)
make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities
or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer
or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or security in or of the Issuer or to
the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value any such ownership or
equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise segregate any amounts for any such
purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause to be made, payments to the
Servicer, the Receivables Servicers, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Noteholders and
the Certificateholders as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such purpose
under, this Indenture and the other Basic Documents. The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly,
make payments to or distributions from the Collection Account or the Principal Distribution Account
except in accordance with this Indenture and the other Basic Documents.

     Section 3.19 Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the Indenture Trustee
and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder, of which the
Issuer has actual knowledge, and of each default on the part of any party under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, of which the Issuer has actual knowledge.

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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 Notes except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and
exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of
Noteholders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) Sections 3.3, 3.4,
3.5, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13, (v) the rights, obligations, protections and immunities of the
Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under Section 6.7, (vi)
the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under Sections 4.2 and 4.3), and (vii) the rights of
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 of and at the expense
of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture with respect to the Notes, when:

     (A) either (1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Notes
that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.6 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust
or segregated and held in trust by the Issuer and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 3.3) have been delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation; or (2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Indenture
Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable and the Issuer has 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 to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore
delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the applicable Final
Scheduled Payment Date or Prepayment Date (if Notes shall have been called for prepayment
pursuant to Section 10.1), as the case may be; and

     (B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder and under
any of the other Basic Documents by the Issuer; and the Issuer has delivered to the
Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of Counsel and (if required 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(a) and, subject to
Section 11.2, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.

     Upon the satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture pursuant to this Section 4.1, at the
request of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall deliver to the Owner Trustee a
certificate of a Trustee Officer stating that all Noteholders have been paid in full and stating
whether, to the best knowledge of such Trustee Officer, any claims remain against the Issuer in
respect of the Indenture and the Notes.

     Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All monies deposited with the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the

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provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Note Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Noteholders of the particular
Notes for the payment or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the Indenture
Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest, but such monies need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required herein or in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or required by law.

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

ARTICLE V

REMEDIES

     Section 5.1 Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means the
occurrence and continuation of 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 Note of the Controlling Class when
the same becomes due and payable on a Payment Date, and such default shall continue for a
period of thirty-five (35) days or more; or

     (ii) default in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of
any Note when the same becomes due and payable; or

     (iii) default in the observance or performance in any material respect of any material
covenant or agreement of the Issuer made in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
agreement, a default in the observance or performance of which is elsewhere in this Section
5.1 specifically dealt with) that materially and adversely affects the Noteholders and such
default shall continue for a period of ninety (90) days, after there shall have been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee by the holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Controlling Class, a written notice specifying
such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default” hereunder; or

     (iv) any representation or warranty of the Issuer made in this Indenture proves to have
been incorrect in any material respect as of the time when the same shall have been made,
which materially and adversely affects the interests of the Noteholders and such default
shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition in respect of which such
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otherwise cured, for a period of ninety (90) days, after there shall have been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or to the Issuer and
the Indenture Trustee by the holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Controlling Class, a written notice specifying
such default and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default” hereunder; or

     (v) the filing of a decree or order for relief by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises in respect of the Issuer 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 Issuer or for any substantial
part of the Indenture Trust Estate, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of the
Issuer’s affairs, and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period
of ninety (90) consecutive days; or

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

provided, however, that a delay in or failure of performance referred to under clauses (i), (ii) or
(iii) above for a period of 150 days will not constitute an Event of Default if that delay or
failure was caused by force majeure or other similar occurrence.

     Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. (a) If an Event of
Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case, the Indenture Trustee may, or
the Indenture Trustee as directed in writing by the Holders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, shall, declare all the Notes to be
immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the Issuer, and upon any such declaration
the Outstanding Amount of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the
date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Section 5.2(a), if an Event of Default specified in clauses (v) or (vi) of Section
5.1, the Notes shall become automatically due and payable at par, together with accrued interest
thereon.

     (b) At any time after a declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a
judgment or decree for payment of the amount due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
hereinafter provided in this Article V, the holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of
the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, by written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

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     (i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Indenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
all payments of principal of and interest on all Notes and all other amounts that would then
be due hereunder or upon such Notes if the Event of Default giving rise to such acceleration
had not occurred; and

     (ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of principal of the Notes that
has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section
5.12.

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

     (c) If the Notes have been declared due and payable or have automatically become due and
payable following an Event of Default, the Indenture Trustee may institute proceedings to collect
amounts due, exercise remedies as a secured party (including foreclosure or sale of the Collateral)
or elect to maintain the Collateral and continue to apply the proceeds from the Collateral as if
there had been no declaration of acceleration. Any sale of the Collateral by the Indenture Trustee
will be subject to the terms and conditions of Section 5.4.

     Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee.
(a) The Issuer covenants that if (i) there is an Event of Default relating to the nonpayment of
any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such Event of Default continues
for a period of thirty-five (35) Business Days, or (ii) there is an Event of Default relating to
the nonpayment in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any Note
when the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay
to the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit of the Noteholders, the whole amount then due and payable
on such 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 Note Interest Rate borne by the 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 Issuer 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 Issuer or other obligor upon such Notes and
collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or other obligor upon such
Notes, wherever situated, the monies 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 5.4, in its discretion or shall at the written direction of the
Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes proceed to protect and enforce its
rights and the rights of the Noteholders, by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee
or the Indenture Trustee at the written direction of the Holders of at least a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes shall reasonably deem most effective to protect and enforce any
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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.

     (c) In case there shall be pending, relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the 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 Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other
comparable judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the
creditors or property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of
whether the principal of any 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 5.3, 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 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 reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and liabilities incurred by the Indenture Trustee and
each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of
the Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

     (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law or regulations, to vote on behalf of the
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 monies or other property payable or deliverable on
any such claims and to pay all amounts received with respect to the claims of the
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 Noteholders allowed in
any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuer, 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 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 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 by the Indenture Trustee and each predecessor Indenture Trustee, except as a result
of negligence or bad faith.

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     (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 Noteholder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any
Noteholder or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any 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
Notes, may be enforced by the Indenture Trustee without the possession of any of the 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, 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 Noteholders.

     (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 Noteholders, and it shall not be
necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

     Section 5.4 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 5.5
and 6.2(f)):

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

     (iv) 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 unless:

     (A) the holders of Notes evidencing 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling
Class consent thereto; or

     (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation are sufficient to pay in full the
principal of and the accrued interest on the Outstanding Notes at the date of such sale; or

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     (C) with respect to an Event of Default set forth in Section 5.1(i) or (ii), the
Indenture Trustee determines that the Indenture Trust Estate will not continue to provide
sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes as they would
have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable and the Indenture Trustee
obtains the consent of holders of Notes evidencing not less than two thirds of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if the
Event of Default is pursuant to clause (iii) or (iv) of Section 5.1, the Indenture Trustee
may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate unless the Holders of all
Outstanding Notes consent to such sale or the proceeds of such sale are sufficient to pay in
full the principal of and accrued interest on the Outstanding Notes.

     In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clauses (B) and (C) above,
the Indenture Trustee may, but need not, obtain 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.

     (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8.2 of this Agreement or Section 4.5 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, if the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to
liquidations of the Indenture Trust Estate in accordance with this Article V, it shall pay out the
money or property in the following order of priority:

     (i) first, to the Indenture Trustee, the Note Paying Agent and the Note Registrar for
amounts due under Section 6.7, and then to the Servicer for the amounts due under Section
8.2(c)(i) (if Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company is not the Servicer);

     (ii) second, to the Owner Trustee for the amounts due under Section 8.2(c)(ii);

     (iii) third, to the Holders of the Class A Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class A Notes in respect of interest (including any premium), ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A Notes in
respect of interest (including any premium);

     (iv) fourth, to Holders of the Class A-1 Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Class
A-1 Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A-1 Notes in respect of principal,
until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes is reduced to zero;

     (v) fifth, to the Holders of the Class A-2 Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class A-2 Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A-2 Notes in respect of
principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2 Notes is reduced to zero;

     (vi) sixth, to the Holders of the Class A-3 Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class A-3 Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A-3 Notes in respect of
principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3 Notes is reduced to zero;

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     (vii) seventh, to the Holders of the Class A-4 Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class A-4 Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A-4 Notes in respect of
principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;

     (viii) eighth, to the Holders of the Class B Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class B Notes in respect of interest (including any premium), ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes in
respect of interest (including any premium);

     (ix) ninth, to the Holders of the Class B Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Class
B Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes in respect of principal, until
the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes is reduced to zero;

     (x) tenth, to the Holders of the Class C Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Class
C Notes in respect of interest (including any premium), ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Class C Notes in
respect of interest (including any premium);

     (xi) eleventh, to the Holders of the Class C Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Class C Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class C Notes in respect of principal, until
the Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes is reduced to zero;

     (xii) twelfth, to Holders of the Class D Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Class
D Notes in respect of principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class D Notes in respect of principal, until
the Outstanding Amount of the Class D Notes is reduced to zero;

     (xiii) thirteenth, to the Servicer (if Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company is the Servicer)
the amounts due under Section 8.2(c)(x) or (xii), as the case may be;

     (xiv) fourteenth, any amounts remaining after making the payments described in clauses
(i) through (xiii) above, to be applied pursuant to Section 8.2(c) to the extent that any
amounts payable thereunder have not been previously paid pursuant to clauses (i) through
(xiii) above.

     The Indenture Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Noteholders
pursuant to this Section 5.4. At least fifteen (15) days before such record date, the Indenture
Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder a notice that states the record date, the payment date and
the amount to be paid.

     Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of the Receivables. If the Notes have been declared
to be due and payable under Section 5.2 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 and apply proceeds pursuant to Section 8.2(c)
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the Noteholders that there be at all times sufficient funds for the payment of principal of
and interest on the 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 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 5.6 Limitation of Suits. (a) No 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 Noteholder has previously given written notice to the Indenture Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default;

     (ii) the holders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class have made written request to the Indenture Trustee to institute such
Proceeding in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Indenture Trustee
hereunder;

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

     (iv) the Indenture Trustee for sixty (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 sixty-day period by the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class.

     No Noteholder or group of 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 Noteholders or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other
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 Noteholders, each evidencing less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the Indenture Trustee shall act at the direction of
the group of Noteholders representing the greater percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class. If the Indenture Trustee receives conflicting or inconsistent requests and
indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders representing an equal percentage of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may
determine what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this
Indenture.

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     (b) No Noteholder shall have any right to vote except as provided pursuant to this Indenture
and the other Basic Documents, nor any right in any manner to otherwise control the operation and
management of the Issuer. However, in connection with any action as to which Noteholders are
entitled to vote or consent under this Indenture and the Notes, the Issuer may set a record date
for purposes of determining the identity of Noteholders entitled to vote or consent in accordance
with TIA Section 316(c).

     Section 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, any Noteholder shall have the right, which
is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on its
Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this Indenture (or,
in the case of prepayment pursuant to Article X, on or after the Prepayment Date) and to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the
consent of such Noteholder.

     Section 5.8 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee or any
Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or 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 Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the 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 Noteholders shall continue as though no such
Proceeding had been instituted.

     Section 5.9 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon
or reserved to the Indenture Trustee or to the 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 5.10 Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Indenture
Trustee or any Noteholder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Unmatured Event of
Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein. Every right and
remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Indenture Trustee or to the Noteholders may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Indenture Trustee or
by the Noteholders, as the case may be.

     Section 5.11 Control by Controlling Class. Except as expressly provided otherwise in
this Indenture, for so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not
less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class 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 Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Indenture Trustee; provided that:

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

     (b) the Indenture Trustee shall not sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate except
pursuant to the express terms of Section 5.4(a); and

     (c) the Indenture Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Indenture Trustee
that is not inconsistent with such direction.

     Notwithstanding the rights of Noteholders set forth in this Section 5.11, subject to Section
6.1, the Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might expose it to personal
liability or might materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such
action.

     Section 5.12 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the acceleration of
the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.2, the holders of Notes evidencing not less than
a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may waive any past Unmatured Event of
Default or Event of Default and its consequences except an Unmatured Event of Default (a) in the
payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a covenant or
provision hereof that cannot be amended, supplemented or modified without the consent of each
Noteholder. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders
shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other Unmatured Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereto.

     Upon any such waiver, such Unmatured Event of Default shall cease to exist and be deemed to
have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default arising therefrom 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 Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default
or impair any right consequent thereto.

     Section 5.13 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each
Noteholder by such 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 5.13 shall not apply to (a) any suit instituted by the Indenture Trustee, (b) any
suit instituted by any Noteholder or group of Noteholders, in each case holding in the aggregate
more than 10% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes (or in the case of a right or remedy under
this Indenture which is instituted by the Controlling Class, more than 10% of the Controlling
Class) or (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of principal
of or interest on any Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note and in this
Indenture (or, in the case of a prepayment, on or after the Prepayment Date).

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     Section 5.14 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) that it shall 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 Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all
benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall 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 5.15 Action on Notes. The Indenture Trustee’s right to seek and recover
judgment on the 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 Noteholders shall be impaired
by the recovery of any judgment by the Indenture Trustee against the Issuer 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 Issuer. Any money or property collected by the Indenture Trustee shall be applied in
accordance with this Indenture.

     Section 5.16 Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations. (a) Promptly
following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so, the Issuer shall take all such lawful
action as the Indenture Trustee may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by
each of the Seller, the Servicer and the Receivables Servicers, as applicable, of its obligations
to the Issuer under or in connection with any Basic Document and to exercise any and all rights,
remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the Issuer under or in connection with the
Basic Documents to the extent and in the manner directed by the Indenture Trustee, including the
transmission of notices of default on the part of the Seller or the Servicer thereunder and the
institution of legal or administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by
each of the Seller, the Servicer and the Receivables Servicers of its obligations to the Issuer
under or in connection with any Basic Document.

     (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, and at
the written direction of the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall, exercise all rights, remedies, powers,
privileges and claims of the Issuer against the Seller, the Servicer or the Receivables Servicers
under or in connection with any Basic Document, including the right or power to take any action to
compel or secure performance or observance by each of the Seller, the Servicer or the Receivables
Servicers, as the case may be, of its obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any consent,
request, notice, direction, approval, extension, or waiver under the Basic Documents and any right
of the Issuer to take such action shall be suspended.

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

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     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, 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 the certificates and opinions 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 willful misconduct, except that:

     (i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 6.1;

     (ii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by a Trustee 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 5.11.

     (d) 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 Issuer.

     (e) 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 Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

     (f) 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 repayment of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it.

     (g) 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.

     (h) The Indenture Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default unless
either (1) a Trustee Officer of the Indenture Trustee shall have actual knowledge

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of such Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Event of Default shall have been given
to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

     Section 6.2 Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The Indenture Trustee may conclusively
rely on any resolution, 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 matters stated in any such document.

     (b) Before the Indenture Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s
Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel from the appropriate party. The Indenture Trustee shall not be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on an Officer’s
Certificate or Opinion of Counsel from the appropriate party.

     (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
any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed by the Indenture Trustee with due care.

     (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
such action or omission by the Indenture Trustee does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence
or bad faith.

     (e) The Indenture Trustee may consult with counsel, and the advice or opinion of counsel with
respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes shall be full and complete
authorization and protection from liability in respect to 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 institute, conduct or defend any litigation hereunder or in
relation hereto or to honor the request or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to this
Indenture unless such Noteholders shall have offered to the Indenture Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to it 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) The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the
powers granted hereunder.

     (h) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the
Indenture Trustee be liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind
whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits).

     Section 6.3 Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. Subject to compliance with the
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Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and
may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were
not Indenture Trustee. Any Note Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent
hereunder may do the same with like rights.

     Section 6.4 Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee (i) shall not be
responsible for, and makes no representation as to, the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or
the Notes and (ii) shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, or
responsible for any statement of the Issuer in this Indenture or in any document issued in
connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s
certificate of authentication.

     Section 6.5 Notice of Defaults. If an Unmatured Event of Default occurs and is
continuing and if it is actually known to a Trustee Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee shall mail to each Noteholder notice of such Unmatured Event of Default within ninety (90)
days after it occurs. Except in the case of an Unmatured Event of Default in payment of principal
of or interest on any Note (including payments pursuant to the mandatory redemption provisions of
such Note), the Indenture Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its
Trustee Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of
Noteholders.

     Section 6.6 Reports by Indenture Trustee to Noteholders. The Indenture Trustee shall
deliver to each Noteholder, not later than the latest date permitted by law, such information as
may be required to enable such holder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns.

     Section 6.7 Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Issuer shall cause the payment to be
made to the Indenture Trustee from time to time compensation for its services to the extent of and
in the priority set forth in Section 8.2(c) and as described in the Indenture Trustee Fee Letter.
The Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee
of an express trust. The Issuer shall cause reimbursement to be made to the Indenture Trustee for
all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in
addition to the compensation for its services, out of the Issuer to the extent of and in accordance
with the priority in Section 8.2(c). Such expenses shall include the reasonable out-of-pocket
compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee’s agents, counsel,
accountants and experts. The Issuer shall indemnify the Indenture Trustee and its officers,
directors, employees and agents against any and all loss, claim, suit, damage, judgment, action,
liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in
connection with the administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder in
accordance with the priority in Section 8.2. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer
promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Indenture Trustee to so
notify the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations hereunder if no material
prejudice to the Issuer shall have resulted from such failure and, in such event, only to the
extent of such prejudice. The Issuer shall not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any
loss, liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture Trustee’s own
willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

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     (b) The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.7
shall survive the resignation or removal of the Indenture Trustee and the discharge of this
Indenture. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of an Unmatured Event of
Default specified in Section 5.1(iv) or (v) with respect to the Issuer, 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 6.8 Replacement of Indenture Trustee. (a) No resignation or removal of the
Indenture Trustee, and no appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee, shall become effective
until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8
and payment in full of all sums due to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7. The holders
of Notes evidencing not less than a majority in principal amount of the Controlling Class may
remove the Indenture Trustee without cause by so notifying the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer and
may appoint a successor Indenture Trustee. The Issuer shall remove the Indenture Trustee if:

     (i) the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11;

     (ii) an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Indenture Trustee;

     (iii) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Indenture Trustee or its
property;

     (iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting; or

     (v) the Indenture Trustee breaches any representation, warranty or covenant made by it
under any Basic Document.

     The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by giving 30 days’ written notice to the Issuer.
If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed 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 Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Indenture Trustee.

     (b) Any successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to
the retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon, if all sums due the retiring
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 have been paid in full, the resignation or removal of the
retiring Indenture Trustee shall become effective, the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all
the rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture and the resigning
Indenture Trustee shall be relieved of all of its obligations hereunder. The successor Indenture
Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. If all sums due the retiring
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 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.

     (c) If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within sixty (60) days after the
retiring Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the
holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority in the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling
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successor Indenture Trustee. If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any
Noteholder who has been a bona fide Noteholder for at least six (6) months may petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee.

     (d) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section 6.8, the
obligations of the Issuer under Section 6.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring
Indenture Trustee.

     Section 6.9 Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. (a) If the Indenture Trustee
consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate
trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving
or transferee corporation or banking association without any further act shall be the successor
Indenture Trustee; provided that such corporation or banking association shall be otherwise
qualified and eligible under Section 6.11.

     (b) 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 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 Notes so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any
successor to the Indenture Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the Indenture Trustee. In all such cases
such certificates shall have the full force which it is provided anywhere in the Notes or in this
Indenture that the certificate of the Indenture Trustee shall have.

     Section 6.10 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 part of the Indenture Trust Estate may at the
time be located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver an
instrument 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 Issuer, and to vest in such Person or
Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the Indenture Secured Parties, such title to the
Indenture Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and, subject to the other provisions of this Section
6.10, 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 6.11 and no notice to Noteholders of the
appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be required under Section 6.8.

     (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 shall not be authorized to act separately without the
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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 trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission
of any other trustee hereunder; and

     (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 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 Indenture
Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.

     Section 6.11 Eligibility; Disqualification. (a) The Indenture Trustee shall at all
times satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(4)(i) of Rule 3a-7 of the Investment Company Act
and TIA Section 310(a). The Indenture Trustee or its parent 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 by each of the Rating Agencies
or shall otherwise be acceptable to each of the Rating Agencies. The Indenture Trustee shall comply
with TIA Section 310(b).

     (b) Within ninety (90) days after ascertaining the occurrence of an Event of Default which
shall not have been cured or waived, unless authorized by the Commission, the Indenture Trustee
shall resign with respect to the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and/or the
Class D Notes in accordance with Section 6.8 of this Indenture, and the Issuer shall appoint a
successor Indenture Trustee for each of such Classes, as applicable, so that there will be separate
Indenture Trustees for the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D
Notes. In the event the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with the terms of the

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preceding sentence, the Indenture Trustee shall comply with clauses (ii) and (iii) of TIA
Section 310(b).

     (c) In the case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Indenture Trustee with respect to
any Class of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.11, the Issuer, the retiring Indenture Trustee and
the successor Indenture Trustee with respect to such Class of Notes shall execute and deliver an
indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Indenture Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to
transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, the successor Indenture Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of the Class to which
the appointment of such successor Indenture Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Indenture Trustee
is not retiring with respect to all Classes of Notes, shall contain such provisions as shall be
deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Indenture Trustee with respect to the Notes of each Class as to which the retiring
Indenture Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the Indenture Trustee and (iii)
shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for
or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Indenture Trustee, it
being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such
Indenture Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Indenture Trustee shall be a
trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder
administered by any other such Indenture Trustee; and upon the removal of the retiring Indenture
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided herein.

     Section 6.12 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. 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 6.13  Waiver of Setoffs. The Indenture Trustee hereby expressly waives any
and all rights of setoff that the Indenture Trustee may otherwise at any time have under applicable
law with respect to any Trust Account and agrees that amounts in the Trust Accounts shall at all
times be held and applied solely in accordance with the provisions hereof and of the other Basic
Documents.

     Section 6.14 Representations and Warranties. The Indenture Trustee hereby makes the
following representations and warranties on which the Issuer and the Noteholders shall rely:

     (a) the Indenture Trustee is a national banking association duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of the United States of America; and

     (b) the Indenture Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver, and
perform this Indenture and shall have taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Indenture.

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ARTICLE VII

NOTEHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS

     Section 7.1 Note Registrar To Furnish Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee Names and
Addresses of Noteholders. The Note Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished (a) to the
Indenture Trustee not more than five (5) days after each Record Date, a list of the names and
addresses of the Noteholders as of such Record Date and (b) to the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee at such other times as the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, as applicable, may
request in writing, within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Note Registrar of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than ten (10) days prior to the
time such list is furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note
Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee. The Note
Registrar shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Owner Trustee on the Closing Date a list of
the names and addresses of the Noteholders as of the first Record Date.

     Section 7.2 Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.

     (a) The Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the names and addresses of the Noteholders contained in the most recent list furnished to the
Indenture Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Noteholders received by
the Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. The
Indenture Trustee shall make such list available to the Owner Trustee on written request, and to
the Noteholders upon written request of three (3) or more Noteholders or one or more Noteholders
evidencing not less than 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

     (b) Noteholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other Noteholders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes.

     (c) The Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Note Registrar shall have the protection of TIA
Section 312(c).

     Section 7.3 Reports by Issuer. (a) The Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Issuer
shall:

     (i) file with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the 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 Issuer may be
required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;

     (ii) file with 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 Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as
may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

     (iii) upon Issuer Order transmit by mail to all Noteholders described in TIA Section
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filed by the Issuer pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 7.3(a) and by
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

     (b) Unless the Issuer otherwise determines, the fiscal year of the Issuer shall end on
December 31 of each year.

     Section 7.4 Reports by Indenture Trustee.

     (a) If required by TIA Section 313(a), within sixty (60) days after each May 15, beginning
with May 15, 2006, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each 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 Noteholders shall be filed by the
Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are
listed. The Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock
exchange.

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 and the Sale
and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as
provided in this Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. 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 an Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default under this Indenture and
any right to proceed thereafter as provided in Article V.

     Section 8.2 Trust Accounts.

     (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall cause the Servicer to establish and
maintain the Trust Accounts as provided in Sections 4.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     (b) On or before each Determination Date, all Available Funds with respect to the Collection
Period preceding such Payment Date shall be deposited in the Collection Account as provided in
Sections 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     (c) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the
Monthly Noteholder Report delivered on or before the related Determination Date pursuant to Section
3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) shall make the following

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withdrawals from the Collection Account and make deposits, distributions and payments, to the
extent of Available Funds for such Payment Date, in the following order of priority:

     (i) first, if Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company is not the Servicer, to the Servicer, any
accrued and unpaid Net Servicing Fee for the related Collection Period (and to the Servicer,
any accrued and unpaid Net Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods);

     (ii) second, (i) pro rata (a) to the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee Fee for
the related Collection Period (and any accrued and unpaid Indenture Trustee Fees from prior
Collection Periods), and (b) to the Owner Trustee, the Owner Trustee Fee for the related
Collection Period (and any accrued and unpaid Owner Trustee Fees from prior Collection
Periods), and then (ii) pro rata to the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee, any other
accrued and unpaid amounts (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) owed to the
Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee not to exceed $100,000 in the aggregate in any
consecutive twelve (12) month period;

     (iii) third, to the Holders of the Class A Notes, ratably, the Class A Interest Payment
Amount for such Payment Date;

     (iv) fourth, to the Principal Distribution Account, for payment pursuant to Section
8.2(d), the First Allocation of Principal for such Payment Date;

     (v) fifth, to the Holders of the Class B Notes, ratably, the Class B Interest Payment
Amount;

     (vi) sixth, to the Principal Distribution Account for payment pursuant to Section
8.2(d), the Second Allocation of Principal for such Payment Date;

     (vii) seventh, to the Holders of the Class C Notes, ratably, the Class C Interest
Payment Amount;

     (viii) eighth, to the Principal Distribution Account for payment pursuant to Section
8.2(d), the Third Allocation of Principal for such Payment Date;

     (ix) ninth, to the Principal Distribution Account for payment pursuant to Section
8.2(d), the Regular Allocation of Principal for such Payment Date;

     (x) tenth, if there is no Overcollateralization Increase Condition in effect, if
Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company is the Servicer to the Servicer, any accrued and unpaid Net
Servicing Fee for the related Collection Period (and to the Servicer, any accrued and unpaid
Net Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods);

     (xi) eleventh, to the Principal Distribution Account for payment pursuant to Section
8.2(d), the Excess Allocation of Principal for such Payment Date;

     (xii) twelfth, if there is an Overcollateralization Increase Condition in effect, if
Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company is the Servicer to the Servicer, any accrued and

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unpaid Net Servicing Fee for the related Collection Period (and to the Servicer, any
accrued and unpaid Net Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods);

     (xiii) thirteenth, to the applicable party, any accrued and unpaid fees or expenses
(including reasonable legal fees and expenses) or any other amounts owed by the issuer to
such party, to the extent not paid pursuant to clauses (i) through (xii) above; and

     (xiv) fourteenth, the remainder, if any, to the Certificate Distribution Account for
distribution to the Certificateholders.

     (d) On each Payment Date, the Indenture Trustee (based on the information contained in the
Monthly Noteholder Report on which the Indenture Trustee can conclusively rely delivered on or
before the related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement)
shall withdraw the funds deposited in the Principal Distribution Account on such Payment Date and
make distributions and payments of such funds in the sequential order as follows:

     (i) first, to the Holders of the Class A Notes, in the following order of priority, the
Class A Principal Payment Amount for such Payment Date:

     (A) to the Holders of the Class A-1 Notes until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1
Notes is reduced to zero;

     (B) to the Holders of the Class A-2 Notes until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2
Notes is reduced to zero;

     (C) to the Holders of the Class A-3 Notes until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3
Notes is reduced to zero; and

     (D) to the Holders of the Class A-4 Notes until the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4
Notes is reduced to zero;

     (ii) second, to the Holders of the Class B Notes, the Class B Principal Payment Amount
for such Payment Date;

     (iii) third, to the Holders of the Class C Notes, the Class C Principal Payment Amount
for such Payment Date; and

     (iv) fourth, to the Holders of the Class D Notes, the Class D Principal Payment Amount
for such Payment Date.

     (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the priority of payments set forth in Section 8.2(d) shall
be adjusted as follows:

     (i) in no event will the principal payment allocated to any subclass of any Note exceed
the Outstanding Amount of such subclass.

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     (ii) on the Final Scheduled Payment Date for each subclass of any Note, the principal
payment to be applied to such subclass will include the amount, to the extent of the
remaining Available Funds, necessary (after giving effect to the other amounts to be
deposited in the Principal Distribution Account on that Payment Date) to reduce the
outstanding principal amount of that subclass to zero.

     (iii) no principal payments will be made on the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes or the
Class D Notes on any Payment Date until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in full;

     (iv) in the event of any shortfall in the amount of funds available for principal
payments on the Notes on any Payment Date, no principal payments will be made on the Class B
Notes on any Payment Date until all amounts payable with respect to the Class A Notes on
that Payment Date have been paid in full, no principal payments will be made on the Class C
Notes on any Payment Date until all amounts payable with respect to the Class B Notes on
that Payment Date have been paid in full, and no principal payments will be made on the
Class D Notes on any Payment Date until all amounts payable with respect to the Class C
Notes on that Payment Date have been paid in full.

     (v) if, on any Payment Date, the Three-Month Annualized Net Loss Ratio exceeds the
Sequential Principal Payment Trigger Percentage in effect on that Payment Date, then on each
such Payment Date until the Three-Month Annualized Net Loss Ratio is reduced below the
Sequential Principal Payment Trigger Percentage in effect on that Payment Date, the Issuer
will pay from the Principal Distribution Account the principal on the Notes of each Class
sequentially starting with the most senior and earliest maturing Class of Notes then
outstanding (in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.2(d)) until each Class is paid
in full.

     (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article VIII, and subject to Section 5.4(b):

     (i) If the Notes have been accelerated following the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(i), 5.1(ii), 5.1(v) or 5.1(vi),
but prior to the liquidation of the Indenture Trust Estate, the Indenture Trustee shall (A)
transfer the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the application of
clauses 8.2(c)(i) through (iii) to the Principal Distribution Account to the extent
necessary to reduce the Outstanding Amount of all the Class A Notes to zero, or, (B) if the
Class A Notes shall have been paid in full, to transfer the funds on deposit in the
Collection Account remaining after the application of clauses 8.2(c)(i) through (v) to the
Principal Distribution Account to the extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all
the Class B Notes to zero, or, (C) if the Class A Notes and Class B Notes shall have been
paid in full, to transfer the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the
application of clauses 8.2(c)(i) through (vii) to the Principal Distribution Account to the
extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all the Class C Notes to zero, or, (D) if
the Class A Notes, Class B Notes and Class C Notes shall have been paid in full, to transfer
the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the application of clauses
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extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all the Class D Notes to zero. Any
amounts transferred to the Principal Distribution Account pursuant to clause (A) shall be
applied to the repayment of principal of the Class A Notes in the order of priority
described in Section 8.2(d)(i).

     (ii) If the Notes have been accelerated following the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(iii) or 5.1(iv), the Indenture
Trustee shall transfer the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the
application of clauses 8.2(c)(i) through (ix) to the Principal Distribution Account to the
extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all the Notes to zero. Any such
remaining funds shall be used to pay principal in respect of the Notes, sequentially,
starting with the most senior and earliest maturing Class of Notes then outstanding (with
respect to the Class A Notes, in the order of priority described in Section 8.2(d)(i)) until
that Class is paid in full.

     (g) In the case of an event described in Section 8.2(e)(i) or (ii), the Holders of the
Certificates will not receive any distributions until the principal amount and accrued interest on
all the Notes has been paid in full.

     Section 8.3 General Provisions Regarding Accounts.

     (a) So long as no Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, all or a portion of the funds in the Collection Account shall be invested by the
Indenture Trustee at the written direction of the Servicer in Permitted Investments specified in
such written direction as provided in Section 4.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. No income
or other gain (net of losses and investment expenses) from investments of monies deposited in the
Collection Account shall be included in Available Funds and all such income or other gain shall be
withdrawn by the Indenture Trustee from such account on each Payment Date and shall be paid by the
Indenture Trustee to or at the direction of the Servicer. The Servicer shall not direct the
Indenture Trustee to make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in any of the
Trust Accounts unless the security interest Granted and perfected in such account will continue to
be perfected in such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further
action by any Person, and, in connection with any direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any
such investment or sale, if requested by the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall deliver to the
Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel, acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.

     (b) Subject to Section 6.1(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by
reason of any insufficiency in any of the Trust Accounts resulting from any loss on any Permitted
Investment included therein, except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to
make payments on such Permitted Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial
capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

     (c) If (i) the Servicer shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds on
deposit in the Collection Account to the Indenture Trustee or (ii) to the actual knowledge of a
Trustee Officer of the Indenture Trustee, a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to the Notes but the Notes shall not have been declared due and

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payable pursuant to Section 5.2 or (iii) if such Notes shall have been declared due and
payable following an Event of Default then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent
practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Collection Account in one or more Permitted
Investments in accordance with the standing instructions most recently given by the Servicer.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note, or in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, acknowledges that the Ford Credit Servicing Agreement will terminate
on January 28, 2012. After January 28, 2012 with respect to the Ford Credit Receivables, the
Noteholders will not have any right, title and interest in, to and under, any future claims,
demands, causes of action and chooses in action in respect of such Receivables. After January 28,
2012 with respect to the Ford Credit Receivables, collections in respect of such Receivables will
not be deposited in the Collection Account, and will not be available to make the distributions
described in Section 8.2 of this Indenture.

     Section 8.4 Release of Indenture Trust Estate.

     (a) Subject to the payment of its fees and expenses pursuant to Section 6.7, the Indenture
Trustee may, and when requested in writing by the Issuer shall, execute instruments to release
property from the lien of this Indenture, or convey the Indenture Trustee’s interest in the same,
in a manner and under circumstances that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture. No party relying upon an instrument executed by the Indenture Trustee as provided in
this Article VIII shall be bound to ascertain the Indenture Trustee’s authority, inquire into the
satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any monies.

     (b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding and all sums
due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 have been paid in full, release any remaining
portion of the Indenture Trust Estate that secured the Notes from the lien of this Indenture and
release to the Issuer or any other Person entitled thereto any funds then on deposit in the Trust
Accounts. The Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to
this Section 8.4(b) only upon receipt of an Issuer Order accompanied by an Officer’s 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.

     (c) Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note
Owner, a beneficial interest in a Note, acknowledges that from time to time the Indenture Trustee
shall release the lien of this Indenture on any Receivable to be repurchased or purchased pursuant
to Section 2.3 or Section 3.6, respectively, of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     Section 8.5  Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven
(7) days’ notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.4(a),
accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require,
except in connection with any action contemplated by Section 8.4(c), as a condition to such action,
an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating the
legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and concluding
that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and such action
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of the Noteholders in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture; provided, however,
that such Opinion of Counsel shall not be required to express an opinion as to the fair value of
the Indenture Trust Estate. Counsel rendering any such opinion may rely, without independent
investigation, on the accuracy and validity of any certificate or other instrument delivered to the
Indenture Trustee in connection with any such action.

ARTICLE IX

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

     Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.

     (a) Without the consent of the Noteholders but with the prior written consent of the Swap
Counterparty and with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee,
when authorized by an Issuer Order, 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 Trust Indenture Act 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 Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants
of the Issuer contained herein and in the Notes;

     (iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the Indenture Secured
Parties, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Issuer;

     (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 that may be inconsistent with the Prospectus, the Prospectus
Supplement, 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 under any
supplemental indenture; provided that such action shall not materially adversely affect the
interests of the Noteholders;

     (vi) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment hereunder by a
successor trustee with respect to the 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;

     (vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture (A) to such
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under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such
other provisions as may be expressly required by the TIA or (B) to enable the Issuer to use
any exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act as applied to the Class
D Notes; or

     (viii) to add, modify or eliminate such provisions as may be necessary or advisable in
order to enable (a) the transfer to the Issuer of all or any portion of the Receivables to
be derecognized under GAAP by the Seller, (b) the Issuer to avoid becoming a member of
Seller’s consolidated group under GAAP or (c) the Seller or any of its Affiliates to
otherwise comply with or obtain more favorable treatment under any law or regulation or any
accounting rule or principle; it being a condition to any such amendment that the Rating
Agency Condition be satisfied.

     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 Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may, also
without the consent of any of the Noteholders but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies, 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) the rights of the Noteholders
under this Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Noteholder either (i) as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel
or (ii) as evidenced by the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition.

     Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders. The Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with the prior written consent of
the Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes, voting together as a single class, with prior notice to the Rating Agencies,
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 modifying
in any manner the rights of the Noteholders under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected
thereby:

     (i) change the Final Scheduled Payment Date or the date on which payment of any
installment of principal of or interest on any Note is due, or reduce the principal amount
thereof, the interest rate thereon or the Prepayment Price with respect thereto, change the
provisions of this Indenture relating to the application of the proceeds of the sale of,
the Indenture Trust Estate to payment of principal of or interest on the Notes, or change
any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any 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 Notes on or after the
respective due dates thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Prepayment
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     (ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or of the Controlling
Class, the consent of the Noteholders of which is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of the Noteholders of which is required for any waiver of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain Unmatured Events of Default
or Events of Default hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;

     (iii) modify or alter (x) the provisions of the proviso to the definition of the term
“Outstanding” or (y) the definition of “Controlling Class”;

     (iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes or of the Controlling
Class required to direct or consent to a sale or liquidation by the Indenture Trustee of the
Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to Section 5.4 if the proceeds of such sale or liquidation
would be insufficient to pay the principal amount and accrued but unpaid interest on the
Notes and/or the Certificates, as applicable;

     (v) modify any provision of this Section 9.2 in any respect adverse to the interests of
the Noteholders 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 holder of each Outstanding 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 Note on any
Payment Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such
calculation) or to affect the rights of the Noteholders to the benefit of any provisions for
the mandatory redemption of the Notes contained herein; or

     (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 such
collateral at any time subject hereto or deprive any Noteholder of the security provided by
the lien of this Indenture.

     It shall not be necessary for any Act of 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 Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 9.2, the Indenture Trustee shall
mail to the Noteholders of the Notes 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
modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be
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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 immunities 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 shall be deemed to be
modified and amended in accordance therewith with respect to the Notes affected thereby, and the
respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties, liabilities and immunities under
this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Noteholders shall 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 Trust Indenture Act as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.

     Section 9.6  Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. 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 Issuer or the Indenture
Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture
Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

ARTICLE X

PREPAYMENT

     Section 10.1 Optional Prepayment. The Outstanding Notes are subject to prepayment in
whole, but not in part, at the direction of the Servicer or, under certain circumstances, one or
Certificateholder evidencing 100% of the Percentage Interests in the Certificates pursuant to
Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, on any Payment Date on which the Servicer or such
a Certificateholder exercises its option to purchase the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 8.1 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish the Rating Agencies and
the Indenture Trustee notice of such prepayment. If the Outstanding Notes are to be prepaid
pursuant to this Section 10.1, the Servicer or Certificateholder evidencing 100% of the Percentage
Interests in the Certificates, as applicable, shall furnish notice of such election to the
Indenture Trustee not later than twenty (20) days prior to the Prepayment Date and shall deposit
the Optional Purchase Price in the Collection Account as described in Section 8.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, whereupon all such Outstanding Notes shall be due and payable on the
Prepayment Date upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.2 to each Holder of the
Outstanding Notes.

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     Section 10.2 Form of Prepayment Notice. Notice of prepayment under Section 10.1 shall
be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile mailed or
transmitted promptly following receipt of notice from the Issuer or the Servicer pursuant to
Section 10.1, but not later than three Business Days after it has received such notice, to the Swap
Counterparty and to each Noteholder as of the close of business on the Record Date preceding the
applicable Prepayment Date, at such Noteholder’s address or facsimile number appearing in the Note
Register.

     All notices of prepayment shall state:

     (i) the Prepayment Date;

     (ii) the Prepayment Price;

     (iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Prepayment
Price (which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in
Section 3.2); and

     (iv) that interest on the Outstanding Notes shall cease to accrue on and after the
Prepayment Date.

     Notice of prepayment of the Notes shall be given by the Indenture Trustee in the name and at
the expense of the Issuer. Failure to give notice of prepayment, or any defect therein, to any
Noteholder shall not impair or affect the validity of the prepayment of any other Note.

     Section 10.3 Notes Payable on Prepayment Date. The Notes shall, following notice of
prepayment as required by Section 10.2, shall on the Prepayment Date become due and payable at the
Prepayment Price and (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of the Prepayment Price) no
interest shall accrue on the Prepayment Price for any period after the date to which accrued
interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Prepayment Price.

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

     Section 11.1 Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. (a) Upon any application or
request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer’s 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:

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     (A) a statement that each signatory of such certificate or opinion has read or has
caused to be read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

     (B) 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;

     (C) 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

     (D) 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 Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation imposed in
Section 11.1(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the
fair value (within ninety (90) days of such deposit) to the Issuer of the Collateral or other
property or securities to be so deposited.

     (ii) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters
described in clause (i) above, the Issuer shall also deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters, if the fair value to the Issuer of the
securities to be so deposited and of all other such securities made the basis of any such
withdrawal or release since the commencement of the then-current fiscal year of the Issuer,
as set forth in the certificates delivered pursuant to clause (i) above and this clause
(ii), is ten percent (10%) or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes Outstanding, but
such a certificate need not be furnished with respect to any securities so deposited, if the
fair value thereof to the Issuer as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less
than $25,000 or less than one percent (1%) of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes
Outstanding.

     (iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be released from the lien of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate
certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such certificate as to the fair
value (within ninety (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.

     (iv) Other than with respect to the release of any Repurchased Receivable, whenever
the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate
certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters described in
clause

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(iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Independent
Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property or securities and of
all other property, other than property as contemplated by clause (v) below or securities
released from the lien of this Indenture since the commencement of the then-current calendar
year, as set forth in the certificates required by clause (iii) above and this clause (iv),
equals ten percent (10%) or more of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes Outstanding, but
such certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities
if the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than
$25,000 or less than one percent (1%) of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes Outstanding.

(v) Notwithstanding Section 2.10 or any other provisions of this Section 11.1, the
Issuer may, without compliance with the requirements of the other provisions of this
Section 11.1, (A) collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables and Financed
Vehicles as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents and (B) make cash
payments out of the Trust Accounts as and to the extent permitted or required by the Basic
Documents.

     Section 11.2 Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. (a) 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.

     (b) Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer 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 such officer’s 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 Servicer, the Seller or the Issuer, stating that
the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Servicer, the
Seller or the Issuer, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

     (c) 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.

     (d) Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to
the Indenture Trustee, it is provided that the Issuer shall deliver any document as a condition of
the granting of such application, or as evidence of the Issuer’s compliance with any term hereof,
it is intended that the truth and accuracy, at the time of the granting of such application or at
the effective date of such certificate or report (as the case may be), of the facts and opinions
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the Issuer 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 Noteholders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such 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 Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby)
are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the 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 Issuer, 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 Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.

     (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by
the Noteholder of any Notes shall bind the Noteholder of every 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 Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Note.

     Section 11.4 Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders or other
documents provided or permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders is to be made upon, given
or furnished to or filed with:

     (i) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder, the Servicer or the Issuer 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

     (ii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class, postage prepaid to the Issuer
addressed to: GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, in care of Wilmington Trust Company, as Owner
Trustee, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, with a copy to the Servicer at 85 Broad Street,
New York, New York 10004, Attention: Jonathan Coblentz, or at any other address previously
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Indenture Trustee by the Issuer. The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received
by it from the Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee.

     Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered, telecopied or mailed by certified
mail, return receipt requested, to (i) in the case of Moody’s, at the following address: Moody’s
Investors Service, Inc., ABS Monitoring Department, 99 Church Street, New York, New York 10007,
(ii) in the case of Fitch, at the following address: Fitch, Inc., One State Street Plaza, New York,
New York 10004, Attention: Structured Finance, and (iii) in the case of Dominion, at the following
address: Dominion Bond Rating Service, Inc., 55 Broadway, New York, New York 10006, Attention:
Structured Finance.

     Section 11.5 Notices to Noteholders; Waiver.

     (a) Where this Indenture provides for notice to 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 Noteholder affected by such event, at his address as it
appears on the Note Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest
date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Noteholders is given by
mail, neither the failure to mail such notice nor any defect in any notice so mailed to any
particular Noteholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other
Noteholders, and any notice that is mailed in the manner herein provided shall conclusively be
presumed to have been duly given.

     (b) 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 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.

     (c) 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 to 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.

     (d) 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 Unmatured Default or Event of Default.

     Section 11.6 Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions. Notwithstanding any provision
of this Indenture or any of the Notes to the contrary, the Issuer may enter into any agreement,
subject to the Indenture Trustee’s consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), with
any Noteholder providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any Note
Paying Agent to such Noteholder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture
for such payments or notices. The Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee a

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copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee shall cause payments to be made and
notices to be given in accordance with such agreements.

     Section 11.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits,
qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required 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 Sections 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 11.8 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 11.9 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture
and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All
agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees and
agents.

     Section 11.10 Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the 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 11.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes,
express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, and the Indenture Secured Parties, and any other party secured hereunder, 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 11.12 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 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 11.13 GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. (a)
THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS THAT WOULD APPLY THE LAW OF A JURISDICTION OTHER THAN
THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE
DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

     (b) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally.

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     (i) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to
this Indenture or any documents executed and delivered in connection herewith, or for
recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the nonexclusive general
jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States of
America for the Southern District of New York and appellate courts from any thereof;

     (ii) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and
waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of such action or
proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an
inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

     (iii) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected
by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form
of mail), postage prepaid, to such Person at its address determined in accordance with
Section 9.4; and

     (iv) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in
any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction.

     (c) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY
LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE OTHER BASIC DOCUMENTS OR THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY.

     Section 11.14 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 11.15 Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in
any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its
expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such recording is necessary either
for the protection of the 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 11.16 Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith
or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in their individual
capacities, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, (iii) the Servicer, the
Depositor or the Seller or (iv) any partner, owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee
or agent of any Person described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above, except as any such Person
may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee
have no such obligations in their individual capacities), and except that any such partner, owner
or beneficiary shall be, in the case of the Issuer, Servicer, Depositor or the Seller 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
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performance of any duties or obligations of the Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be
subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms and provisions of Article VI and VII of the
Trust Agreement.

     Section 11.17 No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture,
and each Noteholder or Note Owner, by accepting a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, hereby covenant and agree that prior to the end of the period that
is one year and one day after there has been paid in full all debt issued by any securitization
vehicle in respect of which the Depositor holds any interest, they will not institute against the
Issuer, or join in, or assist or encourage others to institute any institution against the Issuer
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 Notes, this Indenture or any of the other Basic Documents.

     Section 11.18 Subordination Agreement. Each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby
covenants and agrees that, to the extent it is deemed to have any interest in any assets of the
Depositor, or a securitization vehicle (other than the Issuer) related to the Depositor, dedicated
to other debt obligations of the Depositor or debt obligations of any other securitization vehicle
(other than the Issuer) related to the Depositor, its interest in those assets is subordinate to
claims or rights of such other debtholders to those other assets. Furthermore, each Noteholder, by
accepting a Note, hereby covenants and agrees that such agreement constitutes a subordination
agreement for purposes of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

     Section 11.19 No Recourse. Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, all
of the obligations of the Issuer under or in connection with the Notes and this Indenture are
nonrecourse obligations of the Issuer payable solely from the Collateral and following realization
of the Collateral and its reduction to zero, any claims of the Noteholders and the Indenture
Trustee against the Issuer shall be extinguished and shall not thereafter revive. It is understood
that the foregoing provisions of this Section 11.19 shall not (i) prevent recourse to the
Collateral for the sums due or to become due under any security, instrument or agreement which is
part of the Collateral or (ii) constitute a waiver, release or discharge of any indebtedness or
obligation evidenced by the Notes or secured by this Indenture (to the extent it relates to the
obligation to make payments on the Notes) until such Collateral has been realized and reduced to
zero, whereupon any outstanding indebtedness or obligation in respect of the Notes shall be
extinguished and shall not thereafter revive. It is further understood that the foregoing
provisions of this Section 11.19 shall not limit the right of any Person to name the Issuer as a
party defendant in any Proceeding or in the exercise of any other remedy under the Notes or this
Indenture, so long as no judgment in the nature of a deficiency judgment shall be asked for or (if
obtained) enforced against any such Person or entity.

     Section 11.20  Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. It is expressly understood
and agreed by and between the parties hereto that (i) this Indenture is executed and delivered by
Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee of the Issuer
in the exercise of the power and authority conferred and vested in it as such Owner Trustee, (ii)
each of the representations, undertakings and agreements made herein by the Issuer are not personal
representations, undertakings and agreements of Wilmington Trust Company, but are binding only on
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any liability on Wilmington Trust Company, individually or personally, to perform any covenant
of the Issuer, either expressed or implied, contained herein, all such liability, if any, being
expressly waived by the parties hereto and by any person claiming by, through or under any such
party, and (iv) under no circumstances shall Wilmington Trust Company be personally liable for the
payment of any indebtedness or expense of the Issuer or be liable for the breach or failure of any
obligation, representation, warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Issuer under this
Indenture.

[SIGNATURES FOLLOW]

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer 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.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
	 	 	not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
	 	 	Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Emmet R. Harmon
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Name: Emmet R. Harmon
	 	 	Title: Vice President

	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	S-1
	 	Indenture

 

 

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
	 	 	ASSOCIATION, not in its individual
	 	 	capacity but solely as Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	/s/ Annette M. Marsula
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Name: Annette M. Marsula
	 	 	Title: Vice President

	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	S-2
	 	Indenture

 

 

EXHIBIT A-1

FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	REGISTERED
	 	$	306,000,000	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	No. A-1-1
	 	CUSIP NO. 36292R AS 0

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS A-1 3.8484% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED SIX MILLION dollars
payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i) a
fraction, the numerator of which is $306,000,000 (the original face amount of this Note) and the
denominator of which is $306,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable to holders of
Class A-1 Notes on such Payment Date from the Principal Distribution Account in respect of
principal on the Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of August 19,
2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Indenture
Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid
principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the August 2006 Payment Date (the “Class
A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in
Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable
herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case

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of the first Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the
Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the previous
Payment Date on which interest has been paid (or, in the case of the initial Payment Date, from the
Closing Date) to but excluding such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of actual
days elapsed and a 360-day year. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

          Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
	 	 	not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
	 	 	Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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     INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class A-1 Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

          Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
 ASSOCIATION,
	 	 	not in its individual capacity but solely
	 	 	as Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class
A-1 3.8484 Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-1 Notes”) which, together with the Issuer’s other Class
A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and Class D Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes, are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class A-1 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described
on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders
entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note on each Payment Date, together with the installment of
principal, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person
whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on
the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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 Note on a Payment Date, then the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf

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of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be prepaid, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the
transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the
Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of
the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer 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 Notes, the Indenture or the other Basic Documents.

     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as

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indebtedness of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its
acceptance of a Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note),
will be deemed to agree to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax
purposes as indebtedness of the Issuer.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner,
a beneficial interest in this Note, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (a) it is
not (and throughout the period it holds such Note will not be) and is not acting on behalf of (and
throughout the period it holds such Note will not be acting on behalf of) (i) an “employee benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the
Code, (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing or (iv) another
employee benefit plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code or (b) the acquisition, holding and disposition of this Note (or beneficial interest herein)
will not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Notes
thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes representing a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified percentages of the
principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as applicable, on behalf of
all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and
certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon
such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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 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
Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

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     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Dated:
	 	 	 	               */	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	    

	 	 	 	           

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Signature Guaranteed	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	    

	 	 	 	           

	 	 

 

*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT A-2

FORM OF CLASS A-2 NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.]

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	REGISTERED
	 	$	372,061,000	 
	 
	 

	 	No. A-2-1
	 	CUSIP NO. 36292R AT 8

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS A-2 4.32% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-TWO MILLION
SIXTY-ONE THOUSAND dollars payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained
by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $372,061,000 (the original face amount of
this Note) and the denominator of which is $372,061,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any,
payable to holders of Class A-2 Notes on such Payment Date from the Principal Distribution Account
in respect of principal on the Class A-2 Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of
August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect,
the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Indenture
Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid
principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the May 2008 Payment Date (the “Class A-2
Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No payments of principal of the Class A-2 Notes will be made until
the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are
defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be
applicable herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the

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principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect
to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case of
the first Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture.
Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 15th day
of the calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial
Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month
of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

          Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
	 	 	individual capacity but solely as Owner
	 	 	Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class A-2 Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

               Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
 ASSOCIATION,
	 	 	not in its individual capacity but
	 	 	solely as Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class
A-2 4.32% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-2 Notes”), which together with the Issuer’s other Class
A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and Class D Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes, are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class A-2 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described
on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the Class A-2 Final Scheduled Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-2 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders
entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note on each Payment Date, together with the installment of
principal, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person
whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on
the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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

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available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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 Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-2 Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the
transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the
Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of
the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or

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similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
other Basic Documents.

     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be deemed to agree
to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner,
a beneficial interest in this Note, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (a) it is
not (and throughout the period it holds such Note will not be) and is not acting on behalf of (and
throughout the period it holds such Note will not be acting on behalf of) (i) an “employee benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the
Code, (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing or (iv) another
employee benefit plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code or (b) the acquisition, holding and disposition of this Note (or beneficial interest herein)
will not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or 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 Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified
percentages of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as
applicable, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any
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 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

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     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                                                        

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Dated:
	 	 	 	               */	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	    

	 	 	 	           

	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Signature Guaranteed	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	               */	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	    

	 	 	 	           

	 	 

 

*/ NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT A-3

FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

	 	 	 	 
	 

	REGISTERED
	 	               $396,354,000
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	No. A-3-1
	 	CUSIP NO. 36293R AU 5

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS A-3 4.45% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX MILLION THREE
HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND dollars payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result
obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $396,354,000 (the original face
amount of this Note) and the denominator of which is $396,354,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable to holders of Class A-3 Notes on such Payment Date from the Principal Distribution
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-3 Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture
dated as of August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and
in effect, the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as
Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the May 2010 Payment Date (the
“Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No payments of principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be
made until the Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-2 have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but
not defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to
construction that shall be applicable herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the

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principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect
to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case of
the first Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture.
Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 15th day
of the calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial
Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month
of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

          Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
	 	 	not in its individual capacity but solely as
	 	 	Owner Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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     INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class A-3 Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

          Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
 ASSOCIATION,
	 	 	not in its individual capacity but solely
	 	 	as Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class
A-3 4.45% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-3 Notes”) which, together with the Issuer’s other Class
A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and Class D Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes, are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class A-3 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described
on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-3 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders
entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note on each Payment Date, together with the installment of
principal, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person
whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on
the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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

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available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment
in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf
of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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 Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-3 Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the
transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the
Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of
the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or

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similar law in
connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the other Basic Documents.

     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be deemed to agree
to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner,
a beneficial interest in this Note, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (a) it is
not (and throughout the period it holds such Note will not be) and is not acting on behalf of (and
throughout the period it holds such Note will not be acting on behalf of) (i) an “employee benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the
Code, (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing or (iv) another
employee benefit plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code or (b) the acquisition, holding and disposition of this Note (or beneficial interest herein)
will not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or 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 Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified
percentages of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as
applicable, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any
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 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

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     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                                                             

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	Dated:
	 	 	 	*/
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Signature Guaranteed
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	*/
	 	 	 	 	 

 

	 	 
	*/ 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT A-4

FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

     REGISTERED                          $110,594,000

     No. A-4-1                      CUSIP NO. 36292R AV 3

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS A-4 4.56% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND dollars payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained
by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $110,594,000 (the original face amount of
this Note) and the denominator of which is $110,594,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any,
payable to holders of Class A-4 Notes on such Payment Date from the Principal Distribution Account
in respect of principal on the Class A-4 Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of
August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect,
the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Indenture
Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid
principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the November 2013 Payment Date (the
“Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No payments of principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be
made until the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class A-3 Notes have been paid in full.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also
contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the

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principal amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect
to all payments of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case of
the first Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture.

Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 15th day
of the calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial
Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month
of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the
reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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     INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class A-4 Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity but solely

as Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class
A-4 4.56% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-4 Notes”) which, together with the Issuer’s other Class
A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and Class D Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes, are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class A-4 Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described
on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day
is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
entire unpaid principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of
Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders
entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note on each Payment Date, together with the installment of
principal, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person
whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on
the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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 Note on a Payment Date, then the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf

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of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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 Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-4 Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     As provided in the Indenture, and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the
transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon surrender of this Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the Issuer pursuant to the
Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or such Noteholder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one or more new Notes of
the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer 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 Notes, the Indenture or the other Basic Documents.

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     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be deemed to agree
to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner,
a beneficial interest in this Note, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (a) it is
not (and throughout the period it holds such Note will not be) and is not acting on behalf of (and
throughout the period it holds such Note will not be acting on behalf of) (i) an “employee benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the
Code, (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing or (iv) another
employee benefit plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code or (b) the acquisition, holding and disposition of this Note (or beneficial interest herein)
will not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified
percentages of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as
applicable, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any
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 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

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     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                                                             

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	Dated:
	 	*/
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	Signature Guaranteed	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	*/	 	 
	 
	 
	 	 

	 	 
	*/ 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF CLASS B NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

     PAYMENTS ON THIS NOTE ARE SUBORDINATE TO THE PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL OF, AND INTEREST ON, THE
CLASS A NOTES.

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

     REGISTERED                           $42,793,000

     No. B-1                     CUSIP NO. 36292R AW 1

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS B 4.62% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of FORTY-TWO MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED
NINETY-THREE THOUSAND dollars payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result
obtained by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $42,793,000 (the original face
amount of this Note) and the denominator of which is $42,793,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if
any, payable to holders of Class B Notes on such Payment Date from the Principal Distribution
Account in respect of principal on the Class B Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated
as of August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in
effect, the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as
Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the November 2013
Payment Date (the “Class B Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the Prepayment Date, if any, pursuant
to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class B Notes will be made until
the Class A Notes have been paid to the extent required under the terms of the Indenture.
Capitalized terms used

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but not defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as
to construction that shall be applicable herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case of the first
Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on
this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 15th day of the
calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial Payment
Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month of such
Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,

not in its individual capacity but solely as

Owner Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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     INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class B Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity but solely as

Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class B
4.62% Asset Backed Note (the “Class B Notes”) which, together with the Issuer’s other Class B
Notes, the Class A Notes, the Class C Notes and Class D Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class B Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described on
the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the earlier of the Class B Final Scheduled Payment Date and the Prepayment Date, if
any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have declared
the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture.
All principal payments on the Class B Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled
thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note on each Payment Date, together with the installment of
principal, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person
whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on
the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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 Note on a Payment Date, then the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf

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of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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 Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class B Interest Rate
to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be prepaid, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     The transfer of this Note is subject to the restrictions on transfer specified on the face
hereof and to the other limitations set forth in the Indenture. Subject to the satisfaction of such
restrictions and limitations, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the
Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or
such Noteholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
“eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one
or more new Notes of the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or

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similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the
other Basic Documents.

     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be deemed to agree
to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner,
a beneficial interest in this Note, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (a) it is
not (and throughout the period it holds such Note will not be) and is not acting on behalf of (and
throughout the period it holds such Note will not be acting on behalf of) (i) an “employee benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the
Code, (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing or (iv) another
employee benefit plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code or (b) the acquisition, holding and disposition of this Note (or beneficial interest herein)
will not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or 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 Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified
percentages of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as
applicable, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any
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 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

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     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                                                             

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Dated:
	 	 	 	*/
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Signature Guaranteed	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	*/	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 

 

	 	 
	*/ 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT C

FORM OF CLASS C NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

     PAYMENTS ON THIS NOTE ARE SUBORDINATE TO THE PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL OF, AND INTEREST ON, THE
CLASS A NOTES AND THE CLASS B NOTES.

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

     REGISTERED                         $42,792,000

     No. C-1                      CUSIP NO. 36292R AX 9

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS C 4.98% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of FORTY-TWO MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED
NINETY-TWO THOUSAND dollars payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained
by multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is $42,792,000 (the original face amount of
this Note) and the denominator of which is $42,792,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any,
payable to holders of Class C Notes on such Payment Date from the Principal Distribution Account in
respect of principal on the Class C Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of
August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect,
the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Indenture
Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid
principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of the November 2013 Payment
Date (the “Class C Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the Prepayment Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.1 of the Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class C Notes will be made until the
Class A Notes and Class B Notes have been paid to the extent required under the terms of the
Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not

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defined herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to
construction that shall be applicable herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case of the first
Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on
this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 15th day of the
calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial Payment
Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month of such
Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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     INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class C Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity but solely

as Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class C
4.98% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class C Notes”) which, together with the Issuer’s other Class C
Notes, the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes and Class D Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are
issued under the Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is
hereby made for a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes, are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class C Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described on
the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the earlier of the Class C Final Scheduled Payment Date and the Prepayment Date, if
any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have declared
the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture.
All principal payments on the Class C Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled
thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note on each Payment Date, together with the installment of
principal, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the Person
whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) on
the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer in
immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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

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available, as provided in the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid
principal amount of this Note on a Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on
behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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 Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class C Interest Rate
to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be prepaid, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     The transfer of this Note is subject to the restrictions on transfer specified on the face
hereof and to the other limitations set forth in the Indenture. Subject to the satisfaction of such
restrictions and limitations, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the
Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or
such Noteholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
“eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one
or more new Notes of the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,

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insolvency or liquidation proceedings under any United States federal or State bankruptcy or
similar law in connection with any obligations relating to the Notes, the Indenture or the other
Basic Documents.

     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be deemed to agree
to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of this Note or, in the case of a Note Owner,
a beneficial interest in this Note, shall be deemed to represent and warrant that either (a) it is
not (and throughout the period it holds such Note will not be) and is not acting on behalf of (and
throughout the period it holds such Note will not be acting on behalf of) (i) an “employee benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
(“ERISA”), that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the
Code, (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of any of the foregoing or (iv) another
employee benefit plan subject to a law that is similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code or (b) the acquisition, holding and disposition of this Note (or beneficial interest herein)
will not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of
the Code or any similar applicable law.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or 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 Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified
percentages of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as
applicable, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any
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 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

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     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                                                             

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Dated:
	 	 	 	*/
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Signature Guaranteed	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	*/	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 

 

	 	 
	*/ 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT D

FORM OF CLASS D NOTE

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

     PAYMENTS ON THIS NOTE ARE SUBORDINATE TO THE PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL OF, AND INTEREST ON, THE
CLASS A NOTES, THE CLASS B NOTES AND THE CLASS C NOTES.

     THIS CLASS D NOTE (“CLASS D NOTE”) HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED
STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
OF ANY STATE. ACCORDINGLY, TRANSFER OF THIS CLASS D NOTE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS SET
FORTH IN SECTION 2.5 OF THE INDENTURE. BY ITS ACCEPTANCE OF THIS CLASS D NOTE, THE HOLDER OF THIS
CLASS D NOTE IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT TO THE DEPOSITOR AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE THAT IT IS EITHER A
“QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (A “QIB”), AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”) AND IS ACQUIRING THIS CLASS D NOTE FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT (AND NOT FOR
THE ACCOUNT OF OTHERS) OR AS A FIDUCIARY OR AGENT FOR OTHERS (WHICH OTHERS ALSO ARE QIBS) OR IT IS
NOT A U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND IS ACQUIRING THIS CLASS
D NOTE IN A TRANSACTION OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT.

     NO SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER OF A NOTE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SUCH SALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER
TRANSFER IS (I)(A) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (B)
FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT TO
A PERSON THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES AFTER DUE INQUIRY IS A “QIB” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A
THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM
NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, OR (C) TO A PERSON THAT
IS NOT A U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN AN OFFSHORE
TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 903 OR 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND (II)
IN ACCORDANCE WITH

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ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT
JURISDICTION. EACH TRANSFEREE OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS NOTE SHALL BE DEEMED TO MAKE THE
FOREGOING REPRESENTATIONS. THE DEPOSITOR, THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE ISSUER MAY REQUIRE AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL TO BE DELIVERED TO IT IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THE NOTES PURSUANT TO
CLAUSES (A) OR (D) ABOVE. EACH TRANSFEREE OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS NOTE SHALL BE DEEMED TO
MAKE THE FOREGOING REPRESENTATIONS.

     EACH TRANSFEREE OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS NOTE IS DEEMED TO REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT
THE TRANSFEREE IS NOT AND IS NOT ACTING ON BEHALF OF OR INVESTING THE ASSETS OF (A) AN “EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3(3) OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974,
AS AMENDED (“ERISA”)) WHETHER OR NOT SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, (B) A “PLAN”
(AS DEFINED IN SECTION 4975(e)(1) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”))
THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR (C) AN ENTITY DEEMED TO HOLD THE PLAN ASSETS OF ANY
OF THE FOREGOING.

     THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED OR TRANSFERRED IN
WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A NOTE REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN THAT DEPOSITARY OR ITS
NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

     THIS NOTE IS A RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE.

     THE PRINCIPAL OF THIS NOTE IS PAYABLE IN INSTALLMENTS AS SET FORTH HEREIN. ACCORDINGLY, THE
OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THIS NOTE AT ANY TIME MAY BE LESS THAN THE AMOUNT SHOWN ON THE FACE
HEREOF.

     REGISTERED                           $20,408,000

     No. D-1                      CUSIP NO. 36292R AY 7

     GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1

     CLASS D ZERO COUPON ASSET BACKED NOTES

     GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1, a statutory trust organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Issuer”), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of TWENTY MILLION FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT
THOUSAND dollars payable on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by
multiplying (i) a fraction the numerator of which is up to $20,408,000 (the original face amount of
this Note) and the denominator of which is $20,408,000 by (ii) the

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aggregate amount, if any, payable to holders of Class D Notes on such Payment Date from the
Principal Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Class D Notes pursuant to Section 3.1
of the Indenture dated as of August 19, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified and in effect, the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the “Indenture Trustee”); provided,
however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
earlier of the November 2013 Payment Date (the “Class D Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the
Prepayment Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. No payments of principal of the
Class D Notes will be made until the Class A Notes, Class B Notes and Class C Notes have been paid
to the extent required under the terms of the Indenture. Capitalized terms used but not defined
herein are defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that
shall be applicable herein.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on the preceding Payment Date) or the Closing Date in the case of the first
Payment Date, subject to certain limitations contained in Section 3.1 of the Indenture. Interest on
this Note will accrue for each Payment Date from and including the 15th day of the
calendar month immediately preceding such Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial Payment
Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding the 15th day of the calendar month of such
Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse
hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this 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 Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to interest
due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this Note.

     Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof,
which shall have the same effect as though fully set forth on the face of this Note.

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     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Indenture Trustee
whose name appears below by manual signature, this 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 Issuer has caused this instrument to be signed, manually or in
facsimile, by its Authorized Officer, as of the date set forth below.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS AUTO LOAN TRUST 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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     INDENTURE TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

     This is one of the Class D Notes designated above and referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

     Date: August 19, 2005

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

not in its individual capacity but solely as

Indenture Trustee
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 

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[REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class D
Zero Coupon Asset Backed Notes (the “Class D Notes”) which, together with the Issuer’s Class A
Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes (collectively, the “Notes”), are issued under the
Indenture, to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for
a statement of the respective rights and obligations thereunder of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee and the Noteholders. The Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the Class A Notes, Class B Notes,
Class C Notes and Class D Notes, are and will be equally and ratably secured by the collateral
pledged as security therefor as provided in the Indenture.

     Principal of the Class D Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described on
the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the 15th day of each month, or, if any such day is
not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing September 15, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due
and payable on the earlier of the Class D Final Scheduled Payment Date and the Prepayment Date, if
any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the 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 the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the principal amount of the Controlling Class have declared
the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.2 of the Indenture.
All principal payments on the Class D Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders entitled
thereto.

     This Note shall not bear interest. Payments of each installment of principal on this Note on
each Payment Date, if any, to the extent not in full payment of this Note, shall be made to the
Person whose name appears as the Registered Noteholder of the Note (or one or more Predecessor
Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date either by wire transfer
in immediately available funds, to the account of such Noteholder at a bank or other entity having
appropriate facilities therefor, if such Noteholder shall have provided to the Note Registrar
appropriate written instructions at least five Business Days prior to such Payment Date and such
Noteholder’s Notes in the aggregate evidence a denomination of not less than $1,000,000, or, if
not, by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date; provided that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued to Note
Owners, with respect to 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 payments will be
made without requiring that this Note be submitted for notation of payment. Any reduction in the
principal amount of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) effected by any payments made
on any Payment Date shall be binding upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any 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 Note on a Payment Date, then the
Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf

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of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered Noteholder hereof as of the
Record Date preceding such Payment Date by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such
Payment Date, and the amount then due and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of this 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.

     As provided in the Indenture, the Notes may be prepaid, in whole but not in part, in the
manner and to the extent described in the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     The transfer of this Note is subject to the restrictions on transfer specified on the face
hereof and to the other limitations set forth in the Indenture. Subject to the satisfaction of such
restrictions and limitations, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Note Register upon
surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency designated by the
Issuer pursuant to the Indenture, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Noteholder hereof or
such Noteholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an
“eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, and thereupon one
or more new Notes of the same Class in 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 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.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by its acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee, each in its
individual capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner,
owner, beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee, each in its individual capacity, 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 for
stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure to pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

     Each Noteholder or Note Owner, by acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees by accepting the benefits of the Indenture that
such Noteholder or Note Owner will not at any time institute against the Issuer, or join in any
institution against the Issuer 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 Notes, the Indenture or the other Basic Documents.

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     The Issuer has entered into the Indenture and this Note is issued with the intention that, for
federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes, the Notes will qualify as indebtedness
of the Issuer secured by the Indenture Trust Estate. Each Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Note
(and each Note Owner by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in a Note), will be deemed to agree
to treat the Notes for federal, State and local income and franchise tax purposes as indebtedness
of the Issuer.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this 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 Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or 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 Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes thereunder at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of the Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Noteholders of Notes evidencing specified
percentages of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding or of the Controlling Class, as
applicable, on behalf of all Noteholders, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions
of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Noteholder of this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such Noteholder and upon all future Noteholders of this Note and of any
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 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 Holders of the Notes issued thereunder.

     The term “Issuer,” as used in this Note, includes any successor to the Issuer under the
Indenture.

     The Issuer is permitted by the Indenture, under certain circumstances, to merge or
consolidate, subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders under the
Indenture.

     The Notes are issuable only in registered form in denominations as provided in the Indenture,
subject to certain limitations therein set forth.

     This Note and the Indenture shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflicts of law provisions.

     No reference herein to the Indenture, and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture, shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and interest on this 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, none of Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity, Owner Trustee, in its individual
capacity, any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, or any of their respective partners,
beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees or successors or assigns shall be personally
liable for, nor shall recourse be had to any of them for, the payment of principal or of interest
on this Note or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants, obligations or
indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The holder of this Note, by such holder’s acceptance
hereof, agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of an Event
of Default under the Indenture, the 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 Issuer for any and all
liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this 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 Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints, attorney, to transfer said

                                                                                                                             

     Note on the books kept for registration thereof, with full power of substitution in the
premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Dated:
	 	 	 	*/
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Signature Guaranteed	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	*/	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 

 

	 	 
	*/ 	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name of the registered
owner as it appears on the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration,
enlargement or any change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor
institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar.

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EXHIBIT E

FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER

Goldman Sachs Asset Backed Securities Corp.

85 Broad Street

New York, New York 10004

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

4 New York Plaza

New York, New York 10004

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     In
connection with our proposed purchase of $______aggregate principal amount of
Class D Notes (the “Securities”) of GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1 (the “Issuer”), we confirm that:

     1. We understand that the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and may not be sold except as permitted in the following
sentence. We, understand and agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we
are acting as hereinafter stated, (x) that such, Securities are being offered only in a transaction
not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and (y) that such
Securities may be resold, pledged or transferred only (i) to Goldman, Sachs & Co. (the “Seller”) or
(ii) to a person or entity that the transferor of the Securities reasonably believes, after due
inquiry is a “qualified institutional buyer” (a “QIB”), as such term is defined in Rule 144A under
the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”), acting for its own account (and not for the account of others) or
as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are QIBs) and in reliance on, and to whom
notice is given that the sale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on, Rule 144A. We will
notify any purchaser of the Securities from us of the above resale restrictions if then applicable.
We further understand that in connection with any transfer of the Securities by us that the Seller
and the Indenture Trustee may request, and if so requested we will furnish, such certificates and
other information as they may reasonably require to confirm that any such transfer complies with
the foregoing restrictions. We understand that no sale, pledge or other transfer may be made to
any one person or entity of Securities with a face amount of less than $1,000 and, in the case of
any person or entity acting on behalf of one or more third parties (other than a bank (as defined
in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) acting in its fiduciary capacity), of Securities with a
face amount of less than $1,000 for each such third party.

     2. We are a QIB and are acquiring the Securities for our own account (and not for the account
of others) or as a fiduciary or agent for others (which others also are QIBs). We are familiar
with Rule 144A and are aware that the seller of the Securities and other parties intend to rely on
the statements made herein and the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities
Act provided by Rule 144A. In this regard, we have received (a) a copy of the Prospectus, dated
August 9, 2005, the Prospectus Supplement, dated August 12, 2005 and the Private Placement
Memorandum, dated August 19, 2005, relating to the Securities and (b) such

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other written information, if any, as we have requested concerning the Indenture, the
Securities, the Issuer and the trustees. We have reviewed and understand the material to which
reference is made in this paragraph 2, and understand that risks are involved in an investment in
the Securities. We represent that in making our investment decision to acquire the Securities, we
have not relied on representations, warranties, opinions, projections, financial or other
information or analyses, if any, supplied to us by any person, including the Issuer, the Seller,
the trustees or any of their respective affiliates except as expressly contained in the Prospectus,
the Prospectus Supplement and the Private Placement Memorandum and in the other written
information, if any, provided pursuant to our request.

     3. We (a) are not (i) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in section 3(3) of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) whether or not subject to the
provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” (as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) or (iii) an entity deemed to hold the plan assets of
any of the foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”) and (b) are not investing on behalf of or with plan
assets of a Benefit Plan.

     4. We understand that the Seller, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and others will rely upon
the truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and agreements, and we
agree that if any of the acknowledgments, representations and agreements deemed to have been made
by us by our purchase of the Securities, for our own account or for one or more accounts as to each
of which we exercise sole investment discretion, are no longer accurate, we shall promptly notify
the Seller, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.

     5. You are entitled to rely upon this letter and you are irrevocably authorized to produce
this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or
official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

Very truly yours,

[NAME OF PURCHASER]

	 	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 
	Name:
	 	 	 	 
	Title:
	 	 	 	 
	Date:
	 	 	 	 

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EXHIBIT F

PERFECTION REPRESENTATION

     1. General. The Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest (as
defined in the UCC) in all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to the Receivables in
favor of the Trustee which, (a) is enforceable upon execution of the Indenture against creditors of
and purchasers from the Issuer as such enforceability may be limited by applicable debtor relief
laws, now or hereafter in effect, and by general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit
at law or in equity), and (b) upon filing of the financing statements described in clause 4 below
will be prior to all other Liens (other than Liens permitted pursuant to clause 3 below).

     2. Characterization. The Receivables constitute “tangible chattel paper” within the
meaning of UCC Section 9-102. The Issuer has taken all steps necessary to perfect its security
interest against the Obligor in the Financed Vehicles securing the Receivables.

     3. Creation. Immediately prior to the conveyance of the Receivables pursuant to the
Indenture, the Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to, or has a valid security interest
in, the Receivables free and clear of any Lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.

     4. Perfection. The Issuer has caused or will have caused, within ten (10) days of the
Closing Date, the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the
appropriate jurisdictions under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest granted to
the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture in the Receivables.

     5. Priority. Other than the security interests granted to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture, the Issuer has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest
in, or otherwise conveyed any of the Receivables, the Issuer has not authorized the filing of and
is not aware of any financing statements against the Issuer that includes a description of
collateral covering the Receivables other than any financing statement (i) relating to the security
interests granted to the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture (ii) that has been terminated, or
(iii) that has been granted pursuant to the terms of the Basic Documents. None of the tangible
chattel paper that constitutes or evidences the Receivables has any marks or notations indicating
that they are pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than Indenture Trustee or
the Seller.

F-1EXHIBIT 10.1

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

RECEIVABLES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

between

GS WHOLE LOAN TRUST,

as Seller,

and

GOLDMAN SACHS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORP.,

as Purchaser

Dated as of August 19, 2005

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	ARTICLE
I      DEFINITIONS AND USAGE	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE
II      PURCHASED PROPERTY	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 2.1
	 	Conveyance of Purchased Property; Intent of the Parties	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 2.2
	 	Representations and Warranties of the Seller regarding the Receivables	 	 	1	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 2.3
	 	Repurchase upon Breach	 	 	2	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 2.4
	 	Representations and Warranties as to the Security Interest of the Purchaser in the Receivables	 	 	3	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE
III      THE SELLER	 	 	4	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 3.1
	 	Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Seller	 	 	4	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE
IV      MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS	 	 	5	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.1
	 	Amendment	 	 	5	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.2
	 	Protection of Title to Trust Property	 	 	6	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.3
	 	Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial	 	 	7	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.4
	 	Notices	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.5
	 	Severability of Provisions	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.6
	 	No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.7
	 	Third-Party Beneficiaries	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.8
	 	Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee	 	 	8	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.9
	 	Transfers Intended as Sale; Security Interest	 	 	9	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.10
	 	No Petition	 	 	10	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.11
	 	Execution in Counterparts	 	 	10	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.12
	 	Headings	 	 	10	 

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     This RECEIVABLES PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated as of August 19, 2005 (as from time to time
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, this “Agreement”), is by and between GS
WHOLE LOAN TRUST (the “Seller”), a Delaware statutory trust and GOLDMAN SACHS ASSET BACKED
SECURITIES CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Purchaser”).

     WHEREAS, the Seller desires to sell and the Purchaser desires to purchase a portfolio of
receivables and related property consisting of motor vehicle retail installment sale contracts and
loans;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants herein contained,
and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND USAGE

     Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, capitalized
terms used but not otherwise defined herein are defined in Appendix A to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among GS Auto Loan Trust 2005-1 (the “Issuer”), the
Purchaser, as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Indenture Trustee (the
“Indenture Trustee”), and Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company, as Servicer (the “Servicer”).

ARTICLE II

PURCHASED PROPERTY

     SECTION 2.1 Conveyance of Purchased Property; Intent of the Parties. The Seller does
hereby irrevocably sell, transfer, assign and otherwise convey to the Purchaser without recourse
(subject to the obligations herein) all right, title and interest of the Seller, whether now owned
or hereafter acquired, in and to the Purchased Property. In consideration of the sale of the
Purchased Property to the Purchaser on the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall pay to the Seller on
the Closing Date an agreed price, representing the fair market value of the Purchased Property on
the Closing Date. The sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance made hereunder shall not
constitute and is not intended to result in an assumption by the Purchaser of any obligation of the
Seller or any other Person to the Obligors or any other Person in connection with the Receivables
and the other Purchased Property or any agreement, document or instrument related thereto. The
Seller and the Purchaser intend that the sale, transfer, assignment and conveyance of the Purchased
Property pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall be a sale and not a secured borrowing.

     SECTION 2.2 Representations and Warranties of the Seller regarding the Receivables.
The Seller makes the following representations and warranties with respect to the Receivables, on
which the Purchaser relies in purchasing the Receivables. Such representations and warranties
speak as of the Closing Date, but shall survive the sale, transfer and assignment of the
Receivables by the Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, the sale, transfer and

      

			
	 
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assignment of the Receivables by the Purchaser to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the pledge of the Receivables by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture.

     (i) Schedule of Receivables. No selection procedures adverse to the
Securityholders have been used by the Seller in selecting the Receivables from all
receivables owned by the Seller which meet the selection criteria specified herein.

     (ii) No Sale or Transfer. No Receivable has been sold, transferred, assigned
or pledged by the Seller to any Person other than the Purchaser.

     (iii) Good Title. Immediately prior to the transfer and assignment of the
Receivables to the Purchaser herein contemplated, each Receivable was free and clear
of all Liens created by the Seller; and, immediately upon the transfer thereof, the
Purchaser has either (i) good and marketable title to each Receivable, free and
clear of all of all Liens and rights of others to the extent created by the Seller
and the transfer has been perfected under applicable law or (ii) a first priority
perfected security interest in the Seller’s rights in each Receivable.

     SECTION 2.3 Repurchase upon Breach. (a) Each of the Seller and the Purchaser shall
inform the other promptly, in writing, upon the discovery by it of any breach of the Seller’s
representations and warranties pursuant to Section 2.2 which materially and adversely affects the
interest of the Issuer in any Receivable. Unless the breach shall have been cured by the last day
of the second Collection Period following discovery by or written notice to the Seller of such
breach, the Seller shall repurchase any Receivable for which the interest of the Issuer is
materially and adversely affected by such breach as of such last day (or, at the Purchaser’s
option, the last day of the first Collection Period following the discovery). Any such breach
shall not be deemed to have a material and adverse effect on the interests of the Issuer if such
breach does not affect the ability of the Issuer to receive and retain timely payment in full on
the related Receivable. The Seller shall remit the related Purchase Amount (less any Liquidation
Proceeds deposited, or to be deposited, in the Collection Account with respect to such Receivable
pursuant to Section 3.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement), to or at the direction of the
Purchaser.

          (b) In addition to the foregoing repurchase obligations, if the interest of the Purchaser in
any Receivable is materially and adversely affected by a breach by an Originator of a
representation or warranty relating to such Receivable in an Originator Purchase Agreement, the
Seller shall repurchase such Receivable from the Issuer but only if the Originator shall in fact
repurchase such Receivable. The Seller shall remit the purchase price paid by the Originator with
respect to such Receivable pursuant to Section 3.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement to or at the
direction of the Purchaser.

          (c) The sole remedy of the Purchaser with respect to a breach of any of the representations
and warranties referred to in Sections 2.2 shall be the repurchase of the related Receivables
pursuant to Section 2.3.

          (d) With respect to all Receivables purchased pursuant to this Section 2.3, the Purchaser
shall assign to the Seller, without recourse, representation or warranty, all of the

      

					
	 
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Purchaser’s right, title and interest in and to such Receivables and all security and documents relating
thereto.

     SECTION 2.4 Representations and Warranties as to the Security Interest of the Purchaser in
the Receivables. The Seller makes the following representations and warranties to the
Purchaser. The representations and warranties speak as of the execution and delivery of this
Agreement and as of the Closing Date, but shall survive the sale, transfer and assignment of the
Receivables by the Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, the sale, transfer and
assignment of the Receivables by the Purchaser to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the pledge of the Receivables by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to the
Indenture.

          (a) This Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the UCC) in
the Receivables in favor of the Purchaser, which security interest is prior to all other Liens, and
is enforceable as such as against creditors of and purchasers from the Seller.

          (b) The Receivables constitute “tangible chattel paper” within the meaning of Article 9 of the
UCC.

          (c) Immediately prior to its transfer to the Issuer, each Receivable was free and clear of any
Lien created by the Seller.

          (d) The Seller has caused or will have caused, within ten days, the filing of all appropriate
financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under applicable
law in order to perfect the security interest in the Receivables granted to the Purchaser
hereunder. Each such financing statement will contain a statement to the following effect “A
purchase of or security interest in any collateral described in this financing statement will
violate the rights of the Secured Party.”

          (e) Other than the security interest granted to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, the
Seller has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in, or otherwise conveyed any
of the Receivables. The Seller has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing
statements against the Seller that include a description of collateral covering the Receivables
other than any financing statement relating to the security interest granted to the Issuer
hereunder or that has been terminated. The Seller is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings
against it.

          (f) The contracts that constitute or evidence the Receivables do not have any marks or
notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person
other than the Seller or the Issuer.

     Each of the parties hereto agrees that it shall not, without satisfaction of the Rating Agency
Condition, waive any of the representations and warranties in this Section 2.4.

      

					
	 
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ARTICLE III

THE SELLER

     SECTION 3.1 Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Seller. The Seller makes
the following representations and warranties on which the Purchaser is deemed to have relied in
acquiring the Purchased Property. The representations and warranties speak as of the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, but shall survive the sale, transfer and
assignment of the Receivables by the Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, the sale,
transfer and assignment of the Receivables by the Purchaser to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the pledge of the Receivables by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to the Indenture.

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

          (b) Power and Authority. The Seller has the power and authority to execute and
deliver this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which it is a party and to carry out their
respective terms; the Seller has full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be
sold, and assigned to the Purchaser, and the Seller shall have duly authorized such sale and
assignment to the Purchaser by all necessary trust action; and the execution, delivery, and
performance of this Agreement and the other Basic Documents to which the Seller is a party have
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Seller by all necessary trust action.

          (c) Binding Obligations. This Agreement, when duly executed and delivered by the
Purchaser, constitutes a legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Seller enforceable against the
Seller in accordance with its terms, except as the enforceability hereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating
to or affecting 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.

          (d) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the other Basic Documents to which the Seller is a party and the fulfillment of the terms
hereof and thereof do not (i) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and
provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the
organizational documents of the Seller, or conflict with or breach any of the material terms or
provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default under, any
indenture, agreement, or other instrument to which the Seller is a party or by which it is bound,
(ii) 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 the Liens created by this
Agreement or any other Basic Document, or (iii) violate any law or, to the best of the Seller’s
knowledge, any order, rule, or regulation applicable to the Seller of any court or of any federal
or state regulatory body, administrative agency, or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Seller.

      

					
	 
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          (e) No Proceedings. There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending, or, to
the best of the Seller’s knowledge, threatened, before any court, regulatory body, administrative
agency, or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Seller or its properties
(i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents, (ii) seeking to
prevent the issuance of the Securities or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or the other Basic Documents, (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that
would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the performance by the Seller of
its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this Agreement, any of the other Basic
Documents or the Securities or (iv) relating to the Seller and which would reasonably be expected
to adversely affect the federal income tax attributes of the Securities.

ARTICLE IV

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     SECTION 4.1 Amendment. (a) Any term or provision of this Agreement may be amended by
the Seller and the Purchaser without the consent of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, any
Noteholder, any Certificateholder, the Issuer or any other Person; provided that such amendment
shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Indenture Trustee and to that
effect, materially and adversely affect the interests of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders.
An amendment shall be deemed not to materially and adversely affect the interests of the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders and no Opinion of Counsel to that effect shall be required if
the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied with respect to such amendment.

          (b) Any term or provision of this Agreement may be amended by the Seller and the Purchaser but
without the consent of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, any Noteholder, any
Certificateholder, the Issuer or any other Person to add, modify or eliminate any provisions as may
be necessary or advisable in order to enable the Seller, the Purchaser or any of their Affiliates
to comply with or obtain more favorable treatment under any law or regulation or any accounting
rule or principle, it being a condition to any such amendment that the Rating Agency Condition
shall have been satisfied.

          (c) Any term or provision of this Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the
Seller and the Purchaser, with the consent of (i) the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than
a majority of the principal amount of each Class of Notes, and (ii) the Certificateholders of
Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the Percentage Interests (which consent of any
holder of a Note or holder of a Certificate given pursuant to this Section 4.1 or pursuant to any
other provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on such Note or Certificate, as
the case may be, and on all future holders of such Note or holders of such Certificate, as the case
may be, and of any Note or Certificate, as applicable, issued upon the transfer thereof or in
exchange thereof or in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon such Note
or the Certificate), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement, or of modifying in any manner the rights of
the Noteholders or the Certificateholders; provided, however, that no such amendment shall (A)
increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, or change the
allocation or priority of, collections of payments on Receivables or

      

					
	 
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distributions that shall be required to be made on any Note or Certificate or change any Note
Interest Rate, without the consent of all Noteholders or Certificateholders or (B) reduce the
aforesaid percentage required to consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders
of all Notes affected thereby and holders of all Certificates affected thereby. It shall not be
necessary for the consent of Noteholders or the Certificateholders pursuant to this Section 4.1 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 Noteholders and Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement) and of
evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by Noteholders and Certificateholders shall
be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee may
prescribe, including, with respect to the Noteholders, the establishment of record dates pursuant
to the Note Depository Agreement.

          (d) Prior to the execution of any such amendment the Owner Trustee shall provide written
notification of the substance of such amendment to each Rating Agency.

          (e) Promptly after the execution of any such amendment, the Owner Trustee shall furnish
written notification of the substance of such amendment to the Indenture Trustee, each Rating
Agency.

          (f) Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, the Owner Trustee and the
Indenture 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, if applicable, the
Opinion of Counsel referred to in Section 4.1(a). The Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee may,
but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which affects such Owner Trustee’s or
Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.

     SECTION 4.2 Protection of Title to Trust Property. (a) The Seller shall file such
financing statements and the Issuer shall cause to be filed such continuation statements, all in
such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to preserve, maintain, and protect
the interest of the Purchaser in the Receivables and in the proceeds thereof. The Owner Trustee
shall deliver (or cause to be delivered) to the Purchaser and the Indenture Trustee file-stamped
copies of, or filing receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as soon as available
following such filing. The Seller hereby authorizes the Issuer and the Owner Trustee to file such
continuation statements on its behalf.

          (b) Neither the Seller nor the Purchaser shall change its name, identity, or organizational
structure in any manner that would, could, or might make any financing statement or continuation
statement filed by the Owner Trustee in accordance with paragraph (a) above seriously misleading
within the meaning of Sections 9-506, 9-507 or 9-508 of the UCC, unless it shall have given the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at least 5 days’ prior written notice thereof and shall
have promptly filed appropriate amendments to all previously filed financing statements or
continuation statements.

          (c) The Seller and the Purchaser shall give the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee at
least ten (10) days’ prior written notice of any relocation of its principal

      

					
	 
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executive office or change in the jurisdiction under whose laws it is formed if, as a result
of such relocation or change, the applicable provisions of the UCC would require the filing of any
amendment of any previously filed financing or continuation statement or of any new financing
statement and shall promptly file any such amendment or new financing statement.

     SECTION 4.3 Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.

          (a) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,
WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS THAT WOULD APPLY THE LAW OF ANY JURISDICTION OTHER
THAN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS, AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

          (b) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:

     (i) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding
relating to this Agreement or any documents executed and delivered in connection
herewith, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to
the nonexclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the
courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York and
appellate courts from any thereof;

     (ii) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts
and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of such
action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought
in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;

     (iii) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be
effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any
substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to such Person at its address
determined in accordance with Section 9.4; and

     (iv) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of
process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any
other jurisdiction.

          (c) EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY
LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER BASIC DOCUMENTS OR THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY.

     SECTION 4.4 Notices. All demands, notices, and communications under this Agreement
shall be in writing, personally delivered, sent by fax, overnight courier or mailed by certified
mail, return receipt requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt at such
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to the other parties hereto. Any notice required or permitted to be mailed to a Noteholder or
Certificateholder shall be given by first class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such
Person as shown in the Note Register or the Certificate Register, as applicable. Any notice so
mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to have been
duly given, whether or not the Noteholder or Certificateholder shall receive such notice.

     SECTION 4.5 Severability of Provisions. If any one or more of the covenants,
agreements, provisions, or terms of this Agreement shall be for any reason whatsoever held invalid,
then such covenants, agreements, provisions, or terms shall be deemed severable from the remaining
covenants, agreements, provisions, or terms of this Agreement and shall in no way affect the
validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this Agreement or of the Notes, the
Certificates or the rights of the holders thereof.

     SECTION 4.6 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in
exercising, on the part of the parties hereto, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders or the Certificateholders, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder, shall
operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power
or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges therein provided
are cumulative and not exhaustive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.

     SECTION 4.7 Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of
and be binding upon the parties hereto, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Issuer and
their respective successors and permitted assigns and each of the Indenture Trustee, Owner Trustee
and the Issuer may enforce the provisions hereof as if they were parties thereto. Except as
otherwise provided in this Article IV, no other Person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
The parties hereto hereby acknowledge and consent to the assignment of this Agreement by the
Purchaser to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     SECTION 4.8 Limitation of Liability of Owner Trustee. Notwithstanding anything
contained herein to the contrary, this Agreement has been countersigned by Wilmington Trust Company
not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Owner Trustee of the Issuer and in no
event shall Wilmington Trust Company, in its individual capacity or, except as expressly provided
in the Trust Agreement, as Owner Trustee of the Issuer have any liability for the representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of the Issuer hereunder or in any of the
certificates, notices or agreements delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be
had solely to the assets of the Issuer. For all purposes of this Agreement, in the performance of
its duties or obligations hereunder or in the performance of any duties or obligations of the
Issuer hereunder, the Owner Trustee shall be subject to, and entitled to the benefits of, the terms
and provisions of Articles VI and VII of the Trust Agreement.

     SECTION 4.9 Transfers Intended as Sale; Security Interest. (a) Each of the parties
hereto expressly intends and agrees that the transfer of the Purchased Property contemplated and
effected under this Agreement is a complete and absolute sale and transfer of the Purchased
Property rather than a pledge or assignment of only a security interest and shall be given effect
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such for all purposes. It is further the intention of the parties hereto that the Receivables
and other Purchased Property shall not be part of the Seller’s estate in the event of a bankruptcy
or insolvency of the Seller. The sale and transfer by the Seller of Receivables and other
Purchased Property hereunder is and shall be without recourse to, or representation or warranty
(express or implied) by, the Seller, except as otherwise specifically provided herein. The limited
rights of recourse specified herein against the Seller are intended to provide a remedy for breach
of representations and warranties relating to the condition of the property sold, rather than to
the collectibility of the Receivables.

          (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Receivables and other Purchased
Property are held to be property of the Seller, or if for any reason this Agreement is held or
deemed to create indebtedness or a security interest in the Receivables and other Purchased
Property, then it is intended that:

     (i) This Agreement shall be deemed to be a security agreement within the
meaning of Articles 8 and 9 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and the Uniform
Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction;

     (ii) The conveyance provided for in Section 2.1 shall be deemed to be a
grant by the Seller, and the Seller hereby grants, to the Purchaser of a security
interest in all of its right (including the power to convey title thereto), title
and interest, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in and to the Receivables and
other Purchased Property, to secure such indebtedness and the performance of the
obligations of the Seller hereunder;

     (iii) The possession by the Purchaser or its agent of the Receivables Files and
any other property as constitute instruments, money, negotiable documents or chattel
paper shall be deemed to be “possession by the secured party” or possession by the
purchaser or a person designated by such purchaser, for purposes of perfecting the
security interest pursuant to the New York Uniform Commercial Code and the Uniform
Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction; and

     (iv) Notifications to persons holding such property, and acknowledgments,
receipts or confirmations from persons holding such property, shall be deemed to be
notifications to, or acknowledgments, receipts or confirmations from, bailees or
agents (as applicable) of the Purchaser for the purpose of perfecting such security
interest under applicable law.

     SECTION 4.10 No Petition. Each party hereto agrees that, prior to the date which is
one year and one day after payment in full of all obligations of each Bankruptcy Remote Party in
respect of all securities issued by any Bankruptcy Remote Party (i) such party shall not authorize
any Bankruptcy Remote Party to commence a voluntary winding-up or other voluntary case or other
proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to such Bankruptcy
Remote Party or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect in any jurisdiction or seeking the appointment of an administrator, a trustee, receiver,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official with respect to such Bankruptcy Remote

      

					
	 
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Party or any substantial part of its property or to consent to any such relief or to the
appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding
commenced against such Bankruptcy Remote Party, or to make a general assignment for the benefit of,
its creditors generally, any party hereto or any other creditor of such Bankruptcy Remote Party,
and (ii) none of the parties hereto shall commence or join with any other Person in commencing any
proceeding against such Bankruptcy Remote Party under any bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation
or insolvency law or statute now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction. This Section shall
survive the termination of this Agreement.

     SECTION 4.11 Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number
of counterparts, each of which counterparts shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which
counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

     SECTION 4.12 Headings. The section headings hereof have been inserted for convenience
of reference only and shall not be construed to affect the meaning, construction or effect of this
Agreement.

[SIGNATURES FOLLOW]

      

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GS WHOLE LOAN TRUST,
	 	 	as Seller
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company, its depositor and administrator  
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: Goldman Sachs Real Estate Funding Corp., as general partner of Goldman
Sachs Mortgage Company
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	          /s/ Joseph Marconi	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name: Joseph Marconi	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GOLDMAN SACHS ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORP., as Purchaser
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:
	 	          /s/ Joseph Marconi	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name: Joseph Marconi	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title: Vice President	 	 

      

					
	 
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WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not

in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee,

for the purpose of accepting its duties under Sections 4.1 and 4.2

	 	 	 	 	 
	By:

	 	/s/ Emmet R. Harmon	 	 
	Name: Emmet R. Harmon	 	 
	Title: Vice President	 	 

      

					
	 
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