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EX-10.1

 

EXHIBIT (10.1)

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

     This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of October 29, 2007,
between DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New Jersey corporation (the “Company”), and each
purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto and the Schedule of Purchasers attached hereto
(each, including its successors and assigns, a “Purchaser” and collectively the
“Purchasers”).

     WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Rule 506
promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each
Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the
Company as more fully described in this Agreement.

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for
other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged,
the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS

     1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

     “Action” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(j).

     “Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as
such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act. With respect
to a Purchaser, any investment fund or managed account that is managed on a discretionary
basis by the same investment manager as such Purchaser will be deemed to be an Affiliate of
such Purchaser.

     “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

     “Business Day” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is
a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the
State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.

     “Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant
to Section 2.1.

     “Closing Date” means the Trading Day when all of the Transaction Documents have
been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent
to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s
obligations to deliver the Securities have been satisfied or waived.

 

 

     “Closing Price” means on any particular date (a) the last reported closing bid
price per share of Common Stock on such date on the Trading Market (as reported by Bloomberg
L.P. at 4:15 p.m. (New York City time)), or (b) if there is no such price on such date, then
the closing bid price on the Trading Market on the date nearest preceding such date (as
reported by Bloomberg L.P. at 4:15 p.m. (New York City time)), or (c)  if the Common Stock
is not then listed or quoted on a Trading Market and if prices for the Common Stock are then
reported in the “pink sheets” published by Pink Sheets LLC (or a similar organization or
agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share
of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) if the shares of Common Stock are not then publicly
traded the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent
appraiser selected in good faith by the Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Shares
then outstanding and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which
shall be paid by the Company.

     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

     “Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, no par value, and any
other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or
changed into.

     “Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company or the
Subsidiaries which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock,
including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, rights, options, warrants or other
instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or
otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.

     “Company Counsel” means Reed Smith LLP, with offices located at 136 Main
Street, Suite 250, Princeton, New Jersey 08543.

     “Disclosure Schedules” means the Disclosure Schedules of the Company delivered
concurrently herewith.

     “Effective Date” means the date that the initial Registration Statement filed
by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement is first declared effective by
the Commission.

     “Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(r).

     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “Exempt Issuance” means the issuance of (a) shares of Common Stock or options
to employees, officers or directors of the Company pursuant to any stock or option plan duly
adopted for such purpose, by a majority of the non-employee members of the Board of
Directors or a majority of the members of a committee of non-employee directors established
for such purpose, (b) securities upon the exercise or exchange of or conversion of any
Securities issued hereunder and/or other securities exercisable or exchangeable for or
convertible into shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on

 

 

the date of this Agreement, provided that such securities have not been amended since
the date of this Agreement to increase the number of such securities or to decrease the
exercise, exchange or conversion price of such securities, (c) securities issued to the
former shareholders of Sirius Laboratories, Inc. upon the achievement of certain milestone
payments pursuant to the merger agreement dated December 30, 2005 described in the SEC
Reports, and (d) securities issued pursuant to acquisitions or strategic transactions
approved by a majority of the disinterested directors of the Company, provided that any such
issuance shall only be to a Person which is, itself or through its subsidiaries, an
operating company in a business synergistic with the business of the Company and in which
the Company receives benefits in addition to the investment of funds, but shall not include
a transaction in which the Company is issuing securities primarily for the purpose of
raising capital or to an entity whose primary business is investing in securities.

     “FWS” means Feldman Weinstein & Smith LLP with offices located at 420 Lexington
Avenue, Suite 2620, New York, New York 10170-0002.

     “GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

     “Indebtedness” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(aa).

     “Intellectual Property Rights” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in
Section 3.1(o).

     “Legend Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
4.1(c).

     “Liens” means a lien, charge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first
refusal, preemptive right or other restriction.

     “Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.1(b).

     “Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(m).

     “Per Share Purchase Price” equals $2.4012 per Share, subject to adjustment for
reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar
transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

     “Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, sole
proprietorship, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability
company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other
entity of any kind.

     “Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding
(including, without limitation, an investigation or partial proceeding, such as a
deposition), whether commenced or threatened.

 

 

     “Purchaser Party” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8.

     “Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated
the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit A
attached hereto.

     “Registration Statement” means a registration statement meeting the
requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale by the
Purchasers of the Shares and the Warrant Shares.

     “Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section
3.1(e).

     “Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the
Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or
regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same effect as such
Rule.

     “SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(h).

     “Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to each Purchaser
pursuant to this Agreement.

     “Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO
under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation
of borrowable shares of Common Stock). 

     “Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be
paid for Shares and Warrants purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on
the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in
United States dollars and in immediately available funds.

     “Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth on Schedule
3.1(a), and shall, where applicable, include any subsidiary of the Company formed or
acquired after the date hereof.

     “Trading Day” means a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for
trading.

     “Trading Market” means the following markets or exchanges on which the Common
Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the American Stock Exchange,
the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the
New York Stock Exchange or the OTC Bulletin Board.

 

 

     “Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Warrants, the Registration
Rights Agreement and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereunder.

     “Transfer Agent” means American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, the current
transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 40 Wall Street, New York, New York
10005 and a facsimile number of (718) 921-8337, and any successor transfer agent of the
Company.

     “VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following
clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market,
the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest
preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted for
trading as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City
time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time); (b)  if the OTC Bulletin Board is not a Trading
Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest
preceding date) on the OTC Bulletin Board; (c) if the Common Stock is not then quoted for
trading on the OTC Bulletin Board and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in
the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink Sheets, LLC (or a similar organization or agency
succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the
Common Stock so reported; or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of
Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the
Purchasers of a majority in interest of the Shares then outstanding and reasonably
acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

     “Warrants” means, collectively, the Common Stock purchase warrants delivered to
the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, which Warrants shall
be exercisable six months after the Closing Date and have a term of exercise equal to 5
years, in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

     “Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the
Warrants.

ARTICLE II.

PURCHASE AND SALE

     2.1 Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to satisfaction or
written waiver of the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers,
severally and not jointly, agree to purchase, up to an aggregate of $11,000,000 of Shares and
Warrants. Each Purchaser shall deliver to the Company, via wire transfer or a certified check,
immediately available funds equal to its Subscription Amount and the Company shall deliver to each
Purchaser its respective Shares and a Warrant as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the
Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 deliverable at
the Closing. Upon satisfaction or written waiver of the covenants and conditions set forth in
Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur at the offices of FWS or such other location as the
parties shall mutually agree.

 

 

     2.2 Deliveries.

     (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to
be delivered to each Purchaser the following:

     (i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

     (ii) a legal opinion of Company Counsel, in the form of Exhibit B
attached hereto;

     (iii) a copy of the instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer
Agent to deliver, on an expedited basis, a certificate evidencing a number of Shares
equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount divided by the Per Share Purchase
Price, registered in the name of such Purchaser;

     (iv) a Warrant registered in the name of such Purchaser to purchase up to a
number of shares of Common Stock equal to 25% of the number of Shares purchased by
such Purchaser, with an exercise price equal to $2.85, subject to adjustment
therein; and

     (v) the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company.

     (b) On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Company the following:

     (i) this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

     (ii) such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account as
specified in writing by the Company; and

     (iii) the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser.

     2.3 Closing Conditions. 

     (a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject
to the following conditions being met:

     (i) the accuracy in all material respects when made and on the Closing Date of
the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein;

     (ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be
performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

     (iii) the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b)
of this Agreement.

 

 

     (b) The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the
Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

     (i) the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the
representations and warranties of the Company contained herein;

     (ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be
performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

     (iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of
this Agreement;

     (iv) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the
Company since the date hereof; and

     (v) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall
not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market
(except for any suspension of trading of limited duration agreed to by the Company,
which suspension shall be terminated prior to the Closing), and, at any time prior
to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P.
shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been
established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any
Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the
United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any
material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international
calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any
financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of each Purchaser,
makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing.

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. Except as set forth in the Disclosure
Schedules, which Disclosure Schedules shall be deemed a part hereof and shall qualify any
representation or otherwise made herein to the extent of the disclosure contained in the Disclosure
Schedules, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser:

     (a) Subsidiaries. All of the direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company
are set forth on Schedule 3.1(a). The Company owns, directly or indirectly, all of
the capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary free and clear of any Liens,
and all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary are validly
issued and are fully paid, non-assessable and free of preemptive and similar rights to
subscribe for or purchase securities.

     (b) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of the Subsidiaries
is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in

 

 

good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization
(as applicable). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in violation or default of any
of the provisions of its respective certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or
other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and the Subsidiaries is duly
qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other
entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned
by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in
good standing, as the case may be, has not had and would not reasonably be expected to
result in (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any
Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets,
business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability
to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction
Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding
has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to
revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.

     (c) Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power
and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as
currently conducted, and to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by
each of the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and
thereunder. The execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents by the Company
and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been
duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is
required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection
therewith other than in connection with the Required Approvals. Each Transaction Document
has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered
in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding
obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of
specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as
indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

     (d) No Conflicts. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(d), the
execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company, the
issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by the Company of the other
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) conflict with or
violate any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict with,
or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become
a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of
the Company or any Subsidiary, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment,
acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any
agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company or Subsidiary

 

 

debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a
party or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary is bound or
affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in any
material violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or
other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company or a
Subsidiary is subject (including federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by
which any property or asset of the Company or a Subsidiary is bound or affected; except in
the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

     (e) Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any
consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or
registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority
or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of
the Transaction Documents, other than (i) filings required pursuant to Section 4.4 of this
Agreement, (ii) the filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement, (iii)
application(s) to each applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Securities for
trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby, and (iv) the filing of Form D with
the Commission and such filings as are required to be made under applicable state securities
laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”).

     (f) Issuance of the Securities. The Securities are duly authorized and, when
issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly
and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the
Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The
Warrant Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will
be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the
Company other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents. The
Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Warrants.

     (g) Capitalization. The capitalization of the Company is as set forth on
Schedule 3.1(g), which Schedule 3.1(g) shall
also include the number of shares of Common Stock owned beneficially, and of record, by Affiliates of the Company as of
the date hereof. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee
stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock
to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans and pursuant to the
conversion or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most
recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first
refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Except as a result of the
purchase and sale of the Securities or as disclosed in the SEC Reports, there are no
outstanding options, warrants, scrip rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any
character whatsoever relating to, or securities, rights or obligations convertible into or
exercisable or exchangeable for, or giving any Person any right to

 

 

subscribe for or acquire, any shares of Common Stock, or contracts, commitments,
understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any Subsidiary is or may become bound
to issue additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents. The issuance and
sale of the Securities will not obligate the Company to issue shares of Common Stock or
other securities to any Person (other than the Purchasers) and will not result in a right of
any holder of Company securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price
under any of such securities. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company
are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, have been issued in compliance with all
federal and state securities laws, and none of such outstanding shares was issued in
violation of any preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for or purchase
securities. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors
or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. There are no
stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the
Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company,
between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

     (h) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports,
schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under
the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d)
thereof, as to form, in all material respects, for the two years preceding the date hereof
(or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such
material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents
incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC
Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and
has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their
respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of
the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when
filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial
statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with
applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with
respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied
on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be
otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that
unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly
present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated
subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows
for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal,
immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

     (i) Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since
the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except
as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof, (i)
there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could

 

 

reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not
incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued
expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (B)
liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to
GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company has not altered its
method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution
of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements
to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any
equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company
stock option plans. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(i), the Company does not
have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information.
Except for the issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement or as set forth on
Schedule 3.1(i), no event, liability or development has occurred or exists with
respect to the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective business, properties,
operations or financial condition, that would be required to be disclosed by the Company
under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made that has not been
publicly disclosed at least 1 Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is
made.

     (j) Litigation. Except as disclosed on Schedule 3.1(j), there is no
action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the
knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company, any Subsidiary or any
of their respective properties before or by any court, arbitrator, governmental or
administrative agency or regulatory authority (federal, state, county, local or foreign)
(collectively, an “Action”) which (i) adversely affects or challenges the legality,
validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities or (ii)
could, if there were an unfavorable decision, have or reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor any director or
officer thereof, is or has been the subject of any Action involving a claim of violation of
or liability under federal or state securities laws or a claim of breach of fiduciary duty.
There has not been, and to the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or
contemplated, any investigation by the Commission involving the Company or any current or
former director or officer of the Company. The Commission has not issued any stop order or
other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company
or any Subsidiary under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act.

     (k) Labor Relations. No material labor dispute exists or, to the knowledge of
the Company, is imminent with respect to any of the employees of the Company which could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ employees is a member of a union that relates to such employee’s relationship
with the Company or such Subsidiary, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
a party to a collective bargaining agreement, and the Company and its Subsidiaries believe
that their relationships with their employees are good. No executive officer, to the
knowledge of the Company, is, or is now expected to be, in violation of any material term of
any employment contract, confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement or
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or any restrictive covenant in
favor of any third party, and the

 

 

continued employment of each such executive officer does not subject the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing matters. To their
knowledge, the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all U.S. federal, state,
local and foreign laws and regulations relating to employment and employment practices,
terms and conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where the failure to be in
compliance could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.

     (l) Compliance. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary (i) is in default under
or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or
lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company or any Subsidiary under),
nor has the Company or any Subsidiary received notice of a claim that it is in default under
or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other
agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is
bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) is in violation of
any order of any court, arbitrator or governmental body, or (iii) to their knowledge is or
has been in violation of any statute, rule or regulation of any governmental authority,
including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws applicable to its
business and all such laws that affect the environment, except in each case as could not
have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

     (m) Regulatory Permits. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(m), the
Company and the Subsidiaries possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by
the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct
their respective businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to
possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect
(“Material Permits”), and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any
notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.

     (n) Title to Assets. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries own any real
property. The Company and the Subsidiaries have good and marketable title in all personal
property owned by them that is material to the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries,
in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for Liens as do not materially affect the
value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be
made of such property by the Company and the Subsidiaries and Liens for the payment of
federal, state or other taxes, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to
penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company and the
Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which, to
their knowledge, the Company and the Subsidiaries are in compliance.

     (o) Patents and Trademarks. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(o),
the Company and the Subsidiaries have, or have rights to use, all patents, patent
applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, trade secrets,
inventions, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property rights and similar rights
necessary or

 

 

material for use in connection with their respective businesses as described in the SEC
Reports and which the failure to so have could have a Material Adverse Effect (collectively,
the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has
received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of the Intellectual Property Rights used
by the Company or any Subsidiary violates or infringes upon the rights of any Person. To
the knowledge of the Company, all such Intellectual Property Rights are enforceable and
there is no existing infringement by another Person of any of the Intellectual Property
Rights. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable security measures to protect
the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all of their intellectual properties, except where
failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect.

     (p) Insurance. The Company and the Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of
recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are
prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and the Subsidiaries are
engaged, including, but not limited to, directors and officers insurance coverage at least
equal to the aggregate Subscription Amount. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any
reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and
when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be
necessary to continue its business without a significant increase in cost.

     (q) Transactions With Affiliates and Employees. Except as set forth in the SEC
Reports, none of the officers or directors of the Company and, to the knowledge of the
Company, none of the employees of the Company is presently a party to any transaction with
the Company or any Subsidiary (other than for services as employees, officers and
directors), including any contract, agreement or other arrangement providing for the
furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or
from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from any officer, director or such employee or,
to the knowledge of the Company, any entity in which any officer, director, or any such
employee has a substantial interest or is an officer, director, trustee or partner, in each
case in excess of $120,000 other than for (i) payment of salary or consulting fees for
services rendered, (ii) reimbursement for expenses incurred on behalf of the Company and
(iii) other employee benefits, including stock option agreements under any stock option plan
of the Company.

     (r) Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. The Company is in material
compliance with all of the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which are applicable
to it as of the Closing Date except as would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. The Company and the Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP
and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance
with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability
for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate
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differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined
in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure
controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company
in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized
and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The
Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure
controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the Company’s most recently
filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation Date”).
The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the
conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation
Date, there have been no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting
(as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) that has materially affected, or is reasonably
likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

     (s) Certain Fees. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.1(s), no brokerage
or finder’s fees or commissions are or will be payable by the Company to any broker,
financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other
Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The
Purchasers shall have no obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims
made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section that
may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

     (t) Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers representations
and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is
required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as
contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene
the rules and regulations of the Trading Market.

     (u) Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and
immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of,
an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become
subject to the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

     (v) Registration Rights. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, other than
each of the Purchasers, no Person has any right to cause the Company to effect the
registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company.

     (w) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered
pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action
designed to, or which to its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the
registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any
notification that the Commission is contemplating terminating such registration. The
Company has not, in the 12 months preceding the date hereof, received

 

 

notice from any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is or has been listed or
quoted to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance
requirements of such Trading Market. The Company is, and has no reason to believe that it
will not in the foreseeable future continue to be, in compliance with all such listing and
maintenance requirements.

     (x) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of
Directors have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any
control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution
under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Company’s
certificate of incorporation or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could
become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling
their obligations or exercising their rights under the Transaction Documents, including
without limitation as a result of the Company’s issuance of the Securities and the
Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.

     (y) Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of
the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that
neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any of the Purchasers or
their agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might
constitute material, non-public information. The Company understands and confirms that the
Purchasers will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities
of the Company. All disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers
regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the
Disclosure Schedules to this Agreement, is true and correct and does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The press releases disseminated by the Company during the twelve months
preceding the date of this Agreement taken as a whole do not contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary
in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made and when made, not misleading. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser
makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

     (z) No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its
Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made
any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under
circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior
offerings by the Company for purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the
registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable
shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the
Company are listed or designated. 

 

 

     (aa) Solvency. Based on the consolidated financial condition of the Company as
of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the receipt by the Company of the proceeds from
the sale of the Securities hereunder, (i) the fair saleable value of the Company’s assets
exceeds the amount that will be required to be paid on or in respect of the Company’s
existing debts and other liabilities (including known contingent liabilities) as they
mature, (ii) the Company’s assets do not constitute unreasonably small capital to carry on
its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted including its capital needs
taking into account the particular capital requirements of the business conducted by the
Company, and projected capital requirements and capital availability thereof, and (iii) the
current cash flow of the Company, together with the proceeds the Company would receive, were
it to liquidate all of its assets, after taking into account all anticipated uses of the
cash, would be sufficient to pay all amounts on or in respect of its liabilities when such
amounts are required to be paid. The Company does not intend to incur debts beyond its
ability to pay such debts as they mature (taking into account the timing and amounts of cash
to be payable on or in respect of its debt). The Company has no knowledge of any facts or
circumstances which lead it to believe that it will file for reorganization or liquidation
under the bankruptcy or reorganization laws of any jurisdiction within one year from the
Closing Date. The SEC Reports set forth as of the date thereof all outstanding secured and
unsecured Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, or for which the Company or any
Subsidiary has commitments. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Indebtedness”
means (a) any liabilities for borrowed money or amounts owed in excess of $50,000 (other
than trade accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (b) all
guaranties, endorsements and other contingent obligations in respect of indebtedness of
others, whether or not the same are or should be reflected in the Company’s balance sheet
(or the notes thereto), except guaranties by endorsement of negotiable instruments for
deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business; and (c)
the present value of any lease payments in excess of $50,000 due under leases required to be
capitalized in accordance with GAAP. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in default
with respect to any Indebtedness.

     (bb) Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the
aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the
Company and each Subsidiary has filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and
franchise tax returns and has paid or accrued all taxes shown as due thereon, and the
Company has no knowledge of a tax deficiency which has been asserted or threatened against
the Company or any Subsidiary.

     (cc) No General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any person acting on
behalf of the Company has offered or sold any of the Securities by any form of general
solicitation or general advertising. The Company has offered the Securities for sale only
to the Purchasers and certain other “accredited investors” within the meaning of Rule 501
under the Securities Act.

     (dd) Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of
the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or
indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful

 

 

payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or
domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully
any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which
the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iv) violated in any material respect
any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

     (ee) Accountants. The Company’s accounting firm is set forth on Schedule
3.1(ee) of the Disclosure Schedule. To the knowledge of the Company, such accounting
firm who the Company expects will express its opinion with respect to the financial
statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report for the year ending December 31,
2007, is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act.

     (ee) No Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. To the Company’s knowledge,
there are no disagreements of any kind presently existing, or reasonably anticipated by the
Company to arise, between the Company and the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently
employed by the Company which could affect the Company’s ability to perform any of its
obligations under any of the Transaction Documents, and the Company is current with respect
to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers.

     (ff) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchasers’ Purchase of Securities. The Company
acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an
arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a
financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to
the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by
any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the
Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the
Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser
that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents
has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby
by the Company and its representatives.

     (gg) Acknowledgement Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this
Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding (except for Sections 3.2(f)
and 4.12 hereof), it is understood and acknowledged by the Company (i) that none of the
Purchasers have been asked by the Company to agree, nor has any Purchaser agreed, to desist
from purchasing or selling, long and/or short, securities of the Company, or “derivative”
securities based on securities issued by the Company or to hold the Securities for any
specified term; (ii) that past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser,
specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before
or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact
the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities; (iii) that any Purchaser, and
counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party,
directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock, and (iv)
that each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation

 

 

with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction.
The Company further understands and acknowledges that (a) one or more Purchasers may engage
in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are
outstanding, including, without limitation, during the periods that the value of the Warrant
Shares deliverable with respect to Securities are being determined, and (b) such hedging
activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interests in
the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The
Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach
of any of the Transaction Documents.

     (hh) Regulation M Compliance. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one
acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or
to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company
to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased,
or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid
or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other
securities of the Company, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), compensation
paid to the Company’s placement agent in connection with the placement of the Securities.

     (ii) FDA. Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(ii) or the SEC Reports,
as to each product subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(“FDA”) under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and the
regulations thereunder (“FDCA”) that is manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested,
distributed, sold, and/or marketed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each such
product, a “Pharmaceutical Product”), such Pharmaceutical Product is being
manufactured, packaged, labeled, tested, distributed, sold and/or marketed by the Company in
material compliance with all applicable requirements under FDCA and similar laws, rules and
regulations relating to registration, investigational use, premarket clearance, licensure,
or application approval, good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, good
clinical practices, product listing, quotas, labeling, advertising, record keeping and
filing of reports, except where the failure to be in compliance would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. There is no pending, completed or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened,
action (including any lawsuit, arbitration, or legal or administrative or regulatory
proceeding, charge, complaint, or investigation) against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice,
warning letter or other communication from the FDA or any other governmental entity to which
responses are due, which (i) contests the premarket clearance, licensure, registration, or
approval of, the uses of, the distribution of, the manufacturing or packaging of, the
testing of, the sale of, or the labeling and promotion of any Pharmaceutical Product, (ii)
withdraws its approval of, requests the recall, suspension, or seizure of, or withdraws or
orders the withdrawal of advertising or sales promotional materials relating to, any
Pharmaceutical Product, (iii) imposes a clinical hold on any clinical investigation by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) enjoins production at any facility of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, (v) enters or proposes to enter into a consent decree of
permanent injunction with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (vi) except as
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violation of any laws, rules or regulations by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
and which, either individually or in the aggregate, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
The properties, business and operations of the Company have been and are being conducted in
all material respects in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations of the
FDA. The Company has not been informed by the FDA that the FDA will prohibit the marketing,
sale, license or use in the United States of any product proposed to be developed, produced
or marketed by the Company nor has the FDA expressed any concern as to approving or clearing
for marketing any product being developed or proposed to be developed by the Company.

     (jj) Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company is eligible to register the resale of
the Securities for resale by the Purchaser on Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act
as contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement.

     3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and for
no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date
to the Company as follows:

     (a) Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is an entity duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization
with full right, corporate or partnership power and authority to enter into and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry
out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction
Documents and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or similar action
on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been
duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the
terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser,
enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general
equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii)
as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief
or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions
may be limited by applicable law.

     (b) Own Account. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are
“restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any
applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own
account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part
thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no
present intention of distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act
or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or
understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such
Securities (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the
Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement or otherwise in compliance with applicable
federal and state securities laws) in violation of the Securities Act or any

 

 

applicable state securities law. Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder
in the ordinary course of its business.

     (c) Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities,
it was, and at the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants,
it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2),
(a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer”
as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act. Such Purchaser is not required to be
registered as a broker-dealer under Section 15 of the Exchange Act.

     (d) Experience of Such Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together
with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and
financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective
investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment.
Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at
the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

     (e) General Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a
result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities
published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio
or presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

     (f) Short Sales and Confidentiality Prior To The Date Hereof. Other than
consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not, nor has any
Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or
indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the
Company during the period commencing from the time that such Purchaser first received a term
sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company
setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder until the date
hereof (“Discussion Time”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a
Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers
manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no
direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other
portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply
with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the
investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to
other Persons party to this Agreement, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of
all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and
terms of this transaction).

     (g) Ownership. Such Purchaser, together with its Affiliates and any other
party acting in concert therewith, will not, following its investment in the Shares,
together with any Warrant Shares, beneficially own more than 19.9% of the currently
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     (h) Independence. Each Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that it has acted
independently from all other Purchasers (other than those under common ownership and
control) and that each such Purchaser has conducted its own due diligence and reviewed (or
had the opportunity to review) the Transaction Documents with its own independent counsel.
Each Purchaser has independently determined the merits and risks associated with an
investment on the basis set forth in the Transaction Documents and without any agreements,
understandings or arrangements other than those expressly set forth in the Transaction
Documents.

     (i) Residency. Such Purchaser is a resident of that jurisdiction specified
below its address on the Schedule of Purchasers.

ARTICLE IV.

OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

4.1 Transfer Restrictions. (a) The Securities may only be disposed of in
compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of
Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the
Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser or in connection with a pledge as contemplated in
Section 4.1(b), the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an
opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the
form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the
effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under
the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing
to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and shall have the rights of a Purchaser under
this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.

     (b) The Purchasers agree to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1,
of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:

THESE SECURITIES HAVE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF
THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS
EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE
SUBSTANCE OF WHICH SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THESE SECURITIES
MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT WITH A REGISTERED
BROKER-DEALER OR OTHER LOAN WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION THAT IS AN “ACCREDITED
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DEFINED IN RULE 501(a) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR OTHER LOAN SECURED BY SUCH
SECURITIES.

     The Company acknowledges and agrees that a Purchaser may from time to time pledge
pursuant to a bona fide margin agreement with a registered broker-dealer or grant a security
interest in some or all of the Securities to a financial institution that is an “accredited
investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act and who agrees to be bound by
the provisions of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and, if required
under the terms of such arrangement, such Purchaser may transfer pledged or secured
Securities to the pledgees or secured parties. Such a pledge or transfer would not be
subject to approval of the Company and no legal opinion of legal counsel of the pledgee,
secured party or pledgor shall be required in connection therewith. Further, no notice
shall be required of such pledge. At the appropriate Purchaser’s expense, the Company will
execute and deliver such reasonable documentation as a pledgee or secured party of
Securities may reasonably request in connection with a pledge or transfer of the Securities,
including, if the Securities are subject to registration pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement, the preparation and filing of any required prospectus supplement under Rule
424(b)(3) under the Securities Act or other applicable provision of the Securities Act to
appropriately amend the list of Selling Stockholders thereunder.

     (c) Certificates evidencing the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not contain any legend
(including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b)), (i) while a registration statement
(including the Registration Statement) covering the resale of such security is effective
under the Securities Act, or (ii) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares
pursuant to Rule 144, or (iii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under
Rule 144(k), or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the
Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of
the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the
Transfer Agent promptly after the Effective Date if required by the Transfer Agent to effect
the removal of the legend hereunder. If all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a
time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Warrant
Shares, such Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that
following the Effective Date or at such time as such legend is no longer required under this
Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than three Trading Days following the delivery by a
Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Shares or
Warrant Shares, as the case may be, issued with a restrictive legend (such third Trading
Day, the “Legend Removal Date”), deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser
a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends.
The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer
Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section. Certificates for
Securities subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to
the Purchaser by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository
Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser.

     (d) In addition to such Purchaser’s other available remedies, the Company shall pay to
a Purchaser, in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, for

 

 

each $1,000 of Shares or Warrant Shares (based on the VWAP of the Common Stock on the
date such Securities are submitted to the Transfer Agent) delivered for removal of the
restrictive legend and subject to Section 4.1(c), $10 per Trading Day (increasing to $20 per
Trading Day five (5) Trading Days after such damages have begun to accrue) for each Trading
Day after the second (2nd) Trading Day after the Legend Removal Date until such
certificate is delivered without a legend. Nothing herein shall limit such Purchaser’s right
to pursue actual damages for the Company’s failure to deliver certificates representing any
Securities as required by the Transaction Documents, and such Purchaser shall have the right
to pursue all remedies available to it at law or in equity including, without limitation, a
decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief.

     (e) Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees that
the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth
in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance that such Purchaser will sell
any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and
that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in
compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the
removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in
this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

     4.2 Furnishing of Information. Until the earliest of the time that (i) no Purchaser owns
Securities or (ii) the Warrants have expired, the Company covenants to use good faith commercially
reasonable efforts to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the
applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof
pursuant to the Exchange Act. As long as any Purchaser owns Securities, if the Company is not
required to file reports pursuant to the Exchange Act, it will prepare and furnish to the
Purchasers and make publicly available in accordance with Rule 144(c) such information as is
required for the Purchasers to sell the Securities under Rule 144. The Company further covenants
that it will take such further action as any holder of Securities may reasonably request, to the
extent required from time to time to enable such Person to sell such Securities without
registration under the Securities Act within the requirements of the exemption provided by Rule
144.

     4.3 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or
otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that
would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the
registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities to the Purchasers or that would
be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities to the Purchasers for purposes of the rules
and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require shareholder approval prior to the
closing of such other transaction unless shareholder approval is obtained before the closing of
such subsequent transaction.

     4.4 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall (a) issue a press
release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby by 8:30 a.m. (New

 

 

York City Time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, and (b) by the
fourth (4th) Trading Day following the date hereof, in accordance with the Exchange Act,
issue a Current Report on Form 8-K, disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated
hereby, and filing the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto. The Company and each Purchaser
shall consult with each other in issuing any other press releases with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any such press release
or otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect
to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of each Purchaser, with respect
to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed,
except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly
provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser,
or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or
Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Purchaser, except (i) as required by
federal securities law in connection with (A) any registration statement contemplated by the
Registration Rights Agreement and (B) the filing of final Transaction Documents (including
signature pages thereto) with the Commission and (ii) to the extent such disclosure is required by
law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide the Purchasers with
prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (ii).

     4.5 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or,
with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person”
under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution
under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter
adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such
plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any
other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

     4.6 Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions
of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and the material information
disclosed on the Disclosure Schedules, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it nor any
other Person acting on its behalf, will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any
information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior
thereto such Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement regarding the confidentiality and
use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying
on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

     4.7 Use of Proceeds. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.7 attached hereto, the
Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for working capital
purposes and shall not use such proceeds for (a) the satisfaction of any portion of the Company’s
debt (other than payment of trade payables in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and
prior practices), (b) the redemption of any Common Stock or Common Stock Equivalents, or (c) the
settlement of any outstanding litigation.

     4.8 Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8,
the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders,

 

 

members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent
role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each
Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and
Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members,
partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person
holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling
persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from and against, without duplication, any and
all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including
all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of
investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a)
any material breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the
Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted
against a Purchaser in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any
stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of such Purchaser, with respect to any of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is based upon a breach
of such Purchaser’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any
agreements or understandings such Purchaser may have with any such stockholder or any violations by
the Purchaser of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser which
constitutes fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or malfeasance). If any action shall be
brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this
Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall
have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable
to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any
such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall
be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has
been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a
reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action
there is, in the reasonable opinion of such separate counsel, a material conflict on any material
issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case
the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such
separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (i)
for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent that a
loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the
representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement
or in the other Transaction Documents.

     4.9 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and
the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a
sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares
pursuant to this Agreement and Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Warrants. 

     4.10
Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use good faith
commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the listing of the Common Stock on a Trading Market,
and as soon as reasonably practicable following the Closing (but not later than the earlier

 

 

of the Effective Date and the first anniversary of the Closing Date) to list all of the Shares and Warrant
Shares on such Trading Market. The Company further agrees, if the Company applies to have the
Common Stock traded on any other Trading Market, it will include in such application all of the
Shares and Warrant Shares, and will take such other action as is necessary to cause all of the
Shares and Warrant Shares to be listed on such other Trading Market as promptly as possible. The
Company will take good faith commercially reasonable efforts to continue the listing and trading of
its Common Stock on a Trading Market and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting,
filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Trading Market.

     4.11 Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration shall be offered or paid to any
Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction
Documents unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to the Transaction
Documents. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each
Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the
Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers
acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities
or otherwise.

     4.12 Short Sales and Confidentiality After The Date Hereof. Each Purchaser, severally
and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on
its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it, will execute any Short Sales during the period
commencing at the Discussion Time and ending at the time that the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement are first publicly announced as described in Section 4.4.  Each Purchaser, severally and
not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that until such time as the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company as described in Section 4.4,
such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with
this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction and the information
included in the Disclosure Schedules.  Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with any other
Purchaser, understands and acknowledges, and agrees, to act in a manner that will not violate the positions of the Commission as set forth in Item 65, Section A, of the Manual
of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations, dated July 1997, compiled by the Office of Chief
Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Purchaser makes
any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in Short Sales in the
securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are
first publicly announced as described in Section 4.4.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case
of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers
manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct
knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of
such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion
of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the
Securities covered by this Agreement.

     4.13  Delivery of Securities After Closing. The Company shall deliver, or cause to be
delivered, the respective Securities purchased by each Purchaser to such Purchaser within 3 Trading
Days of the Closing Date.

 

 

     4.14 Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with
respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly
upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably
determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale
to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of
the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any
Purchaser.

ARTICLE V.

MISCELLANEOUS

     5.1 Termination.  This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such
Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between
the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has
not been consummated on or before October 31, 2007; provided, however, that no such
termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by the other party (or
parties).

     5.2 Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to
the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and
other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation,
preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The Company shall pay all
Transfer Agent fees, stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery
of any Securities to the Purchasers.

     5.3 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and
schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject
matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect
to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and
schedules.

     5.4 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or
permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on
the earliest of (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via
facsimile at the facsimile number set forth on the signature pages attached hereto prior to 5:30
p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the date of
transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number
set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than
5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the 2nd Trading Day following the
date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon
actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such
notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

     5.5 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived or amended
except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the
Purchasers of at least 85% of the Shares still held by the Purchasers or, in the case of a waiver,
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waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed
to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any
other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of any party to
exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right.

     5.6 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part
of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

     5.7 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the
benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this
Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each
Purchaser (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this
Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided such
transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the
provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

     5.8 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the
parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of,
nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in
Section 4.8.

     5.9 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement
and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of
conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the
interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any
other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates,
directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state
and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of
Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with
respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and
agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject
to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an
inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of
process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a
copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to
such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such
service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing
contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions
of the Transaction Documents, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be
reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses
incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

 

 

     5.10 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the
Closing and the delivery of the Shares and Warrant Shares.

     5.11 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of
which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective
when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being
understood that both parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature
is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such
signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf
such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature
page were an original thereof.

     5.12 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement
is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the
remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in
full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties
hereto shall use their good faith commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative
means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term,
provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the
parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions
without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or
unenforceable.

     5.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction
Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction
Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein
provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time
upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part
without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the Purchaser shall be required to return
any shares of Common Stock delivered in connection with any such rescinded exercise notice.

     5.14 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any
Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued
in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in
lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of
evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant
for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable
third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement
Securities.

     5.15 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein
or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be
entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary
damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of
obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agrees to waive and

 

 

not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would
be adequate.

     5.16 Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to
any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights
thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any
part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside,
recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the
Company, a trustee, receiver or any other person under any law (including, without limitation, any
bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent
of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be
revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such
enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

     5.17 Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of
each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any
other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or
non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing
contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser
pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a
joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any
way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently
protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation, the rights arising out of this
Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other
Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser
has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in their review and negotiation of the
Transaction Documents. For reasons of administrative convenience only, Purchasers and their
respective counsel have chosen to communicate with the Company through FWS. FWS does not represent
all of the Purchasers but only Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, the placement agent for the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers
with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it
was required or requested to do so by the Purchasers.

     5.18 Liquidated Damages. The Company’s obligations to pay any partial liquidated
damages or other amounts owing under the Transaction Documents is a continuing obligation of the
Company and shall not terminate until all unpaid partial liquidated damages and other amounts have
been paid notwithstanding the fact that the instrument or security pursuant to which such partial
liquidated damages or other amounts are due and payable shall have been canceled.

     5.19 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of
any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day,
then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

 

 

     5.20 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel
has reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal
rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting
party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments
hereto.

     5.21 Waiver of Jury Trial. In any action, suit or proceeding in any jurisdiction
brought by any party against any other party, the parties each knowingly and intentionally, to the
greatest extent permitted by applicable law, hereby absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably and
expressly waives forever trial by jury.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be
duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	DUSA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.	 	 	 	Address for Notice:
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	25 Upton Drive
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Wilmington, MA 01887
	By:

	 	/s/  Richard
Christopher	 	 	 	Fax:
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:  Richard Christopher	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Title:    VP
Finance & CFO	 	 	 	 

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

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[PURCHASER SIGNATURE PAGES TO DUSA SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT]

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly
executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Name of Purchaser:

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Signature of Authorized Signatory of Purchaser:	 	 	 	 
	
 
	 	 	 	 

	 	 
	
Name of Authorized Signatory:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
Title of Authorized Signatory:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
Email Address of Purchaser:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
 
 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
Fax Number of Purchaser:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
 
 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
Address for Notice of Purchaser:
	 	 	 	 	 	 

Address for Delivery of Securities for Purchaser (if not same as address for notice):

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Subscription Amount: $	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Shares:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Warrant Shares:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 

EIN Number: [PROVIDE THIS UNDER SEPARATE COVER]

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DISCLOSURE SCHEDULES

     These Disclosure Schedules are being delivered by DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a New Jersey
corporation (the “Company”), to the Purchasers under that certain Securities Purchase
Agreement dated as of October 29, 2007 (the “Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Company
and the Purchasers. Capitalized terms used in these Schedules and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Purchase Agreement.

     These Schedules may include items or information which the Company is not required to disclose
under the Purchase Agreement; the inclusion of such items or information shall not affect (directly
or indirectly) the scope of the disclosure obligations relating to the Company under the Purchase
Agreement. Furthermore, the disclosure of a particular item of information in any of these
Schedules shall not be construed as an admission by the Company that such information is material
to the Company or may have a Material Adverse Effect.

     If and to the extent any information required to be furnished in any Schedule is contained in
another Schedule, such information will be deemed to be included in all Schedules in which such
information is required to be included, to the extent the relevance of such disclosure to such
other Schedules is reasonably apparent on its face.

     In accordance with the Purchase Agreement, the Company hereby discloses to the Purchasers as
follows:

 

 

Schedule 3.1(a)
Subsidiaries

1. DUSA Pharmaceuticals New York, Inc.

2. Sirius Laboratories, Inc.

 

 

Schedule 3.1(d)

No Conflicts

None.

 

 

Schedule 3.1(g)

Capitalization

Number of shares of Common Stock currently outstanding: 19,495,067

Number of shares of Common Stock underlying options outstanding under the Company’s 2006 Equity
Compensation Plan: 2,929,125

Number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding Class B warrants: 250,000
(all of such warrants were issued to the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief
Strategic Officer, have an exercise price of CDN $6.79 per share and expire on January 29, 2011).

Number of Shares held by all directors and officers of the Company as a group: 2,153,795 (includes
shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of outstanding options and outstanding Class B
warrants which, in each case, may be exercised within 60 days hereof)

Number of shares held by beneficial owners of 5% or more of the issued and outstanding shares of
Common Stock):

Great Point Partners, LLC (controlled by Dr. Jeffrey Jay): 1,150,000*

Morgens, Waterfall, Vintiadis & Co., Inc. (controlled by Edwin H. Morgens and John C. Waterfall):
1,000,000*

FMR Corp. Edward C. Johnson, III: 1,952,199*

JPMorgan Chase & Co.: 1,113,175*

Royce & Associates, LLC: 1,431,449*

State of Wisconsin Investment Board: 1,896,884*

 

			
	*	 	Based solely upon reports filed by such beneficial owners with the Commission pursuant to their
reporting requirements under the Exchange Act. The Company makes no representation as to the
accuracy or completeness of the information reported.

 

 

Schedule 3.1(i)

Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments

     The Company has a Confidential Treatment Application pending for the Supply and License
Agreement between the Company and photonamic GmbH & Co. KG and medac, GmbH, dated April 7, 2007
(Exhibit 10 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2007).

 

 

Schedule 3.1(j)

Litigation

(i) As part of its strategy to enforce its intellectual property, the Company has filed suit
against [c.i.] alleging, among other things, that [c.i.]
induced infringement of certain of the Company’s patents. [c.i.] has been selling the active
ingredient in the Company’s Levulan product and allegedly providing its customers, including
physicians, with instructions for use in violation of the Company’s method of use patents.
[c.i.] has filed an answer and counter-claim alleging that the
Company’s patents which pertain to
Levulan are not valid. The litigation is at an early stage and the Company is currently engaged in
settlement discussions.

(ii) [c.i.]

 

 

Schedule 3.1(m)

Regulatory Permits

[c.i.]

 

 

[c.i.]

 

 

Schedule 3.1(o)

Intellectual Property

(i) [c.i.]

(ii) Kennedy Patents:  As disclosed in the SEC Reports, the Company is aware of a number of
physicians whom it believes may be infringing one or more of the Company’s Kennedy patents.   The
total extent of infringement by physicians and the corresponding effect on sales is unknown.  The
Company is also aware that some compounding pharmacies are providing ALA for sale to physicians and
may be doing so with instructions for use with the patented Kennedy methods, and as such, are
inducing infringement of such patents. 

(iii) [c.i.]

 

 

Schedule 3.1(s)

Certain Fees

     Under its engagement letter with Rodman & Renshaw, LLC (the “Placement Agent”), the
Company will be making a cash payment to the Placement Agent equal to 6% of the aggregate purchase
price paid by each Purchaser under the Purchase Agreement, and will also be reminbursing the
Placement Agent for up to $35,000 of its out-of-pocket expenses related to the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

 

 

Schedule 3.1(ee)

Accountant

Deloitte & Touche LLP

 

 

Schedule 3.1(ii)

FDA

(i) [c.i.]

(ii) [c.i.]

(iii) Actavis Correspondence:   The Company is in possession of correspondence from the FDA
to Actavis which specifically identifies Nicomide as a Marketed Unapproved Drug that is not
acceptable for marketing under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994
(“DSHEA”) regulations with its current labeling because it makes a health claim related to
acne. A change in regulatory status to DHSEA compliant labeling may affect the revenue stream
associated with this product.

(iv) FDA Correspondence on Acne:  The Company has received comments on its acne development
program from the FDA statistical reviewer assigned to the Company’s IND.  In this letter, the
reviewer stated concern about whether the Company will have sufficient data select an appropriate
dosing regimen for Phase 3 trials.   The Company believes that it has the data to make an argument
that sufficient drug dose ranging has been done; however, if the FDA does not accept the Company’s
rationale, additional unplanned clinical trials and/or formulation development work may be required
for the acne development program which may extend the expected development time lines for such
program. 

(v) [c.i.]

 

 

Schedule 4.7

Use of Proceeds

None.EX-4.1

 

Exhibit 4.1

 

INDENTURE

between

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,

as Issuer

and

CITIBANK, N.A.,

as Indenture Trustee

Dated as of November 1, 2007

 

 

 

Table of Contents

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE I	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Definitions and Incorporation by Reference	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 1.01.
	 	Definitions	 	 	2	 
	SECTION 1.02.
	 	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act	 	 	12	 
	SECTION 1.03.
	 	Rules of Construction	 	 	12	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE II	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	The Notes	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 2.01.
	 	Form	 	 	13	 
	SECTION 2.02.
	 	Execution, Authentication and Delivery	 	 	13	 
	SECTION 2.03.
	 	Temporary Notes	 	 	14	 
	SECTION 2.04.
	 	Limitations on Transfer of the Class A-1 Notes and the Class D Notes	 	 	15	 
	SECTION 2.05.
	 	Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange	 	 	16	 
	SECTION 2.06.
	 	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes	 	 	17	 
	SECTION 2.07.
	 	Persons Deemed Owner	 	 	18	 
	SECTION 2.08.
	 	Payment of Principal and Interest; Defaulted Interest	 	 	18	 
	SECTION 2.09.
	 	Cancellation	 	 	19	 
	SECTION 2.10.
	 	Release of Collateral	 	 	19	 
	SECTION 2.11.
	 	Book-Entry Notes; Certificated Notes	 	 	20	 
	SECTION 2.12.
	 	Notices to Clearing Agency	 	 	21	 
	SECTION 2.13.
	 	Definitive Notes	 	 	21	 
	SECTION 2.14.
	 	Tax Treatment	 	 	21	 
	SECTION 2.15.
	 	Representations and Warranties as to the Security Interest of the Indenture Trustee in the Receivables	 	 	22	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE III	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Covenants	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 3.01.
	 	Payment of Principal and Interest and Other Amounts	 	 	23	 
	SECTION 3.02.
	 	Maintenance of Office or Agency	 	 	23	 
	SECTION 3.03.
	 	Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust	 	 	23	 
	SECTION 3.04.
	 	Existence	 	 	25	 
	SECTION 3.05.
	 	Protection of Trust Estate	 	 	25	 
	SECTION 3.06.
	 	Opinions as to Trust Estate	 	 	25	 
	SECTION 3.07.
	 	Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables	 	 	26	 
	SECTION 3.08.
	 	Negative Covenants	 	 	28	 
	SECTION 3.09.
	 	Annual Statement as to Compliance	 	 	28	 
	SECTION 3.10.
	 	Issuer May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms	 	 	28	 
	SECTION 3.11.
	 	Successor or Transferee	 	 	30	 
	SECTION 3.12.
	 	No Other Business	 	 	30	 
	SECTION 3.13.
	 	No Borrowing	 	 	30	 
	SECTION 3.14.
	 	Servicer’s Obligations	 	 	30	 

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	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	SECTION 3.15.
	 	Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities	 	 	30	 
	SECTION 3.16.
	 	Capital Expenditures	 	 	31	 
	SECTION 3.17.
	 	Removal of Administrator	 	 	31	 
	SECTION 3.18.
	 	Restricted Payments	 	 	31	 
	SECTION 3.19.
	 	Notice of Events of Default	 	 	31	 
	SECTION 3.20.
	 	Further Instruments and Acts	 	 	31	 
	SECTION 3.21.
	 	Required Hedges	 	 	31	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE IV	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Satisfaction and Discharge	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 4.01.
	 	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture	 	 	32	 
	SECTION 4.02.
	 	Application of Trust Money	 	 	33	 
	SECTION 4.03.
	 	Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent	 	 	34	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE V	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Remedies	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 5.01.
	 	Events of Default	 	 	34	 
	SECTION 5.02.
	 	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	 	 	35	 
	SECTION 5.03.
	 	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Indenture Trustee	 	 	35	 
	SECTION 5.04.
	 	Remedies; Priorities	 	 	37	 
	SECTION 5.05.
	 	Optional Preservation of the Receivables	 	 	40	 
	SECTION 5.06.
	 	Limitation of Suits	 	 	40	 
	SECTION 5.07.
	 	Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 5.08.
	 	Restoration of Rights and Remedies	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 5.09.
	 	Rights and Remedies Cumulative	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 5.10.
	 	Delay or Omission Not a Waiver	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 5.11.
	 	Control by Controlling Class	 	 	41	 
	SECTION 5.12.
	 	Waiver of Past Defaults	 	 	42	 
	SECTION 5.13.
	 	Undertaking for Costs	 	 	42	 
	SECTION 5.14.
	 	Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws	 	 	43	 
	SECTION 5.15.
	 	Action on Notes	 	 	43	 
	SECTION 5.16.
	 	Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations	 	 	43	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE VI	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	The Indenture Trustee	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 6.01.
	 	Duties of Indenture Trustee	 	 	44	 
	SECTION 6.02.
	 	Rights of Indenture Trustee	 	 	45	 
	SECTION 6.03.
	 	Individual Rights of Indenture Trustee	 	 	45	 
	SECTION 6.04.
	 	Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer	 	 	46	 
	SECTION 6.05.
	 	Notice of Defaults	 	 	46	 
	SECTION 6.06.
	 	Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders of Senior Notes	 	 	46	 
	SECTION 6.07.
	 	Compensation and Indemnity	 	 	46	 

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	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	SECTION 6.08.
	 	Replacement of Indenture Trustee	 	 	47	 
	SECTION 6.09.
	 	Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger	 	 	48	 
	SECTION 6.10.
	 	Appointment of Co-Indenture Trustee or Separate Indenture Trustee	 	 	48	 
	SECTION 6.11.
	 	Eligibility; Disqualification	 	 	49	 
	SECTION 6.12.
	 	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer	 	 	50	 
	SECTION 6.13.
	 	Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses	 	 	50	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE VII	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Noteholders’ Lists and Reports	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 7.01.
	 	Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders	 	 	50	 
	SECTION 7.02.
	 	Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders	 	 	51	 
	SECTION 7.03.
	 	Reports by Issuer	 	 	51	 
	SECTION 7.04.
	 	Reports by Indenture Trustee	 	 	51	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE VIII	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Accounts, Disbursements and Releases	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 8.01.
	 	Collection of Money	 	 	52	 
	SECTION 8.02.
	 	Deposit Account	 	 	52	 
	SECTION 8.03.
	 	General Provisions Regarding Accounts	 	 	54	 
	SECTION 8.04.
	 	Release of Trust Estate	 	 	54	 
	SECTION 8.05.
	 	Opinion of Counsel	 	 	55	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE IX	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Supplemental Indentures	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 9.01.
	 	Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders	 	 	55	 
	SECTION 9.02.
	 	Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders	 	 	57	 
	SECTION 9.03.
	 	Execution of Supplemental Indentures	 	 	58	 
	SECTION 9.04.
	 	Effect of Supplemental Indenture	 	 	58	 
	SECTION 9.05.
	 	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act	 	 	59	 
	SECTION 9.06.
	 	Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures	 	 	59	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE X	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Redemption of Notes	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 10.01.
	 	Redemption	 	 	59	 
	SECTION 10.02.
	 	Form of Redemption Notice	 	 	59	 
	SECTION 10.03.
	 	Notes Payable on Redemption Date	 	 	60	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	ARTICLE XI	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	Miscellaneous	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	SECTION 11.01.
	 	Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc	 	 	60	 
	SECTION 11.02.
	 	Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee	 	 	62	 
	SECTION 11.03.
	 	Acts of Noteholders	 	 	63	 

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	 	 	 	 	Page	 
	SECTION 11.04.
	 	Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies	 	 	63	 
	SECTION 11.05.
	 	Notices to Noteholders; Waiver	 	 	64	 
	SECTION 11.06.
	 	Alternate Payment and Notice Provisions	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.07.
	 	Conflict with Trust Indenture Act	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.08.
	 	Effect of Headings and Table of Contents	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.09.
	 	Successors and Assigns	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.10.
	 	Separability	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.11.
	 	Benefits of Indenture	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.12.
	 	Legal Holidays	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.13.
	 	GOVERNING LAW	 	 	65	 
	SECTION 11.14.
	 	Counterparts	 	 	66	 
	SECTION 11.15.
	 	Recording of Indenture	 	 	66	 
	SECTION 11.16.
	 	Trust Obligation	 	 	66	 
	SECTION 11.17.
	 	No Petition	 	 	66	 
	SECTION 11.18.
	 	Inspection	 	 	66	 

	 	 	 	 	 
	SCHEDULE A

	 	-
	 	Schedule of Receivables
	 
	 	 	 	 
	EXHIBIT A-1

	 	-
	 	Form of Class A-1 Note
	EXHIBIT A-2a

	 	-
	 	Form of Class A-2a Note
	EXHIBIT A-2b

	 	-
	 	Form of Class A-2b Note
	EXHIBIT A-3a

	 	-
	 	Form of Class A-3a Note
	EXHIBIT A-3b

	 	-
	 	Form of Class A-3b Note
	EXHIBIT A-4

	 	-
	 	Form of Class A-4 Note
	EXHIBIT B

	 	-
	 	Form of Class B Note
	EXHIBIT C

	 	-
	 	Form of Class C Note
	EXHIBIT D

	 	-
	 	Form of Class D Note
	EXHIBIT E

	 	-
	 	Form of Note Depository Agreement
	EXHIBIT F

	 	-
	 	Form of Hedge
	EXHIBIT G

	 	-
	 	Form of Hedge Assignment

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     INDENTURE dated as of November 1, 2007, between DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A, a Delaware
statutory trust (the “Issuer”), and CITIBANK, N.A., a national banking association organized under
the laws of the United States, as trustee and not in its individual capacity (the “Indenture
Trustee”).

     Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable
benefit of the Holders of the Issuer’s Class A-1 4.945% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-1 Notes”),
Class A-2a 4.94% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-2a Notes”), Class A-2b Floating Rate Asset Backed
Notes (the “Class A-2b Notes”), Class A-3a 5.00% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-3a Notes”), Class
A-3b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes (the “Class A-3b Notes”), Class A-4  5.28% Asset Backed Notes
(the “Class A-4 Notes” and, together with the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b
Notes, the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes, , the “Class A Notes”), Class B 6.25% Asset
Backed Notes (the “Class B Notes”), Class C 6.25% Asset Backed Notes (the “Class C Notes”) and
Class D Asset Backed Notes (the “Class D Notes” and, together with the Class A Notes, the Class B
Notes and the Class C 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 Holders of the Notes and the Hedge Counterparties (the “Secured Parties”),
all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to (a) the Receivables and all moneys received
thereon after November 1, 2007; (b) the security interests in the Financed Vehicles granted by
Obligors pursuant to the Receivables and any other interest of the Issuer in such Financed
Vehicles; (c) any proceeds with respect to the Receivables from claims on any physical damage,
credit life or disability insurance policies covering Financed Vehicles or Obligors; (d) any
proceeds from recourse to Dealers with respect to Receivables with respect to which the Servicer
has determined in accordance with its customary servicing procedures that eventual payment in full
is unlikely; (e) any Financed Vehicle that shall have secured a Receivable and that shall have been
acquired by or on behalf of the Seller, the Servicer or the Issuer; (f) all funds on deposit from
time to time in the Deposit Account (including any subaccount thereof), including the Reserve
Account Initial Deposit, and in all investments and proceeds thereof (including all income thereon)
(provided that the Hedge Counterparty shall have no rights in, to or under the Note Principal
Distribution Account or any amounts deposited therein or credited thereto); (g) the Sale and
Servicing Agreement (including the Issuer’s right to cause the Seller to repurchase Receivables
from the Issuer under certain circumstances described therein); (h) the Hedges, including all
Hedges hereinafter acquired or entered into by the Issuer, including, without limitation, all
monies due and to become due to the Issuer thereunder or in connection therewith, whether payable
as contractual payments thereunder, termination payments, damages for the breach thereof or
otherwise, and all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and claims of the Issuer under or with
respect to the Hedges (whether arising pursuant to the terms of the Hedges or otherwise available
to the Issuer at law or in equity), including, without limitation, the rights of the Issuer to
enforce the Hedges and to give or withhold any and all consents, requests, notices, directions,
approvals, extensions or waivers under or with respect to the Hedges and (i) 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 (collectively, the “Collateral”).

     The foregoing Grant is made in trust to secure the payment of principal of and interest on,
and any other amounts owing in respect of, the Notes, equally and ratably without prejudice,
priority or distinction, except as provided in this Indenture, to secure payments of all
obligations to the Hedge Counterparty under the Hedges 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 Secured Parties, acknowledges
such Grant, accepts the trusts under this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture and agrees to perform its duties required in this Indenture to the best of its ability to
the end that the interests of the Holders of the Notes may be adequately and effectively protected.

ARTICLE I

Definitions and Incorporation by Reference

     SECTION 1.01. Definitions. (a) Except as otherwise specified herein or as the
context may otherwise require, capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the
respective meanings set forth in the Sale and Servicing Agreement for all purposes of this
Indenture.

     (b) Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, the
following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture.

     “Act” has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a).

     “Administration Agreement” means the Administration Agreement dated as of November 1,
2007, among the Administrator, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee.

     “Administrator” means DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, a Michigan
limited liability company, or any successor Administrator under the Administration Agreement.

     “Affiliate” means, 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 means 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” have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.

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     “Authorized Officer” means, with respect to the Issuer, any officer of the Owner
Trustee or any agent acting pursuant to a power of attorney by the Owner Trustee who is authorized
to act for the Owner Trustee in matters relating to the Issuer and who is identified on the list of
Authorized Officers delivered by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date (as
such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time thereafter) and, so long as the
Administration Agreement is in effect, any Vice President or more senior officer of the
Administrator who is authorized to act for the Administrator in matters relating to the Issuer and
to be acted upon by the Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement and who is
identified on the list of Authorized Officers delivered by the Administrator to the Indenture
Trustee on the Closing Date (as such list may be modified or supplemented from time to time
thereafter).

     “Basic Documents” means the Certificate of Trust, the Trust Agreement, the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Purchase Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Note Depository
Agreement, the Hedges and other documents and certificates delivered in connection therewith.

     “Book-Entry Notes” means a beneficial interest in the Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2a
Notes, Class A-2b Notes, Class A-3a Notes, Class A-3b Notes and Class A-4 Notes and, when issued as
Book-Entry Notes pursuant to Section 2.11(a), Class B Notes and Class C Notes, ownership and
transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in
Section 2.11.

     “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking
institutions or trust companies in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law,
regulation or executive order to remain closed.

     “Certificate of Trust” means the restated certificate of trust of the Issuer
substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Trust Agreement.

     “Certificated Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11(b).

     “Class A Notes” means the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class A-3 Notes
and the Class A-4 Notes.

     “Class A-1 Interest Accrual Period” means the period from and including the most
recent Payment Date on which interest has been paid (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the
Closing Date) to but excluding the following Payment Date.

     “Class A-1 Interest Rate” means 4.945% per annum (computed on the basis of the actual
number of days in the Class A-1 Interest Accrual Period divided by 360).

     “Class A-1 Notes” means the Class A-1 4.945% Asset Backed Notes, substantially in the
form of Exhibit A-1.

     “Class A-2 Notes” means the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes.

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     “Class A-2a Interest Rate” means 4.94% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months).

     “Class A-2a Notes” means the Class A-2a Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2a.

     “Class A-2b Interest Rate” means LIBOR + 0.58% per annum (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days in the Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period divided by 360).

     “Class A-2b Notes” means the Class A-2b LIBOR + 0.58% Asset Backed Notes,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2b.

     “Class A-3 Notes” means the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes.

     “Class A-3a Interest Rate” means 5.00% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months).

     “Class A-3a Notes” means the Class A-3a 5.00% Asset Backed Notes, substantially in the
form of Exhibit A-3a.

     “Class A-3b Interest Rate” means LIBOR + 0.68% per annum (computed on the basis of the
actual number of days in the Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period divided by 360).

     “Class A-3b Notes” means the Class A-3b Floating Rate Asset Backed Notes,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A-3b.

     “Class A-4 Notes” means the Class A-4 5.28% Asset Backed Notes, substantially in the
form of Exhibit A-4.

     “Class A-4 Interest Rate” means 5.28% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day
year consisting of twelve 30-day months).

     “Class B Interest Rate” means 6.25% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months).

     “Class B Notes” means the Class B 6.25% Asset Backed Notes, substantially in the form
of Exhibit B.

     “Class C Interest Rate” means 6.25% per annum (computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months).

     “Class C Notes” means the Class C 6.25% Asset Backed Notes, substantially in the form
of Exhibit C.

     “Class D Notes” means the Class D Asset Backed Notes, substantially in the form of
Exhibit D.

     “Class D Payment Amount” means, with respect to any date, the sum of:

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     (a) the Total Distribution Amount remaining after application of clauses (A) through
(J) of Section 5.05(a)(ii) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement on such date;

     (b) all amounts in the Reserve Account available to be distributed on such date to the
Holders of Class D Notes pursuant to Section 5.06(d) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement;

     (c) all amounts in the Note Principal Distribution Account available to be distributed
on such date to the Holders of Class D Notes pursuant to Section 8.02(c)(v)(H) of the
Indenture;

     (d) the net Total Distribution Amount remaining after application of clauses FIRST
through SEVENTH of Section 5.04(b) of the Indenture on such date; and

     (e) if such date is the Class D Final Scheduled Payment Date, the Pool Balance as of
the immediately preceding date.

     “Class D Stated Principal Amount” shall mean $20,767,415.

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

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

     “Closing Date” means November 21, 2007.

     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “Collateral” has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of this Indenture.

     “Company” means Chrysler Residual Holdco LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,
any successor in interest and any transferee of the Class D Notes and the Certificates in
accordance with Section 5.06 of the Purchase Agreement.

     “Controlling Class” means the Class A Notes until they are paid in full; thereafter,
the Class B Notes until they are paid in full; thereafter the Class C Notes until they are paid in
full; and thereafter the Class D Notes until they are paid in full.

     “Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Indenture Trustee at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date
of execution of this Indenture is located at 388 Greenwich Street, 14th Floor, New York,
New York 10013, Attention: Structured Finance Agency and Trust—DCAT 2007-A, 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 at the
address designated by such successor Indenture Trustee by notice to the Noteholders and the Issuer.

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

     “Definitive Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.11.

     “Depositor” means DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas LLC.

     “Eligible Counterparty” means (i) a Person with commercial paper or short-term deposit
ratings which on the date of the related Hedge are equal to “A-1” or higher by Standard & Poor’s,
“F1” by Fitch and “P-1” by Moody’s, (ii) a Person that agrees that, in the event that its
commercial paper or short-term deposit rating is reduced below such ratings, it shall secure its
obligations under the Hedge to which it is a party or take such other actions as may reasonably be
requested by the Servicer (or the Administrator on behalf of the Issuer) and (iii) a Person the
unsecured debt obligations of which on the date of the related Hedge are rated at least “A” by
Standard & Poor’s, “A” by Fitch and “Aa3” by Moody’s.

     “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.

     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

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

     “Fitch” means Fitch, Inc., or its successors.

     “Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period” means the period from and including the most
recent Payment Date on which interest has been paid (or, in the case of the first Payment Date, the
Closing Date) to but excluding the following Payment Date.

     “Floating Rate Notes” means the Class A-2b Notes and the Class A-3b Notes.

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

     “Hedge” means any interest rate swap agreement or interest rate cap agreement obtained
by the Issuer pursuant to Section 3.21(a) of this Indenture.

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     “Hedge Counterparty” means any one or more institutions entering into or guaranteeing
a Hedge with the Issuer that is an Eligible Counterparty and has entered into a Hedge with the
Issuer, including any permitted assignee or successor under the Hedges. The initial Hedge
Counterparty shall be Goldman Sachs Mitsui Marine Derivative Products, L.P.

     “Hedge Assignment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 3.21(b) of this
Indenture.

     “Holder” or “Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered
on the Note Register.

     “Indenture Trustee” means Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized
under the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee under this Indenture, or any successor
Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

     “Independent” means, when used with respect to any specified Person, that the 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 Seller or any
Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons and (c) is not connected with the Issuer, any such other
obligor, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee,
promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner, director or person performing similar functions.

     “Independent Certificate” means a certificate or opinion to be delivered to the
Indenture Trustee under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the
applicable requirements of Section 11.01, made by an Independent appraiser or other expert
appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Indenture Trustee in the exercise of reasonable
care, and such opinion or certificate shall state that the signer has read the definition of
“Independent” in this Indenture and that the signer is Independent within the meaning thereof.

     “Interest Accrual Period” means, with respect to any Payment Date and the Notes, other
than the Class A-1 Notes and the Floating Rate Notes, the period from and including the eighth day
of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (or, in the case of the first Payment Date,
the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the month of such Payment Date.

     “Interest Rate” means the Class A-1 Interest Rate, the Class A-2a Interest Rate, the
Class A-2b Interest Rate, the Class A-3a Interest Rate, the Class A-3b Interest Rate, the Class A-4
Interest Rate, the Class B Interest Rate or the Class C Interest Rate.

     “Issuer” means DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A until a successor replaces it and,
thereafter, means the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and required by
the TIA, each other obligor on the Notes.

     “Issuer Order” or “Issuer Request” means 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.

     “LIBOR” means, with respect to any Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period, the rate per
annum for deposits in U.S. dollars for a period of one month which appears on the Reuters

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Screen LIBOR01 as of 11:00 a.m., London time as reported by Bloomberg Financial Commodities
News, on the day that is two LIBOR Business Days prior to the preceding Payment Date or, in the
case of the initial Payment Date, on the day that is two LIBOR Business Days prior to the Closing
Date. If that rate does not appear on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 (or any other page as may replace
that page on that service, or if that service is no longer offered, any other service for
displaying one-month LIBOR or comparable rates as may be selected by the Indenture Trustee after
consultation with the Depositor) then LIBOR will be the Reference Bank Rate.

     For purposes of this definition, “Reference Bank Rate” means, for any Payment
Date, a rate determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. dollars are
offered by reference banks as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the day that is two LIBOR
Business Days prior to the immediately preceding Payment Date to prime banks in the London
interbank market for a period of one month, in amounts approximately equal to the then
Outstanding Amount of the applicable Class of Floating Rate Notes. The reference banks
will be four major banks that are engaged in transactions in the London interbank market,
selected by the Indenture Trustee after consultation with the Depositor. The Indenture
Trustee will request the principal London office of each of the reference banks to provide
a quotation of its rate. If at least two quotations are provided, the rate will be the
arithmetic mean of the quotations, rounded upwards to the nearest one-sixteenth of one
percent. If on that date fewer than two quotations are provided as requested, the rate
will be the arithmetic mean, rounded upwards to the nearest one-sixteenth of one percent,
of the rates quoted by one or more major banks in New York City, selected by the Indenture
Trustee after consultation with the Depositor, as of 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on
that date to leading European banks for U.S. dollar deposits for a period of one month in
amounts approximately equal to the then Outstanding Amount of the applicable Class of
Floating Rate Notes. If no quotation can be obtained, then LIBOR will be the rate from the
prior Payment Date.

     “LIBOR Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on
which banks in London are required or authorized to be closed.

     “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

     “Notes” means Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4 Notes,
Class B Notes, Class C Notes or Class D Notes.

     “Note Depository Agreement” means the agreement dated November 20, 2007, between the
Issuer and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency, relating to 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, substantially in the form of Exhibit E.

     “Note Owner” or “Owner” means, with respect to a 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).

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     “Note Register” and “Note Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in
Section 2.05.

     “Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by any Authorized Officer of the
Issuer, under the circumstances described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable
requirements of Section 11.01, and delivered to the Indenture Trustee. Unless otherwise specified,
any reference in this Indenture to an Officer’s Certificate shall be to an Officer’s Certificate of
any Authorized Officer of the Issuer.

     “Opinion of Counsel” means one or more written opinions of counsel who may, except as
otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer and who
shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, and which opinion or opinions shall be addressed to
the Indenture Trustee as Indenture Trustee, shall comply with any applicable requirements of
Section 11.01 and shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee.

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

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

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

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

provided, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Outstanding Amount of the Notes
have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or
under any Basic Document, Notes owned by the Issuer, any other obligor upon the Notes, the Seller
or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons (but excluding the Class D Notes owned by a single
Affiliate of the Issuer and pledged to secure obligations held by non-Affiliate investors) shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Indenture
Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver, only Notes that the Indenture Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Indenture Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act
with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor upon the
Notes, the Seller or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons.

     “Outstanding Amount” means the aggregate principal amount of all Notes, or Class of
Notes, as applicable, Outstanding at the date of determination. For purposes of calculating the

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“Outstanding Amount”, the Class D Stated Principal Amount shall be deemed to be the aggregate
principal amount of the Class D Notes.

     “Owner Trustee” means The Bank of New York (Delaware), not in its individual capacity
but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement, or any successor Owner Trustee under the
Trust Agreement.

     “Paying Agent” means the Indenture Trustee or any other Person that meets the
eligibility standards for the Indenture Trustee specified in Section 6.11 and is authorized by the
Issuer to make payments to and distributions from the Deposit Account, including payments of
principal of or interest on the Notes on behalf of the Issuer.

     “Payment Date” has the meaning assigned to it in the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     “Payment Determination Date” has the meaning assigned to it in the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

     “Percentage Interest” means (a) with respect to the Certificates, the percentage
interest in the Trust represented by a particular Certificate, and (b) with respect to the Class D
Notes, the percentage of the Class D Stated Principal Amount represented by a particular Class D
Note.

     “Person” means any individual, limited liability company, corporation, estate,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including any beneficiary
thereof), unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

     “Predecessor Note” means, 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
the purpose of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 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.

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

     “Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement dated as of November 1, 2007 between
the Seller and the Company.

     “QIB” means qualified institutional buyer as defined in Rule 144A.

     “Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any action, that each Rating Agency
shall have been given 10 days (or such shorter period as is acceptable to each Rating Agency) prior
notice thereof and that each of Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s shall have notified the Seller, the
Servicer, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee in writing that such action will not result in a
reduction or withdrawal of the then current rating of the Senior Notes; provided, however, that
upon payment in full of the Senior Notes, “Rating Agency Condition” means, with respect to any
action, that the Holders of a majority of the Class D Stated Principal Amount of the Class D Notes
shall have consented in writing prior to the taking of such action.

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     “Rating Agency” means Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch. 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 Issuer, notice of
which designation shall be given to the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Servicer.

     “Record Date” means, with respect to a Payment Date or Redemption Date, the close of
business on the day immediately preceding such Payment Date or Redemption Date or, if Definitive
Notes have been issued pursuant to Section 2.13, the 15th day of the preceding month.

     “Redemption Date” means, in the case of a redemption of the Notes pursuant to
Section 10.01, the Payment Date specified by the Servicer or the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.01.

     “Redemption Price” means in connection with a redemption of the Notes pursuant to
Section 10.01, (a) in the case of the Senior Notes, an amount equal to the unpaid principal amount
of the Senior Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the weighted average of
the Interest Rates for each Class of Senior Notes being so redeemed to but excluding the Redemption
Date and (b) in the case of the Class D Notes, the Class D Payment Amount for the Redemption Date.

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

     “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Indenture Trustee, any officer within
the Corporate Trust Office of the Indenture Trustee, including any Managing Director, Director,
Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Associate or
any other officer of the Indenture Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject, in each case having direct responsibility for the
administration of this Indenture.

     “Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

     “Sale and Servicing Agreement” means the Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of
November 1, 2007, between the Issuer and DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, as Seller
and Servicer.

     “Schedule of Receivables” means the list of the Receivables set forth in Schedule A
(which Schedule may be in the form of microfiche).

     “Secured Parties” has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of this Indenture.

     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     “Seller” means DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, in its capacity as
seller under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and its successor in interest.

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     “Senior Notes” means Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4
Notes, Class B Notes and Class C Notes.

     “Servicer” means DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Americas LLC, in its capacity as
servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and any Successor Servicer thereunder.

     “Standard & Poor’s” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or its successors.

     “State” means any one of the 50 States of the United States of America or the District
of Columbia.

     “Successor Servicer” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(e).

     “Trust Estate” means all money, instruments, rights and other property that are
subject or intended to be subject to the lien and security interest of this Indenture for the
benefit of the Noteholders (including all property and interests Granted to the Indenture Trustee),
including all proceeds thereof.

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

     “UCC” means, unless the context otherwise requires, the Uniform Commercial Code, as in
effect in the relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to time.

     SECTION 1.02. 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:

     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

     “indenture securities” means the Notes.

     “indenture security holder” means a Noteholder.

     “indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

     “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Indenture Trustee.

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

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

     SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

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          (i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

          (ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time;

          (iii) “or” is not exclusive;

          (iv) “including” and its variations shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation”;

          (v) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; and

          (vi) 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.

ARTICLE II

The Notes

     SECTION 2.01. Form. The Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b Notes,
the Class A-3a Notes, the Class A-3b Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C
Notes and the Class D Notes, in each case together with the Indenture Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2a, Exhibit
A-2b, Exhibit A-3a, Exhibit A-3b, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B, Exhibit C and Exhibit D, respectively,
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification
and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes. 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.

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

     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-3a, Exhibit A-3b, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B,
Exhibit C and Exhibit D are part of the terms of this Indenture.

     SECTION 2.02. Execution, Authentication and Delivery. 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.

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     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.

     The Indenture Trustee shall upon Issuer Order authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes for
original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $414,000,000, Class A-2a Notes for original
issue in the aggregate principal amount of $206,000,000, Class A-2b Notes for original issue in the
aggregate principal amount of $630,000,000, Class A-3a Notes for original issue in the aggregate
principal amount of $290,000,000, Class A-3b Notes for original issue in the aggregate principal
amount of $115,000,000, Class A-4 Notes for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of
$448,500,000, Class B Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount of $106,800,000,
Class C Notes for original issue in the aggregate principal amount of $39,400,000 and Class D Notes
for original issue in the Class D Stated Principal Amount of $20,767,415. The aggregate principal
amount of Class A-1 Notes, Class A-2 Notes, Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4 Notes, Class B Notes, Class
C Notes and Class D Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed such respective amounts except as
provided in Section 2.06.

     Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Class A-1 Notes shall be
issuable as registered Notes in the minimum denomination of $100,000 and in integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof. The Class D Notes shall be issuable as registered Notes in the minimum
denomination of $1,000,000 and in integral multiples of $1 in excess thereof. The Class A-2 Notes,
Class A-3 Notes, Class A-4 Notes, Class B Notes and Class C Notes shall be issuable as registered
Notes in the minimum denomination of $1,000 and in integral multiples thereof.

     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 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 2.03. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of definitive Notes, the
Issuer may execute, and upon receipt of an Issuer Order the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, of the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such
variations not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture as the officers executing such Notes
may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such 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 3.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Issuer shall execute, and the
Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor, a like principal amount of
definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary

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Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Notes.

     SECTION 2.04. Limitations on Transfer of the Class A-1 Notes and the Class D Notes.
(a) The Class A-1 Notes and the Class D Notes have not been and will not be registered under the
Securities Act or any state or other applicable securities laws and will not be listed on any
exchange. No transfer of a Class A-1 Note or a Class D Note shall be made unless such transfer is
made pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, except that the initial sale shall be made
pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. Neither the Class A-1 Notes nor the Class D Notes
nor any interest or participation therein may be offered or sold except to a person who the seller
reasonably believes is a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A. Each
beneficial owner of a Class A-1 Note or a Class D Note is deemed to represent and warrant that it
is a QIB. The Seller shall provide to any Holder of a Class A-1 Note or a Class D Note and any
prospective transferee designated by any such Holder, information regarding the Class A-1 Notes or
the Class D Notes (as applicable) and the Receivables and 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 Class A-1 Note or Class D Note without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant
to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Holder of a Class A-1 Note or a Class D
Note desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Seller 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.

     (b) The Class D Notes may not be acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit
plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA,
(ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets
include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity (each, a “Benefit Plan”). By
accepting and holding a Class D Note, the Holder thereof shall be deemed to have represented and
warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan.

     (c) Subject to the restrictions set for in the Trust Agreement, a Holder of Class D Notes may
sell, transfer and assign its Class D Notes; provided, that the Indenture Trustee and the
Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer will not
cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable
as a corporation for federal income tax purposes or Michigan income and single business tax
purposes. Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Trust Agreement, compliance with the proviso
of the preceding sentence shall be a condition to the consummation of the transaction referred to
above.

     (d) The Class D Notes may be transferred only in accordance with the provisions of
Section 3.04(g) of the Trust Agreement. Nothwithstanding anything herein to the contrary but
subject to Section 2.04(e) below, no Class D Note shall be transferred without a simultaneous
transfer of an identical Percentage Interest of Certificates to the same transferee. Any purported
transfer of a Class D Note without such simultaneous transfer of Certificates will be null and void
ab initio. The Note Registrar and the Certificates Registrar shall maintain records with respect
to ownership and transfers of the Class D Notes identical in all respect to the records maintained
with respect to the Certificates.

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     (e) The preceding Section 2.04(d) shall not apply if the Holder of a Class D Note shall have
(at its sole expense) supplied the Indenture Trustee with an opinion of nationally recognized tax
counsel to the effect that a transfer of a Class D Note that is not in accordance with the
preceding Section 2.04(d) would not cause the Issuer to be treated as an corporation or an
association taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

     (f) The Owner Trustee shall cause each Class A-1 Note and each Class D Note to contain a
legend stating that transfer of the Class A-1 Notes and Class D Notes is subject to certain
restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Class A-1 Notes and the Class D Notes to
this Section 2.04 with respect to such restrictions.

     SECTION 2.05. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The Issuer shall
cause to be kept a register (the “Note Register”) in which the Issuer shall provide for the
registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes. The Indenture Trustee initially
shall be the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein
provided. Upon any resignation of any Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a
successor or, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.

     If a Person other than the Indenture Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the
Issuer will give the Indenture Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of such Note
Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register, and the
Indenture Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to
obtain copies thereof, and the Indenture Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate
executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Executive Officer thereof as to the names and
addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal amounts and number of such Notes.

     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Issuer
to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC
are met the Issuer shall execute, and the Indenture Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder
shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees,
one or more new Notes of the same Class in any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate
principal amount.

     At the option of the Holder, 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, and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate and the Noteholder shall obtain from the Indenture Trustee, the Notes
which the Noteholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

     Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly
endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in
writing. The Indenture Trustee shall be permitted to request such evidence reasonably satisfactory
to it documenting the identity and/or signature of the transferor and the transferee.

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     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.

     No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Notes, but the Issuer 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 2.03 or 9.06 not involving any transfer.

     The preceding provisions of this Section 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 due date for any payment with
respect to the Note.

     SECTION 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. If (i) any mutilated Note
is surrendered to the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee receives evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the
Indenture Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by it to hold the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the
Indenture Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, and provided that the
requirements of Sections 8-405 and 8-406 of the UCC are met, the Issuer shall execute, and upon
receipt of an Issuer Request 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 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 Redemption 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 bona fide purchaser of the original Note in lieu of
which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment such original Note, the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note (or such payment) from the
Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking such replacement Note from such Person to whom
such replacement Note was delivered or any assignee of such Person, except a bona fide purchaser,
and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of
any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee in connection
therewith.

     Upon the issuance of any replacement Note under this Section, the Issuer may require the
payment by the Holder 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) connected therewith.

     Every replacement Note issued pursuant to this Section in replacement of any mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
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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.

     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 Notes.

     SECTION 2.07. Persons Deemed Owner. Prior to due presentment for registration of
transfer of any Note, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the
Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered (as of the day of
determination) as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and
interest, if any, on, and any other amount owing in respect of, such Note and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture
Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.

     SECTION 2.08. 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-3a Notes, the Class A-3b Notes,
the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes and the Class C Notes shall accrue interest at the Class A-1
Interest Rate, the Class A-2a Interest Rate, the Class A-2b Interest Rate, the Class A-3a Interest
Rate, the Class A-3b Interest Rate, the Class A-4 Interest Rate, the Class B Interest Rate and the
Class C Interest Rate, respectively, as set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2a, Exhibit A-2b,
Exhibit A-3a, Exhibit A-3b, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B and Exhibit C, respectively, and such interest
shall be payable on each Payment Date as specified therein, subject to Section 3.01. Interest on
each Class of Notes, other than the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2b Notes and the Class A-3b Notes,
will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Interest on
the Class A-1 Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the Class A-1
Interest Accrual Period divided by 360. Interest on the Class A-2b Notes and the Class A-3b Notes
will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the Floating Rate Interest Accrual
Period divided by 360. Any installment of interest or principal payable on a Note that is
punctually paid or duly provided for by the Issuer on the applicable Payment Date shall be paid to
the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered on the Record
Date by check mailed first-class postage prepaid to such Person’s address as it appears on the Note
Register on such Record Date, except that, unless Definitive Notes have been issued 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 will be made by wire transfer
in immediately available funds to the account designated by such nominee, and except for the final
installment of principal payable with respect to such Note on a Payment Date or on the applicable
class final scheduled Payment Date (and except for the Redemption Price for any Note called for
redemption pursuant to Section 10.01) which shall be payable as provided below. The funds
represented by any such checks returned undelivered shall be held in accordance with Section 3.03.

     (b) The principal of each Senior Note shall be payable in installments on each Payment Date as
provided in the forms of the Senior Notes set forth in Exhibit A-1, Exhibit A-2a, Exhibit A-2b,
Exhibit A-3a, Exhibit A-3b, Exhibit A-4, Exhibit B and Exhibit C. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
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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 Holders of the Notes representing not less than a
majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have declared the Notes to be
immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02. All principal payments on each
Class of Notes shall be made pro rata to the Noteholders of such Class entitled thereto. The
Indenture Trustee shall notify the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of
business on the Record Date preceding the Payment Date on which the Issuer expects that the final
installment of principal of and interest on such Note will be paid. Such notice shall be mailed or
transmitted by facsimile prior to such final Payment Date and shall specify that such final
installment will be payable only upon presentation and surrender of such Note and shall specify the
place where such Note may be presented and surrendered for payment of such installment. Notices in
connection with redemptions of Notes shall be mailed to Noteholders as provided in Section 10.02.

     (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 Interest Rate in any lawful manner. The Issuer may pay such defaulted interest to the
persons who are Noteholders on a subsequent special record date, which date shall be at least five
Business Days prior to the payment date. The Issuer shall fix or cause to be fixed any such
special record date and payment date, and, at least 15 days before any such special record date,
the Issuer shall mail to each Noteholder a notice that states the special record date, the payment
date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid.

     (d) The Class D Notes shall be entitled to receive the Class D Payment Amount on each Payment
Date or Redemption Date, as provided in the form of the Class D Notes set forth in Exhibit D. All
distributions of the Class D Payment Amount shall be made pro rata to the Holders of Class D Notes
entitled thereto. Payments of the Class D Payment Amount on the Class D Notes are subordinated to
the payment of the interest, principal and any premium owed on the Senior Notes as provided herein.
The failure to pay the Class D Payment Amount on the Class D Final Scheduled Payment Date shall be
an Event of Default under Section 5.01(ii) of this Indenture.

     SECTION 2.09. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of
transfer, exchange or redemption shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Indenture
Trustee, be delivered to the Indenture Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture
Trustee. The Issuer may at any time deliver to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation any Notes
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Issuer may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Indenture Trustee. No
Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes may be held or
disposed of by the Indenture Trustee in accordance with its standard retention or disposal policy
as in effect at the time unless the Issuer shall direct by an Issuer Order that they be returned to
it; provided, that such Issuer Order is timely and the Notes have not been previously disposed of
by the Indenture Trustee.

     SECTION 2.10. Release of Collateral. Subject to Section 11.01 and the terms of the
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only upon receipt of an Issuer Request accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate, an Opinion of
Counsel and Independent Certificates in accordance with TIA §§ 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.

     SECTION 2.11. Book-Entry Notes; Certificated Notes. (a) (A) The Class A-1 Notes,
Class A-2a Notes, Class A-2b Notes, Class A-3a Notes, Class A-3b Notes and Class A-4 Notes, upon
original issuance, will and (B) Class B Notes and Class C Notes, at the option of the Issuer (or if
requested by a transferee thereof) may, 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 Owner
thereof will receive a definitive Note representing such Note Owner’s interest in such Note, except
as provided in Section 2.13. Unless and until definitive, fully registered Class A-1 Notes, Class
A-2a Notes, Class A-2b Notes, Class A-3a Notes, Class A-3b Notes and Class A-4 Notes and, in case
Class B Notes and/or Class C Notes have been issued as Book-Entry Notes, the Class B Notes and/or
Class C Notes (the “Definitive Notes”) have been issued to such Note Owners pursuant to
Section 2.13:

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

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

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

          (iv) the rights of Note Owners shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall
be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Note Owners and the Clearing
Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants pursuant to the Note Depository Agreement. Unless
and until Definitive Notes are issued pursuant to Section 2.13, the initial Clearing Agency will
make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments
of principal of and interest on the 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 Holders of Notes evidencing a specified percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes, 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 in the
Notes and has delivered such instructions to the Indenture Trustee.

     (b) Upon original issuance, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes will be
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“Certificated Note”) which shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner or a nominee thereof, duly
executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Indenture Trustee; provided that the Class B Notes
and the Class C Notes may be issued in the form of Book-Entry Notes pursuant to Section 2.11(a), in
which case the Issuer shall cooperate with any prospective transferee to enable the relevant
transfer to be exempted under Rule 144A or any other exemption from registration under the
Securities Act and to obtain any necessary securities identifiers (including CUSIPs) for such Class
B Notes and Class C Notes.

     SECTION 2.12. Notices to Clearing Agency. Whenever a notice or other communication to
the Noteholders is required under this Indenture, (a) with respect to the Book-Entry Notes, unless
and until Definitive Notes shall have been issued to such Note Owners pursuant to Section 2.13, the
Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
Holders of the Notes to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligation to such Note Owners and
(b) with respect to the Certificated Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall give all such notices and
communication to the Person in whose name such Certificated Note is registered.

     SECTION 2.13. Definitive Notes. If (i) the Administrator advises the Indenture
Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Notes and the Administrator is unable to locate a
qualified successor, (ii) the Administrator at its option advises the Indenture Trustee in writing
that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency or (iii) after the
occurrence of an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, Owners of the Book-Entry Notes
representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of such
Notes advise the Clearing Agency in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through
the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interests of such Note Owners, then the Clearing
Agency shall notify all
Note Owners and the Indenture Trustee of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of Definitive Notes to Note Owners requesting the same. Upon surrender to the
Indenture Trustee of the typewritten Notes representing the Book-Entry Notes by the Clearing
Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Issuer shall execute and the Indenture
Trustee shall authenticate the Definitive Notes in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing
Agency. None of the Issuer, the Note Registrar or the Indenture Trustee shall be liable for any
delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in
relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Notes, the Indenture Trustee shall
recognize the Holders of the Definitive Notes as Noteholders.

     SECTION 2.14. Tax Treatment. The Issuer has entered into this Indenture, and the
Senior Notes will be issued, with the intention that, for all purposes including federal, state and
local income, single business and franchise tax purposes, the Senior Notes will qualify as
indebtedness secured by the Trust Estate. The Issuer, by entering into this Indenture, and each
Noteholder, by its acceptance of a Senior Note (and each Note Owner by its acceptance of an
interest in the applicable Book-Entry Note), agree to treat the Senior Notes for all purposes
including federal, state and local income, single business and franchise tax purposes as
indebtedness of the Issuer. With respect to the Class D Notes, it is the intention of the parties
hereto that, solely for income and franchise tax purposes, (i) so long as there is a sole Holder of
Class D Notes, the Issuer shall be treated as a security arrangement, with the assets of the Issuer
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sole Holder of Class D Notes and the Senior Notes being non-recourse debt of the sole Holder of
Class D Notes and (ii) if there is more than one Holder of Class D Notes, the Issuer shall be
treated as a partnership for income and franchise tax purposes, with the assets of the partnership
being the Receivables and other assets held by the Issuer, the partners of the partnership being
the Holders of Class D Notes and the Senior being debt of the partnership.

     SECTION 2.15. 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 sale of the Trust Estate to the
Issuer and 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 the UCC.

     (c) The Issuer owns and has good and marketable title to the Receivables free and clear of any
lien, claim or encumbrance of any Person.

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

     (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 Servicer 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.

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ARTICLE III

Covenants

     SECTION 3.01. Payment of Principal and Interest and Other Amounts. The Issuer will
duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on, and any other amount owing in
respect of, the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. Without
limiting the foregoing, subject to Section 8.02(c), the Issuer will cause to be distributed all
amounts on deposit in the Deposit Account (including any subaccount thereof) and allocated for
distribution to the Noteholders on a Payment Date pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement (i)
for the benefit of the Class A-1 Notes, to the Class A-1 Noteholders, (ii) for the benefit of the
Class A-2a Notes, to the Class A-2a Noteholders, (iii) for the benefit of the Class A-2b Notes, to
the Class A-2b Noteholders, (iv) for the benefit of the Class A-3a Notes, to the Class A-3a
Noteholders, (v) for the benefit of the Class A-3b Notes, to the Class A-3b Noteholders, (vi) for
the benefit of the Class A-4 Notes, to the Class A-4 Noteholders, (vii) for the benefit of the
Class B Notes, to the Class B Noteholders, (viii) for the benefit of the Class C Notes, to the
Class C Noteholders and (ix) for the benefit of the Class D Notes, to the Class D Noteholders.
Amounts properly withheld under the Code by any Person from a payment to any Noteholder of interest
and/or principal or any other amount shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to such
Noteholder for all purposes of this Indenture.

     SECTION 3.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Issuer will maintain in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuer hereby initially appoints the
Indenture Trustee to serve as its agent for the
foregoing purposes. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Indenture Trustee of
the location, and of any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the
Issuer shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Indenture
Trustee with the address thereof, such surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee as its agent to
receive all such surrenders, notices and demands.

     SECTION 3.03. Money for Payments To Be Held in Trust. As provided in Section 8.02(a)
and (b), all payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Notes that are to be made from
amounts withdrawn from the Deposit Account pursuant to Section 8.02(c) shall be made on behalf of
the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by another Paying Agent, and no amounts so withdrawn from
the Deposit Account for payments of Notes shall be paid over to the Issuer except as provided in
this Section.

     On or before the Business Day preceding each Payment Date and Redemption Date, the Issuer
shall allocate or cause to be allocated in the Deposit Account for distribution to the Noteholders
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 Paying Agent is the
Indenture Trustee) shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee of its action or failure so to act.

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

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

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

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

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

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

     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 Paying Agent to pay to the
Indenture Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Indenture Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which the sums were held by such Paying Agent;
and upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Indenture Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such money.

     Subject to applicable laws with respect to escheat of funds, any money held by the Indenture
Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the payment of any amount due with respect to any 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 Holder 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 Paying Agent with respect to such trust money shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that
the Indenture Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall
at the expense and direction of the Issuer cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The
City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuer. The Indenture Trustee shall
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direction of the Issuer, any other reasonable means of
notification of such repayment (including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such repayment to
Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to
or interest in moneys due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of the
Indenture Trustee or of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record for each such Holder).

     SECTION 3.04. Existence. The Issuer will 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 will keep in full effect its existence, rights
and franchises under the laws of such other jurisdiction) and will obtain and preserve its
qualification to do business in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is or shall be
necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral
and each other instrument or agreement included in the Trust Estate.

     SECTION 3.05. Protection of Trust Estate. The Issuer will from time to time execute
and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and all such financing statements,
continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and will take such
other action necessary or advisable to:

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

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

          (iii) enforce any of the Collateral; or

          (iv) preserve and defend title to the Trust Estate and the rights of the Indenture Trustee and
the Noteholders in such Trust Estate against the claims of all persons and parties.

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 3.05.

     SECTION 3.06. Opinions as to Trust Estate. (a) On the Closing Date, the Issuer shall
furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording 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 31, in each calendar year, beginning in 2008, the Issuer shall furnish
to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
such action has been taken with respect to the recording, filing, re-recording and refiling of this
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respect to the filing of any financing statements and continuation statements as is necessary to maintain the
lien and security interest created by this Indenture and reciting the details of such action, or
stating that in the opinion of such counsel no such action is necessary to maintain such lien and
security interest. Such Opinion of Counsel shall also describe the recording, filing, re-recording
and refiling of this Indenture, any indentures supplemental hereto and any other requisite
documents and the execution and filing of any financing statements and continuation statements that
will, in the opinion of such counsel, be required to maintain the lien and security interest of
this Indenture until March 31 in the following calendar year.

     SECTION 3.07. Performance of Obligations; Servicing of Receivables. (a) The Issuer
will not take any action and will 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 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,
the Sale and Servicing Agreement or such other instrument or agreement.

     (b) The Issuer may contract with other Persons to assist it in performing its duties under
this Indenture, and any performance of such duties by a Person identified to the Indenture
Trustee in an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer shall be deemed to be action taken by the
Issuer. Initially, the Issuer has contracted with the Servicer and the Administrator to assist the
Issuer in performing its duties under this Indenture.

     (c) The Issuer will punctually perform and observe all of its obligations and agreements
contained in this Indenture, the Basic Documents and in the instruments and agreements included in
the Trust Estate, including but not limited to filing or causing to be filed all UCC financing
statements and continuation statements required to be filed by the terms of this Indenture and the
Sale and Servicing Agreement in accordance with and within the time periods provided for herein and
therein. Except as otherwise expressly provided therein, the Issuer shall not waive, amend,
modify, supplement or terminate any Basic Document or any provision thereof without the consent of
the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of at least a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

     (d) If the Issuer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of a Servicer Default under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee and the Rating
Agencies thereof, and shall specify in such notice the action, if any, the Issuer is taking with
respect to such default. If a Servicer Default shall arise from the failure of the 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 Servicer of the
Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Issuer shall appoint a successor servicer (the “Successor Servicer”), and such Successor Servicer
shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in a form acceptable to the Indenture Trustee.
In the event that a Successor Servicer has not been appointed and accepted its appointment at the
time when the Servicer ceases to act as Servicer, the Indenture Trustee without further action
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Trustee may resign as the
Servicer by giving written notice of such resignation to the Issuer and in such event will be
released from such duties and obligations, such release not to be effective until the date a new
servicer enters into a servicing agreement with the Issuer as provided below. Upon delivery of any
such notice to the Issuer, the Issuer shall obtain a new servicer as the Successor Servicer under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Any Successor Servicer other than the Indenture Trustee shall
(i) be an established financial institution having a net worth of not less than $100,000,000 and
whose regular business includes the servicing of Contracts 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 the Servicer. If within 30 days after the delivery of the
notice referred to above, the Issuer shall not have obtained such a new servicer, the Indenture
Trustee may appoint, or may petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint, a Successor
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 8.02 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). If the Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the Servicer’s
duties as servicer of the Receivables as provided herein, it shall do so in its individual capacity
and not in its capacity as Indenture Trustee and, accordingly, the
provisions of Article VI hereof shall be inapplicable to the Indenture Trustee in its duties
as the successor to the Servicer and the servicing of the Receivables. In case the Indenture
Trustee shall become successor to the Servicer under the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the
Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to appoint as Servicer any one of its affiliates, provided that
it shall be fully liable for the actions and omissions of such affiliate in such capacity as
Successor Servicer.

     (f) Upon any termination of the Servicer’s rights and powers pursuant to the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Issuer shall promptly notify the Indenture Trustee. As soon as a
Successor Servicer is appointed, the Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee of such appointment,
specifying in such notice the name and address of such Successor 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 agrees
(i) that it will not, without the prior written consent of the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of
at least a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes, 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 Basic Documents, or waive timely performance or observance by the Servicer or the
Seller under the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and (ii) that any such amendment shall not
(A) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of,
distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of the Noteholders or (B) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of the Notes that is required to consent to any such amendment, without the
consent of the Holders of all the Outstanding Notes. If any such amendment, modification,
supplement or waiver shall be so consented to by the Indenture Trustee or such Holders, the Issuer
agrees, promptly following a request by the Indenture Trustee to do so, to execute and deliver, in
its own name and at its own expense, such agreements, instruments, consents and other documents as
the Indenture Trustee may deem necessary or appropriate in the circumstances.

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     SECTION 3.08. Negative Covenants. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the Issuer
shall not:

          (i) except as expressly permitted by this Indenture, the Purchase 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 Trust Estate, unless directed to do so by the
Indenture Trustee;

          (ii) claim any credit on, or make any deduction from the principal or interest or any other
amount 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 any part of the Trust Estate;

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

          (iv) (A) permit the validity or effectiveness of this Indenture to be impaired, or permit the
lien of this Indenture to be amended, hypothecated, subordinated, terminated or discharged, or
permit any Person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to
the Notes under this Indenture except as may be expressly permitted hereby, (B) permit any
lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance (other than the lien
of this Indenture) to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the 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 Trust Estate.

     SECTION 3.09. Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Issuer will deliver to the
Indenture Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer (commencing with
the fiscal year 2007), 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 with all conditions and covenants under this Indenture throughout such year or, if there
has been a default in its compliance with any such condition or covenant, specifying each such
default known to such Authorized Officer and the nature and status thereof.

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

          (i) the Person (if other than the Issuer) formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger
shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
State and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to
the Indenture Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the

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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) to the effect that such transaction will not have any material
adverse tax consequence to the Issuer, any Noteholder or any Certificateholder;

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

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

     (b) The Issuer shall not convey or transfer any of its properties or assets, including those
included in the 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 (A) shall 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, in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and interest on all Notes and the performance or observance of every agreement and
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Issuer to be performed or observed, all as provided
herein, (C) expressly agrees by means of such supplemental indenture that all right, title and
interest so conveyed or transferred shall be subject and subordinate to the rights of Holders of
the Notes, (D) unless otherwise provided in such supplemental indenture, expressly agrees to
indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Issuer against and from any loss, liability or expense
arising under or related to this Indenture and the Notes and (E) expressly agrees by means of such
supplemental indenture that such Person (or if a group of Persons, then one specified Person) shall
make all filings 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;

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

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

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

     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), DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A will be released from every covenant and
agreement of this Indenture to be observed or performed on the part of the Issuer with respect to
the Notes immediately upon the delivery of written notice to the Indenture Trustee stating that
DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A is to be so released.

     SECTION 3.12. No Other Business. The Issuer shall not engage in any business other
than financing, purchasing, owning, selling and managing the Receivables in the manner contemplated
by this Indenture and the Basic Documents and activities incidental thereto. The Issuer shall not
fund the purchase of any new Contracts.

     SECTION 3.13. No Borrowing. The Issuer shall not issue, incur, assume, guarantee or
otherwise become liable, directly or indirectly, for any indebtedness.

     SECTION 3.14. Servicer’s Obligations. The Issuer shall cause the Servicer to comply
with Sections 4.09, 4.10, 4.11 and 5.07 and Article XI of the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     SECTION 3.15. Guarantees, Loans, Advances and Other Liabilities. Except as
contemplated by the Sale and Servicing Agreement or this Indenture, 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.

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     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. Removal of Administrator. So long as any Notes are Outstanding, the
Issuer shall not remove the Administrator without cause unless the Rating Agency Condition shall
have been satisfied in connection with such removal.

     SECTION 3.18. Restricted Payments. The Issuer shall not, directly or indirectly,
(i) pay any dividend or make any distribution (by reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in
cash, property, securities or a combination thereof, to the Owner Trustee or any owner of a
beneficial interest in the Issuer or otherwise with respect to any ownership or equity interest or
security in or of the Issuer or to the Servicer, (ii) redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire
for value any such ownership or equity interest or security or (iii) set aside or otherwise
segregate any amounts for any such purpose; provided, however, that the Issuer may make, or cause
to be made, (x) distributions as contemplated by, and to the extent funds are available for such
purpose under, the Sale and Servicing Agreement or the Trust Agreement and (y) payments to the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii) of the Administration Agreement. The Issuer will
not, directly or indirectly, make payments to or distributions from the Deposit Account except in
accordance with this Indenture and the Basic Documents.

     SECTION 3.19. Notice of Events of Default. The Issuer shall give the Indenture
Trustee and the Rating Agencies prompt written notice of each Event of Default hereunder and each
default on the part of the Servicer or the Seller of its obligations under the Sale and Servicing
Agreement and each default on the part of the Company or the Seller of its obligations under the
Purchase Agreement.

     SECTION 3.20. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Indenture Trustee,
the Issuer will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be
reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

     SECTION 3.21. Required Hedges. (a) The Issuer shall maintain, at all times on and
after the date of the Closing Date, Hedges in the form of either one or more interest rate swaps or
one or more interest rate caps, in each case, (i) between the Issuer and an Eligible Counterparty,
(ii) with an aggregate notional amount that equals or, in the case of an interest rate cap only,
exceeds the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Notes of the relevant Class on the Closing Date and
as of any date of determination thereafter, (iii) that, in the case of an interest rate swap,
provides for the payment on each Payment Date to the Hedge Counterparty of interest at a fixed rate
per annum and for payment to the Issuer of a floating rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus an
applicable spread, based upon a notional amount equal to the Outstanding Amount of the relevant
Class of Floating Rate Notes, (iv) that, in the case of an interest rate cap, has an effective
strike rate based on LIBOR plus an applicable spread, in each case based upon a notional amount
equal to the Outstanding Amount of the relevant Class of Floating Rate Notes, and that provides for
payments on each Payment Date to the Issuer equal to any positive difference between LIBOR and the
effective strike rate for such Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period, (v) with a final maturity
date which is the date of the last required scheduled payment on the Receivables, (vi) with respect
to which the Indenture Trustee has received a Hedge

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Assignment, (vii) which is either (I)
substantially in the form of Exhibit F or (II) otherwise in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee acting at the direction of the Controlling
Class and (viii) a copy of which has been delivered to the Indenture Trustee.

     (b) The Issuer agrees that at any time that it acquires any Hedge intended to satisfy the
requirements of Section 3.21(a), it shall execute and deliver to the Indenture Trustee an
assignment of all amounts payable to the Issuer under such Hedge substantially in the form of
Exhibit G (each a “Hedge Assignment”).

     (c) If at any time the long-term senior, unsecured debt rating from Moody’s assigned to a
Hedge Counterparty is reduced below “Aa3,” the Issuer shall, to the extent permitted under the
Hedge or Hedges to which such Hedge Counterparty is a party, require such Hedge Counterparty to
secure its obligations under such Hedge or take such other actions as are provided for thereunder
that are reasonably requested by the Servicer (or the Administrator on behalf of the Issuer).

ARTICLE IV

Satisfaction and Discharge

     SECTION 4.01. 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 and any other amount
owing in respect thereof, (iv) Sections 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.08, 3.10, 3.12 and 3.13, (v) the
rights, obligations and immunities of the Indenture Trustee hereunder (including the rights of the
Indenture Trustee under Section 6.07 and the obligations of the Indenture Trustee under
Section 4.02) and (vi) the rights of Noteholders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the
property so deposited with the Indenture Trustee payable to all or any of them, and the Indenture
Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, when:

          (A) either:

               (1) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Notes that have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06 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 3.03) have been delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation; or

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

          a. have become due and payable,

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          b. will become due and payable at the Class D Final Scheduled Date within one year, or

          c. are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Indenture Trustee in the name, and
at the expense, of the Issuer,

and the Issuer, in the case of a., b. or c. above, has irrevocably deposited or
caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Indenture Trustee cash or direct
obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States of America (which will
mature prior to the date such amounts are payable), in trust for such purpose, in an
amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation when due to the
applicable final scheduled Payment Date or Redemption Date (if Notes shall have been
called for redemption pursuant to Section 10.01), as the case may be;

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

          (C) the Issuer has delivered to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate, an
Opinion of Counsel and (if required by the TIA or the Indenture Trustee) an Independent
Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants, each meeting the applicable
requirements of Section 11.01(a) and, subject to Section 11.02, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture have been complied with.

     SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money. (a) All moneys deposited with the Indenture
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 hereof shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance
with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent, as the Indenture Trustee may determine, to the Holders of the particular Notes for
the payment or redemption of which such moneys have been deposited with the Indenture Trustee, of
all sums due and to become due thereon for principal and interest (or other amounts with respect to
the Class D Notes); but such moneys need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required herein or in the Sale and Servicing Agreement or required by law.

     (b) In the event that any withholding tax is imposed on the Trust’s payment (or allocations of
income) to a Noteholder, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the Noteholder
in accordance with this Section. The Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to retain from
amounts otherwise distributable to the Noteholders sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that
is legally owed by the Trust (but such authorization shall not prevent the Indenture Trustee from
contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if
permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax
imposed with respect to a Noteholder shall be treated as cash
distributed to such Noteholder at the time it is withheld by the Trust and remitted to the
appropriate taxing authority.

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     SECTION 4.03. Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Notes, all moneys then held by any
Paying Agent other than the Indenture Trustee under the provisions of this Indenture with respect
to such Notes shall, upon demand of the Issuer, be paid to the Indenture Trustee to be held and
applied according to Section 3.03 and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such moneys.

ARTICLE V

Remedies

     SECTION 5.01. Events of Default. “Event of Default”, wherever used herein, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

          (i) default in the payment of any interest on the Controlling Class when the same becomes due
and payable, and such default shall continue for a period of five days or more;

          (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 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 specifically dealt with), or any representation or warranty
of the Issuer made in this Indenture or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant
hereto or in connection herewith proving to have been incorrect in any material respect as of the
time when the same shall have been made, and such default shall continue or not be cured, or the
circumstance or condition in respect of which such misrepresentation or warranty was incorrect
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 Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class, a written notice specifying such default or incorrect representation or warranty
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a notice of Default hereunder; or

          (iv) 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 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 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

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          (v) 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 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, 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), its status and what
action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

     SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of
Default should occur and be continuing, then and in every such case the Indenture Trustee or the
Holders of Notes representing 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
unpaid principal amount of such Notes, together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon through
the date of acceleration, shall become immediately due and payable.

     At any time after such declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a
judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Indenture Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article V provided, the Holders of Notes representing a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, by written notice to the Issuer and the Indenture
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

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

               (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 hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Indenture Trustee and its agents and
counsel; and

          (ii) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the 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 5.03. 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
payment of any interest on any Note when the same becomes due and payable, and such default
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for a period of five days, or (ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of or
any installment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable, the Issuer
will, upon demand of the Indenture Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such
Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal and interest, with
interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent payment at such rate of interest shall be
legally enforceable, on overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the related Notes
and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Indenture Trustee and its agents 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 moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

     (c) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee may, as more
particularly provided in Section 5.04, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce its rights
and the rights of the Secured Parties, 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.

     (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 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,
or liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession
of the Issuer or its property or such other obligor or Person, or in case of any other comparable
judicial Proceedings relative to the Issuer or other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or
property of the Issuer or such other obligor, the Indenture Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of any Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Indenture Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to
the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
Proceedings or otherwise:

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

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

          (iii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the 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 Holders of Notes allowed in
any Proceedings relative to the Issuer, its creditors and its property;

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

     (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
Holder thereof or to authorize the Indenture Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Noteholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in
bankruptcy or similar Person.

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

     (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 Holders of the
Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Noteholder a party to any such Proceedings.

     SECTION 5.04. Remedies; Priorities. (a) If an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Indenture Trustee may do one or more of the following (subject to
Section 5.05):

          (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

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thereto,
whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained and collect from the Issuer and
any other obligor upon such Notes moneys adjudged due;

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

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

          (iv) sell the Trust Estate or any portion thereof or rights or interest therein, at one or
more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law;

provided, however, that the Indenture Trustee may not sell or otherwise liquidate the Trust Estate
following an Event of Default, other than an Event of Default described in Section 5.01(i) or (ii)
with respect to the Controlling Class, unless (A) the Holders of 100% of the Outstanding Amount of
the Senior Notes consent thereto, (B) the proceeds of such sale or liquidation distributable to the
Noteholders are sufficient to discharge in full all amounts then due and unpaid upon such Senior
Notes for principal and interest or (C) the Indenture Trustee determines that the Trust Estate will
not continue to provide sufficient funds for the payment of principal of and interest on the Senior
Notes as they would have become due if the Notes had not been declared due and payable, and the
Indenture Trustee obtains the consent of Holders of 66 2/3% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class. In determining such sufficiency or insufficiency with respect to clause (B) and
(C), 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 Trust Estate for such purpose.

     (b) If the Indenture Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article V, it
shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

          FIRST: first, to the Indenture Trustee for any amounts due under Section 6.07 and then
to the Servicer for any due and unpaid Servicing Fee;

          SECOND: to the Hedge Counterparty, an amount equal to the net scheduled periodic
payments, if any, then due under the Hedges,

          THIRD: on a pro rata basis, (1) to the Class A Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid
on the Class A Notes for interest (including any premium) ratably, and (2) to the Hedge
Counterparty swap termination payments (but excluding Subordinated Termination Payments)
then due under the Hedges, in each case, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Class A Notes for interest (including any
premium) and the amounts then due under the Hedges, as applicable;

          FOURTH: to the Class B Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the Class B Notes for
interest (including premium), ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on the Class B Notes for interest

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(including premium);
provided that if payment of the Notes has been accelerated because of an Event of Default
specified in clause (i), (ii), (iv) or (v) of Section 5.01, then the payments due to the
Class B Noteholders pursuant to this clause FOURTH shall instead be made only after the
Outstanding Amount of the Class A Notes has been reduced to zero pursuant to clause (d) in
clause SIXTH below;

          FIFTH: to the Class C Noteholders for amounts due and unpaid on the Class C Notes for
interest (including premium), ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on the Class C Notes for interest (including premium);
provided that if payment of the Notes has been accelerated because of an Event of Default
specified in clause (i), (ii), (iv) or (v) of Section 5.01, then the payments due to the
Class C Noteholders pursuant to this clause FIFTH shall instead be made only after the
Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes has been reduced to zero pursuant to clause (e) in
clause SIXTH below;

          SIXTH: to the Noteholders in the following order of priority:

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

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

          (c) to Holders of the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes, pro rata for amounts
due and unpaid on the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes for principal, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the
Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes for principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the
Class A-32a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes is reduced to zero;

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

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

          (f) to Holders of the Class C Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the Class C Notes for
principal, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to

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amounts due and
payable on the Class C Notes for principal, until the Outstanding Amount of the Class C
Notes is reduced to zero;

          SEVENTH: to the Hedge Counterparty, an amount equal to the Subordinated Termination
Payments, if any, then due under the Hedges; and

          EIGHTH: to Holders of the Class D Notes the net Total Distribution Amount remaining.

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

     SECTION 5.05. Optional Preservation of the Receivables. If the Notes have been
declared to be due and payable under Section 5.02 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 Trust Estate. 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 Trust Estate. In determining whether to
maintain possession of the 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 Trust Estate for such
purpose.

     SECTION 5.06. Limitation of Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any right to
institute any Proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:

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

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

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

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

          (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Indenture
Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the
Notes.

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It is understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes 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 Holders of Notes or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other Holders 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 Holders of Notes, each representing less than a majority of
the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion may determine
what action, if any, shall be taken, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture.

     SECTION 5.07. Unconditional Rights of Noteholders To Receive Principal and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Note shall have the
right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if
any, on such Note on or after the respective due dates thereof expressed in such Note or in this
Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date) and to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent
of such Holder.

     SECTION 5.08. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Indenture Trustee or any
Noteholder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and
such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason or has been determined adversely
to the Indenture Trustee or to such Noteholder, then and in every such case the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights
and remedies of the Indenture Trustee and the Noteholders shall continue as though no such
Proceeding had been instituted.

     SECTION 5.09. 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 Holder of any Note 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 an 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 Holders of a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall have the right to direct the time, method and

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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:

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

          (ii) subject to the express terms of Section 5.04, any direction to the Indenture Trustee to
sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be by Holders of Notes representing not less than 100% of
the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class;

          (iii) if the conditions set forth in Section 5.05 have been satisfied and the Indenture
Trustee elects to retain the Trust Estate pursuant to such Section, then any direction to the
Indenture Trustee by Holders of Notes representing less than 100% of the Outstanding Amount of the
Controlling Class to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate shall be of no force and effect; and

          (iv) 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, subject to Section 6.01, the
Indenture Trustee need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or
might materially adversely affect the rights of any Noteholders not consenting to such action.

     SECTION 5.12. Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of the acceleration
of the maturity of the Notes as provided in Section 5.02, the Holders of Notes of not less 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 payment of principal of or interest on any of the Notes or (b) in respect of a
covenant or provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder
of each Note. In the case of any such waiver, the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee and the Holders of
the Notes 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
Holder of a Note by such Holder’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

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provisions
of this Section 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 (c) any suit instituted by any Noteholder for
the enforcement of the payment of principal of or interest on any Note on or after the respective
due dates expressed in such Note and in this Indenture (or, in the case of redemption, on or after
the Redemption Date).

     SECTION 5.14. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this
Indenture; and the 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 will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Indenture Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

     SECTION 5.15. 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 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 Section 5.04(b).

     SECTION 5.16. Performance and Enforcement of Certain Obligations. (a) Promptly
following a request from the Indenture Trustee to do so and at the Administrator’s expense, 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 or the Servicer, as applicable, of each of their
obligations to the Issuer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement or by the
Seller or the Company, as applicable, of each of their obligations under or in connection with the
Purchase 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 Servicer thereunder and the institution of legal or
administrative actions or proceedings to compel or secure performance by the Seller or the Servicer
of each of their obligations under the Sale and Servicing Agreement.

     (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 Holders of 66 2/3% 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 Servicer under or in connection with the Sale and Servicing Agreement, or against the Company
or the Seller under or in connection with the Purchase Agreement, including the right or power to
take any action to compel or secure performance or observance by the Seller or the Servicer, or the
Company or the Seller, 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

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waiver under the Sale
and Servicing Agreement or the Purchase Agreement, as the case may be, and any right of the Issuer
to take such action shall be suspended.

ARTICLE VI

The Indenture Trustee

     SECTION 6.01. Duties of Indenture Trustee. (a) If an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Indenture Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

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

          (i) the Indenture Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
this Indenture against the Indenture Trustee; and

          (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely, as
to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates or opinions furnished to the Indenture Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; however, the Indenture Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.

     (c) The Indenture Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

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

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

          (iii) the Indenture Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 5.11.

     (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Indenture Trustee is
subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (g) of this Section.

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

     (f) Money held in trust by the Indenture Trustee need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law or the terms of this Indenture or the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.

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     (g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Indenture Trustee to expend or risk its
own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder
or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.

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

     SECTION 6.02. Rights of Indenture Trustee. (a) The Indenture Trustee may rely on any
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person.
The Indenture Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the 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) The Indenture Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good
faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided, that the
Indenture Trustee’s conduct 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) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any and all communications (both text and
attachments) by or from the Indenture Trustee that the Indenture Trustee in its sole discretion
deems to contain confidential, proprietary, and/or sensitive information and sent by electronic
mail will be encrypted. The recipient of the email communication will be required to complete a
one-time registration process. Information and assistance on registering and using the email
encryption technology can be found at the Indenture Trustee’s Secure website
www.citigroup.com/citigroup/citizen/privacy/email.htm or by calling (866) 535-2504 (in the U.S.) or
(904) 954-6181 at any time.

     SECTION 6.03. 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
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the same with like rights. However, the Indenture Trustee must comply with
Sections 6.11 and 6.12.

     SECTION 6.04. Indenture Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Indenture Trustee shall not be
responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the
Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it
shall not be responsible for any statement of the Issuer in the Indenture or in any document issued
in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other than the Indenture Trustee’s
certificate of authentication.

     SECTION 6.05. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing and if it is
known to a Responsible Officer of the Indenture Trustee, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to each
Noteholder notice of the Default within 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 withhold the notice if and so long
as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is
in the interests of Noteholders.

     SECTION 6.06. Reports by Indenture Trustee to Holders of Senior Notes. The Indenture
Trustee shall deliver such information that is either required by applicable law or is requested in
writing by a Noteholder of Senior Notes in order to enable such Noteholder to prepare its federal
and state income tax returns.

     SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer shall, or shall cause the
Administrator to, pay to the Indenture Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its
services pursuant to a fee agreement between the Administrator and the Indenture Trustee. The
Indenture Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an
express trust. The Issuer shall, or shall cause the Administrator to, reimburse the Indenture
Trustee for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by
it, 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, or shall cause the
Administrator to, indemnify and hold harmless the Indenture Trustee and its officers, directors,
employees, representatives and agents against any and all loss, liability, tax (other than taxes
based on the income of the Indenture Trustee) or expense (including attorneys’ fees) of whatever
kind or nature regardless of their merit directly or indirectly incurred by it or them without
willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture, including the
reasonable costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties under this
Indenture or under any of the other Basic Documents. The Indenture Trustee shall notify the Issuer
and the Administrator promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the
Indenture Trustee to so notify the Issuer and the Administrator shall not relieve the Issuer or the
Administrator of its obligations hereunder. The Issuer shall, or shall cause the Administrator to,
defend any such claim, and the Indenture Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall, or
shall cause the Administrator to, pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. Neither the Issuer
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or
expense incurred by the Indenture Trustee through the Indenture Trustee’s own willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith.

     The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section shall
survive the discharge of this Indenture. When the Indenture Trustee incurs expenses after the
occurrence of a Default specified in Section 5.01(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 6.08. Replacement of Indenture Trustee. 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 6.08.
The Indenture Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Issuer. The Holders of a majority
in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may remove the Indenture Trustee by so notifying the Indenture
Trustee 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) the Indenture Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent;

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

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

If the Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed 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.

     A successor Indenture Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the
retiring Indenture Trustee and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Indenture Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Indenture Trustee shall have all the
rights, powers and duties of the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Indenture
Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Noteholders. The retiring Indenture Trustee shall
promptly transfer all property held by it as Indenture Trustee to the successor Indenture Trustee.

     If a successor Indenture Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring
Indenture Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Indenture Trustee, the Issuer or the Holders
of a majority in Outstanding Amount of the Notes may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Indenture Trustee.

     If the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with Section 6.11, any Noteholder may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Indenture Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Indenture Trustee.

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     Notwithstanding the replacement of the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Section, the
Issuer’s and the Administrator’s obligations under Section 6.07 shall continue for the benefit of
the retiring Indenture Trustee.

     SECTION 6.09. Successor Indenture Trustee by Merger. If the Indenture Trustee
consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its corporate
trust business or assets to, another corporation or banking association, the resulting, surviving
or transferee corporation 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. The Indenture Trustee shall provide the Rating Agencies prior written notice
of any such transaction.

     In case at the time such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation to the
Indenture Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the 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; and in all such cases such certificates shall
have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided 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 Trust Estate may at the time be
located, the Indenture Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments to
appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees, or separate trustee or separate
trustees, of all or any part of the Trust, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity
and for the benefit of the Noteholders, such title to the Trust Estate, or any part hereof, and,
subject to the other provisions of this Section, 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 6.08 hereof.

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

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

          (ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any
other trustee hereunder; and

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

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

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

     SECTION 6.11. Eligibility; Disqualification. (a)  The Indenture Trustee shall at all
times satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a). The Indenture Trustee 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 the time deposits of the Indenture Trustee shall be rated at least “A-1” by
Standard & Poor’s, “P-1” by Moody’s and “F1” by Fitch. The Indenture Trustee shall comply with TIA
§ 310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of TIA § 310(b)(9);
provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture
or indentures under which other securities of the Issuer are outstanding if the requirements for
such exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are met.

     (b) Within ninety (90) days after ascertaining the occurrence of an Event of Default which
shall not have been cured or waived, unless authorized by the Commission, the Indenture Trustee
shall resign with respect to the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Note and the Class D
Notes in accordance with Section 6.08 of this Indenture, and the Issuer shall appoint a successor
Indenture Trustee for each of such Classes, as applicable, so that there will be separate Indenture
Trustees for the Class A Notes, the Class B Notes, the Class C Notes and the Class D Notes. In the
event the Indenture Trustee fails to comply with the terms of the preceding sentence, the Indenture
Trustee shall comply with clauses (ii) and (iii) of TIA Section 310(b).

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

     SECTION 6.12. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuer. The Indenture Trustee
shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). An
Indenture Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent
indicated.

     SECTION 6.13. Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act Licenses. The Indenture
Trustee shall use its best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of all licenses required under the
Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act in connection with this Indenture and the transactions
contemplated hereby until the lien and security interest of this Indenture shall no longer be in
effect in accordance with the terms hereof.

ARTICLE VII

Noteholders’ Lists and Reports

     SECTION 7.01. Issuer To Furnish Indenture Trustee Names and Addresses of Noteholders.
The Issuer will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Indenture Trustee (a) not more than five
days after the earlier of (i) each Record Date and (ii) three months after the last Record Date, a
list, in such form as the Indenture Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of
the Holders of Notes as of such Record Date, and (b) at such other times as the Indenture Trustee
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 10 days prior to the time such list is
furnished; provided, however, that so long as the Indenture Trustee is the Note Registrar, no such
list shall be required to be furnished.

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     SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Noteholders. (a) The
Indenture Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and
addresses of the Holders of Notes contained in the most recent list furnished to the Indenture
Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of Notes received by the
Indenture Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar. The Indenture Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in such Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

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

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

     SECTION 7.03. Reports by Issuer. (a) The Issuer shall:

          (i) file with the Indenture Trustee, 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 and the Commission in accordance with 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 Indenture Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Noteholders described in TIA § 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 7.03(a) and by
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.

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

     SECTION 7.04. Reports by Indenture Trustee. If required by TIA § 313(a), within
60 days after each February 1 beginning with February 1, 2008 the Indenture Trustee shall mail to
each Noteholder as required by TIA § 313(c) a brief report dated as of such date that complies with
TIA § 313(a). The Indenture Trustee also shall comply with TIA § 313(b).

     A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Noteholders shall be filed by the
Indenture Trustee with the Commission and each stock exchange, if any, on which the Notes are
listed. The Issuer shall notify the Indenture Trustee if and when the Notes are listed on any
stock exchange.

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ARTICLE VIII

Accounts, Disbursements and Releases

     SECTION 8.01. Collection of Money. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the
Indenture Trustee may demand payment or delivery of, and shall receive and collect, directly and
without intervention or assistance of any fiscal agent or other intermediary, all money and other
property payable to or receivable by the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this Indenture. The
Indenture Trustee shall apply all such money received by it as provided in this Indenture. Except
as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, if any default occurs in the making of any
payment or performance under any agreement or instrument that is part of the 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 8.02. Deposit Account. (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Issuer shall
cause the Servicer to establish and maintain, in the name of the Indenture Trustee, for the benefit
of the Secured Parties, the Deposit Account as provided in Section 5.01 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Note Principal Distribution Account and the Reserve Account shall be part of the
Deposit Account.

     (b) On or before each Payment Date, the Total Distribution Amount (net of the Servicing Fee
for such Payment Date and any previously unpaid Servicing Fees and any other distributable amounts
that are to be allocated for distribution or release to the Seller) with respect to the preceding
Collection Period will be deposited in the Deposit Account as provided in Section 5.02 of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement. The Indenture Trustee shall allocate amounts in the Deposit Account for
distribution to the Secured Parties in accordance with Sections 5.05 and 5.06 of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement.

     (c) Subject to Section 5.04(b), on each Payment Date and the Redemption Date, the Indenture
Trustee shall distribute all amounts allocated in the Deposit Account for distribution to the Hedge
Counterparty and the Noteholders in respect of the Notes to the extent of amounts due and unpaid on
the Notes for principal, interest (including any premium) and other amounts in the following
amounts and in the following order of priority (except as otherwise provided in Section 5.04(b)):

          (i) to the Hedge Counterparty, an amount equal to the net scheduled periodic payments, if any;
and

          (ii) on a pro rata basis, (1) to the Hedge Counterparty, an amount equal to termination
payments, if any, excluding Subordinated Termination Payments and (2) accrued and unpaid interest
on the Class A Notes; provided, that if there are not sufficient funds allocated in the Deposit
Account for distribution to the Hedge Counterparty and the Class A Noteholders to pay the entire
amount of such termination payments and accrued and unpaid interest then due on the Class A Notes,
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to the Hedge
 Counterparty and the Class A Noteholders shall be applied to the payment of such termination
payments and such interest on the Class A Notes, respectively, pro rata on the basis of the total
of such payments or interest, respectively, due on the Hedge Counterparty and the Class A Notes;
and

          (iii) accrued and unpaid interest on the Class B Notes; provided, that if there are not
sufficient funds allocated in the Deposit Account for distribution pursuant to this clause to the
Class B Noteholders to pay the entire amount of accrued and unpaid interest then due on the Class B
Notes, the amount allocated in the Deposit Account for distribution to the Class B Noteholders
shall be applied to the payment of such interest on the Class B Notes pro rata on the basis of the
total of such interest due on the Class B Notes; and

          (iv) accrued and unpaid interest on the Class C Notes; provided, that if there are not
sufficient funds allocated in the Deposit Account for distribution to the Class C Noteholders to
pay the entire amount of accrued and unpaid interest then due on the Class C Notes, the amount
allocated in the Deposit Account for distribution to the Class C Noteholders shall be applied to
the payment of such interest on the Class C Notes pro rata on the basis of the total of such
interest due on the Class C Notes; and

          (v) the amount in the Note Principal Distribution Account shall be applied to pay principal on
the Notes and other amounts set forth below in the following order of priority:

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

               (B) to the Holders of the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes, pro rata, on account of
principal until the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes
is reduced to zero;

               (C) to the Holders of the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes, pro rata, on account of
principal until the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-3a Notes and the Class A-3b Notes
is reduced to zero;

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

               (E) to the Holders of the Class B Notes on account of principal until the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of the Class B Notes is reduced to zero;

               (F) to the Holders of the Class C Notes on account of principal until the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of the Class C Notes is reduced to zero;

               (G) to the Hedge Counterparty, an amount equal to the Subordinated Termination Payments, if
any; and

               (H) to the Holders of the Class D Notes any remaining balance.

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If the amounts called for pursuant to Section 5.05(a)(ii)(K) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement
have not been netted out of the Total Distribution Amount as permitted under that Section under
certain circumstances, then after making the distributions to the Hedge Counterparty pursuant to
Section 5.05(a)(ii) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement and to the Noteholders in this Section
8.02(c) and subject to Section 8.04, the Indenture Trustee shall make the distributions, if any, to
the Class D Noteholders called for pursuant to Section 5.05(a)(ii)(K) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, if payment of the Notes has been accelerated and such
acceleration has not been rescinded in accordance with this Indenture, the amounts in the Deposit
Account shall be paid in accordance with Section 5.04(b).

     SECTION 8.03. 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
Deposit Account shall be invested in Eligible Investments and reinvested by the Indenture Trustee
(or the investment manager referred to in clause (2) of Section 5.01(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) upon Issuer Order, subject to the provisions of Section 5.01(b) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement. All income or other gain from investments of moneys deposited in the Deposit
Account shall remain on deposit in the Deposit Account, and any loss resulting from such
investments shall be charged to such account. The Issuer will not direct the Indenture Trustee to
make any investment of any funds or to sell any investment held in the Deposit Account unless the
security interest Granted and perfected in such Deposit Account will continue to be perfected in
such investment or the proceeds of such sale, in either case without any further action by any
Person, and, in connection with any
direction to the Indenture Trustee to make any such investment or sale, if requested by the
Indenture Trustee, the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee an Opinion of Counsel,
acceptable to the Indenture Trustee, to such effect.

     (b) Subject to Section 6.01(c), the Indenture Trustee shall not in any way be held liable by
reason of any insufficiency in the Deposit Account resulting from any loss on any Eligible
Investment included therein except for losses attributable to the Indenture Trustee’s failure to
make payments on such Eligible Investments issued by the Indenture Trustee, in its commercial
capacity as principal obligor and not as trustee, in accordance with their terms.

     (c) If (i) the Issuer (or the Servicer or any investment manager pursuant to Section 5.01(b)
of the Sale and Servicing Agreement) shall have failed to give investment directions for any funds
on deposit in the Deposit Account to the Indenture Trustee by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (or such
other time as may be agreed by the Issuer and Indenture Trustee) on any Business Day or (ii) 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 5.02 or (iii) if such Notes
shall have been declared due and payable following an Event of Default but amounts collected or
receivable from the Trust Estate are being applied in accordance with Section 5.05 as if there had
not been such a declaration, then the Indenture Trustee shall, to the fullest extent practicable,
invest and reinvest funds in the Deposit Account in one or more Eligible Investments.

     SECTION 8.04. Release of Trust Estate. (a) Subject to the payment of its fees and
expenses pursuant to Section 6.07, 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,
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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 moneys.

     (b) The Indenture Trustee shall, at such time as there are no Notes Outstanding and all sums
due the Indenture Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07 have been paid, release any remaining portion of
the 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 Deposit Account. The
Indenture Trustee shall release property from the lien of this Indenture pursuant to this
Section 8.04(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
§§ 314(c) and 314(d)(1) meeting the applicable requirements of Section 11.01.

     (c) Each Noteholder, by the acceptance of a Note, acknowledges that promptly following the
Closing Date the Indenture Trustee shall release, and does hereby release, the lien of this
Indenture on each Fixed Value Payment and Fixed Value Finance Charges (subject to
Section 5.03(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement), if any, assigned by the Issuer to the
Seller, and consents to such release.

     SECTION 8.05. Opinion of Counsel. The Indenture Trustee shall receive at least seven
days’ notice when requested by the Issuer to take any action pursuant to Section 8.04(a),
accompanied by copies of any instruments involved, and the Indenture Trustee shall also require,
except in connection with any action contemplated by Section 8.04(c), as a condition to such
action, an Opinion of Counsel, in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, stating
the legal effect of any such action, outlining the steps required to complete the same, and
concluding that all conditions precedent to the taking of such action have been complied with and
such action 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 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 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders. (a) Without
the consent of the Holders of any Notes but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies and the Hedge
Counterparty, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, at any time
and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto (which shall
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the execution
thereof), in form satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

          (i) to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of
this Indenture, or better to assure, convey and confirm unto the Indenture Trustee any property
subject or required to be subjected to the lien of this Indenture, or to subject to the lien of
this Indenture additional property;

          (ii) to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions hereof, of
another person to the Issuer, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the
Issuer herein and in the Notes contained;

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

          (iv) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Indenture
Trustee;

          (v) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein or in any
supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with the prospectus, the prospectus supplement or
any other disclosure document prepared in connection with the offering of the Notes, any other
provision herein or in any supplemental indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture; provided, that
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the Notes;

          (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 effect the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA or under any similar
federal statute hereafter enacted and to add to this Indenture such other provisions as may be
expressly required by the TIA.

The Indenture Trustee is hereby authorized to join in the execution of any such supplemental
indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein
contained.

     (b) The Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, may, also
without the consent of any of the Holders of the Notes but with prior notice to the Rating Agencies
and the Hedge Counterparty, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of, this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this
Indenture; provided, however, that such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel,
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Noteholder.

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     SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Noteholders. The Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, when authorized by an Issuer Order, also may, with prior notice to the Rating
Agencies and with the consent of the Hedge Counterparty and the Holders of not less than a majority
of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, by Act of such Holders delivered to the Issuer and the
Indenture Trustee, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, this
Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this
Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

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

          (ii) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes, the consent of the Holders
of which is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of the Holders of which is
required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture;

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

          (iv) reduce the percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes required to direct the
Indenture Trustee to direct the Issuer to sell or liquidate the Trust Estate pursuant to
Section 5.04;

          (v) modify any provision of this Section except to increase any percentage specified herein or
to provide that certain additional provisions of this Indenture or the Basic Documents cannot be
modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby;

          (vi) modify any of the provisions of this Indenture in such manner as to affect the
calculation of the amount of any payment of interest or principal due on any Note on any Payment
Date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation) or to
affect the rights of the Holders of Notes to the benefit of any provisions for the mandatory
redemption of the Notes contained herein; or

          (vii) permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of this
Indenture with respect to any part of the Trust Estate or, except as otherwise permitted or

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contemplated herein, terminate the lien of this Indenture on any property at any time subject
hereto or deprive the Holder of any Note of the security provided by the lien of this Indenture.

The Indenture Trustee may in its discretion determine whether or not any Notes would be affected by
any supplemental indenture and any such determination shall be conclusive upon the Holders of all
Notes, whether theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Indenture
Trustee shall not be liable for any such determination made in good faith.

     It shall not be necessary for any Act of Noteholders under this Section to approve the
particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof.

     Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Section, the Indenture Trustee shall mail to the Holders of the Notes to
which such amendment or supplemental indenture relates a notice setting forth in general terms the
substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Indenture Trustee to mail such
notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such supplemental indenture.

     Prior to the payment in full of the Senior Notes, this Indenture may be amended upon the
request of any Holder of Class D Notes to permit the transfer of the Class D Notes other than in
accordance with Section 2.04(d), which amendment may include the addition or deletion of any
provisions appropriate thereto; provided that the requesting Holder of Class D Notes shall
have (at its sole expense) supplied the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee with an opinion of
nationally recognized counsel to the effect that the execution of such amendment will not result in
the recognition by any Holder of a Senior Note of a “taxable event” within the meaning of
Section 1001 of the Code or adversely affect any rights or remedies of any Holder of a Senior Note.

     Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 9.02 and 9.03, no amendment, indenture or
supplemental indenture hereto shall be effective in the event that such amendment, indenture or
supplemental indenture materially and adversely effects the Hedge Counterparty and the Hedge
Counterparty’s prior written consent shall not have been obtained.

     SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or permitting the
additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article IX or the
modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and subject to Sections 6.01 and 6.02, shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized
or permitted by this Indenture. The Indenture Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Indenture Trustee’s own rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

     SECTION 9.04. 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
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immunities under this Indenture of the Indenture Trustee, the Issuer and the Holders of the Notes
shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture
shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all
purposes.

     SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment of this Indenture
and every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX shall conform to the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect so long as this Indenture shall then be
qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.

     SECTION 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article IX may, and if
required by the Indenture Trustee shall, bear a notation in form approved by the Indenture Trustee
as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified
as to conform, in the opinion of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, to any such supplemental
indenture may be prepared and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by the
Indenture Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.

ARTICLE X

Redemption of Notes

     SECTION 10.01. Redemption. The outstanding Class A Notes, Class B Notes, Class C
Notes and Class D Notes are subject to redemption in whole, but not in part, at the direction of
the Servicer pursuant to Section 9.01(a) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, on any Payment Date
on which the Servicer exercises its option to purchase the Trust Estate pursuant to said
Section 9.01(a), for a purchase price equal to the Redemption Price; provided that the Issuer has
available funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price. The Servicer or the Issuer shall furnish
the Rating Agencies notice of such redemption. If the outstanding Class A, Class B Notes, Class C
Notes and Class D Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to this Section, the Servicer or the Issuer
shall furnish notice of such election to the Indenture Trustee not later than 20 days prior to the
Redemption Date and the Issuer shall deposit by 9:00 a.m. New York City time on the
Redemption Date with the Indenture Trustee in the Deposit Account the Redemption Price of the Class
A Notes, Class B Notes, Class C Notes and Class D Notes to be redeemed, whereupon all such Class A
Notes, Class B Notes, Class C Notes and Class D Notes shall be due and payable on the Redemption
Date upon the furnishing of a notice complying with Section 10.02 to each Holder of the Notes.

     SECTION 10.02. Form of Redemption Notice. Notice of redemption under Section 10.01
shall be given by the Indenture Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, by facsimile or by
electronic mail and mailed or transmitted not later than 10 days prior to the applicable Redemption
Date to each Holder of Notes, as of the close of business on the Record

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Date preceding the
applicable Redemption Date, at such Holder’s address or facsimile number appearing in the Note
Register.

     All notices of redemption shall state:

          (i) the Redemption Date;

          (ii) the Redemption Price; and

          (iii) the place where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price
(which shall be the office or agency of the Issuer to be maintained as provided in Section 3.02).

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

     SECTION 10.03. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. The Notes or portions thereof to be
redeemed shall, following notice of redemption as required by Section 10.02, on the Redemption Date
become due and payable at the Redemption Price and (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment
of the Redemption Price) no interest shall accrue on the Redemption Price for any period after the
date to which accrued interest is calculated for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.

ARTICLE XI

Miscellaneous

     SECTION 11.01. Compliance Certificates and Opinions, etc. (a) Upon any application
or request by the Issuer to the Indenture Trustee to take any action under any provision of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Indenture Trustee (i) an Officer’s Certificate stating
that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed
action have been complied with, (ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with and (iii) (if required by
the TIA) an Independent Certificate from a firm of certified public accountants meeting the
applicable requirements of this Section, 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:

     (1) 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;

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     (2) 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;

     (3) 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

     (4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such signatory, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.

     (b) (i) Prior to the deposit of any Collateral or other property or securities with the
Indenture Trustee that is to be made the basis for the release of any property or securities
subject to the lien of this Indenture, the Issuer shall, in addition to any obligation
imposed in Section 11.01(a) or elsewhere in this Indenture, furnish to the Indenture Trustee
an Officer’s Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of each person signing such
certificate as to the fair value (within 90 days of such deposit) to the Issuer of the
Collateral or other property or securities to be so deposited.

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

     (iii) Whenever any property or securities are to be released from the lien of this
Indenture, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s Certificate
certifying or stating (A) 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, (B) that there are
in place all Hedges required by the provisions of Section 3.21(a) and certifying that those
Hedges have been assigned to the Indenture Trustee in accordance with the provisions of
Section 3.21(b) and (C) that there are no termination payments to the Hedge Counterparty
under the Hedges which are unpaid or outstanding.

     (iv) Whenever the Issuer is required to furnish to the Indenture Trustee an Officer’s
Certificate certifying or stating the opinion of any signer thereof as to the matters
described in clause (iii) above, the Issuer shall also furnish to the Indenture Trustee an
Independent Certificate as to the same matters if the fair value of the property

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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 Outstanding Amount of the Notes, but such
certificate need not be furnished in the case of any release of property or securities if
the fair value thereof as set forth in the related Officer’s Certificate is less than
$25,000 or less than one percent of the then Outstanding Amount of the Notes.

     (v) Notwithstanding Section 2.10 or any other provision of this Section, the Issuer
may, without compliance with the requirements of the other provisions of this Section, (A)
collect, liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of Receivables and Financed Vehicles as and to
the extent permitted or required by the Basic Documents, (B) make
cash payments out of the Deposit Account as and to the extent permitted or required by
the Basic Documents and (C) convey to the Seller each Fixed Value Payment and Fixed Value
Finance Charges (subject to Section 5.03(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement), so long as
the Issuer shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee every six months, commencing January 15,
2008, an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer stating that all the dispositions of Collateral
described in clauses (A), (B) and (C) above that occurred during the preceding six calendar
months were in the ordinary course of the Issuer’s business and that the proceeds thereof
were applied in accordance with the Basic Documents.

     SECTION 11.02. Form of Documents Delivered to Indenture Trustee. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person,
it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one
such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may
certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to
other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or
several documents.

     Any certificate or opinion of an Authorized Officer of the Issuer may be based, insofar as it
relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless
such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or
opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which such officer’s certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate of an Authorized Officer or Opinion of
Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, an officer or officers of the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer or the
Administrator, stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the
possession of the Servicer, the Seller, the Issuer or the Administrator, unless such counsel knows,
or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.

     Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.

     Whenever in this Indenture, in connection with any application or certificate or report to the
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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 right to rely upon the truth and accuracy
of any statement or opinion contained in any such document as provided in Article VI.

     SECTION 11.03. Acts of Noteholders (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Noteholders may be embodied in and evidenced by
one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Noteholders in person or by
agents duly appointed in writing; and except as herein otherwise expressly provided such action
shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Indenture Trustee
and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Issuer. Such instrument or instruments (and the
action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the
Noteholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or
of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and
(subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Indenture Trustee and the Issuer, if made in
the manner provided in this Section.

     (b) The fact and date of the execution by any person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved in any manner that the Indenture Trustee deems sufficient.

     (c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.

     (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by
the Holder of any Notes shall bind the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration thereof or
in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be
done by the Indenture Trustee or the Issuer in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Note.

     SECTION 11.04. Notices, etc., to Indenture Trustee, Issuer and Rating Agencies. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Noteholders or other
documents provided or permitted by this Indenture shall be in writing and if such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or act of Noteholders is to be made upon, given
or furnished to or filed with:

          (i) the Indenture Trustee by any Noteholder or by the Issuer shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Indenture Trustee at
its Corporate Trust Office, or

          (ii) the Issuer by the Indenture Trustee or by any Noteholder shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class, postage prepaid to the Issuer addressed to:
DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, in care of The Bank of New York, (Delaware), White Clay Center,
Route 273, Newark, Delaware 19711, Attention: DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, with a copy to The
Bank of New York, 101 Barclay Street,

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8W, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Asset Backed
Securities Unit, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture Trustee
by the Issuer or the Administrator; with a copy to the Administrator addressed to: DaimlerChrysler
Financial Services Americas LLC 27777 Inkster Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334, Attention:
Assistant Secretary, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Indenture
Trustee by the Administrator. The Issuer shall promptly transmit any notice received by it from
the Noteholders to the Indenture Trustee.

     Notices required to be given to the Rating Agencies by the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or
the Owner Trustee shall be in writing, personally delivered, electronically delivered or mailed by
certified mail, return receipt requested, to (i) in the case of Standard & Poor’s, via electronic
delivery to Servicer_reports@sandp.com, and for any information not available in electronic format,
at the following address: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., to 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10004, Attention of Asset Backed
Surveillance Department; (ii) in the case of Moody’s, at the following address: Moody’s Investors
Service, Inc., 25th Floor, 7 World Trade Center, 280 Greenwich Street, New York, New
York 10007, Attention: ABS/RMBS Monitoring Department and (iii) in the case of Fitch, at the
following address: Fitch, Inc., One State Street Plaza, Attention: Auto ABS Group, New York, New
York 10004; or as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be designated by written
notice to the other parties.

     SECTION 11.05. Notices to Noteholders; Waiver. 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 such Holder’s 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.

     Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing
by any Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver
shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Noteholders shall be filed with the
Indenture Trustee but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such a waiver.

     In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a result of a strike, work
stoppage or similar activity, it shall be impractical to mail notice of any event to Noteholders
when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any
manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee shall be deemed to
be a sufficient giving of such notice.

     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.

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     SECTION 11.06. 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 with
any Holder of a Note providing for a method of payment, or notice by the Indenture Trustee or any
Paying Agent to such Holder, that is different from the methods provided for in this Indenture for
such payments or notices. The Issuer will
furnish to the Indenture Trustee a copy of each such agreement and the Indenture Trustee will
cause payments to be made and notices to be given in accordance with such agreements.

     SECTION 11.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits,
qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof that is required to be included in this
Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control.

     The provisions of TIA §§ 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 11.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section
headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction hereof.

     SECTION 11.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture
and the Notes by the Issuer shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
All agreements of the Indenture Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors, co-trustees
and agents.

     SECTION 11.10. Separability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

     SECTION 11.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes,
express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties, and the Noteholders, and any
other Secured Parties hereto and their successors hereunder and any other Person with an ownership
interest in any part of the Trust Estate, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim under this Indenture.

     SECTION 11.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where the date on which any payment is due
shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Notes or this
Indenture) payment need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business
Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date on which nominally due, and no interest
shall accrue for the period from and after any such nominal date.

     SECTION
11.13. GOVERNING LAW. THIS INDENTURE, THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS INDENTURE AND ANY
CLAIM OR CONTROVERSY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS INDENTURE OR THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS INDENTURE (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY),
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PERFORMANCE, SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS BE GOVERNED
BY AND INTERPRETED, CONSTRUED AND DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK (WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY CONFLICTS OF LAW PROVISION THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE APPLICATION OF
THE LAW OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION).

     SECTION 11.14. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

     SECTION 11.15. Recording of Indenture. If this Indenture is subject to recording in
any appropriate public recording offices, such recording is to be effected by the Issuer and at its
expense accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel (which may be counsel to the Indenture Trustee or any
other counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indenture Trustee) to the effect that such recording is
necessary either for the protection of the Noteholders or any other Person secured hereunder or for
the enforcement of any right or remedy granted to the Indenture Trustee under this Indenture.

     SECTION 11.16. Trust Obligation. No recourse may be taken, directly or indirectly,
with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee on the
Notes or under this Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in connection herewith
or therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity,
(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 or the Owner Trustee in its
individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, except as any such Person may have expressly agreed (it being understood
that the Indenture Trustee and the Owner Trustee have no such obligations in their individual
capacity) 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, VII and VIII of the Trust Agreement.

     SECTION 11.17. No Petition. The Indenture Trustee, by entering into this Indenture,
and each Noteholder, by accepting a Note, hereby covenant and agree that they will not at any time
institute against the
Issuer, the Company or Chrysler Residual Holdco LLC, or join in any institution against the
Issuer, the Company or Chrysler Residual Holdco LLC 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 Basic Documents.

     SECTION 11.18. Inspection. The Issuer agrees that, on reasonable prior notice, it
will permit any representative of the Indenture Trustee, 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

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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. The Indenture Trustee shall, and shall cause its representatives
to, hold in confidence all such information except to the extent disclosure may be required by law
(and all reasonable applications for confidential treatment are unavailing) and except to the
extent that the Indenture Trustee may reasonably determine that such disclosure is consistent with
its obligations hereunder.

     SECTION 11.19. 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
Seller or the Depositor, or a securitization vehicle (other than the Trust) related to the Seller
or the Depositor, dedicated to other debt obligations of the Seller or the Depositor or debt
obligations of any other securitization vehicle (other than the Trust) related to the Seller or 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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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed by their respective officers, thereunto duly authorized and duly attested, all as of the
day and year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE),
	 	 	 	 	not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
	 	 	 	 	Trustee,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By: 	 	/s/  Kristine K. Gullo
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name:  Kristine K. Gullo
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title:    Vice
President
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	CITIBANK, N.A.
	 	 	     not in its individual capacity but solely as Indenture
	 	 	     Trustee,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By: 	 	/s/  Cirino Emanuele
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name:  Cirino Emanuele
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title:    Vice
President

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SCHEDULE A

SCHEDULE OF RECEIVABLES

[Provided to the Indenture Trustee at Closing]

Schedule A

 

 

EXHIBIT A-1

[FORM OF CLASS A-1 NOTE]

     THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAW AND MAY ONLY BE TRANSFERRED IN
COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 2.04 OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO BELOW. THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING
THIS NOTE, AGREES THAT THIS NOTE, OR ANY INTERESTS OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, MAY BE REOFFERED,
RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND OTHER
APPLICABLE LAWS AND ONLY (1) TO DAIMLERCHRYSLER FINANCIAL SERVICES AMERICAS LLC OR (2) PURSUANT TO
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT TO A PERSON THAT THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (A “QIB”) PURCHASING
FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB, WHOM THE HOLDER HAS INFORMED, IN
EACH CASE, THAT THE REOFFER, RESALE, PLEDGE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE
144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. EACH NOTE OWNER BY ACCEPTING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THIS NOTE IS
DEEMED TO REPRESENT THAT IT IS EITHER A QIB PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR A QIB PURCHASING FOR
THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QIB.

     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.

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	REGISTERED
	 	$        
            
	 	 	 

			
	No. R-___
	 	CUSIP NO. 233882AA7

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS A-1 4.945% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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 $                     and the denominator of which is $414,000,000 by
(ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit Account in respect of principal on the
Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of November 1, 2007 (the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized under
the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however,
that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on November 10, 2008
(the “Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are
defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be
applicable herein.

     The Issuer will 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 such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the most recent Payment Date on which interest has been paid (in the case
of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to but excluding such current Payment Date.
Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the Class A-1 Interest
Accrual Period divided by 360. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the
manner specified on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not 
in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under 
the Trust Agreement,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007

	 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely 
as Indenture Trustee,

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its
Class A-1 4.945% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class A-1 Notes”), all 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 Holders of the Notes. The Class A-1 Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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 and, if the Class A-1
Notes have not been paid in full prior to the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date, on the Class
A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date, in an amount described on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means
the eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, 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 Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-1 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-1
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
wire transfer to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or
more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date,
except that 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 wire transfer shall
be made to the Person entitled thereto at a depository institution with appropriate facilities
therefor designated by such Person 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 Holders 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 or, if applicable, the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date, then the Indenture
Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify the Person who was the Registered
Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date or the Class A-1 Final Scheduled
Payment Date, as applicable, by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment
Date or the Class A-1 Final Scheduled Payment Date, as applicable, and the amount then due and
payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust

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Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent appointed for such purposes located
in The City of New York.

     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-1 Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein and on the
face hereof, 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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

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     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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

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principal of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of the
foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained
herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for
any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	      Signature:
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

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EXHIBIT A-2a

[FORM OF CLASS A-2a NOTE]

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

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

      

			
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 

			
	No. R-___
	 	CUSIP NO. 233882AB5

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS A-2a 4.94% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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 $                     and the
denominator of which is $206,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-2a Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture
dated as of November 1, 2007 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national
banking association organized under the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the
“Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on March 8, 2011 (the “Class A-2a Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No payments
of principal of the Class A-2a Notes shall be made until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in
full. Payments of principal of the Class A-2a Notes shall be made on a pari passu basis with the
Class A-2b Notes. 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 will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the

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principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified
on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

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

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but 
solely as Indenture Trustee,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Authorized Signatory

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its
Class A-2a 4.94% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class A-2a Notes”), all 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 Holders of the Notes. The Class A-2a Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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 eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not
a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, 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 Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-2a Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-2a
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-2a Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this

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Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in
this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	     Signature:
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

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EXHIBIT A-2b

[FORM OF CLASS A-2b NOTE]

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

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

      

			
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 

			
	No. R-___
	 	CUSIP NO. 233882AC3

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS A-2b LIBOR + 0.58% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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 $                     and the
denominator of which is $630,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-2b Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture
dated as of November 1, 2007 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national
banking association organized under the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the
“Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on March 8, 2011 (the “Class A-2b Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No payments
of principal of the Class A-2b Notes shall be made until the Class A-1 Notes have been paid in
full. Payments of principal of the Class A-2b Notes shall be made on a pari passu basis with the
Class A-2a Notes. 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 will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the

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principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in
each applicable Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period divided by 360. Such principal of and
interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [_______], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

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

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but 
solely as Indenture Trustee,
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	Authorized Signatory

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its
Class A-2b LIBOR + 0.58% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class A-2b Notes”), all 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 Holders of the Notes. The Class A-2b Notes are subject to all terms of
the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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 eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not
a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, 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 Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-2b Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-2b
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-2b Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not
this

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Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the
foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing contained
herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the Issuer for
any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	     Signature:
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	     
	 

	 	 
	 	 	 	 

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EXHIBIT A-3a

[FORM OF CLASS A-3a NOTE]

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A
NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

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

      

			
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 

			
	No. R-___
	 	CUSIP NO. 233882AD1

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS A-3a 5.00% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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 $                     and the
denominator of which is $290,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-3a Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture
dated as of November 1, 2007 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national
banking association organized under the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the
“Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on February 8, 2012 (the “Class A-3a Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No
payments of principal of the Class A-3a Notes shall be made until the Class A-1 Notes and the Class
A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes have been paid in full. Payments of principal of the Class
A-3a Notes shall be made on a pari passu basis with the Class A-3b Notes. 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 will pay interest on this Note at the rate per annum shown above on each Payment
Date until the principal of this Note is paid or made available for payment, on the

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principal
amount of this Note outstanding on the preceding Payment Date (after giving effect to all payments
of principal made on such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified
on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [              
      ], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), 
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner 
Trustee under the Trust Agreement,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [          
          ], 2007 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but solely 
as Indenture Trustee,

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Authorized Signatory 	 
	 	 	 	 

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class
A-3a 5.00% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class A-3a Notes”), all 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 Holders of the Notes. The Class A-3a Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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-3a Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described
on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not
a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable
on the Class A-3a 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 Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-3a Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-3a
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-3a Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this

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Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in
this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:                                         
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	          Signature:
	 

	 	 	 	                
   

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EXHIBIT A-3b

[FORM OF CLASS A-3b NOTE]

     UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY,
A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

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

			
	 	 	 
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 
	No. R-___
	 	CUSIP NO. 233882AE9
	 	 	 

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS A-3b LIBOR + 0.68% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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 $                     and the
denominator of which is $115,000,000 by (ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit
Account in respect of principal on the Class A-3b Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture
dated as of November 1, 2007 (the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national
banking association organized under the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the
“Indenture Trustee”); provided, however, that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall
be due and payable on February 8, 2012 (the “Class A-3b Final Scheduled Payment Date”). No
payments of principal of the Class A-3b Notes shall be made until the Class A-1 Notes and the Class
A-2a Notes and the Class A-2b Notes have been paid in full. Payments of principal of the Class
A-3b Notes shall be made on a pari passu basis with the Class A-3a Notes. 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.

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     The Issuer will 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 such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in
each applicable Floating Rate Interest Accrual Period divided by 360. Such principal of and
interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

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

	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but 
solely as Indenture Trustee,

 	 
	 	By:  	
 	 
	 	Authorized Signatory 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its
Class A-3b LIBOR + 0.68% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class A-3b Notes”), all 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 Holders of the Notes. The Class A-3b Notes are subject to all terms of
the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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-3b Notes will be payable on each Payment Date in an amount described
on the face hereof. “Payment Date” means the eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not
a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable
on the Class A-3b 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 Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-3b Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-3b
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-3b Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this

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Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in
this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:        
                 
                
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	         Signature:
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

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EXHIBIT A-4

[FORM OF CLASS A-4 NOTE]

UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A
NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

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

			
	 	 	 
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 
	No. R-___
	 	CUSIP NO. 233882AF6
	 	 	 

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS A-4 5.28% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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 $             
        and the denominator of which is $448,500,000 by
(ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit Account in respect of principal on the
Class A-4 Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of November 1, 2007 (the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized under
the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however,
that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of
March 8, 2013 (the “Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class A-4 Notes shall
be made until the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b Notes, the Class A-3a Notes
and the Class A-3b Notes have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are
defined in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be
applicable herein.

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     The Issuer will 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 such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified
on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [           
         ], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK 
(DELAWARE), not in its individual 
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under 
the Trust Agreement,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007  	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but

solely as Indenture Trustee,

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Authorized Signatory 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its
Class A-4 5.28% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class A-4 Notes”), all 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 Holders of the Notes. The Class A-4 Notes are subject to all terms of the
Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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 eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not
a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable
on the earlier of the Class A-4 Final Scheduled Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class A-4 Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class A-4
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class A-4 Interest
Rate to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture 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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this

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Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in
this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:         
                    
            
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	       Signature:
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 

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EXHIBIT B

[FORM OF CLASS B NOTE]

[UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A
NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]1

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.

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

			
	 	 	 
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 
	No. R-___
	 	[CUSIP NO.                     ]1
	 	 	 

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS B 6.25% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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                     , 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 $                     and the denominator of which is $106,800,000 by
(ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit Account in respect of principal on the
Class B Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of November 1, 2007 (the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized under
the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however,
that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of May
8, 2014 (the “Class B Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.01 of the Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class B Notes shall be made until
the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-2b, the Class A-3a Notes, the Class A-3b,
the Class A-4 Notes have been paid in full.

 

			
	1	 	To be inserted if Class B Note is issued as Book-Entry
Note.

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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 will 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 such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified
on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [_______], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK 
(DELAWARE), not in its individual 
capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under 
the Trust Agreement,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but 

solely as Indenture Trustee,

 	 
	 	By:  	 	 
	 	 	Authorized Signatory 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class B
6.25% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class B Notes”), all 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
Holders of the Notes. The Class B Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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 eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, 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 Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class B Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class B
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class B Interest Rate
to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture 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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this

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Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in
this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 	 	 

     Signature:
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	                                        
	 	 

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EXHIBIT C

[FORM OF CLASS C NOTE]

[UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A
NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER
USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]2

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.

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

			
	REGISTERED
	 	$                    
	 	 	 
	No. R-___
	 	[CUSIP NO.                     ]2

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS C 6.25% ASSET BACKED NOTES

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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                     , 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 $                     and the denominator of which is $39,400,000 by
(ii) the aggregate amount, if any, payable from the Deposit Account in respect of principal on the
Class C Notes pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture dated as of November 1, 2007 (the
“Indenture”), between the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., a national banking association organized under
the laws of the United States, as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”); provided, however,
that the entire unpaid principal amount of this Note shall be due and payable on the earlier of May
8, 2014 (the “Class C Final Scheduled Payment Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to
Section 10.01 of the Indenture. No payments of principal of the Class C Notes shall be made until
the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class A-

 

			
	2	 	To be inserted if Class C Note is issued as Book-Entry
Note.

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2b Notes, the Class A-3a Notes, the Class A-3b Notes, the Class A-4 Notes and the Class B
Notes have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined in
Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be applicable
herein.

     The Issuer will 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 such preceding Payment Date), subject to certain limitations contained in the
last sentence of Section 3.01 of the Indenture. Interest on this Note will accrue for each Payment
Date from and including the eighth day of the month preceding the month of such Payment Date (in
the case of the first Payment Date, from the Closing Date) to and including the seventh day of the
month of such Payment Date. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months. Such principal of and interest on this Note shall be paid in the manner specified
on the reverse hereof.

     The principal of and interest on this Note are payable in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. All payments made by the Issuer with respect to this Note shall be applied first to
interest due and payable on this Note as provided above and then to the unpaid principal of this
Note.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By:	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not in its

individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee

under the Trust Agreement,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: [                    ], 2007	 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but

solely as Indenture Trustee,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	Authorized Signatory	 	 

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     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class C
6.25% Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class C Notes”), all 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
Holders of the Notes. The Class C Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

     Subject to the subordination provisions of the Indenture, the 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 eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     As described above, 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 Redemption Date, if any,
pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the entire unpaid
principal amount of the Notes shall be due and payable on the date on which an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the Indenture Trustee or the Holders of Notes
representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class have
declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner provided in Section 5.02 of the
Indenture. All principal payments on the Class C Notes shall be made pro rata to the Class C
Noteholders entitled thereto.

     Payments of interest on this Note due and payable 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 by
check mailed to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date, except
that 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 checks shall be mailed
to the Person entitled thereto at the address of such Person as it appears on the Note Register as
of the applicable Record Date 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 Holders of this
Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in
lieu hereof, whether or not noted hereon. If funds are expected to be available, as provided in
the Indenture, for payment in full of the then remaining unpaid principal amount of this Note on a
Payment Date, then the Indenture Trustee, in the name of and on behalf of the Issuer, will notify
the Person who was the Registered Holder hereof as of the Record Date preceding such Payment Date
by notice mailed or transmitted by facsimile prior to such Payment Date, and the amount then due
and payable shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of this Note at the Indenture
Trustee’s principal Corporate Trust Office or at the office of the Indenture Trustee’s agent
appointed for such purposes located in The City of New York.

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     The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the Class C Interest Rate
to the extent lawful.

     As provided in the Indenture 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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney
duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in
the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No
service charge will be charged for any registration of transfer or exchange of this 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 acceptance of a Note or, in the case of a Note Owner, a
beneficial interest in a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken, directly or
indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture
Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered in
connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,
beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in
its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or
the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee
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 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 Seller or the Issuer, or
join in any institution against the Seller or 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 Basic Documents.

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

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this

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Note be overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 of or 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
its acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case
of an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder shall have no claim against any of

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the foregoing for any deficiency, loss or claim therefrom; provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall be taken to prevent recourse to, and enforcement against, the assets of the
Issuer for any and all liabilities, obligations and undertakings contained in the Indenture or in
this Note.

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ASSIGNMENT

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

 

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

 

(name and address of assignee)

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 	 	 

     Signature:
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	                                        
	 	 

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EXHIBIT D

[FORM OF CLASS D NOTE]

THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN 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
NOTE IS SUBJECT TO CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 2.04 OF THE INDENTURE
AND SECTION 3.04 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT (COPIES OF WHICH INDENTURE AND TRUST AGREEMENT ARE
AVAILABLE FROM THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE OWNER TRUSTEE OR UPON REQUEST), INCLUDING RECEIPT BY THE
INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE OWNER TRUSTEE OF AN INVESTMENT LETTER IN WHICH THE TRANSFEREE MAKES
CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS.

	 	 	 
	No. R-1
	 	$                    

DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A

CLASS D NOTE

     DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2007-A, 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                     , or registered assigns, upon presentation and surrender of this Note (except as
otherwise permitted by the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement referred to below), the
Class D Payment Amount on the earlier of November 8, 2014 (the “Class D Final Scheduled Payment
Date”) and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of the Indenture. No payment of
any Class D Payment Amount shall be made until the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2a Notes, the Class
A-2b Notes, the Class A-3a Notes, the Class A-3b Notes, the Class A-4 Notes, the Class B Notes and
the Class C Note have been paid in full. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are defined
in Article I of the Indenture, which also contains rules as to construction that shall be
applicable herein.

     This Note will not bear a stated rate of interest but will be entitled to receive the Class D
Payment Amounts from time to time if and to the extent funds are available for such purpose in
accordance with the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Class D Payment Amounts
shall be paid in the manner specified on the reverse hereof.

     The Class D Payment Amounts 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.

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

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

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: November 21, 2007	 	 	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST 2007-A,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	By: THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust Agreement,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

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

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Date: November 21, 2007	 	 	 	CITIBANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity but 
solely
as Indenture Trustee,	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Authorized Signatory
	 	 

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[REVERSE OF CLASS D NOTE]

     This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Issuer, designated as its Class D
Asset Backed Notes (herein called the “Class D Notes”), all 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 Holders
of the Notes. The Class D Notes are subject to all terms of the Indenture.

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

     Any Class D Payment Amount will be payable on the related Payment Date. “Payment Date” means
the eighth day of each month, or, if any such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding
Business Day, commencing December 10, 2007.

     Any Class D Payment Amount not previously paid shall be due and payable on the earlier of the
Class D Final Scheduled Payment Date and the Redemption Date, if any, pursuant to Section 10.01 of
the Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Class D Payment Amounts 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 Holders of Notes representing not less than a majority of the Outstanding Amount of
the Controlling Class have declared the Notes to be immediately due and payable in the manner
provided in Section 5.02 of the Indenture. All principal payments on the Class D Notes shall be
made pro rata to the Holders of Class D Notes entitled thereto.

     Payments of the Class D Payment Amounts due and payable on each Payment Date shall be made by
wire transfer to the Person whose name appears as the Registered Holder of this Note (or one or
more Predecessor Notes) on the Note Register as of the close of business on each Record Date.

     As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations set forth therein (including,
for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2.04 of the Indenture), 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 Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon
one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and in the same aggregate principal amount will
be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be charged for any
registration of transfer or exchange of this 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, by acceptance of a Note, covenants and agrees that no recourse may be taken,
directly or indirectly, with respect to the obligations of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee or the
Indenture Trustee on the Notes or under the Indenture or any certificate or other writing delivered
in connection therewith, against (i) the Indenture Trustee or the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity, (ii) any owner of a beneficial interest in the Issuer or (iii) any partner, owner,

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beneficiary, agent, officer, director or employee of the Indenture Trustee or the Owner
Trustee in its individual capacity, any holder of a beneficial interest in the Issuer, the Owner
Trustee or the Indenture Trustee or of any successor or assign of the Indenture Trustee or the
Owner Trustee 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 or failure to
pay any installment or call owing to such entity.

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

     It is the intent of the Issuer, the Depositor, the Company, the Servicer and the Noteholder
that, for purposes of federal income, state and local income and single business tax and any other
income taxes, the Issuer will be treated as a security arrangement for the issuance of debt by the
sole Noteholder. The Company, by acceptance of the Notes, agrees to treat, and to take no action
inconsistent with the above treatment for so long as the Company is the sole Owner.

     Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Issuer, the
Indenture Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Indenture Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Note (as of the day of determination or as of such other date as may be specified
in the Indenture) is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be
overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Indenture Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by
notice to the contrary.

     The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the
Notes under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer with the consent of the Holders of Notes
representing a majority of the Outstanding Amount of all Notes at the time Outstanding. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of Notes representing specified
percentages of the Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Notes, 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 Holder of
this Note (or any one or more Predecessor Notes) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder
and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Note. The Indenture also permits the Indenture Trustee to amend or waive certain
terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture without the consent of Holders of the Notes issued
thereunder.

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

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

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

     This Note and the Indenture shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York, without reference to its conflict of law provisions, and the obligations, rights and remedies
of the parties hereunder and thereunder shall be determined in accordance with such laws.

     No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Class
D Payment Amounts 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 Bank of New York (Delaware), in its individual capacity, Citibank, N.A., 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 the
Class D Payment Amounts or performance of, or omission to perform, any of the covenants,
obligations or indemnifications contained in the Indenture. The Holder of this Note by its
acceptance hereof agrees that, except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents, in the case of
an Event of Default under the Indenture, the Holder 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.

     The Class D Notes 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, (b) a plan described
in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or which uses plan assets to acquire Class D Notes
(each, a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and holding this Class D Note, 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 Class D Note, and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints
                                        , attorney, to transfer said Class D Note on the books of the registrar, with full
power of substitution in the premises.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 	 	 

     Signature:
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	                                        
	 	 

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EXHIBIT E

[FORM OF NOTE DEPOSITORY AGREEMENT]

The Depository Trust Company

A subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

ISSUER LETTER OF REPRESENTATIONS

[To be Completed by Issuer and Co-Issuer(s), if applicable]

 

[Name of Issuer and Co-Issuer(s), if applicable]

 

[Security Designation, including series designation if applicable]

 

[CUSIP Number of the Securities]

	 	 	 
	 
	 	 
	 

	 	 
	 

	 	[Date]

[For Municipal Issues:

                    Underwriting Department—Eligibility; 25th Floor]

[For Corporate Issues:

                    General Counsel’s Office; 22nd Floor]

The Depository Trust Company

55 Water Street

New York, NY 10041-0099

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     This letter sets forth our understanding with respect to the Securities represented by the
CUSIP number referenced above (the “Securities”). The Issuer requests that The Depository Trust
Company (“DTC”) accept the Securities as eligible for deposit at DTC. The DTC Participant,
                     (manager, underwriter or placement agent) will distribute the securities
through DTC.

     To induce DTC to accept the Securities as eligible for deposit at DTC, and to act in
accordance with DTC’s Rules with respect to the Securities, Issuer represents to DTC that Issuer
will comply with the requirements applicable to it stated in DTC’s Operational Arrangements (found
at www.dtcc.com and www.dtc.org), as they may be amended from time to time.

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	Note:
	 
	 	 
	Schedule A contains statements that DTC believes
accurately describe DTC, the method of effecting
book-entry transfers of securities distributed through
DTC, and certain related matters.
	 
	 	 
	Received and Accepted:
	THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
	 
	 	 
	By:
	 	 
	 

	 	 

	 	 	 
	Very truly yours,
	 
	 	 
	 
	(Issuer)

	 
	 	 
	By:
	 	 
	 

	 	 
	(Authorized Officer’s Signature)

	 
	 	 
	 
	(Print Name)

	 
	 	 
	 
	(Street Address)

	 
	 	 
	 
	(City)                (State)                 (Country)                (Zip Code)

	 
	 	 
	 
	(Phone Number)

	 
	 	 
	 
	(E-mail Address)

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SCHEDULE A

(To Issuer Letter of Representations)

SAMPLE OFFERING DOCUMENT LANGUAGE

DESCRIBING BOOK-ENTRY-ONLY ISSUANCE

(Prepared by DTC—bracketed material may be applicable only to certain issues)

     1. The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), New York, NY, will act as securities depository for
the securities (the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued as fully-registered securities
registered in the name of Cede & Co. (DTC’s partnership nominee) or such other name as may be
requested by the authorized representative of DTC. One fully-registered Security certificate will
be issued for [each issue of] the Securities, [each] in the aggregate principal amount of such
issue, and will be deposited with DTC. [If, however, the aggregate principal amount of [any] issue
exceeds $500 million, one certificate will be issued with respect to each $500 million of principal
amount and an additional certificate will be issued with respect to any remaining principal amount
of such issue.]

     2. DTC, the world’s largest depository, is a limited-purpose trust company organized under the
New York Banking Law, a “banking organization” within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a
member of the Federal Reserve System, a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York
Uniform Commercial Code, and a “clearing agency” registered pursuant to the provisions of Section
17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. DTC holds and provides asset servicing for over 2.2
million issues of U.S. and non-U.S. equity, corporate and municipal debt issues, and money market
instrument from over 100 countries that DTC’s participants (“Direct Participants”) deposit with
DTC. DTC also facilitates the post-trade settlement among Direct Participants of sales and other
securities transactions in deposited securities through electronic computerized book-entry
transfers and pledges between Direct Participants’ accounts. This eliminates the need for physical
movement of securities certificates. Direct Participants include both U.S. and non-U.S. securities
brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations, and certain other
organizations. DTC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
(“DTCC”). DTCC, in turn, is owned by a number of Direct Participants of DTC and Members of the
National Securities Clearing Corporation, Fixed Income Clearing Corporation and Emerging Markets
Clearing Corporation (NSCC, FICC, and EMCC, also subsidiaries of DTCC), as well as by the New York
Stock Exchange, Inc., the American Stock Exchange LLC, and the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. Access to the DTC system is also available to others such as both U.S. and non-U.S.
securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, and clearing corporations that clear
through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Direct Participant, either directly or
indirectly (“Indirect Participants”). DTC has Standard & Poor’s highest rating: AAA. The DTC
Rules applicable to its Participants are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More
information about DTC can be found at www.dtcc.com and www.dtc.org.

     3. Purchases of Securities under the DTC system must be made by or through Direct
Participants, which will receive a credit for the Securities on DTC’s records. The ownership
interest of each actual purchaser of each Security (“Beneficial Owner”) is in turn to be recorded
on the Direct and Indirect Participants’ records. Beneficial Owners will not receive written

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confirmation from DTC of their purchase. Beneficial Owners are, however, expected to receive
written confirmations providing details of the transaction, as well as periodic statements of their
holdings, from the Direct or Indirect Participant through which the Beneficial Owner entered into
the transaction. Transfers of ownership interests in the Securities are to be accomplished by
entries made on the books of Direct and Indirect Participants acting on behalf of Beneficial
Owners. Beneficial Owners will not receive certificates representing their ownership interests in
Securities, except in the event that use of the book-entry system for the Securities is
discontinued.

     4. To facilitate subsequent transfers, all Securities deposited by Direct Participants with
DTC are registered in the name of DTC’s partnership nominee, Cede & Co. or such other name as may
be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. The deposit of Securities with DTC and their
registration in the name of Cede & Co. or such other nominee do not effect any change in beneficial
ownership. DTC has no knowledge of the actual Beneficial Owners of the Securities; DTC’s records
reflect only the identity of the Direct Participants to whose accounts such Securities are
credited, which may or may not be the Beneficial Owners. The Direct and Indirect Participants will
remain responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers.

     5. Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to Direct Participants, by Direct
Participants to Indirect Participants, and by Direct Participants and Indirect Participants to
Beneficial Owners will be governed by arrangements among them, subject to any statutory or
regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. [Beneficial Owners of Securities
may wish to take certain steps to augment transmission to them of notices of significant events
with respect to the Securities, such as redemptions, tenders, defaults, and proposed amendments to
the security documents. For example, Beneficial Owners of Securities may wish to ascertain that
the nominee holding the Securities for their benefit has agreed to obtain and transmit notices to
Beneficial Owners. In the alternative, Beneficial Owners may wish to provide their names and
addresses to the registrar and request that copies of the notices be provided directly to them.]

     [6. Redemption notices shall be sent to DTC. If less than all of the Securities within an
issue are being redeemed, DTC’s practice is to determine by lot the amount of the interest of each
Direct Participant in such issue to be redeemed.]

     7. Neither DTC nor Cede & Co. (nor such other DTC nominee) will consent or vote with respect
to the Securities unless authorized by a Direct Participant in accordance with DTC’s Procedures.
Under its usual procedures, DTC mails an Omnibus Proxy to Issuer as soon as possible after the
record date. The Omnibus Proxy assigns Cede & Co.’s consenting or voting rights to those Direct
Participants to whose accounts the Securities are credited on the record date (identified in a
listing attached to the Omnibus Proxy).

     8. Redemption proceeds, distributions, and dividend payments on the Securities will be made to
Cede & Co., or such other nominee as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC.
DTC’s practice is to credit Direct Participants’ accounts, upon DTC’s receipt of funds and
corresponding detail information from Issuer or Agent on payable date in accordance with their
respective holdings shown on DTC’s records. Payments by Participants to

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Beneficial Owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices, as is the
case with securities held for the accounts of customers in bearer form or registered in “street
name,” and will be the responsibility of such Participant and not of DTC, Agent, or Issuer, subject
to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of
redemption proceeds, distributions, and dividend payments to Cede & Co. (or such other nominee as
may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC) is the responsibility of Issuer or Agent,
disbursement of such payments to Direct Participants will be the responsibility of DTC, and
disbursement of such payments to the Beneficial Owners will be the responsibility of Direct and
Indirect Participants.

     [9. A Beneficial Owner shall give notice to elect to have its Securities purchased or
tendered, through its Participant, to [Tender/Remarketing] Agent, and shall effect delivery of such
Securities by causing the Direct Participant to transfer the Participant’s interest in the
Securities, on DTC’s records, to [Tender/Remarketing] Agent. The requirement for physical delivery
of Securities in connection with an optional tender or a mandatory purchase will be deemed
satisfied when the ownership rights in the Securities are transferred by Direct Participants on
DTC’s records and followed by a book-entry credit of tendered Securities to [Tender/Remarketing]
Agent’s DTC account.]

     10. DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities depository with respect to the
Securities at any time by giving reasonable notice to Issuer or Agent. Under such circumstances,
in the event that a successor securities depository is not obtained, Security certificates are
required to be printed and delivered.

     11. Issuer may decide to discontinue use of the system of book-entry-only transfers through
DTC (or a successor securities depository). In that event, Security certificates will be printed
and delivered to DTC.

     12. The information in this section concerning DTC and DTC’s book-entry system has been
obtained from sources that Issuer believes to be reliable, but Issuer takes no responsibility for
the accuracy thereof.

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SCHEDULE B

(to Issuer Letter of Representations)

 
(Describe Issue)

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EXHIBIT F

FORM OF HEDGE

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EXHIBIT G

FORM OF HEDGE ASSIGNMENT

     HEDGE ASSIGNMENT, dated as of                     , 200___between DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST (the
“Issuer”) and CITIBANK, N.A., as Indenture Trustee (the “Indenture Trustee”).

     WHEREAS, pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), among the Issuer and the Indenture Trustee,
the Issuer has agreed to assign one or more interest rate swaps or one or more interest rate caps
from time to time to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties;

     WHEREAS, the Issuer has entered into an interest rate [swap] [cap] agreement satisfying the
requirements of Section 3.21(a) of the Indenture with                      (the “Counterparty”), an Eligible
Counterparty (the “Hedge”); and

     WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 3.21(b) of the Indenture, the Issuer has agreed to deliver this
Hedge Assignment to the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties;

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants herein contained,
the parties hereto agree as follows:

     1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Hedge Assignment shall have the
respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture).

     2. Hedge Assignment. The Issuer hereby assigns, conveys, transfers, delivers and sets
over unto the Indenture Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Indenture
Trustee a security interest in all right, title and interest of the Issuer in and to the Hedge
including, without limitation, all moneys due and to become due to the Issuer thereunder or in
connection therewith, whether payable as contractual payments thereunder, termination payments,
damages for the breach thereof or otherwise, and all rights, remedies, powers, privileges and
claims of the Issuer under or with respect to the Hedge (whether arising pursuant to the terms of
the Hedge or otherwise available to the Issuer at law or in equity), including, without limitation,
the right of the Issuer to enforce the obligations of the Counterparty thereunder and to give or
withhold any and all consents, requests, notices, directions, approvals, extensions or waivers
under or with respect to the Hedge to the same extent as the Issuer could but for the assignment
and security interest granted hereby.

     3. Governing Law. THIS HEDGE ASSIGNMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Hedge Assignment to be executed as of
the date first above written by their respective duly authorized officers.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	DAIMLERCHRYSLER AUTO TRUST, as Issuer
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK (DELAWARE), not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
on behalf of the Issuer	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

Name:
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title:	 	 	 	 
	ACKNOWLEDGED:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	[NAME OF COUNTERPARTY]
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	By:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Name:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	Title:	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

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