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                     AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT

                                    between

                         ML ASSET BACKED CORPORATION,
                                 as Depositor

                                      and

                     U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                               as Owner Trustee

                           Dated as of May 31, 2005

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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS

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                                   ARTICLE I

                                  DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01.   Capitalized Terms.............................................................................1
Section 1.02.   Other Definitional Provisions.................................................................3

                                  ARTICLE II

                                 ORGANIZATION

Section 2.01.   Name..........................................................................................4
Section 2.02.   Office........................................................................................4
Section 2.03.   Purposes and Powers...........................................................................4
Section 2.04.   Appointment of Owner Trustee..................................................................5
Section 2.05.   Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate..................................................5
Section 2.06.   Declaration of Trust..........................................................................5
Section 2.07.   Characterization of the Trust for Tax Purposes................................................5
Section 2.08.   Liability of Certificateholders...............................................................6
Section 2.09.   Title to Trust Property.......................................................................6
Section 2.10.   Situs of Trust................................................................................6
Section 2.11.   Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Depositor....................................6
Section 2.12.   Federal Income Tax Matters....................................................................7

                                  ARTICLE III

                 TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS

Section 3.01.   Initial Ownership.............................................................................8
Section 3.02.   The Trust Certificates........................................................................8
Section 3.03.   Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Trust Certificates..................................8
Section 3.04.   Registration of Certificates; Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates;
                Limitations on Transfer.......................................................................8
Section 3.05.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates......................................10
Section 3.06.   Persons Deemed Owners........................................................................11
Section 3.07.   Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses....................................11
Section 3.08.   Maintenance of Office or Agency..............................................................11
Section 3.09.   Appointment of Paying Agent..................................................................11
Section 3.10.   Definitive Trust Certificates................................................................12
Section 3.11.   Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid....................................................12

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                                  ARTICLE IV

                           ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 4.01.   Prior Notice with Respect to Certain Matters.................................................12
Section 4.02.   Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters.................................14
Section 4.03.   Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power....................................................15
Section 4.04.   Majority Control.............................................................................15

                                   ARTICLE V

                  APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES

Section 5.01.   Establishment of Trust Account...............................................................15
Section 5.02.   Application of Trust Funds...................................................................15
Section 5.03.   Method of Payment............................................................................16
Section 5.04.   No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest........................................................17
Section 5.05.   Accounting and Reports to Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others........17
Section 5.06.   Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner....................................................17

                                  ARTICLE VI

                     AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 6.01.   General Authority............................................................................17
Section 6.02.   General Duties...............................................................................18
Section 6.03.   Action upon Instruction......................................................................18
Section 6.04.   No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions...........................19
Section 6.05.   No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions...................................19
Section 6.06.   Restrictions.................................................................................19
Section 6.07.   Administrative Duties........................................................................19

                                  ARTICLE VII

                         CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 7.01.   Acceptance of Trusts and Duties..............................................................22
Section 7.02.   Furnishing of Documents......................................................................23
Section 7.03.   Representations and Warranties...............................................................24
Section 7.04.   Reliance; Advice of Counsel..................................................................24
Section 7.05.   Not Acting in Individual Capacity............................................................25
Section 7.06.   Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or for Receivables...........................25
Section 7.07.   Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes...........................................25
Section 7.08.   Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions........................................................25
Section 7.09.   Paying Agent, Certificate Registrar and Authenticating Agent.................................26

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                                 ARTICLE VIII

                         COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE

Section 8.01.   Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses............................................................26
Section 8.02.   Indemnification..............................................................................26
Section 8.03.   Payments to the Owner Trustee................................................................27

                                  ARTICLE IX

                        TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT

Section 9.01.   Termination of Trust Agreement...............................................................27

                                   ARTICLE X

            SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES

Section 10.01.  Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee...................................................28
Section 10.02.  Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee......................................................28
Section 10.03.  Successor Owner Trustee......................................................................29
Section 10.04.  Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.....................................................30
Section 10.05.  Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee................................................30

                                  ARTICLE XI

                                 MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.01.  Supplements and Amendments...................................................................31
Section 11.02.  No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Certificateholders.........................................32
Section 11.03.  Limitations on Rights of Others..............................................................32
Section 11.04.  Notices......................................................................................32
Section 11.05.  Severability.................................................................................33
Section 11.06.  Separate Counterparts........................................................................33
Section 11.07.  Successors and Assigns.......................................................................33
Section 11.08.  Covenants of the Depositor...................................................................33
Section 11.09.  No Petition..................................................................................33
Section 11.10.  No Recourse..................................................................................34
Section 11.11.  Headings.....................................................................................34
Section 11.12.  GOVERNING LAW................................................................................34
Section 11.13.  Sarbanes-Oxley...............................................................................34
Section 11.14.  Acceptance of Terms of Agreement.............................................................34

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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A       Form of Trust Certificate...................................................................A-1
Exhibit B       Form of Transferor Certificate..............................................................B-1
Exhibit C       Form of Investment Letter...................................................................C-1
Exhibit D       Form of Rule 144A Letter....................................................................D-1
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     This AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of May 31, 2005, is
between ML ASSET BACKED CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, as depositor (the
"Depositor"), and U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking
corporation, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee").

     WHEREAS, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor entered into a Trust
Agreement dated as of August 13, 2004 (the "Original Trust Agreement"); and

     WHEREAS, the Original Trust Agreement is being amended and restated as of
May 31, 2005;

     NOW, THEREFORE, the Depositor and the Owner Trustee hereby agree that the
Original Trust Agreement shall be amended and restated as follows:

                                   ARTICLE I

                                  DEFINITIONS

     Section 1.01. Capitalized Terms. For all purposes of this Agreement, the
following terms have the meanings set forth below:

     "Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

     "Bankruptcy Action" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.01.

     "Certificate Distribution Account" has the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 5.01.

     "Certificate of Trust" means the certificate of trust of the Issuer
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Original Trust Agreement.

     "Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" means the register
mentioned in and the registrar appointed pursuant to Section 3.04.

     "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

     "Depositor" means ML Asset Backed Corporation, and its successors, in its
capacity as depositor hereunder.

     "Distribution Date" means the twenty-fifth (25th) day of each calendar
month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

     "Expenses" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.02.

     "Holder" or "Certificateholder" means a Person in whose name a Trust
Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register; except that when used
in reference to the Notes, "Holder" shall have the meaning provided therefor
under the Indenture.

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     "Indemnified Parties" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
8.02.

     "Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of May 31, 2005, among the
Trust, HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Indenture Trustee and U.S. Bank
National Association, as Securities Administrator, as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.

     "Indenture Trustee" means HSBC Bank USA, National Association, a national
banking association, not in its individual capacity, but as Indenture Trustee
under the Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee under the Indenture.

     "Investment Letter" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.04.

     "Notes" means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b
Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes and the
Class C Notes.

     "Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

     "Owner Trustee" means U.S. Bank Trust National Association, a national
banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner
trustee under this Agreement, and any successor Owner Trustee hereunder.

     "Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 3.09 and shall initially be the Owner Trustee.

     "Percentage Interest" means, as to any Trust Certificate, the percentage
interest, specified on the face thereof, in the distributions on the Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement.

     "Protected Purchaser" has the meaning set forth in Section 8-303 of the
UCC.

     "Sale and Servicing Agreement" means the Sale and Servicing Agreement
dated as of May 31, 2005, among the Trust, as issuer, the Depositor, U.S. Bank
National Association, as Master Servicer, and HSBC Bank USA, National
Association, as Indenture Trustee, as the same may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.

     "Secretary of State" means the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware.

     "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     "Securities Administrator" means U.S. Bank National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Securities Administrator under the Indenture, or any successor Securities
Administrator under the Indenture.

     "Similar Law" means any foreign, federal, state or local law with
provisions substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code.

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     "Statutory Trust Statute" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware
Code, 12 Del. Code ss.ss. 3801 et seq., as the same may be amended from time
to time.

     "Transferor Certificate" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.04.

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

     "Trust Certificates" means the certificates evidencing the beneficial
interest in the Trust, in the form of Exhibit A hereto.

     Section 1.02. Other Definitional Provisions.

     (a) Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Appendix A to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

     (b) All terms defined in this Agreement and used in any instrument
governed hereby and in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto herein
unless such terms are otherwise defined in such certificate or other document.

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

     (d) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of similar import
when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not
to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit references
contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and Exhibits in or to
this Agreement unless otherwise specified; "or" includes "and/or"; and the
term "including" means "including without limitation".

     (e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the
singular and plural forms of such terms and to the masculine, feminine and
neuter genders of such terms.

     (f) Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or
in any instrument or certificate delivered in connection herewith means such
agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified or
supplemented and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments)
references to all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein;
references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.

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                                  ARTICLE II

                                 ORGANIZATION

     Section 2.01. Name. The Trust heretofore created and continued hereby
is known as "Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1," in which name the
Owner Trustee may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute
contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued.

     Section 2.02. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in care of the
Owner Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office or at such other address in
Delaware as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the
Certificateholders and the Depositor.

     Section 2.03. Purposes and Powers. The purpose of the Trust is to engage
in the following activities and the Owner Trustee acting on behalf of the
Trust shall have the power and authority:

     (a) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement and to sell the Notes and the Trust
Certificates, in each case in accordance with the Basic Documents;

     (b) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes and the Trust
Certificates, to purchase or otherwise acquire the Initial Receivables, to pay
the organizational, start-up and transactional expenses of the Trust and to
pay the balance of such proceeds to the Depositor pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement;

     (c) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey the Trust
Estate pursuant to the Indenture and to hold, manage and distribute to the
Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
any portion of the Trust Estate released from the Lien of, and remitted to the
Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;

     (d) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic Documents
to which it is to be a party;

     (e) to engage in those activities, including entering into agreements,
that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are
incidental thereto or connected therewith; and

     (f) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage in such
other activities as may be required in connection with conservation of the
Trust Estate and the making of distributions to the Certificateholders and the
Noteholders.

     The Owner Trustee acting on behalf of the Trust is hereby authorized to
engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust shall not engage in any activity
other than in connection with the foregoing or other than as required or
authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.
Specifically, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall have no
authority to engage in any business operation, acquire any assets other than
those specifically included in the Trust Property or the Owner Trust Estate
under Article II of the Sale and

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Servicing Agreement or otherwise vary the assets held by the Trust, except as
authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the other Basic Documents.

     Section 2.04. Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Depositor hereby confirms
the appointment of the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of
the date of creation of the Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties
set forth herein.

     The Owner Trustee may engage, in the name of the Trust or in its own name
on behalf of the Trust, in the activities of the Trust, make and execute
contracts on behalf of the Trust and sue on behalf of the Trust.

     Section 2.05. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate. The Depositor
hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner Trustee,
as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby acknowledges
receipt in trust from the Depositor, as of the date hereof, of the foregoing
contribution, which shall constitute the initial Trust Estate and shall be
deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account. The Depositor shall pay
organizational expenses of the Trust as they may arise or shall, upon the
request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse the Owner Trustee for any
such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.

     Section 2.06. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby declares
that it will hold the Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to the conditions
set forth herein for the use and benefit of the Certificateholders, subject to
the obligations of the Trust under the Basic Documents. Effective as of the
date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and duties set
forth herein and in the Statutory Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing
the purposes of the Trust. The Owner Trustee has filed the Certificate of
Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

     Section 2.07. Characterization of the Trust for Tax Purposes. It is the
intention of the parties hereto that (i) the Trust constitute a statutory
trust under the Statutory Trust Statute and that this Agreement constitute the
governing instrument of such statutory trust and (ii) for federal, state and
local income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall be treated as a
grantor trust of the type described in Treasury Regulation ss.301.7701-4(c),
with the assets of the Trust being the Receivables and other assets held by
the Trust, and the Notes being non-recourse debt of the Certificateholders,
provided that if the Trust is not properly characterized as a grantor trust of
the type described in Treasury Regulation ss.301.7701-4(c) (i.e., if one or
more classes of Notes are treated as equity in the Trust for federal income
tax purposes), the Trust shall be treated for federal, state and local income
and franchise tax purposes as a partnership (other than an association or
publicly traded partnership), with the assets of the partnership being the
Receivables and other assets held by the Trust, the partners of the
partnership being the Certificateholders and the Holders of the Notes that are
treated as equity in the Trust, and the remaining Notes constituting
indebtedness of the partnership. The parties agree that, unless otherwise
required by the appropriate tax authorities, the Trust will file or cause to
be filed annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent
with the foregoing characterization of the Trust for such tax purposes.

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     Section 2.08. Liability of Certificateholders. The Certificateholders
(including the Depositor or any Affiliate thereof) shall be entitled to the
same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the general corporation law of the
State of Delaware.

     Section 2.09. Title to Trust Property. Subject to the Indenture, legal
title to all the Trust Estate shall be vested at all times in the Owner
Trustee, in its capacity as trustee for the Trust, in accordance with Section
3805(f) of the Statutory Trust Statute, with the same effect as if such
property were held in the name of the Trust as a separate legal entity.

     Section 2.10. Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located in the State of
Delaware and administered in the States of Delaware, New York or Minnesota.
All bank accounts maintained by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall
be located in the States of Delaware, New York or Minnesota. The Trust shall
not have any employees; provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict
or prohibit the Owner Trustee from having employees within or without the
State of Delaware. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware,
New York or Minnesota, and payments will be made by the Trust only from
Delaware, New York or Minnesota. The only office of the Trust will be at the
Corporate Trust Office.

     Section 2.11. Representations, Warranties and Covenants of the Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants to the Owner Trustee that:

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

     (b) The Depositor is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its property
or the conduct of its business shall require such qualifications.

     (c) The Depositor has the power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Depositor has full power and
authority to transfer and assign the property to be transferred and assigned
to and deposited with the Trust and the Depositor has duly authorized such
transfer and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary corporate
action; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have
been duly authorized by the Depositor by all necessary corporate action.

     (d) The Depositor has duly executed and delivered this Agreement, and
this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Depositor, enforceable against the Depositor, in accordance with its terms.

     (e) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and the fulfillment of the terms hereof 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 certificate of
incorporation or the by-laws of the Depositor, or any indenture, agreement or

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other instrument to which the Depositor 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 pursuant to the Basic Documents) or (iii) violate any
law or, to the best of the Depositor's knowledge, any order, rule or
regulation applicable to the Depositor of any court or of any federal or state
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality
having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties.

     (f) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or threatened
before any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental
instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Depositor or its properties (i)
asserting the invalidity of this Agreement, (ii) seeking to prevent the
consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or
(iii) seeking any determination or ruling that might materially and adversely
affect the performance by the Depositor of its obligations under, or the
validity or enforceability of, this Agreement.

     (g) The representations and warranties of the Depositor in Section 5.1 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement are true and correct.

     Section 2.12. Federal Income Tax Matters. (a) The Certificateholders
acknowledge that it is their intent and that they understand it is the intent
of the Depositor that, for federal, state and local income and franchise tax
purposes, the Trust shall be treated as a grantor trust of the type described
in Treasury Regulation ss.301.7701-4(c). The Depositor hereby agrees and each
Certificateholder by acceptance of a Trust Certificate agrees to such
treatment and each agrees to take no action inconsistent with such treatment
as a grantor trust. If the Trust is not properly characterized as a grantor
trust of the type described in Treasury Regulation ss.301.7701-4(c) (i.e., to
the extent that one or more classes of Notes are treated as equity for federal
income tax purposes), the Trust will be treated as a partnership (other than
an association or publicly traded partnership) for federal, state and local
income and franchise tax purposes, and income, gain or loss of the Trust for
such month as determined for federal income tax purposes shall be allocated
among the Certificateholders as of the Record Date occurring within such
month, in proportion to their ownership of the Certificate Percentage Interest
on such date.

     (b) Each Certificateholder agrees to provide to the Trust (a) an IRS Form
W-9 (or other similar or successor form) as is necessary to establish an
exemption from United States federal backup withholding with respect to such
Certificateholder (i) on or promptly after the date hereof (or, if later, the
date on which it becomes a Certificateholder hereunder) and (ii) upon the
occurrence of any event that would require the amendment or resubmission of
any such Form previously provided hereunder and such other forms or
information in connection therewith reasonably requested by the Trust.

     (c) The Trust is authorized to modify the allocations in this paragraph
if necessary or appropriate, in its sole discretion, for the allocations to
fairly reflect the economic income, gain or loss to the Certificateholders, or
as otherwise required by the Code.

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                                 ARTICLE III

                 TRUST CERTIFICATES AND TRANSFER OF INTERESTS

     Section 3.01. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the Trust by the
execution of the Original Trust Agreement and until the issuance of the Trust
Certificates, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust.

     Section 3.02. The Trust Certificates.

     (a) The Trust Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of a
one percent (1%) Percentage Interest in the Trust. The Trust Certificates
shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of
an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee. Trust Certificates bearing the
manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such
signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust,
shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit of this Agreement and
shall be valid and binding obligations of the Trust, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates or did not hold such
offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Trust Certificates.

     (b) A transferee of a Trust Certificate, if any, shall become a
Certificateholder, shall become bound by this Agreement and shall be entitled
to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder
upon such transferee's acceptance of a Trust Certificate duly registered in
such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.04.

     Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Trust
Certificates. On the Closing Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Trust
Certificates in an aggregate Percentage Interest equal to 100% to be executed
on behalf of the Trust and authenticated by the Owner Trustee on behalf of the
Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith Incorporated, without further action by the Depositor, in
authorized denominations. No Trust Certificate shall entitle the related
Certificateholder to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid for any
purpose unless there shall appear on such Trust Certificate a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by
the Owner Trustee, by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute
conclusive evidence that such Trust Certificate shall have been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder. All Trust Certificates shall be dated
the date of their authentication.

     When a Trust Certificate is duly executed and issued by the Owner Trustee
and duly authenticated in accordance with this Agreement, the Trust
Certificate will be fully paid, validly issued, nonassessable and entitled to
the benefits of this Agreement.

     Section 3.04. Registration of Certificates; Transfer and Exchange of
Trust Certificates; Limitations on Transfer. (a) The Certificate Registrar
shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Trust shall provide for the registration
of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as
herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall be the initial Certificate Registrar.
No transfer of a Trust

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Certificate shall be recognized except upon registration of such transfer in
the Certificate Register.

     The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities Act and will not be listed on any exchange. No transfer of a Trust
Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an
effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable
state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under
the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a
transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act
and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities
Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and
such Certificateholder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the
Owner Trustee in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially
the forms set forth in Exhibit B (the "Transferor Certificate") and either
Exhibit C (the "Investment Letter") or Exhibit D (the "Rule 144A Letter"). The
Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder and any prospective
transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the
Trust Certificates and, based solely on information received from the Master
Servicer, the Receivables Servicers and, to the extent reasonably obtainable
by the Depositor, such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the
condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such
Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act
pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each
Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby
agree to, indemnify the Trust, the Owner Trustee, and the Depositor against
any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made
in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee shall
cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the
form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.

     (b) With respect to each transfer of a Trust Certificate, the prospective
transferee shall be deemed to represent the following:

          (i) It is not, and each account (if any) for which it is purchasing
     the Trust Certificates is not (1) an employee benefit plan, as defined in
     Section 3(3) of ERISA, that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (2) a plan
     described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section
     4975 of the Code, (3) a governmental plan, as defined in Section 3(32) of
     ERISA, subject to any federal, State or local law which is, to a material
     extent, similar to the provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975
     of the Code, (4) an entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
     reason of a plan's investment in the entity (within the meaning of
     Department of Labor Regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101 or otherwise
     under ERISA) or (5) a person investing "plan assets" of any such plan
     (including without limitation, for purposes of this clause (5), an
     insurance company general account, but excluding any entity registered
     under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended).

          (ii) It understands that any purported transfer of any Trust
     Certificate (or any interest therein) to any Person who does not meet the
     conditions of paragraph (i) above shall be, to the fullest extent
     permitted by law, void ab initio, and the purported transferee in such a
     transfer shall not be recognized by the Trust or any other Person as a
     Certificateholder for any purpose.

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     (c) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate
at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 and upon
compliance with any provisions of this Agreement relating to such transfer,
the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates of a
like Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the
Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a
Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust
Certificates of a like Certificate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the
Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant
to Section 3.08.

     Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, duly
executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney
duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently
disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary
practice.

     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or
exchange of Certificates.

     The preceding provisions of this Section 3.04 notwithstanding, the Owner
Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar need not register any
transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding
any Payment Date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.

     Section 3.05.   Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Certificates.

     (a) If (i) any mutilated Trust Certificate shall be surrendered to the
Certificate Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence
to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Certificate
and (ii) there shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar and the Owner
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of
them harmless, then in the absence of written notice that such Trust
Certificate has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Owner Trustee, on
behalf of the Trust, shall execute and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Trust Certificate, a new Trust Certificate of like tenor and
denomination. If, after the delivery of such replacement Certificate or
payment of a destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a Protected Purchaser of
the original Certificate in lieu of which such replacement Certificate was
issued presents for payment such original Certificate, the Trust and the Owner
Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Certificate (or such
payment) from the Person to whom such replacement Certificate was delivered or
any assignee of such Person, except a Protected Purchaser, and shall be
entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the
extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Trust or the Owner
Trustee. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Certificate under
this Section, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require the
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that
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therewith. Any duplicate Trust Certificate issued pursuant to this Section
shall constitute conclusive evidence of ownership in the Trust, as if
originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust
Certificate shall be found at any time.

     (b) The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.

     Section 3.06. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentation of a Trust
Certificate for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar or any Paying Agent may treat the Person in whose name any Trust
Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of such
Trust Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to
Section 5.02 and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be bound by any
notice to the contrary.

     Section 3.07. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses.
The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Master
Servicer, the Paying Agent and the Depositor, within 15 days after receipt by
the Owner Trustee of a written request therefor from the Master Servicer, the
Paying Agent or the Depositor, a list, in such form as the Master Servicer or
the Depositor may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the
Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. The Certificate
Registrar shall also furnish to the Owner Trustee and the Paying Agent a copy
of such list at any time there is a change therein. If (i) three or more
Certificateholders or (ii) one or more Certificateholders evidencing not less
than 25% of the Certificate Percentage Interests apply in writing to the Owner
Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate
with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under this
Agreement or under the Trust Certificates and such application is accompanied
by a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then
the Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such
application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the
current list of Certificateholders. Each Certificateholder, by receiving and
holding a Trust Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of
the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar or the Owner Trustee accountable by
reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source
from which such information was derived. The Certificate Registrar shall upon
the request of the Owner Trustee provide such list, or access to such list, of
Certificateholders as contemplated by this Section 3.07.

     Section 3.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner Trustee shall
designate an office or offices or agency or agencies located in the United
States where Trust Certificates may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner
Trustee in respect of the Trust Certificates and the Basic Documents may be
served. The Owner Trustee initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of
the Owner Trustee as the office for such purposes. The Owner Trustee shall
give prompt written notice to the Depositor and the Certificateholders of any
change in the location of the Certificate Register or any such office or
agency.

     Section 3.09. Appointment of Paying Agent. The Paying Agent shall make
distributions to Certificateholders from the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Section

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5.02 and shall report the amounts of such distributions to the Owner Trustee.
Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the
Certificate Distribution Account for the purpose of making the distributions
referred to above. The Owner Trustee may revoke such power and remove the
Paying Agent if the Owner Trustee determines in its sole discretion that the
Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligations under this Agreement
in any material respect. The Paying Agent initially shall be the Owner Trustee
or, as provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Securities
Administrator. As Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall hold all sums, if any,
held by it for payment to the Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of
the Certificateholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such
Certificateholders. Any Paying Agent other than the Owner Trustee shall be
permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' prior written notice to the
Owner Trustee. In the event that the Owner Trustee shall no longer be the
Paying Agent, the Owner Trustee shall appoint a successor to act as Paying
Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company). The Owner Trustee shall cause
such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed hereunder
to execute and deliver to the Owner Trustee an instrument in which such
successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Owner
Trustee that, as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional
Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the
Certificateholders in trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Certificateholders. The Paying
Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Owner Trustee and upon
resignation or removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return
all funds in its possession to the Owner Trustee. The provisions of Sections
7.01, 7.03, 7.04, 8.01 and 8.02 shall apply to the Owner Trustee in its role
of Paying Agent and Certificate Registrar, for so long as the Owner Trustee
shall act as Paying Agent and Certificate Registrar and, to the extent
applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in
this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless
the context requires otherwise.

     Section 3.10. Definitive Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates, upon
original issuance, will be issued in the form of a typewritten Trust
Certificate or Trust Certificates in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A to be delivered to the related Certificateholders, by, or on behalf
of, the Trust. Such Trust Certificate or Trust Certificates shall be
registered on the Certificate Register in the name of the Holder thereof. The
Trust Certificates shall be printed, lithographed, typewritten or engraved or
may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Owner
Trustee, as evidenced by its execution thereof.

     Section 3.11. Certificates Nonassessable and Fully Paid.
Certificateholders shall not be personally liable for obligations of the
Trust. The interests represented by the Trust Certificates shall be
nonassessable for any losses or expenses of the Trust or for any reason
whatsoever, and, upon the authentication thereof by the Owner Trustee pursuant
to Section 3.03, 3.04 or 3.05, the Trust Certificates are and shall be deemed
fully paid.

                                  ARTICLE IV

                           ACTIONS BY OWNER TRUSTEE

     Section 4.01. Prior Notice with Respect to Certain Matters. With respect
to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take action unless at
least 30 days before the

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taking of such action, the Owner Trustee shall have notified the
Certificateholders of record as of the preceding Record Date in writing of the
proposed action and such Certificateholders specified in Section 4.04 hereof
shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in writing prior to the thirtieth
30th day after such notice is given that such Certificateholders have withheld
consent or provided alternative direction:

     (a) the initiation of any claim or lawsuit by the Owner Trustee (except
claims or lawsuits brought in connection with the collection of the
Receivables) and the compromise of any action, claim or lawsuit brought by or
against the Owner Trustee (except with respect to the aforementioned claims or
lawsuits for collection of the Receivables);

     (b) the election by the Owner Trustee to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Statutory Trust Statute);

     (c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture or any
other change to this Agreement or any other Basic Document in circumstances
where the consent of any Noteholder is required;

     (d) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture or any
other change to this Agreement or any other Basic Document in circumstances
where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such amendment would
materially adversely affect the interests of the Certificateholders;

     (e) the appointment pursuant to the Indenture of a successor Note
Registrar, Paying Agent or Indenture Trustee or pursuant to this Agreement of
a successor Certificate Registrar, or the consent to the assignment by the
Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Indenture Trustee or Certificate Registrar of
its obligations under the Indenture or this Agreement, as applicable;

     (f) the consent to the calling or waiver of any default of any Basic
Document;

     (g) the consent to the assignment by the Indenture Trustee or the Master
Servicer of their respective obligations under any Basic Document, unless
permitted in the Basic Documents;

     (h) except as provided in Article IX hereof, dissolve, terminate or
liquidate the Trust in whole or in part;

     (i) merge or consolidate the Trust with or into any other entity, or
convey or transfer all or substantially all of the Trust's assets to any other
entity;

     (j) cause the Trust to incur, assume or guaranty any indebtedness other
than as set forth in this Agreement or the other Basic Documents;

     (k) do any act that conflicts with any other Basic Document;

     (l) do any act that would make it impossible to carry on the ordinary
business of the Trust as described in Section 2.03;

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     (m) confess a judgment against the Trust;

     (n) possess Trust assets, or assign the Trust's right to property, for
other than a Trust purpose;

     (o) cause the Trust to lend any funds to any entity, unless permitted in
the Basic Documents; or

     (p) change the Trust's purpose and powers from those set forth in this
Trust Agreement.

     In addition, the Trust shall not commingle its assets with those of any
other entity except, to the extent permitted hereunder, with the Owner
Trustee. The Trust shall maintain its financial and accounting books and
records separate from those of any other entity. Except as expressly set forth
herein, the Trust shall not pay the indebtedness, operating expenses and
liabilities of any other entity. The Trust shall maintain appropriate minutes
or other records of all appropriate actions and shall maintain its office
separate from the offices of the Depositor and the Master Servicer.

     The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written
direction of the Certificateholders pursuant to Section 4.04, and to the
extent otherwise consistent with the Basic Documents and permitted by
applicable law, to (i) institute proceedings to have the Owner Trustee or the
Trust declared or adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) consent to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Owner Trustee
or the Trust, (iii) file a petition or consent to a petition seeking
reorganization or relief on behalf of the Owner Trustee or the Trust under any
applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy, (iv) consent to the
appointment of a conservator, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator (or any similar official) of the Owner Trustee or the Trust or a
substantial portion of the property of the Owner Trustee or the Trust, (v)
make any assignment for the benefit of the Owner Trustee's or the Trust's
creditors, (vi) cause the Owner Trustee or the Trust to admit in writing its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or (vii) take any
action, or cause the Owner Trustee or the Trust to take any action, in
furtherance of any of the foregoing (any of the above, a "Bankruptcy Action").
So long as the Indenture remains in effect and to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable law, no Certificateholder shall have the power to take, and
shall not take, any Bankruptcy Action with respect to the Owner Trustee or the
Trust or direct the Owner Trustee to take any Bankruptcy Action with respect
to the Owner Trustee or the Trust. Additionally, the Owner Trustee shall not
have the power to commence a Bankruptcy Action without the unanimous prior
approval of all Certificateholders and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by
each such Certificateholder of a certification certifying that such
Certificateholder reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.

     Section 4.02. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain
Matters. The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon the written
direction of (a) the Certificateholders owning 25% Certificate Percentage
Interest, to remove the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 7.1 under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or (b) Certificateholders owning 100% Certificate
Percentage Interest, to amend the Sale and Servicing Agreement pursuant to the
proviso to Section 9.1(b). In addition, the Owner Trustee shall not have the
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the written direction of the Certificateholders, except as expressly provided
in the Basic Documents, sell the Receivables after the termination of the
Indenture.

     Section 4.03. Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power. The
Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take or to refrain
from taking any action if such action or inaction would be contrary to any
obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this Agreement (including
Section 2.03 hereof) or any of the other Basic Documents; nor shall the Owner
Trustee be obligated to follow any such direction, if given.

     Section 4.04. Majority Control. Except as expressly provided herein, any
action that may be taken by the Certificateholders under this Agreement may be
taken by the Certificateholders evidencing not less than a majority of the
Certificate Percentage Interests. Except as expressly provided herein, any
written notice of the Certificateholders delivered pursuant to this Agreement
shall be effective if signed by Holders of Trust Certificates evidencing not
less than a majority of the Certificate Percentage Interests at the time of
the delivery of such notice.

                                  ARTICLE V

                  APPLICATION OF TRUST FUNDS; CERTAIN DUTIES

     Section 5.01. Establishment of Trust Account. The Paying Agent shall
establish and maintain on behalf of the Trust an Eligible Deposit Account (the
"Certificate Distribution Account"), bearing a designation clearly indicating
that the funds deposited therein are held for the benefit of the
Certificateholders. The title of the Certificate Distribution Account shall be
"Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1: Certificate Distribution Account
for the benefit of the Certificateholders."

     The Trust shall possess all right, title and interest in all funds on
deposit from time to time in the Certificate Distribution Account and in all
proceeds thereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the
Certificate Distribution Account shall be under the sole dominion and control
of the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, for the benefit of the
Certificateholders. If, at any time, the Certificate Distribution Account
ceases to be an Eligible Deposit Account, the Owner Trustee (or the Depositor
on behalf of the Owner Trustee, if the Certificate Distribution Account is not
then held by the Owner Trustee or an affiliate thereof) shall within ten
Business Days (or such longer period, not to exceed 30 calendar days, as to
which each Rating Agency may consent) cause the Paying Agent to establish a
new Certificate Distribution Account as an Eligible Deposit Account and shall
transfer any cash and/or any investments from the account that is no longer an
Eligible Deposit Account to such new Certificate Distribution Account.

     Section 5.02.  Application of Trust Funds.

     (a) On each Distribution Date, the Paying Agent shall distribute to
Certificateholders amounts deposited in the Certificate Distribution Account
pursuant to Sections 8.2(c)(i) and the second last sentence of Section 8.2(d)
of the Indenture with respect to such Distribution Date.

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     (b) On each Distribution Date, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Paying
Agent to send to each Certificateholder the statement or statements provided
to the Owner Trustee by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 4.7 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to such Distribution Date.

     (c) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust's
payment (or allocations of income) to a Certificateholder, such tax shall
reduce the amount otherwise distributable to such Certificateholder in
accordance with this Section. The Owner Trustee and the Paying Agent are
hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable
to the Certificateholders sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is
legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Owner
Trustee or the Paying Agent from contesting any such tax in appropriate
proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending
the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed
with respect to a Certificateholder shall be treated as cash distributed to
such Certificateholder at the time it is withheld by the Owner Trustee on
behalf of the Trust and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority. If there
is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a
distribution (such as a distribution to a non-U.S. Certificateholder), the
Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent may in its sole discretion withhold such
amounts in accordance with this paragraph. If a Certificateholder wishes to
apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Owner Trustee and each
Paying Agent shall reasonably cooperate with such Certificateholder in making
such claim so long as such Certificateholder agrees to reimburse the Owner
Trustee and each Paying Agent for any out of pocket expenses incurred.

     (d) Any Certificateholder which is organized under the laws of a
jurisdiction outside the United States shall, on or prior to the date such
Certificateholder becomes a Certificateholder, so notify the Owner Trustee and
the Paying Agent and either (i) provide the Owner Trustee and the Paying Agent
with Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8ECI, W-8IMY (including all
required attachments thereto) or other similar forms, as appropriate, or (ii)
notify the Owner Trustee and the Paying Agent that it is not entitled to an
exemption from United States withholding tax or a reduction in the rate
thereof on payments of interest. Any such Certificateholder agrees by its
acceptance of a Trust Certificate, on an ongoing basis, to provide like
certification for each taxable year and to notify the Owner Trustee and the
Paying Agent should subsequent circumstances arise affecting the information
provided the Owner Trustee in clauses (a) and (b) above. The Owner Trustee and
the Paying Agent shall be fully protected in relying upon, and each
Certificateholder by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate hereunder agrees to
indemnify and hold the Owner Trustee and the Paying Agent harmless against all
claims or liability of any kind arising in connection with or related to the
Owner Trustee's and the Paying Agent's reliance upon any documents, forms or
information provided by any Certificateholder to the Owner Trustee.

     Section 5.03. Method of Payment. Subject to Section 9.01(c),
distributions required to be made to Certificateholders on any Distribution
Date shall be made to each Certificateholder of record on the preceding Record
Date either by wire transfer, in immediately available funds, to the account
of such Certificateholder at a bank or other entity having appropriate
facilities therefor, if such Certificateholder shall have provided to the
Certificate Registrar and the Paying Agent appropriate written instructions at
least five Business Days prior

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to such Distribution Date or, if not, by check mailed to such
Certificateholder at the address of such Certificateholder appearing in the
Certificate Register.

     Section 5.04. No Segregation of Moneys; No Interest. Subject to Sections
5.01 and 5.02, moneys received by the Owner Trustee hereunder need not be
segregated in any manner except to the extent required by law or the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and may be deposited under such general conditions as may
be prescribed by law, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any
interest thereon.

     Section 5.05. Accounting and Reports to Certificateholders, the Internal
Revenue Service and Others. The Trust shall (a) maintain (or cause to be
maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar year basis and the accrual
method of accounting, (b) deliver (or cause to delivered) to each
Certificateholder each Investor Report delivered to the Owner Trustee pursuant
to Section 3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, (c) deliver (or cause to
delivered) to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code and
applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as may be required
(including providing a Schedule K-1 to each partner if the Trust is required
to be treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes) to enable each
Certificateholder to prepare its federal and state income tax returns, (d)
prepare (or cause to be prepared), file (or cause to be filed) such tax
returns relating to the Trust (including a partnership information return, IRS
Form 1065 if the Trust is required to be treated as a partnership for federal
income tax purposes) and make such elections as from time to time may be
required or appropriate under any applicable state or federal statute or any
rule or regulation thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's characterization,
(e) cause such tax returns to be signed in the manner required by law and (f)
collect or cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in
accordance with Section 5.02(c) with respect to income or distributions to
Certificateholders. The Trust or the tax matters partner shall elect under
Section 1278 of the Code to include in income currently any market discount
that accrues with respect to the Receivables. The Trust shall not make the
election provided under Section 754 of the Code, if applicable.

     Section 5.06.  Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner.

     (a) The Owner Trustee shall sign, on behalf of the Trust, the tax returns
of the Trust, if any, unless applicable law requires a Certificateholder to
sign such documents.

     (b) In the event that the Trust is required to be treated as a
partnership for federal income tax purposes, the Certificateholder holding a
majority of the Certificate Percentage Interest shall be designated the "tax
matters partner" of the Trust pursuant to Section 6231(a)(7)(A) of the Code.

                                  ARTICLE VI

                     AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF OWNER TRUSTEE

     Section 6.01. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is authorized and
directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to
be a party and each certificate or other document attached as an exhibit to or
contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is to be a party, in
each case as evidenced conclusively by the Owner

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Trustee's execution thereof. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee
is authorized to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to the Basic
Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time to take
such action as the Depositor or the Administrator directs with respect to and
in accordance with the Basic Documents (except to the extent that this
Agreement expressly requires the consent of Certificateholders for such
action, in which case the Owner Trustee shall not take such action without
such consent).

     Section 6.02. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the Owner Trustee
to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its responsibilities pursuant
to the terms of this Agreement and the Basic Documents to which the Trust is a
party and to administer the Trust in the interest of the Certificateholders,
subject to the Basic Documents and in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement.

     Section 6.03.  Action upon Instruction.

     (a) Subject to Article IV and in accordance with the terms of the Basic
Documents, the Certificateholders may, by written instruction, direct the
Owner Trustee in the management of the Trust. Such direction may be exercised
at any time by written instruction of the Certificateholders pursuant to
Article IV.

     (b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action hereunder
or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably
determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely
to result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the
terms hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.

     (c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between alternative
courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this Agreement or
under any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice (in
such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Certificateholders of record as of the preceding Record Date requesting
instruction as to the course of action to be adopted, and to the extent the
Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance with any written instruction of
such Certificateholders received, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable on
account of such action to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall not have
received appropriate instruction within ten (10) days of such notice (or
within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such
notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under
no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this
Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests
of the Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such
action or inaction.

     (d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the application
of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document or any such provision
is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in conflict with
any other applicable provision, or in the event that this Agreement permits
any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is incomplete as to the
course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take with respect to a
particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in such form as
shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Certificateholders of
record as of the preceding Record Date requesting

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instruction and, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in
accordance with any such instruction received or, if instructed not to act, in
good faith refrains from acting, the Owner Trustee shall not be liable, on
account of such action or inaction, to any Person. If the Owner Trustee shall
not have received appropriate instruction within ten days of such notice (or
within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be specified in such
notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may, but shall be under
no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with this
Agreement or the other Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best
interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person
for such action or inaction.

     Section 6.04. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of,
or otherwise deal with the Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated
hereby to which the Owner Trustee or the Trust is a party, except as expressly
provided by the terms of this Agreement or in any document or written
instruction received by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.03; and no
implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other
Basic Document against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no
responsibility for filing any financing or continuation statement in any
public office at any time or to otherwise perfect or maintain the perfection
of any security interest or Lien granted to it hereunder or to prepare or file
any Commission filing for the Trust or to record this Agreement or any other
Basic Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless agrees that it will, at its own
cost and expense, promptly take all action as may be necessary to discharge
any Liens on any part of the Trust Property that result from actions by, or
claims against, the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity that are not
related to the ownership or the administration of the Trust Property.

     Section 6.05. No Action Except Under Specified Documents or Instructions.
The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of or
otherwise deal with any part of the Trust Property except (i) in accordance
with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner Trustee
pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents and
(iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to any provision of this Agreement.

     Section 6.06. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take any action
(a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in Section
2.03 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee would result in
the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes.
The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee to take action that
would violate the provisions of this Section.

     Section 6.07.  Administrative Duties.

     (a) Subject to the restrictions contained in Article IV, the Owner
Trustee shall prepare or shall cause the preparation by other appropriate
Persons (and such preparation shall not be the responsibility of the Seller,
the Administrator, the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee or the Master
Servicer) of all such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates
and opinions as it shall be the duty of the Trust to prepare, file or deliver
pursuant to the Indenture with respect

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to the following matters under the Indenture (parenthetical section references
are to sections of the Indenture):

          (i) (a) the appointment of a successor Note Registrar and (b) giving
     the Indenture Trustee notice of any appointment of a new Note Registrar
     and the location, or change in location, of the Note Registrar (Section
     2.5);

          (ii) the delivery for cancellation of any Note delivered to the
     Issuer for cancellation, and the direction to destroy or return such Note
     (Section 2.9);

          (iii) the preparation of Definitive Notes in accordance with the
     instructions of the Clearing Agency (Section 2.13);

          (iv) the designation of an office in the Borough of Manhattan, City
     of New York, for registration of transfer or exchange of Notes (Section
     3.2);

          (v) the preparation of an Issuer Order directing the Paying Agent to
     deposit with the Securities Administrator all sums held in trust by such
     Paying Agent (Section 3.3 and 4.3);

          (vi) the preparation of an Issuer Order directing the Securities
     Administrator to provide notification of any unclaimed monies and
     repayments (Section 3.3);

          (vii) the filing of all supplements and amendments to the Indenture,
     instruments of further assurance and other instruments and the taking of
     such other action as is necessary or advisable to protect the Trust
     Estate, including the preparation and filing of any financing statements
     and continuation statements (Section 3.5);

          (viii) the annual delivery of Opinions of Counsel as to the Trust
     Estate, and the and the annual delivery of the Officer's Certificate and
     certain other statements as to compliance with the Indenture (Sections
     3.6 and 3.9);

          (ix) the preparation and obtaining of documents and instruments
     required for the release of the Issuer from its obligations under the
     Indenture (Section 3.10(b));

          (x) the execution of any further instruments and the performance of
     any acts reasonably necessary to carry out more effectively the purpose
     of the Indenture (Section 3.17);

          (xi) upon its actual knowledge of such, the delivery to the
     Indenture Trustee of written notice in the form of an Officer's
     Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice and the lapse of
     time would become an Event of Default under clause (iii) of Section 5.1
     of the Indenture (Section 5.1);

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          (xii) the performance of any lawful action as the Controlling Party
     may request to compel or secure the performance and observance by the
     Seller of each of its obligations to the Issuer in the Basic Documents
     (Section 5.16);

          (xiii) the preparation of any written instruments required to
     confirm more fully the authority of any co-trustee or separate trustee
     and any written instructions necessary in connection with the resignation
     or removal of any co-trustee or separate trustee (Sections 6.8 and 6.10);

          (xiv) receiving and administering requests of Noteholders for the
     current list of Noteholders (Section 7.2);

          (xv) upon its actual knowledge of such, the notification to the
     Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange
     (Section 7.4);

          (xvi) the delivery of new Notes conforming to any supplemental
     indenture (Section 9.6);

          (xvii) the duty to furnish to the Rating Agencies and the Indenture
     Trustee notice of redemption of Notes, if the Master Servicer has not
     previously done so (Section 10.1);

          (xviii) the duty to notify Noteholders of redemption of the Notes or
     to cause the Indenture Trustee to provide such notification (Section
     10.2);

          (xix) the preparation and delivery of all Officer's Certificates and
     Independent Certificates with respect to any requests by the Issuer to
     the Indenture Trustee to take any action under the Indenture (Section
     11.1(a));

          (xx) the preparation and delivery of all Officer's Certificates and
     the obtaining of Independent Certificates, if necessary, for the release
     of property from the lien of the Indenture (Section 11.1(b)); and

          (xxi) the preparation and delivery to Noteholders and the Indenture
     Trustee of any agreements or requests by the Noteholders with respect to
     alternate payment and notice provisions (Section 11.6).

     (b) The Owner Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services
hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof
among the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be
reimbursed for its other reasonable expenses hereunder in the priority set
forth in Section 8.2 in the Indenture. In performing its duties under Section
5.05 or 6.07, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to the indemnification
provided by the Issuer under Section 8.02 of this Agreement, in the priority
set forth in Section 8.2 of the Indenture.

     (c) It is understood and agreed that the Owner Trustee shall be entitled
to engage outside counsel, independent accountants and other experts to assist
the Owner Trustee in connection with the performance of its duties set forth
in Sections 5.05 and 6.07, including the

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preparation of all tax reports and returns, securities law filings, Opinions
of Counsel and Independent Certificates and the Owner Trustee shall be
reimbursed for the expenses of such experts in accordance with the priority
set forth in Section 8.2 of the Indenture. The Owner Trustee shall not be
obligated to engage any expert or perform any duty as required under Sections
5.05 and 6.07 for which reimbursement would exceed $1,000 until such amount
has been paid to the Owner Trustee, if payment of such reimbursable amount is
required of the Owner Trustee prior to the next Distribution Date.

     (d) The Depositor and the Master Servicer shall furnish to the Owner
Trustee from time to time such additional information regarding the Trust or
the Basic Documents as the Owner Trustee shall reasonably request. The Note
Registrar will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee and
the Owner Trustee at such times as the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
may request in writing, within thirty days after receipt by the Note Registrar
of any such request, a list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee or Owner
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of
Notes as of a date not more than ten 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.

     (e) The Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for taking any action with
respect to this Section 6.07 unless a responsible officer in the Corporate
Trust Administration Department of the Owner Trustee has actual knowledge or
has received written notice of the need to take such action.

     (f) The rights and protections afforded to the Owner Trustee pursuant to
Article VII of this Agreement shall also be afforded to the Owner Trustee with
respect to the performance of its administrative duties under this Section
6.07.

                                 ARTICLE VII

                         CONCERNING THE OWNER TRUSTEE

     Section 7.01. Acceptance of Trusts and Duties. The Owner Trustee accepts
the trusts hereby created and agrees to perform its duties hereunder with
respect to such trusts, but only upon the terms of this Agreement. The Owner
Trustee also agrees to disburse all moneys actually received by it
constituting part of the Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic Documents
and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity, shall not
be answerable or accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any
circumstances, except (i) for its own willful misconduct or gross negligence
or (ii) in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty
contained in Section 7.03 expressly made by the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity. In particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject
to the exceptions set forth in the preceding sentence):

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

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     (b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the instructions of the
Depositor, the Administrator or any Certificateholder;

     (c) no provision of this Agreement or any other Basic Document shall
require the Owner Trustee to expend or risk funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its rights or powers
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have
reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured or provided
to it;

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

     (e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in respect of the
validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due execution hereof by
the Depositor or for the form, character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or
validity of any of the Trust Estate, or for or in respect of the validity or
sufficiency of the Basic Documents, other than the certificate of
authentication on the Trust Certificates, and the Owner Trustee, in its
individual capacity, shall in no event assume or incur any liability, duty or
obligation to any Noteholder or to any Certificateholder, other than as
expressly provided for herein or expressly agreed to in the other Basic
Documents;

     (f) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the
performance of, and shall not be liable for the default or misconduct of the
Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Indenture Trustee, the Administrator or
any other Person under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise, and the Owner
Trustee shall have no obligation or liability to perform the obligations of
the Trust under this Agreement or the Basic Documents that are required to be
performed by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the Depositor or the
Master Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Administrator
under the Administration Agreement; and

     (g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute, conduct or
defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in relation to this
Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or direction of any of
the Certificateholders, unless such Certificateholders have offered to the
Owner Trustee security, in its individual capacity, or indemnity satisfactory
to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that may be incurred by the
Owner Trustee, in its individual capacity, therein or thereby. The right of
the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this
Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its gross negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.

     Section 7.02. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall furnish to
the Certificateholders, promptly upon receipt of a written request therefor,
duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands, certificates,
financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the Owner Trustee
under the Basic Documents.

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     Section 7.03. Representations and Warranties. The Owner Trustee, in its
individual capacity, hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the
benefit of the Certificateholders, that:

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

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

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

     (d) It is a corporation satisfying the provisions of Section 3807(a) of
the Statutory Trust Statute; it is a national banking association duly
organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the United
States; it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers; having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by federal or state authorities; and it has (or has a parent that
has) time deposits that are rated at least "A-1" by Standard & Poor's and
"Prime-1" by Moody's or is otherwise acceptable to each Rating Agency.

     Section 7.04.  Reliance; Advice of Counsel.

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

     (b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder and in the
performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the Basic
Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys pursuant to agreements

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entered into with any of them, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for
the conduct or misconduct of such agents or attorneys if such agents or
attorneys shall have been selected by the Owner Trustee with reasonable care,
and (ii) may consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled Persons to be
selected with reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not
be liable for anything done, suffered or omitted reasonably and in good faith
by it in accordance with the written opinion or advice of any such counsel,
accountants or other such Persons.

     Section 7.05. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as expressly
provided in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created, U.S.
Bank Trust National Association acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not
in its individual capacity, and all Persons having any claim against the Owner
Trustee by reason of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any
Basic Document shall look only to the Trust Property for payment or
satisfaction thereof.

     Section 7.06. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Trust Certificates or for
Receivables. The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Certificates
(other than the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the
Trust Certificates) shall be taken as the statements of the Depositor, and the
Owner Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. Except as
set forth in Section 7.03, the Owner Trustee makes no representations as to
the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of any Basic Document or of the
Trust Certificates (other than the signature and countersignature of the Owner
Trustee on the Trust Certificates) or the Notes, or of any Receivable or
related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility
or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity and enforceability
of any Receivable or the perfection and priority of any security interest
created by any Receivable in any Financed Vehicle or the maintenance of any
such perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the
Trust Property or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the
Indenture, including, without limitation: the existence, condition and
ownership of any Financed Vehicle; the existence and enforceability of any
insurance thereon; the existence and contents of any Receivable on any
computer or other record thereof; the validity of the assignment of any
Receivable to the Trust or of any intervening assignment; the completeness of
any Receivable; the performance or enforcement of any Receivable; the
compliance by the Depositor or the Master Servicer with any warranty or
representation made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the
accuracy of any such warranty or representation, or any action of the
Indenture Trustee or the Master Servicer or any sub-Servicer taken in the name
of the Owner Trustee.

     Section 7.07. Owner Trustee May Own Trust Certificates and Notes. The
Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Trust Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Depositor, the
Indenture Trustee and the Master Servicer in banking transactions with the
same rights as it would have if it were not Owner Trustee.

     Section 7.08. Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee shall not be
required to take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the States of
Delaware, New York or Minnesota if the taking of such action will (i) require
the consent or approval or authorization or order of, or the giving of

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notice to, or the registration with, or the taking of any other action in
required by, any state or other governmental authority or agency of any
jurisdiction other than the States of Delaware, New York or Minnesota; (ii)
result in any fee, tax or other governmental charge under the laws of any
jurisdiction or any political subdivisions thereof in existence on the date
hereof other than the States of Delaware, New York or Minnesota becoming
payable by the Owner Trustee; or (iii) subject to the Owner Trustee to
personal jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than the States of Delaware,
New York or Minnesota for causes of action arising from acts unrelated to the
consummation of the transactions by the Owner Trustee, as the case may be,
contemplated hereby. The Owner Trustee shall be entitled to obtain advice of
counsel (which advice shall be an expense of the Trust under Section 8.01) to
determine whether any action required to be taken pursuant to the Agreement
results in the consequences described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of the
preceding sentence. In the event that said counsel advises the Owner Trustee
that such action will result in such consequences, the Owner Trustee will
appoint an additional trustee pursuant to Section 10.05 to proceed with such
action.

     Section 7.09. Paying Agent, Certificate Registrar and Authenticating
Agent. The rights and protections afforded to the Owner Trustee pursuant to
this Article VII and Sections 8.02, 10.02, and 10.03 shall also be afforded to
the Paying Agent, authenticating agent and Certificate Registrar.

                                 ARTICLE VIII

                         COMPENSATION OF OWNER TRUSTEE

     Section 8.01. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Owner Trustee shall
receive from the Depositor or the Trust as compensation for its services
hereunder such fees as have been separately agreed upon before the date hereof
between the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, and the Owner Trustee shall be
reimbursed by the Depositor or the Trust for its other reasonable expenses
hereunder, including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements
of such agents, representatives, experts and counsel as the Owner Trustee may
employ in connection with the exercise and performance of its rights and its
duties hereunder, in the priority set forth in Section 8.2 in the Indenture.

     Section 8.02. Indemnification. The Trust and the Depositor shall jointly
and severally indemnify the Owner Trustee and its successors, assigns, agents
and servants (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against, any
and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and
suits, and any and all reasonable costs, expenses and disbursements (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever
(collectively, "Expenses") which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by,
or asserted against the Owner Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way
relating to or arising out of this Agreement, the Basic Documents, the Owner
Trust Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or
inaction of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only that the Trust shall not
be liable for or required to indemnify an Indemnified Party from or against
Expenses arising or resulting from (i) the willful misconduct or gross
negligence of the Owner Trustee or (ii) the inaccuracy of a representation or
warranty made by the Owner Trustee in Section 7.03. The indemnities contained
in this Section shall survive the resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee
or the termination of this Agreement. In the event of any claim, action or
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which indemnity will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Indemnified
Party's choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the approval of the
Depositor, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.

     Section 8.03. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid by the
Trust pursuant to this Article VIII shall be payable solely in the priority
set forth in Section 8.2 of the Indenture and shall be deemed not to be a part
of the Trust Estate immediately after such payment.

                                  ARTICLE IX

                        TERMINATION OF TRUST AGREEMENT

     Section 9.01.  Termination of Trust Agreement.

     (a) The Trust shall dissolve upon the earlier of (i) the payment in full
or other liquidation and discharge in accordance with the Sale and Servicing
Agreement of each Receivable and (ii) the sale by the Trust of all of the
Receivables in accordance with the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, including pursuant an exercise of the option to purchase under
Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and in each case upon the
final distribution of all moneys or other property or proceeds of the Trust
Estate in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, Article VIII of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, Section 5.02 of this Agreement and the Statutory
Trust Statute. Any money or other property held as part of the Owner Trust
Estate following such distribution shall be distributed to the
Certificateholders pro rata. The bankruptcy, liquidation, dissolution, death
or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not (i) operate to dissolve or
terminate this Agreement or the Trust, (ii) entitle such Certificateholder's
legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to take any action or
proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all or any part of
the Trust or Trust Estate or (iii) otherwise affect the rights, obligations
and liabilities of the parties hereto.

     (b) This Agreement and the Trust are irrevocable. Except as provided in
Section 9.01(a) and in this Section 9.01(b), neither the Depositor nor any
Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust or this
Agreement.

     (c) Notice of any dissolution of the Trust, specifying the Distribution
Date upon which Certificateholders shall surrender their Trust Certificates to
the Paying Agent for payment of the final distribution and cancellation, shall
be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to Certificateholders mailed within
five Business Days of receipt of notice of such termination from the Master
Servicer given pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
stating (i) the Distribution Date upon or with respect to which final payment
of the Trust Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender of the
Trust Certificates at the office of the Paying Agent therein designated, (ii)
the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date otherwise
applicable to such Distribution Date is not applicable, payments being made
only upon presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates at the office
of the Paying Agent therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such
notice to the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the
Paying Agent at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon
presentation and surrender of the Trust Certificates, the Paying Agent

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shall cause to be distributed to Certificateholders amounts distributable on
such Distribution Date pursuant to Section 5.02.

     In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not surrender their
Trust Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date specified
in the above mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a second
written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their Trust
Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Trust Certificates
shall not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take
appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to
contact the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Trust
Certificates, and the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other
assets that shall remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the
Trust after exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed by the Owner
Trustee to the Depositor, subject to applicable escheat laws.

     (d) Upon the winding up of the Trust in accordance with the Statutory
Trust Statute (including, without limitation, the reasonable provision for
payment of all obligations of the Trust in accordance with Section 3808(e) of
the Statutory Trust Statute), the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of
Trust to be canceled by filing a certificate of cancellation with the
Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of Section 3810 of the
Statutory Trust Statute and thereupon the Trust and this Agreement (other than
Article VIII) shall terminate.

                                  ARTICLE X

            SUCCESSOR OWNER TRUSTEES AND ADDITIONAL OWNER TRUSTEES

     Section 10.01. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The Owner
Trustee shall at all times be a corporation satisfying the provisions of
Section 3807(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute; authorized to exercise
corporate trust powers; having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state
authorities; incorporated or chartered under the laws of the State of Delaware
or the federal laws of the United States; and having (or having a parent that
has) time deposits that are rated at least "Prime-1" by Moody's and at least
"A-1" by Standard & Poor's, or which is otherwise acceptable to each Rating
Agency. If such corporation shall publish reports of condition at least
annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising
or examining authority, then for the purpose of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Owner Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 10.02.

     Section 10.02. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee
may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby created by
giving written notice thereof to the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and the
Rating Agencies. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Depositor
shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee by written instrument, in
duplicate, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning
Owner Trustee and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee. If no successor
Owner Trustee shall have

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been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner
Trustee, provided, however, that such right to appoint or to petition for the
appointment of any such successor shall in no event relieve the resigning
Owner Trustee from any obligations otherwise imposed on it under the Basic
Documents until such successor has in fact assumed such appointment.

     If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 10.01 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Depositor, or if at any time the Owner Trustee shall
be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then the Depositor may remove the Owner Trustee. If the Depositor
shall remove the Owner Trustee under the authority of the immediately
preceding sentence, the Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor Owner
Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which instrument
shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed and one copy to
the successor Owner Trustee, and shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner
Trustee.

     Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and appointment of a
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section
shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the successor
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.03 and payment of all fees and expenses
owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide notice of such
resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each Rating Agency.

     Section 10.03. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner Trustee
appointed pursuant to Section 10.01 or 10.02 shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Depositor, the Indenture Trustee and to its predecessor Owner
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
become effective, and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers,
duties and obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like
effect as if originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee
shall, upon payment of its fees and expenses, deliver to the successor Owner
Trustee all documents and statements and monies held by it under this
Agreement; and the Depositor and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute
and deliver such instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be
required for fully and certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner
Trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations.

     No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Owner Trustee
shall be eligible as a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.01.

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

     Any successor Owner Trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 10.03
shall promptly file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust with the
Secretary of State identifying the name and principal place of business of
such successor Owner Trustee in the State of Delaware.

     Section 10.04. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any Person into
which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the
Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee hereunder, without
the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, that such Person shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.01; and
provided further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or
consolidation to each Rating Agency; and provided, further, that such
successor Owner Trustee shall file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust as
described in Section 10.03.

     Section 10.05. Appointment of Co-Trustee or Separate Trustee.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any time, for the
purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in which any
part of the Trust Estate or any Financed Vehicle may at the time be located,
the Owner Trustee shall have the power and shall execute and deliver all
instruments to appoint one or more Persons approved by the Owner Trustee to
act as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or as separate trustee or
separate trustees, of all or any part of the Trust Estate, and to vest in such
Person, in such capacity, such title to the Trust Estate or any part thereof
and, subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties,
obligations, rights and trusts as the Owner Trustee may consider necessary or
desirable. No co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be
required to meet the terms of eligibility as a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to Section 10.01 and no notice of the appointment of any co-trustee
or separate trustee shall be required pursuant to Section 10.03.

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

     (a) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon
the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or performed by the
Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being
understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act
separately without the Owner Trustee joining in such act), except to the
extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or
acts are to be performed, the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers,
duties and obligations (including the holding of title to the Trust 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 Owner Trustee;

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

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

     Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and
co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement
and the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon
its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or
property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the
Owner Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the
provisions of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this
Agreement relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the
Owner Trustee.

     Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Owner
Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the
extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this
Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee
shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its
estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be
exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the
appointment of a new or successor co-trustee or separate trustee.

                                  ARTICLE XI

                                 MISCELLANEOUS

     Section 11.01. Supplements and Amendments. This Agreement may be amended
by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to each
Rating Agency, without the consent of any of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders, to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provisions in this Agreement or for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions in this Agreement
or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the
Certificateholders; provided, however, that such action shall not, as
evidenced by the satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition with respect to
such amendment, adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Noteholder or Certificateholder.

     This Agreement may also be amended from time to time by the Depositor and
the Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to each Rating Agency, with the
consent of the Holders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the consent of the Holders of Certificates
evidencing not less than a majority of the Certificate Percentage Interests,
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, collections of payments on
Receivables or distributions that shall be required to be made for the benefit
of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders or (b) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the aforesaid
Certificate Percentage Interests required to

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consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the Holders of all
then-outstanding Notes and the Certificateholders of all then-outstanding
Certificates.

     Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent, the Owner
Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such amendment
or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each Rating
Agency.

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

     Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the Certificate of
Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment with the
Secretary of State.

     Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, any other
Basic Document or the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be
entitled to receive and rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Agreement and
that all conditions precedent (if any) to such amendment specified in this
Agreement and the other Basic Documents have been met. The Owner Trustee may,
but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment that affects the
Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or
otherwise.

     Section 11.02. No Legal Title to Trust Estate in Certificateholders.
Neither the Depositor nor the Certificateholders shall have legal title to any
part of the Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to receive
distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only
in accordance with Articles V and IX. No transfer, by operation of law or
otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Certificateholders to and in
their undivided ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to
terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to
an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner
Trust Estate.

     Section 11.03. Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of this
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Owner Trustee, the Depositor, the
Certificateholders, the Paying Agent, the Certificate Registrar and, to the
extent expressly provided herein, the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders,
and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed
to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim in
the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any
covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

     Section 11.04. Notices.

     (a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the terms
hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be deemed given upon receipt
by the intended recipient or three Business Days after mailing if mailed by
first-class mail, postage prepaid (except that

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notice to the Owner Trustee shall be deemed given only upon actual receipt by
the Owner Trustee), if to the Owner Trustee, addressed to the Corporate Trust
Office; if to the Depositor, addressed to ML Asset Backed Corporation, 4 World
Financial Center, 10th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1310, facsimile (212)
449-9015, Attention: Ted Breck; if to Issuer, addressed to Merrill Auto Trust
Securitization 2005-1 c/o ML Asset Backed Corporation, 4 World Financial
Center, 10th Floor, New York, New York 10281-1310, facsimile (212) 449-9015,
Attention: Ted Breck; or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be
designated by such party in a written notice to each other party. A copy of
any such notice shall also be mailed to the Master Servicer, addressed to U.S.
Bank Corporate Trust Services, 60 Livingston Avenue, Mailcode: EP-MN-WS30, St.
Paul, Minnesota 55107-2232, facsimile (651) 495-8090, Attention: Eve Kaplan.

     (b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a Certificateholder
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the address of such
Certificateholder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so mailed
within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not such Certificateholder receives such
notice.

     Section 11.05. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement or the Trust
Certificates that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as
to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or of
the Trust Certificates, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in
any other jurisdiction.

     Section 11.06. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by
the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed
and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall together
constitute but one and the same instrument.

     Section 11.07. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
contained herein shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, each of
the Depositor and its permitted assignees, the Owner Trustee and its
successors and each Certificateholder and its successors and permitted
assigns, all as herein provided. Any request, notice, direction, consent,
waiver or other instrument or action by a Certificateholder shall bind the
successors and assigns of such Certificateholder.

     Section 11.08. Covenants of the Depositor. The Depositor will not at any
time institute against the Trust any bankruptcy proceedings under any United
States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any
obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or
any of the other Basic Documents.

     Section 11.09. No Petition. The Owner Trustee, by entering into this
Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Trust Certificate, and the
Indenture Trustee and each Noteholder, by accepting the benefits of this
Agreement, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time institute
against the Depositor or the Trust or join in any institution against the
Depositor or the Trust of, any bankruptcy proceedings under any United States
federal or

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state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to
the Trust Certificates, the Notes, this Agreement or any of the other Basic
Documents.

     Section 11.10. No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting a Trust
Certificate acknowledges that such Trust Certificate represents a beneficial
interest in the Trust only and does not represent an interest in or an
obligation of the Depositor, the Master Servicer, the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or any Affiliate thereof and no recourse may be had against
such parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or
contemplated in this Agreement, the Trust Certificates or the Basic Documents.

     Section 11.11. Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or
limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

     Section 11.12. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

     Section 11.13. Sarbanes-Oxley. Notwithstanding anything contained herein
or in any other Basic Document to the contrary, the Owner Trustee shall not be
required to execute, deliver or certify on behalf of the Trust or any other
Person any filings, certificates, affidavits or other instruments (including,
without limitation, any Sarbanes-Oxley Certification) required under the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

     Section 11.14. Acceptance of Terms of Agreement. The receipt and
acceptance of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder, without any
signature or further manifestation of assent, shall constitute the
unconditional acceptance by the Certificateholder of all the terms and
provisions of this Agreement, and shall constitute the agreement of the
Certificateholder that the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be
binding, operative and effective as between the Owner Trustee and the
Certificateholder.

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

                                 ML ASSET BACKED CORPORATION,
                                 as Depositor

                                 By: /s/ Theodore F. Breck
                                     ------------------------------------------
                                     Name:  Theodore F. Breck
                                     Title: Managing Director

                                 U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                 ASSOCIATION, as Owner
                                 Trustee

                                 By: /s/ Eve D. Kaplan
                                     ------------------------------------------
                                     Name:  Eve D. Kaplan
                                     Title: Vice President

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                                   EXHIBIT A
                                   ---------

                           FORM OF TRUST CERTIFICATE
                           -------------------------

     THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS SUBORDINATE TO THE NOTES, AS SET FORTH IN THE
SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.

     THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE
SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN EXEMPTION THEREFROM. IN
ADDITION, THE TRANSFER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN
RESTRICTIONS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 3.04 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT
UNDER WHICH THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED (A COPY OF WHICH TRUST AGREEMENT
IS AVAILABLE FROM THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR UPON REQUEST), INCLUDING RECEIPT BY THE
OWNER TRUSTEE OF AN INVESTMENT LETTER IN WHICH THE TRANSFEREE MAKES CERTAIN
REPRESENTATIONS.

     THE HOLDER OF THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ITS
RIGHTS TO RECEIVE DISTRIBUTIONS ARE SUBORDINATED TO THE RIGHTS OF THE
NOTEHOLDERS AS DESCRIBED IN THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT, THE INDENTURE
AND THE TRUST AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.

     THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE IS NOT GUARANTEED OR INSURED BY THE FEDERAL
DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION OR ANY GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY.

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NUMBER R-___                                       PERCENTAGE INTEREST:  [  ]%

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1 CERTIFICATE evidencing a
fractional undivided beneficial interest in the Trust, as defined below. The
property of the Trust includes a pool of motor vehicle installment sale
contracts and loans, secured by security interests in new and used
automobiles, light duty trucks, sports utility vehicles and motorcycles,
conveyed by ML Asset Backed Corporation.

     THIS TRUST CERTIFICATE DOES NOT REPRESENT AN INTEREST IN OR AN OBLIGATION
OF MERRILL LYNCH BANK USA, ML ASSET BACKED CORPORATION OR ANY OF THEIR
RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES.

     THIS CERTIFIES THAT ________________ is the registered owner of a ____%
PERCENT nonassessable, fully paid, undivided beneficial interest in MERRILL
AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1, a Delaware statutory trust (the "Trust"),
formed by ML ASSET BACKED CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the
"Depositor").

     The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement amended and restated
as of May 31, 2005 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time, the "Trust Agreement"), between the Depositor and U.S. Bank Trust
National Association, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of
certain of the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent
not otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the
meanings assigned to them in the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement dated as of May 31, 2005 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise
modified from time to time, the "Sale and Servicing Agreement"), among the
Trust, the Depositor and Merrill Lynch Bank USA, as Seller, U.S. Bank National
Association, as Master Servicer.

     This Trust Certificate is one of the duly authorized Trust Certificates
designated as "Asset Backed Certificates" (herein called the "Trust
Certificates"). Also issued under an Indenture dated as of May 31, 2005 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
"Indenture"), among the Trust, HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as
indenture trustee (the "Indenture Trustee") and U.S. Bank National
Association, as securities administrator (the "Securities Administrator"), are
the classes of Notes designated as "3.472% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-1,"
"3.900% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-2a," "Floating Rate Asset Baked Notes,
Class A-2b," "4.100% Asset Backed Notes, Class A-3," "Floating Rate Asset
Backed Notes, Class A-4" (collectively, the "Class A Notes"), "Floating Rate
Asset Backed Notes, Class B" (the "Class B Notes") and "Floating Rate Asset
Backed Notes, Class C" (the "Class C Notes," and together with the Class A
Notes and the Class B Notes, the "Notes"). This Trust Certificate is issued
under and is subject to the terms, provisions and conditions of the Trust
Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the Holder of this Trust Certificate by
virtue of its acceptance hereof assents and by which such Certificateholder is
bound. The property of the Trust consists of the Conveyed Trust Estate. The
rights of the Certificateholders are subordinate to the rights of the
Noteholders, as set forth in the Indenture.

     Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the 25th day of
each month or, if such 25th day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day
(each, a "Distribution Date"), commencing on July 25, 2005, to the Person in
whose name this Trust Certificate is

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registered on the last day of the immediately preceding month (the "Record
Date"), such Certificateholder's fractional undivided interest in the amount
to be distributed to Certificateholders on such Distribution Date.

     The Holder of this Trust Certificate acknowledges and agrees that its
rights to receive distributions in respect of this Trust Certificate are
subordinate to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.

     It is the intent of the Depositor and the Certificateholders that, solely
for income and franchise tax purposes:  the Trust shall be treated as a grantor
trust (or to the extent required, as a partnership) for income and franchise
tax purposes. A Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate,
agrees to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with such treatment of the
Trust.

     A Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Certificate, covenants
and agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute against
the Depositor, the Owner Trustee or the Trust, or join in any institution
against the Depositor, the Owner Trustee or the Trust of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Trust Certificates, the
Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents.

     Distributions on this Trust Certificate will be made as provided in the
Trust Agreement by the Owner Trustee or the Paying Agent by wire transfer or
check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the Certificate Register
without the presentation or surrender of this Trust Certificate or the making
of any notation hereon.

     Except as otherwise provided in the Trust Agreement and notwithstanding
the above, the final distribution on this Trust Certificate will be made after
due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such distribution and only
upon presentation and surrender of this Trust Certificate at the office or
agency designated for that purpose by the Owner Trustee as set forth in the
Trust Agreement.

     Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Trust
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall
for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

     Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been executed
by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee or the authenticating agent, by
manual signature, this Trust Certificate shall not entitle the Holder hereof
to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement
or be valid for any purpose.

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

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OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee has caused this Trust Certificate
to be duly executed.

                                      U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                      ASSOCIATION, not in its
                                      individual capacity but
                                      solely as Owner Trustee

Dated:  June 23, 2005                 By:
                                         --------------------------------------
                                                Authorized Signatory

                                     A-4
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                 OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL                        U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
  ASSOCIATION, as Owner Trustee                   ASSOCIATION, as Owner Trustee

                                                By:
                                                   ----------------------------
                                                    as Authenticating Agent

By:                                             By:
   ------------------------------                  ----------------------------
        Authorizing Agent                                Authorizing Agent

                                     A-5
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                        [REVERSE OF TRUST CERTIFICATE]

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

     The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions provided therein,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Depositor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the Trust
Agreement at any time by the Depositor and the Owner Trustee, with prior
written notice to each Rating Agency, with the consent of the Holders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and
the consent of the Certificateholders evidencing not less than a majority of
the Certificate Percentage Interests in the Trust Certificates, for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of the Trust Agreement or of modifying in any manner the
rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders. Any such consent by the
Holder of this Trust Certificate shall be conclusive and binding on such
Holder and on all future Holders of this Trust Certificate and of any Trust
Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent is made upon this Trust
Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment thereof, in
certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of any of
the Trust Certificates.

     As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Trust Certificate is registerable in
the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Trust Certificate for
registration of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate
Registrar designated by the Owner Trustee as set forth in the Trust Agreement,
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder hereof
or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Trust Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing the same
aggregate interest in the Trust will be issued to the designated transferee.
The initial Certificate Registrar appointed under the Trust Agreement is the
Owner Trustee.

     Except as provided in the Trust Agreement, the Trust Certificates are
issuable only as registered Trust Certificates without coupons in minimum
denominations of one percent Certificate Percentage Interest. As provided in
the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Trust Certificates are exchangeable for new Trust Certificates of authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the
Certificateholder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for
any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may

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require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.

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

     The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust Agreement and
the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the
Trust Agreement and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the disposition of
all property held as part of the Trust Estate. The Master Servicer under
certain circumstances and with the consent of the Certificateholders, may at
its option purchase the Trust Estate at a price specified in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, and such purchase of the Receivables and other property
of the Trust will effect early retirement of the Trust Certificates; provided,
however, that such right of purchase is exercisable only as of the
Determination Date as of which the aggregate Principal Balance is of the
Receivables less than or equal to 10% of the Original Pool Balance.

     The Trust Certificates may not be acquired by (a) an employee benefit
plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions
of Title I of ERISA or Similar Law, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1)
of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law, (c)
any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's
investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan") or (d) a Person investing
"plan assets" of an entity of any Person described in clauses (a) through (c).
By accepting and holding this Trust Certificate, the Holder hereof shall be
deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.

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                                  ASSIGNMENT

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

                       PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR
                     OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
the within Trust Certificate, and all rights thereunder, and hereby
irrevocably constitutes and appoints ____________, attorney, to transfer said
Trust Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power
of substitution in the premises.

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

                                                                             */
                                 --------------------------------------------

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*/  NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the
    name of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within
    Trust Certificate 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 Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or
    participation in STAMP or such other "signature guarantee program" as
    may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in
    substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities
    Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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                                   EXHIBIT B

                        FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE

                                              [DATE]

U.S. Bank Trust National Association,
as Owner Trustee
300 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware  19801
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

HSBC Bank USA, National Association
as Indenture Trustee
10 East 40th Street, 14th Floor
New York, New York 10016

Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1
c/o ML Asset Backed Corporation
Four World Financial Center
North Tower - 10th Floor
New York, New York 10080
Attention:  Ted Breck

                  Re:  Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     In connection with our disposition of the Asset Backed Certificates (the
"Trust Certificates") issued by the referenced trust (the "Trust") we certify
that (a) we understand that the Trust Certificates have not been registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and are
being transferred by us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act and (b) we have not offered or sold any
Trust Certificates to, or solicited offers to buy any Trust Certificates from,
any person, or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with respect
thereto, in a manner that would be deemed, or taken any other action which
would result in, a violation of Section 5 of the Securities Act.

                                       Very truly yours,

                                       [NAME OF TRANSFEROR]

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

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                                   EXHIBIT C

                           FORM OF INVESTMENT LETTER

                                                                     [DATE]

U.S. Bank Trust National Association,
as Owner Trustee
EP-MN-WS3D
60 Livingston Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55107-2292
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

HSBC Bank USA, National Association
as Indenture Trustee
10 East 40th Street, 14th Floor
New York, New York 10016

Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1
c/o ML Asset Backed Corporation
Four World Financial Center
North Tower - 10th Floor
New York, New York 10080
Attention:  Ted Breck

             Re:  Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1, Trust Certificates

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     In connection with our acquisition of the above-referenced Trust
Certificates (the "Certificates") we certify that (a) we understand that the
Certificates are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), or any state securities laws and are being transferred to
us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the
Act and any such laws, (b) we are an institutional "accredited investor," as
defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) in Regulation D under the Act or
an entity in which all of the equity owners are institutional "accredited
investors," as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) in Regulation D
under the Act, and have such knowledge and experience in financial and
business matters that we are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
investments in the Certificates, (c) we have had the opportunity to ask
questions of and receive answers from the seller concerning the purchase of
the Certificates and all matters relating thereto or any additional information
deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Certificates, (d) we are
acquiring the Certificates for investment for our own account and not with a
view to any distribution of such Certificates (but without prejudice to our
right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of the Certificates in
accordance with clause (f) below), (e) we have not offered or sold any
Certificates to, or solicited offers to buy any Certificates from, any person,
or otherwise approached or negotiated with any person with respect thereto, or
taken any other action that would result in a violation of Section 5 of the
Act or any state securities laws and (f) we will not sell, transfer or

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otherwise dispose of any Certificates unless (1) such sale, transfer or other
disposition is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Act and in compliance with any relevant state securities laws or is exempt
from such registration requirements and (2) the purchaser or transferee of
such Certificate has executed and delivered to you a certificate to
substantially the same effect as this certificate and (3) the purchaser or
transferee has otherwise complied with any conditions for transfer set forth
in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement dated as of May 31, 2005, between
ML Asset Backed Corporation and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Owner
Trustee.

                                              Very truly yours,

                                              [NAME OF TRANSFEREE]

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

                                     C-2
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                                   EXHIBIT D

                           FORM OF RULE 144A LETTER

                                                                      [DATE]

U.S. Bank Trust National Association,
as Owner Trustee
EP-MN-WS3D
60 Livingston Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55107-2292
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

HSBC Bank USA, National Association
as Indenture Trustee
10 East 40th Street, 14th Floor
New York, New York 10016

Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1
c/o ML Asset Backed Corporation
Four World Financial Center
North Tower - 10th Floor
New York, New York 10080
Attention:  Ted Breck

             Re:  Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1, Trust Certificates

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     In connection with our acquisition of the above-referenced Trust
Certificates (the "Certificates") we certify that (a) we understand that the
Certificates are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), or any state securities laws and are being transferred to
us in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the
Act and any such laws, (b) we have such knowledge and experience in financial
and business matters that we are capable of evaluating the merits and risks of
investments in the Certificates, (c) we have had the opportunity to ask
questions of and receive answers from the seller concerning the purchase of
the Certificates and all matters relating thereto or any additional
information deemed necessary to our decision to purchase the Certificates, (d)
we have not, nor has anyone acting on our behalf, offered, transferred,
pledged, sold or otherwise disposed of the Certificates or any interest in the
Certificates, or solicited any offer to buy, transfer, pledge or otherwise
dispose of the Certificates or any interest in the Certificates from any
person in any manner, or made any general solicitation by means of general
advertising or in any other manner, or taken any other action that would
constitute a distribution of the Certificates under the Act or that would
render the disposition of the Certificates a violation of Section 5 of the Act
or any state securities laws or require registration pursuant thereto, and we
will not act, or authorize any person to act, in such manner with respect to
the Certificates, and (e) we are a "qualified institutional buyer" as that
term is defined in Rule 144A under the Act. We are aware that the

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sale to us is being made in reliance on Rule 144A. We are acquiring the
Certificates for our own account or for resale pursuant to Rule 144A and
understand that such Certificates may be resold, pledged or transferred only
to a person reasonably believed to be a qualified institutional buyer that
purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional
buyer to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being
made in reliance on Rule 144A.

                                    Very truly yours,

                                    [NAME OF TRANSFEREE]

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

                                     D-2EXHIBIT 4.2
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                                                                EXECUTION COPY
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                                   INDENTURE

                                    between

                   MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1,
                                  as Issuer,

                     HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                             as Indenture Trustee,

                                      and

                       U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                         as Securities Administrator.

                           Dated as of May 31, 2005

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                               TABLE OF CONTENTS
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                                   ARTICLE I
               DEFINITIONS, USAGE AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

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SECTION 1.1.     Definitions and Usage.............................................................2
SECTION 1.2.     Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.................................2

                                  ARTICLE II
                                   THE NOTES

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.     Mutilated, 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..................................................................9
SECTION 2.14.    Authenticating Agents............................................................10

                                  ARTICLE III
                                   COVENANTS

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............................................15
SECTION 3.7.     Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables.............................15
SECTION 3.8.     Negative Covenants...............................................................18
SECTION 3.9.     Annual Statement as to Compliance................................................18
SECTION 3.10.    Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms..............................18
SECTION 3.11.    Successor or Transferee..........................................................20
SECTION 3.12.    No Other Business................................................................20
SECTION 3.13.    No Borrowing.....................................................................20
SECTION 3.14.    Master Servicer's Obligations....................................................20
SECTION 3.15.    Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities................................21
SECTION 3.16.    Capital Expenditures.............................................................21

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SECTION 3.17.    Further Instruments and Acts.....................................................21
SECTION 3.18.    Restricted Payments..............................................................21
SECTION 3.19.    Notice of Events of Default......................................................21
SECTION 3.20.    Issuer's Obligations under each ISDA Master Agreement;
                 Replacement and Termination of each ISDA Master Agreement......................21

                                  ARTICLE IV
                          SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

SECTION 4.1.     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..........................................22
SECTION 4.2.     Application of Trust Money.......................................................23
SECTION 4.3.     Repayment of Monies Held by Note Paying Agent....................................24

                                   ARTICLE V
                                   REMEDIES

SECTION 5.1.     Events of Default................................................................24
SECTION 5.2.     Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment...............................25
SECTION 5.3.     Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee........26
SECTION 5.4.     Remedies; Priorities.............................................................28
SECTION 5.5.     Optional Preservation of the Receivables.........................................31
SECTION 5.6.     Limitation of Suits..............................................................31
SECTION 5.7.     Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest............32
SECTION 5.8.     Restoration of Rights and Remedies...............................................32
SECTION 5.9.     Rights and Remedies Cumulative...................................................33
SECTION 5.10.    Delay or Omission Not a Waiver...................................................33
SECTION 5.11.    Control by Controlling Class.....................................................33
SECTION 5.12.    Waiver of Past Defaults..........................................................33
SECTION 5.13.    Undertaking for Costs............................................................34
SECTION 5.14.    Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.................................................34
SECTION 5.15.    Action on Notes..................................................................34
SECTION 5.16.    Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations...............................35

                                  ARTICLE VI
            THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR

SECTION 6.1.    Duties of Indenture Trustee......................................................35
SECTION 6.2.    Rights of Indenture Trustee......................................................37
SECTION 6.3.    Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee...........................................38
SECTION 6.4.    Indenture Trustee's Disclaimer...................................................38
SECTION 6.5.    Notice of Defaults...............................................................38
SECTION 6.6.    [Reserved].......................................................................39
SECTION 6.7.    Compensation and Indemnity.......................................................39
SECTION 6.8.    Replacement of Indenture Trustee.................................................39
SECTION 6.9.    Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger............................................40
SECTION 6.10.   Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee................41

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SECTION 6.11.   Eligibility; Disqualification....................................................42
SECTION 6.12.   Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer.................................43
SECTION 6.13.   Duties of Securities Administrator...............................................43
SECTION 6.14.   Rights of Securities Administrator...............................................45
SECTION 6.15.   Individual Rights of Securities Administrator....................................46
SECTION 6.16.   Securities Administrator's Disclaimer............................................46
SECTION 6.17.   Reports by Securities Administrator to Noteholders...............................46
SECTION 6.18.   Compensation and Indemnity.......................................................46
SECTION 6.19.   Replacement of Securities Administrator..........................................47
SECTION 6.20.   Successor Securities Administrator by Merger.....................................48
SECTION 6.21.   Eligibility; Disqualification....................................................49

                                  ARTICLE VII
                        NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS

SECTION 7.1.    Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders...........49
SECTION 7.2.    Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.......................49
SECTION 7.3.    Reports by Issuer................................................................50
SECTION 7.4.    Reports by Securities Administrator..............................................50

                                 ARTICLE VIII
                      COUNTS, DISBURSEMENTS AND RELEASES

SECTION 8.1.    Collection of Money..............................................................50
SECTION 8.2.    Trust Accounts...................................................................51
SECTION 8.3.    General Provisions Regarding Accounts............................................55
SECTION 8.4.    Release of Indenture Trust Estate................................................56
SECTION 8.5.    Opinion of Counsel...............................................................57

                                  ARTICLE IX
                            SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

SECTION 9.1.    Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders...........................57
SECTION 9.2.    Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders..............................58
SECTION 9.3.    Execution of Supplemental Indentures.............................................60
SECTION 9.4.    Effect of Supplemental Indenture.................................................60
SECTION 9.5.    Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..............................................60
SECTION 9.6.    Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures....................................61

                                   ARTICLE X
                                  PREPAYMENT

SECTION 10.1.   Optional Prepayment..............................................................61
SECTION 10.2.   Form of Prepayment Notice........................................................61
SECTION 10.3.   Notes Payable on Prepayment Date.................................................62

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                                  ARTICLE XI
                                 MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 11.1.   Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc........................................62
SECTION 11.2.   Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee and the
                Securities Administrator.........................................................64
SECTION 11.3.   Acts of Noteholders..............................................................64
SECTION 11.4.   Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Securities Administrator,
                Issuer, Rating Agencies and Counterparties.......................................65
SECTION 11.5.   Notices to Noteholders; Waiver...................................................66
SECTION 11.6.   Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions..........................................66
SECTION 11.7.   Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................................................66
SECTION 11.8.   Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.........................................67
SECTION 11.9.   Successors and Assigns...........................................................67
SECTION 11.10.  Separability.....................................................................67
SECTION 11.11.  Benefits of Indenture............................................................67
SECTION 11.12.  Legal Holidays...................................................................67
SECTION 11.13.  GOVERNING LAW....................................................................67
SECTION 11.14.  Counterparts.....................................................................67
SECTION 11.15.  Recording of Indenture...........................................................68
SECTION 11.16.  Trust Obligation.................................................................68
SECTION 11.17.  No Petition......................................................................68
SECTION 11.18.  Subordination Agreement..........................................................68
SECTION 11.19.  No Recourse......................................................................69
SECTION 11.20.  Inspection.......................................................................69
SECTION 11.21.  Representations and Warranties as to the Security Interest
                of the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables .....................................69

EXHIBIT A-1     Form of Class A-1 Note........................................................A-1-1
EXHIBIT A-2a    Form of Class A-2a Note......................................................A-2a-1
EXHIBIT A-2b    Form of Class A-2b Note......................................................A-2b-1
EXHIBIT A-3     Form of Class A-3 Note........................................................A-3-1
EXHIBIT A-4     Form of Class A-4 Note........................................................A-4-1
EXHIBIT B       Form of Class B Note............................................................B-1
EXHIBIT C       Form of Class C Note............................................................C-1
SCHEDULE A      Schedule of Receivables........................................................SA-1
APPENDIX A      Definitions and Usage..........................................................AA-1

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     INDENTURE, dated as of May 31, 2005 (as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect, this "Indenture") among
MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1, a Delaware statutory trust, as
issuer (the "Issuer"), HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION a national banking
association, as Trustee and not in its individual capacity (in such capacity,
the "Indenture Trustee"), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national
banking association, as securities administrator and not in its individual
capacity (in such capacity, the "Securities Administrator").

     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 Counterparties and the holders of the Issuer's Class
A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2a 3.900% Asset
Backed Notes, Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b
Notes" and, together with the Class A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class
A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes") and Class A-4 Floating
Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the Class
A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A Notes"), Class B
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and Class C Floating
Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class C Notes" and, together with the Class A
Notes and the Class B Notes, the "Notes"):

                                GRANTING CLAUSE

     The Issuer hereby Grants to the Indenture Trustee at the Closing Date, as
Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Counterparties,
all of the Issuer's right, title and interest in, to and under the following
property, whether now owned or existing or hereafter acquired or arising: (a)
the Receivables; (b) monies received thereunder on or after the Cut-off Date
(other than the portion of any Obligor payment related to the interest accrued
on each Receivable up to its last scheduled payment date prior to May 31,
2005); (c) the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors
pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer in the
Financed Vehicles; (d) proceeds with respect to the Receivables from claims on
any theft, physical damage, credit life, credit disability, or other insurance
policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (e) the Receivable Files; (f)
the Trust Accounts and all amounts, securities, investments, investment
property and other property deposited in or credited to any of the foregoing,
all security entitlements relating to the foregoing and all proceeds thereof;
(g) the Sale and Servicing Agreement; (h) payments and proceeds with respect
to the Receivables; (i) the Receivables Purchase Agreement; (j) all property
(including the right to receive Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable
(other than a Receivable purchased by the Master Servicer or a Receivables
Servicer or repurchased by the Depositor or the Admininstrator)); (k) rebates
of premiums and other amounts relating to insurance policies and other items
financed under the Receivables in effect as of the Cut-off Date; (l) each
Interest Rate Swap Agreement and (m) all present and future claims, demands,
causes of action and chooses in action in respect of any or all of the
foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds of every kind and
nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing, including all
proceeds of the conversion 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").

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     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 and
to secure the obligations owed by the Issuer under the Interest Rate Swap
Agreements, equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction,
except as provided in the Indenture, and to secure compliance with the
provisions of this Indenture, all as provided in this Indenture.

     The Indenture Trustee, as Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders,
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 to the best of its ability to the end that the
interests of the Noteholders and the Counterparties may be adequately and
effectively protected.

                                  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, 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-2a Notes, the
Class A-2b Notes, the Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes
and the Class C Notes, together with the Indenture Trustee's or the Securities
Administrator's certificates of authentication, shall be in substantially the
form set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2a,

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Exhibit A-2b, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B and Exhibit C, 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 Authorized Officers of the
Trust executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

     (c) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of
the Notes set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2a, Exhibit A-2b, Exhibit A-3,
Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B and Exhibit C, 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 and the
Securities Administrator 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
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 or the Securities Administrator, on behalf of
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.

                                                 Initial Aggregate
        Class                                    Principal Amount
        -----                                    ----------------
        Class A-1 Notes                             $470,300,000
        Class A-2a Notes                            $150,000,000
        Class A-2b Notes                            $488,000,000
        Class A-3 Notes                             $417,000,000
        Class A-4 Notes                             $155,400,000
        Class B Notes                               $ 57,800,000
        Class C Notes                               $ 31,120,000

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

     (d) The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b Notes, the
Class A-3 Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes,
shall be issuable as Book-Entry Notes in minimum denominations of $1,000 and
in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

     (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 substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator 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 pursuant to Section 2.13, the Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an
Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, on behalf
of 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 the temporary Notes may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such temporary Notes.

     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 or the Securities Administrator, on
behalf of 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

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registration of transfers of Notes. The Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator is appointed by the Issuer as Note
Registrar, (i) the Issuer shall give the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator 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 and the Securities Administrator shall have the
right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain
copies thereof, and (iii) the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator 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.

     (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, an Authorized Officer of
the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, shall authenticate and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of the same Class
in any authorized denomination, of a like aggregate principal amount.

     (c) Subject to subsection (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 or the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, shall authenticate, and the
Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of 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 and the
Note Registrar 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 and the Note Registrar 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.

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     (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 15 days preceding the Payment Date for any payment with respect to
such Note.

     (h) Each Person that acquires a Note in definitive form shall be required
to represent, and each Person that acquires a Note will be deemed to represent
by its acceptance of the Note, that (x) it is not, and it is not acquiring the
Note on behalf of or with "plan assets" (as determined under Department of
Labor Regulation ss. 2510.3-101 or otherwise) of a Plan, or any employee
benefit plan subject to Similar Law, or (y) its acquisition and holding of the
Note are eligible for relief under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption
("PTCE") 84-14, PTCE 90-1, PTCE 91-38, PTCE 95-60, PTCE 96-23 or a similar
exemption, or, in the case of an employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law,
do not result in a nonexempt violation of Similar Law.

     SECTION 2.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.

     (a) If (i) any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee or
the Note Registrar, or each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss
or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator such security or indemnity as may be required by
the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator to hold the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar, the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator 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 Request the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator,
on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, shall authenticate and deliver, in
exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note,
a replacement Note of the same Class; provided, however, that if any such
destroyed, lost or stolen 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, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator 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 and the Securities Administrator) connected
therewith.

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     (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, the
Securities Administrator and any agent of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities
Administrator or any agent of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator 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-2a Notes, the Class A-2b 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 Rate, the Class A-2a Rate, the Class
A-2b Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate, the Class B Rate and the
Class C Rate, respectively, as set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2a, Exhibit
A-2b, Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B and Exhibit C, respectively, and
such interest shall be due and payable on each Payment Date as specified
therein, subject to Section 3.1. 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 in the Note
Register on the 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 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, 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 the forms of Notes set forth in Exhibit A-1,
Exhibit A-2a, Exhibit A-2b,

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Exhibit A-3, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B and Exhibit C. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the entire unpaid principal amount of each Class of Notes shall be
due and payable, if not previously paid, on 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. All principal payments on
each Class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such Class
entitled thereto. The Securities Administrator 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 Issuer 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.

     (c) If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, the
Issuer shall pay defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest
to the extent lawful) at the applicable Note Interest Rate on the Payment Date
following such default. The Issuer shall pay such defaulted interest to the
Persons who are Noteholders on the Record Date for such following Payment
Date.

     SECTION 2.9. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment,
registration of transfer or exchange or redemption pursuant to Section 10.1
shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Securities Administrator,
be delivered to the Securities Administrator and shall be promptly cancelled
by the Securities Administrator. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the
Securities Administrator 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
Securities Administrator. 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 Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator.

     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 Request
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 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.

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     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, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
     Administrator 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 Security Depository
     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 and the Securities
     Administrator.

     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 and the Securities
Administrator 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 Issuer advises the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator in writing

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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
Issuer is unable to locate a qualified successor or (ii) 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator 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 or the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the
Indenture Trustee, shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with
the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note
Registrar, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator 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 and the
Securities Administrator shall recognize the holders of such Definitive Notes
as Noteholders.

     SECTION 2.14. Authenticating Agents. (a) The Indenture Trustee, at the
expense of the Issuer, may appoint one or more Persons in addition to the
Securities Administrator (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."

     (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 document or 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, the Securities Administrator
and the Owner Trustee. The Indenture Trustee may at any time terminate the
agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to
such Authenticating Agent and the Owner Trustee. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, the Indenture Trustee may appoint a
successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of any such
appointment to the Owner Trustee.

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     (d) The Issuer agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services. 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 on each Payment Date the Issuer shall cause to be paid pursuant
to Sections 8.2(c) and 8.2(d) all amounts on deposit in the Collection Account
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.

     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 Securities
Administrator to serve as its agent for the foregoing purposes. The Issuer
shall give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator 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 and the
Securities Administrator with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices
and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Securities Administrator, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Securities
Administrator 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 Securities Administrator
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 the Business Day preceding 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 entitled thereto, and (unless the Note Paying Agent is the
Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and (unless the
Note Paying Agent is the Securities Administrator) the Securities
Administrator of its action or failure so to act.

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     (c) The Issuer shall cause each Note Paying Agent other than the
Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator 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 or the
Securities Administrator 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 or under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements 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, the Counterparties and the
     Securities Administrator 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 or
     under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements, as applicable;

          (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) immediately 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 or under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements, as applicable, 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 or under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements, as applicable, 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 years after such amount has become due and payable shall be discharged
from such trust and be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Request; 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
written 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 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 written direction of the
Issuer, any other reasonable means of notification of such repayment
(including 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, including all
licenses required under (i) the Maryland Vehicle Sales Finance Act or (ii) the
Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act in connection with this Indenture
and the other Basic Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby until such time as the Trust shall terminate in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture and the Trust Agreement.

     SECTION 3.5. Protection of Indenture Trust Estate. (a) The Issuer intends
the security interest Granted pursuant to this Indenture in favor of the
Indenture Trustee on behalf of the Noteholders to be prior to all other liens
in respect of the Indenture Trust Estate, and the Trust shall take all actions
necessary to obtain and maintain, for the benefit of the Indenture Trustee on
behalf of the Noteholders, a first lien on and a first priority, perfected
security interest in the Indenture Trust Estate. 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, the Counterparties and the Noteholders
     in such Indenture Trust Estate against the claims of all Persons.

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     The Issuer hereby designates the Indenture Trustee its agent and
attorney-in-fact to execute any financing statement, continuation statement or
other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section 3.5 that has
been prepared by the Master Servicer 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, continuation
statement or other instrument required to be executed pursuant to this Section
3.5.

     (b) The Issuer hereby represents and warrants that, as to the Collateral
pledged to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Noteholders, on the
Closing Date:

          (i) the Indenture creates a valid and continuing security interest
     (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Collateral that is in existence
     in favor of the Indenture Trustee, which security interest is prior to
     all other liens, and is enforceable as such as against creditors of and
     purchasers from the Issuer;

          (ii) the Receivables constitute "tangible chattel paper" under the
     applicable UCC;

          (iii) the Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to such
     Collateral free and clear of any Liens of any Person, other than the
     interest Granted under this Indenture;

          (iv) the Issuer has acquired its ownership in such Collateral in
     good faith without notice of any adverse claim;

          (v) the Trust Accounts are not in the name of any Person other than
     the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the
     Indenture Trustee, and the Issuer has not consented to the bank
     maintaining the Trust Accounts to comply with the instructions of any
     Person other than the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator;

          (vi) the Issuer has not assigned, pledged, sold, granted a security
     interest in or otherwise conveyed any interest in such Collateral (or, if
     any such interest has been assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, it
     has been released) other than interests Granted pursuant to this
     Indenture;

          (vii) the Issuer has caused or will have caused, within ten days
     after the Closing Date, the filing of all appropriate financing
     statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdiction
     under applicable law in order to perfect the security interest Granted
     hereunder in the Receivables;

          (viii) other than its Granting hereunder, the Issuer has not Granted
     such Collateral, the Issuer has not authorized the filing of and is not
     aware of any financing statements against the Issuer that include a
     description of such Collateral other than the financing statement in
     favor of the Indenture Trustee, and the Issuer is not aware of any
     judgment or tax lien filing against it; and

          (ix) the information relating to such Collateral set forth in the
     Schedule of Receivables (attached hereto as Schedule A) is correct.

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     SECTION 3.6. Opinions as to Indenture Trust Estate.

     (a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator 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 March 30 in each calendar year, beginning on March 30,
2006, the Master Servicer, on behalf of the Issuer, shall furnish to the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator an Opinion of Counsel
either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been
taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite
documents and with respect to the execution and filing of any financing
statements and continuation statements and any other action that may be
required by law as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest
created by this Indenture and reciting the details of such action or stating
that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain
such lien and security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe
the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this Indenture, any
indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite documents and the
execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements
that shall, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien
and security interest of this Indenture until March 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 and the Securities Administrator 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 Master Servicer, the
Administrator and the Owner Trustee to assist the Issuer in performing its
duties under this Indenture.

     (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 filing or causing to be filed all financing statements
and continuation 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

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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 without the consent of
the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the principal amount of each Class of Notes then Outstanding,
voting separately and if such action would materially adversely affect a
Counterparty, without the consent of such Counterparty. For the avoidance of
doubt, and notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the
Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Depositor and the
Owner Trustee, with prior written notice to the Rating Agencies and the
Indenture Trustee and with the consent of holders of all of the Certificates
but without the consent of any Noteholder, to create one or more classes of
certificates and amend the rights of the then-current Certificates; provided
that an Opinion of Counsel shall be furnished to the Indenture Trustee, the
Owner Trustee and the Securities Administrator to the effect that such
amendment (A) will not materially adversely affect the federal income taxation
of any outstanding Note or Certificate (unless the holder thereof consents to
such new treatment) and (B) will not cause the Issuer to be treated as an
association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for
federal income tax purposes.

     (d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of
Servicing Termination under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall
promptly notify the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the
Counterparties and the Rating Agencies thereof and shall specify in such
notice the action, if any, the Issuer is taking in respect of such default. If
an Event of Servicing Termination shall arise from the failure of the Master
Servicer to perform any of its duties or obligations under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement with respect to the Receivables, the Issuer shall take all
reasonable steps available to it to remedy such failure.

     (e) As promptly as possible after the giving of notice of termination to
the Master Servicer of the Master Servicer's rights and powers pursuant to
Section 7.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Master Servicer's
resignation in accordance with the terms of the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
the Issuer shall (subject to the rights of the Indenture Trustee to direct
such appointment pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement)
promptly appoint a Successor Master Servicer meeting the requirements of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement, and such Successor Master Servicer shall accept
its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator. In the event that a Successor Master
Servicer has not been appointed and has not accepted its appointment at the
time when the Master Servicer ceases to act as Master Servicer, the Securities
Administrator (so long as the Person serving as the Securities Administrator
is not also the Master Servicer) and otherwise the Indenture Trustee, without
further action shall automatically be appointed the Successor Master Servicer.
If the Indenture Trustee shall be legally unable to act as Successor Master
Servicer, the Indenture Trustee may appoint, or petition a court of competent
jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Master Servicer. The Securities
Administrator or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, may resign as the
Master Servicer by giving written notice of such resignation to the Issuer and
in such event shall be released from such duties and obligations, such release
not to be effective until the date a new master servicer enters into a
servicing agreement with the Issuer as provided below. Upon delivery of any
such notice to the Issuer, the Issuer shall promptly obtain a new master
servicer as the Successor Master Servicer under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. Any Successor Master Servicer (other than the Securities
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established financial institution having a net worth of not less than
$100,000,000 and whose regular business shall include the servicing of
automobile receivables and whose appointment as Successor Master Servicer
satisfies the Rating Agency Condition and (ii) enter into a servicing
agreement with the Issuer having substantially the same provisions as the
provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement applicable to its predecessor
Master Servicer. If, within 30 days after the delivery of the notice referred
to above, the Issuer shall not have obtained such a new master servicer, the
Indenture Trustee may appoint, or may petition a court of competent
jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor Master Servicer. In connection with any
such appointment, the Indenture Trustee may make such arrangements for the
compensation of such successor as it and such successor shall agree, subject
to the limitations set forth below and in the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
and, in accordance with Section 7.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuer shall enter into an agreement with such successor for the servicing of
the Receivables (such agreement to be in form and substance satisfactory to
the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator). Notwithstanding
anything herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement to the contrary, in no
event shall either the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator be
liable for any Servicing Fee or for any differential in the amount of the
Servicing Fee paid hereunder and the amount necessary to induce any Successor
Master Servicer to act as Successor Master Servicer under the Basic Documents
and the transactions set forth or provided for therein. If either the
Securities Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the Master
Servicer's duties as master servicer of the Receivables as provided herein, it
shall do so in its individual capacity and not in its capacity as Securities
Administrator or Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, and, accordingly, the
provisions of Article VI hereof shall be inapplicable to the Securities
Administrator or the Indenture Trustee in its duties as the successor to the
Master Servicer and the servicing of the Receivables. In case the Securities
Administrator or the Indenture Trustee shall become successor to the Master
Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Securities Administrator
or the Indenture Trustee, as the case may be, shall entitled to appoint as
Master Servicer any one of its Affiliates; provided that the Securities
Administrator or the Indenture Trustee, in its capacity as the Master
Servicer, shall be fully liable for the actions and omissions of such
Affiliate in such capacity as Successor Master Servicer.

     (f) Upon any termination of the Master Servicer's rights and powers
pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify
the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator in writing. As soon as
a Successor Master Servicer is appointed by the Issuer, the Issuer shall
notify the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator in writing of
such appointment, specifying in such notice the name and address of such
Successor Master Servicer.

     (g) Without derogating from the absolute nature of the assignment granted
to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture or the rights of the Indenture
Trustee hereunder, the Issuer hereby agrees that it shall not, without the
prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes
Outstanding, amend, modify, waive, supplement, terminate or surrender, or
agree to any amendment, modification, supplement, termination, waiver or
surrender of, the terms of any Collateral (except to the extent otherwise
provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the other Basic Documents).

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

          (i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Trust
     Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement, 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 Trust or the Indenture Trust Estate;

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

          (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.

     SECTION 3.9. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer shall deliver
to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, within 120 days
after the end of each calendar year, an Officer's Certificate stating, as to
the Authorized Officer signing such Officer's Certificate, that:

          (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:

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          (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 and the Securities Administrator, in
     form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
     Administrator, 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 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 and the Securities
     Administrator) to the effect that such transaction will not have any
     material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder, the
     Counterparties 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 and
     the Securities Administrator 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).

     (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 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 and the Securities
     Administrator, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the
     Securities Administrator, 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

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     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 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 and the Securities
     Administrator) to the effect that such transaction will not have any
     material adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, the Counterparties, 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 and
     the Securities Administrator 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).

     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 and the Securities Administrator
stating that the Issuer is to be so released.

     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 other 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. Master Servicer's Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the
Master Servicer to comply with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, including,
without limitation, Sections 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 and 4.7
and Article VI thereof.

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     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. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator, the Issuer shall execute and deliver
such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably
necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this
Indenture.

     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 Master 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 Master Servicer, the
Receivables Servicers, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator, the Administrator, 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, the Securities Administrator, the Counterparties and the
Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default and Default
hereunder and of each default on the part of any party to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement with respect to any of the provisions thereof.

     SECTION 3.20. Issuer's Obligations under each ISDA Master Agreement;
Replacement and Termination of each ISDA Master Agreement. (a) Following the
rating of the Counterparty falling below the Minimum Rating Threshold (as
defined in the ISDA Master Agreement), the Issuer shall consult with an
independent investment bank (which may include the Representative) and shall
attempt to negotiate an ISDA Credit Support Annex (as defined in the ISDA
Master Agreement) with such Counterparty that meets the terms of the related
ISDA

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Master Agreement. If an ISDA Credit Support Annex is negotiated, the
Owner Trustee shall set up an Eligible Deposit Account to hold cash or other
eligible investments pledged under such ISDA Credit Support Annex. Any cash or
other eligible investments pledged under an ISDA Credit Support Annex shall
not be part of the Collection Account unless they are applied in accordance
with such ISDA Credit Support Annex to make a payment due to the Issuer
pursuant to any Interest Rate Swap Agreement.

     (b) Following an ISDA Event of Default or ISDA Termination Event for
which the Issuer has the right to designate an Early Termination Date (as such
terms are defined in the related ISDA Master Agreement), the Issuer shall
consult with an independent investment bank (which may include the
Representative) as to whether it will designate an Early Termination Date.
Upon the termination of any Interest Rate Swap Agreement, the Issuer shall use
its reasonable best efforts to enforce the rights of the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee thereunder as may be permitted by the terms of the related
ISDA Master Agreement and consistent with the terms hereof, and shall apply
the proceeds of any such efforts to enter into replacement fixed/floating
swaps with another Counterparty such that each of the Rating Agencies shall
have given prior written confirmation to the Issuer that such Rating Agency
shall not reduce or withdraw its then current rating of any of the Notes. To
the extent such replacement fixed/floating swap can be entered into, any
termination payments received by the Issuer in respect of the terminated
fixed/floating swap shall be used, to the extent necessary, by the Issuer for
the purpose of entering into such replacement fixed/floating swap. Following a
failure of Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc. to make the due and punctual
payment of any and all amounts payable by Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc.
under any Interest Rate Swap Agreement, including, in case of default,
interest on any amount due, when and as the same shall become due and payable,
the Securities Administrator shall make a demand of the Swap Guarantor
pursuant to the Swap Guarantee.

                                  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, 3.13 and 3.17, (v) the rights, obligations,
protections and immunities of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator hereunder (including the rights of the Indenture Trustee under
Section 6.7, the rights of the Securities Administrator under Section 6.18 and
the obligations of the Securities Administrator under Section 4.3), and (vi)
the rights of Noteholders and the Counterparties as beneficiaries hereof with
respect to the property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator 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:

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               (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 Securities Administrator for cancellation; or

                    (2) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Securities
               Administrator for cancellation have become due and payable and
               the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be
               irrevocably deposited with the Securities Administrator cash or
               direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United
               States of America (which will mature prior to the date such
               amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an amount
               sufficient without reinvestment to pay and discharge the entire
               indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the
               Securities Administrator 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 all fees due and payable to the
               Securities Administrator;

               (B) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
          payable hereunder and under any of the other Basic Documents
          (including amounts due and payable under the Interest Rate Swap
          Agreements) by the Issuer; and

               (C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the
          Securities Administrator an Officer's Certificate, an Opinion of
          Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee or the
          Securities Administrator) 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 Securities Administrator
shall deliver to the Owner Trustee a certificate of a Securities Administrator
Officer stating that all Noteholders have been paid in full and stating
whether, to the best knowledge of such Securities Administrator 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
Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and
applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes, the Interest
Rate Swap Agreements and this Indenture, to the payment, either (i) directly
or through any Note Paying Agent, as the Securities Administrator may
determine, to the Noteholders of the particular Notes for the payment or
redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the Securities
Administrator, of all sums due and to

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become due thereon for principal and interest, and (ii) to each Counterparty
of all net amounts payable under the Interest Rate Swap Agreements, subject to
and in accordance with Section 8.2(c), 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 Securities
Administrator under the provisions of this Indenture with respect to such
Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Securities
Administrator 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 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 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 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 30 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 25% 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 or in any certificate delivered pursuant hereto or in
     connection herewith proving to have been incorrect in any material
     respect as of the time when the same shall have been made, and such
     default shall continue or not be cured, or the circumstance or condition
     in respect of which such representation or warranty was incorrect shall
     not have been eliminated or otherwise cured, for a period of 30 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

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     Trustee by the holders of Notes evidencing not less than 25% 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 60
     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.

The Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Counterparties,
within five days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of
an Officer's Certificate of any event which with the giving of notice and the
lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clause (iii) above, its
status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect
thereto.

     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 or the holders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may declare all
the Notes to be immediately due and payable, by a notice in writing to the
Issuer (and to the Indenture Trustee if given by Noteholders), 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.

     (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, the
Counterparties and the Indenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences if:

          (i) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Securities
     Administrator a sum sufficient to pay:

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               (A) 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

               (B) all sums paid or advanced by the Indenture Trustee or the
          Securities Administrator hereunder and the reasonable compensation,
          expenses and disbursements of the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
          Administrator and their agents and counsel and the reasonable
          compensation, expenses and disbursements of the Owner Trustee and
          its agents and counsel; 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.

     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
five days, or (ii) there is an Event of Default relating to the nonpayment of
the principal of any Note on its Final Scheduled Payment Date, the Issuer
shall, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to the Securities
Administrator, 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, the Securities Administrator and their 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, as more particularly provided in Section 5.4, in its discretion, may
proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Noteholders,
by such appropriate Proceedings as the Indenture Trustee shall deem most
effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or
legal or equitable right vested in the Indenture Trustee by this Indenture or
by law.

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     (d) 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 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, the Securities
     Administrator and each predecessor Indenture Trustee and Securities
     Administrator, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and
     for reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
     advances and disbursements made, by the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
     Administrator and each predecessor Indenture Trustee and Securities
     Administrator, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the
     Noteholders allowed in such Proceedings;

          (ii) unless prohibited by applicable law and 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 and the Securities Administrator such amounts as
shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Indenture Trustee,
the Securities Administrator, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and
Securities Administrator and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel,
and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances and
disbursements made, by the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and
each predecessor Indenture Trustee and Securities Administrator, except as a
result of negligence

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or bad faith, and any other amounts due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.7 and the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 6.18.

     (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, the
Securities Administrator, each predecessor Indenture Trustee and Securities
Administrator and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, shall be for
the ratable benefit of the Noteholders in respect of which such judgment has
been recovered.

     (g) In any Proceedings brought by the Indenture Trustee (and also any
Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Indenture Trustee shall be a party), the Indenture Trustee shall be
held to represent all the 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, or at the written
direction of Noteholders of Notes evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, shall, 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, the Noteholders and the
     Counterparties; 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;

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provided, however, the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate
the Indenture Trust Estate following an Event of Default, other than Event of
Default described in Section 5.1(i) or (ii), unless, (i) with respect to any
Event of Default described in Section 5.1(v) or (vi):

               (A) the holders of Notes evidencing 100% of the Outstanding
          Amount of the Controlling Class (excluding Notes held by a Seller,
          the Master Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates) 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

               (C) the Indenture Trustee determines based solely on an
          analysis provided by an independent accounting firm which shall not
          be at the expense of the Indenture Trustee 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 obtains
          the consent of holders of Notes evidencing not less than 66?% of the
          Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class; or

          (ii) with respect to an Event of Default described in Section
     5.1(iii) or (iv):

               (A) the holders of all Outstanding Notes consent thereto; or

               (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation 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
(i)(B) and (ii)(B) 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 Indenture or
Section 4.5 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, if the Indenture Trustee
collects any money or property pursuant to liquidations of the Receivables in
accordance with this Article V, it shall pay out the money or property in the
following order of priority:

               (i) first, to the Master Servicer for due and unpaid Servicing
          Fees and, to the extent not previously retained from Collections,
          for any due and unpaid Receivables Servicer Servicing Fees;

               (ii) second, to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
          Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer and the
          Administrator for all amounts due for fees and any other amounts
          payable to them hereunder and under the other Basic Documents;

               (iii) third, to the Counterparties for due and unpaid Net Swap
          Payments (including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payments), if
          any, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
          to the amount due under each Interest Rate

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          Swap Agreement as Net Swap Payments (including interest on any
          overdue Net Swap Payments);

               (iv) fourth, in the following order of priority:

                    (A) (x) to the Class A Noteholders for amounts due and
               unpaid on the Notes in respect of interest, ratably, without
               preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
               due and payable on the Class A Notes in respect of interest and
               (y) to the related Counterparties to pay any Swap Termination
               Payments due to them under the Class A Interest Rate Swap
               Agreements, ratably, without preference or priority of any
               kind, according to the amounts due as Swap Termination Payments
               under each Class A Interest Rate Swap Agreement; provided, that
               if the money and property available for distribution pursuant
               to this clause (A) is insufficient to pay the entire amount due
               under this clause (A), the shortfall shall be allocated between
               the amounts due under subclauses (x) and (y) ratably based on
               the ratio of respective amounts due under each such subclause
               to the total amount due under this clause (A);

                    (B) to the Class A-1 Noteholders 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;

                    (C) to the Class A-2a Noteholders, Class A-2b Noteholders,
               Class A-3 Noteholders and Class A-4 Noteholders for amounts due
               and unpaid on the Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class
               A-4 Notes in respect of principal, in the order of priority set
               forth in Section 8.2(d)(i) until the Outstanding Amount of the
               Class A-2a Notes, Class A-2b Notes, Class A-3 Notes and Class
               A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;

                    (D) (x) to the Class B Noteholders for amounts due and
               unpaid on the Notes in respect of interest, ratably, without
               preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
               due and payable on the Class B Notes in respect of interest and
               (y) to the related Counterparty to pay any Swap Termination
               Payments due to it under the Class B Interest Rate Swap
               Agreement; provided, that if the money and property available
               for distribution pursuant to this clause (D) is insufficient
               to pay the entire amount due under this clause (D), the
               shortfall shall be allocated between the amounts due under
               subclauses (x) and (y) ratably based on the ratio of respective
               amounts due under each such subclause to the total amount due
               under this clause (D);

                    (E) to the Class B Noteholders 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;

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                    (F) (x) to the Class C Noteholders for amounts due and
               unpaid on the Notes in respect of interest, ratably, without
               preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
               due and payable on the Class C Notes in respect of interest and
               (y) to the related Counterparty to pay any Swap Termination
               Payments due to it under the Class C Interest Rate Swap
               Agreement; provided, that if the money and property available
               for distribution pursuant to this clause (F) is insufficient
               to pay the entire amount due under this clause (F), the
               shortfall shall be allocated between the amounts due under
               subclauses (x) and (y) ratably based on the ratio of respective
               amounts due under each such subclause to the total amount due
               under this clause (F);

                    (G) to the Class C Noteholders 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;

                    (H) any excess amounts remaining after making the payments
               described in above, to be applied pursuant to Section 8.2(c) to
               the extent that any amounts payable thereunder have not been
               previously paid as described above.

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

     (c) Upon a sale or other liquidation of the Receivables in the manner set
forth in Section 5.4(a), the Indenture Trustee shall cause the Securities
Administrator to provide reasonable prior notice of such sale or liquidation
to each Noteholder. A Noteholder may submit a bid with respect to such sale.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Depositor and any of its Affiliates may submit
a bid with respect to such sale.

     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 as if there had
been no declaration of acceleration. It is the desire of the parties hereto
and 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. 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:

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

     (b) 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;

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

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

     (e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to
the Indenture Trustee during such 60-day period by the Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class.

     It is understood and intended that no one or more 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 principal amount of the Notes.
If the Indenture Trustee receives conflicting or inconsistent requests and
indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders representing an equal
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. The Indenture Trustee shall be fully
protected and shall incur no liability for acting, or refraining from acting
in accordance with this Section.

     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
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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 Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such 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. The Noteholders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class shall have the right, subject to Section 6.2(f), 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:

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

     (b) subject to the express terms of Section 5.4, any direction to the
Indenture Trustee to sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate shall be by
Noteholders evidencing not less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class;

     (c) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.5 have been satisfied and
the Indenture Trustee elects to retain the Indenture Trust Estate pursuant to
such Section 5.5, then any direction to the Indenture Trustee by Noteholders
of Notes evidencing less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class to sell or liquidate the Indenture Trust Estate shall be of
no force and effect; and

     (d) 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 involve it in costs or expenses for which it would not be
indemnified to its satisfaction or expose it to personal liability or might
materially adversely affect or unduly prejudice 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

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than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class may waive
any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences except a 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 Default or impair any
right consequent thereto.

     Upon any such waiver, such 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 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.

     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.

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     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 the Seller of its
obligations under the Receivables Purchase Agreement and the Master Servicer
of its obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement and to exercise any
and all rights, remedies, powers and privileges lawfully available to the
Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, 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 Master
Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or administrative actions or
proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller or the Master
Servicer of each of their obligations under the Receivables Purchase Agreement
and the Sale and Servicing Agreement, as applicable.

     (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Indenture
Trustee may, and at the direction (which direction shall be in writing or by
telephone, confirmed in writing promptly thereafter) of 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 or the Master Servicer under or in
connection with the Receivables Purchase Agreement and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, including the right or power to take any action to compel or secure
performance or observance by the Seller, or the Master Servicer, as the case
may be, of each of their obligations to the Issuer thereunder and to give any
consent, request, notice, direction, approval, extension, or waiver under the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and any right of the Issuer to take such action
shall be suspended.

                                  ARTICLE VI

            THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR

     SECTION 6.1. Duties of Indenture Trustee. (a) If an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights
and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such Person's own affairs.

     (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

          (i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
     such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, no implied
     covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the
     Indenture Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall not be a trustee for or
     have any fiduciary obligation to the Issuer; 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, if required by the terms
     of this Indenture, 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.

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     (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;

          (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 any of
     the Noteholders given in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and

          (iv) the Indenture Trustee shall not have any responsibility for (A)
     any recording, filing, or depositing of this Indenture or any agreement
     referred to herein or any financing statement or continuation statement
     evidencing a security interest, or the maintenance of any such recording
     or filing or depositing or to any re-recording, refiling or redepositing
     of any thereof, (B) any insurance, (C) the payment or discharge of any
     tax, assessment, or other governmental charge or any lien or encumbrance
     of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied against, any part
     of the Indenture Trust Estate other than from funds available in the
     Collection Account, (D) except as otherwise set forth in Section
     6.1(b)(ii), the confirmation or verification of the contents of any
     reports or certificates of the Master Servicer delivered to the Indenture
     Trustee pursuant to this Indenture believed by the Indenture Trustee to
     be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
     parties.

     (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 liability, financial or
otherwise, 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, and none of
the provisions contained in this Indenture shall in any event require the
Indenture Trustee to perform, or be responsible for the manner of performance
of, any of the obligations of the Master Servicer under this Indenture except
during such time, if any, as the Indenture Trustee shall be the successor to,
and be vested with the rights, duties, powers and privileges of the Master
Servicer in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

     (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.

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     (h) The Indenture Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Event of Default unless either (1) a Trustee Officer shall have actual
knowledge 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 and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from
acting upon 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. 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.

     (c) The Indenture Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents or attorneys or a custodian or nominee, and the Indenture Trustee shall
not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of, or for the
supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with
due care by it hereunder.

     (d) Neither the Indenture Trustee nor any of its officers, directors,
employees or agents shall 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 reasonably 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) Any request or direction of the Issuer mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request.

     (h) The right of the Indenture Trustee to perform any discretionary act
enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a duty, and the
Indenture Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its negligence or
willful misconduct in the performance of such act.

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     (i) The Indenture Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or
surety in respect of the execution of the Trust Estate created hereby or the
powers granted hereunder.

     (j) Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.3(c) the Indenture Trustee
shall have no obligation to invest and reinvest any cash held in the
Collection Account or any other account held by the Indenture Trustee in the
absence of timely and specific written investment direction from the Master
Servicer. In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be liable for the selection
of investments or for investment losses incurred thereon. The Indenture
Trustee shall have no liability in respect of losses incurred as a result of
the liquidation of any investment prior to its stated maturity or the failure
of the Master Servicer to provide timely written investment direction.

     (k) In no event shall the Indenture Trustee or any agent of the Indenture
Trustee be obligated or responsible for preparing, executing, filing or
delivering in respect of the Trust or on behalf of another person, either (A)
subject to Section 7.4, any report or filing required or permitted by the
Commission to be prepared, executed, filed or delivered by or in respect of
the Trust or another Person, or (B) any certification in respect of any such
report or filing.

     (l) Anything in this Indenture 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), even if the Indenture Trustee has been advised of the
likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

     (m) So long as the Indenture Trustee shall serve as Note Registrar
hereunder, the Indenture Trustee in such capacity shall be afforded all of the
rights, protections, immunities and indemnities provided to the Indenture
Trustee hereunder.

     SECTION 6.3. Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee. The Indenture
Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of 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 (all of which shall be
taken as statements of the Issuer) other than the Indenture Trustee's
certificate of authentication.

     SECTION 6.5. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing
and if it is known to a Trustee Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee shall mail, or cause the Securities Administrator to mail,
to each Noteholder and each Counterparty notice of such Default within ninety
(90) days after it occurs. Except in the case of a 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
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committee of its Trustee Officers in good faith determines that withholding
the notice is in the interests of Noteholders and each Counterparty.

     SECTION 6.6. [Reserved].

     SECTION 6.7. Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Indenture Trustee shall
be paid the fees and any other amounts payable to it, agreed to in a separate
written agreement among the Issuer, the Securities Intermediary and the
Indenture Trustee, as the same may be amended from time to time, in accordance
with Sections 6.18 and 8.2(c). The Indenture Trustee's compensation shall not
be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The
Issuer shall reimburse the Indenture Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by it in accordance with
any of the provisions hereof and any other documents executed in connection
herewith, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for
its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable 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, representatives and agents
for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all expenses, obligations,
liabilities, losses, damages, injuries (to person, property, or natural
resources), penalties, stamp or other similar taxes, actions, suits,
judgments, reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's and
agent's fees and expenses) of whatever kind of nature regardless of their
merit, incurred by it in connection with the administration of this trust and
the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The
Indenture Trustee shall notify the 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. The Issuer shall
defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and
the Issuer shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. The Issuer shall
not be required to reimburse any expense or indemnity against any loss,
liability or expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture
Trustee's own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith. All amounts payable
to the Indenture Trustee under this Section shall be paid to the Indenture
Trustee in accordance with Section 6.18 (in the case of fees of the Indenture
Trustee) and Section 8.2(c) (as to any other amounts).

     (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 a 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
Outstanding Notes may remove the Indenture Trustee without cause by so
notifying the Indenture Trustee and

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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; or

          (iv) the Indenture Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

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. Any
successor Indenture Trustee shall also deliver to the Master Servicer a
written assumption of the duties of the Indenture Trustee under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. 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 90 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 Class may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture
Trustee. If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any
Noteholder who has been a bona fide Noteholder for at least six months may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture
Trustee and the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

     (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.

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     (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 Trust, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the
benefit of the Noteholders, 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
     Indenture Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under
     any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be
     performed the Indenture Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to
     perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
     obligations (including the holding of title to the Indenture Trust Estate
     or any portion thereof in any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and
     performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at
     the direction of the Indenture Trustee;

          (ii) no 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

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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.

     (e) The Issuer shall pay to any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed
hereunder reasonable compensation, and to reimburse such co-trustee or
separate trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by it or them in accordance with any provisions
of this Indenture or any other Basic Document except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith.
In no event shall the Indenture Trustee be obligated to pay any fee or expense
of any separate trustee or co-trustee.

     SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. (a) The Indenture Trustee
shall at all times satisfy the requirements of 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 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 and/or the Class C 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 and the
Class C Notes. In the event the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with the
terms of the 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

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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. Duties of Securities Administrator. (a) If an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Securities Administrator shall
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same
degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent Person would exercise
or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such Person's own affairs.

     (b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

          (i) the Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator and the Securities Administrator
     shall not be a trustee for or have any fiduciary obligation to the
     Issuer; and

          (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Securities
     Administrator 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 Securities Administrator and, if required by
     the terms of this Indenture, conforming to the requirements of this
     Indenture; provided, however, that the Securities Administrator shall
     examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they
     conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

     (c) The Securities Administrator 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 6.13;

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          (ii) the Securities Administrator shall not be liable for any error
     of judgment made in good faith by a Securities Administrator Officer
     unless it is proved that the Securities Administrator was negligent in
     ascertaining the pertinent facts;

          (iii) the Securities Administrator shall not be liable with respect
     to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with
     any of the Noteholders given in accordance with the terms of this
     Indenture; and

          (iv) the Securities Administrator shall not have any responsibility
     for (A) any recording, filing, or depositing of this Indenture or any
     agreement referred to herein or any financing statement or continuation
     statement evidencing a security interest, or the maintenance of any such
     recording or filing or depositing or to any re-recording, refiling or
     redepositing of any thereof, (B) any insurance, (C) the payment or
     discharge of any tax, assessment, or other governmental charge or any
     lien or encumbrance of any kind owing with respect to, assessed or levied
     against, any part of the Indenture Trust Estate other than from funds
     available in the Collection Account, (D) except as otherwise set forth in
     Section 6.13(b)(ii), the confirmation or verification of the contents of
     any reports or certificates of the Master Servicer delivered to the
     Securities Administrator pursuant to this Indenture believed by the
     Securities Administrator to be genuine and to have been signed or
     presented by the proper party or parties.

     (d) The Securities Administrator shall not be liable for interest on any
money received by it except as the Securities Administrator may agree in
writing with the Issuer.

     (e) Money held in trust by the Securities Administrator 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 Securities
Administrator to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur liability,
financial or otherwise, 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, and none of
the provisions contained in this Indenture shall in any event require the
Securities Administrator to perform, or be responsible for the manner of
performance of, any of the obligations of the Master Servicer under this
Indenture except during such time, if any, as the Securities Administrator
shall be the successor to, and be vested with the rights, duties, powers and
privileges of the Master Servicer in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture.

     (g) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Securities
Administrator shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.13 and to
the provisions of the TIA.

     (h) The Securities Administrator shall not be charged with knowledge of
any Event of Default unless either (1) a Securities Administrator Officer
shall have actual knowledge of such Event of Default or (2) written notice of
such Event of Default shall have been given to the Securities Administrator in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

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     SECTION 6.14. Rights of Securities Administrator. (a) The Securities
Administrator may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon 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 Securities Administrator
need not investigate any fact or matters stated in any such document.

     (b) Before the Securities Administrator acts or refrains from acting, it
may require an Officer's Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Securities
Administrator 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.

     (c) The Securities Administrator 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 Securities
Administrator shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the
part of, or for the supervision of, any such agent, attorney, custodian or
nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.

     (d) Neither the Securities Administrator nor any of its officers,
directors, employees or agents shall 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
Securities Administrator does not constitute willful misconduct, negligence or
bad faith.

     (e) The Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator
security or indemnity reasonably 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) Any request or direction of the Issuer mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request.

     (h) The right of the Securities Administrator to perform any
discretionary act enumerated in this Indenture shall not be construed as a
duty, and the Securities Administrator shall not be answerable for other than
its negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of such act.

     (i) The Securities Administrator shall not be required to give any bond
or surety in respect of the execution of the Trust Estate created hereby or
the powers granted hereunder.

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     (j) Except as otherwise provided in Section 8.3(c), the Securities
Administrator shall have no obligation to invest and reinvest any cash held in
the Collection Account or any other account held by the Securities
Administrator in the absence of timely and specific written investment
direction from the Master Servicer. In no event shall the Securities
Administrator be liable for the selection of investments or for investment
losses incurred thereon. The Securities Administrator shall have no liability
in respect of losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any investment
prior to its stated maturity or the failure of the Master Servicer to provide
timely written investment direction.

     (k) In no event shall the Securities Administrator or any agent of the
Securities Administrator be obligated or responsible for preparing, executing,
filing or delivering in respect of the Trust or on behalf of another person,
either (A) subject to Section 7.4, any report or filing required or permitted
by the Commission to be prepared, executed, filed or delivered by or in
respect of the Trust or another Person, or (B) any certification in respect of
any such report or filing.

     (l) Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, in no
event shall the Securities Administrator be liable for special, indirect or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited
to lost profits), even if the Securities Administrator has been advised of the
likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

     (m) So long as the Securities Administrator shall serve as Note Registrar
or Note Paying Agent hereunder, the Securities Administrator in such capacity
shall be afforded all of the rights, protections, immunities and indemnities
provided to the Securities Administrator hereunder.

     SECTION 6.15. Individual Rights of Securities Administrator. The
Securities Administrator, 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 Securities
Administrator. Any Note Paying Agent, Note Registrar, co-registrar or
co-paying agent hereunder may do the same with like rights.

     SECTION 6.16. Securities Administrator's Disclaimer. The Securities
Administrator (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 (all
of which shall be taken as statements of the Issuer) other than the Securities
Administrator's certificate of authentication.

     SECTION 6.17. Reports by Securities Administrator to Noteholders. Upon
delivery to the Securities Administrator by the Master Servicer of such
information prepared by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.8 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement as may be required to enable each Noteholder to
prepare its federal and State income tax returns, the Securities Administrator
shall deliver such information to the Noteholders.

     SECTION 6.18. Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Securities
Administrator shall be paid the fees and any other amounts payable to it,
agreed to in a separate written agreement

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among the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, as
the same may be amended from time to time, in accordance with Section 8.2(c).
The Securities Administrator's compensation shall not be limited by any law on
compensation of a trustee of an express trust. From the fees paid to the
Securities Administrator, the Securities Administrator shall pay the fees
payable to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.7 hereof. The Issuer
shall reimburse the Securities Administrator for all reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by it in accordance with
any of the provisions hereof and any other documents executed in connection
herewith, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for
its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Securities Administrator's agents,
counsel, accountants and experts. The Issuer shall indemnify the Securities
Administrator and its officers, directors, employees, representatives and
agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all expenses,
obligations, liabilities, losses, damages, injuries (to person, property, or
natural resources), penalties, stamp or other similar taxes, actions, suits,
judgments, reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney's and
agent's fees and expenses) of whatever kind of nature regardless of their
merit, incurred by it in connection with the administration of this trust and
the performance of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The
Securities Administrator shall notify the Issuer promptly of any claim for
which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Securities Administrator to so
notify the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer of its obligations hereunder.
The Issuer shall defend any such claim, and the Securities Administrator may
have separate counsel and the Issuer shall pay the fees and expenses of such
counsel. The Issuer shall not be required to reimburse any expense or
indemnity against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Securities
Administrator through the Securities Administrator's own willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith. All amounts payable to the Securities Administrator
under this Section shall be paid to the Securities Administrator in accordance
with Section 8.2(c).

     (b) The Issuer's payment obligations to the Securities Administrator
pursuant to this Section 6.18 shall survive the resignation or removal of the
Securities Administrator and the discharge of this Indenture. When the
Securities Administrator incurs expenses after the occurrence of a 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 6.19. Replacement of Securities Administrator. (a) No resignation
or removal of the Securities Administrator, and no appointment of a successor
Securities Administrator, shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Securities Administrator pursuant to this Section
6.19 and payment in full of all sums due to the Securities Administrator
pursuant to Section 6.18. The holders of Notes evidencing not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Notes may remove the Securities
Administrator without cause by so notifying the Securities Administrator and
the Issuer and may appoint a successor Securities Administrator. The Issuer
shall remove the Securities Administrator if:

          (i) the Securities Administrator fails to comply with Section 6.21;

          (ii) an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Securities
     Administrator;

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

          (iv) the Securities Administrator otherwise becomes incapable of
     acting.

The Securities Administrator may resign at any time by giving 30 days' written
notice to the Issuer. If the Securities Administrator resigns or is removed or
if a vacancy exists in the office of Securities Administrator for any reason
(the Securities Administrator in such event being referred to herein as the
retiring Securities Administrator), the Issuer shall promptly appoint a
successor Securities Administrator.

     (b) Any successor Securities Administrator shall deliver a written
acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Securities Administrator and to
the Issuer. Any successor Securities Administrator shall also deliver to the
Master Servicer a written assumption of the duties of the Securities
Administrator under the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Thereupon, if all sums
due the retiring Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 6.18 have been
paid in full, the resignation or removal of the retiring Securities
Administrator shall become effective, the successor Securities Administrator
shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Securities Administrator
under this Indenture and the resigning Securities Administrator shall be
relieved of all of its obligations hereunder. The successor Securities
Administrator shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. If all
sums due the retiring Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 6.18 have
been paid in full, the retiring Securities Administrator shall promptly
transfer all property held by it as Securities Administrator to the successor
Securities Administrator.

     (c) If a successor Securities Administrator does not take office within
90 days after the retiring Securities Administrator resigns or is removed, the
retiring Securities Administrator, the Issuer or the holders of Notes
evidencing not less than a majority in the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Securities Administrator. If the Securities
Administrator fails to comply with Section 6.21, 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 Securities Administrator and the
appointment of a successor Securities Administrator.

     (d) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Securities Administrator
pursuant to this Section 6.19, the obligations of the Issuer under Section
6.18 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Securities Administrator.

     SECTION 6.20. Successor Securities Administrator by Merger. (a) If the
Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator; provided that such corporation or
banking association shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under Section
6.21.

     (b) In case at the time such successor or successors by merger,
conversion or consolidation to the Securities Administrator 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

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Securities Administrator may adopt the certificate of authentication of any
predecessor securities administrator, 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 Securities Administrator may authenticate such Notes
either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor to the Securities Administrator. 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 Securities Administrator shall
have.

     SECTION 6.21. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Securities Administrator
shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA Section 310(a). The
Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator shall
comply with TIA Section 310(b).

                                 ARTICLE VII

                        NOTEHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS

     SECTION 7.1. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of
Noteholders. The Issuer shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Securities Administrator (a) not more than five days after each Record Date, a
list, in such form as the Securities Administrator may reasonably require, of
the names and addresses of the Noteholders as of such Record Date and (b) at
such other times as the Securities Administrator may request in writing,
within 30 days after receipt by the Issuer of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than ten days prior to the time
such list is furnished; provided, however, that (i) so long as the Securities
Administrator is the Note Registrar, no such list shall be required to be
furnished and (ii) no such list shall be required to be furnished with respect
to Noteholders of Book-Entry Notes.

     SECTION 7.2. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders.

     (a) The Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator as
provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Noteholders received by
the Securities Administrator in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Securities
Administrator may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in such Section
7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

     (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. Upon receipt by the Securities Administrator of any request by three or
more Noteholders or by one or more holders of Notes evidencing not less than
25% of the Notes Outstanding to receive a copy of the current list of
Noteholders (whether or not made pursuant to TIA Section 312(b)), the
Securities Administrator shall promptly notify the Issuer thereof by providing
to the Issuer a copy of such request and a copy of the list of Noteholders
produced in response thereto.

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

     SECTION 7.3. Reports by Issuer. (a) The Issuer shall:

          (i) to the extent such reports, information and documents are not
     available electronically pursuant to EDGAR, file with the Indenture
     Trustee and the Securities Administrator, within 15 days after the Issuer
     is required to file the same 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 Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator
     and the Commission in accordance with the rules and regulations
     prescribed from time to time by the Commission such additional
     information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the
     Issuer with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be
     required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and

          (iii) supply to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
     Administrator (and the Securities Administrator shall transmit by mail to
     all Noteholders described in TIA Section 313(c)) such summaries of any
     information, documents and reports required to be 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 correspond to the calendar year.

     SECTION 7.4. Reports by Securities Administrator.

     (a) If required by TIA Section 313(a), within 60 days after each May 15,
beginning with May 15, 2006, the Indenture Trustee shall prepare, and the
Securities Administrator 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 and the Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator with the Commission and each stock
exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed. The Issuer shall notify the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator 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

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property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Indenture, the Interest Rate Swap Agreements and the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. All such money received by the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator shall be applied 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 a 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 Master
Servicer to establish and maintain the Trust Accounts as provided in Section
4.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     (b) On or before each Determination Date, the Master Servicer shall
deposit all Available Collections with respect to the Collection Period
preceding such Payment Date 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 Securities Administrator (based on the
information contained in the Investor Report delivered on or before the
related Determination Date pursuant to Section 3.8 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) shall make the following withdrawals from the Collection Account
and make deposits, distributions and payments, to the extent of Available
Collections for such Payment Date, in the following order of priority:

          (i) first, to the Master Servicer, the Servicing Fee and all unpaid
     Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods and to the extent not
     previously retained from Collections, any due and unpaid Receivables
     Servicer Servicing Fees;

          (ii) second, to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator,
     the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Administrator, ratably,
     the fees of the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and the
     Owner Trustee and any other amounts payable to the Indenture Trustee, the
     Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer and the
     Administrator hereunder and under the other Basic Documents; provided
     that the cumulative amount that are not fees paid to them in the
     aggregate pursuant to this clause (ii) shall not exceed $100,000 in any
     consecutive twelve month period;

          (iii) third, to the Counterparties for due and unpaid Net Swap
     Payments (including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payments), if any,
     ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
     amount due under each Interest Rate Swap Agreement as Net Swap Payments
     (including interest on any overdue Net Swap Payments);

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          (iv) fourth, (x) to the Class A Noteholders, the Accrued Class A
     Note Interest ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
     according to the amounts due for accrued interest on each subclass of
     Class A Notes and (y) to the related Counterparties to pay any Swap
     Termination Payments due to them under the Class A Interest Rate Swap
     Agreements, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
     according to the amounts due as Swap Termination Payments under each
     Class A Interest Rate Swap Agreement; provided, that if there are not
     sufficient funds available to pay the entire amount due under this clause
     (iv), the shortfall shall be allocated between the amounts due under
     subclauses (x) and (y) ratably based on the ratio of respective amounts
     due under each such subclause to the total amount due under this clause
     (iv);

          (v) fifth, to the Principal Distribution Account, an amount equal to
     the First Allocation of Principal, if any;

          (vi) sixth, (x) to the Class B Noteholders, the Accrued Class B Note
     Interest and (y) to the related Counterparty to pay any Swap Termination
     Payments due to it under the Class B Interest Rate Swap Agreement;
     provided, that if the funds available for distribution pursuant to this
     clause (vi) are insufficient to pay the entire amount due under this
     clause (vi), the shortfall shall be allocated between the amounts due
     under subclauses (x) and (y) ratably based on the ratio of respective
     amounts due under each such subclause to the total amount due under this
     clause (vi);

          (vii) seventh, to the Principal Distribution Account, an amount
     equal to the Second Allocation of Principal, if any, reduced by the First
     Allocation of Principal, if any, paid pursuant to clause (v) above;

          (viii) eighth, (x) to the Class C Noteholders, the Accrued Class C
     Note Interest and (y) to the related Counterparty to pay any Swap
     Termination Payments due to it under the Class C Interest Rate Swap
     Agreement; provided, that if the funds available for distribution
     pursuant to this clause (viii) are insufficient to pay the entire amount
     due under this clause (viii), the shortfall shall be allocated between
     the amounts due under subclauses (x) and (y) ratably based on the ratio
     of respective amounts due under each such subclause to the total amount
     due under this clause (viii);

          (ix) ninth, to the Principal Distribution Account, an amount equal
     to the Regular Principal Allocation, if any, reduced by the First
     Allocation of Principal, if any, paid pursuant to clause (v) above and
     the Second Allocation of Principal, if any, paid pursuant to clause (vii)
     above;

          (x) tenth, to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator,
     the Owner Trustee, the Master Servicer and the Administrator, ratably,
     any fees and other amounts payable to them hereunder and under the other
     Basic Documents to the extent not paid under clause (ii) above due to the
     limitation in clause (ii) above; and

          (xi) eleventh, the remainder, if any, to the Certificate
     Distribution Account.

     (d) On each Payment Date, the Securities Administrator (based on the
information contained in the Investor Report delivered on or before the
related Determination Date pursuant

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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 in the following order of priority:

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

               (A) to the Class A-1 Noteholders on account of principal until
          the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes is reduced to zero;

               (B) to the Class A-2a Noteholders and the Class A-2b
          Noteholders, on account of principal, ratably and without preference
          or priority of any kind until the Outstanding Amount of the Class
          A-2a Notes and the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2b Notes is
          reduced to zero;

               (C) to the Class A-3 Noteholders on account of principal until
          the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3 Notes is reduced to zero;

               (D) to the Class A-4 Noteholders on account of principal until
          the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes is reduced to zero;

          (ii) second, to the Class B Noteholders, the Class B Principal
     Payment Amount for such Payment Date; and

          (iii) third, to the Class C Noteholders, the Class C Principal
     Payment Amount for such Payment Date.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, the priority of payments set forth in
clauses (i) through (iii) immediately above shall be adjusted as follows:

          (1)  In no event will the Class A Principal Payment Amount allocated
               to any subclass of Class A Notes exceed the outstanding
               principal amount of that subclass.

          (2)  On the Final Scheduled Payment Date for each subclass of Class
               A Notes, the Class A Principal Payment Amount to be applied to
               that subclass will include the amount, to the extent of the
               remaining Available Collections, necessary (after giving effect
               to the other amounts to be deposited in the Principal
               Distribution Account on that Payment Date) to reduce the
               Outstanding Amount of that subclass to zero.

          (3)  No principal payments will be made on the Class B Notes or
               Class C Notes on any Payment Date until the Class A-1 Notes
               have been paid in full.

          (4)  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 such
               Payment Date until all amounts

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               payable with respect to the Class A Notes on that Payment Date
               have been paid in full, and no principal payments will be made
               on the Class C Notes on such Payment Date until all amounts
               payable with respect to the Class B Notes on that Payment Date
               have been paid in full.

          (5)  If, on any Payment Date, the Annualized Average Monthly Net
               Loss Rate exceeds (A) 1.50% if that Payment Date is on or
               before the Payment Date in June 2006; (B) 1.75% if that Payment
               Date is after the Payment Date in June 2006 but not after the
               Payment Date in June 2007; (C) 2.00% if that Payment Date is
               after the Payment Date in June 2007 but not after the Payment
               Date in June 2008 and (D) 2.75% if such Payment Date is on or
               after the Payment Date in June 2008, then on such Payment Date
               and each subsequent Payment Date until the Annualized Average
               Monthly Net Loss Rate is reduced to or below the applicable
               level, the Issuer will pay from the Principal Distribution
               Account the principal of the Notes of each Class sequentially
               starting with most senior and earliest maturing Class of Notes
               then outstanding (with respect to the Class A Notes, in the
               order of priority set forth in Section 8.2(d)(i)) until that
               Class is paid in full, and so on.

     Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, but subject to the
provisions of Section 5.4(b), (A) 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) which has resulted in an acceleration of the Notes (but
prior to any sale of the Receivables under the Indenture), the Securities
Administrator shall apply the funds on deposit in the Collection Account as
follows:

          (1)  funds remaining after the application of Sections 8.2(c)(i)
               through (iv) above shall be deposited to the Principal
               Distribution Account to the extent necessary to reduce the
               principal amount of all the Class A Notes to zero,

          (2)  if the Class A Notes shall have been paid in full, funds
               remaining after the payment specified in clause (1) and after
               the application of Section 8.2(c)(vi) above shall be deposited
               to the Principal Distribution Account to the extent necessary
               to reduce the principal amount of all the Class B Notes to
               zero,

          (3)  if the Class A Notes and Class B Notes shall have been paid in
               full, funds remaining after the payments specified in clauses
               (1) and (2) and after the application of Section 8.2(c) (viii)
               above shall be deposited to the Principal Distribution Account
               to the extent necessary to reduce the principal amount of all
               the Class C Notes to zero; and

     (B) following the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of
Default specified in Section 5.1(iii) or 5.1(iv) of this Indenture, which has
resulted in an acceleration of the Notes (but prior to any sale of the
Receivables under this Indenture), the Securities Administrator shall apply
the funds on deposit in the Collection Account remaining after the application
of Section 8.2(c)(i) through (ix) above to the Principal Distribution Account
to the extent necessary

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to reduce the principal amount of all the Notes to zero. Any such remaining
funds will 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 set
forth in Section 8.2(d)(i)) until that Class is paid in full, and so on.

     Any funds remaining on deposit in the Principal Distribution Account
after the Notes have been paid in full shall be deposited into the Certificate
Distribution Account.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing but subject to the provisions of Section
5.4(b), the scheduled payments to be made to the Counterparty under each
related Interest Rate Swap Agreement will be made on the Fixed Rate Payer
Payment Date (as defined in the related Interest Rate Swap Agreement) with
respect to the related Payment Date.

     SECTION 8.3. General Provisions Regarding Accounts.

     (a) So long as no 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 Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee,
at the written direction of the Master Servicer in Permitted Investments
specified in such written direction as provided in Section 4.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. All income or other gain (net of losses and investment
expenses) from investments of monies deposited in the Collection Account shall
be withdrawn by the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture
Trustee, from such accounts and distributed as provided in Section 4.1 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Master Servicer shall not direct the
Securities Administrator, on behalf of 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 Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture
Trustee, to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall deliver to
the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator an Opinion of Counsel,
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, to such
effect.

     (b) Subject to Section 6.13(c), the Securities Administrator 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 Securities Administrator's failure to
make payments on such Permitted Investments issued by the Securities
Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial capacity
as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

     (c) If (i) the Master Servicer shall have failed to give investment
directions for any funds on deposit in the Collection Account to the
Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee, or (ii) to the
knowledge of an Authorized Officer of the Securities Administrator, 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 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 Securities Administrator, on behalf of
the Indenture Trustee, shall, to the fullest extent

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practicable, invest and reinvest funds in the Collection Account, as the case
may be, in Permitted Investments maturing on the Business Day prior to the
next Payment Date; provided, however, that the Master Servicer shall not be
required to invest amounts representing Available Collections for a Payment
Date that are deposited into the Collection Account on or after the Business
Day preceding the related Payment Date.

     (d) 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 Receivables Servicing Agreement will terminate on the Distribution Date
(as defined therein) immediately succeeding July 31, 2010 (the "Ford Credit
Termination Date"). After the Ford Credit Termination Date 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 the Ford Credit
Termination Date with respect to the Ford Credit Receivables, collections in
respect of such Receivables will not be deposited in the deposit accounts
maintained with the Master Servicer or Administrator, will not be deposited
into 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 Sections
6.7 and 6.18, the Indenture Trustee may, and when required by the provisions
of this Indenture 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 and
the Securities Administrator pursuant to Section 6.18 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 Request
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 sold to (i) a Responsible Party or Receivables Servicer
in connection with any repurchase upon breach, as set forth the applicable
Purchase and Sale Agreement or Receivables Servicing Agreement and (ii) to the
Depositor, the Master Servicer or the Administrator, as applicable, in
accordance with Sections 2.3 or 3.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or
Sections 2(b)(A) or 2(d) of the Administratin Agreement.

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     SECTION 8.5. Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, as applicable, shall receive at least seven 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
or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, 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 or the Securities Administrator, as applicable, and which
shall include each Counterparty as an addressee, 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 will not materially and adversely impair
the security for the Notes or the rights 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 prior notice to the
Rating Agencies and the Counterparties, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator, 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 and the Securities Administrator, 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 herein and in the Notes
     contained;

          (iii) to add to the covenants of the Issuer, for the benefit of the
     Noteholders, 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 any
     supplemental indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to
     matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under

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     any supplemental indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the
     provisions of the 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; or

          (vii) to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this
     Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to affect the
     qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar
     federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other
     provisions as may be expressly required by the TIA.

     With respect to (v) above, prior to the execution of such supplemental
indenture, the Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied.

     Each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator 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, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator,
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; provided, further, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an
Opinion of Counsel, cause the Issuer to be characterized for federal income
tax purposes as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a
corporation or otherwise have any material adverse impact on the federal
income taxation of any Notes Outstanding or outstanding Certificates.

     SECTION 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders. The
Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator, when
authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, 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 (i) the
Rating Agency Condition shall have been satisfied with respect to such action,
(ii) such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel, cause the
Issuer to be characterized for federal income tax purposes as an association
(or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or otherwise have
any material adverse impact on the federal income taxation of any Notes
Outstanding or outstanding Certificates, and (iii) the Noteholders of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby shall have consented thereto, with respect
to any supplemental indenture which would:

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          (i) modify or alter provisions of this Section 9.2;

          (ii) change the Final Scheduled Payment Date or the date of payment
     of any installment of principal of or interest on any Note, or reduce the
     principal amount thereof, the Note Interest Rate thereon or the
     Prepayment Price with respect thereto, change the provisions of this
     Indenture relating to the application of collections on, or the proceeds
     of the sale of, the Indenture Trust Estate to payment of principal of or
     interest on the 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 Date);

          (iii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount 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 Defaults or Events of Default hereunder and
     their consequences provided for in this Indenture;

          (iv) modify or alter (x) the provisions of the proviso to the
     definition of the term "Outstanding" or (y) the definition of
     "Controlling Class";

          (v) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount 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;

          (vi) modify any provision of this Indenture specifying a percentage
     of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes necessary to amend this
     Indenture or the other Basic Documents 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;

          (vii) 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

          (viii) 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.

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     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, the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this
Section 9.2, the Securities Administrator shall mail to the Noteholders a
notice setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental
indenture. Any failure of the Securities Administrator 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, each of the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator shall be entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.1, 6.2,
6.13 and 6.14 shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to the execution
and delivery of such supplemental indenture have been satisfied. Each of the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the
Indenture Trustee's or the Securities Administrator's, as the case may be, 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 Securities Administrator, 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. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, no
supplemental indenture shall be effective without the prior written consent of
each Counterparty if the supplemental indenture would (a) adversely affect any
of the Counterparty's rights or obligations under any Interest Rate Swap
Agreement, this Indenture or any other Basic Document, (b) adversely modify
the obligations of, or adversely impact the ability of the Issuer to fully
perform any of its obligations under any Interest Rate Swap Agreement to which
the Counterparty is subject or (c) modify any of the Counterparty's rights
(including but not limited to, the amount or timing of distributions to be
made in respect of the Interest Rate Swap Agreements) under this Indenture.

     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.

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     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 or
the Securities Administrator shall, bear a notation in form approved by the
Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator as to any matter provided
for in such supplemental indenture. If the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or
the Securities Administrator shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator
and the Issuer, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the Indenture
Trustee or the Securities Administrator, on behalf of the Indenture Trustee,
in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

                                  ARTICLE X

                                  PREPAYMENT

     SECTION 10.1. Optional Prepayment. The Notes are subject to prepayment on
any Payment Date on which the Master Servicer exercises its option to purchase
the assets of the Issuer pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, and the amount paid by the Master Servicer shall be treated as
collections of Receivables and applied to pay the unpaid principal amount of
the Notes. If the Notes are to be prepaid pursuant to this Section 10.1, the
Master Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish written notice of such election to
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Counterparties and
the Rating Agencies at least ten days, but not more than 30 days prior to the
Prepayment Date (and the Securities Administrator shall promptly furnish
notice to the Noteholders) and the Master Servicer or the Issuer shall deposit
by 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Prepayment Date with the Securities
Administrator in the Collection Account the Prepayment Price of the Notes,
whereupon all Notes shall be due and payable on the Prepayment Date.

     SECTION 10.2. Form of Prepayment Notice. Notice of prepayment under
Section 10.1 shall be given by the Securities Administrator by first-class
mail, postage prepaid, or by facsimile mailed or transmitted promptly
following receipt of notice from the Issuer or the Master Servicer pursuant to
Section 10.1, but not later than three Business Days after it has received
such notice, 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

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          (iv) that on the Prepayment Date, the Prepayment Price will become
     due and payable upon each such Note and that interest thereon shall cease
     to accrue for and after said date.

Notice of prepayment of the Notes shall be given by the Securities
Administrator 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 or the
Securities Administrator to take any action under any provision of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator, as the case may be, (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:

               (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.

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     (b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or
securities with the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator and each Counterparty an
Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing
such certificate as to the fair value (within 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, the Securities Administrator and each Counterparty 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, the Securities Administrator and each
     Counterparty 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 10% or more of the principal 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 1% of the principal 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, the Securities Administrator and each Counterparty an
     Officer's Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person
     signing such certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such
     release) of the property or securities proposed to be released and
     stating that in the opinion of such person the proposed release will not
     impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the
     provisions hereof.

          (iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture
     Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Counterparty an Officer's
     Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to
     the matters described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also
     furnish to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each
     Counterparty 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 10% or more of the
     principal 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 1% of the principal 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

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     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 and the
Securities Administrator. (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 Master Servicer, the Seller or the Issuer,
stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Master Servicer, such 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, comments, 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 or the Securities
Administrator, 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
stated in such document shall in such case be conditions precedent to the
right of 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 or the Securities Administrator'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 the
Securities Administrator, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied herein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the
Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of

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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, the Securities
Administrator 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 each of the Indenture
Trustee and the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, Securities
Administrator, Issuer, Rating Agencies and Counterparties. 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 Securities
     Administrator, the Master 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;

          (ii) the Securities Administrator by any Noteholder, the Indenture
     Trustee, the Master Servicer or the Issuer shall be sufficient for every
     purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or
     with the Securities Administrator at its Corporate Trust office; or

          (iii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
     Administrator or any Noteholder shall be sufficient for every purpose
     hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class, postage prepaid to the
     Issuer addressed to: Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1, in care of
     Ted Breck, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
     Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator by the Issuer. The
     Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from the
     Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator.

     Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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 Fitch, at the following
address: Fitch, Inc., One State Street Plaza, New York, New York 10004, (ii)
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
and (iii) in the case of Standard & Poor's, at the following address: Standard
& Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The

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McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 55 Water Street, 40th Floor, New York, New York
10041, Attention: Asset Backed Surveillance Department.

     Notices require to be given to the Counterparties under this Indenture
shall be in writing, personally delivered, telecopied or mailed by certified
mail, return receipt requested, to the address for such Counterparty set forth
in the confirmation for the related Interest Rate Swap Agreement.

     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 Securities
Administrator 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 and the
Securities Administrator 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 a 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 and
the Securities Administrator's approval, with any Noteholder providing for a
method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
Administrator 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 and the Securities
Administrator a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator 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
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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. References in this Indenture to
section names or numbers and to exhibits, schedules or appendices are to such
Sections, Exhibits, Schedules or Appendices, as applicable, of this Indenture.

     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
and the Securities Administrator 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 permitted assigns and successors hereunder, and the
Noteholders, 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;
provided that, each Counterparty shall be a third party beneficiary with
respect to its rights set forth in 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. 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.

     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.

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     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
(which shall be counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator) 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,
the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator on the Notes or under
this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection
herewith or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
Administrator or the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, (ii) any
owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director, employee or agent of the Indenture
Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee in their individual
capacities, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator or of any
successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or
the Owner Trustee in their individual capacities, except as any such Person
may have expressly agreed (it being understood that the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in
their individual capacities), and except that any such partner, owner or
beneficiary shall be fully liable, to the extent provided by applicable law,
for any unpaid consideration for stock, unpaid capital contribution or failure
to pay any installment or call owing to such entity. For all purposes of this
Indenture, in the performance of any duties or obligations of the 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. Each of the Indenture Trustee and the
Securities Administrator, 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 Trust) related to the Depositor, dedicated to other debt obligations
of the Depositor or debt obligations of any other securitization vehicle
(other than the Trust) 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.

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     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, the Indenture Trustee and
the Securities Administrator 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 judgement shall be asked for or (if
obtained) enforced against any such Person or entity.

     SECTION 11.20. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, with reasonable prior
notice, it will permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator or any Counterparty, during the Issuer's normal
business hours, to examine all the books of account, records, reports and
other papers of the Issuer, to make copies and extracts therefrom, to cause
such books to be audited by Independent certified public accountants, and to
discuss the Issuer's affairs, finances and accounts with the Issuer's
officers, employees, and Independent certified public accountants, all at such
reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably requested. Each of the
Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator and each Counterparty shall
and shall cause its representatives to hold in confidence all such information
except to the extent disclosure may be required by law (and all reasonable
applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the
extent that the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or each
Counterparty, as the case may be, may reasonably determine that such
disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder.

     SECTION 11.21. Representations and Warranties as to the Security Interest
of the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables. The Issuer makes the following
representations and warranties to the Indenture Trustee. The representations
and warranties speak as of the execution and delivery of this Indenture and as
of the Closing Date, and shall survive the pledge thereof to the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to this Indenture.

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

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

     (c) Immediately prior to its pledge to the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer
owned and had good and marketable title to the Receivables free and clear of
any lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.

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     (d) The Issuer has caused or will have caused, within ten days after the
date of execution of this Indenture, 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 Indenture Trustee hereunder. Each such financing statements
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 Indenture Trustee and its assigns."

     (e) Other than the security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee
pursuant to this 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 include a description of collateral
covering the Receivables other than any financing statement relating to the
security interest granted to the Indenture Trustee hereunder or that has been
terminated. The Issuer is not aware of any judgment or tax lien filings
against it.

     (f) The Master Servicer (or the Receivables Servicers) as custodian for
the Issuer has in its possession all original copies of the contracts that
constitute or evidence the Receivables. 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 Indenture Trustee.

         Each of the parties hereto agrees that it shall not waive any of the
foregoing representations and warranties.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities
Administrator 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.

                             MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                             By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                                   not in its individual capacity but
                                   solely as Owner Trustee

                                    By: /s/ Eve D. Kaplan
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Name:  Eve D. Kaplan
                                        Title: Vice President

                             HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                             not in its individual capacity but solely as
                             Indenture Trustee

                             By: /s/ Wendy Zhang
                                 ----------------------------------------------
                                 Name:  Wendy Zhang
                                 Title: Assistant Vice President

                             U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                             individual capacity but solely as Securities
                             Administrator

                             By: /s/ Eve D. Kaplan
                                 ----------------------------------------------
                                 Name:  Eve D. Kaplan
                                 Title: Vice President

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                           EXHIBITS TO THE INDENTURE

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                                  EXHIBIT A-1

                            FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                                      $[_____________]

     No. A-1-__                                      CUSIP NO. [   ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS A-1 [___]% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 [_______________] dollars payable on
each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction, the numerator of which is $[___________] (the original face amount
of this Note) and the denominator of which is $[_____________] 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
May 31, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
and in effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee"),
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
[_____________] 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.

                                     A-1-1

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     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 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
Securities Administrator 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.

              [REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.]

                                     A-1-2

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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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Date:  June 23, 2005

                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     A-1-3

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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 3.472% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"),
which, together with the Issuer's Class A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the
"Class A-2a Notes"), Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class
A-2b Notes" and, together with the Class A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"),
Class A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"), Class A-4
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the
Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A Notes"),
Class B Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and Class C
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class C Notes" and, together with the
Class A Notes and the Class B Notes, 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 and Class C 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 25th day of
each month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing July 25, 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.

                                     A-1-4

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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 Securities
Administrator, 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
Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class A-1 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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.

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     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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                     A-1-6

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     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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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:

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

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         (name and address of assignee)

the within 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

                                                  ___________________________*/

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*/ 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.

                                     A-1-8

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                                  EXHIBIT A-2a

                            FORM OF CLASS A-2a NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                                       $[__________]

     No. A-2a-__                                      CUSIP NO. [   ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS A-2a [__]% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 _______________ dollars payable on
each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction the numerator of which is $___________ (the original face amount of
this Note) and the denominator of which is $[__________] by (ii) the aggregate
amount, if any, payable to holders of Class A-2a Notes on such Payment Date
from the Principal Distribution Account in respect of principal on the Class
A-2a Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of May 31, 2005
(as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and in
effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee")
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
[__________] Payment Date (the "Class A-2a 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

                                     A-2-1

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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 25th 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 25th 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
Securities Administrator 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.

              [REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.]

                                     A-2-2

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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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Date:  June 23, 2005

                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     A-2-3

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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-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a
Notes"), which together with the Issuer's Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the
"Class A-2b Notes" and, together with the Class A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2
Notes"), Class A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"), Class
A-4 Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with
the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A
Notes"), Class B Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and
Class C Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class C Notes" and, together
with the Class A Notes and the Class B Notes, 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 and Class C 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-2a Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in
an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the 25th day of
each month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing July 25, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Note shall be due and payable on the Class A-2a 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-2a 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.

                                     A-2-4

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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 Securities
Administrator, 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
Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class A-2a 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                     A-2-5

<PAGE>

     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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                    A-2-6

<PAGE>

     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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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.

                                    A-2-7

<PAGE>

                                  ASSIGNMENT

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

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (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

                                                  ___________________________*/

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*/ 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.

                                    A-2-8

<PAGE>

                                  EXHIBIT A-2b

                            FORM OF CLASS A-2b NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                                 $[__________]

     No. A-2b-__                                CUSIP NO. [ ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS A-2b FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 [_______________] dollars payable on
each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction the numerator of which is $[___________] (the original face amount
of this Note) and the denominator of which is $[__________] by (ii) the
aggregate amount, if any, payable to holders of Class A-2bNotes on such
Payment Date from the Principal Distribution Account in respect of principal
on the Class A-2b Notes pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Indenture dated as of
May 31, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
and in effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee")
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
[__________] Payment Date (the "Class A-2b 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

                                    A-2-9

<PAGE>

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 25th 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 25th day of
the calendar month of 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
Securities Administrator 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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                                    A-2-10

<PAGE>

     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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Date:  June 23, 2005

                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     A-2-11

<PAGE>

                               [REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b
Notes"), which together with the Issuer's Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a
Notes" and, together with the Class A-2b Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class
A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"), Class A-4 Floating Rate
Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the Class A-1
Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A Notes"), Class B
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and Class C Floating
Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "class C Notes", and together with the Class A
Notes and the Class B Notes, 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 and Class C 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-2b Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in
an amount described on the face hereof. "Payment Date" means the 25th day of
each month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing July 25, 2005.

     As described on the face hereof, the entire unpaid principal amount of
this Note shall be due and payable on the Class A-2b 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-2b 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.

                                     A-2-12

<PAGE>

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 Securities
Administrator, 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
Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class A-2b 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                     A-2-13

<PAGE>

     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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                     A-2-14

<PAGE>

     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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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.

                                     A-2-15

<PAGE>

                                  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.

                                    A-2-16

<PAGE>

                                  EXHIBIT A-3

                            FORM OF CLASS A-3 NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                         $[__________]

     No. A-3-__                         CUSIP NO. [ ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS A-3 [__]% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 [_______________] dollars payable on
each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction the numerator of which is $[___________] (the original face amount
of this Note) and the denominator of which is $[__________] 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
May 31, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
and in effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee")
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
[__________] Payment Date (the "Class A-3 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.

                                    A-3-1

<PAGE>

     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 25th 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 25th 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 Securities Administrator 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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                                    A-3-2

<PAGE>

     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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Dated:  June 23, 2005
                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     A-3-3

<PAGE>

                               [REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"),
which, together with the Issuer's Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes (the
"Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a
Notes"), Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b Notes"
and, together with the Class A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-4
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the
Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes, the "Class A Notes"),
Class B Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and Class C
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "class C Notes", and together with the
Class A Notes and the Class B Notes, 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 and Class C 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 25th day of
each month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing July 25, 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.

                                    A-3-4

<PAGE>

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 Securities
Administrator, 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
Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class A-3 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                    A-3-5

<PAGE>

     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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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.

                                    A-3-6

<PAGE>

     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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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.

                                    A-3-7

<PAGE>

                                  ASSIGNMENT

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

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (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

                                                  ___________________________*/

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*/ 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.

                                    A-3-8

<PAGE>

                                  EXHIBIT A-4

                            FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                                         $[__________]

     No. A-4-__                                         CUSIP NO. [ ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS A-4 FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 [_______________] dollars payable on
each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction the numerator of which is $[___________] (the original face amount
of this Note) and the denominator of which is $[__________] 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
May 31, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
and in effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee")
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the
[__________] Payment Date (the "Class A-4 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.

                                    A-4-1
<PAGE>

     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 25th 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 25th day of the calendar month of 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
Securities Administrator 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.

              [REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.]

                                    A-4-2
<PAGE>

     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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Date:  June 23, 2005

                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     A-4-3

<PAGE>

                               [REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class A-4 Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4
Notes"), which, together with the Issuer's Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a
Notes"), Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b Notes"
and, together with the Class A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3
4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes" and, together with the Class
A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-4 Notes, the "Class A Notes"), Class B
Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B Notes") and Class C Floating
Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "class C Notes", and together with the Class A
Notes and the Class B Notes, 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 and Class C 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 25th day of
each month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing July 25, 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.

                                    A-4-4
<PAGE>

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 Securities
Administrator, 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
Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class A-4 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                    A-4-5
<PAGE>

     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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the
Securities Administrator 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.

                                    A-4-6
<PAGE>

     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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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.

                                    A-4-7
<PAGE>

                                  ASSIGNMENT

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

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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (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

                                                  ___________________________*/

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*/ 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.

                                    A-4-8

<PAGE>

                                   EXHIBIT B

                             FORM OF CLASS B NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                                 $[____________]

     No. B-__                                   CUSIP NO. [ ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS B FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 [________________] dollars payable on
each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying (i)
a fraction the numerator of which is $[______________] (the original face
amount of this Note) and the denominator of which is $[____________] 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 May
31, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and
in effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee")
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier
of the [____________] Payment Date (the "Class B Final Scheduled Payment
Date") and the Prepayment Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of

                                     B-1
<PAGE>

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 25th 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 25th day of the calendar month of 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
Securities Administrator 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.

              [REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.]

                                     B-2
<PAGE>

     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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Date:  June 23, 2005

                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     B-3

<PAGE>

                               [REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class B Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class B
Notes"), which, together with the Issuer's Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a
Notes"), Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b Notes"
and, together with the Class A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3
4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-3 Notes"), Class A-4 Floating Rate
Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4 Notes" and, together with the Class A-1
Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3 Notes), and Class C Floating Rate Asset
Backed Notes (the "Class C Notes" and, together with the Class A Notes and the
Class B Notes, 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 Securities Administrator 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 and Class C Notes 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 25th day of each
month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day, commencing July 25, 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 Securities
Administrator 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

                                     B-4

<PAGE>

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
Securities Administrator, 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 Securities
Administrator's Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class B 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.

     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
Securities Administrator 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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,

                                     B-5
<PAGE>

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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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.

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

                                     B-6

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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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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.

                                     B-7
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                                  ASSIGNMENT

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

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

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         (name and address of assignee)

the within 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

                                                  ___________________________*/

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*/ 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.

                                     B-8
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                                   EXHIBIT C

                             FORM OF CLASS C NOTE

     [FOR BOOK-ENTRY NOTES] [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                                 $[____________]

     No. C-__                                   CUSIP NO. [ ]

     MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

     CLASS C FLOATING RATE ASSET BACKED NOTES

     Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 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 [___________________] dollars payable
on each Payment Date in an amount equal to the result obtained by multiplying
(i) a fraction the numerator of which is $[______________] (the original face
amount of this Note) and the denominator of which is $[____________] 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 May
31, 2005 (as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified and
in effect, the "Indenture"), among the Issuer, HSBC Bank USA, National
Association, as Indenture Trustee (in such capacity the "Indenture Trustee")
and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Administrator (in such
capacity the "Securities Administrator"); provided, however, that the entire
unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier
of the [____________] Payment Date (the "Class C Final Scheduled Payment
Date") and the Prepayment Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.1 of

                                     C-1
<PAGE>

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 25th 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 25th day of the calendar month of 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
Securities Administrator 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.

         [REMAINDER OF THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.]

                                     C-2
<PAGE>

     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:  June 23, 2005

                              MERRILL AUTO TRUST SECURITIZATION 2005-1

                              By:   U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL
                                    ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity
                                    but solely as Owner Trustee of Merrill Auto
                                    Trust Securitization 2005-1

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

         SECURITIES ADMINISTRATOR'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

Date:  June 23, 2005

                              U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its
                              individual capacity but solely as Securities
                              Administrator

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

                                     C-3

<PAGE>

                               [REVERSE OF NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer,
designated as its Class C Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class C
Notes"), Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-1 Notes"), Class
A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2a Notes"), Class A-2b Floating
Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-2b Notes" and, together with the Class
A-2a Notes, the "Class A-2 Notes"), Class A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes (the
"Class A-3 Notes"), Class A-4 Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the "Class A-4
Notes" and, together with the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes and Class A-3
Notes", the "Class A Notes") and the Class B Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes
(the "Class B Notes" and, together with the Class A Notes and the Class C
Notes, 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
Securities Administrator 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 and Class C 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 25th day of each
month, or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day, commencing July 25, 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 Securities
Administrator 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

                                     C-4
<PAGE>

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
Securities Administrator, 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 Securities
Administrator's Corporate Trust Office as set forth in the Indenture.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the
Class C 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.

     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
Securities Administrator 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, the Indenture Trustee or the
Securities Administrator on the Notes or under the Indenture or any
certificate or other writing delivered in connection therewith, against (i)
the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, each in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest
in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee, the
Securities Administrator 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,

                                     C-5
<PAGE>

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 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, the Securities Administrator and any agent
of the Issuer, the Securities Administrator 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, the Securities Administrator 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, the
Securities Administrator and the Noteholders under the Indenture.

                                     C-6
<PAGE>

     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 the Indenture Trustee, in its
individual capacity, the Securities Administrator, in its individual capacity,
the 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.

                                     C-7
<PAGE>

                                  ASSIGNMENT

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

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

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         (name and address of assignee)

the within 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

                                                  ___________________________*/

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*/ 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.

                                    C-8

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                                   EXHIBIT D

                        FORM OF TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE

                                                     [____________], [____]

U.S. Bank Trust National Association,
as Owner Trustee
300 Delaware Avenue
Wilmington, Delaware  19801
Attention:  Corporate Trust Services

         Re:   Purchase of $[_____________] principal amount
               of Class [o] [___]% Asset Backed Notes (the "Class [o] Notes")
               --------------------------------------------------------------

     Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of May 31, 2005 (the
"Indenture") among Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1, as Issuer (the
"Issuer"), HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Indenture Trustee (the
"Indenture Trustee") and U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities
Administrator (the "Securities Administrator"). Capitalized terms used but not
defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

     This letter relates to $[______________] aggregate principal amount of
Class [o] Notes beneficially owned by [name of transferor] (the "Transferor").

     In accordance with Section 2.5(i) of the Indenture, the Transferor does
hereby certify that such Class [o] Notes are being transferred in accordance
with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture and the Class [o]
Notes and [check the applicable subparagraph]:

    _____ Rule 144A under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as
          amended (the "Securities Act"), to a transferee that is purchasing
          the Class [o] Notes for its own account or an account with respect
          to which the transferee exercises sole investment discretion and
          that the Transferor reasonably believes that each of the transferee
          and any such account is a "qualified institutional buyer" within the
          meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act purchasing in a
          transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance
          with applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or
          any other jurisdiction; or

    _____ Regulation S under the Securities Act ("Regulation S"), to a person
          that is not a "U.S. Person" for purposes of Regulation S in an
          "offshore transaction" for purposes of Regulation S.

                                     D-1
<PAGE>

     We acknowledge that the Issuer and the Securities Administrator and
others will rely upon the truth and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments,
representations, warranties and agreements. 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.

                                      (Name of Transferor)

                                      By: ____________________________
                                          Name:
                                          Title:

                                      Date:

                                     D-2
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                                  SCHEDULE A

                            Schedule of Receivables

                  On file with the Securities Administrator.

<PAGE>

                                  APPENDIX A

                             Definitions and Usage

     The following rules of construction and usage shall be applicable to any
agreement, instrument, certificate or document that is governed by this
Appendix:

     (a) All terms defined in this Appendix shall have the defined meanings
when used in any agreement or instrument governed hereby and in any
certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant thereto unless
otherwise defined therein.

     (b) As used herein, in any agreement or instrument governed hereby and in
any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant thereto,
accounting terms not defined in this Appendix or in any such agreement,
instrument, certificate or other document, and accounting terms partly defined
in this Appendix or in any such agreement, instrument, certificate or other
document, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given
to them under generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the
date of such agreement or instrument. To the extent that the definitions of
accounting terms in this Appendix or in any such agreement, instrument,
certificate or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of such terms
under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions contained in
this Appendix or in any such instrument, certificate or other document shall
control.

     The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of similar import
when used in an agreement or instrument refer to such agreement or instrument
as a whole and not to any particular provision or subdivision thereof;
references in an agreement or instrument to "Article," "Section" or another
subdivision or to an attachment are, unless the context otherwise requires, to
an article, section or subdivision of or an attachment to such agreement or
instrument; and the term "including" and its variations shall be deemed to be
followed by "without limitation."

     The definitions contained in this Appendix are equally applicable to both
the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as well as to
the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.

     Any agreement, instrument or statute defined or referred to below or in
any agreement or instrument that is governed by this Appendix means such
agreement or instrument or statute as from time to time amended, modified or
supplemented, including (in the case of agreements or instruments) by waiver
or consent and (in the case of statutes) by succession of comparable successor
statutes and includes (in the case of agreements or instruments) references to
all attachments thereto and instruments incorporated therein. References to a
Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns.

                                  Definitions

     "Accrued Class A Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the sum of the Class A Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for such
Payment Date and the Class A Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall for
such Payment Date.

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     "Accrued Class B Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the sum of the Class B Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for such
Payment Date and the Class B Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall for
such Payment Date.

     "Accrued Class C Note Interest" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the sum of the Class C Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest for such
Payment Date and the Class C Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall for
such Payment Date.

     "Acknowledgment" shall mean the acknowledgement executed by a Receivables
Servicer to service the related Receivables purchased by the Depositor
pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Agreement on behalf of the Master
Servicer.

     "Act" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.3(a) of the
Indenture.

     "Adjusted Principal Balance" shall mean, as of any date of determination,
(i) if the interest rate per annum set forth in the Receivable is at least
equal to the Minimum Required APR, the Principal Balance of such Receivable
and (ii) if the interest rate per annum set forth in the Receivable is less
than the Minimum Required APR, the present value of all remaining Scheduled
Payments on such Receivable discounted from the due date on a monthly basis at
the Minimum Required APR. The Adjusted Principal Balance for any Receivable
shall be calculated by the Master Servicer by (1) calculating the number of
remaining Scheduled Payments (rounded up to a whole number) using the
Principal Balance as reported by the related Receivables Servicer, the
interest rate per annum specified in Schedule A to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and the amount of the Scheduled Payment specified in Schedule A to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement, then (2) calculating a total payment amount
for such Receivable using the total number of Scheduled Payments determined in
clause (1) above, then (3) computing the present value of the total payment
amount calculated in clause (2) using a discount factor of 6.25% per annum for
the number of payments calculated in clause (1).

     "Administration Agreement" shall mean the Administration Agreement, dated
as of May 31, 2005, among the Administrator, the Issuer and the Master
Servicer, as amended.

     "Administrator" shall mean Merrill Lynch Bank USA, a Utah industrial
bank, and its successors.

     "Administrator Guarantor" shall mean Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc, and its
permitted successors and assigns.

     "Administrator Guarantee" shall mean the Guarantee, dated June 23, 2005,
by the Administrator Guarantor with respect to the Administrator's obligations
under the Administration Agreement.

     "Affiliate" shall mean, with respect to any specified Person, any other
Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with such
specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" when used
with respect to any Person shall mean the power to direct the management and
policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms "controlling"
and "controlled" shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

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     "Aggregate Cut-off Date Principal Balance" shall mean $1,818,270,183.60.

     "Aggregate Servicing Fee" shall mean the aggregate of the Receivables
Servicer Servicing Fees and the Servicing Fee payable to the Receivables
Servicers and the Master Servicer, respectively.

     "Amount Financed" shall mean, with respect to a Receivable, the amount
advanced under the Receivable toward the purchase price of the Financed
Vehicle and any related costs.

     "Annualized Average Monthly Net Loss Rate" shall mean, with respect to
any date of determination, the product of (x) twelve and (y) the average of
the Monthly Net Loss Rates for each of the three preceding Collection Periods.
For the purpose of this definition, the "Monthly Net Loss Rate" means, for the
last day of any Collection Period, a fraction expressed as a percentage, the
numerator of which is equal to the sum of all net losses reported by the
Receivables Servicers for that Collection Period and the denominator of which
is equal to the aggregate principal balance of the Receivables as of the first
day of that Collection Period.

     "Annual Percentage Rate" or "APR" of a Receivable shall mean the annual
rate of finance charges stated in the Receivable.

     "Applicable Tax State" shall mean, as of any date of determination, the
State in which the Owner Trustee maintains its Corporate Trust Office.

     "Authenticating Agent" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.14
of the Indenture or 3.11 of the Trust Agreement, as applicable.

     "Authorized Officer" shall mean, (i) with respect to the Issuer, any
officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Owner Trustee, including any
vice president, assistant vice president, secretary, assistant secretary or
any other officer of the Owner Trustee customarily performing functions
similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers; (ii) with
respect to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner
Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture
Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee, as the case may
be, including any vice president, assistant vice president, secretary,
assistant secretary, trust officer or any other officer of the Indenture
Trustee, the Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee, as the case may
be, customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter, any
other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and (iii) with
respect to the Master Servicer, any designated servicing officer whose name
and title has been provided to the Securities Administrator in writing as
being an Authorized Officer for purposes of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Available Collections" shall mean, for any Payment Date, the sum of the
following amounts with respect to the Collection Period preceding such Payment
Date: (i) all payments collected on the Receivables (other than the portion of
any Obligor payment related to the interest accrued on each Receivable up to
its last scheduled payment date prior to May 31, 2005); (ii) all Liquidation
Proceeds attributable to Receivables which were designated as Defaulted
Receivables in the related Collection Period in accordance with the related
Receivables

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Servicer's customary servicing procedures; (iii) all Recoveries; (iv) payments
under physical damage and other insurance policies relating to the Obligors or
the Financed Vehicles to the extent not released to the related Receivables
Servicer under the related Receivables Servicing Agreement; (v) the Purchase
Amount received with respect to each Receivable that became a Purchased
Receivable during such Collection Period; (vi) any Net Swap Receipt and any
termination payment received from the Counterparties that is not used to
enter into a replacement Interest Rate Swap Agreement pursuant to Section
3.20(b) of the Indenture; (vii) investment earnings, if any, on funds on
deposit in the Trust Accounts established in connection with the Trust, to the
extent allocated to the Trust and (viii) partial prepayments of any refunded
item included in the Principal Balance of a Receivable, such as extended
warranty protection plan costs, or physical damage, credit life, disability
insurance premiums, or any partial prepayment which causes a reduction in the
Obligor's periodic payment to an amount below the Scheduled Payment as of the
Cut-off Date; provided, however, that in calculating the Available Collections
the following will be excluded: (a) the Receivables Servicer Servicing Fee
payable to each Receivables Servicer from Collections in respect of the
respective Receivables serviced by it; (b) all payments and proceeds
(including Liquidation Proceeds) of any Receivables the Purchase Amount of
which has been included in Available Collections in a prior Collection Period;
and (c) any late fees, prepayment charges or other administrative fees or
similar charges allowed by applicable law, collected or retained by the
related Receivables Servicer during the related Collection Period.

     "Bankruptcy Code" shall mean the United States Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C.
101 et seq., as amended.

     "Basic Documents" shall mean the Certificate of Trust, the Trust
Agreement, the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Receivables Purchase
Agreement, the Indenture, the Interest Rate Swap Agreements, the Underwriting
Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Note Depository Agreement and the
other documents and certificates delivered in connection therewith.

     "Book-Entry Note" shall mean a beneficial interest in any 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 and the Class C Notes in each case issued in book-entry form.

     "Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a
day on which banking institutions or trust companies in the State of New York,
the State of Delaware, the state in which the Corporate Trust Office of the
Indenture Trustee or the state in which the Corporate Trust Office of the
Securities Administrator are authorized by law, regulation or executive order
to be closed.

     "Calculation Agent" means the Securities Administrator.

     "Capital One" shall mean Capital One Auto Finance, Inc., a Texas
corporation, and its successors.

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     "Capital One Receivables" shall mean the Receivables listed in Schedule A
to the Sale and Servicing Agreement as Capital One Receivables, which
Receivables were sold by Capital One to the Seller and then by the Seller to
the Depositor.

     "Capital One Receivables Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, dated June 13, 2003, between Capital One (f/k/a
PeopleFirst Finance LLC), as seller and servicer, and the Seller.

     "Capital One Representations" shall mean the representations and
warranties made by Capital One in respect of the Capital One Receivables
pursuant to the Capital One Purchase Agreement.

     "Capital One Servicer" shall mean Capital One and its successors.

     "Capital One Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated June 13, 2003, between Capital One (f/k/a PeopleFirst Finance
LLC), as seller and servicer, and the Seller.

     "Certificate Distribution Account" shall mean the account established and
maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

     "Certificateholder" or "Holder of a Certificate" shall mean a Person in
whose name a Certificate is registered in the Certificate Register.

     "Certificate of Trust" shall mean the certificate of trust filed for the
Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of the Statutory Trust Statute.

     "Certificate Paying Agent" shall mean any paying agent or co-paying agent
appointed pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Trust Agreement and shall initially
be the Securities Administrator.

     "Certificate Percentage Interest" shall mean, with respect to a
Certificate, the percentage specified on such Certificate as the Certificate
Percentage Interest, which percentage represents the beneficial interest of
such Certificate in the Issuer. The aggregate Certificate Percentage Interest
shall be 100%.

     "Certificate Register" shall mean the certificate register maintained
pursuant to Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement.

     "Certificate Registrar" shall mean any certificate registrar acting in
accordance with Section 3.04 of the Trust Agreement and shall initially be the
Owner Trustee.

     "Certificates" shall mean the certificates evidencing the beneficial
interest of a Certificateholder in the Trust, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A to the Trust Agreement; provided, however, that the Owner Trust
Estate has been pledged to the Indenture Trustee to secure payment of the
Notes and that the rights of the Certificateholders to receive distributions
on the Certificates are subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as
described in the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust
Agreement.

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     "Class" shall mean any one of the classes of Notes.

     "Class A Interest Rate Swap Agreements" means each of the Class A-2b
Interest Rate Swap Agreement and the Class A-4 Interest Rate Swap Agreement.

     "Class A Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to any Payment Date, the sum of the Class A-1 Noteholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall for such Payment Date, the Class A-2 Noteholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall for such Payment Date, the Class A-3 Noteholders' Interest
Carryover Shortfall for such Payment Date and the Class A-4 Noteholders'
Interest Carryover Shortfall for such Payment Date.

     "Class A Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with respect
to any Payment Date, the sum of the Class A-1 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued
Interest for such Payment Date, the Class A-2 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued
Interest for such Payment Date, the Class A-3 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued
Interest for such Payment Date and the Class A-4 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued
Interest for such Payment Date.

     "Class A Notes" shall mean, collectively, the Class A-1 Notes, the Class
A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes and the Class A-4 Notes.

     "Class A Principal Payment Amount" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, an amount greater than or equal to zero and equal to the greater
of (a) the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes immediately prior to such
Payment Date and (b) an amount equal to (i) the Outstanding Amount of the
Class A Notes immediately prior to such Payment Date minus (ii) the lesser of
(A) 90.828% of the Pool Balance for such Payment Date and (B) an amount equal
to (1) the Pool Balance for such Payment Date minus (2) the Target
Overcollateralization Level for such Payment Date; provided, however, that, on
the Final Scheduled Payment Date of any Class of Class A Notes, the Class A
Principal Payment Amount shall not be less than the amount that is necessary
to pay that Class of Class A Notes in full; and provided, further, that the
Class A Principal Payment Amount on any Payment Date shall not exceed the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes on that Payment Date.

     "Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the June 2006 Payment
Date.

     "Class A-1 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class A-1
Note is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class A-1 Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class A-1 Noteholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding
Class A-1 Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment
Date exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class A-1 Notes
actually paid to the Class A-1 Notes on such preceding Payment Date, plus
interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class A-1
Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at
the Class A-1 Rate.

         "Class A-1 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the prior
Payment Date (or, in the case of the

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first Payment Date, from and including the Closing Date) to and including the
day immediately prior to such Payment Date, on the Class A-1 Notes at the
Class A-1 Rate on the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes on the
immediately preceding Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date,
the Closing Date), after giving effect to all payments of principal on such
preceding Payment Date. For all purposes of the Basic Documents, interest with
respect to the Class A-1 Notes shall be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days in the related Interest Period and a 360-day year.

     "Class A-1 Notes" shall mean the $470,300,000 aggregate initial principal
amount Class A-1 3.472% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the
Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 to the Indenture.

     "Class A-1 Rate" shall mean 3.472% per annum.

     "Class A-2a Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the April 2008
Payment Date.

     "Class A-2a Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class A-2a
Note is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class A-2a Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class A-2a Noteholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding
Class A-2a Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment
Date exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class A-2a Notes
actually paid to the Class A-2a Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date,
plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class A-2a
Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at
the Class A-2a Rate.

     "Class A-2a Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the 25th day
of the preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Payment Date,
from and including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the
month of such Payment Date on the Class A-2a Notes at the Class A-2a Rate on
the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2a Notes on the preceding Payment Date
(or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) after giving
effect to all payments of principal on such preceding Payment Date. For all
purposes of the Basic Documents, interest with respect to the Class A-2a Notes
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day
months.

     "Class A-2 Notes" shall mean the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b
Notes.

     "Class A-2a Notes" shall mean the $150,000,000 aggregate initial
principal amount Class A-2a 3.900% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust
pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2a to the
Indenture.

     "Class A-2a Rate" shall mean 3.900% per annum.

     "Class A-2b Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the April 2008
Payment Date.

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     "Class A-2b Interest Rate Swap Agreement" means the interest rate swap
agreement, entered into by and between the Issuer with the Counterparty in
respect of the Class A-2b Notes, under an ISDA Master Agreement, together with
the schedule thereto and the confirmation thereunder, as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time and any replacement agreement
entered into in accordance with the Basic Documents.

     "Class A-2b Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class A-2b
Note is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class A-2b Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class A-2b Noteholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding
Class A-2b Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment
Date exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class A-2b Notes
actually paid to the Class A-2b Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date,
plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class A-2b
Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at
the Class A-2b Rate.

     "Class A-2b Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the 25th day
of the preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Payment Date,
from and including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the
month of such Payment Date on the Class A-2b Notes at the Class A-2b Rate on
the Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2b Notes on the preceding Payment Date
(or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) after giving
effect to all payments of principal on such preceding Payment Date. For all
purposes of the Basic Documents, interest with respect to the Class A-2b Notes
shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the related
Interest Period and a 360-day year.

     "Class A-2b Notes" shall mean the $488,000,000 aggregate initial
principal amount Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes issued by the
Trust pursuant to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2b to
the Indenture.

     "Class A-2b Rate" shall mean One-Month LIBOR plus 0.010% per annum.

     "Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the August 2009
Payment Date.

     "Class A-3 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class A-3
Note is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class A-3 Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class A-3 Noteholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding
Class A-3 Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment
Date exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class A-3 Notes
actually paid to the Class A-3 Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date,
plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class A-3
Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at
the Class A-3 Rate.

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     "Class A-3 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the 25th day
of the preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Payment Date,
from and including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the
month of such Payment Date on the Class A-3 Notes at the Class A-3 Rate on the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3 Notes on the preceding Payment Date (or,
in the case of the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) after giving effect
to all payments of principal on such preceding Payment Date. For all purposes
of the Basic Documents, interest with respect to the Class A-3 Notes shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

     "Class A-3 Notes" shall mean the $417,000,000 aggregate initial principal
amount Class A-3 4.100% Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust pursuant to the
Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3 to the Indenture.

     "Class A-3 Rate" shall mean 4.100% per annum.

     "Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the July 2012 Payment
Date.

     "Class A-4 Interest Rate Swap Agreement" means the interest rate swap
agreement, entered into by and between the Issuer with the Counterparty in
respect of the Class A-4 Notes, under an ISDA Master Agreement, together with
the schedule thereto and the confirmation thereunder, as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time and any replacement agreement
entered into in accordance with the Basic Documents.

     "Class A-4 Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class A-4
Note is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class A-4 Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class A-4 Noteholders'
Monthly Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding
Class A-4 Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment
Date exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class A-4 Notes
actually paid to the Class A-4 Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date,
plus interest on the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class A-4
Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at
the Class A-4 Rate.

     "Class A-4 Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with
respect to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the 25th day
of the preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Payment Date,
from and including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the
month of such Payment Date on the Class A-4 Notes at the Class A-4 Rate on the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A-4 Notes on the preceding Payment Date (or,
in the case of the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) after giving effect
to all payments of principal on such preceding Payment Date. For all purposes
of the Basic Documents, interest with respect to the Class A-4 Notes shall be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the related Interest
Period and a 360-day year.

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     "Class A-4 Notes" shall mean the $155,400,000 aggregate initial principal
amount Class A-4 Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust pursuant
to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit A-4 to the Indenture.

     "Class A-4 Rate" shall mean One-Month LIBOR plus 0.040% per annum.

     "Class B Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the July 2012 Payment
Date.

     "Class B Interest Rate Swap Agreement" means the interest rate swap
agreement, entered into by and between the Issuer with the Counterparty in
respect of the Class B Notes, under an ISDA Master Agreement, together with
the schedule thereto and the confirmation thereunder, as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time and any replacement agreement
entered into in accordance with the Basic Documents.

     "Class B Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class B Note
is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class B Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class B Noteholders' Monthly
Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding Class B
Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment Date
exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class B Notes actually paid
to the Class B Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, plus interest on
the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class B Noteholders on such
preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at the Class B Rate.

     "Class B Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with respect
to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the 25th day of the
preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Payment Date, from and
including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the month of such
Payment Date on the Class B Notes at the Class B Rate on the Outstanding
Amount of the Class B Notes on the preceding Payment Date (or, in the case of
the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) after giving effect to all payments
of principal on such preceding Payment Date. For all purposes of the Basic
Documents, interest with respect to the Class B Notes shall be computed on the
basis of the actual number of days in the related Interest Period and a
360-day year.

     "Class B Notes" shall mean the $57,800,000 aggregate initial principal
amount Class B Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust pursuant
to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Indenture.

     "Class B Principal Payment Amount" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, an amount greater than or equal to zero and equal to (a) the sum
of (i) the Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes (after taking into account
distribution of the Class A Principal Payment Amount on such Payment Date) and
(ii) the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes immediately prior to such
Payment Date minus (b) the lesser of (i) 95.165% of the Pool Balance for such
Payment Date and (ii) an amount equal to (A) the Pool Balance for such Payment
Date minus (B) the Target Overcollateralization Level for such Payment Date;
provided, however, that, on the Class B Final Scheduled Payment Date, the
Class B Principal Payment Amount shall

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not be less than the amount that is necessary to pay the Class B Notes in
full; and provided, further, that the Class B Principal Payment Amount on any
Payment Date shall not exceed the Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes on
that Payment Date.

     "Class B Rate" shall mean One-Month LIBOR plus 0.24% per annum.

     "Class C Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean the July 2012 Payment
Date.

     "Class C Interest Rate Swap Agreement" means the interest rate swap
agreement, entered into by and between the Issuer with the Counterparty in
respect of the Class C Notes, under an ISDA Master Agreement, together with
the schedule thereto and the confirmation thereunder, as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time and any replacement agreement
entered into in accordance with the Basic Documents.

     "Class C Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Class C Note
is registered in the Note Register.

     "Class C Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall" shall mean, with
respect to the first Payment Date, zero, and with respect to any other Payment
Date, the amount, if any, by which the sum of the Class C Noteholders' Monthly
Accrued Interest for the preceding Payment Date and any outstanding Class C
Noteholders' Interest Carryover Shortfall on such preceding Payment Date
exceeds the amount in respect of interest for the Class C Notes actually paid
to the Class C Noteholders on such preceding Payment Date, plus interest on
the amount of interest due but not paid to the Class C Noteholders on such
preceding Payment Date, to the extent permitted by law, at the Class C Rate.

     "Class C Noteholders' Monthly Accrued Interest" shall mean, with respect
to any Payment Date, interest accrued from and including the 25th day of the
preceding calendar month (or in the case of the first Payment Date, from and
including the Closing Date) to but excluding the 25th day of the month of such
Payment Date on the Class C Notes at the Class C Rate on the Outstanding
Amount of the Class C Notes on the preceding Payment Date (or, in the case of
the first Payment Date, the Closing Date) after giving effect to all payments
of principal on such preceding Payment Date. For all purposes of the Basic
Documents, interest with respect to the Class C Notes shall be computed on the
basis of the actual number of days in the related Interest Period and a
360-day year.

     "Class C Notes" shall mean the $31,120,000 aggregate initial principal
amount Class C Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes issued by the Trust pursuant
to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Indenture.

     "Class C Principal Payment Amount" shall mean, with respect to any
Payment Date, an amount greater than or equal to zero and equal to (a) 100% of
the Regular Principal Allocation for such Payment Date minus (b) an amount
equal to the sum of (i) the Class A Principal Payment Amount for such Payment
Date, and (ii) the Class B Principal Payment Amount for such Payment Date;
provided, however, that, on the Class C Final Scheduled Payment Date, the
Class C Principal Payment Amount shall not be less than the amount that is
necessary to pay the Class C Notes in full; and provided, further, that the
Class C Principal Payment Amount on any

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Payment Date shall not exceed the Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes on
that Payment Date.

     "Class C Rate" shall mean One-Month LIBOR plus 0.520% per annum.

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

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

     "Closing Date" shall mean June 23, 2005.

     "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

     "Collateral" shall have the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of
the Indenture.

     "Collection Account" shall mean, with respect to each Payment Date, the
account or accounts established and maintained as such pursuant to Section 4.1
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Collection Period" shall mean the calendar month preceding the calendar
month in which the Payment Date occurs.

     "Collections" shall mean all amounts collected by the Master Servicer
(from whatever source) on or with respect to the Receivables.

     "Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

     "Controlling Class" shall mean (i) if the Class A Notes have not been
paid in full, the Class A Notes, (ii) if the Class A Notes have been paid in
full and Class B Notes remain Outstanding, the Class B Notes, and (iii) if the
Class A Notes and the Class B Notes have been paid in full and Class C Notes
remain Outstanding, the Class C Notes.

     "Corporate Trust Office" shall mean, (i) with respect to the Owner
Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Owner Trustee located at
60 Livingston Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota 55107-2292, or at such other address
as the Owner Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Certificateholders and the Depositor, or the principal corporate trust office
of any successor Owner Trustee (the address of which the successor Owner
Trustee will notify the Certificateholders and the Depositor); (ii) with
respect to the Indenture Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the
Indenture Trustee located at 10 East 40th Street, 14th Floor, New York, New
York 10016, Attention: Susie Moy, or at such other address as the Indenture
Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Noteholders and the
Issuer, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Indenture
Trustee (the address of which the successor

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Indenture Trustee will notify the Noteholders and the Issuer); and (iii) with
respect to the Securities Administrator, the office of the Securities
Administrator located at 60 Livingston Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55107, Attn:
Corporate Trust Structured Finance, Ref: MATS 2005-1, or at such other
address as the Securities Administrator may designate from time to time by
notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer, or the office of any successor
Securities Administrator (the address of which the successor Securities
Administrator will notify the Noteholders and the Issuer).

     "Counterparty" shall mean each counterparty to the Trust under an
Interest Rate Swap Agreement, which initially for each Interest Rate Swap
Agreement shall be Merrill Lynch Capital Services, Inc. and its permitted
successors and assigns.

     "Cut-off Date" shall mean May 31, 2005.

     "Dealer" shall mean a dealer who sold a Financed Vehicle and who
originated and sold the related Receivable, directly or indirectly, to Capital
One, E-Loan, Ford Credit or Onyx.

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

     "Defaulted Receivable" shall mean a Receivable that the related
Receivable Servicer determines is unlikely to be paid in full.

     "Definitive Certificates" shall have the meaning specified in Section
3.10 of the Trust Agreement.

     "Definitive Notes" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.11 of
the Indenture.

     "Depositor" shall mean ML Asset Backed Corporation, a Delaware
corporation and its successors and permitted assigns.

     "Depository Institution" shall mean Merrill Lynch Bank USA as the
depository institution at which (i) the E-Loan Servicer shall deposit
collections on the E-Loan Receivables, as more specifically described in the
E-Loan Servicing Agreement, (ii) the Ford Credit Servicer shall deposit
collections on the Ford Credit Receivables, as more specifically described in
the Ford Credit Servicing Agreement, (iii) the Onyx Servicer shall deposit
collections on the Onyx Receivables, as more specifically described in the
Onyx Servicing Agreement, and (iv) the Capital One Servicer shall deposit
collections on the Capital One Receivables, as more specifically described in
the Capital One Servicing Agreement.

     "Determination Date" shall mean, with respect to any Collection Period,
the Business Day immediately preceding the Payment Date following such
Collection Period.

     "E-Loan" shall mean, collectively, E-Loan, Inc. a Delaware corporation,
and E-Loan Auto Fund One, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and their
respective successors.

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     "E-Loan Receivables" shall mean the Receivables listed in Schedule A to
the Sale and Servicing Agreement as E-Loan Receivables, which Receivables were
sold by E-Loan to the Seller and then by the Seller to the Depositor.

     "E-Loan Receivables Purchase Agreement" shall mean (i) the Purchase and
Sale Agreement, dated as of July 14, 2004, between E-Loan, Inc. and the Seller
and (ii) the Purchase and Sale Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2005, between
E-Loan Auto Fund One, LLC and the Seller, and including the Limited Guaranty
of E-Loan, Inc. referred to therein.

     "E-Loan Servicer" shall mean SST and its successors.

     "E-Loan Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Servicing and Custodian
Agreement, dated as of July 14, 2004, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the
Servicing and Custodian Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2005, among the
E-Loan Servicer, as servicer and custodian, and E-Loan, Inc., as
administrator, and the Seller.

     "Eligible Deposit Account" shall mean either (i) a segregated account
with an Eligible Institution or (ii) a segregated trust account with the
corporate trust department of a depository institution organized under the
laws of the U.S. or any one of the States thereof (or any domestic branch of a
foreign bank), having corporate trust powers and acting as trustee for funds
deposited in such account, so long as any of the securities of such depository
institution have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in one of its generic
rating categories which signifies investment grade.

     "Eligible Institution" shall mean either (i) the corporate trust
department of the Indenture Trustee or the related Trustee, as applicable;
(ii) the corporate trust department of the Securities Administrator; (iii) a
depository institution organized under the laws of the U.S. or any one of the
States thereof (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), (1) which has
either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least "AA-" by Standard &
Poor's and "Aa3" by Moody's or (B) a short-term unsecured debt rating or
certificate of deposit rating of "A-1+" by Standard & Poor's and "Prime-1" by
Moody's and (2) whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation or (iv) any depository institution or trust company in respect of
which the Rating Agency Condition is satisfied.

     "ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended.

     "Event of Default" shall have the meaning specified in Section 5.1 of the
Indenture.

     "Event of Servicing Termination" shall mean an event specified in Section
7.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.

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

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     "Final Scheduled Payment Date" shall mean, with respect to (i) the Class
A-1 Notes, the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date, (ii) the Class A-2
Notes, the Class A-2 Final Scheduled Payment Date, (iii) the Class A-3 Notes,
the Class A-3 Final Scheduled Payment Date, (iv) the Class A-4 Notes, the
Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date, (v) the Class B Notes, the Class B
Final Scheduled Payment Date, and (vi) the Class C Notes, the Class C Final
Scheduled Payment Date.

     "Financed Vehicle" shall mean a new or used automobile, light-duty truck,
sports utility vehicle or motorcycle, together with all accessions thereto,
securing an Obligor's indebtedness under the respective Receivable.

     "First Allocation of Principal" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of (x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class
A Notes (as of the day immediately preceding such Payment Date) over (y) the
Pool Balance for such Payment Date.

     "Fitch" shall mean Fitch, Inc. or its successor in interest.

     "Ford Credit" shall mean Ford Motor Credit Company, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors.

     "Ford Credit Acknowledgment" shall mean the Acknowledgement executed by
Ford Credit to service the Receivables purchased by the Depositor pursuant to
the Receivables Purchase Agreement on behalf of the Master Servicer.

     "Ford Credit Receivables" shall mean the Receivables listed in Schedule A
to the Sale and Servicing Agreement as the Ford Credit Receivables, which
Receivables were sold by the Seller to the Depositor.

     "Ford Credit Receivables Purchase Agreement" shall mean (i) the Purchase
and Sale Agreement dated as of May 1, 2003 between the Seller, as purchaser,
and Ford Credit, as seller and (ii) the Purchase and Sale Agreement dated as
of September 1, 2003 between the Seller, as purchaser, and Ford Credit, as
seller.

     "Ford Credit Servicer" shall mean Ford Credit and its successors.

     "Ford Credit Servicer Report" shall mean the Monthly Servicer Reports as
defined in the Ford Credit Servicing Agreement, but based solely on the Ford
Credit Receivables.

     "Ford Credit Servicing Agreement" shall mean (i) the Servicing Agreement
dated as of May 1, 2003 between the Seller, as purchaser, and Ford Credit, as
servicer and (ii) the Servicing Agreement dated as of September 1, 2003
between the Seller, as purchaser, and Ford Credit, as servicer.

     "Grant" shall mean to mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate,
remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and to grant a lien upon
and a security interest in and right of set-off against, and to deposit, set
over and confirm pursuant to the Indenture. A Grant of the

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Collateral or of any other agreement or instrument shall include all rights,
powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party
thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim for,
collect, receive and give receipt for principal and interest payments in
respect of the Collateral and all other monies payable thereunder, to give and
receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements,
to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the
granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the
granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with
respect thereto.

     "Indenture" shall mean the Indenture, dated as of May 31, 2005, by and
among the Trust, the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator.

     "Indenture Trustee" shall mean HSBC Bank USA, National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Indenture Trustee under the Indenture, or any successor Indenture Trustee
under the Indenture.

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

     "Independent" shall mean, when used with respect to any specified Person,
that such Person (a) is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other obligor
on the Notes, the Seller and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons,
(b) does not have any direct financial interest or any material indirect
financial interest in the Issuer, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the
Issuer, any such other obligor, the Depositor or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons as an officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, trustee,
partner, director or person performing similar functions.

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

     "Insolvency Event" shall mean, with respect to any Person, (i) the making
of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, (ii) the filing of a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy, (iii) being adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent, or having had entered against such Person an order for relief in
any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, (iv) the filing by such Person of a
petition or answer seeking reorganization, arrangement, composition,
readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any statute,
law or regulation, (v) the filing by such Person of an answer or other
pleading admitting or failing to contest the material allegations of a
petition filed against such Person in any proceeding specified in (vii) below,
(vi) seeking, consent to or acquiescing in the appointment of a trustee,
receiver or liquidator of such Person or of all or any substantial part of the
assets of such Person or (vii) the failure to obtain dismissal within 60 days

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of the commencement of any proceeding against such Person seeking
reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation,
dissolution or similar relief under any statute, law or regulation, or the
entry of any order appointing a trustee, liquidator or receiver of such Person
or of such Person's assets or any substantial portion thereof.

     "Interest Period" shall mean (1) for each of the Class A-1 Notes, Class
A-2b Notes, Class A-4 Notes, Class B Notes and Class C Notes, with respect to
any Payment Date, the period from and including the Closing Date (in the case
of the first Payment Date) or from and including the prior Payment Date to and
including the day immediately prior to such Payment Date and (2) for each of
the Class A-2a Notes and Class A-3 Notes, with respect to any Payment Date,
the period from and including the Closing Date (in the case of the first
Payment Date) or from and including the 25th day of the calendar month
preceding each Payment Date to but excluding the 25th day of the calendar
month of such Payment Date. Interest with respect to the Class A-1 Notes,
Class A-2b Notes, Class A-4 Notes, Class B Notes and Class C Notes will be
computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the related Interest
Period and a 360-day year and interest with respect to each of the Class A-2a
Notes and Class A-3 Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months.

     "Interest Rate Swap Agreement" means each of the Class A-2b Interest Rate
Swap Agreement, the Class A-4 Interest Rate Swap Agreement, the Class B
Interest Rate Swap Agreement and the Class C Interest Rate Swap Agreement.

     "Investor Report" shall mean the report prepared by the Master Servicer
pursuant to Section 3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement containing, among
other things, the information set forth in Section 4.7 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.

     "IRS" shall mean the Internal Revenue Service.

     "ISDA Master Agreement" shall mean, with respect to a Counterparty, the
ISDA Master Agreement (Multicurrency-Cross Border) dated as of June 23, 2005,
together with the Schedule thereto and the Confirmations thereunder each dated
as of June 23, 2005, between the Issuer and Counterparty.

     "Issuer" shall mean the Trust unless a successor replaces it and,
thereafter, shall mean the successor.

     "Issuer Order" and "Issuer Request" shall mean a written order or request
signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its Authorized Officers and
delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Securities Administrator.

     "LIBOR Determination Date" means the day that is two London Banking Days
preceding the first day of an Interest Period and with respect to the first
LIBOR Determination Date, the day that is two London Banking Days preceding
the Closing Date.

     "Lien" shall mean a security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity, or
encumbrance of any kind other than, in respect of a Receivable, tax liens,
mechanics' liens, and any liens which attach to the respective Receivable by
operation of law.

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     "Liquidated Receivable" shall mean (i) any Receivable that, by its terms,
is in default and as to which the applicable Receivables Servicer has
determined, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, that
eventual payment in full is unlikely or has repossessed and disposed of the
related Financed Vehicle and (ii) any Receivable with respect to which the
related Obligor has become a debtor in a bankruptcy proceeding.

     "Liquidation Proceeds" shall mean with respect to any Receivable (a)
insurance proceeds received by the related Receivables Servicer and (b) monies
collected by the related Receivables Servicer from whatever source, including
but not limited to proceeds of Financed Vehicles after repossession, on a
Defaulted Receivable, net of the costs of liquidation and any payments
required by law to be remitted to the Obligor.

     "London Banking Day" means any day on which dealings in deposits in U.S.
dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.

     "Master Servicer" shall mean U.S. Bank National Association as the master
servicer of the Receivables under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and each
successor to thereto (in the same capacity) pursuant to Section 7.1 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Minimum Required APR" shall mean a rate per annum equal to 6.25%.

     "MLBUSA" shall mean Merrill Lynch Bank USA, or its successors.

     "Monthly Receivables Tape" shall mean a computer tape or disk containing
the information about the Receivables necessary to prepare the written
statements to be furnished by the Owner Trustee to the Certificateholders
pursuant to Section 3.8 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and by the
Securities Administrator to the Noteholders pursuant to Section 3.8 of the
Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Monthly Remittance Condition" shall mean with respect to Ford Credit
that each of the following is true: (a) no Event of Servicing Termination (as
defined in the applicable Receivables Servicing Agreement) has occurred during
the related Collection Period and (b) the rating of the applicable Receivables
Servicer's short-term unsecured debt is at least "Prime 1" by Moody's and is
at least "A-1" by Standard & Poor's.

     "Moody's" shall mean Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or its successor in
interest.

     "Net Swap Payment" shall mean the amount owed by the Issuer to the
Counterparty following the netting of the Fixed Amounts and the Floating
Amounts (as such terms are defined in the related Interest Rate Swap
Agreement) under the applicable Interest Rate Swap Agreement.

     "Net Swap Receipt" shall mean the amount owed by the Counterparty to the
Issuer following the netting of the Fixed Amounts and the Floating Amounts (as
such terms are defined

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in the related Interest Rate Swap Agreement) under the applicable Interest
Rate Swap Agreement.

     "Note Depositary Agreement" shall mean the Letter of Representations,
dated as of June 23, 2005 among the Issuer, the Securities Administrator, as
agent and The Depository Trust Company regarding the Offered Notes.

     "Note Depository" shall mean The Depository Trust Company or any
successor depository.

     "Noteholder" or "holder of a Note" shall mean the Person in whose name a
Note is registered on the Note Register.

     "Note Interest Rate" shall mean the Class A-1 Rate, the Class A-2a Rate,
the Class A-2b Rate, the Class A-3 Rate, the Class A-4 Rate, the Class B Rate
or the Class C Rate, as applicable.

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

     "Note Paying Agent" shall mean the Securities Administrator or any other
Person that meets the eligibility standards for the Securities Administrator
specified in Section 6.21 of the Indenture and is authorized by the Issuer
to make payments to and distributions from the Collection Account (including
the Principal Distribution Account), including payment of principal of or
interest on the Notes on behalf of the Issuer.

     "Note Pool Factor" shall mean, with respect to each Class of Notes as of
the close of business on the last day of a Collection Period, a nine-digit
decimal figure equal to the outstanding principal balance of such Class of
Notes (after giving effect to any reductions thereof to be made on the
immediately following Payment Date) divided by the original outstanding
principal balance of such Class of Notes. The Note Pool Factor will be
1.000000000 as of the Closing Date; thereafter, the Note Pool Factor will
decline to reflect reductions in the outstanding principal amount of such
Class of Notes.

     "Note Register" and "Note Registrar" shall have the respective meanings
specified in Section 2.5 of the Indenture.

     "Notes" shall mean, collectively, 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.

     "Obligor" on a Receivable shall mean the purchaser or co-purchasers of
the Financed Vehicle or any other Person who owes payments under the
Receivable.

     "Offered Notes" shall mean, collectively, the Class A Notes, the Class B
Notes and the Class C Notes.

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     "Officer's Certificate" shall mean (i) with respect to the Trust, a
certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the Trust and (ii) with
respect to the Depositor or the Master Servicer, a certificate signed by the
chairman of the board, the president, any executive or senior vice president,
any vice president, the treasurer or the controller of the Depositor or the
Master Servicer, as applicable.

     "One-Month LIBOR" means for each Interest Period, the rate for deposits
in U.S. dollars for a period of one month corresponding to such Interest
Period which appears on the Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m., London Time,
on the related LIBOR Determination Date. If such rate does not appear on the
Telerate Page 3750, "One-Month LIBOR" for that Interest Period will the
Reference Bank Rate for the related Interest Period, or if the Reference Bank
Rate cannot be obtained by the Calculation Agent from the related Counterparty
(as provided in the definition of "Reference Bank Rate") for the related
Interest Period, "One-Month LIBOR" will be the rate for "One-Month LIBOR" from
the prior Interest Period.

     "Onyx" shall mean, Onyx Acceptance Corporation, a Delaware corporation,
and its successors.

     "Onyx Receivables" shall mean the Receivables listed in Schedule A to the
Sale and Servicing Agreement as Onyx Receivables, which Receivables were sold
by Onyx to the Seller and then by the Seller to the Depositor.

     "Onyx Receivables Purchase Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated May 22, 2003, between Onyx, as seller, servicer and custodian
and the Seller, as amended.

     "Onyx Servicer" shall mean Onyx and its successors.

     "Onyx Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing Agreement,
dated May 22, 2003, between Onyx, as seller, servicer and custodian, and the
Seller, as amended.

     "Opinion of Counsel" shall mean a written opinion of counsel which
counsel shall be acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, the Securities
Administrator, the Owner Trustee or the Rating Agencies, as applicable.

     "Optional Purchase Percentage" shall mean 10% of the Aggregate Cut-off
Date Principal Balance.

     "Original Pool Balance" shall mean an amount equal to the aggregate
Principal Balance, as of the Cut-off Date, of the Receivables, which
shall be $1,818,270,183.60.

     "Outstanding" shall mean with respect to the Notes, as of the date of
determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under the
Indenture, as applicable, except:

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

               (b) Notes or portions thereof the payment for which money in
          the necessary amount has been theretofore irrevocably deposited with
          the Indenture

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          Trustee or any Note Paying Agent in trust for the Noteholders of
          such Notes (provided, however, that if such Notes are to be prepaid,
          notice of such prepayment has been duly given pursuant to the
          Indenture or provision for such notice has been made, satisfactory
          to the Indenture Trustee); and

               (c) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have
          been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture unless
          proof satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee or the Note Registrar,
          as applicable, is presented that any such notes are held by a bona
          fide purchaser;

     provided, that in determining whether the holders of Notes evidencing the
requisite Outstanding Amount of the Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver under any Basic Document,
Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor,
the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator, shall be
protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, or waiver, only Notes that an Authorized Officer of the
Indenture Trustee or the Securities Administrator knows to be so owned shall
be so disregarded; provided, however, if the Issuer, any other obligor upon
the Notes, the Depositor, the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons owns an entire Class of Notes, such Notes shall be deemed to
be Outstanding. Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes,
the Depositor, the Master Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing
Persons that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the
pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is
not the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Depositor, the Master
Servicer or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.

     "Outstanding Amount" shall mean, as of any date of determination and as
to any Class or all Classes of Notes, as the context may require, the
aggregate principal amount of such Notes Outstanding as of such date of
determination.

     "Owner Trustee" shall mean U.S. Bank Trust National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any successor Owner Trustee under
the Trust Agreement.

     "Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest of the
Trust in, to and under the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant
to Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Participant" shall mean a participant in or member of the Note
Depository.

     "Payment Date" shall mean the twenty-fifth (25th) day of each calendar
month or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day.

     "Permitted Investments" shall mean, on any date of determination,
book-entry securities, negotiable instruments or securities represented by
instruments in bearer or registered form with maturities not exceeding the
Business Day preceding the next Payment Date which evidence:

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               (a) direct non-callable obligations of, and obligations fully
          guaranteed as to timely payment by, the United States of America;

               (b) demand deposits, time deposits or certificates of deposit
          of any depository institution or trust company incorporated under
          the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof (or
          any domestic branch of a foreign bank) and subject to supervision
          and examination by federal or State banking or depository
          institution authorities; provided, however, that at the time of the
          investment or contractual commitment to invest therein, the
          commercial paper or other short-term unsecured debt obligations
          (other than such obligations the rating of which is based on the
          credit of a Person other than such depository institution or trust
          company) thereof shall have a credit rating from each of the Rating
          Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby;

               (c) commercial paper having, at the time of the investment or
          contractual commitment to invest therein, a rating from each of the
          Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted thereby;

               (d) investments in money market funds having a rating from each
          of the Rating Agencies in the highest investment category granted
          thereby (including funds for which the Indenture Trustee, the
          Securities Administrator or the Owner Trustee or any of their
          respective Affiliates is investment manager or advisor);

               (e) bankers' acceptances issued by any depository institution
          or trust company referred to in clause (b) above;

               (f) repurchase obligations with respect to any security that is
          a direct non-callable obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the
          United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof
          the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of
          the United States of America, in either case entered into with a
          depository institution or trust company (acting as principal)
          described in clause (b); and

               (g) any other investment with respect to which the Rating
          Agency Condition is satisfied.

     "Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization, or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.

     "Plan" shall mean an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, a plan (as defined in Section
4975(e)(1) of the Code) and any entity whose underlying assets include plan
assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity or otherwise.

     "Pool Balance" shall mean, with respect to any Payment Date, an amount
equal to the aggregate Principal Balance of the Receivables at the end of the
related Collection

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Period, after giving effect to all payments of principal received from
Obligors and Purchase Amounts to be remitted for the related Collection
Period.

     "Pool Factor" as of the last day of a Collection Period shall mean a
nine-digit decimal figure equal to the aggregate Principal Balance of the
Receivables at that time divided by the Original Pool Balance.

     "Predecessor Note" shall mean, with respect to any particular Note, every
previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Note and, for purposes of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.6 of the Indenture in lieu of a
mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note.

     "Prepayment Date" shall mean with respect to a prepayment of the Notes
pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture, the Payment Date specified by the
Master Servicer or the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Indenture.

     "Prepayment Price" shall mean in the case of a Class of Notes to be
prepaid, an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount of such Class of Notes
plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the applicable Note Interest Rate
plus interest on any overdue interest at the applicable Note Interest Rate (to
the extent lawful) to but excluding the Prepayment Date.

     "Principal Balance" shall mean, with respect to any Receivable, as of the
related date of determination, the Amount Financed minus an amount equal to,
as of the close of business on the last day of the related Collection Period,
that portion of all amounts received on or prior to such day with respect to
such Receivable and allocable to principal.

     "Principal Distribution Account" shall mean the administrative
sub-account of the Collection Account established and maintained as such
pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

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

     "Prospectus" shall have the meaning specified in the Underwriting
Agreement.

     "Prospectus Supplement" shall have the meaning specified in the
Underwriting Agreement.

     "Purchase Amount" shall mean, (i) with respect to a Purchased Receivable
that is a Capital One Receivable, an amount equal to the product of (x) the
principal balance of such Receivable on the date of purchase and (y) a
repurchase premium (as specified in the Capital One Servicing Agreement), plus
accrued and unpaid interest to the date of such purchase, (ii) with respect to
a Purchased Receivable that is an E-Loan Receivable, an amount equal to the
principal balance of such Receivable on the date of purchase multiplied by
100.50%, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the end of the month of
such purchase, (iii) with respect to a Purchased Receivable that is a Ford
Credit Receivable, an amount equal to the principal balance of such Receivable
on the date of purchase, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of such
purchase and (iv) with respect to a Purchased Receivable that is an Onyx
Receivable, an

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amount equal to the principal balance of such Receivable on the date of
purchase plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the end of the month of
such purchase; provided, however, that (x) for any Receivable that is
purchased by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 3.6 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or by the Administrator pursuant to Section 2(d) of the
Administration Agreement, the "Purchase Amount" shall be an amount equal to
the principal balance of such Receivable on the date of purchase, plus accrued
and unpaid interest to the date of such purchase and (y) in the case of any
purchase by the Master Servicer pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the "Purchase Amount" shall be an amount that, together
with the other amounts then on deposit in the Collection Account, is at least
equal to the outstanding principal amount of the Notes plus all accrued but
unpaid interest (including any overdue interest) thereon, plus any Net Swap
Payments or Swap Termination Payments due to the Counterparties under the
Interest Rate Swap Payments and plus all amounts then due and payable by the
Trust for fees or other reimbursable amounts to the Receivables Servicers, the
Master Servicer, the Securities Administrator, the Administrator, the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee or any other party.

     "Purchase and Sale Agreement" shall mean any of the Capital One
Receivables Purchase Agreement, the E-Loan Receivables Purchase Agreement, the
Ford Credit Receivables Purchase Agreement and the Onyx Receivables Purchase
Agreement.

     "Purchased Receivable" shall mean a Receivable purchased as of the close
of business on the last day of the respective Collection Period by the Master
Servicer pursuant to Section 3.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement by the
Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or by
the Administrator pursuant to Section 2(b)(A) or 2(d) of the Administration
Agreement or otherwise purchased by any Responsible Party under the related
Purchase and Sale Agreement or by any Receivables Servicer under a Receivables
Servicing Agreement.

     "Qualified Institutional Buyer" shall mean a qualified institutional
buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

     "Rating Agency" shall mean each of the nationally recognized statistical
rating organizations designated by the Depositor to provide a rating on the
Notes which is then rating such Notes. If no such organization or successor is
any longer in existence, "Rating Agency" shall be a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization or other comparable Person designated by the
Depositor, notice of which designation shall be given to the Indenture
Trustee, the Securities Administrator, the Owner Trustee and the Master
Servicer.

     "Rating Agency Condition" shall mean, with respect to any action, that
each of the Rating Agencies shall have notified the Master Servicer, the
Depositor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Securities
Administrator in writing that such action will not result in a reduction or
withdrawal of the then current rating of any of the Notes.

     "Receivables" shall mean the motor vehicle retail installment sales
contracts and loans listed on Schedule A to the Sale and Servicing Agreement
and all proceeds thereof and payments thereunder.

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     "Receivable Files" shall mean the documents specified in Section 2.4 of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     "Receivables Purchase Agreement" shall mean the receivables purchase
agreement dated as of May 31, 2005, between the Seller and the Depositor, as
purchaser.

     "Receivables Servicer" shall mean (i) the Capital One Servicer with
respect to the Capital One Receivables, (ii) the E-Loan Servicer with respect
to the E-Loan Receivables, (iii) the Ford Credit Servicer with respect to the
Ford Credit Receivables, and (iv) the Onyx Servicer with respect to the Onyx
Receivables.

     "Receivables Servicer Servicing Fee" shall mean, with respect to a
Collection Period and a Receivables Servicer, the fee payable to such
Receivables Servicer for services rendered during such Collection Period,
which shall equal one-twelfth of the Receivables Servicing Fee Rate multiplied
by the aggregate Principal Balance of those Receivables serviced by such
Receivables Servicer as of the first day of such Collection Period.

     "Receivables Servicer Termination Event" shall mean, with respect to any
Receivables Servicer, any default or other event for which, under the terms of
the related Receivables Servicing Agreement, the remedies provided include its
termination as servicer thereunder with respect to the related Receivables.

     "Receivables Servicing Agreement" shall mean any of the Capital One
Servicing Agreement, the E-Loan Servicing Agreement, the Ford Credit Servicing
Agreement and the Onyx Servicing Agreement.

     "Receivables Servicing Fee Rate" shall mean with respect to each
Receivables Servicer, the amount received for servicing functions performed
pursuant to the applicable Receivables Servicing Agreement.

     "Record Date" shall mean, with respect to any Payment Date or Prepayment
Date and any Book-Entry Note, the close of business on the day prior to
such Payment Date or Prepayment Date or, with respect to any Definitive Note
or Definitive Certificate, the last day of the month preceding the month in
which such Payment Date or Prepayment Date occurs.

     "Recoveries" shall mean, with respect to any Collection Period, all
amounts received by the Master Servicer with respect to any Defaulted
Receivable during any Collection Period following the Collection Period in
which such Receivable became a Defaulted Receivable, net of any fees, costs
and expenses incurred by the related Receivables Servicer and the Master
Servicer in connection with the collection of such Receivable and any payments
required by law to be remitted to the Obligor.

     "Reference Banks" shall mean four major banks that are engaged in
transactions in the London interbank market, selected by the related
Counterparty.

     "Reference Bank Rate" means, for each Interest Period, the rate
determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. dollars are
offered by the Reference Banks at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on
the related LIBOR Determination Date to prime

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banks in the London interbank market for a period of one month commencing on
the first day of the Interest Period for which such rate is being determined
and in a Representative Amount. The related Counterparty will request the
principal London office of each Reference Bank to provide a quotation of its
rate. If at least two such quotations are provided, the "Reference Bank Rate"
for that Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations. If
fewer than two quotations are provided as requested, the "Reference Bank
Rate" for that Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted
by one or more major banks in New York City, selected by the related
Counterparty, at approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the related
LIBOR Determination Date for loans in U.S. dollars to leading European banks
for a period of one month commencing on the first day of the Interest Period
for which such rate is being determined and in a Representative Amount.

     "Registered Noteholder" shall mean the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date.

     "Registration Statement" shall mean Registration Statement No. 333-109271
filed by the Depositor with the Commission in the form in which it became
effective on September 2, 2004.

     "Regular Principal Allocation" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes as
of the day immediately preceding such Payment Date over the result (but not
less than zero) obtained by subtracting (a) the Pool Balance for such Payment
Date from (b) the Target Overcollateralization Level for such Payment Date;
provided that the Regular Principal Allocation shall not exceed the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of the Notes; provided further that the Regular Principal
Allocation on or after the Final Scheduled Payment Date of any Class shall not
be less than the amount that is necessary to reduce the Outstanding Amount of
such Class to zero.

     "Representative" shall mean Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated, as representative of the several Underwriters.

     "Representative Amount" means, on any LIBOR Determination Date, an amount
equal to the outstanding principal amount of the Class A-2b, Class A-4, Class
B or Class C Notes, as applicable, on the immediately preceding Payment Date
or the Closing Date, as applicable.

     "Responsible Party" shall mean (i) Capital One with respect to the
Capital One receivables, (ii) E-Loan with respect to the E-Loan Receivables,
(iii) Ford Credit with respect to the Ford Credit Receivables, and (iv) Onyx
with respect to the Onyx Receivables.

     "Sale and Servicing Agreement" shall mean the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, dated as of May 31, 2005, among the Trust, the Depositor, as
seller, and the Master Servicer.

     "Scheduled Payment" shall mean, for any Receivable, the scheduled monthly
payment amount indicated in such Receivable as required to be paid by the
Obligor in such Collection Period (without giving effect to deferments of
payments pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement or any
rescheduling in any insolvency or similar proceedings).

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     "Schedule of Receivables" shall mean the list of Receivables attached as
Schedule A to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture Trustee (which
Schedules may be in the form of microfiche, disk or other means acceptable to
the Trustee).

     "Second Allocation of Principal" shall mean, with respect to any Payment
Date, the excess, if any, of (x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class
A Notes and the Class B Notes (as of the day immediately preceding such
Payment Date) over (y) the Pool Balance for such Payment Date.

     "Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware.

     "Securities" shall mean the Notes and the Certificates, collectively.

     "Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     "Securities Administrator" shall mean U.S. Bank National Association, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Securities Administrator under the Indenture, or any successor Securities
Administrator under the Indenture.

     "Securities Administrator Officer" shall mean, with respect to the
Securities Administrator, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the
Securities Administrator with direct responsibility for the administration of
the Indenture and the other Basic Documents on behalf of the Securities
Administrator and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer
to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.

     "Security Holders" shall mean the Noteholders and Certificateholders,
collectively.

     "Seller" shall mean Merrill Lynch Bank USA, a Utah industrial bank, and
its successors.

     "Servicing Fee" shall mean, with respect to a Collection Period, the fee
payable to the Master Servicer for services rendered during such Collection
Period for administrative duties (for the avoidance of doubt, other than the
servicing duties which the Receivables Servicers are performing), which shall
be equal to one-twelfth of the Servicing Fee Rate multiplied by the aggregate
Principal Balance of the Receivables as of the first day of the Collection
Period.

     "Servicing Fee Rate" shall mean 0.0185%.

     "Similar Law" shall mean a federal, state, local or non-U.S. law with
provisions that are substantially similar to section 406 of ERISA or section
4975 of the Code.

     "Simple Interest Method" shall mean the method of allocating a fixed
level payment to principal and interest, pursuant to which the portion of such
payment that is allocated to interest is equal to the amount accrued from the
date of the preceding payment to the date of the current payment.

     "SST" shall mean Systems & Services Technologies, Inc., a Delaware
limited liability company, and its successors.

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     "Standard & Poor's" shall mean Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a
division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. or its successor in interest.

     "State" shall mean any state or commonwealth of the United States of
America, or the District of Columbia.

     "Statutory Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Delaware Code ss. 3801 et seq., as amended.

     "Successor Master Servicer" shall mean an institution appointed as
successor Master Servicer pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

     "Swap Guarantor" shall mean Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and its permitted
successors and assigns.

     "Swap Guaranty" shall mean each Guarantee, dated June 23, 2005, by the
Swap Guarantor with respect to the counter party's obligations under the
Interest Rate Swap Agreements.

     "Swap Termination Payments" shall mean any termination payment payable to
any Counterparty under the Interest Rate Swap Agreement on account of an ISDA
Event of Default or ISDA Termination Event (as such terms are defined in the
related ISDA Master Agreement).

     "Target Overcollateralization Level" shall mean, as of any Payment Date,
the amount equal to the greater of (x) 2.50% of the Pool Balance and (y)
$17,785,108.00, which amount is equal to 1.00% of the initial aggregate
Adjusted Principal Balance of the Receivables.

     "Transfer Date" shall mean the Closing Date.

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

     "Trust" shall mean Merrill Auto Trust Securitization 2005-1, a Delaware
statutory trust governed by the Trust Agreement.

     "Trust Accounts" shall mean the accounts created and maintained in
accordance with Section 4.1(b), (c) and (d) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

     "Trust Agreement" shall mean the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of
the Trust dated as of May 31, 2005, by and among the Depositor and the Owner
Trustee, as amended and/or restated from time to time.

     "Trust Indenture Act" or "TIA" shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended, unless otherwise specifically provided.

     "Trust Property" shall mean, collectively, (i) the Receivables; (ii)
monies received thereunder on or after the Cut-off Date (other than the
portion of any Obligor payment related to the interest accrued on each
Receivable up to its last scheduled payment date prior to May 31, 2005); (iii)
the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by Obligors pursuant
to the Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer in the Financed
Vehicles; (iv) proceeds with respect to the Receivables from claims on any
theft, physical damage, credit life, credit disability, or other insurance
policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (v) the Receivable Files;
(vi) the Trust Accounts and all amounts, securities, investments, investment
property and

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other property deposited in or credited to any of the foregoing, all security
entitlements relating to the foregoing and all proceeds thereof; (vii)
payments and proceeds with respect to the Receivables; (viii) the rights of
the Depositor under the Receivables Purchase Agreement, each Receivables
Servicing Agreement and each agreement with a Responsible Party relating to
representations and warranties and repurchase or other remedies for a breach
thereof with respect to any of the Receivables; (ix) all property (including
the right to receive Liquidation Proceeds) securing a Receivable (other than a
Receivable purchased by the Master Servicer or a Receivables Servicer or
repurchased by the Depositor or the Administrator); (x) rebates of premiums
and other amounts relating to insurance policies and other items financed
under the Receivables in effect as of the Cut-off Date; and (xi) all present
and future claims, demands, causes of action and choses in action in respect
of any or all of the foregoing and all payments on or under and all proceeds
of every kind and nature whatsoever in respect of any or all of the foregoing,
including all proceeds of the conversion 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.

     "Trustee Officer" shall mean, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any
officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee with direct
responsibility for the administration of the Indenture and the other Basic
Documents on behalf of the Indenture Trustee and also, with respect to a
particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because
of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject
and, with respect to the Owner Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust
Office of the Owner Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration
of the Trust Agreement and the other Basic Documents on behalf of the Owner
Trustee.

     "UCC" shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any relevant
jurisdiction.

     "Underwriters" shall mean the underwriters named in the Underwriting
Agreement.

     "Underwriting Agreement" shall mean the Underwriting Agreement, dated
June 16, 2005 between the Depositor and the Representative, including the
Terms Agreement as defined therein and with respect thereto.

     "Underwritten Securities" shall mean the Class A Notes, Class B Notes and
Class C Notes.

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