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Exhibit 10.4

EXECUTION VERSION

FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT

    THIS FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT (this “Guaranty Agreement”), dated as of April 14, 2021, is made by EACH OF THE UNDERSIGNED AND EACH OTHER PERSON WHO SHALL BECOME A PARTY HERETO BY EXECUTION OF A JOINDER AGREEMENT WHICH IDENTIFIES SUCH PERSON THEREIN AS A “GUARANTOR” (each a “Guarantor” and collectively the “Guarantors”) to BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., a national banking association organized and existing under the laws of the United States, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for each of the lenders (the “Lenders”) now or hereafter party to the Credit Agreement defined below (collectively with the Administrative Agent, and certain other Persons parties to Related Swap Contracts and Secured Treasury Management Arrangements as more particularly described in Section 19 hereof, the “Secured Parties”).  All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Credit Agreement. 

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, Sonic Automotive, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“the Company”), the lenders party thereto (the “Existing Revolving Lenders”) and the Administrative Agent entered into that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Revolving Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which certain of the Existing Revolving Lenders agreed to make a revolving credit facility available to the Company in accordance with the terms thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company, as New Vehicle Borrowers (the “Existing New Vehicle Borrowers”), the Company and certain Subsidiaries of the Company, as Used Vehicle Borrowers (the “Existing Used Vehicle Borrowers”), the lenders party thereto (the “Existing Floorplan Lenders”) and Bank of America, N.A., as floorplan administrative agent entered into that certain Third Amended and Restated Syndicated New and Used Vehicle Floorplan Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Floorplan Credit Agreement” and, together with the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement, the “Existing Credit Agreements”), pursuant to which the Existing Floorplan Lenders agreed to make a revolving new vehicle floorplan facility and a revolving used vehicle floorplan facility available to the Existing New Vehicle Borrowers and the Existing Used Vehicle Borrowers in accordance with the terms thereof; and

WHEREAS, certain Subsidiaries of the Company (the “Existing Revolving Guarantors”) entered into that certain Third Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Revolving Guaranty Agreement”) pursuant to which the Existing Revolving Guarantors have guaranteed the payment and performance of the obligations of the Company under the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and other loan documents related thereto; 

WHEREAS, certain Subsidiaries of the Company (the “Existing Floorplan Guarantors”) entered into that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Floorplan Guaranty Agreement”; and together with the Existing Revolving Guaranty Agreement, the “Existing Subsidiary Guaranty Agreements”) pursuant to which the Existing Floorplan Guarantors have guaranteed the payment and performance of the obligations of the Existing New Vehicle Borrowers and the Existing Used Vehicle Borrowers under the Existing Floorplan Credit Agreement and other loan documents related thereto; and

WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Lenders amend, restate and consolidate the Existing Credit Agreements in order to (i) continue to provide a revolving credit facility and floorplan credit facility, (ii) extend the maturity thereof and (iii) make certain other amendments to the Existing Credit Agreements on the terms and conditions set forth in that certain Fifth Amended, Restated and Consolidated Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders; and

WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed to enter into the Credit Agreement, subject to, among other things, a condition that the parties amend, restate and consolidate the Existing Subsidiary Guaranty Agreements as provided herein; and

WHEREAS, each Guarantor is, directly or indirectly, a Subsidiary of the Company; and

    WHEREAS, each Guarantor will materially benefit from the Loans to be made under the Credit Agreement; and
    
WHEREAS, each Guarantor is required to enter into this Guaranty Agreement pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement; and

    WHEREAS, a material part of the consideration given in connection with and as an inducement to the execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement by the Secured Parties was the obligation of the Company to cause each Guarantor to enter into this Guaranty Agreement, and the Secured Parties are unwilling to extend and maintain the credit facilities provided under the Loan Documents unless the Guarantors enter into this Guaranty Agreement; and

NOW, THEREFORE, in order to induce (i) the Lenders to amend, restate and consolidate the Existing Credit Agreements and (ii) induce the Secured Parties to make the credit facilities provided for in the Credit Agreement available to the Borrowers, the parties hereto agree that the Existing Guaranty Agreements are hereby amended, restated and consolidated in this Guaranty Agreement as follows:  
1.    Guaranty.  Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, unconditionally, absolutely, continually and irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties the payment and performance in full of the Guaranteed Liabilities (as defined below).  For all purposes of this Guaranty Agreement, “Guaranteed Liabilities” means:  (a) each Loan Party’s prompt payment in full, when due or declared due and at all such times, of all Obligations and all other amounts pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, the Notes, and all other Loan Documents heretofore, now or at any time or times hereafter owing, arising, due or payable from such Loan Party to any one or more of the Secured Parties, including principal, interest, premiums and fees (including, but not limited to, loan fees and reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel (“Attorney Costs”)); (b) each Loan Party’s prompt, full and faithful performance, observance and discharge of each and every agreement, undertaking, covenant and provision to be performed, observed or discharged by such Loan Party under the Credit Agreement, the Notes and all other Loan Documents; and (c) the prompt payment in full by each Loan Party, when due or declared due and at all such times, of obligations and liabilities now or hereafter arising under Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements; provided, however, that the “Guaranteed Liabilities” shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations.  The Guarantors’ obligations to the Secured Parties under this Guaranty Agreement are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Guarantors’ Obligations” and, with respect to each Guarantor individually, the “Guarantor’s Obligations”.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the liability of each Guarantor individually with respect to its Guarantor’s Obligations shall be limited to an aggregate amount equal to the largest amount that would not render its obligations hereunder subject to avoidance under Section 548 of the United States Bankruptcy Code or any comparable provisions of any applicable state law.
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    Each Guarantor agrees that it is jointly and severally, directly and primarily liable (subject to the limitation in the immediately preceding sentence) for the Guaranteed Liabilities.

    The Guarantors’ Obligations are secured by various Security Instruments referred to in the Credit Agreement, including without limitation, the Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and the Escrow and Security Agreement.

2.    Payment.  If the Company or any other Loan Party shall default in payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, whether principal, interest, premium, fee (including, but not limited to, loan fees and Attorney Costs), or otherwise, when and as the same shall become due, and after expiration of any applicable grace period, whether according to the terms of the Credit Agreement, by acceleration, or otherwise, or upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default under the Credit Agreement, then any or all of the Guarantors will, upon demand thereof by the Administrative Agent, fully pay to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, subject to any restriction on each Guarantor’s Obligations set forth in Section 1 hereof, an amount equal to all the Guaranteed Liabilities then due and owing or declared or deemed to be due and owing. For purposes of this Section 2, the Guarantors acknowledge and agree that “Guaranteed Liabilities” shall be deemed to include any amount (whether principal, interest, premium, fees) which would have been accelerated in accordance with Sections 8.02, 8.04 or 8.06 of the Credit Agreement but for the fact that such acceleration could be unenforceable or not allowable under any Debtor Relief Law.

3.    Absolute Rights and Obligations.  This is a guaranty of payment and not of collection.  The Guarantors’ Obligations under this Guaranty Agreement shall be joint and several, absolute and unconditional irrespective of, and each Guarantor hereby expressly waives, to the extent permitted by law, any defense to its obligations under this Guaranty Agreement and all Security Instruments to which it is a party by reason of:

(a)    any lack of legality, validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement, of any of the Notes, of any other Loan Document, or of any other agreement or instrument creating, providing security for, or otherwise relating to any of the Guarantors’ Obligations, any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, or any other guaranty of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities (the Loan Documents and all such other agreements and instruments being collectively referred to as the “Related Agreements”);

(b)    any action taken under any of the Related Agreements, any exercise of any right or power therein conferred, any failure or omission to enforce any right conferred thereby, or any waiver of any covenant or condition therein provided;

(c)    any acceleration of the maturity of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, of the Guarantor’s Obligations of any other Guarantor, or of any other obligations or liabilities of any Person under any of the Related Agreements; 

(d)    any release, exchange, non-perfection, lapse in perfection, disposal, deterioration in value, or impairment of any security for any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, for any of the Guarantor’s Obligations of any Guarantor, or for any other obligations or liabilities of any Person under any of the Related Agreements;

(e)    any dissolution of any Borrower or any Guarantor or any other party to a Related Agreement, or the combination or consolidation of any Borrower or any Guarantor or any other party to a Related Agreement into or with another entity or any transfer or disposition of any assets of any Borrower or any Guarantor or any other party to a Related Agreement;
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(f)    any extension (including without limitation extensions of time for payment), renewal, amendment, restructuring or restatement of, any acceptance of late or partial payments under, or any change in the amount of any borrowings or any credit facilities available under, the Credit Agreement, any of the Notes or any other Loan Document or any other Related Agreement, in whole or in part;

(g)    the existence, addition, modification, termination, reduction or impairment of value, or release of any other guaranty (or security therefor) of the Guaranteed Liabilities (including without limitation the Guarantor’s Obligations of any other Guarantor and obligations arising under any other Guaranty now or hereafter in effect);

(h)    any waiver of, forbearance or indulgence under, or other consent to any change in or departure from any term or provision contained in the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other Related Agreement, including without limitation any term pertaining to the payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed Liabilities, any of the Guarantor’s Obligations of any other Guarantor, or any of the obligations or liabilities of any party to any other Related Agreement; 

(i)    any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without notice to or knowledge of any Guarantor) which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risks of such Guarantor, or might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable defense available to, or discharge of, a surety or a guarantor, including without limitation any right to require or claim that resort be had to the Company or any other Loan Party or to any collateral in respect of the Guaranteed Liabilities or Guarantors’ Obligations, whether arising under North Carolina General Statutes Sections 26-7 and 26-9 or otherwise.

It is the express purpose and intent of the parties hereto that this Guaranty Agreement and the Guarantors’ Obligations hereunder and under each Joinder Agreement shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and shall not be discharged except by payment as herein provided.

4.    Currency and Funds of Payment.  All Guarantors’ Obligations will be paid in lawful currency of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, regardless of any law, regulation or decree now or hereafter in effect that might in any manner affect the Guaranteed Liabilities, or the rights of any Secured Party with respect thereto as against any Loan Party, or cause or permit to be invoked any alteration in the time, amount or manner of payment by any Loan Party of any or all of the Guaranteed Liabilities.

5.    Events of Default.  Without limiting the provisions of Section 2 hereof, in the event that there shall occur and be continuing an Event of Default, then notwithstanding any collateral or other security or credit support for the Guaranteed Liabilities, at the Administrative Agent’s election and without notice thereof or demand therefor, the Guarantors’ Obligations shall immediately be and become due and payable.

6.    Subordination.  Until this Guaranty Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 22 hereof, each Guarantor hereby unconditionally subordinates all present and future debts, liabilities or obligations now or hereafter owing to such Guarantor (i) of any Borrower, to the payment in full of the Guaranteed Liabilities, (ii) of every other Guarantor (an “obligated guarantor”), to the payment in full of the Guarantors’ Obligations of such obligated guarantor, and (iii) of each other Person now or hereafter constituting a Loan Party, to the payment in full of the obligations of such Loan Party owing to any Secured Party and arising under the Loan Documents, Related Swap Contracts or Secured Cash Management Arrangements.  All amounts due under such subordinated debts, liabilities, or obligations shall, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, be collected and, upon request by the Administrative Agent, paid over forthwith to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties on account of the Guaranteed Liabilities, the Guarantors’ Obligations, or such other obligations, as applicable, and, after such request and pending such 
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payment, shall be held by such Guarantor as agent and bailee of the Secured Parties separate and apart from all other funds, property and accounts of such Guarantor.

7.    Suits.  Each Guarantor from time to time shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, on demand, at the Administrative Agent’s Office or such other address as the Administrative Agent shall give notice of to such Guarantor, the Guarantors’ Obligations as they become or are declared due, and in the event such payment is not made forthwith, the Administrative Agent may proceed to suit against any one or more or all of the Guarantors.  At the Administrative Agent’s election, one or more and successive or concurrent suits may be brought hereon by the Administrative Agent against any one or more or all of the Guarantors, whether or not suit has been commenced against any Borrower, any other Guarantor, or any other Person and whether or not the Secured Parties have taken or failed to take any other action to collect all or any portion of the Guaranteed Liabilities or have taken or failed to take any actions against any collateral securing payment or performance of all or any portion of the Guaranteed Liabilities, and irrespective of any event, occurrence, or condition described in Section 3 hereof.

8.    Set-Off and Waiver.  Each Guarantor waives any right to assert against any Secured Party as a defense, counterclaim, set-off, recoupment or cross claim in respect of its Guarantor’s Obligations, any defense (legal or equitable) or other claim which such Guarantor may now or at any time hereafter have against any Borrower or any or all of the Secured Parties without waiving any additional defenses, set-offs, counterclaims or other claims otherwise available to such Guarantor.  Each Guarantor agrees that each Secured Party shall have a lien for all the Guarantor’s Obligations upon all deposits or deposit accounts, of any kind, or any interest in any deposits or deposit accounts, now or hereafter pledged, mortgaged, transferred or assigned to such Secured Party or otherwise in the possession or control of such Secured Party for any purpose (other than solely for safekeeping) for the account or benefit of such Guarantor, including any balance of any deposit account or of any credit of such Guarantor with the Secured Party, whether now existing or hereafter established, and hereby authorizes each Secured Party from and after the occurrence of an Event of Default at any time or times with or without prior notice to apply such balances or any part thereof to such of the Guarantor’s Obligations to the Secured Parties then due and in such amounts as provided for in the Credit Agreement or otherwise as they may elect.  For the purposes of this Section 8, all remittances and property shall be deemed to be in the possession of a Secured Party as soon as the same may be put in transit to it by mail or carrier or by other bailee.

9.    Waiver of Notice; Subrogation. 

(a)    Each Guarantor hereby waives to the extent permitted by law notice of the following events or occurrences:  (i) acceptance of this Guaranty Agreement; (ii) the Lenders’ heretofore, now or from time to time hereafter making Loans and issuing Letters of Credit and otherwise loaning monies or giving or extending credit to or for the benefit of any Borrower or any other Loan Party, or otherwise entering into arrangements with any Loan Party giving rise to Guaranteed Liabilities, whether pursuant to the Credit Agreement or the Notes or any other Loan Document or Related Agreement or any amendments, modifications, or supplements thereto, or replacements or extensions thereof; (iii) presentment, demand, default, non-payment, partial payment and protest; and (iv) any other event, condition, or occurrence described in Section 3 hereof.  Each Guarantor agrees that each Secured Party may heretofore, now or at any time hereafter do any or all of the foregoing in such manner, upon such terms and at such times as each Secured Party, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems advisable, without in any way or respect impairing, affecting, reducing or releasing such Guarantor from its Guarantor’s Obligations, and each Guarantor hereby consents to each and all of the foregoing events or occurrences.

(b)    Each Guarantor hereby agrees that payment or performance by such Guarantor of its Guarantor’s Obligations under this Guaranty Agreement may be enforced by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties upon demand by the Administrative Agent to such Guarantor without the Administrative Agent being required, such Guarantor expressly waiving to the extent permitted by law any right it may have to 
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require the Administrative Agent, to (i) prosecute collection or seek to enforce or resort to any remedies against any Borrower or any other Guarantor or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Liabilities, or (ii) seek to enforce or resort to any remedies with respect to any security interests, Liens or encumbrances granted to the Administrative Agent or any Lender or other party to a Related Agreement by any Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person on account of the Guaranteed Liabilities or any guaranty thereof, IT BEING EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD, ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED TO BY SUCH GUARANTOR THAT DEMAND UNDER THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT MAY BE MADE BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, AND THE PROVISIONS HEREOF ENFORCED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, EFFECTIVE AS OF THE FIRST DATE ANY EVENT OF DEFAULT OCCURS AND IS CONTINUING UNDER THE CREDIT AGREEMENT.

(c)    Each Guarantor further agrees with respect to this Guaranty Agreement that it shall not exercise any of its rights of subrogation, reimbursement, contribution or indemnity, nor any right of recourse to security for the Guaranteed Liabilities unless and until 93 days immediately following the Facility Termination Date shall have elapsed without the filing or commencement, by or against any Loan Party, of any state or federal action, suit, petition or proceeding seeking any reorganization, liquidation or other relief or arrangement in respect of creditors of, or the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, trustee or conservator in respect to, such Loan Party or its assets.  This waiver is expressly intended to prevent the existence of any claim in respect to such subrogation, reimbursement, contribution or indemnity by any Guarantor against the estate of any other Loan Party within the meaning of Section 101 of the Bankruptcy Code, in the event of a subsequent case involving any other Loan Party.  If an amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such rights at any time prior to termination of this Guaranty Agreement in accordance with the provisions of Section 22 hereof, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to be credited and applied upon the Guarantors’ Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement or otherwise as the Secured Parties may elect.  The agreements in this subsection shall survive repayment of all of the Guarantors’ Obligations, the termination or expiration of this Guaranty Agreement in any manner, including but not limited to termination in accordance with Section 22 hereof, and occurrence of the Facility Termination Date.

10.    Effectiveness; Enforceability.  This Guaranty Agreement shall be effective as of the date first above written and shall continue in full force and effect until termination in accordance with Section 22 hereof.  Any claim or claims that the Secured Parties may at any time hereafter have against a Guarantor under this Guaranty Agreement may be asserted by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties by written notice directed to such Guarantor in accordance with Section 24 hereof. 

11.    Representations and Warranties.  Each Guarantor warrants and represents to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Guaranty Agreement (or the Joinder Agreement to which it is a party, as applicable), and to perform its obligations under this Guaranty Agreement, that this Guaranty Agreement (or the Joinder Agreement to which it is a party, as applicable) has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Guarantor by its duly authorized representatives; that this Guaranty Agreement (and any Joinder Agreement to which such Guarantor is a party) is legal, valid, binding and enforceable against such Guarantor in accordance with its terms except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles; and that such Guarantor’s execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty Agreement (and any Joinder Agreement to which such Guarantor is a party) do not violate or constitute a breach of any of its Organizational Documents, any agreement or instrument to which such Guarantor is a party, or any law, order, regulation, decree or award of any governmental authority or arbitral body to which it or its properties or operations is subject.

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12.    Expenses.  Each Guarantor agrees to be jointly and severally liable for the payment of all reasonable fees and expenses, including Attorney Costs, incurred by any Secured Party in connection with the enforcement of this Guaranty Agreement, whether or not suit be brought.

13.    Reinstatement.  Each Guarantor agrees that this Guaranty Agreement shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, at any time payment received by any Secured Party in respect of any Guaranteed Liabilities is rescinded or must be restored for any reason, or is repaid by any Secured Party in whole or in part in good faith settlement of any pending or threatened avoidance claim.

14.    Attorney-in-Fact.  To the extent permitted by law, each Guarantor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as such Guarantor’s attorney-in-fact for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Guaranty Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument which the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable; provided, that the Administrative Agent shall have and may exercise rights under this power of attorney only upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default. 

15.    Reliance.  Each Guarantor represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, that:  (a) such Guarantor has adequate means to obtain on a continuing basis (i) from any Borrower, information concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Parties’ financial condition and affairs and (ii) from other reliable sources, such other information as it deems material in deciding to provide this Guaranty Agreement and any Joinder Agreement (“Other Information”), and has full and complete access to the Loan Parties’ books and records and to such Other Information; (b) such Guarantor is not relying on any Secured Party or its or their employees, directors, agents or other representatives or Affiliates, to provide any such information, now or in the future; (c) such Guarantor has been furnished with and reviewed the terms of the Credit Agreement and such other Loan Documents and Related Agreements as it has requested, is executing this Guaranty Agreement (or the Joinder Agreement to which it is a party, as applicable) freely and deliberately, and understands the obligations and financial risk undertaken by providing this Guaranty Agreement (and any Joinder Agreement); (d) such Guarantor has relied solely on the Guarantor’s own independent investigation, appraisal and analysis of each Loan Party, each Loan Party’s financial condition and affairs, the “Other Information”, and such other matters as it deems material in deciding to provide this Guaranty Agreement (and any Joinder Agreement) and is fully aware of the same; and (e) such Guarantor has not depended or relied on any Secured Party or its or their employees, directors, agents or other representatives or Affiliates, for any information whatsoever concerning any Loan Party or any Loan Party’s financial condition and affairs or any other matters material to such Guarantor’s decision to provide this Guaranty Agreement (and any Joinder Agreement), or for any counseling, guidance, or special consideration or any promise therefor with respect to such decision.  Each Guarantor agrees that no Secured Party has any duty or responsibility whatsoever, now or in the future, to provide to such Guarantor any information concerning any Loan Party or any Loan Party’s financial condition and affairs, or any Other Information, other than as expressly provided herein, and that, if such Guarantor receives any such information from any Secured Party or its or their employees, directors, agents or other representatives or Affiliates, such Guarantor will independently verify the information and will not rely on any Secured Party or its or their employees, directors, agents or other representatives or Affiliates, with respect to such information.

16.    Rules of Interpretation.  The rules of interpretation contained in Sections 1.03 and 1.06 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Guaranty Agreement and each Joinder Agreement and are hereby incorporated by reference.  All representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the delivery of documents and any extension of credit referred to herein or guaranteed hereby.

    17.    Entire Agreement.  This Guaranty Agreement and each Joinder Agreement, together with the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents, constitutes and expresses the entire understanding between the 
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parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior negotiations, agreements, understandings, inducements, commitments or conditions, express or implied, oral or written, except as herein contained.  The express terms hereof control and supersede any course of performance or usage of the trade inconsistent with any of the terms hereof.  Except as provided in Section 22, neither this Guaranty Agreement nor any Joinder Agreement nor any portion or provision hereof or thereof may be changed, altered, modified, supplemented, discharged, canceled, terminated, or amended orally or in any manner other than as provided in the Credit Agreement.

18.    Binding Agreement; Assignment.  This Guaranty Agreement, each Joinder Agreement and the terms, covenants and conditions hereof and thereof, shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and thereto, and to their respective heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns; provided, however, that no Guarantor shall be permitted to assign any of its rights, powers, duties or obligations under this Guaranty Agreement, any Joinder Agreement or any other interest herein or therein except as expressly permitted herein or in the Credit Agreement.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence of this Section 18, any Lender may assign to one or more Persons, or grant to one or more Persons participations in or to, all or any part of its rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement); and to the extent of any such permitted assignment or participation such other Person shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Lender herein or otherwise, subject however, to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, including Article IX thereof (concerning the Administrative Agent) and Section 10.06 thereof concerning assignments and participations.  All references herein to the Administrative Agent shall include any successor thereof.

19.    Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements.  All obligations of any Loan Party under or in respect of Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements shall be deemed to be Guaranteed Liabilities, and each Hedge Bank or Cash Management Bank party to any such Related Swap Contract or Secured Cash Management Arrangement shall be deemed to be a Secured Party hereunder with respect to such Guaranteed Liabilities; provided, however, that such obligations under or in respect of any Related Swap Contract shall cease to be Guaranteed Liabilities at such time, prior to the Facility Termination Date, as the applicable Hedge Bank (or Affiliate of such Person) shall cease to be a “Hedge Bank” under the Credit Agreement.

No Person who obtains the benefit of this Guaranty Agreement by virtue of the provisions of this Section shall have, prior to the Facility Termination Date, any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Guarantors’ Obligations (including the release or modification of any Guarantors’ Obligations or security therefor) other than in its capacity as a Lender and only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Guaranty Agreement to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall only be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, the Guaranteed Liabilities arising under Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements to the extent the Administrative Agent has received written notice of  such Obligations, together with such supportive documentation as it may request from the applicable Lender or Affiliate of a Lender. The Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that any other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Related Swap Contracts in the case of a Facility Termination Date.  Each Secured Party not a party to the Credit Agreement who obtains the benefit of this Guaranty Agreement by virtue of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, and that with respect to the actions and omissions of the Administrative Agent hereunder or otherwise relating hereto that do or may affect such Secured Party, the Administrative Agent and each of its Related Parties shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits and immunities conferred under Article IX of the Credit Agreement.

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    20.    Severability.  The provisions of this Guaranty Agreement are independent of and separable from each other.  If any provision hereof shall for any reason be held invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof, but this Guaranty Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

    21.    Counterparts.  This Guaranty Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this Guaranty Agreement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart executed by the Guarantors against whom enforcement is sought.  Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 21, the provisions of Section 10.10 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Guaranty Agreement.

    22.    Termination.  Subject to reinstatement pursuant to Section 13 hereof, this Guaranty Agreement and each Joinder Agreement, and all of the Guarantors’ Obligations hereunder (excluding those Guarantors’ obligations relating to Guaranteed Liabilities that expressly survive such termination) shall terminate on the Facility Termination Date.

    23.    Remedies Cumulative; Late Payments.  All remedies hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any other rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party provided by law or under the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents or other applicable agreements or instruments.  The making of the Loans and other credit extensions pursuant to the Credit Agreement and other Related Agreements shall be conclusively presumed to have been made or extended, respectively, in reliance upon each Guarantor’s guaranty of the Guaranteed Liabilities pursuant to the terms hereof.  Any amounts not paid when due under this Guaranty Agreement shall bear interest at the Default Rate.

    24.    Notices.  Any notice required or permitted hereunder or under any Joinder Agreement shall be given, (a) with respect to each Guarantor, at the address of the Company indicated in Schedule 10.02 of the Credit Agreement and (b) with respect to the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party, at the Administrative Agent’s address indicated in Schedule 10.02 of the Credit Agreement.  All such addresses may be modified, and all such notices shall be given and shall be effective, as provided in Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement for the giving and effectiveness of notices and modifications of addresses thereunder.

    25.    Joinder.  Each Person who shall at any time execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Joinder Agreement and who is identified therein as a “Guarantor” shall thereupon irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally become a party hereto and obligated hereunder as a Guarantor, and all references herein and in the other Loan Documents to the Guarantors or to the parties to this Guaranty Agreement shall be deemed to include such Person as a Guarantor hereunder.

    26.    Governing Law; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial.

(a)    THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT AND EACH JOINDER AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS EXECUTED, AND TO BE FULLY PERFORMED, IN SUCH STATE.

(b)    EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT OR ANY JOINDER AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE INSTITUTED IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT SITTING MECKLENBURG COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND, BY THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT 
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OR A JOINDER AGREEMENT, SUCH GUARANTOR EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE IN, OR TO THE EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION OVER IT AND ITS PROPERTY BY, ANY SUCH COURT IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, AND EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY SUCH COURT IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING.

(c)    EACH GUARANTOR AGREES THAT SERVICE OF PROCESS MAY BE MADE BY PERSONAL SERVICE OF A COPY OF THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT OR OTHER LEGAL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, OR BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL (POSTAGE PREPAID) TO THE ADDRESS FOR NOTICES TO SUCH GUARANTOR IN EFFECT PURSUANT TO SECTION 24 HEREOF, OR BY ANY OTHER METHOD OF SERVICE PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAWS IN EFFECT IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

    (d)    NOTHING CONTAINED IN SUBSECTIONS (b) or (c) HEREOF SHALL PRECLUDE THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT FROM BRINGING ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT OR ANY JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION WHERE ANY GUARANTOR OR ANY OF SUCH GUARANTOR’S PROPERTY OR ASSETS MAY BE FOUND OR LOCATED.  TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAWS OF ANY SUCH JURISDICTION, EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY SUCH COURT AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES, IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, OBJECTION TO THE EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION OVER IT AND ITS PROPERTY BY ANY SUCH OTHER COURT OR COURTS WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE AVAILABLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

    (e)    IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR DEFEND ANY RIGHTS OR REMEDIES UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT OR ANY JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY AMENDMENT, INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT DELIVERED OR THAT MAY IN THE FUTURE BE DELIVERED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, EACH GUARANTOR AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT ON BEHALF OF THE SECURED PARTIES HEREBY AGREE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THAT ANY SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY AND HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT ANY SUCH PERSON MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING.

    (f)    EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION IT MAY HAVE THAT ANY COURT TO WHOSE JURISDICTION IT HAS SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO THE TERMS HEREOF IS AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.

27.    Amendment and Restatement.  The parties hereto agree that the Existing Subsidiary Guaranty Agreements are hereby amended, restated and consolidated in this Guaranty Agreement, and this Guaranty Agreement shall constitute neither a release nor novation of any obligation or liability arising under the Existing Subsidiary Guaranty Agreements nor a refinancing of any indebtedness or obligations arising thereunder or under the Existing Credit Agreements or related documents, but rather the obligations and liabilities in effect under the Existing Subsidiary Guaranty Agreements shall continue in effect on the terms hereof.

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28.    Keepwell.  Each Loan Party that is a Qualified ECP Guarantor at the time the guaranty or the grant of the security interest under the Loan Documents, in each case, by any Specified Loan Party, becomes effective with respect to any Swap Obligation, hereby jointly and severally, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support to each Specified Loan Party with respect to such Swap Obligation as may be needed by such Specified Loan Party from time to time to honor all of its obligations under this Guaranty Agreement and the other Loan Documents in respect of such Swap Obligation (but, in each case, only up to the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering such Qualified ECP Guarantor’s obligations and undertakings under this Section 28 voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations and undertakings of each Qualified ECP Guarantor under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid and performed in full. Each Qualified ECP Guarantor intends this Section to constitute, and this Section shall be deemed to constitute, a guarantee of the obligations of, and a “keepwell, support, or other agreement” for the benefit of, each Specified Loan Party for all purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act.

[Signature page follows.]

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed and delivered this Guaranty Agreement as of the day and year first written above.

GUARANTORS:

AM REALTY GA, LLC
ANTREV, LLC
ARNGAR, INC. 
AUTOBAHN, INC. 
CAR CASH OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC. *
ECHOPARK AL, LLC
ECHOPARK AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
ECHOPARK AZ, LLC
ECHOPARK CA, LLC
ECHOPARK DRIVER EDUCATION, LLC *
ECHOPARK FL, LLC
ECHOPARK GA, LLC
ECHOPARK KY, LLC
ECHOPARK MD, LLC
ECHOPARK NC, LLC
ECHOPARK NV, LLC
ECHOPARK NY, LLC
ECHOPARK REALTY CA, LLC
ECHOPARK REALTY TX, LLC
ECHOPARK SC, LLC
ECHOPARK TN, LLC
ECHOPARK TX, LLC
EP REALTY AZ, LLC *
EP REALTY MD, LLC *
EP REALTY NC, LLC
EP REALTY SC, LLC
FAA BEVERLY HILLS, INC.
FAA CONCORD H, INC.
FAA CONCORD T, INC. 
FAA HOLDING LLC
FAA LAS VEGAS H, INC.
FAA POWAY H, INC.
FAA SAN BRUNO, INC.
FAA SERRAMONTE H, INC.
FAA SERRAMONTE L, INC.
FIRSTAMERICA AUTOMOTIVE, LLC
FORT MILL FORD, INC.  
FRANCISCAN MOTORS, INC.
L DEALERSHIP GROUP, LLC
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Vice President and Treasurer
FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT
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GUARANTORS, continued:
MARCUS DAVID CORPORATION
ONTARIO L, LLC
PHILPOTT MOTORS, LLC  
SAI AL HC1, INC. 
SAI AL HC2, INC.
SAI ATLANTA B, LLC
SAI CHAMBLEE V, LLC
SAI CHATTANOOGA N, LLC
SAI CLEARWATER T, LLC
SAI COLUMBUS T, LLC
SAI DENVER B, INC.
SAI DENVER M, INC.
SAI FAIRFAX B, LLC
SAI FL HC2, INC. 
SAI FL HC3, INC. 
SAI FL HC4, INC.  
SAI FL HC8, INC. 
SAI FL HC9, INC. *
SAI FORT MYERS B, LLC
SAI FORT MYERS M, LLC
SAI FORT MYERS VW, LLC
SAI GA HC1, LLC
SAI IRONDALE IMPORTS, LLC
SAI IRONDALE L, LLC
SAI LONG BEACH B, INC. 
SAI MCKINNEY M, LLC
SAI MD HC1, INC.
SAI MOMENTUM ARM, LLC *
SAI MONROVIA B, INC.
SAI MONTGOMERY B, LLC
SAI MONTGOMERY BCH, LLC
SAI MONTGOMERY CH, LLC
SAI NASHVILLE CSH, LLC
SAI NASHVILLE H, LLC
SAI NASHVILLE M, LLC
SAI NASHVILLE MOTORS, LLC
SAI ORLANDO CS, LLC
SAI PEACHTREE, LLC
SAI PENSACOLA A, LLC
SAI PHILPOTT T, LLC
SAI RIVER OAKS P, LLC
SAI ROARING  FORK LR, INC.
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Vice President and Treasurer

FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT
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GUARANTORS, continued:
SAI ROCKVILLE IMPORTS, LLC
SAI ROCKVILLE L, LLC
SAI S. ATLANTA JLR, LLC
SAI SIC, INC. *
SAI STONE MOUNTAIN T, LLC
SAI SYRACUSE C, INC.
SAI TN HC1, LLC 
SAI TN HC2, LLC 
SAI TN HC3, LLC 
SAI VA HC1, INC.
SAI VEHICLE SUBSCRIPTION, INC. *
SAI VS GA, LLC *
SAI VS TX, LLC *
SAI WEST HOUSTON B, LLC
SANTA CLARA IMPORTED CARS, INC.
SONIC - 2185 CHAPMAN RD., CHATTANOOGA, LLC
SONIC - CLEAR LAKE VOLKSWAGEN, LLC
SONIC - DENVER T, INC.
SONIC - FORT WORTH T, LLC
SONIC - HOUSTON V, LLC
SONIC - JERSEY VILLAGE VOLKSWAGEN, LLC
SONIC - LAS VEGAS C WEST, LLC
SONIC - LS CHEVROLET, LLC
SONIC – LS, LLC
SONIC - LUTE RILEY, LLC
SONIC - RICHARDSON F, LLC  
SONIC - SHOTTENKIRK, LLC
SONIC - STEVENS CREEK B, INC.
SONIC ADVANTAGE PA, LLC
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE - 3401 N. MAIN, TX, LLC 
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE - 4701 I-10 EAST, TX, LLC  
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE 2752 LAURENS RD., GREENVILLE, INC.
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE AVIATION, LLC
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE F&I, LLC 
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE OF CHATTANOOGA, LLC
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE OF NASHVILLE, LLC
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE OF NEVADA, INC.
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE OF TEXAS, LLC 
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SUPPORT, LLC
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE WEST, LLC
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Vice President and Treasurer
FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT
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GUARANTORS, continued:
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE - 9103 E.                                                                      INDEPENDENCE, NC, LLC 
SONIC CALABASAS M, INC.
SONIC DEVELOPMENT, LLC
SONIC DIVISIONAL OPERATIONS, LLC
SONIC FFC 1, INC. *
SONIC FFC 2, INC. *
SONIC FFC 3, INC. *
SONIC HOUSTON JLR, LLC 
SONIC HOUSTON LR, LLC
SONIC MOMENTUM B, LLC
SONIC MOMENTUM JVP, LLC
SONIC MOMENTUM VWA, LLC 
SONIC OF TEXAS, INC.
SONIC RESOURCES, INC.
SONIC SANTA MONICA M, INC.
SONIC WALNUT CREEK M, INC.
SONIC – BUENA PARK H, INC.
SONIC – HARBOR CITY H, INC.
SONIC-INTEGRITY DODGE LV, LLC
SRE ALABAMA 6, LLC *
SRE ALABAMA-2, LLC
SRE ALABAMA-5, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 1, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 2, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 3, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 5, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 6, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 7 SCB, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 8 SCH, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA - 9 BHB, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA 10 LBB, LLC
SRE CALIFORNIA 11 PH, LLC *
SRE COLORADO - 1, LLC
SRE COLORADO - 2, LLC
SRE COLORADO - 3, LLC
SRE COLORADO - 4 RF, LLC
SRE COLORADO - 5 CC, LLC
SRE FLORIDA - 1, LLC
SRE GEORGIA 4, LLC
SRE GEORGIA 5, LLC *
SRE GEORGIA 6, LLC *
SRE HOLDING, LLC
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Vice President and Treasurer
FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT
(Sonic Automotive, Inc.)

GUARANTORS, continued:
SRE MARYLAND - 1, LLC
SRE NEVADA-2, LLC
SRE NORTH CAROLINA -3, LLC
SRE NORTH CAROLINA-2, LLC
SRE OHIO 1, LLC
SRE OHIO 2, LLC
SRE OKLAHOMA-2, LLC
SRE SOUTH CAROLINA - 2, LLC
SRE SOUTH CAROLINA - 3, LLC
SRE SOUTH CAROLINA - 4, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE - 1, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE - 2, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE - 3, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE 6, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE 7, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE 8, LLC *
SRE TENNESSEE-4, LLC
SRE TENNESSEE-5, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 1, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 2, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 3, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 4, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 5, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 6, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 7, LLC
SRE TEXAS - 8, LLC
SRE TEXAS 10, LLC
SRE TEXAS 11, LLC
SRE TEXAS 12, LLC
SRE TEXAS 13, LLC
SRE TEXAS 14, LLC
SRE TEXAS 15, LLC
SRE TEXAS 16, LLC *
SRE TEXAS 9, LLC
SRE TEXAS 17, LLC
SRE VIRGINIA - 1, LLC
SRE VIRGINIA - 2, LLC
TOWN AND COUNTRY FORD, INCORPORATED 
TT DENVER, LLC
TTRE CO 1, LLC
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Vice President and Treasurer
FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT
(Sonic Automotive, Inc.)

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
By:                 /s/ Denise Jones            
Typed Name:    Denise Jones
Typed Title:    Vice President

    

    

FIFTH AMENDED, RESTATED AND CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY AGREEMENT
(Sonic Automotive, Inc.)Document

Exhibit 10.5

EXECUTION VERSION

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED 
SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT
THIS FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT (this “Pledge Agreement”) is made and entered into as of April 14, 2021 by SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC., a Delaware corporation (a “Company” and a “Pledgor”), EACH OF THE UNDERSIGNED SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY AND EACH OTHER PERSON WHO SHALL BECOME A PARTY HERETO BY EXECUTION OF A JOINDER AGREEMENT WHICH IDENTIFIES SUCH PERSON AS A “PLEDGOR” (each a “Pledgor” and collectively with the Company, the “Pledgors”), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., a national banking association, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for each of the lenders (the “Lenders”) now or hereafter party to the Credit Agreement defined below (collectively with the Administrative Agent, and certain other Persons parties to Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements as more particularly described in Section 17 hereof, the “Secured Parties”).  All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein or pursuant to Section 1 hereof shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Company, the lenders party thereto (the “Existing Revolving Lenders”) and the Administrative Agent entered into that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Revolving Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which certain of the Existing Revolving Lenders agreed to make a revolving credit facility available to the Company in accordance with the terms thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company, as New Vehicle Borrowers (the “Existing New Vehicle Borrowers”), the Company and certain Subsidiaries of the Company, as Used Vehicle Borrowers (the “Existing Used Vehicle Borrowers”), the lenders party thereto (the “Existing Floorplan Lenders”) and Bank of America, N.A., as floorplan administrative agent entered into that certain Third Amended and Restated Syndicated New and Used Vehicle Floorplan Credit Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Floorplan Credit Agreement” and, together with the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement, the “Existing Credit Agreements”), pursuant to which the Existing Floorplan Lenders agreed to make a revolving new vehicle floorplan facility and a revolving used vehicle floorplan facility available to the Existing New Vehicle Borrowers and the Existing Used Vehicle Borrowers in accordance with the terms thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Company and certain Subsidiaries of the Company (the “Existing Pledgors”) entered into that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Securities Pledge Agreement dated as of November 30, 2016 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to (but excluding) the date hereof, the “Existing Pledge Agreement”), pursuant to which the Existing Pledgors have secured their obligations arising under the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement; and 

WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Lenders amend, restate and consolidate the Existing Credit Agreements in order to (i) continue to provide a revolving credit facility and floorplan credit facility, (ii) extend the maturity thereof and (iii) make certain other amendments to the Existing Credit Agreements on the terms and conditions set forth in that certain Fifth Amended, Restated and Consolidated Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders; and

WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed to enter into the Credit Agreement, subject to, among other things, a condition that the parties amend and restate the Existing Pledge Agreement as provided herein; and

WHEREAS, each of (i) the Company, as collateral security for the payment and performance of the Obligations and the obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party now existing or hereafter arising under Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements other than Excluded Swap Obligations, and (ii) each other Pledgor (including each Subsidiary party to a Joinder Agreement), as collateral security for the payment and performance of its Guarantor’s Obligations (as defined in the Subsidiary Guaranty), and the payment and performance of its obligations and liabilities (whether now existing or hereafter arising) hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents to which it is now or hereafter becomes a party (such obligations and liabilities of the Pledgors described in clauses (i) and (ii) being referred to as “Secured Obligations”; provided, that the Secured Obligations of a Pledgor shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Grantor), is willing to pledge and grant to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a security interest in all of the Equity Interests of certain of its Subsidiaries as more particularly described on Schedule I attached hereto (collectively, the “Pledged Interests”), and certain related property (such Subsidiaries, together with all other Subsidiaries whose Equity Interests may be required to be subject to this Pledge Agreement from time to time, are hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Pledged Subsidiaries”); and

WHEREAS, the Company and each Subsidiary party hereto will materially benefit from the from the Loans to be made, and the Letters of Credit to be issued, under the Credit Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Secured Parties are unwilling to enter into the Loan Documents unless the Company and each other Pledgor enter into this Pledge Agreement; 

NOW, THEREFORE, in order to induce (i) the Lenders to enter into the Credit Agreement and (ii) the Secured Parties to make the credit facilities provided for in the Credit Agreement available to the Borrowers, the parties hereto agree that the Existing Pledge Agreement is hereby amended and restated in this Pledge Agreement as follows:
1.    Pledge of Pledged Interests; Other Collateral.
(a)    As collateral security for the payment and performance by each Pledgor of its now or hereafter existing Secured Obligations, each Pledgor hereby grants, pledges and collaterally assigns to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a first priority security interest in all of the following items of property in which it now has or may at any time hereafter acquire an interest or the power to transfer rights therein, and wheresoever located:
(i)    the Pledged Interests; and
(ii)    all money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, dividends, rights, general intangibles and other property at any time and from time to time (x) declared or distributed in respect of or in exchange for or on conversion of any Pledged Interest, or (y) by its or their terms exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into any Pledged Interest; and
(iii)    all other property of whatever character or description, including money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, and general intangibles hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent in substitution for or as an addition to any of the foregoing; and
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(iv)    all securities accounts to which may at any time be credited any or all of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof and all certificates and instruments representing or evidencing any of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof; and
(v)    all proceeds of any of the foregoing.
All such Pledged Interests, certificates, instruments, cash, securities, interests, dividends, rights and other property referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of this Section 1 are herein collectively referred to as the “Collateral.”
(b)    Subject to Section 10(a), each Pledgor agrees to deliver all certificates, instruments or other documents representing any Collateral to the Administrative Agent at such location as the Administrative Agent shall from time to time designate by written notice pursuant to Section 22 for its custody at all times until termination of this Pledge Agreement, together with such instruments of assignment and transfer as requested by the Administrative Agent.
(c)    Each Pledgor agrees to execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered by other Persons, at Pledgor’s expense, all share certificates, documents, instruments, agreements, financing statements (and amendments thereto and continuations thereof), assignments, control agreements, or other writings as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request from time to time to carry out the terms of this Pledge Agreement or to protect or enforce the Administrative Agent’s Lien and security interest in the Collateral hereunder granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and further agrees to do and cause to be done upon the Administrative Agent’s request, at Pledgor’s expense, all things determined by the Administrative Agent to be necessary or advisable to perfect and keep in full force and effect the Lien in the Collateral hereunder granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, including the prompt payment of all out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred in connection with any filings made to perfect or continue the Lien and security interest in the Collateral hereunder granted in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(d)    All filing fees, advances, charges, costs and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel (“Attorney Costs”)), incurred or paid by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or remedy conferred by this Pledge Agreement, or in the enforcement thereof, shall become a part of the Secured Obligations secured hereunder and shall be paid to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties by the Pledgor in respect of which the same was incurred immediately upon demand therefor, and any amounts not so paid on demand (in addition to other rights and remedies resulting from such nonpayment) shall bear interest from the date of demand until paid in full at the Default Rate.
(e)    Each Pledgor agrees to register and cause to be registered the interest of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral on its own books and records and the registration books of each of the Pledged Subsidiaries.
2.    Status of Pledged Interests.  Each Pledgor hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, with respect to itself and the Collateral as to which it has or acquires any interest, that:
(a)    All of the Pledged Interests are, as of the date of execution of this Pledge Agreement or Joinder Agreement by each Pledgor pledging such Pledged Interests (such date as applicable with respect to each Pledgor, its “Applicable Date”), and shall at all times thereafter be validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable, are accurately described on Schedule I, and (except as set forth on Schedule I) constitute all of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each Pledged Subsidiary.
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(b)    The Pledgor is as at its Applicable Date and shall at all times thereafter (subject to Dispositions permitted under the Credit Agreement) be the sole registered and record and beneficial owner of the Pledged Interests, free and clear of all Liens, charges, equities, options, hypothecations, encumbrances and restrictions on pledge or transfer, including transfer of voting rights (other than the pledge hereunder and applicable restrictions pursuant to federal and state and applicable foreign securities laws).  Without limiting the foregoing, the Pledged Interests are not and will not be subject to any voting trust, shareholders agreement, right of first refusal, voting proxy, power of attorney or other similar arrangement (other than the rights hereunder in favor of the Administrative Agent).
(c)    At no time shall any Pledged Interests (i) be held or maintained in the form of a security entitlement or credited to any securities account and (ii) which constitute a “security” (or as to which the related Pledged Subsidiary has elected to have treated as a “security”) under Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of North Carolina or of any other jurisdiction whose laws may govern (the “UCC”) be maintained in the form of uncertificated securities.  With respect to Pledged Interests that are “securities” under the UCC, or as to which the issuer has elected at any time to have such interests treated as “securities” under the UCC, such Pledged Interests are, and shall at all times be, represented by the share certificates listed on Schedule I hereto, which share certificates, with stock powers duly executed in blank by the Pledgor, have been delivered to the Administrative Agent or are being delivered to the Administrative Agent simultaneously herewith or, in the case of Additional Interests as defined in Section 21, shall be delivered pursuant to Section 21. In addition, with respect to all Pledged Interests, including Pledged Interests that are not “securities” under the UCC and as to which the applicable Pledged Subsidiary has not elected to have such interests treated as “securities” under the UCC, the Pledgor has at its Applicable Date delivered to the Administrative Agent (or has previously delivered to the Administrative Agent or, in case of Additional Interests shall deliver pursuant to Section 21) Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (or appropriate amendments thereto) duly authorized by the Pledgor and naming the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties as “secured party,” in form, substance and number sufficient in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent to be filed in all UCC filing offices and in all jurisdictions in which filing is necessary or advisable to perfect in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties the Lien on such Pledged Interests, together with all required filing fees.  Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2(c), with respect to any Pledged Interests issued by any Subsidiary organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States (a “Foreign Subsidiary”), Pledgor shall deliver or cause to be delivered, (i) in addition to or in substitution for all or any of the foregoing items, as the Administrative Agent may elect, such other instruments, certificates, agreements, notices, filings, and other documents, and take or cause to be taken such other action, as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary or advisable under the laws of the jurisdiction of formation of such Foreign Subsidiary, to grant, perfect and protect as a first priority lien in such Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and (ii) an opinion of counsel acceptable in form and substance to the Administrative Agent issued by a law firm acceptable to the Administrative Agent licensed to practice law in such foreign jurisdiction, addressing with respect to such Pledged Interests the matters described in Section 6.14 of the Credit Agreement.
(d)    It has full corporate power, legal right and lawful authority to execute this Pledge Agreement (and any Joinder Agreement applicable to it) and to pledge, assign and transfer its Pledged Interests in the manner and form hereof.
(e)    The pledge, assignment and delivery of its Pledged Interests (along with undated stock powers executed in blank, financing statements and other agreements referred to in Section 2(c) hereof) to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to this Pledge Agreement (or any Joinder Agreement) creates or continues, as applicable, a valid and perfected first priority security interest in such Pledged Interests in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations, assuming, in the case of the Pledged Interests which constitute 
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certificated “securities” under the UCC, continuous and uninterrupted possession by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent.  The Pledgor will at its own cost and expense defend the Secured Parties’ right, title and security interest in and to the Collateral against the claims and demands of all persons whomsoever.
(f)    Except as otherwise expressly provided herein pursuant to a Disposition permitted under the Credit Agreement, none of the Pledged Interests (nor any interest therein or thereto) shall be sold, transferred or assigned without the Administrative Agent’s prior written consent, which may be withheld for any reason.
(g)    It shall at all times cause the Pledged Interests of such Pledgor that constitute “securities” (or as to which the issuer elects to have treated as “securities”) under the UCC to be represented by the certificates now and hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 1, 2 and 21 hereof and that it shall cause each of the Pledged Subsidiaries as to which it is the Pledgor not to issue any Equity Interests, or securities convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, Equity Interests, at any time during the term of this Pledge Agreement unless the Pledged Interests of such Pledge Subsidiary are issued solely to either (y) such Pledgor who shall immediately comply with Sections 2 and 21 hereof with respect to such property or (z) the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor who shall immediately pledge such additional Equity Interests to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to Section 21 or 23 hereof, as applicable, on substantially identical terms as are contained herein and deliver or cause to be delivered the appropriate documents described in Section 2(c) hereof to the Administrative Agent and take such further actions as the Administrative Agent may deem necessary in order to perfect a first priority security interest in such Equity Interests.
(h)    The exact legal name and address, type of Person, jurisdiction of formation, jurisdiction of formation identification number (if any), and location of the chief executive office of such Pledgor are as specified on Schedule II attached hereto.  No Pledgor shall change its name, jurisdiction of formation (whether by reincorporation, merger or otherwise), or the location of its chief executive office, except upon giving not less than thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and taking or causing to be taken all such action at such Pledgor’s expense as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to perfect or maintain the perfection of the Lien of the Administrative Agent in Collateral.
3.    Preservation and Protection of Collateral.
(a)    The Administrative Agent shall be under no duty or liability with respect to the collection, protection or preservation of the Collateral, or otherwise, beyond the use of reasonable care in the custody and preservation thereof while in its possession.
(b)    Each Pledgor agrees to pay when due all taxes, charges, Liens and assessments against the Collateral in which it has an interest, unless being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and against which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements and evidenced to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent and provided that all enforcement proceedings in the nature of levy or foreclosure are effectively stayed.  Upon the failure of any Pledgor to so pay or contest such taxes, charges, Liens or assessments, or upon the failure of any Pledgor to pay any amount pursuant to Section 1(c), the Administrative Agent at its option may pay or contest any of them (the Administrative Agent having the sole right to determine the legality or validity and the amount necessary to discharge such taxes, charges, Liens or assessments) but shall not have any obligation to make any such payment or contest.  All sums so disbursed by the Administrative Agent, including Attorney Costs, court costs, expenses and other charges related thereto, shall be payable on demand by the applicable Pledgor to the Administrative Agent and shall be additional Secured Obligations secured by the Collateral, and any amounts not so paid on demand (in 
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addition to other rights and remedies resulting from such nonpayment) shall bear interest from the date of demand until paid in full at the Default Rate.
(c)    Each Pledgor hereby (i) irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to file (with, or to the extent permitted by applicable law, without the signature of the Pledgor appearing thereon) financing statements (including amendments thereto and continuations and copies thereof) showing such Pledgor as “debtor” at such time or times and in all filing offices as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably determine to be necessary or advisable to perfect or protect the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties hereunder, or otherwise to give effect to the transactions herein contemplated, and (ii) irrevocably ratifies and acknowledges all such actions taken by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent prior to the Applicable Date.
4.    Default.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent is given full power and authority, then or at any time thereafter, to sell, assign, deliver or collect the whole or any part of the Collateral, or any substitute therefor or any addition thereto, in one or more sales, with or without any previous demands or demand of performance or, to the extent permitted by law, notice or advertisement, in such order as the Administrative Agent may elect; and any such sale may be made either at public or private sale at the Administrative Agent’s place of business or elsewhere, either for cash or upon credit or for future delivery, at such price or prices as the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem fair; and the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party may be the purchaser of any or all Collateral so sold and hold the same thereafter in its own right free from any claim of any Pledgor or right of redemption.  Demands of performance, advertisements and presence of property and sale and notice of sale are hereby waived to the extent permissible by law.  Any sale hereunder may be conducted by an auctioneer or any officer or agent of the Administrative Agent.  Each Pledgor recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be unable to effect a public sale of the Collateral by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and applicable state law, and may be otherwise delayed or adversely affected in effecting any sale by reason of present or future restrictions thereon imposed by governmental authorities, and that as a consequence of such prohibitions and restrictions the Administrative Agent may be compelled (i) to resort to one or more private sales to a restricted group of purchasers who will be obliged to agree, among other things, to acquire the Collateral for their own account, for investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof, or (ii) to seek regulatory approval of any proposed sale or sales, or (iii) to limit the amount of Collateral sold to any Person or group.  Each Pledgor agrees and acknowledges that private sales so made may be at prices and upon terms less favorable to such Pledgor than if such Collateral was sold either at public sales or at private sales not subject to other regulatory restrictions, and that the Administrative Agent has no obligation to delay the sale of any of the Collateral for the period of time necessary to permit the Pledged Subsidiary to register or otherwise qualify the Collateral, even if such Pledged Subsidiary would agree to register or otherwise qualify such Collateral for public sale under the Securities Act or applicable state law.  Each Pledgor further agrees, to the extent permitted by applicable law, that the use of private sales made under the foregoing circumstances to dispose of the Collateral shall be deemed to be dispositions in a commercially reasonable manner.  Each Pledgor hereby acknowledges that a ready market may not exist for the Pledged Interests if they are not traded on a national securities exchange or quoted on an automated quotation system and agrees and acknowledges that in such event the Pledged Interests may be sold for an amount less than a pro rata share of the fair market value of the Pledged Subsidiary’s assets minus its liabilities.  In addition to the foregoing, the Secured Parties may exercise such other rights and remedies as may be available under the Loan Documents, at law (including without limitation the UCC) or in equity.
5.    Proceeds of Sale.  The net cash proceeds resulting from the collection, liquidation, sale, or other disposition of the Collateral shall be applied first to the expenses (including all Attorney Costs) of retaking, holding, storing, processing and preparing for sale, selling, collecting, liquidating and the like, and then to the satisfaction of all Secured Obligations in accordance with the terms of Section 8.09 of the Credit 
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Agreement.  Each Pledgor shall be liable to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, on demand any deficiency which may remain after such sale, disposition, collection or liquidation of the Collateral.
6.    Presentments, Demands and Notices.  The Administrative Agent shall not be under any duty or obligation whatsoever to make or give any presentments, demands for performances, notices of nonperformance, protests, notice of protest or notice of dishonor in connection with any obligations or evidences of indebtedness held thereby as collateral, or in connection with any obligations or evidences of indebtedness which constitute in whole or in part the Secured Obligations secured hereunder.
7.    Attorney-in-Fact.  Each Pledgor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent as the Pledgor’s attorney-in-fact for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Pledge Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument which the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest; provided, that the Administrative Agent shall have and may exercise rights under this power of attorney only upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall have the right and power to receive, endorse and collect all checks and other orders for the payment of money made payable to any Pledgor representing any dividend, interest payment, principal payment or other distribution payable or distributable in respect to the Collateral or any part thereof and to give full discharge for the same.
8.    Reinstatement.  The granting of a security interest in the Collateral and the other provisions hereof shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Secured Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any Secured Party or is repaid by any Secured Party in whole or in part in good faith settlement of a pending or threatened avoidance claim, whether upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Pledgor or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. The provisions of this Section 8 shall survive repayment of all of the Secured Obligations and the termination or expiration of this Pledge Agreement in any manner, including but not limited to termination upon occurrence of the Facility Termination Date.
9.    Waiver by the Pledgors.  Each Pledgor waives to the extent permitted by applicable law (a) any right to require any Secured Party or any other obligee of the Secured Obligations to (i) proceed against any Person or entity, including without limitation any Loan Party, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any Collateral or other collateral for the Secured Obligations, or (iii) pursue any other remedy in its power, (b) any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of any other Person, or by reason of the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of any other Person or entity, (c) any right of subrogation, (d) any right to enforce any remedy which any Secured Party or any other obligee of the Secured Obligations now has or may hereafter have against any other Person and any benefit of and any right to participate in any collateral or security whatsoever now or hereafter held by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.  Each Pledgor authorizes each Secured Party and each other obligee of the Secured Obligations without notice (except notice required by applicable law) or demand and without affecting its liability hereunder or under the Loan Documents from time to time to: (x) take and hold security, other than the Collateral herein described, for the payment of such Secured Obligations or any part thereof, and exchange, enforce, waive and release the Collateral herein described or any part thereof or any such other security; and (y) apply such Collateral or other security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as such Secured Party or obligee in its discretion may determine.

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The Administrative Agent may at any time deliver (without representation, recourse or warranty) the Collateral or any part thereof to a Pledgor and the receipt thereof by such Pledgor shall be a complete and full acquittance for the Collateral so delivered, and the Administrative Agent shall thereafter be discharged from any liability or responsibility therefor.
10.    Dividends and Voting Rights.
(a)    All dividends and other distributions with respect to any of the Pledged Interests shall be subject to the pledge hereunder, provided, however, that cash dividends paid to a Pledgor as record owner of the Pledged Interests, to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement to be declared and paid, may be retained by such Pledgor so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, free from any Liens hereunder.
(b)    So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the registration of the Collateral in the name of a Pledgor as record and beneficial owner shall not be changed and such Pledgor shall be entitled to exercise all voting and other rights and powers pertaining to the Collateral for all purposes not inconsistent with the terms of the Loan Documents.
(c)    Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, all rights of the Pledgors to receive and retain cash dividends and other distributions upon the Collateral pursuant to subsection (a) above shall cease and shall thereupon be vested in the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and each Pledgor shall promptly deliver, or shall cause to be promptly delivered, all such cash dividends and other distributions with respect to the Pledged Interests to the Administrative Agent (together, if the Administrative Agent shall request, with the documents described in Sections 1(c) and 2(c) hereof or other negotiable documents or instruments so distributed) to be held by it hereunder or, at the option of the Administrative Agent, to be applied to the Secured Obligations.  Pending delivery to the Administrative Agent of such property, each Pledgor shall keep such property segregated from its other property and shall be deemed to hold the same in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(d)    Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, at the option of the Administrative Agent, all rights of each of the Pledgors to exercise the voting or consensual rights and powers which it is authorized to exercise pursuant to subsection (b) above shall cease and the Administrative Agent may thereupon (but shall not be obligated to), at its request, cause such Collateral to be registered in the name of the Administrative Agent or its nominee or agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and/or exercise such voting or consensual rights and powers as appertain to ownership of such Collateral, and to that end each Pledgor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent as its proxy, with full power of substitution, to vote and exercise all other rights as a shareholder with respect to such Pledged Interests hereunder upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, which proxy is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable until the Facility Termination Date, and each Pledgor hereby agrees to provide such further proxies as the Administrative Agent may request; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent in its discretion may from time to time refrain from exercising, and shall not be obligated to exercise, any such voting or consensual rights or such proxy.
11.    Continued Powers.  Until the Facility Termination Date shall have occurred, the power of sale and other rights, powers and remedies granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties hereunder shall continue to exist and may, at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, be exercised by the Administrative Agent at any time and from time to time irrespective of the fact that any of the Secured Obligations or any part thereof may have become barred by any statute of limitations or that any part of the liability of any Pledgor may have ceased.

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12.    Other Rights.  The rights, powers and remedies given to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties by this Pledge Agreement shall be in addition to all rights, powers and remedies given to the Administrative Agent or any Secured Party under any other Loan Document or by virtue of any statute or rule of law.  Any forbearance or failure or delay by the Administrative Agent in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall not be deemed to be a waiver of such right, power or remedy, and any single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy hereunder shall not preclude the further exercise thereof; and every right, power and remedy of the Secured Parties shall continue in full force and effect until such right, power or remedy is specifically waived in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement.
13.    Anti-Marshaling Provisions.  The right is hereby given by each Pledgor to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to make releases (whether in whole or in part) of all or any part of the Collateral agreeable to the Administrative Agent without notice to, or the consent, approval or agreement of other parties and interests, including junior lienors, which releases shall not impair in any manner the validity of or priority of the Liens and security interests in the remaining Collateral conferred hereunder, nor release any Pledgor from personal liability for the Secured Obligations.  Notwithstanding the existence of any other security interest in the Collateral held by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Administrative Agent shall have the right to determine the order in which any or all of the Collateral shall be subjected to the remedies provided in this Pledge Agreement.  Each Pledgor hereby waives any and all right to require the marshaling of assets in connection with the exercise of any of the remedies permitted by applicable law or provided herein or in any Loan Document.
14.    Entire Agreement.  This Pledge Agreement and each Joinder Agreement, together with the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents, constitutes and expresses the entire understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior negotiations, agreements and understandings, inducements, commitments or conditions, express or implied, oral or written, except as herein contained.  The express terms hereof and of the Joinder Agreements control and supersede any course of performance or usage of the trade inconsistent with any of the terms hereof and thereof.  Neither this Pledge Agreement nor any Joinder Agreement nor any portion or provision hereof or thereof may be changed, altered, modified, supplemented, discharged, canceled, terminated, or amended orally or in any manner other than as provided in the Credit Agreement.
15.    Further Assurances.  Each Pledgor agrees at its own expense to do such further acts and things, and to execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered as may be necessary or advisable to give effect thereto, such additional conveyances, assignments, financing statements, control agreements, documents, certificates, stock powers, agreements and instruments, as the Administrative Agent may at any time reasonably request in connection with the administration or enforcement of this Pledge Agreement or any Joinder Agreement or related to the Collateral or any part thereof or in order better to assure and confirm unto the Administrative Agent its rights, powers and remedies for the benefit of the Secured Parties hereunder or thereunder.  Each Pledgor hereby consents and agrees that the Pledged Subsidiaries and all other Persons, shall be entitled to accept the provisions hereof and of the Joinder Agreements as conclusive evidence of the right of the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, to exercise its rights, privileges, and remedies hereunder and thereunder with respect to the Collateral, notwithstanding any other notice or direction to the contrary heretofore or hereafter given by any Pledgor or any other Person to any of such Pledged Subsidiaries or other Persons.
16.    Binding Agreement; Assignment.  This Pledge Agreement and each Joinder Agreement, and the terms, covenants and conditions hereof and thereof, shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, and to their respective successors and assigns, except that no Pledgor shall be permitted to assign this Pledge Agreement, any Joinder Agreement or any interest herein or therein or in the Collateral, or any part thereof or interest therein, or otherwise pledge, encumber or grant any option with respect to the 
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Collateral, or any part thereof, or any cash or property held by the Administrative Agent as Collateral under this Pledge Agreement.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence of this Section 16, any Lender may assign to one or more Persons, or grant to one or more Persons participations in or to, all or any part of its rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement); and to the extent of any such permitted assignment or participation such other Person shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Lender herein or otherwise, subject however, to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, including Article IX thereof (concerning the Administrative Agent) and Section 10.06 thereof (concerning assignments and participations).  All references herein to the Administrative Agent and to the Secured Parties shall include any successor thereof or permitted assignee, and any other obligees from time to time of the Secured Obligations.
17.    Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements.  All obligations of any Pledgor under or in respect of Related Swap Contracts and Secured Cash Management Arrangements other than Excluded Swap Obligations shall be deemed to be Secured Obligations secured hereby, and each Hedge Bank or Cash Management Bank party to any such Related Swap Contract or Secured Cash Management Arrangement shall be deemed to be a Secured Party hereunder with respect to such Secured Obligations; provided, however, that such obligations under or in respect of any Related Swap Contract shall cease to be Secured Obligations at such time, prior to the Facility Termination Date, as the applicable Hedge Bank (or Affiliate of such Person) shall cease to be a “Hedge Bank” under the Credit Agreement.
No Person who obtains the benefit of any Lien by virtue of the provisions of this Section shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in its capacity as a Lender and only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Pledge Agreement to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall only be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, the Secured Obligations arising under Related Swap Contracts or Secured Cash Management Arrangements to the extent the Administrative Agent has received written notice of  such Obligations, together with such supportive documentation as it may request from the applicable Lender or Affiliate of a Lender.  The Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that any other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Related Swap Contracts in the case of a Facility Termination Date.  Each Secured Party not a party to the Credit Agreement who obtains the benefit of this Pledge Agreement by virtue of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, and that with respect to the actions and omissions of the Administrative Agent hereunder or otherwise relating hereto that do or may affect such Secured Party, the Administrative Agent and each of its Related Parties shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits and immunities conferred under Article IX of the Credit Agreement.
18.    Severability.  The provisions of this Pledge Agreement are independent of and separable from each other.  If any provision hereof shall for any reason be held invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof, but this Pledge Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.
19.    Counterparts.  This Pledge Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this Pledge Agreement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart executed by the Pledgor against whom enforcement is sought.  Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 19, the provisions of Section 10.10 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Agreement.
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20.    Termination.  Subject to the provisions of Section 8, this Pledge Agreement and each Joinder Agreement, and all obligations of the Pledgors hereunder (excluding those obligations and liabilities that expressly survive such termination) shall terminate without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party on the Facility Termination Date.  Upon such termination of this Pledge Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall, at the sole expense of the Pledgors, promptly deliver to the Pledgors the certificates evidencing its shares of Pledged Interests (and any other property received as a dividend or distribution or otherwise in respect of such Pledged Interests to the extent then held by the Administrative Agent as additional Collateral hereunder), together with any cash then constituting the Collateral not then sold or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions hereof, and take such further actions at the request of the Pledgors as may be necessary to effect the same.
21.    Additional Interests.  If any Pledgor shall at any time acquire or hold any additional Pledged Interests, including any Pledged Interests issued by any Subsidiary not listed on Schedule I hereto which are required to be subject to a Lien pursuant to a Pledge Agreement by the terms hereof or of any provision of the Credit Agreement (any such shares being referred to herein as the “Additional Interests”), such Pledgor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (i) a Pledge Agreement Supplement in the form of Exhibit A hereto with respect to such Additional Interests duly completed and executed by such Pledgor and (iii) any other document required in connection with such Additional Interests as described in Section 2(c).  Each Pledgor shall comply with the requirements of this Section 21 concurrently with the acquisition of any such Additional Interests or, in the case of Additional Interests to which Section 6.14 of the Credit Agreement applies, within the time period specified in such Section or elsewhere in the Credit Agreement with respect to such Additional Interests; provided, however, that the failure to comply with the provisions of this Section 21 shall not impair the Lien on Additional Interests conferred hereunder.
22.    Notices.  Any notice required or permitted hereunder shall be given (a) with respect to the Company and each Subsidiary which is a Pledgor hereunder, at the address of the Company indicated in Schedule 10.02 of the Credit Agreement, (b) with respect to the Administrative Agent or a Secured Party, at the Administrative Agent’s address indicated in Schedule 10.02 of the Credit Agreement.  All such addresses may be modified, and all such notices shall be given and shall be effective, as provided in Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement for the giving and effectiveness of notices and modifications of addresses thereunder.
23.    Joinder.  Each Person who shall at any time execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Joinder Agreement and who is identified therein as a “Pledgor” shall thereupon irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally become a party hereto and obligated hereunder as a Pledgor and shall have thereupon pursuant to Section 1 hereof granted a security interest in and collaterally assigned and pledged to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties all Pledged Interests which it has at its Applicable Date or thereafter acquires any interest or the power to transfer, and all references herein and in the other Loan Documents to the Pledgors or to the parties to this Pledge Agreement shall be deemed to include such Person as a Pledgor hereunder.  Each such Joinder Agreement shall be accompanied by the Supplemental Schedules referred to therein, appropriately completed with information relating to the Pledgor executing such Joinder Agreement and its property. Each of the applicable Schedules attached hereto shall be deemed amended and supplemented without further action by such information reflected on the Supplemental Schedules to each such Joinder Agreement.

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24.    Rules of Interpretation.  The rules of interpretation contained in Sections 1.03 and 1.06 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Agreement and each Joinder Agreement and are hereby incorporated by reference.  All representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the delivery of documents and any Credit Extensions referred to herein or secured hereby.
25.    Governing Law; Waivers.
(a)    THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT AND EACH JOINDER AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS EXECUTED, AND TO BE FULLY PERFORMED, IN SUCH STATE.
(b)    EACH PLEDGOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY AND IRREVOCABLY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT OR ANY JOINDER AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE INSTITUTED IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT SITTING IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND, BY THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT OR A JOINDER AGREEMENT, EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY HAVE NOW OR HEREAFTER TO THE LAYING OF THE VENUE OR TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, AND IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY SUCH COURT IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING.
(c)    EACH PLEDGOR AGREES THAT SERVICE OF PROCESS MAY BE MADE BY PERSONAL SERVICE OF A COPY OF THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT OR OTHER LEGAL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, OR BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL (POSTAGE PREPAID) TO THE ADDRESS OF SUCH PLEDGOR PROVIDED IN SECTION 22 OR BY ANY OTHER METHOD OF SERVICE PROVIDED FOR UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAWS IN EFFECT IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
(d)    NOTHING CONTAINED IN SUBSECTIONS (b) OR (c) HEREOF SHALL PRECLUDE THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT FROM BRINGING ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT OR ANY JOINDER AGREEMENT OR THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS IN THE COURTS OF ANY PLACE WHERE ANY PLEDGOR OR ANY OF SUCH PLEDGOR’S PROPERTY OR ASSETS MAY BE FOUND OR LOCATED.  TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAWS OF ANY SUCH JURISDICTION, EACH PLEDGOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY SUCH COURT AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES, IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING, OBJECTION TO THE EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION OVER IT AND ITS PROPERTY BY ANY SUCH OTHER COURT OR COURTS WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER, BY REASON OF ITS PRESENT OR FUTURE DOMICILE, OR OTHERWISE, MAY BE AVAILABLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
(e)    IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING TO ENFORCE OR DEFEND ANY RIGHTS OR REMEDIES UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT OR ANY JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY AMENDMENT, INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT DELIVERED OR THAT MAY IN THE FUTURE BE DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THAT ANY SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE TRIED BEFORE A COURT AND NOT BEFORE A JURY AND HEREBY WAIVES, TO 
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THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT SUCH PERSON MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUCH ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING.
(f)    EACH PLEDGOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION IT MAY HAVE THAT ANY COURT TO WHOSE JURISDICTION IT HAS SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO THE TERMS HEREOF IS AN INCONVENIENT FORUM.
26.    Amendment and Restatement.  The parties hereto agree that the Existing Pledge Agreement is hereby amended and restated in this Pledge Agreement, and this Pledge Agreement shall constitute neither a release nor novation of any lien or security interest arising under the Existing Pledge Agreement nor a refinancing of any indebtedness or obligations arising thereunder or under the Existing Credit Agreements or related documents, but rather the liens and security interests in effect under the Existing Pledge Agreement shall continue in effect on the terms hereof.

[Signature Pages Follow.]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly executed this Pledge Agreement on the day and year first written above.
PLEDGORS:
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Executive Vice President
        

ECHOPARK AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
FAA HOLDING LLC
FIRSTAMERICA AUTOMOTIVE, LLC
SAI AL HC1, INC.
SAI FL HC2, INC.
SAI FL HC3, INC.
SAI FL HC4, INC.
SAI FL HC8, INC.
SAI GA HC1, LLC
SAI MD HC1, INC.
SAI PEACHTREE, LLC
SAI TN HC1, LLC
SAI TN HC2, LLC
SAI VEHICLE SUBSCRIPTION, INC.
SONIC AUTOMOTIVE OF NEVADA, INC.
SONIC OF TEXAS, INC.
SRE HOLDING, LLC
By:       /s/ Heath R. Byrd        
Typed Name:    Heath R. Byrd
Typed Title:    Vice President and Treasurer
FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT
(Sonic Automotive, Inc.)

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., 
as Administrative Agent
By:                 /s/ Denise Jones            
Typed Name:    Denise Jones
Typed Title:    Vice President

    

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT
(Sonic Automotive, Inc.)

SCHEDULE I

Pledged Interests

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark GA, LLC

Georgia
Limited Liability Company
16063806
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	AM Realty GA, LLC

Georgia
Limited Liability Company
16063850
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark NC, LLC

North Carolina
Limited Liability Company
1436923
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark SC, LLC

South Carolina
Limited Liability Company
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 1

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark TX, LLC

Texas
Limited Liability Company
802448793
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark Realty TX, LLC

Texas Limited Liability Company
802302813
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EP Realty NC, LLC

North Carolina Limited Liability Company
1436919
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EP Realty SC, LLC

South Carolina Limited Liability Company
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	FAA Holding LLC	L Dealership Group, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803708626
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 2

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	FirstAmerica Automotive, LLC	FAA Holding LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
202022510001
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	L Dealership Group, LLC	Autobahn, Inc.
California
Corporation
C1548941
	Common Stock	1,000,000	400,000
	400,000
	2
	N/A
	

	SAI AL HC1, Inc.	SAI Montgomery CH, LLC 
Alabama
Limited Liability Company
428-747
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI AL HC1, Inc.	SAI Montgomery BCH, LLC
Alabama
Limited Liability Company
428-745
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI FL HC3, Inc.	SAI Orlando CS, LLC
Florida
Limited Liability Company
L08000116711
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 3

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SAI FL HC4, Inc.	SAI Fort Myers VW, LLC
Florida
Limited Liability Company
L08000116709
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI FL HC8, Inc.	SAI Fort Myers M, LLC
Florida
Limited Liability Company
L98000002089
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI GA HC1, LLC	SAI Peachtree, LLC
Georgia
Limited Liability Company
4746288
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI GA HC1, LLC	SAI S. Atlanta JLR, LLC

Georgia Limited Liability Company
16070312
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI MD HC1, Inc.	SAI Rockville Imports, LLC
Maryland
Limited Liability Company
W12796074
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 4

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SAI Peachtree, LLC	SAI Chamblee V, LLC 
Georgia
Limited Liability Company
1038946
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI TN HC1, LLC	SAI Nashville CSH, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
0336183
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI TN HC1, LLC

	SAI Nashville M, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
0336182
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI TN HC2, LLC	SAI Nashville Motors, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
0566970
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.
	Arngar, Inc.
North Carolina
Corporation
0005612
	Common Stock	100,000	1,333
	1,333
	14
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 5

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Fort Mill Ford, Inc.
South Carolina
Corporation
	Common Stock	10,000
	2,700
	2,700
	13
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI Roaring Fork LR, Inc.
Colorado
Corporation
2014156978
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI AL HC1, Inc.
Alabama
Corporation
D/C 206-272
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	
	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI Denver M, Inc.
Colorado
Corporation
20131291339
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI FL HC3, Inc.
Florida
Corporation
P98000064012
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	2
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI FL HC4, Inc.
Florida
Corporation
P98000064009
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	2
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 6

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI FL HC8, Inc.
Florida
Corporation
P99000014911
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Automotive Aviation, LLC
North Carolina
Limited Liability Company
1320781
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Automotive F&I, LLC
Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC8620-1999
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Automotive Support, LLC
Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC19412-2003
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Automotive West, LLC
Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC9139-1999
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 7

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Calabasas M, Inc.
California
Corporation
C2975101
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Development, LLC
North Carolina Limited Liability Company
0483658
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Divisional Operations, LLC
Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC26157-2004
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic - Las Vegas C West, LLC
Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC7434-2000
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic of Texas, Inc.
Texas
Corporation
150782300
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 8

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Resources, Inc.
Nevada
Corporation
C24652-2001
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	2
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Santa Monica M, Inc.
California
Corporation
C2727452
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic Walnut Creek M, Inc.
California
Corporation
C2508517
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	2
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SRE Holding, LLC
North Carolina
Limited Liability Company
0551475
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.
Delaware
Corporation
5387434
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 9

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Town and Country Ford, Incorporated
North Carolina
Corporation
0148959
	Common Stock	2,000
	471.25
	471.25
	75
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SAI TN HC1, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
0336184
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SAI TN HC2, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
0336185
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SAI TN HC3, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
0336184
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive West, LLC	Sonic - LS Chevrolet, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707733
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 10

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Advantage PA, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707771
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Automotive of Texas, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712331
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Automotive - 3401 N. Main, TX, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707776
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Automotive - 4701 I-10 East, TX, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712341
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 11

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic - Clear Lake Volkswagen, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712287
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Houston JLR, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707781
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Houston LR, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707788
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic - Houston V, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712226
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic - Jersey Village Volkswagen, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712317
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 12

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic of Texas, Inc.	Sonic – LS, LLC
Delaware
Limited Liability Company
3440418
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Momentum JVP, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707794
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic Momentum VWA, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803707807
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic - Richardson F, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712249
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 1, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712346
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 2, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712368
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 13

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 3, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712408
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 4, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712412
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 5, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712417
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 6, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712425
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 7, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712430
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SRE Texas - 8, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803712434
	LLC Interest
	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	AnTrev, LLC
North Carolina
Limited Liability Company
0659676
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 14

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Alabama-2, LLC
Alabama
Limited Liability Company
670-275
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Alabama-5, LLC
Alabama
Limited Liability Company
DLL691-622
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 1, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
200202910110
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 2, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
200202910111
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 3, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
200202810141
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 5, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
200203110006
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 15

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 6, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
200203110007
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 7 SCB, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
201033410181
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 8 SCH, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
201033510021
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California - 9 BHB, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
201126410082
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California 10 LBB, LLC
California
Limited Liability Company
201413910313
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Colorado - 1, LLC
Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20021330518
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 16

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Colorado - 2, LLC
Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20021330523
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Colorado - 3, LLC

Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20021330530
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Colorado – 4 RF, LLC

Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20141516951
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Colorado – 5 CC, LLC
Colorado
Limited Liability Company
201415486855
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Georgia 4, LLC
Georgia
Limited Liability Company
4219711
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Florida - 1, LLC
Florida
Limited Liability Company
L00000006050
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 17

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Maryland - 1, LLC

Maryland Limited Liability Company
200162227
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Nevada-2, LLC
Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC5021-2000
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE North Carolina-2, LLC
North Carolina
Limited Liability Company
0682830
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE North Carolina -3, LLC

North Carolina 
Limited Liability Company
0682833
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Ohio 1, LLC
Ohio
Limited Liability Company
2146293
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 18

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Ohio 2, LLC
Ohio
Limited Liability Company
2146292
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Oklahoma-2, LLC
Oklahoma
Limited Liability Company
3500697105
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE South Carolina - 2, LLC
South Carolina
Limited Liability Company
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE South Carolina - 3, LLC
South Carolina
Limited Liability Company
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE South Carolina - 4, LLC
South Carolina
Limited Liability Company
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 19

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee - 1, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
000390360
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee - 2, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
000390358 
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee - 3, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
000390359
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee-4, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
000450279
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee-5, LLC
Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
000450278 
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 20

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee 6, LLC

Tennessee Limited Liability Company
000797947
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee 7, LLC

Tennessee Limited Liability Company
000959852
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Virginia - 1, LLC
Virginia
Limited Liability Company
5050246-0
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Virginia - 2, LLC

Virginia
Limited Liability Company
S1012154
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 9, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
801419276
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 10, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
801675082
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 21

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 11, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
801723757
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 12, LLC
Texas
Limited Liability Company
801807250
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 13, LLC

Texas
Limited Liability Company
13-802180003
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 14, LLC

Texas
Limited Liability Company
14-802402987
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 15, LLC

Texas
Limited Liability Company
15-802570108
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 22

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	TT Denver, LLC
Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20131462193
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	TTRE CO 1, LLC
Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20131504490
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark AZ, LLC

Arizona 
Limited Liability Company
23032012
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark CA, LLC

California
Limited Liability Company
201923110260
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark Realty CA, LLC

California
Limited Liability Company
201923910263
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 23

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark FL, LLC

Florida
Limited Liability Company
L16000126299
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI FL HC2, Inc.	SAI Pensacola A, LLC

Florida
Limited Liability Company
L15000038068
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	FirstAmerica Automotive, LLC	FAA San Bruno, Inc.

California
Corporation
C2004303
	Common Stock	100,000
	10,000
	10,000
	2
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI Columbus T, LLC

Ohio
Limited Liability Company
CP13128
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI McKinney M, LLC

Texas
Limited Liability Company
802180025
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 24

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI MD HC1, Inc.

Maryland
Corporation
D05310776
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	2
	N/A
	

	SAI MD HC1, Inc.	SAI Rockville L, LLC

Maryland
Limited Liability Company
W12791083
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	Sonic - Fort Worth T, LLC

Texas
Limited Liability Company
0803726979
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic-Integrity Dodge LV, LLC

Nevada
Limited Liability Company
LLC4879-1999
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Car Cash of North Carolina, Inc.

North Carolina Corporation
1581348
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 25

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark Driver Education, LLC

Colorado
Limited Liability Company
20161857629
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EP Realty AZ, LLC

Arizona
Limited Liability Company
23032013
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EP Realty MD, LLC

Maryland
Limited Liability Company
W20245940
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI FL HC9, Inc.

Florida
Corporation
P0200010148
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	SAI Momentum ARM, LLC

Texas 
Limited Liability Company
803976497
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 26

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI SIC, Inc.

Georgia 
Corporation
18011005
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	$.01
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI Vehicle Subscription, Inc.

Delaware 
Corporation
6715974
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	$10.00
	

	SAI Vehicle Subscription, Inc.	SAI VS GA, LLC

Georgia
Limited Liability Company
18005598
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SAI Vehicle Subscription, Inc.	SAI VS TX, LLC

Texas 
Limited Liability Company
803015343
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic FFC 1, Inc.

Delaware 
Corporation
800516461
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	$10.00
	

Schedule I – Page 27

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic FFC 2, Inc.

Delaware 
Corporation
800516469
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	$10.00
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	Sonic FFC 3, Inc.

Delaware 
Corporation
800516475
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	$10.00
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Alabama 6, LLC

Alabama
 Limited Liability Company
670-275
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE California 11 PH, LLC

California
Limited Liability Company
201715310091
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Georgia 5, LLC

Georgia 
Limited Liability Company
17028810
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 28

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Georgia 6, LLC

Georgia 
Limited Liability Company
17078607
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Tennessee 8, LLC

Tennessee 
Limited Liability Company
1082886
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 16, LLC

Texas 
Limited Liability Company
802852214
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	SRE Holding, LLC	SRE Texas 17, LLC

Texas 
Limited Liability Company
803572496
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive, Inc.	SAI Syracuse C, Inc.

New York 
Corporation
201127000189
	Common Stock	1,000
	100
	100
	1
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark AL, LLC

Alabama
Limited Liability Company
646-471
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 29

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark KY, LLC

Kentucky
Limited Liability Company
1127159
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark MD, LLC

Maryland
Limited Liability Company
W20245957
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark NV, LLC

Nevada
Limited Liability Company
E8590422020-9
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark NY, LLC

New York
Limited Liability Company
85-3919750
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 30

																											
	Name of Pledgor	Name, 
Jurisdiction of
Formation and
Type of Entity
of Pledged
Subsidiary
	Class or Type of Pledged Interest	Total Amount of Class or Type of Pledged Interests Authorized	Total Amount 
of Class 
or Type Outstanding
	Total Amount Pledged	Certificate Number
(if applicable)
	Par Value 
(if applicable)
	Name of Transfer Agent
(if any)

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.	EchoPark TN, LLC

Tennessee
Limited Liability Company
802448793
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.	SAI River Oaks P, LLC

Texas 
Limited Liability Company
803751036
	LLC Interest	N/A
	100.00%
	100.00%
	N/A
	N/A
	

Schedule I – Page 31

SCHEDULE II

												
	Name and Address of Pledgor	Type of Person	Jurisdiction of Formation 
of Pledgor
	Jurisdiction of Formation
Identification Number

	EchoPark Automotive, Inc.
4401 Colwick Rd.
Charlotte, NC
	Corporation	Delaware	5387434
	FAA Holding LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	California	202022510001
	FirstAmerica Automotive, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Delaware	2761294
	L Dealership Group, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Texas	0803708626
	SAI AL HC1, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Alabama	206-272
	SAI FL HC2, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Florida	P98000016038
	SAI FL HC3, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Florida	P98000064012
	SAI FL HC4, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Florida	P98000064009
	SAI FL HC8, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Florida	P99000014911
	SAI GA HC1, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Georgia	4705444
	SAI MD HC1, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Maryland	D05310776

Schedule II – Page 1

												
	Name and Address of Pledgor	Type of Person	Jurisdiction of Formation 
of Pledgor
	Jurisdiction of Formation
Identification Number

	SAI Peachtree, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Georgia	4746288
	SAI TN HC1, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Tennessee	0336184
	SAI TN HC2, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Tennessee	0336185
	Sonic Automotive, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Delaware	2714319
	Sonic Automotive of Nevada, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Nevada	C18014-1997
	Sonic of Texas, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Texas	150782300
	SRE Holding, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	North Carolina	0551475
	SAI Vehicle Subscription, Inc.
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Corporation	Delaware	6715974
	Sonic Automotive West, LLC
4401 Colwick Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
	Limited Liability Company	Nevada	LLC9139-1999

Schedule II – Page 2

EXHIBIT A

PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT
THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT  (as from time to time amended, revised, modified, supplemented or amended and restated, this “Supplement”), dated as of ________________ __, ____ is made by _______________________________, a ________________ (the “Pledgor”), in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., in its capacity as Administrative Agent (the “Administrative Agent”) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Pledge Agreement referenced below) now or hereafter party to the Credit Agreement (as defined in the Pledge Agreement referred to below).  All capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in such Pledge Agreement.

RECITALS:

A.    The Pledgor is required under the terms of that certain Fifth Amended and Restated Securities Pledge Agreement dated as of April 14, 2021 executed by the Pledgor (among others), or to which the Pledgor has been joined as a party pursuant to a Joinder Agreement, in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as from time to time amended, revised, modified, supplemented or amended and restated, the “Pledge Agreement”), to cause certain Pledged Interests held by it and listed on Annex A to this Supplement (the “Additional Interests”) to be specifically identified as subject to the Pledge Agreement.
B.    A material part of the consideration given in connection with and as an inducement to the execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement by the Secured Parties was the obligation of the Pledgor to pledge to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties the Additional Interests, whether then owned or subsequently acquired or created    

C.    The Pledgor has acquired rights in the Additional Interests and desires to pledge, and evidence its prior pledge, to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties all of the Additional Interests in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.

    In order to induce the Secured Parties to from time to time make and maintain extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement, Related Swap Contracts and Related Cash Management Arrangements, the Pledgor hereby agrees as follows:

1.    Affirmations.  The Pledgor hereby reaffirms and acknowledges the pledge and collateral assignment to, and the grant of security interest in, the Additional Interests contained in the Pledge Agreement and pledges and collaterally assigns to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a first priority lien and security interest in, the Additional Interests and all of the following:
(a)    all money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, dividends, rights, general intangibles and other property at any time and from time to time 
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(x) declared or distributed in respect of or in exchange for or on conversion of any or all of the Additional Interests or (y) by its or their terms exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into any Additional Interest or other Pledged Interest;
(b)    all other property of whatever character or description, including money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, and general intangibles hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent in substitution for or as an addition to any of the foregoing;
(c)    all securities accounts to which may at any time be credited any or all of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof and all certificates and instruments representing or evidencing any of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof; and
(d)    all proceeds of any of the foregoing.
The Pledgor hereby acknowledges, agrees and confirms by its execution of this Supplement that the Additional Interests constitute “Pledged Interests” under and are subject to the Pledge Agreement, and the items of property referred to in clauses (a) through (d) above (the “Additional Collateral”) shall collectively constitute “Collateral” under and are subject to the Pledge Agreement.  Each of the representations and warranties with respect to Pledged Interests and Collateral contained in the Pledge Agreement is hereby made by the Pledgor with respect to the Additional Interests and the Additional Collateral, respectively.  The Pledgor further represents and warrants that Annex A attached to this Supplement contains a true, correct and complete description of the Additional Interests, and that all other documents required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2(c) of the Pledge Agreement in connection with the Additional Collateral have been delivered or are being delivered simultaneously herewith to the Administrative Agent.  The Pledgor further acknowledges that Schedule I to the Pledge Agreement shall be deemed, as to it, to be supplemented as of the date hereof to include the Additional Interests as described on Annex A to this Supplement.
2.    Counterparts.  This Pledge Agreement Supplement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this Pledge Agreement Supplement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart executed by the Pledgor.  Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2, the provisions of Section 10.10 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Agreement.

3.    Governing Law; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial.  The provisions of Section 25 of the Pledge Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Pledgor has caused this Supplement to be duly executed by it’s authorized officer as of the day and year first above written.
PLEDGOR:
                        ________________________________________
By:_____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:____________________________________

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ANNEX A
(to Pledge Agreement Supplement of __________ dated __________)
Additional Interests

																											
	

Name of Pledgor
	Name, Jurisdiction of Formation and Type of Entity of Pledged Subsidiary	

Class or Type of Additional Interest
	Total Amount of Class or Type of Additional Interests Authorized	

Total Amount of Class or Type Outstanding
	

Total Amount  Pledged
	

Certificate Number (if applicable)
	

Par Value (if applicable)
	

Name of Transfer Agent (if any)

									
									
									
									

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