S-3/A 1 efc6-1379_forms3a.txt As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2006 Registration No. 333- 131356 ============================================================================== SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington , D.C. 20549 PRE-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Under THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 --------------------- USAA ACCEPTANCE, LLC (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 71-0898378 (State or Other Jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Incorporation or Organization) Identification No.) 9830 Colonnade Blvd., Suite 600 San Antonio, Texas 78230 (210) 498-0922 (Address, Including ZIP Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices) Ron DiGiacomo, Esq. Senior Vice President and General Counsel 10750 McDermott Freeway, San Antonio, Texas 78288 (210) 498-0626 (Name, Address, Including ZIP Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service) Copies to: Renwick D. Martin, Esq. Sidley Austin LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10019 (212) 839-5300 --------------------- Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement as determined by market conditions. If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. [ ] If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. [X] If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] ________ If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [ ] ________ If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. [ ] If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. [ ]
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE Title of Each Class Proposed Maximum Proposed Maximum of Securities to Be Amount to Be Offering Price Per Aggregate Offering Amount of Registered Registered(1) Unit Price(2) Registration Fee(3) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asset Backed Notes $12,000,000,000 100% $12,000,000,000 $1,284,000.00 and Certificates
(1) This Registration Statement relates to the offering from time to time of $12,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Asset-Backed Notes and Certificates. (2) Estimated for the purpose of calculating the registration fee. (3) A registration fee of $107.00 was previously paid with the filing of this Registration Statement on January 27, 2006. In addition, as set forth below, $264,673.30 is remaining is respect of Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-122759, initially filed on February 22, 2005) which is deemed to be withdrawn. The remaining $1,019,219.70 is being paid in connection with the filing of this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3. PURSUANT TO RULE 457 OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGES COMMISSION'S RULES AND REGULATIONS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, THE NET FEE AVAILABLE IS OFFSET AGAINST THE FILING FEE CURRENTLY DUE IN CONNECTION WITH THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT. (1) The amount of securities registered in respect of Registration Statement No. 333-122759 was $8,000,000,000 (including $471,734,182.48 carried forward from Registration Statement No. 333-96907). From February 23, 2005, the date Registration Statement No. 333-122759 became effective until the date of this filing, the Registrant issued $5,751,288,891 of Asset Backed Notes and Certificates leaving $2,248,711,109 of Asset Backed Notes and Certificates (or $264,673.30 of filing fee at a fee rate of $117.70 per million). (2) The remaining fee from Registration Statement No. 333-122759 available under Rule 457(p) of $264,673.30 is sufficient to register $2,473,582,242.99 of Asset Backed Notes and Certificates at a fee rate of $107.00 per million. Information contained in this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus is not complete and may changed. This prospectus supplement and attached prospectus are not an offer to sell these securities and they are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted. Subject to completion dated [ ]. PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT --------------------- (To Prospectus dated __________, 200_) [$ Aggregate Principal Balance of [Securities][Notes] Offered] USAA AUTO OWNER TRUST 200_-[ ] Issuing Entity USAA Acceptance, LLC Depositor [LOGO OMITTED]USAA USAA(R) FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK Sponsor, Seller and Servicer The issuing entity will own motor vehicle loans originated by USAA Federal Savings Bank and will issue the following classes of USAA Auto Owner Trust 200_-[ ] [securities] [notes]: Before you purchase any of these securities, be sure you read this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus, especially the risk factors beginning on page S-_ of this prospectus supplement and on page __ of the attached prospectus. A security is not a deposit and neither the securities nor the underlying motor vehicle loans are insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other governmental authority. The securities will represent obligations of or interests in the issuing entity only and will not represent obligations of or interests in USAA Acceptance, LLC, USAA Federal Savings Bank or any of their respective affiliates. No one may use this prospectus supplement to offer and sell these securities unless it is accompanied by the attached prospectus. Class [ ] Class [ ] Class [ ] Class [ ] [Class [ ] Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes (2)] ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- [Class [ ] Certificates (2)] ------------ Principal Amount... $ $ $ $ Per Annum Interest Rate..... % % % % Final Scheduled Payment Date..... $ $ $ $ Initial Public Offering Price.... % % % % Underwriting Discount. % % % % Proceeds to Depositor(1) % % % % ----------- (1) Before deducting expenses payable by the depositor estimated to be . (2) [On the closing date, an affiliate of the depositor will purchase all of the [class [ ] notes] [certificates] from the depositor.] The total initial public offering price is $ , the total underwriting discount is $ and the total proceeds to the depositor is $ . The issuing entity will pay interest and principal on the [securities] [notes] on the [15th] day of each month (or if the [15th] day is not a business day, the next business day). The first payment date will be . The issuing entity will generally pay principal sequentially to the earliest maturing class of [securities] [notes] then outstanding until paid in full. The [class [ ] notes] [certificates] are subordinated to the class [ ] notes to the extent described in this prospectus supplement. That subordination is intended to provide credit enhancement to the class [ ] notes. The issuing entity will have a reserve account in the initial amount of $ [ ] that will provide credit enhancement for the notes [and certificates] to the extent described in this prospectus supplement. These securities have not been approved or disapproved by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state securities commission nor has the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state securities commission passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus supplement or the attached prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. [Underwriter(s)] The date of this prospectus supplement is [ ] TABLE OF CONTENTS READING THESE DOCUMENTS.............................S-3 SUMMARY OF TERMS OF THE [SECURITIES] [NOTES].............................S-5 RISK FACTORS.......................................S-14 THE ISSUING ENTITY.................................S-15 Limited Purpose and Limited Assets...........S-15 Capitalization of the Trust..................S-16 The Owner Trustee............................S-16 THE RECEIVABLES POOL...............................S-16 Criteria Applicable to Selection of Receivables..............................S-17 [Subsequent Receivables......................S-20 The Bank's Delinquency, Loan Loss and Recovery Information..................S-21 STATIC POOL DATA...................................S-22 HOW YOU CAN COMPUTE YOUR PORTION OF THE AMOUNT OUTSTANDING ON THE NOTES [OR CERTIFICATES]..................S-22 Notes........................................S-22 [Certificates................................S-23 The Factors Described Above Will Decline as the Trust Makes Payments on the [Securities] [Notes]...................................S-23 MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS.............S-23 Weighted Average Lives of the [Securities] [Notes]......................S-24 DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES...........................S-33 Payments of Interest.........................S-33 Payments of Principal........................S-33 Optional Prepayment..........................S-34 Indenture Trustee............................S-35 DESCRIPTION OF THE CERTIFICATES....................S-35 [Distributions...............................S-35 [Subordination of Certificates...............S-36 [Optional Prepayment.........................S-36 APPLICATION OF AVAILABLE FUNDS...........................................S-36 Sources of Funds for Distributions...........S-36 Fees and Expenses of the Trust...............S-37 Priority of Distributions....................S-37 [Interest Rate Swap/Derivative Contract..................................S-39 Subordination of [Class [ ] Notes] [Certificates]............................S-39 DESCRIPTION OF THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT.............................S-40 Accounts.....................................S-40 Advances.....................................S-40 Servicing Compensation and Expenses..................................S-40 Rights Upon Event of Servicing Termination...............................S-41 Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination...............................S-41 Deposits to the Collection Account...........S-41 Reserve Account..............................S-43 USE OF PROCEEDS....................................S-44 [INFORMATION REGARDING THE CREDIT ENHANCER AND THE CREDIT ENHANCEMENT]....................................S-44 [THE SWAP COUNTERPARTY.............................S-44 AFFILIATION AND CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS............................S-45 CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES............S-45 CERTAIN STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES.....................S-46 ERISA CONSIDERATIONS...............................S-46 General......................................S-46 The Class [ ] Notes.........................S-46 [The Class [ ] Notes] [The Certificates].............................S-47 UNDERWRITING.......................................S-48 [European Economic Area......................S-49 United Kingdom...............................S-50 General......................................S-50 LEGAL OPINIONS.....................................S-51 GLOSSARY OF TERMS..................................S-51 S-2 READING THESE DOCUMENTS We provide information on the [securities] [notes] in two documents that offer varying levels of detail: 1. Prospectus--provides general information, some of which may not apply to the securities. 2. Prospectus Supplement--provides a summary of the specific terms of the securities. We suggest you read this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus in their entirety. The prospectus supplement pages begin with "S". The terms of the [securities] [notes] described in this prospectus supplement supplement the accompanying prospectus. Whenever information in this prospectus supplement is more specific than the information in the accompanying prospectus, you should rely on the information in this prospectus supplement with respect to the [securities] [notes]. We include cross-references to sections in these documents where you can find further related discussions. Refer to the table of contents on page S-__ in this document and on page 2 in the attached prospectus to locate the referenced sections. The Glossary of Terms on page S-__ of this prospectus supplement and the Glossary of Terms on page 93 in the attached prospectus list definitions of certain terms used in this prospectus supplement or the attached prospectus. You should rely only on information on the [securities] [notes] provided in this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. In this prospectus supplement, the terms "we," "us" and "our" refer to USAA Acceptance, LLC. S-3 TRANSACTION ILLUSTRATION ------------------------- | USAA Federal | | Savings Bank | | (Sponsor, Seller and | | Servicer | ------------------------- | | | | receivables | | $ | | | | | | | | ------------------------- | USAA Acceptance LLC | | (Depositor) | | | | | ------------------------- | | | | receivables | | $ | | | | | | | | ------------------------- ---------------------- | USAA Auto | Class [ ] | | | Owner Trust | Notes | | | 200_-[ ] |------------------ | Investors | | (issuing entity/trust)| | | | | | | ------------------------- ---------------------- | | | | | | ---------------------- | [Class [ ] | Affiliate of USAA | | Notes] |Federal Savings Bank | | [Certificates] | | | | | |----------------------------------- | | ---------------------- S-4 SUMMARY OF TERMS OF THE [SECURITIES] [NOTES] The following summary is a short description of the main terms of the offering of the [securities] [notes]. For that reason, this summary does not contain all of the information that may be important to you. To fully understand the terms of the offering of the [securities] [notes], you will need to read both this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus in their entirety. Issuing Entity or Trust USAA Auto Owner Trust 200__-[ ], a Delaware statutory trust, will acquire from the depositor a pool of motor vehicle installment loans that constitute the receivables in exchange for the securities. The trust is referred to as the "issuing entity" or the "trust." The trust will rely upon collections on the receivables and the funds on deposit in certain accounts to make payments on the [securities] [notes]. The trust will be solely liable for the payments on the [securities] [notes]. Depositor USAA Acceptance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of USAA Federal Savings Bank. Offered Securities The following classes of USAA Auto Owner Trust 200_-[ ] [securities] [notes] are being offered by this prospectus supplement: o $ Class [ ] % Asset Backed Notes o $ Class [ ] % Asset Backed Notes o $ Class [ ] % Asset Backed Notes o $ Class [ ] % Asset Backed Notes o [$ Class [ ] % Asset Backed Notes] o [$ Class [ ] % Asset Backed Certificates] [On the closing date, an affiliate of the depositor will purchase all of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] from the depositor.] Closing Date The trust expects to issue the [securities] [notes] on or about . Cut-off Date The seller will transfer the receivables to the depositor and the depositor will transfer the receivables to the trust as of [ ]. Sponsor, Seller and Servicer USAA Federal Savings Bank. Owner Trustee [ ] Indenture Trustee [ ] [Third Party Credit Enhancer ] [ ] [Swap Counterparty] [ ] Payment Dates On the [15]th day of each month (or if the [15]th day is not a business day, the next business day), S-5 the trust will pay interest and principal on the [securities] [notes]. First Payment Date The first payment date will be . Record Dates On each payment date, the trust will pay interest and principal to the holders of the [securities] [notes] as of the related record date. The record date for the [securities] [notes] for each payment date will be the day immediately preceding such payment date. If definitive [securities][notes] are issued for the [securities][notes], the record date will be the last day of the month immediately preceding such payment date. Interest Rates On each payment date, the trust will pay interest on each class of [securities] [notes] at the rates specified on the front cover of this prospectus supplement. Interest Accrual [Class [ ] Notes "Actual/360", accrued from and including the prior payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the current payment date. Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes and [Class [ ] Notes] [Certificates] "30/360", accrued from and including the [15th] day of the previous month (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the [15th] day of the current month. This means that, if there are no outstanding shortfalls in the payment of interest, the interest due on each class of notes [and the certificates] on each payment date will be the product of: 1. the outstanding principal amount of the related class of notes [or the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates]; 2. the related interest rate; and 3. (i) in the case of the Class [ ] Notes: the actual number of days in the accrual period divided by 360; and (ii) in the case of the other classes of notes [and the certificates]: 30 (or, in the case of the first payment date, [ ]) divided by 360.] For a more detailed description of the payment of interest, refer to the sections of this prospectus supplement entitled "Description of the Notes--Payments of Interest" [and "Description of the Certificates--Distributions]." Flow of Funds and Priority of Distributions From collections on the receivables received during the prior calendar month and amounts withdrawn from the reserve account, the trust will pay the following amounts on each payment date in the following order of priority, after reimbursement of advances made in prior months by the servicer for interest payments due from obligors but not received: (1) Servicing Fee--the servicing fee payable to the servicer; (2) Class [ ] Note Interest--interest due on all the Class [ ] Notes ratably to the holders of each class of Class [ ] Notes; (3) First Priority Principal Payment--a payment of principal of the Class [ ] Notes to be distributed in the same priority as described under clause (5) below in an amount equal to the excess, if any, of: o the outstanding principal amount of the Class [ ] Notes immediately prior to such payment date over S-6 o the outstanding principal balance of the receivables (exclusive of "defaulted receivables" as defined in this prospectus supplement) as of the end of the prior calendar month; (4) [Class [ ] Note] [Certificate] Interest--interest distributable to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates]; however, if payment of the notes has been accelerated because of a failure to pay an amount due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, this distribution will instead be made only after the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full; (5) Regular Principal Payment--an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the [sum of the] outstanding principal amount of the Class [ ] Notes [and the Class [ ] Notes] [and the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates] immediately prior to such payment date over (b) the outstanding principal balance of the receivables (exclusive of all "defaulted receivables" as defined in this prospectus supplement) as of the end of the prior calendar month (less any amounts distributed under clause (3) above) will be applied to pay principal on the [securities] [notes] in the following amounts in the following order of priority: (i) on the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (ii) on the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (iii) on the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (iv) on the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; [and (v) [on the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; and] (vi) [on the certificates until they are paid in full.] If payment of the notes has been accelerated after an event of default due to a breach of a material covenant or agreement by the trust, all of the funds remaining after clause (4) above will be paid as principal to the holders of Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full, then any remaining amounts will be paid as principal pro rata on all of the remaining classes of the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full and then any remaining amounts will be distributed to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] are paid in full. If payment of the notes has been accelerated because of a failure to pay an amount due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, all of the funds remaining after clause (2) above will be paid as principal to the holders of Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full, then any remaining amounts will be applied to pay principal pro rata on all of the remaining classes of Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full and then any remaining amounts will be distributed to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], first to pay interest distributable to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], and second to pay principal on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until they are paid in full; (6) Final Scheduled Payment Date--if the payment date is a final scheduled payment date for a class of [securities] [notes], the amount, if any, necessary to pay that class in full after giving effect to the payment pursuant to clause (5) above will be paid on that class; (7) Reserve Account Deposit--to the reserve account, the amount, if any, necessary to reinstate the balance of the reserve account up to its required amount; (8) Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee Fees and Expenses--to pay any unpaid fees, expenses and indemnification of the indenture trustee and owner trustee; however, if payment of the notes has been S-7 accelerated after an event of default, all fees, expenses and indemnification owing to the indenture trustee and owner trustee will be paid prior to clause (1) above; and (9) any amounts remaining after the above distributions will be distributed to the [holders of the certificates] [depositor]. [or insert a different priority of distribution] [if applicable, include description of payments by a third party credit enhancement provider and payments to a third party credit enhancement provider] [if applicable, include description of payments by a derivative counterparty and payments to a derivative counterparty] The interest of the depositor in distributions from the trust may be evidenced by certificates issued by the trust that will not be offered. The depositor may transfer these certificates. For a more detailed description of the priority of distributions and the allocation of funds on each payment date, you should refer to "Application of Available Funds" in this prospectus supplement. Triggers Related To Priority of Distributions and the Reserve Account Acceleration of the notes following an event of default will change the priority in which the notes are paid. These changes are summarized above under "--Flow of Funds and Priority of Distributions." If certain specified loss and delinquency triggers are met, the required balance of the reserve account will increase as described under "--Credit Enhancement--Reserve Account" in this prospectus supplement. Credit Enhancement The credit enhancement for the [securities] [notes] will be as follows: Subordination of Payments on the[ Class [ ] Notes] [Certificates] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Payments of interest on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will be subordinated to payments of interest on the Class [ ] Notes and any payments of first priority principal. No payments of principal will be made on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full. If an event of default occurs because of a failure to pay an amount due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust and payment of the notes has been accelerated, no payments will be made on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full. Consequently, the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will incur losses and shortfalls because of delinquencies and losses on the receivables before the holders of Class [ ] Notes incur those losses and shortfalls. [While any Class [ ] Notes are outstanding, the failure to pay interest on the Class [ ] Notes will not be an event of default. When the Class [ ] Notes are no longer outstanding, an event of default will occur if the full amount of interest due on the Class [ ] Notes is not paid within five days after the related payment date.] Reserve Account --------------- On the closing date, the depositor will deposit $[ ], or [ ]% of the principal balance of the receivables as of the cut-off date, into the reserve account. On each payment date, if collections on the receivables are insufficient to make the payments described in clauses (1) through (6) in "Flow of Funds and Priority of Distributions" above, the indenture trustee will withdraw funds, to the extent available, from the reserve account to pay such amounts. Consequently, the reserve account, to the extent of any funds available, will protect the holders of the Class [ ] Notes against delinquencies and losses on the receivables before it protects the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates]. S-8 Generally, the balance required to be on deposit in the reserve account will be the lesser of (a) [ ]% of the principal balance of the receivables as of the cut-off date and (b) the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the notes [and the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates] as of the current payment date. If the average delinquency ratio or the average net loss ratio exceeds its respective specified trigger level, then the percentage in clause (a) will be [ ]%, until the average delinquency ratio and the average net loss ratio are equal to or less than their respective specified trigger levels for at least six consecutive payment dates. On each payment date, the trust will deposit into the reserve account, to the extent necessary to reinstate the required balance of the reserve account, any collections on the receivables remaining after the payment of the amounts described in clauses (1) through (6) listed in "Flow of Funds and Priority of Distributions" above. On each payment date, the trust will distribute to the [holders of the certificate] [depositor] funds on deposit in the reserve account in excess of the required reserve account balance. [or insert a different reserve account requirement] For a more detailed description of the deposits to and withdrawals from the reserve account, you should refer to "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Reserve Account" in this prospectus supplement. [Third Party Credit Enhancement ------------------------------- [If the trust has the benefit of credit enhancement from a third party, this paragraph will briefly summarize how such credit enhancement works. If the liability of such credit enhancer exceeds the applicable level specified in Item 1114(b) of Regulation AB, this paragraph will name the credit enhancer and refer to "Information Regarding the Credit Enhancement and Credit Enhancer", under which caption the applicable information required by Item 1114 will be given.] [Swap Counterparty ------------------ [If the trust has the benefit of a derivative contract from a third party, this paragraph will briefly summarize how such derivative contract works. If the liability of such counterparty exceeds the applicable level specified in Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB, this paragraph will name the swap counterparty and refer to "Information Regarding the Swap Counterparty", under which caption the applicable information required by Item 1115 will be given.] Purchase or Repurchase of Receivables In the course of its normal servicing procedures, the servicer may defer or modify the payment schedule of a receivable. Some of these arrangements may obligate the servicer to purchase the receivable from the trust. For a discussion of the servicer's purchase obligations, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Servicing Procedures" in the accompanying prospectus. The seller will make representations and warranties relating to the receivables when it sells them to the depositor. The depositor will make the same representations and warranties when it sells the receivables to the trust. The seller will be required to repurchase a receivable from the depositor (which will be required to repurchase the receivable from the trust) if (1) one of the seller's representations or warranties is breached with respect to that receivable and (2) the receivable is materially and adversely affected by the breach. S-9 For a discussion of the representations and warranties given by the seller and its related repurchase obligations, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Sale and Assignment of Receivables" in the accompanying prospectus. Optional Prepayment The servicer has the option to purchase the receivables on any payment date following the last day of a collection period on which the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the receivables is [__]% or less of the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the cut-off date. The purchase price will equal the lesser of (i) the outstanding principal balance of the receivables plus interest accrued thereon at the weighted average interest rate borne by the [securities] [notes] through the end of the related collection period and (ii) the fair market value of the receivables. However, the servicer will not be entitled to exercise such purchase option if such purchase price is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the outstanding [securities] [notes] in full. The trust will apply such payment to the payment of the [securities] [notes] in full. It is expected that at the time this purchase option becomes available to the servicer, only the Class [ ] Notes and the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will be outstanding. Final Scheduled Payment Dates The trust is required to pay the entire principal amount of each class of notes [and the entire certificate balance of the certificates], to the extent not previously paid, on the respective final scheduled payment dates specified on the front cover of this prospectus supplement. Property of the Trust The property of the trust will include the following: o the receivables and the collections on the receivables on or after the cut-off date; o security interests in the vehicles financed by the receivables; o amounts held in the reserve account and other accounts maintained for the trust; o rights to proceeds under insurance policies that cover the obligors under the receivables or the vehicles financed by the receivables; and o rights of the depositor under the receivables purchase agreement under which the depositor acquired the receivables from the seller. Composition of the Receivables The composition of the receivables as of the cut-off date is as follows: Aggregate Principal Balance $ Number of Receivables..... Current Principal Balance Average................ $ Range.................. $ to $ Original Amount Financed Average................ $ Range.................. $ to $ Weighted Average Contract Rate.................... % Range.................. % to % Weighted Average Original Term.................... months Range.................. months to months Weighted Average Remaining Term.................... months Range.................. months to months Weighted Average FICO score* Range................... ____ to ____ Percentage of Aggregate Principal Balance of Receivables with no FICO score................... % Percentages of Aggregate Principal Balance of Receivables for New/Used Vehicles % / % [Pre-Funding On the closing date, the depositor may elect to deposit an amount of up to 50% of net proceeds from the sale of the [securities] [notes] into a ___________________________ * [Weighted average FICO score and the range of FICO scores are calculated excluding accounts for which we do not have a FICO score.] We describe FICO scores in the prospectus under "The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans - Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans." S-10 pre-funding account for the purchase of subsequent receivables. Funding Period -------------- If the depositor elects to deposit a pre-funded amount on the closing date, the funding period will end on the earliest to occur of (i) [ ] [insert time period not to exceed one-year following the closing date], (ii) the date on which the amount in the pre-funding account is less than $[ ] and (iii) the occurrence of an event of default under the indenture. Use of Pre-Funded Amount ------------------------ If the depositor elects to deposit a pre-funded amount on the closing date, the pre-funded amount is expected to be used to purchase subsequent receivables. On the payment date following the termination of the funding period, the indenture trustee will apply any remaining funds in the pre-funding account to pay principal of the [securities] [notes]. Restrictions on Subsequent Receivables -------------------------------------- Purchases of subsequent receivables are subject to the same criteria as the initial receivables, as described in this prospectus supplement. [describe any other criteria]] See "The Receivables Pool -- Subsequent Receivables" in this prospectus supplement. ] Servicing Fee The trust will pay the servicer a servicing fee on each payment date for the previous month equal to the product of 1/12th of [___]% and the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the receivables at the beginning of the previous month [(except the servicing fee on the first payment date will be adjusted to reflect the long initial collection period)]. In addition to the servicing fee, the trust will also pay the servicer a supplemental servicing fee equal to any late fees and other administrative fees and expenses, if any, collected during each month and any reinvestment earnings on any payments received on the receivables and deposited into the collection account. Ratings It is a condition to the issuance of the [securities] [notes] that: o [the Class [ ] Notes be rated in the highest short-term rating category by Moody's and Standard & Poor's;] o [the Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes, and Class [ ] Notes be rated in the highest long-term rating category by Moody's and Standard & Poor's; and] o [the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] be rated at least "BBB" (or its equivalent) by Moody's and Standard & Poor's.] A rating is not a recommendation to purchase, hold or sell the related notes [and certificates], inasmuch as such rating does not comment as to market price or suitability for a particular investor. The ratings of the [securities] [notes] address the likelihood of the payment of principal and interest on the [securities] [notes] according to their terms. A rating agency rating the [securities] [notes] may lower or withdraw its rating in the future, in its discretion, as to any class of [securities] [notes]. We have requested that each rating agency maintain ongoing surveillance of the ratings assigned to the [securities] [notes] in accordance with the rating agency's policy, but we cannot assure you that a rating agency will continue its surveillance of the ratings assigned to the [securities] [notes]. Minimum Denominations Notes............ $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 [Certificates.... $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000] S-11 Registration, Clearance and Settlement Class [ ] Notes Book-entry through DTC/Clearstream/Euroclear [Class [ ] Book-entry through DTC Notes] [Certificates]..... Tax Status Opinions of Counsel ------------------- Sidley Austin LLP will deliver its opinion that for federal income tax purposes: o the Class [ ] Notes will be characterized as debt; and o the trust will not be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation. o [include statement as to whether the Class [ ] Notes will receive a tax opinion as to characterization as debt] Investor Representations ------------------------ Notes........... If you purchase the notes, you agree by your purchase that you will treat the notes as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes. [Certificates... If you purchase the certificates, you agree by your purchase that you will treat the trust as a partnership in which the certificateholders are partners for federal income tax purposes.] [Tax-Related Investment Restrictions on the [Class [ ] Notes] [Certificates] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The[Class [ ] The [Class [ ] Notes] Notes] [certificates] may not be [Certificates]... purchased by persons who are not U.S. persons for federal income tax purposes. If you are considering purchasing the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], you should refer to "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences" in the attached prospectus and "Certain State Tax Consequences" in this prospectus supplement for more details.] ERISA Considerations Class [ ] Notes The Class [ ] Notes are generally eligible for purchase by or on behalf of employee benefit plans and other similar retirement plans and arrangements that are subject to ERISA or to Section 4975 of the Code, subject to the considerations discussed under "ERISA Considerations" in this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. [Class [ ] The [Class [ ] Notes] Notes] [certificates] may not be [Certificates].. acquired by, on behalf of or with assets of an employee benefit plan or individual retirement account. However, an insurance company using its general account may acquire the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] subject to the considerations discussed under "ERISA Considerations" in this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. [Money Market Eligibility The Class [ ] Notes will be eligible securities for purchase by money market funds under S-12 paragraph (a)(10) of Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.] Investor Information--Mailing Address and Telephone Number The mailing address of the principal executive offices of USAA Acceptance, LLC is 9830 Colonnade Blvd., Suite 600, San Antonio, Texas 78230. Its telephone number is (210) 498-0626. S-13 RISK FACTORS You should consider the following risk factors and the risk factors under the heading "Risk Factors" in the attached prospectus in deciding whether to purchase any of these [securities] [notes]. [Add any additional risk factors required by the structure of the transaction.] S-14 THE ISSUING ENTITY Limited Purpose and Limited Assets USAA Auto Owner Trust 200__-[ ] is a statutory trust governed under the laws of the State of Delaware by a trust agreement, as amended and restated as of the closing date, between the depositor and [ ], as the owner trustee. The trust is referred to in this prospectus supplement and in the accompanying prospectus as either the "trust" or the "issuing entity." The trust will not engage in any activity other than: o acquiring, holding and managing the assets of the trust, including the receivables, and the proceeds of those assets; o issuing the securities; o making payments on the securities; and o engaging in other activities that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish any of the other purposes listed above or are in any way connected with those activities. The trust will be capitalized by the issuance of the [securities] [notes]. The trust will transfer the [securities] [notes] to the depositor in exchange for the receivables under a sale and servicing agreement to be dated as of the Cut-off Date among the trust, the depositor and the servicer. The proceeds from the issuance of the [securities] [notes] will be used by the depositor (1) to purchase the receivables from the seller under the receivables purchase agreement and (2) to fund the initial deposit of $[ ] into the Reserve Account. The fiscal year of the trust is the calendar year. The trust property will also include: o all monies received on the receivables on or after the Cut-off Date; o security interests in the financed vehicles; o the rights to proceeds, if any, from claims on certain theft, physical damage, credit life or credit disability insurance policies, if any, covering the financed vehicles or the obligors; o the depositor's rights to certain documents and instruments relating to the receivables; o amounts held in the Reserve Account and other accounts maintained for the trust; o certain payments and proceeds with respect to the receivables held by the servicer; o certain rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to certain insurance policies and other items financed under the receivables; o rights of the depositor under the receivables purchase agreement under which the depositor acquired the receivables from the seller; and o any proceeds of the above items. S-15 If the protection provided to the Class [ ] noteholders by the subordination of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] and to the noteholders [and the certificateholders] by the Reserve Account is insufficient, the trust will have to look solely to the obligors on the receivables and the proceeds from the repossession and sale of the financed vehicles that secure defaulted receivables. In that event, various factors, such as the trust not having perfected security interests in the financed vehicles securing the receivables in all states, may affect the servicer's ability to repossess and sell the collateral securing the receivables, and thus may reduce the proceeds which the trust can distribute to the noteholders [and the certificateholders]. See "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" and "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Reserve Account" in this prospectus supplement and "Some Important Legal Issues Relating to the Receivables" in the attached prospectus. Capitalization of the Trust The following table illustrates the capitalization of the trust as of the closing date, as if the issuance and sale of the notes [and the certificates] had taken place on such date: Class [ ] Notes............................. $ Class [ ] Notes............................. Class [ ] Notes............................. Class [ ] Notes............................. [Class [ ] Notes]........................... [Class [ ] Certificates].................... __________________ Total.................................... $ ================== The Owner Trustee [ ] will be the owner trustee under the trust agreement. [ ] is a [ ] and its principal offices are located at [ ]. [The owner trustee has frequently acted as an owner trustee in securitizations of retail motor vehicle installment loans and installment sale contracts.] The depositor and its affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relations with the owner trustee and its affiliates. Refer to "The Trusts--The Trustee" in the attached prospectus for a description of the owner trustee's duties and responsibilities under the trust agreement. THE RECEIVABLES POOL The trust will own a pool of receivables consisting of motor vehicle installment loans secured by security interests in the motor vehicles financed by those loans. The pool will consist of the receivables selected from the seller's portfolio of installment loans for new and used vehicles, in each case meeting the criteria described below, which the seller transfers to the depositor and the depositor transfers to the trust on the closing date. No selection procedures believed by the seller or the depositor to be adverse to the [securityholders] [noteholders] were utilized in selecting the receivables. The receivables will include payments on the receivables which are made on or after the Cut-off Date. S-16 Criteria Applicable to Selection of Receivables The receivables were selected from the seller's portfolio for inclusion in the pool by several criteria, some of which are set forth in the attached prospectus under "The Receivables Pools." These criteria include the requirement that each receivable: o has a remaining maturity, as of the Cut-off Date, of not less than six months and not more than [ ] months; o with respect to loans secured by new financed vehicles, had an original maturity of not less than [ ] months and not more than [ ] months; o with respect to loans secured by used financed vehicles, had an original maturity of not less than [ ] months and not more than [ ] months; o is a fully-amortizing, simple interest loan which bears interest at a fixed rate per annum (the "Contract Rate") and which provides for level scheduled payments (except for the last payment, which may be minimally different from the level payments) over its remaining term, is not secured by any interest in real estate; o is secured by a financed vehicle that, as of the Cut-off Date, had not been repossessed without reinstatement; o has not been identified on the computer files of the seller as relating to an obligor who was in bankruptcy proceedings as of the Cut-off Date; o has no payment more than [ ] days past due as of the Cut-off Date; o has a remaining principal balance, as of the Cut-off Date, of not less than $[ ]; and o has a scheduled maturity not later than [ ]. The receivables were selected from the seller's portfolio of installment loans for new and used vehicles, in each case meeting the criteria described above and in the prospectus. No selection procedures believed by the seller or the depositor to be adverse to the [securityholders] [noteholders] were utilized in selecting the receivables. S-17 The composition of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date is as follows: Aggregate Principal Balance.............. $ Number of Receivables.................... Current Principal Balance Average............................... $ Range................................. $ to $ Original Amount Financed Average............................... $ Range................................. $ to $ Weighted Average Contract Rate........... % Range................................. % to % Weighted Average Original Term........... months Range................................. Months to months Weighted Average Remaining Term.......... months Range................................. Months to months Weighted Average FICO score* Range................................. to Percentage of Aggregate Principal Balance of Receivables with no FICO score..... %/ % Percentage of Aggregate Principal Balance Receivables for New/Used Vehicles..... %/ ------------------------ * [Weighted average FICO score and the range of FICO scores are calculated excluding accounts for which we do not have a FICO score.] We describe FICO scores in the prospectus under "The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans --Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans." The geographical distribution and distribution by Contract Rate of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date are set forth in the following tables. Geographic Distribution of the Receivables as of the Cut-off Date Percentage of Aggregate Number of Principal Principal State (1) Receivables Balance Balance (2) --------- ------------- --------------- ---------------- $ % S-18 Percentage of Aggregate Number of Principal Principal State (1) Receivables Balance Balance (2) --------- ------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------- --------------- ---------------- Total.............. $ % ============= =============== ================ -------------- (1) Based on the billing addresses of the obligors as of the Cut-off Date. (2) May not add to 100.00% due to rounding. S-19 Distribution by Contract Rate of the Receivables as of the Cut-off Date Percentage of Aggregate Number of Principal Principal Contract Rate Receivables Balance Balance (1) ----------- ------- ----------- $ % ------------- --------------- --------------- Total............. $ % ============= =============== =============== -------------- (1) May not add to 100.00% due to rounding. [if applicable, present other material information regarding pool asset characteristics, including if any assets are over [30] days delinquent as of the cut-off date.] [Subsequent Receivables On the closing date, $[ ] of the proceeds of the sale of the [securities] [notes] will be deposited in a pre-funding account maintained with the indenture trustee. This amount represents [ ]% of the net proceeds from the sale of the [securities] [notes] as if the closing date. During a funding period from the closing date to [ ] [insert time period not to exceed one-year following the closing date], the trust will use the funds in the pre-funding account to fund the purchase of receivables from the depositor (which will purchase the receivables from the seller) that are required to meet the same eligibility criteria applicable to the receivables purchased by the trust on the closing date[, except that [state any different eligibility criteria for subsequent receivables]. The funding period will end on the earliest to occur of (i) [ ], (ii) the date on which the amount in the pre-funding account is less than $[ ] and (iii) the occurrence of an Event of Default under the indenture. On the payment date following the termination of the funding period, the indenture trustee will apply any remaining funds in the pre-funding account to pay principal of the notes.] S-20 The Bank's Delinquency, Loan Loss and Recovery Information The following tables set forth information with respect to the Bank's experience relating to delinquencies, loan losses and recoveries for each of the periods shown for the portfolio of motor vehicle loans originated and serviced by the Bank (including loans sold but still serviced by the Bank). The portfolio of motor vehicle loans originated and serviced by the Bank during the periods shown includes both fixed rate motor vehicle loans and variable rate motor vehicle loans. The Bank does not maintain separate records with respect to fixed rate motor vehicle loans and variable rate motor vehicle loans regarding delinquency, loan loss and recovery experience. The receivables sold to the trust include only fixed rate motor vehicle loans. The following tables also include information with respect to certain consumer loans which are not motor vehicle loans. These other consumer loans did not exceed 15% of all outstanding loans as of each of the dates and for each of the periods shown in the following tables. The Bank believes that the inclusion of variable rate motor vehicle loans and these other consumer loans has an immaterial effect on the information set forth in the following tables with respect to the Bank's experience relating to delinquencies, loan losses and recoveries on its fixed rate motor vehicle loans. Delinquency Experience
At December 31, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 ------------------- ------------------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ Dollars Number Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars (in of (in Number (in Number (in Number (in Number 000's) Loans 000's) of Loans 000's) of Loans 000's) of Loans 000's) of Loans --------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------- --------- -------- -------- Outstandings... $10,151,607 720,174 $7,361,484 558,814 $5,732,698 430,269 $5,065,075 373,022 $4,682,707 349,183 Delinquencies over 30 days(1)(2).... $ 26,759 2,940 $ 15,041 1,822 $ 11,217 1,501 $ 16,951 1,964 $ 26,595 2,821 Delinquencies over 30 days(%)(3).... 0.26% 0.41% 0.20% 0.33% 0.20% 0.35% 0.33% 0.53% 0.57% 0.81%
------------------------------------------------- (1) Delinquencies include principal amounts only. (2) The period of delinquency is based on the number of days payments are contractually past due. (3) As a percentage of outstandings.
Loan Loss Experience (Dollars in 000's) Year Ended December 31, -------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------- Number of Loans(1)............. 720,174 558,814 430,269 373,022 349,183 Period Ending Outstandings..... $10,151,607 $7,361,484 $5,732,698 $5,065,075 $4,682,707 Average Outstandings(2)..... $8,583,014 $6,616,160 $5,285,345 $4,891,867 $4,479,262 Number of Gross Charge-Offs.... 4,103 2,530 2,295 2,208 2,145 Gross Charge-Offs(3)........... $35,029 $22,456 $21,411 $23,106 $22,546 Gross Charge-Offs as a % of Period End Outstandings. 0.35% 0.31% 0.37% 0.46% 0.48% Gross Charge-Offs as a % of Average Outstandings.... 0.41% 0.34% 0.41% 0.47% 0.50% Recoveries(4).................. $14,083 $12,202 $12,494 $11,092 $11,433 Net Charge-Offs(5)............. $20,947 $10,254 $8,917 $12,014 $11,113 Net Charge-Offs as a % of Period End Outstandings... 0.21% 0.14% 0.16% 0.24% 0.24% Net Charge-Offs as a % of Average Outstandings...... 0.24% 0.15% 0.17% 0.25% 0.25%
---------------- (1) Number of loans as of period end. (2) Prior to January 2003, averages were computed by taking an average of daily outstandings for the loans owned by the Bank combined with an average of month-end outstandings for the loans sold and serviced by the Bank for each period presented. Beginning in January 2003, averages were computed by taking an average of daily outstandings for the loans owned by the Bank as well as loans sold and serviced by the Bank. (3) Amounts charged off represent the remaining principal balance. (4) Recoveries are not net of expenses and generally include amounts received with respect to loans previously charged off. (5) Net charge-offs means gross charge-offs minus recoveries of loans previously charged off. S-21 The data presented in the foregoing tables are for illustrative purposes only. "Outstandings" as used in the foregoing tables means the principal balance of all consumer loans (including motor vehicle loans) serviced by the Bank as of the specified date. Delinquency and loan loss experience may be influenced by a variety of economic, social and other factors. The mix of the credit quality of the obligors will vary from time to time and will affect losses and delinquencies. We cannot assure you that the loan loss and delinquency experience of the trust will be similar to the loan loss and delinquency levels for the Bank's entire portfolio as shown in the preceding tables. STATIC POOL DATA [Certain static pool data consisting of delinquency, cumulative loss and prepayment data for securitizations of retail motor vehicle receivables originated by the Bank is available online at [ .com].] [Certain static pool data consisting of delinquency, cumulative loss and prepayment data for securitizations of retail motor vehicle receivables originated by the Bank is set forth in the tables below.] This static pool data is not deemed part of this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus supplement is a part to the extent that the static pool data relates to prior securitized pools that were established before January 1, 2006. We cannot assure you that the prepayment, loss or delinquency experience of the receivables sold to the trust will be comparable to the historical prepayment, loss or delinquency experience of any of the other securitized pools sponsored by the Bank. In this regard, you should note how the characteristics of the receivables in those securitized pools differ from the characteristics of the trust's receivables. Such differences, along with the varying economic conditions to which those securitized pools were subject, may make it unlikely that the trust's receivables will perform in the same way that any of those pools has performed. [insert static pool data required by Item 1105] HOW YOU CAN COMPUTE YOUR PORTION OF THE AMOUNT OUTSTANDING ON THE NOTES [OR CERTIFICATES] The servicer will provide to you in each report which it will deliver to you a factor which you can use to compute your portion of the principal amount outstanding on the notes [or the certificate balance of the certificates]. Notes How the Servicer Computes the Factor For Your Class of Notes. The servicer will compute a separate factor for each class of notes. The factor for each class of notes will be a seven-digit decimal which the servicer will compute prior to each distribution with respect to such class of notes indicating the remaining outstanding principal amount of such class of notes, as of the applicable payment date. The servicer will compute the factor after giving effect to payments to be made on such payment date, as a fraction of the initial outstanding principal amount of such class of notes. Your Portion of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes. For each note you own, your portion of that class of notes is the product of: o the original denomination of your note; and o the factor relating to your class of notes computed by the servicer in the manner described above. S-22 [Certificates How the Servicer Computes the Factor For the Certificates. The servicer will compute a separate factor for the certificates. The factor for the certificates will be a seven-digit decimal which the servicer will compute prior to each distribution with respect to the certificates indicating the remaining certificate balance of the certificates, as of the applicable payment date. The factor will be calculated after giving effect to distributions to be made on such payment date, as a fraction of the initial certificate balance of the certificates. Your Portion of the Outstanding Amount of the Certificates. For each certificate you own, your portion of the certificates is the product of: o the original denomination of your certificate; and o the factor relating to the certificates computed by the servicer in the manner described above.] The Factors Described Above Will Decline as the Trust Makes Payments on the [Securities] [Notes] Each of the factors described above will initially be 1.0000000. They will then decline to reflect reductions, as applicable, in: o the outstanding principal amount of the applicable class of notes[; or o the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates]. These amounts will be reduced over time as a result of scheduled payments, prepayments, purchases of the receivables by the depositor or the servicer and liquidations of the receivables. MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS Information regarding certain maturity and prepayment considerations with respect to the [securities] [notes] is set forth under "Maturity and Prepayment Considerations" in the attached prospectus. In addition, no principal payments will be made: o on the Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full; o on the Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full; o on the Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full; o [on the Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full;] or o [on the certificates until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full.] [However, if payment of the notes has been accelerated after an Event of Default, principal payments will be paid, first, to the holders of Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full and then pro rata to the holders of the remaining classes of the Class [ ] Notes.] S-23 Since the rate of payment of principal of each class of notes [and the certificates] depends on the rate of payment (including prepayments) of the principal balance of the receivables, final payment of any class of notes [and the final distribution in respect of the certificates] could occur significantly earlier than the respective Final Scheduled Payment Dates. We Cannot Assure You That Your [Securities] [Notes] Will Be Repaid on the Related Final Scheduled Payment Date. It is expected that final payment of each class of notes [and the final distribution in respect of the certificates] will occur on or prior to the respective Final Scheduled Payment Dates. Failure to make final payment of any class of notes by the respective Final Scheduled Payment Dates would constitute an Event of Default under the indenture. See "The Indenture--Rights upon Event of Default" in the attached prospectus. [In addition, the remaining certificate balance of the certificates is required to be paid in full on or prior to its Final Scheduled Payment Date.] However, we cannot assure you that sufficient funds will be available to pay each class of notes [and the certificates] in full on or prior to the respective Final Scheduled Payment Dates. If sufficient funds are not available, final payment of any class of notes [and the final distribution in respect of the certificates] could occur later than such dates. The Level of Prepayments of the Receivables and Required Purchases by the Depositor and the Servicer are Unpredictable and May Affect Payments on the [Securities][Notes]. The rate of prepayments of the receivables may be influenced by a variety of economic, social and other factors. In addition, under circumstances relating to breaches of representations, warranties or covenants, the depositor and/or the servicer may be obligated to repurchase receivables from the trust. See "The Receivables Pool" in this prospectus supplement and "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Sale and Assignment of Receivables" in the attached prospectus. A higher than anticipated rate of prepayments will reduce the aggregate principal balance of the receivables faster than expected and thereby reduce the outstanding amounts of the [securities] [notes] and the anticipated aggregate interest payments on the [securities] [notes]. The noteholders [and the certificateholders] alone will bear any reinvestment risks resulting from a faster or slower incidence of prepayment of receivables as set forth in the priority of distributions in this prospectus supplement. Such reinvestment risks include the risk that interest rates may be lower at the time such holders received payments from the trust than interest rates would otherwise have been had such prepayments not been made or had such prepayments been made at a different time. Risks of Slower or Faster Repayments. Noteholders [and certificateholders] should consider: o in the case of notes [or certificates] purchased at a discount, the risk that a slower than anticipated rate of principal payments on the receivables could result in an actual yield that is less than the anticipated yield; and o in the case of notes [or certificates] purchased at a premium, the risk that a faster than anticipated rate of principal payments on the receivables could result in an actual yield that is less than the anticipated yield. Weighted Average Lives of the [Securities] [Notes] The following information is given solely to illustrate the effect of prepayments of the receivables on the weighted average lives of the [securities] [notes] under the stated assumptions and is not a prediction of the prepayment rate that might actually be experienced by the receivables. Prepayments on motor vehicle receivables can be measured relative to a prepayment standard or model. The model used in this prospectus supplement, the Absolute Prepayment Model ("ABS"), S-24 represents an assumed rate of prepayment each month relative to the original number of receivables in a pool of receivables. ABS further assumes that all the receivables are the same size and amortize at the same rate and that each receivable in each month of its life will either be paid as scheduled or be prepaid in full. For example, in a pool of receivables originally containing 10,000 receivables, a 1% ABS rate means that 100 receivables prepay each month. ABS does not purport to be a historical description of prepayment experience or a prediction of the anticipated rate of prepayment of any pool of assets, including the receivables. The rate of payment of principal of each class of notes [and the certificates] will depend on the rate of payment (including prepayments) of the principal balance of the receivables. For this reason, final payment of any class of notes [and the final distribution in respect of the certificates] could occur significantly earlier than the respective Final Scheduled Payment Dates. The noteholders [and the certificateholders] will exclusively bear any reinvestment risk associated with early payment of their notes [and certificates]. The tables (the "ABS Tables") captioned "Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages" and "Percent of Initial Certificate Balance at Various ABS Percentages," respectively, have been prepared on the basis of the characteristics of the receivables. The ABS Tables assume that: o the receivables prepay in full at the specified constant percentage of ABS monthly, with no defaults, losses or repurchases; o [each scheduled monthly payment on the receivables is scheduled to be made and is made on the last day of each month and each month has 30 days;] o payments on the notes [and the certificates] are made on each payment date (and each payment date is assumed to be the [fifteenth day] of the applicable month); o the initial principal amount [or initial certificate balance] of each class of [securities] [notes] is equal to the initial principal amount [or initial certificate balance] set forth on the front cover of this prospectus supplement; o [the balance in the Reserve Account on each payment date is equal to the Specified Reserve Balance]; o except as otherwise specified herein, the servicer does not repurchase the receivables; and o the notes [and certificates] are issued on [______________]. The ABS Tables indicate the projected weighted average lives of each class of notes [and the certificates] and set forth the percent of the initial principal amount of each class of notes [and the percent of the initial certificate balance of the certificates] that is projected to be outstanding after each of the payment dates shown at various constant ABS percentages. The ABS Tables also assume that the receivables have been aggregated into hypothetical pools with all of the receivables within each such pool having the following characteristics and that the level scheduled payment for each of the pools (which is based on its aggregate principal balance, contract rate of interest, original term to maturity and remaining term to maturity as of the Cut-off Date) will be such that each pool will be fully amortized by the end of its remaining term to maturity. The pools have an assumed Cut-off Date of [ ]. S-25
Weighted Weighted Average Weighted Average Average Remaining Contract Original Term Term Rate of to Maturity to Maturity Pool Principal Balance Interest (in Months) (in Months) ---- ----------------- -------- ----------- ----------- 1.................... $ % 2.................... $ % 3.................... $ % 4.................... $ % 5.................... $ % Total
The actual characteristics and performance of the receivables will differ from the assumptions used in constructing the ABS Tables. The assumptions used are hypothetical and have been provided only to give a general sense of how the principal cash flows might behave under varying prepayment scenarios. For example, it is very unlikely that the receivables will prepay at a constant level of ABS until maturity or that all of the receivables will prepay at the same level of ABS. Moreover, the diverse terms of receivables within each of the hypothetical pools could produce slower or faster principal distributions than indicated in the ABS Tables at the various constant percentages of ABS specified, even if the original and remaining terms to maturity of the receivables are as assumed. Any difference between such assumptions and the actual characteristics and performance of the receivables, or actual prepayment experience, will affect the percentages of initial amounts outstanding over time and the weighted average lives of each class of notes [and the certificates.] S-26 Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages
Class [ ] Notes -------------------------------------------------------- Payment Date % % % % % % ----------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ ------- Weighted Average Life (years)(1).............. Weighted Average Life to Call (years)(1)(2)...
-------------- (1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a note by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the note to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial principal amount of the note. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith. S-27 Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages
Class [ ] Notes -------------------------------------------------------- Payment Date % % % % % % ----------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ ------- Weighted Average Life (years)(1).............. Weighted Average Life to Call (years)(1)(2)...
-------------- (1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a note by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the note to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial principal amount of the note. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith. S-28 Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages
Class [ ] Notes -------------------------------------------------------- Payment Date % % % % % % ----------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ ------- Weighted Average Life (years)(1).............. Weighted Average Life to Call (years)(1)(2)...
-------------- (1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a note by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the note to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial principal amount of the note. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith. S-29 Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages
Class [ ] Notes -------------------------------------------------------- Payment Date % % % % % % ----------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ ------- Weighted Average Life (years)(1).............. Weighted Average Life to Call (years)(1)(2)... Earliest Optional Call Date...................
-------------- (1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a note by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the note to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial principal amount of the note. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith. S-30 [Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages
Class [ ] Notes -------------------------------------------------------- Payment Date % % % % % % ----------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ ------- Weighted Average Life (years)(1).............. Weighted Average Life to Call (years)(1)(2)...
-------------- (1) The weighted average life of a note is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a note by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the note to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial principal amount of the note. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith.] S-31 [Percent of Initial Certificate Balance at Various ABS Percentages
Class [ ] Certificates -------------------------------------------------------- Payment Date % % % % % % ----------------------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------- ------ ------- Weighted Average Life (years)(1).............. Weighted Average Life to Call (years)(1)(2)... Earliest Optional Call Date...................
-------------- (1) The weighted average life of a certificate is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a certificate by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the certificate to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial certificate balance of the certificate. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith.] S-32 DESCRIPTION OF THE NOTES The trust will issue the notes under an indenture to be dated as of the closing date between the trust and [ ], as indenture trustee. We will file a copy of the indenture in its execution form with the SEC after the trust issues the notes. We summarize below some of the most important terms of the notes. This summary is not a complete description of all the provisions of the notes and the indenture. The following summary supplements the description of the general terms and provisions of the notes of any trust and the related indenture set forth under the headings "Certain Information Regarding the Securities" and "The Indenture" in the attached prospectus. We refer you to those sections. Payments of Interest Interest on the principal amounts of the notes will accrue at the respective per annum interest rates for the various classes of notes and will be payable to the noteholders on each payment date. The trust will make payments to the noteholders as of each Record Date. Calculation of Interest. Interest will accrue and will be calculated on the various classes of notes as follows: [o Actual/360. Interest on the Class [ ] Notes will accrue from and including the prior payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the current payment date and will be calculated on the basis of actual days elapsed and a 360-day year.] [o 30/360. Interest on the Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes and Class [ ] Notes will accrue from and including the [15th] day of the calendar month preceding the payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the [15th] day of the calendar month of that payment date and will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.] o Unpaid Interest. Interest accrued as of any payment date but not paid on such payment date will accrue interest at the applicable interest rate (to the extent lawful). Priority of Interest Payments. The trust will pay interest on the notes [(without priority among the classes of Class [ ] Notes)] on each payment date with available funds in accordance with the priority set forth under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement. [While any Class [ ] Notes are outstanding, the failure to pay interest on the Class [ ] Notes will not be an Event of Default. When the Class [ ] Notes are no longer outstanding, an Event of Default will occur if the full amount of interest due on the Class [ ] Notes is not paid within five days after the related payment date.] [The priority in which interest will be paid on the Class [ ] Notes will change upon the occurrence of certain events as described under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement.] Payments of Principal Priority and Amount of Principal Payments. The trust will generally make principal payments, including with respect to the Class [ ] Notes, any First Priority Principal Payments, to the noteholders on each payment date in the amount and in the priority set forth under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement. S-33 Event of Default. An Event of Default will occur under the indenture if the outstanding principal amount of any note has not been paid in full on its Final Scheduled Payment Date. The failure to pay principal of a note is not an Event of Default until its Final Scheduled Payment Date. Payments on the notes may be accelerated upon an Event of Default. Upon an acceleration of payment of the notes because of a breach of a material covenant or agreement by the trust, payments of principal will be made, first, to the holders of Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full, then pro rata to the holders of remaining classes of Class [ ] Notes until they have been paid in full and then any remaining amounts will be distributed to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] are paid in full. Upon an acceleration of payment of the notes because of a failure to make a payment due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, the priority in which the trust makes distributions to the noteholders [and certificateholders] will change such that amounts otherwise allocable to pay interest on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will be applied to pay principal of the Class [ ] Notes in accordance with the preceding sentence until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full. Notes Might Not Be Repaid on Their Final Scheduled Payment Dates. The principal amount of any class of notes to the extent not previously paid will be due on the Final Scheduled Payment Date relating to that class shown on the front cover of this prospectus supplement. The actual date on which the aggregate outstanding principal amount of any class of notes is paid may be earlier or later than the Final Scheduled Payment Date for that class of notes based on a variety of factors, including those described under "Maturity and Prepayment Considerations" in this prospectus supplement and in the attached prospectus. [Subordination of Class [ ] Notes. The rights of the Class [ ] noteholders to receive payments of interest are subordinated to the rights of Class [ ] noteholders to receive payments of interest and any First Priority Principal Payments and, if payment of the notes has been accelerated because of failure to make a payment due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, payments of principal. In addition, the Class [ ] noteholders will have no right to receive payments of principal until the aggregate principal amount of all the Class [ ] Notes has been paid in full. This subordination is effected by the priority of distributions set forth under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement.] [While any Class [ ] Notes are outstanding, the failure to pay interest on the Class [ ] Notes will not be an event of default. When the Class [ ] Notes are no longer outstanding, an event of default will occur if the full amount of interest due on the Class [ ] Notes is not paid within five days after the related payment date.] Optional Prepayment All outstanding notes will be prepaid in whole, but not in part, on any payment date on which the servicer exercises its option to purchase the receivables. Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the servicer may purchase the receivables when the Pool Balance as of the end of the related Collection Period has declined to [__]% or less of the Pool Balance as of the Cut-off Date, as described in the attached prospectus under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Termination." [The purchase price will equal the lesser of (i) the Pool Balance as of the end of the related Collection Period plus interest accrued thereon at the weighted average interest rate borne by the [securities] [notes] through the end of the related Collection Period and (ii) the fair market value of the receivables. However, the servicer will not be entitled to exercise such purchase option if such purchase is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the outstanding [securities] [notes] in full.] Upon such purchase by the servicer, you will receive: o the unpaid principal amount of your notes plus accrued and unpaid interest on your notes; plus S-34 o interest on any past due interest at the rate of interest on your notes (to the extent lawful). It is expected that at the time this purchase option becomes available to the servicer, only the Class [ ] Notes [and the certificates] will be outstanding. Indenture Trustee The indenture trustee under the indenture is [ ], a [ ]. The indenture trustee has frequently acted as an indenture trustee in respect of securitizations of retail motor vehicle installment sale contracts and loans. Refer to "The Indenture--The Indenture Trustee" section in the attached prospectus for a description of the indenture trustee's duties and responsibilities under the indenture. DESCRIPTION OF THE CERTIFICATES The trust will issue the certificates under the trust agreement. We will file a copy of the trust agreement in its execution form with the SEC after the trust issues the certificates. We summarize below some of the most important terms of the certificates. This summary is not a complete description of all the provisions of the trust agreement and the certificates. The following summary is a supplement to the description of the general terms and provisions of the certificates of any given trust and the related trust agreement provided under the headings "Certain Information Regarding the Securities" and "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements" in the attached prospectus. We refer you to those sections. [The interest of the depositor in distributions from the trust may be evidenced by certificates issued by the trust that will not be offered. The certificates will have no principal balance and will not bear interest. Distributions will be made on the certificates on each payment date only to the extent of amounts remaining after payments on the notes, payment of trust expenses and payments of any other required amounts, as described in this prospectus supplement. The depositor may transfer these certificates.] [Distributions Interest. On each payment date, commencing on [ ], the certificateholders will be entitled to receive the amount of interest that accrues on the certificate balance at the applicable rate of interest set forth on the front cover of this prospectus supplement. Interest will accrue from and including the [15th] day of the calendar month preceding the payment date (or the closing date, in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the [15th] day of the calendar month of that payment date. Interest is Calculated 30/360. Interest on the certificates will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Unpaid Interest Accrues. Interest distributions due for any payment date but not distributed on such payment date will be due on the next payment date increased by an amount equal to interest on such amount at the rate of interest on the certificates (to the extent lawful). S-35 Distributions on Certificates. The trust will make distributions on the certificates in the amounts and in the priority set forth under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement. Certificateholders will not receive any distributions of principal until the notes are paid in full. Following the acceleration of payment of the notes because of a failure to make a payment due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, the noteholders will be entitled to be paid interest and all principal in full before any distributions may be made on the certificates. The outstanding certificate balance of the certificates will be payable in full on the Final Scheduled Payment Date for the certificates. The actual date on which the trust pays the certificate balance of the certificates may be earlier or later than that Final Scheduled Payment Date, based on a variety of factors, including those described under "Maturity and Prepayment Considerations" in this prospectus supplement and in the attached prospectus.] [Subordination of Certificates The rights of the certificateholders to receive distributions of interest are subordinated to the rights of noteholders to receive payments of interest and any First Priority Principal Payments and, if payment of the notes has been accelerated because of failure to make a payment due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, payments of principal. In addition, the certificateholders will have no right to receive distributions of principal until the aggregate principal amount of all the notes has been paid in full. This subordination is effected by the priority of distributions set forth under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement.] [Optional Prepayment If the servicer exercises its option to purchase the receivables when the Pool Balance declines to [_]% or less of the Pool Balance as of the Cut-off Date, the certificateholders will receive an amount in respect of the certificates equal to the sum of: o the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates, together with accrued and unpaid interest at the rate of interest for the certificates; and o interest on any past due interest at the rate of interest for the certificates, to the extent lawful. It is expected that at the time this purchase option becomes available to the servicer, only the Class [ ] Notes and the certificates will be outstanding. That distribution will cause the early retirement of the certificates then outstanding. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Termination" in the attached prospectus.] APPLICATION OF AVAILABLE FUNDS Sources of Funds for Distributions The funds available to the trust to make payments on the [securities] [notes] on each payment date will come from the following sources: o collections received on the receivables during the prior calendar month, S-36 o net recoveries received during the prior calendar month on receivables that were charged off as losses in prior months, o the aggregate amount of Advances remitted by the servicer, o proceeds of repurchases of receivables by the depositor or purchases of receivables by the servicer because of certain breaches of representations and warranties, and o funds, if any, withdrawn from the Reserve Account for that payment date. The precise calculation of the funds available to make payments on the [securities][notes] is in the definition of Available Funds in the section "Glossary of Terms" in this prospectus supplement. We refer you to that definition. Among other things, Available Funds are calculated net of (i) reimbursements of outstanding Advances to the servicer and (ii) payments to the servicer of various fees, if any, paid by the obligors that constitute the Supplemental Servicing Fee. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Advances" and "-Servicing Compensation and Expenses" in the attached prospectus. Fees and Expenses of the Trust As set forth below under "-Priority of Distributions," the trust is obligated to pay the following fees and expenses on each payment date: Recipient Fees and Expenses --------- ----------------- Servicer The Servicing Fee and the Supplemental Servicing Fee described under "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement - Servicing Compensation and Expenses." Indenture Trustee $[ ] per annum plus reasonable expenses and indemnities. Owner Trustee $[ ] per annum plus reasonable expenses and indemnities. These fees and expenses are payable out of the trust's funds in the order of priority specified under "-Priority of Distributions" below and in the defined term Available Collections in the "Glossary of Terms" in this prospectus supplement. The servicer, in turn, is obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the accountants in delivering their annual attestation report. Any other expenses or liabilities of the trust would be payable by the trust prior to any payments due on the [securities] [notes]. Priority of Distributions On each payment date the trust will apply the Available Funds for that payment date, which includes any Reserve Account Excess Amount for that payment date, to make payments and distributions in the following amounts and order of priority: (1) Servicing Fee--the Servicing Fee payable to the servicer; (2) Class [ ] Note Interest--interest due on all the Class [ ] Notes ratably to the holders of each class of Class [ ] Notes; S-37 (3) First Priority Principal Payment--a payment of principal of the Class [ ] Notes to be distributed in the same priority as described under clause (5) below in an amount equal to the excess, if any, of: o the outstanding principal amount of the Class [ ] Notes immediately prior to such payment date over o the Pool Balance as of the end of the related Collection Period; (4) [Class [ ] Notes] [Certificate] Interest--interest distributable to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates]; however, if an Event of Default due to a failure to make a payment due on the notes or any of certain insolvency events in respect of the trust has occurred and payment of the notes has been accelerated, interest will not be distributed to the holders of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full; (5) Principal Payment--an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the [sum of the] outstanding principal amount of the notes [and the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates] immediately prior to such payment date over (b) the Pool Balance as of the end of the related Collection Period (the "Regular Principal Distribution Amount") (less any amounts distributed under clause (3) above) will be applied to pay principal on the [securities] [notes] in the following amounts in the following order of priority: (i) the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (ii) the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (iii) the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (iv) the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; (v) [the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full]; and (vi) [the certificates until they are paid in full]; however, (x) if payment of the notes has been accelerated after an Event of Default due to a breach of a material covenant or agreement by the trust, the Available Funds remaining after clause (4) will be applied, first, to pay principal to the holders of the Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full, then to pay principal pro rata on all of the remaining classes of the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full and then to distribute principal on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until they are paid in full and (y) if payment of the notes has been accelerated after an Event of Default due to a failure to make a payment due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, the Available Funds remaining after clause (2) above will be applied to pay principal to the holders of Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full, then to pay principal pro rata on all of the remaining classes of the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full and then to distribute interest and principal on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until they are paid in full; (6) Final Scheduled Payment Date--if the payment date is a Final Scheduled Payment Date for a class of [securities] [notes], the amount, if any, necessary to pay that class in full after giving effect to the payment pursuant to clause (5) above will be paid on that class; S-38 (7) Reserve Account Deposit--to the Reserve Account, the amount, if any, necessary to reinstate the balance of the Reserve Account up to the Specified Reserve Balance; (8) Indenture Trustee and Owner Trustee Fees and Expenses--to pay any unpaid fees, expenses and indemnification of the indenture trustee and owner trustee; however, if payment of the notes has been accelerated after an Event of Default, these fees, expenses and indemnification will be paid prior to clause (1) above; and (9) any amounts remaining after the above distributions shall be paid to the [holders of the certificates] [depositor]. If the Available Funds are insufficient to make the payments in clauses (1) through (6) above, funds, if any, on deposit in the Reserve Account will be applied toward those shortfalls. See "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Deposits to the Collection Account" in this prospectus supplement. [or, insert a different priority of distributions] [if applicable, include description of payments by a third party credit enhancement provider and payments to a third party credit enhancement provider] [if applicable, include description of payments by a derivative counterparty and payments to a derivative counterparty] [Interest Rate Swap/Derivative Contract On the closing date, the trust will enter into an "interest rate swap" consisting of the ISDA Master Agreement, the schedule thereto, the credit support annex thereto, if applicable, and the confirmation with the swap counterparty to [hedge the floating interest rate risk on the Class [ ] Notes.] The interest rate swap for the Class [ ] Notes will have an initial notional amount equal to the initial principal balance of the Class [ ] Notes on the closing date and will decrease by the amount of any principal payments on the Class [ ] Notes. The notional amount of the interest rate swap at all times that the interest rate swap is in place will be equal to the principal balance of the Class [ ] Notes. [In general, under the interest rate swap, on each payment date, the trust will be obligated to pay the swap counterparty a per annum fixed rate payment based on a fixed rate of [ ]% and the notional amount of the interest rate swap and the swap counterparty will be obligated to pay a per annum floating rate payment based on the interest rate of the Class [ ] Notes and the same notional amount.] Payments on the interest rate swap will be exchanged on a net basis. The payment obligations of the trust to the swap counterparty under the interest rate swap agreement are secured under the indenture by the same lien in favor of the indenture trustee that secures payments to the noteholders and the note insurer. A payment made by the trust under the interest rate swap ranks higher in priority than all payments to the notes [and the certificates]. [Describe other terms of the interest rate swap/derivative contract.]] Subordination of [Class [ ] Notes] [Certificates] The subordination of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] to the Class [ ] Notes, as described above under "-Priority of Distributions" is intended to provide credit enhancement to the Class [ ] Notes. Payments of principal will not be made on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the principal of the S-39 Class [ ] Notes has been paid in full. Payments of interest will not be made on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] on a payment date until accrued and unpaid interest on the Class [ ] Notes and the First Priority Principal Payment on the Class [ ] Notes have been made. Also, if payment of the notes has been accelerated after an Event of Default because of a failure to make a payment due on the notes or because of certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, then no payments will be made on the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] until the Class [ ] Notes have been paid in full. While any Class [ ] Notes are outstanding, the failure to pay interest on the Class [ ] Notes will not be an event of default. When the Class [ ] Notes are no longer outstanding, an event of default will occur if the full amount of interest due on the Class [ ] Notes is not paid within five days after the related payment date. DESCRIPTION OF THE SALE AND SERVICING AGREEMENT We have summarized below some of the important terms of the sale and servicing agreement. The depositor will transfer the receivables to the trust, and the servicer will service the receivables, under the sale and servicing agreement between the depositor, the servicer and the trust. We will file a copy of the sale and servicing agreement in its execution form with the SEC after we issue the [securities] [notes]. This summary is not a complete description of all of the provisions of the sale and servicing agreement. You can find more information about the transfer of the receivables from the depositor to the trust on the closing date in the attached prospectus under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements." Accounts In addition to the Collection Account, the servicer will cause to be established: o one or more distribution accounts for the benefit of the noteholders; o [one or more distribution accounts for the benefit of the certificateholders]; and o the Reserve Account in the name of the indenture trustee on behalf of the noteholders and the certificateholders. Any of the distribution accounts may be a subaccount of the Collection Account. Advances We describe the servicer's obligation to make advances in respect of delinquent receivables (other than defaulted receivables) under "Description of Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Advances" in the attached prospectus. The servicer is required to make similar advances with respect to its prior securitizations of motor vehicle loans. Servicing Compensation and Expenses The servicer is entitled to receive the Servicing Fee on each payment date. The Servicing Fee, together with any portion of the Servicing Fee that remains unpaid from prior payment dates, will be payable on each payment date. The Servicing Fee will be paid only to the extent of the funds deposited in the Collection Account with respect to the Collection Period preceding such payment date, plus funds, if any, deposited into the Collection Account from the Reserve Account. The servicer also is entitled to S-40 receive the Supplemental Servicing Fee. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Servicing Compensation and Expenses" in the attached prospectus. Rights Upon Event of Servicing Termination If an Event of Servicing Termination occurs, the indenture trustee or holders of not less than a majority of the principal amount of the [Controlling Class] [notes] [(or, if no notes are outstanding, a majority of the [certificate balance] [percentage interests] of the certificates)] may remove the servicer without the consent of any of the other [securityholders]. The "Controlling Class" will be the Class [ ] Notes until they are paid in full; thereafter, the Controlling Class will be the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates]. Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination If an Event of Servicing Termination occurs, holders of not less than a majority of the principal amount of the [Controlling Class] [notes] [(or, if no notes are outstanding, a majority of the [certificate balance] [percentage interests] of the certificates)], subject to the exceptions provided in the sale and servicing agreement, may waive any Event of Servicing Termination without the consent of any of the other [securityholders], except for a failure to make any required deposits to or payments from any account (which waiver shall require the unanimous consent of all [securityholders]). The [Class [ ] noteholders] [certificateholders] will not have the right to determine whether any Event of Servicing Termination should be waived until the [Class [ ] Notes] [notes] have been paid in full. Deposits to the Collection Account The servicer will establish the Collection Account as described under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements" in the attached prospectus. In general, the servicer will be permitted to retain collections on the receivables until the Business Day preceding any payment date. However, the servicer will be required to remit collections received with respect to the receivables not later than the second Business Day after receipt to the Collection Account (1) if there is an Event of Servicing Termination, (2) if the Bank is no longer the servicer or (3) if any of the other applicable conditions set forth in the sale and servicing agreement is not met. On or before the payment date, the servicer will cause all collections on the receivables, Advances by the servicer and other amounts constituting Available Funds to be deposited into the Collection Account. See "Description of Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Collections" and "--Advances" in the attached prospectus. On or before each payment date, the servicer will notify the indenture trustee to withdraw the following amounts from the Reserve Account and deposit them into the Collection Account. In each case, the amount will be withdrawn only to the extent of funds in the Reserve Account after giving effect to all prior withdrawals. The amounts to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account are: o the amount, if any, by which (a) the Total Required Payment exceeds (b) the Available Funds for that payment date; and o the Reserve Account Excess Amount. The "Total Required Payment" on any payment date, will be the sum of: S-41 (1) the Servicing Fee and all unpaid Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods; (2) all interest payable on the notes, including any accrued interest and interest on accrued interest; (3) [all interest distributable on the certificates, including any accrued interest and interest on any unpaid accrued interest;] (4) the Regular Principal Distribution Amount; and (5) if the payment date is a Final Scheduled Payment Date for a class of [securities] [notes], the amount, if any, required to reduce the principal amount [or certificate balance, as applicable,] of that class of [securities] [notes] to zero after giving effect to the amount in clause (5) under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions" in this prospectus supplement. However, following the acceleration of payment of the notes after the occurrence of an Event of Default due to a failure to pay an amount due on the notes or certain insolvency events in respect of the trust, the Total Required Payment will equal the sum of: o unpaid fees, indemnities and expenses of the indenture trustee and the owner trustee; o the Servicing Fee and all unpaid Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods; o all interest payable on the notes, including any accrued interest thereon; o the amount necessary to reduce the outstanding principal amount of all the notes to zero; o [all interest payable on the certificates, including any accrued interest thereon;] and o [the amount necessary to reduce the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates to zero.] If payment of the notes has been accelerated for any of those reasons, [Class [ ] noteholders] [certificateholders] will not receive any distributions until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full. Also, funds on deposit in the Reserve Account will be applied solely toward payment of the Class [ ] Notes until the Class [ ] Notes are paid in full. The "Reserve Account Excess Amount" on any payment date, will be an amount equal to the excess, if any, of: o the amount of cash or other immediately available funds in the Reserve Account on that payment date, prior to giving effect to any withdrawals from the Reserve Account relating to that payment date, over o the Specified Reserve Balance with respect to that payment date. The "Specified Reserve Balance" for a payment date will be the lesser of (a) $[ ] ([ ]% of the Pool Balance as of the Cut-off Date) and (b) the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the notes [and the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates] as of the current payment date. However, the Specified Reserve Balance will be calculated using a percentage of [ ]% in (a) above for any payment date for which the Average Net Loss Ratio exceeds [ ]% or the Average Delinquency Ratio exceeds [ ]% (the "specified trigger level"). Also, that higher percentage will remain in effect until each of the Average Net Loss Ratio and the Average Delinquency Ratio is equal to or less than [ ]% for at least six S-42 consecutive payment dates. In no event will the Specified Reserve Balance for any payment date exceed the Pool Balance at the end of the related Collection Period. The Specified Reserve Balance may be reduced to a lesser amount as determined by the depositor without the consent of any [securityholder], if each of Moody's and Standard & Poor's shall have confirmed in writing to the indenture trustee that such action will not result in a withdrawal or reduction in any of its ratings of the securities. Servicer Will Provide Information to Indenture Trustee. On the Business Day prior to each payment date, the servicer will provide the indenture trustee with the information required pursuant to the sale and servicing agreement with respect to the Collection Period relating to such payment date, including: o the aggregate amount of collections on the receivables; o the aggregate amount of receivables designated as defaulted receivables; o the aggregate Advances to be made by the servicer, if any; and o the aggregate Purchase Amount to be paid by the depositor, the seller or the servicer, if any. Reserve Account The servicer will establish the Reserve Account. It will be held in the name of the indenture trustee for the benefit of the noteholders [and the certificateholders]. To the extent that amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account are depleted, the noteholders [and the certificateholders] will have no recourse to the assets of the seller or the depositor as a source of payment on the [securities] [notes]. Deposits to the Reserve Account. The Reserve Account will be funded by a deposit by the depositor on the closing date in the amount of $ or % of the Pool Balance as of the Cut-off Date. The amount on deposit in the Reserve Account may increase from time to time up to the Specified Reserve Balance by deposits of funds withdrawn from the Collection Account after payment of the Total Required Payment as described under "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions." Withdrawals From the Reserve Account. Amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account may be deposited into the Collection Account to the extent described under "--Deposits to the Collection Account" above. Investment. Amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account will be invested by the indenture trustee solely at the prior written direction of the [depositor] [holders of the certificates evidencing a majority of the percentage interests] in Permitted Investments and investment earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) therefrom will be deposited into the Reserve Account. To the extent the indenture trustee does not receive such prior written investment direction, it shall hold such funds uninvested. Permitted Investments are generally limited to obligations or securities that mature on or before the next payment date. However, to the extent each Rating Agency rating the notes [and certificates] confirms that such actions will not adversely affect its ratings of the [securities] [notes], funds in the Reserve Account may be invested in obligations that will not mature prior to the next payment date and will not be sold to meet any shortfalls. Funds in the Reserve Account Will be Limited. Amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account from time to time are available to-- o enhance the likelihood that you will receive the amounts due on your notes [or certificates]; and S-43 o decrease the likelihood that you will experience losses on your notes [or certificates]. However, the amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account are limited to the Specified Reserve Balance. If the amount required to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account to cover shortfalls in funds on deposit in the Collection Account exceeds the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account, a shortfall in the amounts distributed to the noteholders [and certificateholders] could result. Depletion of the Reserve Account ultimately could result in losses on your notes [or certificates]. Because the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] are subordinated to the Class [ ] Notes, the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will experience shortfalls and losses due to a depletion of the reserve account before the Class [ ] Notes experience such shortfalls and losses. After the payment in full, or the provision for payment of all accrued and unpaid interest on the notes [and certificates] and the outstanding principal amount of the notes [and the certificate balance of the certificates], any funds remaining on deposit in the Reserve Account, subject to certain limitations, will be paid to the [holders of the certificates] [depositor]. USE OF PROCEEDS The net proceeds from the sale of the [securities] [notes] of the trust will be applied by the trust to purchase the receivables from the depositor and the depositor will apply the proceeds to purchase the receivables from the seller and make the initial deposit to the Reserve Account. [INFORMATION REGARDING THE CREDIT ENHANCER AND THE CREDIT ENHANCEMENT] [Insert disclosure regarding external credit enhancement required by Item 1114(a) of Regulation AB and, if the credit enhancer or group of affiliated entities providing credit enhancement or other support provided in Item 1114(a) is liable or contingently liable to provide payments for 10% or more, of the cash flow supporting any class of offered securities, insert the information required by Item 1114(b)(1) of Regulation AB and if any credit enhancer or group of affiliated entities providing credit enhancement or other support provided in Item 1114(a) is liable or contingently liable to provide payments for 10% or more, or 20% or more, of the cash flow supporting any class of offered securities, insert the information required by Item 1114(b)(2)(i) or 1114(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation AB, as applicable.] [THE SWAP COUNTERPARTY [[ ] is the swap counterparty. It is organized as a [ ] under the laws of [ ]. [To be inserted: description of the general character of the business of the swap counterparty]. [The long-term credit rating assigned to the swap counterparty by [ ] is currently "[ ]" and by [ ] is currently "[ ]". [Upon the occurrence of an event of default or termination event specified in the interest rate swap, the interest rate swap agreement may be replaced with a replacement interest rate swap as described above under "Application of Available Funds--Interest Rate Swap/Derivative Contract."] [Based on a reasonable good faith estimate of maximum probably exposure, the significance percentage in respect of the interest rate swap is less than 10%]. S-44 [If the significance percentage related to the swap counterparty or group of affiliated entities providing derivative instruments under Item 1115 of Regulation AB is 10% or more, or 20% or more, insert the financial information required by Item 1115(b)(1) or (b)(2) of Regulation AB, as applicable.]] AFFILIATION AND CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS USAA Acceptance, LLC, as depositor, created the trust. USAA Acceptance, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of USAA Federal Savings Bank. USAA Federal Savings Bank is the sponsor, seller and servicer. The owner trustee and the indenture trustee are banking corporations that the sponsor and its affiliates may have other banking relationships with directly or with their affiliates in the ordinary course of their businesses. In some instances the owner trustee and the indenture trustee will be acting in similar capacities for other asset-backed transactions of the sponsor for similar or other pool-asset types. The owner trustee and the indenture trustee charge fees for their services and such fees, to the extent they are not paid out of the cash flows of the issuing entity, will be payable by the administrator or the servicer. CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES In the opinion of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel for the Bank and the depositor and Federal Tax Counsel for the trust, for federal income tax purposes, the Class [ ] Notes will be characterized as debt, and the trust will not be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts in Which All Certificates are Retained by the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor--Tax Characterization of the Trust--Treatment of the Notes as Indebtedness" for a discussion of the consequences governing any class of notes treated as equity interests in a partnership. No opinion will be rendered that the Class [ ] Notes will be treated as indebtedness. If the subordinate notes are treated as debt for federal income tax purposes, their tax treatment will be as described in the attached prospectus under "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Notes." If the subordinate notes are treated as equity for federal income tax purposes, they will be treated as interests in a partnership that owns the assets of the issuing entity and that has issued the senior notes and their tax treatment will be as described for holders of the certificates under "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates" in the attached prospectus. If you purchase a note, you agree, by your purchase, that you will treat the note as indebtedness for federal income tax purposes. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Notes" in the attached prospectus. [If you purchase a certificate, you agree, by your purchase, that you will treat the trust as a partnership in which the certificateholders are partners for federal income tax purposes. The tax items of such tax partnership will be allocable to the partners in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder, and the partnership agreement (here, the trust agreement and related documents). In the trust agreement, the certificateholders will agree to treat payments on the certificates at the pass-through rate as "guaranteed payments." If you purchase a certificate, you should consult your tax advisors as to the federal income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership, and disposition of a certificate that are applicable to you. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates" in the attached prospectus.] S-45 CERTAIN STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES The tax discussion in the attached prospectus does not address the tax treatment of the trust, the notes, [the certificates,] noteholders [or certificateholders] under any state tax laws. You are urged to consult with your own tax advisors regarding the state tax treatment of the trust as well as any state tax consequences to you, particularly in the case of financial institutions, of purchasing, holding and disposing of your notes [or certificates]. ERISA CONSIDERATIONS General Because the trust, the depositor, the seller, the servicer, the trustees, the underwriters, or any of their affiliates may receive certain benefits in connection with the sale of the [securities] [notes], the purchase of [securities] [notes] using plan assets over which any of such parties or their affiliates have investment authority may be deemed to be a violation of the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code for which no exemption may be available or a violation of applicable Similar Law. Accordingly, any Plan for which the depositor, the seller, the servicer, an underwriter, the indenture trustee, the owner trustee or any of their respective affiliates o has investment or administrative discretion with respect to plan assets to be invested in a [security] [note]; o has authority or responsibility to give, or regularly gives, investment advice with respect to those plan assets for a fee and pursuant to an agreement or understanding that such advice o will serve as a primary basis for investment decisions with respect to those plan assets and o will be based on the particular investment needs for the Plan; or o is an employer maintaining or contributing to the Plan. may not purchase a [security] [note] unless a prohibited transaction exemption applies to the investment. The Class [ ] Notes The Class [ ] Notes may, in general, be purchased by or on behalf of employee benefit plans and similar retirement plans and arrangements that are subject to ERISA or to Section 4975 of the Code (an "ERISA Plan"). Although we cannot assure you in this regard, the Class [ ] Notes should be treated as "debt" and not as "equity interests" for purposes of the Plan Assets Regulation because the Class [ ] Notes: o are expected to be treated as indebtedness under local law and will, in the opinion of Federal Tax Counsel for the trust, be treated as debt, rather than equity, for federal income tax purposes (see "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences" in the attached prospectus); and o should not be deemed to have any "substantial equity features." See "ERISA Considerations" in the attached prospectus. S-46 However, the acquisition and holding of Class [ ] Notes by or on behalf of an ERISA Plan could be considered to give rise to a prohibited transaction under ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code if the trust, or owner of 50% or more of the beneficial interests in the trust, the owner trustee, the indenture trustee or any of their respective affiliates is or becomes a "party in interest" or a "disqualified person" (as defined in ERISA and the Code, respectively) with respect to such Plan unless the investment is acquired and held in accordance with an applicable statutory, class or individual prohibited transaction exemption. In this regard, certain exemptions from the prohibited transaction rules could be applicable to such acquisition and holding by an ERISA Plan. Depending on the relevant facts and circumstances, including the type and circumstances of the ERISA Plan fiduciary making the decision to acquire a Class [ ] Note, one or more of the following prohibited transaction exemptions may apply to the purchase or holding of the Class [ ] Notes--PTCE 96-23, which exempts certain transactions effected on behalf of a Plan by an "in-house asset manager"; PTCE 95-60, which exempts certain transactions by insurance company general accounts; PTCE 91-38, which exempts certain transactions by bank collective investment funds; PTCE 90-1, which exempts certain transactions by insurance company pooled separate accounts; and PTCE 84-14, which exempts certain transactions effected on behalf of a Plan by a "qualified professional asset manager." There can be no assurance that all of the conditions of any such exemptions will be satisfied. Governmental plans, certain church plans and non-United States plans (such plans, together with ERISA Plans, referred to herein as "Plans"), while not subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA or the provisions of Section 4975 of the Code, may nevertheless be subject to other federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or the Code (collectively, "Similar Laws"). Accordingly, each investor in a Class [ ] Note, by its acceptance of the Class [ ] Note or a beneficial interest therein, will be deemed to represent either that it is not a Plan, and is not investing on behalf of or with plan assets of a Plan, or its acquisition and holding of the Class [ ] Note satisfy the requirements for relief under Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption ("PTCE") 84-14, PTCE 90-1, PTCE 91-38, PTCE 95-60, PTCE 96-23 or a similar exemption, or, in the case of an employee benefit plan subject to Similar Law, do not result in a non-exempt violation of Similar Law. For additional information regarding treatment of the Class [ ] Notes under ERISA, see "ERISA Considerations" in the attached prospectus. [The Class [ ] Notes] [The Certificates] Because the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] may constitute "equity interests" for purposes of the Plan Assets Regulation, and there can be no assurance that any exception under that regulation will apply, it is likely that an investment by a Plan in [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will cause the assets of the trust to be "plan assets." In addition, the Exemption will not apply to the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] because not all of the conditions to its applicability will be satisfied. Accordingly, Plans and persons investing on behalf of or with "plan assets" of Plans generally may not acquire the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates]. However, an insurance company investing assets of its general account that include plan assets may purchase [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] on the condition that: o such insurance company (and its affiliates) does not have discretionary authority over the trust's assets, or provide investment advice with respect to those assets for a direct or indirect fee; o as of the date it acquires an interest in a [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], less than 25% of the assets of such general account constitute "plan assets" for purposes of Title I of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code; S-47 o such insurance company agrees that if at any time during any calendar quarter while it is holding an interest in the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], 25% or more of the assets of such general account constitute "plan assets" for purposes of Title I of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code, and if, at that time, no exemption or exception applies to the continued holding of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] under ERISA, such insurance company will dispose of all [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] then held in its general account; and o the purchase and holding satisfy the conditions for relief under Part I of PTCE 95-60, or do not cause a non-exempt violation of any applicable Similar Law. Each purchaser and subsequent transferee of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] will be deemed to represent and certify that either: (i) for the entire period during which such purchaser or transferee holds its interest in the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], no portion of such purchaser's or transferee's assets constitutes assets of any "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, whether or not subject to Title I of ERISA, including any U.S. governmental or non-U.S. pension plan, or any "plan" described in Section 4975 of the Code (each, a "Benefit Plan Investor") or (ii) (w) the assets used by such purchaser or transferee to acquire the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] (or any interest therein) constitute assets of an insurance company general account, (x) for the entire period during which such purchaser or transferee holds its interest in the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates], less than 25% of the assets of such insurance company general account will constitute "plan assets" of any Benefit Plan Investor, (y) the purchaser or transferee, and its affiliates, do not have discretionary control over the trust's assets, and do not provide investment advice with respect to those assets for a direct or indirect fee and (z) the acquisition and holding of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] by such purchaser or transferee will satisfy the requirements of Part I of PTCE 95-60 and will not constitute a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or will not constitute a violation of any applicable Similar Law. For additional information regarding treatment of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] under ERISA, we refer you to "ERISA Considerations" in the attached prospectus.] UNDERWRITING Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement, the depositor has agreed to cause the trust to sell to each of the underwriters named below, and each of those underwriters has severally agreed to purchase, the initial principal amount of Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes, Class [ ] Notes and Class [ ] Notes set forth opposite its name below:
Principal Principal Principal Principal Amount of Amount of Amount of Amount of Class [ ] Class [ ] Class [ ] Class [ ] Underwriters Notes Notes Notes Notes ---------------- ------------- -------------- ------------- ------------- $ $ $ $ ------------- -------------- ------------- ------------- $ $ $ $ ============= ============== ============= =============
S-48 The depositor has been advised by the underwriters that they propose initially to offer the Class [ ] Notes to the public at the applicable prices set forth on the front cover of this prospectus supplement. After the initial public offering of the Class [ ] Notes, the Class [ ] Notes, the Class [ ] Notes and the Class [ ] Notes, the public offering prices may change. [An affiliate of the depositor will purchase all of the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] from the depositor, and no underwriting or selling compensation will be paid in connection with such sale.] The underwriting discounts and commissions, the selling concessions that the underwriters may allow to certain dealers, and the discounts that such dealers may reallow to certain other dealers, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate initial principal amount of each class of Class [ ] Notes shall be as follows:
Underwriting Selling Discount Net Proceeds Concessions Reallowance and to the Not to Not to Commissions Depositor(1) Exceed Exceed ----------- ------------ ------ ------ Class [ ] Notes.... % % % % Class [ ] Notes.... % % % % Class [ ] Notes.... % % % % Class [ ] Notes.... % % % %
-------------- (1) Before deducting expenses payable by the depositor estimated at $_________. [European Economic Area In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), each underwriter has represented and agreed with us that with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the "Relevant Implementation Date") it has not made and will not make an offer of notes to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to notes which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Class [ ] Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time: o to legal entities which are authorised or regulated to operate in financial markets or, if not so authorised or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities; o to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or o in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For purposes of this provision, the expression an "offer of Class [ ] Notes to the public" in relation to any notes in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Class [ ] Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Class [ ] Notes, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression S-49 "Prospectus Directive" means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State. The countries comprising the "European Economic Area" are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.] [United Kingdom Each underwriter has represented and agreed that: o it is a person whose ordinary activities involve it in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of its business and (ii) it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell the Class [ ] Notes other than to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or as agent) for the purposes of their businesses or who it is reasonable to expect will acquire, hold, manage or dispose of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses where the issue of the Class [ ] Notes would otherwise constitute a contravention of Section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act (the "FSMA") by the issuing entity; o it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Class [ ] Notes in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the trust; and o it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Class [ ] Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.] General Until the distribution of the notes is completed, rules of the SEC may limit the ability of the underwriters and certain selling group members to bid for and purchase the Class [ ] Notes. As an exception to these rules, the underwriters are permitted to engage in certain transactions that stabilize the price of the Class [ ] Notes. Such transactions consist of bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of the Class [ ] Notes. If the underwriters create a short position in the Class [ ] Notes in connection with this offering (i.e., they sell more Class [ ] Notes than the aggregate initial principal amount set forth on the front cover of this prospectus supplement), the underwriters may reduce that short position by purchasing Class A Notes in the open market. The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid on certain underwriters and selling group members. This means that if the underwriters purchase Class [ ] Notes in the open market to reduce the underwriters' short position or to stabilize the price of such Class [ ] Notes, they may reclaim the amount of the selling concession from any underwriter or selling group member who sold those Class [ ] Notes as part of the offering. S-50 In general, purchases of a security for the purpose of stabilization or to reduce a short position could cause the price of the security to be higher than it might be in the absence of such purchases. The imposition of a penalty bid might also have an effect on the price of a security to the extent that it were to discourage resales of the security. None of the seller, the depositor or any of the underwriters makes any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that any of the transactions described above might have on the price of the Class [ ] Notes. In addition, none of the seller, the depositor or any of the underwriters makes any representation that the underwriters will engage in such transactions or that such transactions, if commenced, will not be discontinued without notice. The notes [and the certificates] are new issues of securities and there currently is no secondary market for the notes [or the certificates]. The underwriters for the Class [ ] Notes expect to make a market in the Class [ ] Notes but will not be obligated to do so. We cannot assure you that a secondary market for the Class [ ] Notes will develop. We expect that there will not be a secondary market for the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates]. If a secondary market for the Class [ ] Notes or the [Class [ ] Notes] [certificates] does develop, it might end at any time or it might not be sufficiently liquid to enable you to resell any of your notes [or certificates]. The indenture trustee may, from time to time, invest the funds in the Collection Account and the Reserve Account in investments acquired from or issued by the underwriters. In the ordinary course of business, the underwriters and their affiliates have engaged and may engage in investment banking and commercial banking transactions with the seller, the depositor and their respective affiliates. The depositor and the seller have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including civil liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or to contribute to payments which the underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof. The closings of the sale of each class of the notes [and the certificates] are conditioned on the closing of the sale of each other class of notes [and those certificates]. Upon receipt of a request by an investor who has received an electronic prospectus from an underwriter or a request by such investor's representative within the period during which there is an obligation to deliver a prospectus, the depositor or such underwriter will promptly deliver, without charge, a paper copy of this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. LEGAL OPINIONS Certain legal matters and federal income tax matters relating to the notes [and the certificates] will be passed upon for the depositor by Sidley Austin LLP. [Certain legal matters relating to the certificates will be passed upon for the depositor by Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.] Certain legal matters relating to the Class [ ] Notes will be passed upon for the underwriters by [ ]. GLOSSARY OF TERMS Additional defined terms used in this prospectus supplement are defined under "Glossary of Terms" in the attached prospectus. S-51 "ABS" means the Absolute Prepayment Model which we use to measure prepayments on receivables and we describe under "The Receivables Pool--Weighted Average Lives of the [Securities] [Notes]". "ABS Tables" means the tables captioned "Percent of Initial Note Principal Amount at Various ABS Percentages" [and "Percent of Initial Certificate Balance at Various ABS Percentages," respectively,] beginning on page S- of this prospectus supplement. "Available Collections" for a payment date will be the sum of the following amounts with respect to the Collection Period preceding that payment date (subject to the exclusions set forth below such amounts): o all payments collected on the receivables; o all liquidation proceeds in respect of receivables which were designated as defaulted receivables in prior Collection Periods; o all Advances made by the servicer of interest due on the receivables; o the Purchase Amount of each receivable that was paid during the related Collection Period; and o partial prepayments of any refunded item included in the principal balance of a receivable, such as extended warranty protection plan costs, or physical damage, credit life, disability insurance premiums, or any partial prepayment which causes a reduction in the obligor's periodic payment to an amount below the scheduled payment as of the Cut-off Date. Available Collections on any payment date will exclude the following: o amounts received on any receivable to the extent that the servicer has previously made an unreimbursed Advance with respect to such receivable and the amount received exceeds the accrued and unpaid interest on such receivable that has not been advanced; o amounts received on any of the receivables to the extent that the servicer has previously made an unreimbursed Advance on a receivable which is not recoverable from collections on the particular receivable; o all payments and proceeds (including liquidation proceeds) of any receivables the Purchase Amount of which has been included in Available Funds in a prior Collection Period; o liquidation proceeds with respect to accrued and unpaid interest on any receivable but only to the extent of any unreimbursed Advances on that receivable; and o amounts constituting the Supplemental Servicing Fee. "Available Funds" for a payment date shall be the sum of the Available Collections and the Reserve Account Excess Amount. "Average Delinquency Ratio" means, for any payment date, the average of the Delinquency Ratios for the preceding three Collection Periods. "Average Net Loss Ratio" means, for any payment date, the average of the Net Loss Ratios for the preceding three Collection Periods. S-52 "Bank" means USAA Federal Savings Bank. "Benefit Plan Investor" has the meaning specified in "ERISA Considerations." "Business Day" is a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in the State of New York, the State of Delaware or the State of Texas are authorized by law, regulation or executive order to be closed. ["certificate balance" means, with respect to the certificates, initially, $ and, thereafter, means the initial certificate balance of the certificates, reduced by all amounts allocable to principal previously distributed to the certificateholders.] "Clearstream" means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, a professional depository under the laws of Luxembourg. "closing date" means . "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. "Collection Account" means an account established pursuant to the sale and servicing agreement, held in the name of the indenture trustee, into which the servicer is required to deposit collections on the receivables and other amounts. "Collection Period" means, with respect to the first payment date, the period from and including the Cut-off Date to and including and, with respect to each subsequent payment date, the calendar month preceding the calendar month in which such payment date occurs. "Contract Rate" means the per annum interest borne by a receivable. "Controlling Class" has the meaning set forth on page S-[ ]. "Cut-off Date" means the date as of which the seller will transfer the receivables to the depositor and the depositor will transfer the Receivables to the trust, which is . "defaulted receivable" means a receivable (i) that the servicer determines is unlikely to be paid in full or (ii) with respect to which at least [5]% of a scheduled payment is 120 or more days delinquent as of the end of a calendar month. "Delinquency Ratio" means, for any Collection Period, the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of (a) the principal amount of all outstanding receivables (other than Purchased Receivables and defaulted receivables) that are 60 or more days delinquent as of the end of such Collection Period, determined in accordance with the servicer's customary practices, plus receivables as to which the related financed vehicle has been repossessed but not sold, to (b) the Pool Balance as of the last day of such Collection Period. "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company and any successor depository selected by the indenture trustee. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. "ERISA Plan" has the meaning specified in "ERISA Considerations." S-53 "Euroclear" means a professional depository operated by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. "Federal Tax Counsel" means Sidley Austin LLP. "Final Scheduled Payment Date" for each class of notes [and the certificates] means the respective dates set forth on the front cover of this prospectus supplement or, if such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day. "First Priority Principal Payment" means, for each payment date, a payment of principal equal to the excess, if any, of the aggregate principal amount of the Class [ ] Notes immediately prior to such payment date over the Pool Balance as of the end of the related Collection Period. "FSMA" means Financial Services and Markets Act. "indenture trustee" means , a , as indenture trustee under the indenture. "liquidation proceeds" means, with respect to any receivable (a) insurance proceeds received by the servicer and (b) the monies collected by the servicer on a defaulted receivable from whatever source, including but not limited to proceeds of a financed vehicle sold after repossession, net of any payments required by law to be remitted to the obligor and net of all reasonable expenses incurred by the servicer in converting to cash the financed vehicle securing such defaulted receivable. "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and its successors in interest. "Net Loss Ratio" means, for any Collection Period, the ratio, expressed as an annualized percentage, of (a) Realized Losses minus Recoveries for such Collection Period, to (b) the average of the Pool Balances on the first day of such Collection Period and the last day of such Collection Period. "owner trustee" means , as owner trustee under the trust agreement. "payment date" means the date on which the trust will pay interest and principal on the notes [and certificates], which will be the [15th] day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next Business Day, commencing on . "PCTE" has the meaning specified in "ERISA Considerations." ["percentage interest" means, with respect to the certificates, the percentage interest, specified on the face thereof, in the distributions on the certificates pursuant to the trust agreement.] "Plan" has the meaning specified in "ERISA Considerations." "Pool Balance" means the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the receivables (exclusive of Purchased Receivables and defaulted receivables) as of the date of determination. "Purchased Receivable" means a receivable that has been (a) repurchased by the depositor due to certain breaches of representations or warranties made by the depositor with respect to such receivable or (b) purchased by the servicer due to certain breaches of servicing covenants. "Realized Losses" mean, for any Collection Period and for each receivable that became a defaulted receivable during such Collection Period, the excess of the principal balance of each such receivable over S-54 liquidation proceeds received with respect to such receivable during such Collection Period, to the extent allocable to principal. "Record Date" with respect to any payment date means the day immediately preceding the payment date or, if the [securities] [notes] are issued as Definitive Securities, the last day of the preceding month. "Recoveries" means, with respect to any Collection Period, all monies received by the servicer with respect to any defaulted receivable during any Collection Period following the Collection Period in which such receivable became a defaulted receivable, net of any fees, costs and expenses incurred by the servicer in connection with the collection of such receivable and any payments required by law to be remitted to the obligor. "Regular Principal Distribution Amount" has the meaning specified in "Application of Available Funds--Priority of Distributions." The Regular Principal Distribution Amount in respect of a payment date will not exceed the [sum of the] outstanding principal amount of the notes [and the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates] on that payment date. "Reserve Account" means the account which the servicer will establish pursuant to the sale and servicing agreement in the name of the indenture trustee into which the depositor will deposit the Reserve Initial Deposit and into and from which the trust will make the other deposits and withdrawals specified in this prospectus supplement. "Reserve Account Excess Amount" has the meaning specified in "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Deposits to the Collection Account." "Reserve Initial Deposit" means the $[ ] initially deposited into the Reserve Account. "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Servicemembers Act" means the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as amended. "Servicing Fee" means a fee payable to the servicer on each payment date for servicing the receivables which is equal to the product of 1/12th of [ ]% (except the servicing fee for the first payment date will be adjusted to reflect the initial Collection Period) and the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the receivables as of the first day of the related Collection Period. "Similar Laws" means federal, state or local laws that impose requirements similar to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. "Specified Reserve Balance" has the meaning specified in "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Deposits to the Collection Account." "specified trigger level" has the meaning specified in "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Deposits to the Collection Account." "Standard & Poor's" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors in interest. "Supplemental Servicing Fee" means, for each Collection Period, the amount of any late fees and other administrative fees and expenses collected during that Collection Period, plus any interest earned during the Collection Period on amounts on deposit in the Collection Account during the Collection S-55 Period. The servicer does not currently collect such fees and expenses from obligors, but may do so in the future. "Total Required Payment" has the meaning specified in "Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement--Deposits to the Collection Account." S-56
================================================= ============================================ No dealer, salesperson or other individual has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations other than those contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement or the prospectus in connection with the offer made by this prospectus supplement or the prospectus and, if $[ ] given or made, such information or representations must not be relied upon as USAA AUTO having been authorized by the depositor or any OWNER TRUST 200__-[ ] underwriter. Neither the delivery of this prospectus supplement or the prospectus nor any sale made hereunder shall, under any $ % circumstances, create any implication that the Asset Backed Notes, Class [ ] information contained herein is correct as of a time subsequent to the date of such information. Neither this prospectus supplement $ % nor the prospectus constitutes an offer or Asset Backed Notes, Class [ ] solicitation by anyone in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is not authorized or in which the person making such $ % offer or solicitation is not qualified to do so Asset Backed Notes, Class [ ] or to anyone to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation. ------------ $ % TABLE OF CONTENTS Asset Backed Notes, Class [ ] Page ---- PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT Reading These Documents........................S-3 [$ Summary of Terms of the Securities.............S-5 % Risk Factors..................................S-14 Asset Backed Notes, Class [ ]] The Issuing Entity............................S-15 The Receivables Pool..........................S-16 Static Pool Data..............................S-22 [$ How You Can Compute Your Portion of the Amount % Outstanding on the Notes or Certificates....S-22 Asset Backed Certificates, Class [ ]] Maturity and Prepayment Considerations........S-23 Description of the Notes......................S-33 Description of the Certificates...............S-35 USAA Acceptance, LLC Application of Available Funds................S-36 Description of the Sale and Servicing Agreement...................................S-40 Use of Proceeds...............................S-44 Depositor [Information Regarding The Credit Enhancer and the Credit Enhancement].....................S-44 [The Swap Counterparty].......................S-44 Affiliation and Certain Relationships and [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Related Transactions .......................S-45 Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences.......S-45 Certain State Tax Consequences................S-46 ERISA Considerations..........................S-46 USAA Federal Savings Bank Underwriting..................................S-48 Sponsor, Seller and Servicer Legal Opinions................................S-51 Glossary of Terms.............................S-51 PROSPECTUS Reading this Prospectus and the Accompanying PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT Prospectus Supplement..........................4 Where You Can Find Additional Information........4 Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference .....................................5 Copies of the Documents..........................5 Summary..........................................6 Risk Factors....................................10 The Trusts......................................22 The Depositor...................................24 Sponsor, Seller and Servicer....................25 The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans.....26 The Receivables Pools...........................31 Static Pool Data................................33 Maturity and Prepayment Considerations..........34 Use of Proceeds.................................35 Principal Documents.............................35 Payments on the Securities......................37 Certain Information Regarding the Securities....38 The Indenture...................................48 Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements..........................56 Credit or Payment Enhancement...................69 Some Important Legal Issues Relating to the Receivables...................................71 Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences.........73 Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes...........................74 Trusts in which all Certificates are Retained by the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor.................................82 Trusts Structured as Grantor Trusts for Federal Income Tax Purposes...........................84 Certain State Tax Consequences..................88 ERISA Considerations............................89 Plan of Distribution............................93 Legal Opinions..................................93 Glossary of Terms for the Prospectus...........94 [ ] Until 90 days after the date of this prospectus supplement, all dealers effecting transactions in the securities, whether or not participating in this distribution, may [Underwriters] be required to deliver a prospectus supplement and prospectus. This delivery requirement is in addition to the obligation of dealers to deliver a prospectus supplement and prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions. ================================================= ===========================================
58 Information contained in this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus is not complete and may be changed. This prospectus supplement and attached prospectus are not an offer to sell these securities and they are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.
Subject to completion, dated [ ], 2006 Prospectus Supplement to Prospectus Dated _____________, 200_ $[$ Aggregate Principal Balance of Securities Offered] Before you purchase any of USAA Auto Grantor Trust 200_-[ ] these certificates, be sure Issuing Entity you read this prospectus supplement and the attached USAA Acceptance, LLC prospectus, especially the Depositor risk factors beginning on page S-__ of this prospectus [USAA LOGO] supplement and on page __ of the prospectus. USAA Federal Savings Bank A security is not a deposit Sponsor, Seller and Servicer and neither the certificates nor the underlying motor vehicle loans are insured or The issuing entity will own motor vehicle guaranteed by the FDIC or any loans originated by USAA Federal Savings Bank other governmental authority. and will issue the following classes of USAA Auto Grantor Trust 200_-[ ] certificates: The certificates will represent obligations of or Class A Class B interests in the issuing Certificates Certificates entity only and will not ---------------- --------------- represent obligations of or Certificate Balance............................ $ $ interests in USAA Acceptance, Per Annum Interest Rate........................ % % LLC, USAA Federal Savings Bank Final Scheduled Payment Date................... or any of their respective Initial Public Offering Price(1)............... $ % $ % affiliates. Underwriting Discount.......................... $ % $ % Proceeds to Depositor(1)(2).................... $ % $ % No one may use this prospectus --------------- supplement to offer and sell these certificates unless it (1) The price of the certificates will include interest accrued on the certificates, if is accompanied by the any, from _____________________. prospectus. (2) Before deducting expenses payable by the depositor estimated to be $_______________ depositor estimated to be $___________. The total initial public offering price is $_______, the total underwriting discount is $____________ and the total proceeds to depositor is $___________. o The issuing entity will distribute interest and principal on the certificates on the ___ day of each month. The first payment date will be ________________. o The Class B Certificates are subordinated to the Class A Certificates. That subordination is intended to provide credit enhancement to the Class A Certificates.
These securities have not been approved or disapproved by the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state securities commission nor has the Securities and Exchange Commission or any state securities commission passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus supplement or the attached prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. [Underwriters] The date of this prospectus supplement is _____________. TABLE OF CONTENTS READING THESE DOCUMENTS...........................S-3 SUMMARY OF TERMS OF THE CERTIFICATES..............S-5 RISK FACTORS.....................................S-11 THE ISSUING ENTITY...............................S-12 The Trustee...................................S-12 THE RECEIVABLES POOL.............................S-13 Criteria Applicable to Selection of Receivables.................................S-13 [Subsequent Receivables.......................S-16 The Bank's Delinquency, Loan Loss and Recovery Information........................S-18 STATIC POOL DATA.................................S-19 HOW YOU CAN COMPUTE YOUR PORTION OF THE AMOUNT OUTSTANDING ON THE CERTIFICATES.........S-20 The Factors Described Above Will Decline as the Trust Makes Payments on the Certificates................................S-20 MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS...........S-20 Weighted Average Lives of the Certificates....S-21 DESCRIPTION OF THE CERTIFICATES..................S-25 General.......................................S-25 Distributions on Certificates.................S-25 [Interest Rate Swap/Derivative Contract.......S-28 Statements to Certificateholders..............S-28 Subordination of Class B Certificates.........S-29 Optional Redemption...........................S-29 Accounts......................................S-29 Advances......................................S-30 Servicing Compensation and Expenses...........S-30 Rights Upon Event of Servicing Termination....S-30 Waiver of Past Events of Servicing TerminationS-30 Reserve Account...............................S-30 Fees and Expenses of the Trust................S-31 USE OF PROCEEDS..................................S-32 [INFORMATION REGARDING THE CREDIT ENHANCER AND THE CREDIT ENHANCEMENT]........................S-32 [THE SWAP COUNTERPARTY...........................S-32 AFFILIATION AND CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS...........................S-32 CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES..........S-33 CERTAIN STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES...................S-33 ERISA CONSIDERATIONS.............................S-33 Class A and Class B Certificates..............S-33 UNDERWRITING.....................................S-34 [European Economic Area.......................S-35 United Kingdom................................S-35 General.......................................S-36 LEGAL OPINIONS...................................S-37 GLOSSARY OF TERMS................................S-37 S-2 READING THESE DOCUMENTS We provide information on the certificates in two documents that offer varying levels of detail: 1. Prospectus - provides general information, some of which may not apply to the certificates. 2. Prospectus Supplement - provides a summary of the specific terms of the certificates. We suggest you read this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus in their entirety. The prospectus supplement pages begin with "S". The terms of the certificates described in this prospectus supplement supplement the accompanying prospectus. Whenever information in this prospectus supplements is more specific than the information in the accompanying prospectus, you should rely on the information in this prospectus supplement with respect to the certificates. We include cross-references to sections in these documents where you can find further related discussions. Refer to the table of contents on page S-2 in this document and on page 2 in the prospectus to locate the referenced sections. The Glossary of Terms on page S-__ of this prospectus supplement and the Glossary of Terms on page 93 in the prospectus list definitions of certain terms used in this prospectus supplement or the prospectus. You should rely only on information on the certificates provided in this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. In this prospectus supplement, the terms "we," "us" and "our" refer to USAA Acceptance, LLC. S-3 TRANSACTION ILLUSTRATION
------------------------- | | | USAA Federal | | Savings Bank | | (Sponsor, Seller and | | Servicer) | | | ------------------------- | / \ | | | | | | receivables | | $ | | | | | | | | \ / | ------------------------- | | | USAA Acceptance LLC | | (Depositor) | | | | | | | ------------------------- | / \ | | | | | | receivables | | $ | | | | | | | | \ / | ------------------------- ------------------------- | | | | | USAA Auto | certificates | | | Grantor Trust |-------------------->| Investors | | 200__-[ ] | | | | (issuing entity) |<--------------------| | | | $ | | ------------------------- -------------------------
S-4 SUMMARY OF TERMS OF THE CERTIFICATES The following summary is a short description of the main terms of the offering of the certificates. For that reason, this summary does not contain all of the information that may be important to you. To fully understand the terms of the offering of the certificates, you will need to read both this prospectus supplement and the attached prospectus in their entirety. Issuing Entity or Trust [SPV] will be formed pursuant to a pooling and servicing agreement dated as of [ ], 200__, among the seller, the servicer, the depositor and the trustee. USAA Auto Grantor Trust ____ will acquire, in exchange for the issuance of its certificates, a pool of motor vehicle installment loans, which constitute the receivables. The trust is referred to as the "issuing entity" or the "trust." The trust will rely upon collections on the receivables and the funds on deposit in certain accounts to make payments on the certificates. The trust will be solely liable for the payment of the certificates. Depositor USAA Acceptance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of USAA Federal Savings Bank. Offered Certificates The following USAA Auto Grantor Trust 200_-[ ] certificates are being offered by this prospectus supplement: o $____________ Class A ____% Asset Backed Certificates o $____________ Class B ____% Asset Backed Certificates Closing Date The trust expects to issue the certificates on __________________. Sponsor, Seller and Servicer USAA Federal Savings Bank. Trustee _________________. [Third Party Credit Enhancer] [ ] [Swap Counterparty] [ ] Payment Dates On the ___ day of each month (or if the ___ day is not a business day, the next business day), the trust will distribute interest and principal on the certificates. First Payment Date The first payment date will be _________________. Record Dates On each payment date, the trust will distribute interest and principal to the holders of the certificates as of the related record date. The record date for the certificates for each payment date will be the day immediately preceding such payment S-5 date. If definitive certificates are issued for the certificates, the record date will be the last day of the month immediately preceding such payment date. Interest Rates The trust will distribute interest on each class of certificates at the per annum rates specified on the cover of this prospectus supplement. Interest Accrual "30/360", accrued from and including the __ day of the previous month (or the closing date in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the __ day of the current month. This means that, if there are no outstanding shortfalls in the payment of interest, the interest due on a class of certificates on each payment date will be the product of: 1. the outstanding certificate balance of that class; 2. the related interest rate for that class; and 3. 30 (or in the case of the first payment date, _____) divided by 360. For a more detailed description of the payment of interest, refer to the sections of this prospectus supplement entitled "Description of the Certificates -- Distributions." Flow of Funds and Priority of Distributions From collections on the receivables received during the prior calendar month and amounts withdrawn from the reserve account, the trust will distribute the following amounts on each payment date in the following order of priority, after reimbursement of advances made in prior months by the servicer for interest payments due from obligors but not received: (1) Servicing Fee -- the servicing fee payable to the servicer; (2) Class A Certificate Interest -- accrued and unpaid interest on the Class A Certificates distributable to the holders of those certificates; (3) Class B Certificate Interest -- accrued and unpaid interest on the Class B Certificates distributable to the holders of those certificates; (4) Class A Principal - principal in the amount described in this prospectus supplement to the Class A Certificateholders; (5) Class B Principal - principal in the amount described in this prospectus supplement to the Class B Certificateholders; (6) any remaining amount will be deposited in the reserve account until the amount on deposit in the reserve account equals the required amount; and (7) any remaining amount will be distributed to the depositor. [if applicable, include description of payments by a third party credit enhancement provider and payments to a third party credit enhancement provider] S-6 [if applicable, include description of payments by a derivative counterparty and payments to a derivative counterparty] For a more detailed description of the funds available to the trust to make distributions, the priority of distributions and the allocation of funds on each payment date, you should refer to "Description of the Certificates" in this prospectus supplement. Credit Enhancement The credit enhancement for the certificates will be as follows: Subordination of Principal and Interest --------------------------------------- Payments of interest on the Class B Certificates will be subordinated to payments of interest on the Class A Certificates. Payments of principal on the Class B Certificates will be subordinated to payments of interest and principal on the Class A Certificates. Reserve Account --------------- On the closing date, the depositor will deposit $______________ to the reserve account. On each payment date, if collections on the receivables are insufficient to pay the first five items listed in "Flow of Funds and Priority of Distributions" above, the trustee will withdraw funds from the reserve account, to the extent available, to distribute such amounts. The balance required to be on deposit in the reserve account will be the lesser of (a) _______ % of the outstanding principal balance of the receivables and (b) __% of the principal balance of the receivables as of _________. On each payment date, the trust will distribute funds on deposit in the reserve account in excess of the required balance to the depositor. For a more detailed description of the deposits to and withdrawals from the reserve account, you should refer to "Description of the Certificates -- Reserve Account" in this prospectus supplement. Purchase or Repurchase of Receivables In the course of its normal servicing procedures, the servicer may defer or modify the payment schedule of a receivable. Some of these arrangements may obligate the servicer to purchase the receivable from the trust. For a discussion of the servicer's purchase obligations, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Servicing Procedures" in the accompanying prospectus. The seller will make representations and warranties relating to the receivables when it sells them to the depositor. The depositor will make the same representations and warranties when it sells the receivables to the trust. The seller will be required to repurchase a receivable from the depositor (which will be required to repurchase the receivable from the trust) if (1) one of the seller's representations or warranties is breached with respect to that receivable and (2) the receivable is materially and adversely affected by the breach. For a discussion of the representations and warranties given by the seller and its related repurchase obligations, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Sale S-7 and Assignment of Receivables" in the accompanying prospectus. Optional Prepayment The servicer has the option to purchase the receivables on any payment date following the last day of a collection period on which the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the receivables is __% or less of the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of _________. The purchase price will equal the lesser of (i) the outstanding principal balance of the receivables plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the weighted average interest rate borne by the certificates through the end of the related collection period and (ii) the fair market value of the receivables. However, the servicer will not be entitled to exercise such purchase option if such purchase price is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the outstanding securities in full. The trust will apply such payment to the payment of the certificates in full. [Third Party Credit Enhancement ------------------------------- [If the trust has the benefit of credit enhancement from a third party, this paragraph will briefly summarize how such credit enhancement works. If the liability of such credit enhancer exceeds the applicable level specified in Item 1114(b) of Regulation AB, this paragraph will name the credit enhancer and refer to "Information Regarding the Credit Enhancement and Credit Enhancer", under which caption the applicable information required by Item 1114 will be given.] [Swap Counterparty ------------------ [If the trust has the benefit of a derivative contract from a third party, this paragraph will briefly summarize how such credit enhancement works. If the liability of such counterparty exceeds the applicable level specified in Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB, this paragraph will name the swap counterparty and refer to "Information Regarding the Swap Counterparty", under which caption the applicable information required by Item 1115 will be given.] Final Scheduled Payment Dates The trust is required to distribute the entire principal balance of each class of certificates, to the extent not previously paid, on the respective Final Scheduled Payment Dates specified on the cover page of this prospectus supplement. Property of the Trust The property of the trust will include the following: o the receivables and the collections on the receivables on or after ___________; o security interests in the vehicles financed by the receivables; o amounts held in the reserve account and other accounts maintained for the trust; and o rights to proceeds under insurance policies that cover the obligors under the receivables or the vehicles financed by the receivables. Composition of the Receivables The composition of the receivables as of ________________ is as follows: o Aggregate Principal Balance................... $ o Number of Receivables............... o Current Principal Balance................... $ Average ................ $ Range .................. $ to $ o Original Amount Financed $ S-8 Average ................ $ Range .................. $ to $ o Weighted Average Contract Interest Rate....................... % Range.................... % to % o Weighted Average Original Term months Range.................... months to months o Weighted Average Remaining Term Months Range.................... month to months o Weighted Average FICO score(1) Range.................... ___ to ___ Percentage of Aggregate Principal Balance of Receivables with no FICO score...................... % Percentages of Aggregate Principal Balance of Receivables for New/Used Vehicles................... % / % [Pre-Funding On the closing date, the depositor may elect to deposit an amount of up to [25]% of net proceeds from the sale of the certificates into a pre-funding account for the purchase of subsequent receivables. Funding Period If the depositor elects to deposit a pre-funded amount on the closing date, the funding period will end on the earliest to occur of (i) [ ] ][insert time period not to exceed one-year following the closing date], (ii) the date on which the amount in the pre-funding account is less than $[ ] and (iii) the occurrence of an event of default under the pooling and servicing agreement. Use of Pre-Funded Amount If the depositor elects to deposit a pre-funded amount on the closing date, the pre-funded amount is expected to be used to purchase subsequent receivables. On the payment date following the termination of the funding period, the trustee will apply any remaining funds in the pre-funding account to pay principal of the certificates.] Restrictions on Subsequent Receivables Purchases of subsequent receivables are subject to the same criteria as the initial receivables, as described in this prospectus supplement. [describe any other criteria]] See "The Receivables Pool -- Subsequent Receivables" in this prospectus supplement.] Servicing Fee The trust will pay the servicer a servicing fee on each payment date for the previous month equal to the product of 1/12 of ___% and the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the receivables at the beginning of the previous month. In addition to the servicing fee, the trust will also pay the servicer a supplemental servicing fee equal to any late fees and other administrative fees and expenses, if any, collected during each month and any reinvestment earnings on any payments received on the receivables and deposited into the collection account. Ratings It is a condition to the issuance of the certificates that: o the Class A Certificates be rated in the [highest] long-term rating category by at least two ____________________ (1) [Weighted average FICO score and the range of FICO scores are calculated excluding accounts for which w e do not have a FICO score.] We describe FICO scores in the prospectus under "The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans - Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans." S-9 nationally recognized rating agencies; and o [the Class B Certificates] be rated "____" or its equivalent by at least [two] nationally recognized rating agencies. A rating is not a recommendation to purchase, hold or sell the certificates, inasmuch as such rating does not comment as to market price or suitability for a particular investor. The ratings of the certificates address the likelihood of the payment of principal and interest on the certificates according to their terms. A rating agency rating the certificates may lower or withdraw its rating in the future, in its discretion, as to any class of the certificates. We have requested that each rating agency maintain ongoing surveillance of the ratings assigned to the certificates in accordance with the rating agency's policy, but we cannot assure you that a rating agency will continue its surveillance of the ratings assigned to the certificates. Minimum Denominations $1,000 and integral multiples thereof Registration, Clearance and Settlement Book-entry through DTC/Clearstream/ Euroclear Tax Status Opinions of Counsel Sidley Austin LLP will deliver its opinion that for federal income tax purposes the trust will be characterized as a grantor trust and not as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation. ERISA CONSIDERATIONS Class A Certificates The Class A Certificates are generally eligible for purchase by employee benefit plans, subject to the considerations discussed under "ERISA Considerations" in this prospectus supplement and the prospectus. Class B Certificates The Class B Certificates are generally eligible for purchase by employee benefit plans, subject to the considerations discussed under "ERISA Considerations" in this prospectus supplement and the prospectus. Investor Information -- Mailing Address and Telephone Number The mailing address of the principal executive offices of USAA Acceptance, LLC is 9830 Colonnade Blvd., Suite 600, San Antonio, Texas 78230. Its telephone number is (210) 498-0626. S-10 RISK FACTORS You should consider the following risk factor and the risk factors under the heading "Risk Factors" in the attached prospectus in deciding whether to purchase any of these certificates. Class B Certificates are Subject to Greater Credit Risk Because the Class B Certificates are Subordinate to the Class The Class B Certificates bear greater A Certificates credit risk than the Class A Certificates because payments of interest and principal on the Class B Certificates are subordinated to payments of interest and principal on the Class A Certificates. S-11 THE ISSUING ENTITY The depositor will establish the USAA Auto Grantor Trust _____ by assigning the receivables to the trust in exchange for the % Asset Backed Certificates, Class A (the "Class A Certificates") and the % Asset Backed Certificates, Class B (the "Class B Certificates"). Each certificate will represent a fractional undivided interest in the trust. The trust is referred to in this prospectus supplement and in the accompanying prospectus as either the "trust" or the "issuing entity." The trust property will include a pool of [fixed rate simple interest] motor vehicle installment loans for the purchase of new and used automobiles and light-duty trucks. The trust property will also include: o all monies received on the receivables on or after _____ (the "Cut-off Date"); o security interests in the financed vehicles; o the rights to proceeds, if any, from claims on certain theft, physical damage, credit life or credit disability insurance policies, if any, covering the financed vehicles or the obligors; o the depositor's rights to certain documents and instruments relating to the receivables; o amounts held in the Reserve Account and other accounts maintained for the trust; o certain payments and proceeds with respect to the receivables held by the servicer; o certain rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to certain insurance policies and other items financed under the receivables; and o any proceeds of the above items. The trust will be formed for this transaction pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement and prior to formation will have had no assets or obligations. After formation, the trust will not engage in any activity other than acquiring and holding the receivables, issuing the certificates, distributing payments thereon and as otherwise described herein and as provided in the pooling and servicing agreement. The trust will not acquire any contracts or assets other than the trust property described above. The fiscal year of the trust is the calendar year. The Trustee [ ] will be the trustee under the trust agreement. [ ] is a [ ] and its principal offices are located at [ ]. [The trustee has frequently acted as a trustee in securitizations of retail motor vehicle installment loans and installment sale contracts.] The depositor and its affiliates may maintain normal commercial banking relations with the trustee and its affiliates. Refer to "The Trusts--The Trustee" in the attached prospectus for a description of the trustee's duties and responsibilities under the trust agreement. S-12 THE RECEIVABLES POOL The trust will own a pool of receivables consisting of motor vehicle installment loans secured by security interests in the motor vehicles financed by those loams. The pool will consist of the receivables selected from the seller's portfolio of installment loans for new and used vehicles, in each case meeting the criteria described below, which the seller transfers to the depositor and the depositor transfers to the trust on the closing date. No selection procedures believed by the seller or the depositor to be adverse to the securityholders were utilized in selecting the receivables. The receivables will include payments on the receivables which are made on or after the Cut-off Date. Criteria Applicable to Selection of Receivables. The receivables were selected from the seller's portfolio for inclusion in the pool by several criteria, some of which are set forth in the prospectus under "The Receivables Pools." These criteria include the requirement that each receivable: o has a remaining maturity, as of the Cut-off Date, of at least ____ months and not more than ___ months; o with respect to loans secured by new financed vehicles, had an original maturity of at least ____ months and not more than ____ months; with respect to loans secured by used financed vehicles, had an original maturity of at least _____ months and not more than ____ months; o is a fully-amortizing, fixed rate simple interest loan which provides for level scheduled payments (except for the last payment, which may be minimally different from the level payments) over its remaining term and has a [simple interest] contract rate (a "Contract Rate") that equals or exceeds ____% per annum, is not secured by any interest in real estate; o is secured by a financed vehicle that, as of the Cut-off Date, had not been repossessed without reinstatement; o has not been identified on the computer files of the seller as relating to an obligor who was in bankruptcy proceedings as of the Cut-off Date; o has no payment more than ____ days past due as of the Cut-off Date; o has a remaining principal balance, as of the Cut-off Date, of at least $___________; and o has a scheduled maturity no later than . S-13 The composition of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date is as follows: Aggregate Principal Balance................... $ Number of Receivables......................... Current Principal Balance..................... Average................................... $ Range..................................... $ to $ Original Amount Financed...................... Average................................... $ Range..................................... $ to $ Weighted Average Contract Rate................ % Range..................................... % to % Weighted Average Original Term................ months Range..................................... Months to months Weighted Average Remaining Term............... months Range..................................... Months to months Weighted Average FICO score*.................. Range..................................... to Percentage of Aggregate Principal Balance of Receivables with no FICO score......... %/ % Percentage of Aggregate Principal Balance Receivables for New/Used Vehicles......... %/ ------------------------ * [Weighted average FICO score and the range of FICO scores are calculated excluding accounts for which we do not have a FICO score.] We describe FICO scores in the prospectus under "The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans --Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans." The geographical distribution and distribution by Contract Rate of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date are set forth in the following tables. S-14
Geographic Distribution of the Receivables as of the Cut-off Date Percentage of Percentage of Aggregate Aggregate Number of Principal Principal Number of Principal Principal State (1) Receivables Balance Balance (2) State (1) Receivables Balance Balance (2) --------------
(1) Based on the billing addresses of the obligors as of the Cut-off Date. (2) May not add to 100% due to rounding. S-15 Distribution by Contract Rate of the Receivables as of the Cut-off Date
Percentage of Aggregate Number of Principal Contract Rate Receivables Principal Balance Balance (1) ------------------------------------------- --------------------- ----------------------- --------------------- Totals................................... --------------
(1) May not add to 100.00% due to rounding. [if applicable, present other material information regarding pool asset characteristics, including if any assets are over [30] days delinquent as of the cut-off date.] [Subsequent Receivables On the closing date, $[ ] of the proceeds of the sale of the securities will be deposited in a pre-funding account maintained with the trustee. This amount represents [ ]% of S-16 the net proceeds from the sale of the securities as if the closing date. During a funding period from the closing date to [ ], the trust will use the funds in the pre-funding account to fund the purchase of receivables from the depositor (which will purchase the receivables from the seller) that are required to meet the same eligibility criteria applicable to the receivables purchased by the trust on the closing date[, except that [state any different eligibility criteria for subsequent receivables]. The funding period will end on the earliest to occur of (i) [ ] [insert time period not to exceed one-year following the closing date], (ii) the date on which the amount in the pre-funding account is less than $[ ] and (iii) the occurrence of an event of default under the pooling and servicing agreement. On the payment date following the termination of the funding period, the trustee will apply any remaining funds in the pre-funding account to pay principal of the certificates.] S-17 The Bank's Delinquency, Loan Loss and Recovery Information The following tables set forth information with respect to the Bank's experience relating to delinquencies, loan losses and recoveries for each of the periods shown for the portfolio of motor vehicle loans originated and serviced by the Bank (including loans sold but still serviced by the Bank). The portfolio of motor vehicle loans originated and serviced by the Bank during the periods shown includes both fixed rate motor vehicle loans and variable rate motor vehicle loans. The Bank does not maintain separate records with respect to fixed rate motor vehicle loans and variable rate motor vehicle loans regarding delinquency, loan loss and recovery experience. The receivables sold to the trust include only fixed rate motor vehicle loans. The following tables also include information with respect to certain consumer loans which are not motor vehicle loans. These other consumer loans did not exceed 15% of all outstanding loans as of each of the dates and for each of the periods shown in the following tables. The Bank believes that the inclusion of variable rate motor vehicle loans and these other consumer loans has an immaterial effect on the information set forth in the following tables with respect to the Bank's experience relating to delinquencies, loan losses and recoveries on its fixed rate motor vehicle loans.
Delinquency Experience At December 31, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dollars Number Dollars Number Dollars Number Dollars Number Dollars Number (in 000's) of Loans (in 000's) of Loans (in 000's) of Loans (in 000's) of Loans (in 000's) of Loans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outstandings.......$ 10,151,607 720,174 $7,361,484 558,814 $5,732,698 430,269 $5,065,075 373,022 $4,682,707 349,183 Delinquencies over 30 days(1)(2).....$ 26,759 2,940 $ 15,041 1,822 $ 11,217 1,501 $ 16,951 1,964 $ 26,595 2,821 Delinquencies over 30 days(%)(3)..... 0.26% 0.41% 0.20% 0.33% 0.20% 0.35% 0.33% 0.53% 0.57% 0.81%
--------------------- (1) Delinquencies include principal amounts only. (2) The period of delinquency is based on the number of days payments are contractually past due. (3) As a percentage of outstandings. S-18
Loan Loss Experience (Dollars in 000's) Year Ended December 31, --------------------------------------------------------------- 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 --------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Loans(1)........... 720,174 558,814 430,269 373,022 349,183 Period Ending Outstandings... $ 10,151,607 $ 7,361,484 $5,732,698 $5,065,075 $4,682,707 Average Outstandings(2).. $ 8,583,014 $ 6,616,160 $5,285,345 $4,891,867 $4,479,262 Number of Gross Charge-Offs.. 4,103 2,530 2,295 2,208 2,145 Gross Charge-Offs(3)......... $ 35,029 $ 22,456 $ 21,411 $ 23,106 $ 22,546 Gross Charge-Offs as a % of Period End Outstandings... 0.35% 0.31% 0.37% 0.46% 0.48% Gross Charge-Offs as a % of Average Outstandings...... 0.41% 0.34% 0.41% 0.47% 0.50% Recoveries(4)................ $ 14,083 $ 12,202 $ 12,494 $ 11,092 $ 11,433 Net Charge-Offs(5)........... $ 20,947 $ 10,254 $ 8,917 $ 12,014 $ 11,113 Net Charge-Offs as a % of Period End Outstandings... 0.21% 0.14% 0.16% 0.24% 0.24% Net Charge-Offs as a % of Average Outstandings...... 0.24% 0.15% 0.17% 0.25% 0.25%
-------------- (1) Number of loans as of period end. (2) Prior to January 2003, averages were computed by taking an average of daily outstandings for the loans owned by the Bank combined with an average of month-end outstandings for the loans sold and serviced by the Bank for each period presented. Beginning in January 2003, averages were computed by taking an average of daily outstandings for the loans owned by the Bank as well as loans sold and serviced by the Bank. (3) Amounts charged off represent the remaining principal balance. (4) Recoveries are not net of expenses and generally include amounts received with respect to loans previously charged off. (5) Net charge-offs means gross charge-offs minus recoveries of loans previously charged off. The data presented in the foregoing tables are for illustrative purposes only. "Outstandings" as used in the foregoing tables means the principal balance of all consumer loans (including motor vehicle loans) serviced by the Bank as of the specified date. Delinquency and loan loss experience may be influenced by a variety of economic, social and other factors. The mix of the credit quality of the obligors will vary from time to time and will affect losses and delinquencies. We cannot assure you that the loan loss and delinquency experience of the trust will be similar to the loan loss and delinquency levels for the Bank's entire portfolio as shown in the preceding tables. STATIC POOL DATA [Certain static pool data consisting of delinquency, cumulative loss and prepayment data for securitizations of retail motor vehicle receivables originated by the Bank is available online at [ .com].] [Certain static pool data consisting of delinquency, cumulative loss and prepayment data for securitizations of retail motor vehicle receivables originated by the Bank is set forth in the tables below.] This static pool data is not deemed part of this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus supplement is a part to the extent that the static pool data relates to prior securitized pools that were established before January 1, 2006. We cannot assure you that the prepayment, loss or delinquency experience of the receivables sold to the trust will be comparable to the historical prepayment, loss or delinquency experience of any of the other securitized pools sponsored by the Bank. In this regard, you should note how the characteristics of the receivables in those securitized pools differ from the characteristics of the trust's receivables. Such differences, along with the varying economic conditions to which those securitized pools were subject, may make it unlikely that the trust's receivables will perform in the same way that any of those pools has performed. [insert static pool data required by Item 1105] S-19 HOW YOU CAN COMPUTE YOUR PORTION OF THE AMOUNT OUTSTANDING ON THE CERTIFICATES The servicer will provide to you in each report which it delivers to you a factor which you can use to compute your portion of the certificate balance outstanding on your class of certificates. How the Servicer Computes the Factor for Your Class of Certificates. The servicer will compute a separate factor for each class of certificates. The factor for a class of certificates will be a seven-digit decimal which the servicer will compute prior to each distribution with respect to that class of certificates indicating the remaining certificate balance of that class of certificates, as of the applicable payment date. The factor will be calculated after giving effect to distributions to be made on such payment date, as a fraction (expressed as a decimal) of the initial certificate balance of that class of certificates. Your Portion of the Outstanding Certificate Balance of Your Certificates. For each certificate you own, your portion of your class certificates is the product of -- o the original denomination of your certificate; and o the factor relating to your class certificates computed by the servicer in the manner described above. The Factors Described Above Will Decline as the Trust Makes Payments on the Certificates The factor for each class of certificates above will initially be 1.0000000. They will then decline to reflect reductions, as applicable, in the outstanding certificate balance of the applicable class of certificates. These amounts will be reduced over time as a result of scheduled payments, prepayments, purchases of the receivables by the depositor or the servicer and liquidations of the receivables. MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS Information regarding certain maturity and prepayment considerations with respect to the certificates is set forth under "Maturity and Prepayment Considerations" in the prospectus. In addition, on each payment date, no principal payments will be made on the Class B Certificates until the amount of interest and principal due on the Class A Certificates has been paid. Since the rate of payment of principal of each class of certificates depends on the rate of payment (including prepayments) of the principal balance of the receivables, final payment of either class of certificates could occur significantly earlier than the Final Scheduled Payment Date. We Cannot Assure You That Your Certificates Will Be Repaid on the Final Scheduled Payment Date. We expect that final payment of each class of certificates will occur on or prior to the Final Scheduled Payment Date. However, we cannot assure you that sufficient funds will S-20 be available to pay each class of certificates in full on or prior to the Final Scheduled Payment Date. If sufficient funds are not available, the final distribution in respect of each class of certificates could occur later than such date. The Level of Prepayments of the Receivables and Required Purchases by the Depositor and the Servicer are Unpredictable and May Affect Payments on the Certificates. The rate of prepayments of the receivables may be influenced by a variety of economic, social and other factors. In addition, under circumstances relating to breaches of representations, warranties or covenants, the depositor and/or the servicer may be obligated to repurchase receivables from the trust. See "The Receivables Pool" in this prospectus supplement and "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements -- Sale and Assignment of Receivables" in the prospectus. A higher than anticipated rate of prepayments will reduce the aggregate principal balance of the receivables and thus the outstanding certificate balances of the certificates more quickly than expected and thereby reduce anticipated aggregate interest payments on the certificates. The certificateholders alone will bear any reinvestment risks resulting from a faster or slower incidence of prepayment of receivables. Such reinvestment risks include the risk that interest rates may be lower at the time such holders received payments from the trust than interest rates would otherwise have been had such prepayments not been made or had such prepayments been made at a different time. Risks of Slower or Faster Repayments. You should consider -- o in the case of certificates purchased at a discount, the risk that a slower than anticipated rate of principal payments on the receivables could result in an actual yield that is less than the anticipated yield; and o in the case of certificates purchased at a premium, the risk that a faster than anticipated rate of principal payments on the receivables could result in an actual yield that is less than the anticipated yield. Weighted Average Lives of the Certificates The following information is given solely to illustrate the effect of prepayments of the receivables on the weighted average lives of the certificates under the stated assumptions and is not a prediction of the prepayment rate that might actually be experienced by the receivables. Prepayments on motor vehicle receivables can be measured relative to a prepayment standard or model. The model used in this prospectus supplement, the Absolute Prepayment Model ("ABS"), represents an assumed rate of prepayment each month relative to the original number of receivables in a pool of receivables. ABS further assumes that all the receivables are the same size and amortize at the same rate and that each receivable in each month of its life will either be paid as scheduled or be prepaid in full. For example, in a pool of receivables originally containing 10,000 receivables, a 1% ABS rate means that 100 receivables prepay each month. ABS does not purport to be a historical description of prepayment experience or a prediction of the anticipated rate of prepayment of any pool of assets, including the receivables. S-21 The rate of payment of principal of each class of certificates will depend on the rate of payment (including prepayments) of the principal balance of the receivables. For this reason, final payment on the certificates could occur significantly earlier than the Final Scheduled Payment Date. The certificateholders will exclusively bear any reinvestment risk associated with early payment of their certificates. The table (the "ABS Table") captioned "Percent of Initial Certificate Balance" at Various ABS Percentages" has been prepared on the basis of the characteristics of the receivables. The ABS Table assumes that -- o the receivables prepay in full at the specified constant percentage of ABS monthly, with no defaults, losses or repurchases; o each scheduled monthly payment on the receivables is scheduled to be made and is made on the last day of each month and each month has 30 days; o payments on the certificates are made on each payment date (and each payment date is assumed to be the ____day of the applicable month); o the balance in the Reserve Account on each payment date is equal to the Specified Reserve Account Balance; and o the servicer does not exercise its option to purchase the receivables. The ABS Table indicates the projected weighted average life of each class of certificates and sets forth the percent of the initial certificate balance of each class of certificates that is projected to be outstanding after each of the payment dates shown at various constant ABS percentages. The ABS Table also assumes that the receivables have been aggregated into hypothetical pools with all of the receivables within each such pool having the following characteristics and that the level scheduled monthly payment for each of the pools (which is based on its aggregate principal balance, contract rate of interest, original term to maturity and remaining term to maturity as of the Cut-off Date) will be such that each pool will be fully amortized by the end of its remaining term to maturity. The pools have an assumed cut-off date of ________________. S-22
Weighted Weighted Average Average Weighted Average Contract Original Term Remaining Term [Aggregate] Rate of to Maturity to Maturity Pool Principal Balance Interest (In Months) (In Months) ------------------------- -------------------- ------------- --------------- ------------------ 1....................... 2....................... 3....................... 4....................... 5.......................
The actual characteristics and performance of the receivables will differ from the assumptions used in constructing the ABS Table. The assumptions used are hypothetical and have been provided only to give a general sense of how the principal cash flows might behave under varying prepayment scenarios. For example, it is very unlikely that the receivables will prepay at a constant level of ABS until maturity or that all of the receivables will prepay at the same level of ABS. Moreover, the diverse terms of receivables within each of the hypothetical pools could produce slower or faster principal distributions than indicated in the ABS Table at the various constant percentages of ABS specified, even if the original and remaining terms to maturity of the receivables are as assumed. Any difference between such assumptions and the actual characteristics and performance of the receivables, or actual prepayment experience, will affect the percentages of initial amounts outstanding over time and the weighted average lives of each class of certificates. S-23 Percent of Initial Certificate Balance at Various ABS Percentages Class A Certificates and Class B Certificates ------------------------------ Payment Date % % % % ------------------------- ------------------------------ ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... ..................... Weighted Average Life (1) Weighted Average Life to Optional Repurchase (1)(2) ---------- (1) The weighted average life of a certificate is determined by (a) multiplying the amount of each principal payment on a certificate by the number of years from the date of the issuance of the certificate to the related payment date, (b) adding the results and (c) dividing the sum by the related initial certificate balance of the certificate. (2) This calculation assumes the servicer purchases the receivables on the earliest payment date on which it is permitted to do so. This ABS Table has been prepared based on the assumptions described above (including the assumptions regarding the characteristics and performance of the receivables which will differ from the actual characteristics and performance thereof) and should be read in conjunction therewith. S-24 DESCRIPTION OF THE CERTIFICATES A copy of the pooling and servicing agreement will be filed with the SEC after the trust issues the certificates. We summarize below some of the most important terms of the certificates. This summary is not a complete description of all the provisions of the pooling and servicing agreement and the certificates. The following summary is a supplement to the description of the general terms and provisions of the certificates of any series and the related pooling and servicing agreement provided under the headings "Certain Information Regarding the Securities" and "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements" in the prospectus. We refer you to those sections. General The certificates will be Book-Entry Securities. Definitive Certificates for the certificates will be issued only in the limited circumstances specified under "Certain Information Regarding the Securities--Definitive Securities" in the prospectus. Distributions on the certificates on a payment date will be made to persons who were the holders of record on the Record Date. You may purchase certificates in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. Distributions on Certificates Deposits to Collection Account. The servicer will establish the Collection Account as described under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Accounts" in the prospectus. In general, the servicer will be permitted to retain collections on the receivables until the Business Day preceding any payment date. However, the servicer will be required to remit collections received with respect to the receivables not later than the second Business Day after receipt to the Collection Account (1) if there is an Event of Servicing Termination, (2) if the Bank is no longer the servicer or (3) if one of the other conditions set forth in the pooling and servicing agreement is not met. On or before the __ day of each month or, if such __ day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business Day, the servicer will inform the trustee of the following amounts with respect to the preceding Collection Period: (1) the amount of aggregate collections on the receivables, including all liquidation proceeds and recoveries; (2) the aggregate amount of Advances to be remitted by the servicer; (3) the aggregate Purchase Amount for the receivables to be repurchased by the depositor or purchased by the servicer; (4) the aggregate amount to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account; (5) the aggregate amount to be distributed as principal and interest on the certificates; and (6) the Servicing Fee. S-25 On or before the Business Day preceding each payment date: (a) the servicer will cause all collections on the receivables, liquidation proceeds and recoveries to be deposited into the Collection Account and will deposit into the Collection Account all Purchase Amounts for the receivables to be purchased by the servicer on that date; (b) the [depositor] will deposit into the Collection Account all Purchase Amounts of receivables to be repurchased by the [depositor] on that date; and (c) the servicer will deposit all Advances for the payment date into the Collection Account. On each payment date the servicer will allocate collections and Advances for the preceding calendar month (the "Collection Period") to Available Interest and Available Principal. The amounts represented by those terms are more precisely described in the section "Glossary of Terms" in this prospectus supplement. In general, Available Interest for a Collection Period includes interest collections on the receivables (including the interest portion of Purchased Amounts and liquidation proceeds on receivables designated as defaulted receivables in that Collection Period) and recoveries on receivables that were designated as defaulted receivables prior to that Collection Period, minus reimbursements to the servicer of its outstanding Advances. Available Principal for a Collection Period includes principal collections on the receivables (including the principal portion of Purchased Amounts and liquidation proceeds on receivables designated as defaulted receivables in that Collection Period). A receivable will be designated as a "defaulted receivable" when the servicer determines that it is unlikely to be paid in full or when at least 5% of a scheduled payment is 120 or more days delinquent at the end of a Collection Period. The servicer will be entitled to receive reimbursements of its outstanding Advances as described under the section entitled "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Advances" in the prospectus. We refer you to that section. Distributions. On each payment date the trustee will make the following deposits and distributions, to the extent of Available Interest and any available funds in the Reserve Account (net of investment earnings) remaining after such reimbursements (and, to the extent indicated in clause (2) below, the Class B Percentage of Available Principal), in the following order of priority: (1) to the servicer, first from Available Interest and then, if necessary, from any such funds in the Reserve Account, any unpaid Servicing Fee for the related Collection Period and all unpaid Servicing Fees from prior Collection Periods; (2) to the distribution account for the Class A Certificateholders, first from Available Interest, then, if necessary, from any such funds in the Reserve Account, and finally, if necessary, from the Class B Percentage of Available Principal, interest distributable on the Class A Certificates for such payment date; and S-26 (3) to the distribution account for the Class B Certificateholders, first from Available Interest and then, if necessary, from any such funds in the Reserve Account, the interest distributable on the Class B Certificates for such payment date. The interest distributable on a class of certificates on a payment date will accrue on its certificate balance at the applicable per annum rate set forth on the cover of this prospectus supplement from and including the prior payment date (or the closing date in the case of the first payment date) to but excluding the current payment date. Interest will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Interest accrued as of any payment date but not paid on such payment date will be due on the next payment date, together with interest on such amount at the applicable interest rate (to the extent lawful). On each payment date, the trustee will make the following deposits and distributions, to the extent of the portion of Available Principal, Available Interest and any such funds in the Reserve Account (to be applied in that order of priority) remaining after the application of clauses (1), (2) and (3) above, in the following order of priority: (4) to the distribution account for the Class A Certificateholders, the Class A Principal Distribution for such payment date; (5) to the distribution account for the Class B Certificateholders, the Class B Principal Distribution for such payment date; (6) to the Reserve Account, any amounts remaining, until the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account equals the Specified Reserve Account Balance; and (7) to the depositor, any amounts remaining. On each payment date, the trustee will distribute (i) to the Class A Certificateholders, all amounts on deposit in the distribution account for the Class A Certificateholders and (ii) to the Class B Certificateholders, all amounts on deposit in the distribution account for the Class B Certificateholders. [or, insert a different priority of distributions] [if applicable, include description of payments by a third party credit enhancement provider and payments to a third party credit enhancement provider] [if applicable, include description of payments by a derivative counterparty and payments to a derivative counterparty] The Class A Principal Distribution for a payment date will equal the sum of (i) the Class A Percentage of the Available Principal plus the Class A Percentage of Realized Losses, (ii) the Class A Percentage of the Available Principal for any prior payment date and the Class A Percentage of Realized Losses for any prior payment date, in each case only to the extent, if any, that they have not already been distributed to the Class A Certificateholders and (iii) if that S-27 payment date is the Final Scheduled Payment Date, the additional amount, if any, needed to reduce the certificate balance of the Class A Certificates to zero. The Class B Principal Distribution for a payment date will equal the sum of (i) the Class B Percentage of the Available Principal plus the Class B Percentage of Realized Losses, (ii) the Class B Percentage of the Available Principal for any prior payment date and the Class B Percentage of Realized Losses for any prior payment date, in each case only to the extent, if any, that they have not already been distributed to the Class B Certificateholders and (iii) if that payment date is the Final Scheduled Payment Date, the additional amount, if any, needed to reduce the certificate balance of the Class B Certificates to zero. The Class B Percentage is ___% and the Class A Percentage is _____%. Realized Losses for any Collection Period will be the excess of the aggregate principal balance of those receivables that were designated as defaulted receivables during that Collection Period over liquidation proceeds received with respect to such receivables during such Collection Period and allocable to principal. [Interest Rate Swap/Derivative Contract On the closing date, the trust will enter into an "interest rate swap" consisting of the ISDA Master Agreement, the schedule thereto, the credit support annex thereto, if applicable, and the confirmation with the swap counterparty to [hedge the floating interest rate risk on the Class [ Certificates].] The interest rate swap for the Class [ ] Certificates will have an initial notional amount equal to the initial principal balance of the Class [ ] Certificates on the closing date and will decrease by the amount of any principal payments on the Class [ ] Certificates. The notional amount of the interest rate swap at all times that the interest rate swap is in place will be equal to the principal balance of the Class [ ] Certificates. [In general, under the interest rate swap, on each payment date, the trust will be obligated to pay the swap counterparty a per annum fixed rate payment based on a fixed rate of [ ]% and the notional amount of the interest rate swap and the swap counterparty will be obligated to pay a per annum floating rate payment based on the interest rate of the Class [ ] Certificates and the same notional amount.] Payments on the interest rate swap will be exchanged on a net basis. The payment obligations of the trust to the swap counterparty under the interest rate swap agreement are secured under the pooling and servicing agreement by the same lien in favor of the trustee that secures payments to the noteholders and the note insurer. A payment made by the trust under the interest rate swap ranks higher in priority than all payments to the certificates. [Describe other terms of the interest rate swap/derivative contract.]] Statements to Certificateholders On each payment date, the trustee will include with each distribution to each certificateholder a statement setting forth the applicable information under the heading "Certain Information Regarding the Securities--Reports to Securityholders" in the prospectus. S-28 The statements for each Collection Period will be delivered to DTC for further distribution to beneficial owners of the certificates in accordance with DTC procedures. Copies of such statements may be obtained by beneficial owners of certificates by a request in writing addressed to the trustee at its corporate trust office at _____________. Subordination of Class B Certificates The rights of the Class B Certificateholders to receive distributions of interest are subordinated to the rights of Class A Certificateholders to receive payments of interest and principal. In addition, on each payment date the Class B Certificateholders will not receive a distribution of principal until the Class A Certificateholders have received their distribution of principal. This subordination is effected by the allocation of funds set forth under "--Distributions on Certificates" above. Optional Redemption If the servicer exercises its option to purchase the receivables when the aggregate principal balance of the receivables declines to 10% or less of the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date, you will receive an amount in respect of your certificates equal to the sum of: o the outstanding certificate balance of your certificates together with accrued and unpaid interest at the rate of interest for your certificates; and o interest on any past due interest at the rate of interest for your certificates, to the extent lawful. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements -- Termination" in the prospectus. Accounts In addition to the Collection Account, o the trustee will establish a distribution account for the benefit of the Class A Certificateholders; o the trustee will establish a distribution account for the benefit of the Class B Certificateholders; and o the trust or the depositor will establish and will maintain the Reserve Account at an Eligible Institution in the name of _______________ (the "Collateral Agent") on behalf of the certificateholders. The Reserve Account and the funds in the Reserve Account will not be property of the trust, but will be pledged to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of certificateholders. S-29 Advances We describe the servicer's obligation to make advances in respect of delinquent receivables (other than defaulted receivables) under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Advances" in the attached prospectus. The servicer is required to make similar advances with respect to its prior securitizations of motor vehicle loans. Servicing Compensation and Expenses On each payment date the servicer is entitled to receive the Servicing Fee, together with any portion of the Servicing Fee that remains unpaid from prior payment dates. The Servicing Fee will be paid only to the extent of Available Interest for such payment date, plus funds, if any, deposited into the Collection Account from the Reserve Account. The servicer also is entitled to receive the Supplemental Servicing Fee. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements -- Servicing Compensation and Expenses" in the prospectus. Rights Upon Event of Servicing Termination If an Event of Servicing Termination occurs, the trustee or holders of certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the certificate balance may remove the servicer without the consent of any of the other certificateholders. Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination If an Event of Servicing Termination occurs, holders of certificates evidencing at least a majority of the aggregate principal balance of the receivables, subject to the exceptions provided in the pooling and servicing agreement, may waive any Event of Servicing Termination except for a failure to make any required deposits to or payments from any account, without the consent of any of the other certificateholders. Reserve Account Deposits to the Reserve Account. The Reserve Account will be funded by a deposit by the trust or the depositor on the closing date in the amount of $_____________. The amount on deposit in the Reserve Account may increase from time to time up to the Specified Reserve Account Balance by deposits of funds withdrawn from the Collection Account to the extent available as described under "--Distribution on the Certificates -- Distributions" above. The "Specified Reserve Account Balance" will equal the lesser of (a) ____% of the outstanding principal balance of the receivables and (b) ____% of the principal balance of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date. Withdrawals From the Reserve Account. On each payment date, the amount available in the Reserve Account will equal the lesser of (a) the amount on deposit in the Reserve Account and (b) the Specified Reserve Account Balance. The funds on deposit in the Reserve Account may be deposited into the Collection Account to the extent described under "-- Distributions on the Certificates -- Distributions" above. Funds on deposit in the Reserve Account in excess of the Specified Reserve Account Balance will be paid to the depositor. S-30 Investment. Amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account will be invested by the Collateral Agent at the prior written direction of the depositor in Permitted Investments and investment earnings (net of losses and investment expenses) therefrom will be deposited into the Reserve Account. To the extent the Collateral Agent does not receive such prior written investment direction, it shall hold such funds uninvested. Permitted Investments are generally limited to obligations or securities that mature on or before the next payment date. However, to the extent each Rating Agency rating the certificates confirms that such actions will not adversely affect its ratings of the certificates, funds in the Reserve Account may be invested in obligations that will not mature prior to the next payment date and will not be sold to meet any shortfalls. Funds in the Reserve Account Will be Limited. Amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account from time to time are available to -- o enhance the likelihood that you will receive the amounts due on your certificates; and o decrease the likelihood that you will experience losses on your certificates. However, the amounts on deposit in the Reserve Account are limited to the Specified Reserve Account Balance. If the amount required to cover shortfalls in funds on deposit in the Collection Account exceeds the amount available to be withdrawn from the Reserve Account, a shortfall in the amounts distributed to the certificateholders could result. Depletion of the Reserve Account ultimately could result in losses on your certificates. After the payment in full, or the provision for such payment of all accrued and unpaid interest on the certificates and the outstanding certificate balance of the certificates, any funds remaining on deposit in the Reserve Account, subject to certain limitations, will be paid to the depositor. Fees and Expenses of the Trust As set forth above under "-Distributions on Certificates-Distributions," the trust is obligated to pay the following fees and expenses on each payment date: Recipient Fees and Expenses Servicer The Servicing Fee described under "-Servicing Compensation and Expenses." Trustee $[ ] per annum plus reasonable expenses and indemnities. These fees and expenses are payable out of the trust's funds in the order of priority specified under "-Distributions on Certificates-Distributions" above and in the defined terms Available Interest and Available Principal in the "Glossary of Terms" in this prospectus supplement. The servicer, in turn, is obligated to pay the fees and expenses of the accountants in delivering their annual attestation report. Any other expenses or liabilities of the trust would be payable by the trust prior to any payments due on the securities. S-31 USE OF PROCEEDS The net proceeds from the sale of the certificates of the trust will be applied by the trust to purchase the receivables from the depositor and the depositor will apply the proceeds to purchase the receivables from the seller and make the initial deposit to the Reserve Account. [INFORMATION REGARDING THE CREDIT ENHANCER AND THE CREDIT ENHANCEMENT] [Insert disclosure regarding external credit enhancement required by Item 1114(a) of Regulation AB and, if the credit enhancer or group of affiliated entities providing credit enhancement or other support provided in Item 1114(a) is liable or contingently liable to provide payments for 10% or more, of the cash flow supporting any class of offered securities, insert the information required by Item 1114(b)(1) of Regulation AB and if any credit enhancer or group of affiliated entities providing credit enhancement or other support provided in Item 1114(a) is liable or contingently liable to provide payments for 10% or more, or 20% or more, of the cash flow supporting any class of offered securities, insert the information required by Item 1114(b)(2)(i) or 1114(b)(2)(ii) of Regulation AB, as applicable.] [THE SWAP COUNTERPARTY [[ ] is the swap counterparty. It is organized as a [ ] under the laws of [ ]. [To be inserted: description of the general character of the business of the swap counterparty]. [The long-term credit rating assigned to the swap counterparty by [ ] is currently "[ ]" and by [ ] is currently "[ ]". [Upon the occurrence of an event of default or termination event specified in the interest rate swap, the interest rate swap agreement may be replaced with a replacement interest rate swap as described above under "Description of the Certificates--Interest Rate Swap/Derivative Contract."] [Based on a reasonable good faith estimate of maximum probably exposure, the significance percentage in respect of the interest rate swap is less than 10%]. [If the significance percentage related to the swap counterparty or group of affiliated entities providing derivative instruments under Item 1115 of Regulation AB is 10% or more, or 20% or more, insert the financial information required by Item 1115(b)(1) or (b)(2) of Regulaton AB.]] AFFILIATION AND CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS USAA Acceptance, LLC, as depositor, created the trust. USAA Acceptance, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of USAA Federal Savings Bank. USAA Federal Savings Bank is the sponsor, seller and servicer. The trustee is a banking corporation that the sponsor and its affiliates may have other banking relationships with directly or with its affiliates in the ordinary course of its businesses. In some instances the trustee will be acting in similar capacities for other asset-backed transactions of the sponsor for similar or other pool-asset types. The trustee charges fees for its services and such fees, to the extent they are not paid out of the cash flows of the issuing entity, will be payable by the servicer. S-32 CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES In the opinion of Sidley Austin llp, counsel for the Bank and the depositor and Federal Tax Counsel for the trust, for federal income tax purposes, the trust will be a grantor trust and will not be treated as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts Treated as Grantor Trusts for Federal Income Tax Purposes" in the prospectus. CERTAIN STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES The tax discussion in the prospectus does not address the tax treatment of the trust, the certificates or the certificateholders under any state tax laws. You are urged to consult with your own tax advisors regarding the state tax treatment of the trust as well as any state tax consequences to you, particularly in the case of financial institutions, of purchasing, holding and disposing of your certificates. ERISA CONSIDERATIONS For a general discussion of ERISA considerations in respect of the certificates, we refer you to the section entitled "ERISA Considerations" in the prospectus. Class A and Class B Certificates The U.S. Department of Labor has granted an individual administrative exemption to [name of lead underwriter] (Prohibited Transaction Exemption ____, as amended, [Exemption Application No. ________, ___ Fed. Reg. ___ (_____)]) (the "Exemption") from some of the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA and the related excise tax provisions of Section 4975 of the Code with respect to the initial purchase, the holding and the subsequent resale by Plans of certificates in pass-through trusts that consist of specified receivables, loans and other obligations that meet the conditions and requirements of the Exemption. The Exemption applies to motor vehicle installment loans such as the receivables owned by the trust. A "Plan" is an employee benefit or other plan or arrangement (such as an individual retirement plan or Keogh plan) that is subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. For a general description of the Exemption and the conditions that must be satisfied for the Exemption to apply, see "ERISA Considerations -- Certificates Issued by Trusts and Certain Subordinate Notes" in the prospectus. Before purchasing a Certificate, a fiduciary of a Plan must satisfy itself that (i) the Certificates are "certificates" for purposes of the Exemption and (ii) the general and specific conditions and requirements in the Exemption, including the requirement than an investing Plan be an "accredited investor" as defined in Rule 501(a)(1) of Regulation D of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, would be met in the case of the Certificates. Prospective Plan investors are encouraged to consult with their legal advisors concerning the impact of ERISA and the Code and the applicability of the Exemption, and the potential consequences in their specific circumstances, before making an investment in any of the S-33 certificates. Moreover, each Plan fiduciary is encouraged to determine whether, under the general fiduciary standards of investment prudence and diversification, an investment in the Certificates is appropriate for the Plan, taking into account the overall investment policy of the Plan and the composition of the Plan's investment portfolio. The sale of Certificates to a Plan is in no respect a representation by the issuer or any underwriter of the Certificates that this investment meets all relevant legal requirements with respect to investments by Plans generally or any particular Plan, or that this investment is appropriate for Plans generally or any particular Plan. UNDERWRITING Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the underwriting agreement, the depositor has agreed to cause the trust to sell to each of the underwriters named below, and each of the underwriters has severally agreed to purchase, the initial certificate balances of Class A Certificates and Class B Certificates set forth opposite its name below: Certificate Certificate Balance of Balance of Class A Class B Underwriters Certificates Certificates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ .................................... .................................... .................................... .................................... Total............................ The depositor has been advised by the underwriters that they propose to offer the certificates to the public initially at the applicable prices set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement. After the initial public offering of the Class A Certificates and Class B Certificates, the public offering prices may change. The underwriting discounts and commissions, the selling concessions that the underwriters may allow to certain dealers, and the discounts that such dealers may reallow to certain other dealers, expressed as a percentage of the certificate balance of each class of certificates and as an aggregate dollar amount, shall be as follows:
Underwriting Selling Discount and Net Proceeds Concessions Reallowance Commissions to Depositor(1) not to exceed not to exceed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Class A Certificates....... Class B Certificates....... Total..................
-------------- (1) Plus interest accrued on the certificates, if any, from ________ and before deducting other expenses estimated at $___________. S-34 [European Economic Area In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), each underwriter has represented and agreed with us that with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the "Relevant Implementation Date") it has not made and will not make an offer of certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to certificates which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Class [ ] Certificates to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time: o to legal entities which are authorised or regulated to operate in financial markets or, if not so authorised or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities; o to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than (euro)43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than (euro)50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or o in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive. For purposes of this provision, the expression an "offer of Class [ ] Certificates to the public" in relation to any certificates in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Class [ ] Certificates to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Class [ ] Certificates, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State. The countries comprising the "European Economic Area" are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.] [United Kingdom Each underwriter has represented and agreed that: o it is a person whose ordinary activities involve it in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of its business and (ii) it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell the Class [ ] Certificates other than to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or S-35 disposing of investments (as principal or as agent) for the purposes of their businesses or who it is reasonable to expect will acquire, hold, manage or dispose of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses where the issue of the Class [ ] Certificates would otherwise constitute a contravention of Section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act (the "FSMA") by the issuing entity; o it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Class [ ] Certificates in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the trust; and o it has complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Class [ ] Certificates in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.] General Until the distribution of the certificates is completed, rules of the SEC may limit the ability of the underwriters and certain selling group members to bid for and purchase the certificates. As an exception to these rules, the underwriters are permitted to engage in certain transactions that stabilize the price of the certificates. Such transactions consist of bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of the certificates. If the underwriters create a short position in the certificates in connection with this offering (i.e., they sell more certificates than are set forth on the cover page of this prospectus supplement), the underwriters may reduce that short position by purchasing certificates, as the case may be, in the open market. The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid on certain underwriters and selling group members. This means that if the underwriters purchase certificates in the open market to reduce the underwriters' short position or to stabilize the price of such certificates, they may reclaim the amount of the selling concession from any underwriter or selling group member who sold those certificates, as the case may be, as part of the offering. In general, purchases of a security for the purpose of stabilization or to reduce a short position could cause the price of the security to be higher than it might be in the absence of such purchases. The imposition of a penalty bid might also have an effect on the price of a security to the extent that it were to discourage resales of the security. None of the seller, the depositor or any of the underwriters makes any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of the certificates. In addition, neither the seller, the depositor nor any of the underwriters makes any representation that the underwriters will engage in such transactions or that such transactions, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice. S-36 The certificates are new issues of securities and there currently is no secondary market for the certificates. The underwriters for the certificates expect to make a market in such securities but will not be obligated to do so. We cannot assure you that a secondary market for the Class A Certificates or the Class B Certificates will develop. If a secondary market for the Class A Certificates or the Class B Certificates does develop, it might end at any time or it might not be sufficiently liquid to enable you to resell any of your certificates. The trustee and the Collateral Agent may, from time to time, invest the funds in the Collection Account and the Reserve Account, as applicable, in investments acquired from or issued by the underwriters. In the ordinary course of business, the underwriters and their affiliates have engaged and may engage in investment banking and commercial banking transactions with the seller, the depositor and their respective affiliates. The depositor and the seller have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including civil liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or to contribute to payments which the underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof. The closing of the sale of each class of the certificates is conditioned on the closing of the sale of the other class of certificates. Upon receipt of a request by an investor who has received an electronic prospectus from an underwriter or a request by such investor's representative within the period during which there is an obligation to deliver a prospectus, the depositor or the underwriter will promptly deliver, without charge, a paper copy of this prospectus supplement and the prospectus. LEGAL OPINIONS Certain legal matters and federal income tax matters relating to the certificates will be passed upon for the depositor by Sidley Austin LLP. Certain legal matters relating to the certificates will be passed upon for the underwriters by [ ]. GLOSSARY OF TERMS Additional defined terms used in this prospectus supplement are defined under "Glossary of Terms for the Prospectus" in the prospectus. "ABS" means the Absolute Prepayment Model which we use to measure prepayments on receivables and we describe under "The Receivables Pool--Weighted Average Lives of the Certificates". "ABS Table" means the table captioned "Percent of Initial Certificate Balance at Various ABS Percentages" beginning on page S-__ of this prospectus supplement. "Available Interest" means, with respect to any payment date, the excess of (a) the sum of: S-37 o Interest Collections for such payment date; and o all Advances made by the servicer for such payment date, over (b) the amount of Outstanding Advances to be reimbursed on or with respect to such payment date. "Available Principal" means, with respect to any payment date, the sum of the following amounts with respect to the preceding Collection Period: o that portion of all collections on the receivables allocable to principal in accordance with the terms of the receivables and the servicer's customary servicing procedures; o to the extent attributable to principal, the Purchase Amount received with respect to each receivable repurchased by the depositor from the trust and then by seller from the depositor or purchased by the servicer under an obligation which arose during that Collection Period; and o all liquidation proceeds, to the extent allocable to principal, received during such Collection Period. Available Principal on any payment date will exclude all payments and proceeds of any receivables the Purchase Amount of which has been distributed on a prior payment date. "Book-Entry Securities" means securities that are held in the U.S. through DTC and in Europe through Clearstream or Euroclear. "Business Day" is a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies in the State of New York, the State of Delaware or the State of Texas are authorized by law, regulation or executive order to be closed. "certificates" means, collectively, the Class A Certificates and the Class B Certificates. "certificate balance" means, with respect to a class of certificates, the original certificate balance for that class as reduced by all prior distributions of principal to the holders of record of that class of certificates. The original certificate balance of each class of certificates is set forth on the cover of this prospectus supplement. "Class A Certificateholders" means the holders of record of Class A Certificates. "Class A Certificates" means the __% Asset Backed Certificates, Class A. "Class A Percentage" means _____%. "Class A Principal Distribution" means, with respect to any payment date, the sum of (i) the Class A Percentage of the Available Principal plus the Class A Percentage of Realized S-38 Losses, (ii) the Class A Percentage of the Available Principal for any prior payment date and the Class A Percentage of Realized Losses for any prior payment date, in each case only to the extent, if any, that they have not already been distributed to the Class A Certificateholders and (iii) if that payment date is the Final Scheduled Payment Date, the additional amount, if any, needed to reduce the certificate balance of the Class A Certificates to zero. "Class B Certificateholders" means the holders of record of Class B Certificates. "Class B Certificates" means the __% Asset Backed Certificates, Class B. "Class B Percentage" means _____%. "Class B Principal Distribution" means, with respect to any payment date, the sum of (i) the Class B Percentage of the Available Principal plus the Class B Percentage of Realized Losses, (ii) the Class B Percentage of the Available Principal for any prior payment date and the Class B Percentage of Realized Losses for any prior payment date, in each case only to the extent, if any, that they have not already been distributed to the Class B Certificateholders and (iii) if that payment date is the Final Scheduled Payment Date, the additional amount, if any, needed to reduce the certificate balance of the Class B Certificates to zero. "Clearstream" means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, a professional depository under the laws of Luxembourg. "closing date" means _____________________. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. "Collateral Agent" means and its successors and assigns as the collateral agent to which the funds and investments in the Reserve Account have been pledged for the benefit of the certificateholders. "Collection Account" means an account established pursuant to the pooling and servicing agreement, held in the name of the trustee, into which the servicer is required to deposit collections on the receivables and other amounts. "Collection Period" means, with respect to a payment date, the calendar month preceding that payment date, or in the case of the initial payment date, the period from the Cut-off Date to _____________________. "Contract Rate" means the per annum interest rate borne by a receivable. "Cut-off Date" means the date as of which the seller will transfer the receivables to the depositor and the depositor to the trust, which is _____________________. "defaulted receivable" means a receivable (i) that the servicer determines is unlikely to be paid in full or (ii) with respect to which at least [5%] of a scheduled payment is 120 or more days delinquent as of the end of a calendar month. S-39 "Definitive Certificates" means with respect to any class of certificates, such certificates issued in fully registered, certificated form to certificateholders or their respective nominees, rather than to DTC or its nominee. "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company and any successor depository selected by the trustee. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. "Euroclear" means a professional depository operated by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. "Federal Tax Counsel" means Sidley Austin LLP. "Final Scheduled Payment Date" means ________________________________. "FSMA" means Financial Services and Markets Act. "Interest Collections" means, with respect to any payment date, the sum of the following amounts with respect to the preceding Collection Period: (1) that portion of all collections on the receivables allocable to interest in accordance with the terms of the receivables and the servicer's customary servicing procedures; (2) all liquidation proceeds, to the extent allocable to interest, received during such Collection Period; (3) all recoveries received during such Collection Period; and (4) to the extent attributable to interest, the Purchase Amount with respect to each receivable repurchased by the depositor or purchased by the servicer under an obligation which arose during such Collection Period. Interest Collections for any payment date shall exclude all payments and proceeds of any receivables the Purchase Amount of which has been distributed on a prior payment date. "liquidation proceeds" means with respect to any receivable (a) insurance proceeds received by the servicer and (b) the monies collected by the servicer from whatever source, including but not limited to proceeds of a financed vehicle sold after repossession, net of any payments required by law to be remitted to the obligor. "payment date" means the date on which the trust will distribute interest and principal on the certificates, which will be the __________ day of each month or, if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next Business Day, commencing _____________________. "Plan" means an employee benefit or other plan or arrangement (such as an individual plan or Keogh plan) that is subject to ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. S-40 "Realized Losses" means, for any Collection Period, the excess of the aggregate principal balance of those receivables that were designated as defaulted receivables during that Collection Period over liquidation proceeds received with respect to those receivables during that Collection Period, to the extent allocable to principal. "Record Date" with respect to any payment date means the day immediately preceding the payment date or, if the certificates are issued as Definitive Certificates, the last day of the preceding month. "recoveries" means, with respect to any Collection Period after a Collection Period in which a receivable becomes a defaulted receivable, all monies received by the servicer with respect to such defaulted receivable during that Collection Period, net of any fees, costs and expenses incurred by and reimbursed to the servicer in connection with the collection of such defaulted receivable and any payments required by law to be remitted to the obligor. "Reserve Account" means the account which the trust or the depositor will establish in the name of the Collateral Agent into which the trust or the depositor will deposit the Reserve Initial Deposit. The trustee will make the other deposits into and withdrawals from the Reserve Account as specified in this prospectus supplement. "Reserve Initial Deposit" means the $______________ initially deposited into the Reserve Account. "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Servicemembers Act" means the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. "Servicing Fee" means a fee payable to the servicer on each payment date for servicing the receivables which is equal to the product of 1/12 of __% and the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the first day of the related Collection Period. "Specified Reserve Account Balance" means the lesser of -- o __% of the outstanding principal balance of the receivables; and o __% of the principal balance of the receivables as of the Cut-off Date. "Supplemental Servicing Fee" means, for each Collection Period, the amount of any late fees and other administrative fees and expenses collected during that Collection Period, plus any interest earned during the Collection Period on amounts on deposit in the Collection Account during the Collection Period. The servicer does not currently collect such fees and expenses from obligors, but may do so in the future. S-41
============================================================ ====================================================== No dealer, salesperson or other individual has been authorized to give any information or to make any representations other than those contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement or the USAA AUTO prospectus in connection with the offer made by this GRANTOR TRUST 200__-[ ] prospectus supplement or the prospectus and, if given or made, such information or representations must not be relied upon as having been authorized by the depositor or $ % any underwriter. Neither the delivery of this prospectus Asset Backed Certificates, Class [ ] supplement or the prospectus nor any sale made hereunder shall, under any circumstances, create any implication that the information contained herein is correct as of a $ % time subsequent to the date of such information. Neither Asset Backed Certificates, Class [ ] this prospectus supplement nor the prospectus constitutes an offer or solicitation by anyone in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation is not authorized or in which the person making such offer or solicitation is not USAA Acceptance, LLC qualified to do so or to anyone to whom it is unlawful to make such offer or solicitation. ------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS Depositor Page PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT Reading These Documents..............................S-3 Summary of Terms of the Securities...................S-5 [GRAPHIC OMITTED][GRAPHIC OMITTED] Risk Factors........................................S-11 The Issuing Entity..................................S-12 The Receivables Pool................................S-13 Static Pool Data....................................S-19 USAA Federal Savings Bank How You Can Compute Your Portion of the Amount Sponsor, Seller and Servicer Outstanding on the Certificates..................S-20 Maturity and Prepayment Considerations..............S-20 Description of the Certificates.....................S-25 Use of Proceeds.....................................S-32 PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT [Information Regarding the Credit Enhancer and the Credit Enhancement]........................................S-32 [The Swap Counterparty].............................S-32 Affiliation and Certain Relationships and Related [ ] Transactions........................................S-32 Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences.............S-33 Certain State Tax Consequences......................S-33 ERISA Considerations................................S-33 Underwriting........................................S-34 Legal Opinions......................................S-37 Glossary of Terms...................................S-37 PROSPECTUS Reading this Prospectus and the Accompanying Prospectus Supplement..................................4 Where You Can Find Additional Information..............4 Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference........5 Copies of the Documents................................5 Summary................................................6 Risk Factors..........................................10 The Trusts............................................22 The Depositor.........................................24 Sponsor, Seller and Servicer..........................25 The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans...........26 The Receivables Pools.................................31 Static Pool Data......................................33 Maturity and Prepayment Considerations................34 Use of Proceeds.......................................35 Principal Documents...................................35 Payments on the Securities............................37 Certain Information Regarding the Securities..........38 The Indenture.........................................48 Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements............................................56 Credit or Payment Enhancement.........................69 Some Important Legal Issues Relating to the Receivables ..........................................71 Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences...............73 Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes..........................................74 Trusts in which all Certificates are Retained by the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor............82 Trusts Structured as Grantor Trusts for Federal Income Tax Purposes..........................................84 Certain State Tax Consequences........................88 ERISA Considerations..................................89 Plan of Distribution..................................93 ============================================================ ====================================================== Legal Opinions........................................93 Glossary of Terms for the Prospectus..................94 Until 90 days after the date of this prospectus supplement, all dealers effecting transactions in the securities, whether or not participating in this distribution, may be required to deliver a prospectus supplement and prospectus. This delivery requirement is in addition to the obligation of dealers to deliver a prospectus supplement and prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions. ============================================================ ======================================================
[LOGO OMITTED] USAA USAA (R) FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK USAA Auto Trusts Issuing Entity Asset Backed Notes Asset Backed Certificates USAA Acceptance, LLC Depositor USAA Federal Savings Bank Sponsor, Seller and Servicer Each issuing entity-- o will issue asset-backed notes and/or certificates in one or more classes, rated in one of the four highest rating categories by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization; Before you purchase any o will own-- of these securities, be sure to read the risk -- a portfolio of motor vehicle factors beginning on page installment loans; 10 of this prospectus and the risk factors set -- collections on those loans; forth in the related prospectus supplement. -- security interests in the vehicles financed by those loans; and A security is not a deposit and neither the -- funds in the accounts of the trust; and securities nor the underlying motor vehicle o may have the benefit of some form of credit, installment loans are yield or payment enhancement. insured or guaranteed by the FDIC or any other The main sources of funds for making payments on governmental authority. a trust's securities will be collections on its motor vehicle installment loans and any The notes and the enhancement that the trust may have. certificates will represent obligations of or interests in the These securities have not been approved or issuing entity and will disapproved by the Securities and Exchange not represent obligations Commission or any state securities commission nor of or interests in USAA has the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Acceptance, LLC, USAA state securities commission passed upon the Federal Savings Bank or accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus any of their respective supplement or the attached prospectus. Any affiliates. representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. -------------- The date of this prospectus is [ ], 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS READING THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT...............................4 WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION...........4 INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.....5 COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS.............................5 SUMMARY.............................................6 The Trusts.................................6 The Depositor..............................6 The Sponsor, Seller and the Servicer.......6 Trustee....................................6 Indenture Trustee..........................6 Securities.................................6 Optional Prepayment........................6 The Receivables and Other Trust Property...6 Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement.......7 Transfer and Servicing of the Receivables..8 No Additional Issuances of Securities by a Trust................................8 Tax Status.................................8 ERISA Considerations.......................9 Form, Denomination and Record Date.........9 RISK FACTORS.......................................10 THE TRUSTS.........................................22 The Receivables...........................22 Funding Periods...........................23 The Trustee...............................23 THE DEPOSITOR......................................24 Certain Bankruptcy Considerations Regarding the Depositor...............25 SPONSOR, SELLER AND SERVICER.......................25 THE BANK'S PORTFOLIO OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS........26 Origination of Motor Vehicle Loans........26 Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans.......26 Insurance.................................29 Collection Procedures.....................30 THE RECEIVABLES POOLS..............................31 We Will Provide More Specific Information About the Receivables in the Prospectus Supplement.................32 STATIC POOL DATA...................................33 MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS.............34 USE OF PROCEEDS....................................35 PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS................................35 PAYMENTS ON THE SECURITIES.........................37 Optional Prepayment.......................38 CERTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THE SECURITIES.......38 Fixed Rate Securities.....................38 Floating Rate Securities..................38 Book-Entry Registration...................40 Definitive Securities.....................44 Reports to Securityholders................45 Reports to be filed with the SEC..........47 THE INDENTURE......................................48 Events of Default.........................48 Each Trust Will be Subject to Covenants Under the Indenture...................51 Security Interest in Receivables..........52 List of Noteholders.......................52 Annual Compliance Statement...............52 Indenture Trustee's Annual Report.........52 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture...53 Modification of Indenture.................53 The Indenture Trustee.....................55 DESCRIPTION OF THE RECEIVABLES TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS...........................56 Sale and Assignment of Receivables........56 Accounts..................................58 Servicing Procedures......................59 Collections...............................60 Advances..................................60 Servicing Compensation and Expenses.......61 Distributions.............................61 Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement......62 Net Deposits..............................62 Statements to Trustees....................63 Evidence as to Compliance.................63 Certain Matters Regarding the Servicer; Limitation on Liability...............64 Events of Servicing Termination...........65 Rights Upon Event of Servicing............65 Termination Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination.................66 2 Amendment.................................66 Payment of Notes..........................67 Termination...............................67 List of Certificateholders................67 Administration Agreement..................68 Duties of Trustee.........................68 The Trustee...............................68 CREDIT, YIELD OR PAYMENT ENHANCEMENT...............69 SOME IMPORTANT LEGAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE RECEIVABLES....................................71 Security Interest in the Receivables......71 Security Interests in the Financed........71 Vehicles Enforcement of Security Interests in Financed Vehicles........72 Other Matters.............................73 CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES............73 TRUSTS STRUCTURED AS PARTNERSHIPS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES............................74 Tax Characterization of the Trust as a Partnership...........................74 Tax Consequences to Holders of the Notes..74 Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates..........................77 TRUSTS IN WHICH ALL CERTIFICATES ARE RETAINED BY THE DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR......................................82 Tax Characterization of the Trust.........82 TRUSTS STRUCTURED AS GRANTOR TRUSTS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES............................84 Tax Characterization of the Trust as a Grantor Trust.........................84 CERTAIN STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES.....................88 ERISA CONSIDERATIONS...............................89 Certificates Issued by Trusts and Certain Subordinate Notes.....................91 PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION...............................93 LEGAL OPINIONS.....................................93 GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR THE PROSPECTUS...............94 3 READING THIS PROSPECTUS AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT We provide information on your securities in two separate documents that offer varying levels of detail: o this prospectus provides general information, some of which may not apply to a particular series of securities, including your securities, and o the accompanying prospectus supplement will provide a summary of the specific terms of your securities. The prospectus supplement will contain information about a particular series that supplements the information contained in this prospectus, and you should rely on that supplementary information in the prospectus supplement. We include cross-references to sections in these documents where you can find further related discussions. Refer to the table of contents in the front of each document to locate the referenced sections. You will find a glossary of defined terms used in this prospectus on page 92. You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus and the accompanying prospectus supplement, including any information incorporated by reference. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. The information in this prospectus or the accompanying prospectus supplement is only accurate as of the dates on their respective covers. In this prospectus, the terms "we," "us" and "our" refer to USAA Acceptance, LLC. Forward-looking Statements. This prospectus and a prospectus supplement may contain forward-looking statements. Whenever we use words like "intends," "anticipates" or "expects," or similar words in this prospectus or in a prospectus supplement, we are making a forward-looking statement, or a projection of what we think will happen in the future. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to a variety of uncertainties and circumstances, many of which are beyond our control and could cause actual results to differ materially from what we anticipate. Any forward-looking statements in this prospectus or in a prospectus supplement speak only as of the date of this prospectus or the date of the prospectus supplement, as applicable. We do not assume any responsibility to update or review any forward-looking statement contained in this prospectus or a prospectus supplement to reflect any change in our expectation about the subject of that forward-looking statement or to reflect any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which we have based any forward-looking statement. WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION USAA Acceptance, LLC, as the originator of each trust, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This prospectus is part of the registration statement but the registration statement includes additional information. You may inspect and copy the registration statement at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549 (telephone 1-800-SEC-0330). 4 Also, the SEC maintains a Web site at http://www.sec.gov containing reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC. INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE The SEC allows us to "incorporate by reference" information we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus. Information that we file later with the SEC will automatically modify or supersede the information in this prospectus. In all cases, you should rely on the later information over different information included in this prospectus or the related prospectus supplement. Any information that has been so modified or superseded by later information shall not, except as so modified or superseded, constitute part of this prospectus. We incorporate by reference any future annual, monthly or special SEC reports and proxy materials filed by or on behalf of a trust until we terminate our offering of the securities by that trust. COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS You may receive a free copy of any or all of the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus or incorporated by reference into the accompanying prospectus supplement if: o you received this prospectus and o you request such copies from USAA Acceptance, LLC, 9830 Colonnade Blvd., Suite 600, San Antonio, Texas 78230 (Telephone: 210-498-0626). This offer only includes the exhibits to such documents if such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference in such documents. You may also read and copy these materials at the public reference facilities of the SEC in Washington, D.C. referred to above. 5 SUMMARY The following summary is a short description of the main structural features that a trust's securities may have. For that reason, this summary does not contain all of the information that may be important to you or that describes all of the terms of a security. To fully understand the terms of a trust's securities, you will need to read both this prospectus and the related prospectus supplement, in their entirety. The Trusts A separate trust will be formed to issue each series of securities. Each trust will be created by an agreement between the depositor and the trustee. The Depositor USAA Acceptance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of USAA Federal Savings Bank. The Sponsor, Seller and the Servicer USAA Federal Savings Bank. Trustee The related prospectus supplement will name the trustee for the trust. Indenture Trustee If a trust issues notes, the prospectus supplement will name the indenture trustee. Securities A trust's securities may include one or more classes of notes and/or certificates. You will find the following information about each class of securities in the related prospectus supplement: o its principal amount; o its interest rate, which may be fixed, variable or a combination; o the timing, amount and priority or subordination of payments of principal and interest; o the method for calculating the amount of principal payments; o its final payment date; o whether and when it may be redeemed prior to its final payment date; and o how losses on the receivables are allocated among the classes of securities. Some classes of securities may be entitled to: o principal payments with disproportionate, nominal or no interest payments or o interest payments with disproportionate, nominal or no principal payments. The related prospectus supplement will identify any class of securities that is not being offered to the public. Optional Prepayment Generally, the servicer will have the option to purchase the receivables of each trust on any payment date when the aggregate principal balance of the receivables sold to the trust has declined to 10% (or such other percentage specified in the prospectus supplement) or less of the initial principal balance. Upon such a purchase, the securities of that trust will be prepaid in full. The Receivables and Other Trust Property The receivables of each trust will consist of a pool of motor vehicle installment loans made by the seller and secured by new and used automobiles and light-duty trucks and other property, including: o the rights to receive payments made on the receivables after the cut-off date specified in the related prospectus supplement; o security interests in the vehicles financed by the receivables; and o any proceeds from claims on various related insurance policies. 6 The seller will transfer the receivables to the depositor, which will in turn convey them to the trust that is issuing the related series of securities. You will find a description of the characteristics of the trust's receivables in the related prospectus supplement. For a more detailed description of the receivables, including the criteria they must meet in order to be included in a trust, and the other property supporting the securities, see "The Receivables Pools" in this prospectus. Other Property of the Trust --------------------------- In addition to the receivables, each trust will own amounts on deposit in various trust accounts, which may include: o an account into which collections are deposited; o an account to fund post-closing purchases of additional receivables during the funding period; or o a reserve account or other account relating to credit enhancement. Purchase of Receivables After the Closing Date during a Funding Period ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If a trust has not purchased all of its receivables at the time you purchase your securities, it will purchase the remainder of its receivables from the seller over the funding period specified in the related prospectus supplement. Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement The related prospectus supplement will specify the credit, yield or payment enhancement, if any, for each trust. Credit, yield or payment enhancement may consist of one or more of the following: o subordination of one or more classes of securities; o a reserve account; o overcollateralization (i.e., the amount by which the principal amount of the receivables exceeds the principal amount of all of the trust's securities); o excess interest collections (i.e., the excess of anticipated interest collections on the receivables over servicing fees, interest on the trust's securities and any amounts required to be deposited in a reserve account, if any); o letter of credit; o insurance policy, surety bond or guarantee; o liquidity arrangements; o interest rate swaps, caps or floors or currency swap agreements; o yield supplement accounts or agreements; o guaranteed investment contracts; o ability to issue revolving notes to an affiliate of the Bank or another third party; o demand obligations issued or guaranteed by an affiliate of the depositor; or o a combination of two or more of the above. Limitations or exclusions from coverage could apply to any form of credit, yield or payment enhancement. The related prospectus supplement will describe the credit, yield or payment enhancement and related limitations and exclusions applicable for securities issued by a trust. Enhancements cannot guarantee that losses will not be incurred on the securities. Reserve Account If there is a reserve account, the trust or the depositor will initially deposit in it cash or securities having a value equal to the amount specified in the related prospectus supplement. The related prospectus supplement may also specify other ways to fund the reserve account. Amounts on deposit in a reserve account will be available to cover shortfalls in the payments on the securities as described in the prospectus supplement. The related prospectus supplement may also specify (1) a minimum balance to be maintained in the reserve account and what funds are available for deposit to reinstate that 7 balance, and (2) when and to whom any amount will be distributed if the balance exceeds this minimum amount. For more information about credit enhancement, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement" in this prospectus. Transfer and Servicing of the Receivables The depositor will transfer the receivables to a trust under a sale and servicing agreement or a pooling and servicing agreement. The servicer will agree with the trust to be responsible for servicing, managing, maintaining custody of and making collections on the receivables. For more information about the sale and servicing of the receivables, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Sale and Assignment of Receivables" in this prospectus. Servicing Fees -------------- Each trust will pay the servicer a servicing fee based on the outstanding balance of the receivables. The amount of the servicing fee will be specified in the related prospectus supplement. The servicer will also be entitled to retain as supplemental servicing compensation certain fees and charges paid by obligors and net investment income from reinvestment of collections on the receivables. Servicer Advances of Certain Late Interest Payments --------------------------------------------------- When interest collections received on the receivables are less than the scheduled interest collections in a collection period, the servicer will advance to the trust that portion of the shortfalls that the servicer, in its sole discretion, expects to be paid in the future by the related obligors. The servicer will be entitled to reimbursement from other collections of the trust for these advances that are not repaid out of collections of the related late payments. Repurchase May Be Required For Modified Receivables --------------------------------------------------- In the course of its normal servicing procedures, the servicer may defer or modify the payment schedule of a receivable. Some of these arrangements may obligate the servicer to repurchase the receivable. For a discussion of the servicer's repurchase obligations, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Servicing Procedures" in this prospectus. Repurchase May Be Required For Breaches of Representation or Warranty --------------------------------------------------------------------- The seller will make representations and warranties relating to the receivables when it sells them to the depositor. The depositor will make the same representations and warranties when it sells the receivables to the trust. The seller will be required to repurchase a receivable from the depositor (which will be required to repurchase the receivable from the trust) if (1) one of the seller's representations or warranties is breached with respect to that receivable and (2) the receivable is materially and adversely affected by the breach. For a discussion of the representations and warranties given by the seller and its related repurchase obligations, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Sale and Assignment of Receivables" in this prospectus. No Additional Issuances of Securities by a Trust After issuing the securities described in a prospectus supplement, the related trust will not issue any additional securities. Tax Status If the trust issues notes, Federal Tax Counsel to the trust will deliver an opinion when the notes are issued that for federal income tax purposes: o the notes will be characterized as debt unless otherwise stated in the prospectus supplement and 8 o the trust will not be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation. Certain classes of subordinate notes issued under the prospectus supplement may be issued without an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that such notes will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes and may be more likely to be recharacterized as equity in a partnership. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates" in this prospectus. If the trust is a grantor trust issuing certificates, Federal Tax Counsel will deliver an opinion when the certificates are issued that, for federal income tax purposes, the trust will be characterized as a grantor trust and not as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences" and "Certain State Tax Consequences" in this prospectus for additional information concerning the application of federal and state tax laws to the securities. ERISA Considerations If you are an employee benefit plan, you should review the matters discussed under "ERISA Considerations" in this prospectus before investing in the securities. Form, Denomination and Record Date Generally, you may purchase securities only in book-entry form and will not receive your securities in definitive form. You may purchase securities in the denominations set forth in the related prospectus supplement. The record date for a payment date will be the business day immediately preceding the payment date or, if definitive securities are issued, the last day of the preceding calendar month. 9 RISK FACTORS You should consider the following risk factors in deciding whether to purchase any of the securities. Interests of other Financing statements under the Uniform persons in the Commercial Code will be filed reflecting receivables could reduce the sale of the receivables by the seller the funds available to to the depositor and by the depositor to make payments on your the trust. The seller's accounting records securities and computer systems will also be marked to reflect a sale of the receivables, through the depositor, to the trust. However, because the servicer will maintain possession of the receivables and not segregate or mark the receivables as belonging to the trust, another person could acquire an interest in a receivable that is superior to the trust's interest by obtaining physical possession of the loan document representing that receivable without knowledge of the assignment of the receivable to the trust. If another person acquires an interest in a receivable that is superior to the trust's interest in the receivable, some or all of the collections on that receivable may not be available to make payment on the securities. If another person acquires a security or other interest in a financed vehicle that is superior to the trust's security interest in the vehicle, some or all of the proceeds from the sale of the vehicle may not be available to make payments on the securities. The trust's security interest in the financed vehicles could be impaired for one or more of the following reasons: o the seller might fail to perfect its security interest in a financed vehicle; o another person may acquire an interest in a financed vehicle that is superior to the trust's security interest through fraud, forgery, negligence or error because the servicer will not amend the certificate of title or ownership to identify the trust as the new secured party; o the trust may not have a security interest in the financed vehicles in certain states because the certificates of title to the financed vehicles will not be amended to reflect assignment of a security interest therein to the trust; o holders of some types of liens, such as tax liens or mechanics liens, may have priority over the trust's security interest; and o the trust may lose its security interest in vehicles confiscated by the government. 10 Neither the seller, the depositor nor the servicer will be required to repurchase a receivable if the security interest in a related vehicle or the receivable becomes impaired after the receivable is sold to the trust. Consumer protection laws Federal and state consumer protection laws may cause a trust to impose requirements upon creditors in experience losses on connection with extensions of credit and its receivables collections on retail installment loans. Some of these laws make an assignee of the loan (such as a trust) liable to the obligor for any violation by the lender. Any liabilities of the trust under these laws could reduce the funds that the trust would otherwise have to make payments on your securities. Only the assets of the Neither the depositor, the seller nor any trust are available to of their affiliates is obligated to make pay your securities any payments relating to (1) the securities of a trust or (2) the receivables owned by a trust. Therefore, you must rely solely on the assets of the trust for repayment of your securities. If these assets are insufficient, you may suffer losses on your securities. The assets of a trust will consist solely of its receivables and, to the extent specified in the related prospectus supplement, various deposit accounts and any credit, yield or payment enhancement. Amounts on deposit in any reserve account will be limited and subject to depletion. The amount required to be on deposit in any reserve account will be limited. If the amounts in the reserve account are depleted as amounts are paid out to cover shortfalls in distributions of principal and interest on your securities, the trust will depend solely on collections on the receivables and any other credit, yield or payment enhancement to make payments on your securities. In addition, the minimum required balance in a reserve account may decrease as the outstanding balance of the receivables decreases. You may suffer losses upon a liquidation of the receivables if the proceeds of the liquidation are less than the amounts due on the outstanding securities. Under certain circumstances described herein, the receivables of a trust may be sold after the occurrence of an event of default. The related securityholders will suffer losses if the trust sells the receivables for less than the total amount due on its securities. We cannot assure you that sufficient funds would be available to repay those securityholders in full. 11 Delays in collecting If USAA Federal Savings Bank were to cease payments could occur if acting as servicer, the processing of USAA Federal Savings payments on the receivables and information Bank ceases to be relating to the collections could be servicer delayed, which could delay payments to securityholders. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Events of Servicing Termination." USAA Federal Savings Bank may resign as servicer under certain circumstances described in this prospectus. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Certain Matters Regarding the Servicer." Bankruptcy of USAA The depositor intends that its sale of the Acceptance, LLC, as receivables to a trust will be a valid sale depositor, could result and assignment of the receivables to the in delays in payment or trust. If USAA Acceptance, LLC, as losses on the depositor, were to become a debtor in a securities bankruptcy case and a creditor or trustee-in-bankruptcy of USAA Acceptance, LLC or USAA Acceptance, LLC itself were to take the position that the sale of receivables by the depositor to the trust should instead be treated as a pledge of the receivables to secure a borrowing of USAA Acceptance, LLC, delays in payments of collections on the receivables to securityholders could occur. If a court ruled in favor of any such trustee, debtor or creditor, reductions in the amounts of those payments could result. A tax or governmental lien on the property of the depositor arising before the transfer of the receivables to the trust may have priority over the trust's interest in those receivables even if the transfer of the receivables to the trust is characterized as a sale. The insolvency of the The seller intends that each transfer of seller may delay receivables by it to the depositor under a payments on your receivables purchase agreement will securities or cause you constitute asale. In the event that the to incur a loss seller were to become insolvent, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ("FDIA"), as amended by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 ("FIRREA"), sets forth certain powers that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation may exercise if it were appointed receiver of the seller. To the extent that the seller has granted a security interest in the receivables to the depositor and that security interest was validly perfected before the seller's insolvency, was not taken in contemplation of insolvency or with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud the seller or its creditors and was assigned by the depositor to the trust and, if applicable, by the trust to the indenture trustee, that security interest granted by the seller would not be subject to avoidance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver of the seller and would be enforceable (to the extent of the "actual direct compensatory damages" of the trust). Positions taken by the staff of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation prior to the passage of FIRREA do not suggest that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, if appointed receiver of the seller, would interfere with the timely transfer to the trust of payments collected on the related receivables (up to the amount of such 12 damages). If, however, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were to assert a contrary position, or were to require the trustee or the indenture trustee to establish its rights to those payments by submitting to and completing the administrative claims procedure established under the FDIA, or the conservator or receiver were to request a stay of proceedings with respect to the seller as provided under the FDIA, delays in payments on the related securities and possible reductions in the amount of those payments could occur. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has adopted a rule, "Treatment by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as Conservator or Receiver of Financial Assets Transferred by an Insured Depository Institution in Connection with a Securitization or Participation." If the seller's transfer of receivables to the depositor were to satisfy the requirements of the rule, then the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as conservator or receiver of the seller, would not seek to treat the receivables and collections as the seller's property or property of the conservatorship or receivership of the seller rather than the trust's property. The seller believes that a transfer of receivables by the seller to the depositor will comply with the rule in all material respects. Nevertheless, even under the rule, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as conservator or receiver of the seller, would still retain the right to take certain actions with respect to the receivables, including the right to enforce the seller's rights under the receivables purchase agreement and the sale and servicing agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement, as applicable, and the other documents to which the seller is a party, notwithstanding any provision thereof providing for termination, default, acceleration or exercise of rights upon, or solely by reason of, insolvency or the appointment of a conservator or receiver, or to disaffirm or repudiate any of those documents that impose continuing obligations or duties on the seller (including, without limitation, in its capacity as servicer) in conservatorship or receivership. In addition, in the case of an event of servicing termination relating to the insolvency of the seller, if no event of servicing termination other than such conservatorship or receivership or insolvency exists, the conservator or receiver for the servicer may have the power to prevent the appointment of a successor servicer. 13 In April 2003, after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") found that a national bank was, contrary to safe and sound banking practices, receiving inadequate servicing compensation under its securitization agreements, that bank agreed to a consent order with the OCC. The consent order required the bank, among other things, to immediately resign as servicer and to cease performing its duties as servicer within 120 days, to immediately withhold and segregate funds from collections for payment of its servicing fee (notwithstanding the priority of payments in the securitization agreements and the perfected security interest of the relevant trust in those funds) and to increase its servicing fee percentage above that which was originally agreed upon in its securitization agreements. While the seller has no reason to believe that any applicable regulatory authority would consider provisions relating to the seller or any of its affiliates or the payment or amount of a servicing fee to the seller or any of its affiliates, or any other obligation of the seller or any of its affiliates under any receivables purchase agreement, sale and servicing agreement, trust agreement or any indenture to be unsafe or unsound or violative of any law, rule or regulation applicable to them, there can be no assurance that any such regulatory authority would not conclude otherwise in the future. If such a bank regulatory authority did reach such a conclusion, and ordered the seller or any of its affiliates to rescind or amend these agreements, payments to you could be delayed or reduced. Subordination may cause The rights of the holders of any class of some classes of securities to receive payments of interest securities to bear and principal may be subordinated to one or additional credit risk more other classes of securities. Holders of subordinated classes of securities will bear more credit risk than more senior classes. Subordination may take the following forms: o interest payments on any date on which interest is due may first be allocated to the more senior classes or to other parties such as swap counterparties; o principal payments on the subordinated classes might not begin until principal of the more senior classes is repaid in full; o principal payments on the more senior classes may be made on a payment date before interest payments on the subordinated classes are made; 14 o subordinated classes bear the risk of losses on the receivables and the resulting cash shortfalls before the more senior classes do; o if the trustee sells the receivables after an event of default, the net proceeds of that sale may be allocated first to pay principal and interest on the more senior classes; and o if so specified in the related prospectus supplement, the failure to pay interest on a class of subordinate notes will not be an event of default so long as a more senior class of notes is outstanding. The timing and priority of payment, seniority, allocations of losses and method of determining payments on the respective classes of securities of any trust will be described in the related prospectus supplement. Subordinate securities The subordinate securities (such as are subject to greater certificates and subordinate notes) bear credit and other risk greater credit risk than the senior notes because they are because payments of interest and principal subordinate to the on the subordinate securities are senior notes subordinated to payments of interest and, in some instances, principal on the senior notes. Interest payments on the subordinate securities on each payment date will be subordinated to interest payments and any first priority principal payments on the notes on such payment date and, if payment of the notes has been accelerated because of a failure to pay an amount due on the senior notes or certain events of insolvency in respect of the trust, to principal payments on the senior notes. The subordinate securities also bear the risk that prepayments of receivables result in the pool consisting of receivables with lower rates, including some receivables for which the interest rate is less than the subordinate security interest rate plus the servicing fee rate. Principal payments on the subordinate securities will be fully subordinated to principal payments on the senior notes, unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, since no principal will be paid on the subordinate securities until the senior notes have been paid in full. If both certificates and subordinate notes are issued the certificates will be subordinate to the subordinate notes in the same manner as described with respect to the senior notes, unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement. 15 You may suffer losses Under certain circumstances, a portion of because you have the holders of a trust's most senior class limited control over of outstanding securities will have the the actions of the right to control the trust's actions. For trust and conflicts example, if an event of default should between the senior occur and be continuing with respect to securityholders and notes issued by any trust, the related subordinate indenture trustee or holders of a majority securityholders may in principal amount of the most senior occur class of outstanding securities may declare the principal of those notes to be immediately due and payable. Furthermore, following certain events of default and under certain circumstances, the consent of the holders of 66 2/3% of the aggregate outstanding amount of the most senior class of outstanding securities (or such other percentage as specified in the related prospectus supplement) will be required before the indenture trustee may sell the receivables of a trust. The holders of any subordinate class of securities will not have any right to participate in those determinations for so long as any more senior class is outstanding, and the subordinate classes of securities may be adversely affected by determinations made by the most senior class. Additionally, if so specified in the related prospectus supplement, the failure to pay interest on a class of subordinate notes will not be an event of default so long as a more senior class of notes is outstanding. Under these circumstances the holders of the subordinate notes will not have any right to declare an event of default, cause the maturity of the notes to be accelerated or direct or consent to any action under the indenture. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Events of Servicing Termination", "--Rights Upon Event of Servicing Termination" and "--Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination" in this prospectus. Prepayments on the Faster than expected prepayments on the receivables may receivables will cause the trust to make adversely affect the payments on its securities earlier than average life of and rate expected. You may not be able to reinvest of return on your the principal repaid to you at a rate of securities return that is equal to or greater than the rate of return on your securities. We cannot predict the effect of prepayments on the average life of your securities. All the receivables by their terms may be prepaid at any time. Prepayments include: o prepayments in whole or in part by the obligor; o liquidations due to default; o partial payments with proceeds from physical damage, 16 credit life and disability insurance policies; o required purchases of receivables by the servicer or repurchases of receivables by the depositor for specified breaches of their representations or covenants; and o an optional repurchase of a trust's receivables by the servicer when their aggregate principal balance is 10% (or such other percentage specified in the related prospectus supplement) or less of the initial aggregate principal balance. A variety of economic, social and other factors will influence the rate of optional prepayments on the receivables and defaults. The final payment of each class of securities is expected to occur prior to its final scheduled payment date because of the prepayment and purchase considerations set forth above. If sufficient funds are not available to pay any class of notes in full on its final payment date, an event of default will occur and final payment of such class of notes will occur later than such date. For more information regarding the timing of repayments of the securities, see "Maturity and Prepayment Considerations" in the prospectus supplement and in this prospectus. Prepayments and Losses An event of default under the indenture may on Your Securities May result in Result From an Event of Default Under the o losses on your notes or certificates if the Indenture receivables are sold and the sale proceeds, together with any other assets of the trust, are insufficient to pay the amounts owed on the notes and the certificates; and o your notes or certificates being repaid earlier than scheduled, which may require you to reinvest your principal at a lower rate of return. See "The Indenture" in this prospectus. You may suffer losses The servicer will generally be permitted to on your securities hold with its own funds (1) collections it because the servicer receives from obligors on the receivables will hold collections and (2) the purchase price of receivables and commingle them with required to be repurchased from the trust its own funds until the day prior to the next date on which distributions are made on the securities. During this time, the servicer may invest those amounts at its own risk and for its own benefit and need not segregate them from its own funds. If the servicer is unable for any reason to pay these amounts to the 17 trust on the payment date, you might incur a loss on your securities. For more information about the servicer's obligations regarding payments on the receivables, see "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Collections" in this prospectus. The senior class of Generally, the holders of a majority of a securities controls trust's senior class of on securities (or removal of the the applicable trustee acting on their servicer upon a behalf) can remove the servicer if the default its servicing servicer-- obligations o does not deliver to the applicable trustee the available funds for application to a required payment after a grace period after notice or discovery; or o defaults on a servicing obligation which materially and adversely affects the trust after a grace period after notice. Those holders may also waive a default by the servicer. The holders of any subordinate class of securities do not have any rights to participate in such determinations for so long as any of the more senior classes are outstanding, and the subordinate classes of securities may be adversely affected by determinations made by the more senior classes. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Events of Servicing Termination." An event of servicing In the event of the removal of the termination may servicer and the appointment of a result in additional successor servicer, we cannot predict: costs, increased servicing fees by a o the costs of the transfer of servicing to successor servicer or the successor; a diminution in servicing o the ability of the successor to perform the performance, obligations and duties of the servicer including higher under the servicing agreement; or; delinquencies and defaults, any of o the servicing fees charged by the which may have an successor. adverse effect on your securities Furthermore, the indenture trustee or the noteholders may experience difficulties in appointing a successor servicer and during any transition phase it is possible that normal servicing activities could be disrupted, resulting in increased delinquencies and/or defaults on the receivables. Paying the servicer a Because the servicer is paid its base fee based on a servicing fee based on a percentage of receivables may the percentage of the aggregate result in the outstanding amount of the receivables, inability to obtain a the fee the servicer receives each month successor servicer will be reduced as the size of the pool decreases over time. At some point, if the need arises to obtain a successor servicer, the fee that such successor servicer would earn might not be sufficient 18 to induce a potential successor servicer to agree to service the remaining receivables in the pool. In this event a higher servicing fee may need to be negotiated, resulting in less available funds that may be distributed to noteholders and certificateholders on a related payment date. Also if there is a delay in obtaining a successor servicer, it is possible that normal servicing activities could be disrupted during this period, resulting in increased delinquencies and/or defaults on the receivables. You may not be able There may be no secondary market for the to resell your securities. Underwriters may participate securities in making a secondary market in the securities, but are under no obligation to do so. We cannot assure you that a secondary market will develop. If a secondary market does develop, we cannot assure you that it will continue or that you will be able to resell your securities. Geographic Adverse economic conditions or other concentration of a factors particularly affecting any trust's motor state or region where there is a high vehicle loans may concentration of a trust's motor adversely affect vehicle loans could adversely affect your securities the securities of that trust. The seller and the depositor are unable to forecast, with respect to any state or region, whether any such conditions may occur, or to what extent such conditions may affect motor vehicle loans or the repayment of your securities. The location of a trust's motor vehicle loans by state, based upon borrowers' addresses at the time the motor vehicle loans were made (or such other date specified in the related prospectus supplement), will be set out in the related prospectus supplement. Ratings of the securities At the initial issuance of the securities of a trust, at least one nationally recognized statistical rating organization will rate the offered securities in one of the four highest rating categories. A rating is not a recommendation to purchase, hold or sell securities, and it does not comment as to market price or suitability for a particular investor. The ratings of the securities address the likelihood of the payment of principal and interest on the securities according to their terms. We cannot assure you that a rating will remain for any given period of time or that a rating agency will not lower or withdraw its rating if, in its judgment, circumstances in the future so warrant. A reduction or withdrawal of a security's rating will adversely affect its market value. If book-entry The securities will be delivered to you in registration is used, you book-entry form through the facilities of The will be able to exercise Depository Trust Company ("DTC") or your rights as a Clearstream or Euroclear. Consequently, your securityholder only securities will not be registered in your through the clearing name and you will not be recognized as a agency and your ability securityholder by the trustee or any to transfer your applicable indenture trustee. You will only securities may be limited be able to exercise the rights of a securityholder indirectly through DTC and its 19 participating organizations. Specifically, you may be limited in your ability to resell the securities to a person or entity that does not participate in the DTC system or Clearstream or Euroclear. Physical certificates will only be issued in the limited circumstances described in the prospectus. See "Certain Information Regarding the Securities--Definitive Securities" in this prospectus. The return on your The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (the securities could be "Servicemembers Act") provides relief to reduced by shortfalls due obligors who enter active military service to the Servicemembers and to obligors in reserve status who are Civil Relief Act and called to active duty after the origination other recent legislation of their receivables. The United States military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have increased, and may in the future increase, the number of citizens in active military service, including persons in reserve status who have been called or will be called to active duty. The Servicemembers Act provides, generally, that an obligor who is covered by the Servicemembers Act may not be charged interest on the related receivable in excess of 6% per annum during the period of the obligor's active duty. Any shortfalls are not required to be paid by the obligor at any future time. The servicer is not required to advance these shortfalls as delinquent payments. Interest shortfalls on the receivables due to the application of the Servicemembers Act or similar legislation or regulations will reduce the amount of interest collections available to make payments on the securities. The Servicemembers Act also limits the ability of the servicer to repossess the financed vehicle securing a receivable during the related obligor's period of active duty and, in some cases, may require the servicer to extend the maturity of the receivable, lower the scheduled payments and readjust the payment schedule for a period of time after the completion of the obligor's military service. In addition, the servicer may elect to reduce the interest rate on receivables affected by the application of the Servicemembers Act to a rate that is lower than the maximum rate prescribed by the Servicemembers Act and may readjust the payment schedule for any receivable that is affected by the application of the Servicemembers Act until the maturity of the receivable. In addition, pursuant to laws of various states, under certain circumstances, payments on retail installment contracts or installment loans such as the receivables by residents in those state who are called into active duty with the National Guard or the reserves will be deferred. These state laws may also limit the ability of the servicer to repossess the financed vehicle securing a receivable. As a result of the Servicemembers Act and similar state legislation or regulations and as a result of the servicer's ability 20 to further lower the interest rate on the affected receivables, there may be delays or reductions in payment and increased losses on the receivables. Those delays, reductions and increased losses will be borne primarily by holders of the certificates, but if such reductions and losses are greater than anticipated, the holders of notes may suffer a loss. We do not know how many receivables may be affected by the application of the Servicemembers Act or any similar state legislation or regulations. We may enter into certain We may enter into certain forms of credit forms of credit enhancement, interest rate or currency swaps enhancements, hedge or or other hedge arrangements with respect to a swap transactions which series or class of securities. Such involve credit risk arrangements entail certain kinds of risks, including credit risks (the risk associated with the credit of any party providing the credit enhancement, interest rate swap or hedge) and, with respect to any swap or hedge arrangement, the risk of an event of default or termination event which would cause the hedge arrangement to be prematurely terminated. Any such event of default or termination event could also result in the issuer owing a termination payment to the applicable swap counterparty which could deplete the amount of any collections available for noteholders or certificateholders and result in a loss. The applicable prospectus supplement will contain the risk factors, if any, associated with any applicable credit enhancement, interest rate swap or hedge arrangement. 21 THE TRUSTS The depositor will establish a separate trust as either a Delaware statutory trust or a common law trust to issue each series of notes and/or certificates. Each trust will be established for the transactions described in this prospectus and in the related prospectus supplement. If a trust is a grantor trust for federal income tax purposes, the related prospectus supplement will so state. Unless otherwise stated in the related prospectus supplement, each trust will only engage in the following activities: o entering into the applicable documents; o acquiring, holding and managing its receivables, their proceeds, its credit, yield or other enhancement, if any, and other assets of the trust; o issuing its securities; o making payments on the securities; and o other activities that are necessary, suitable or incidental to the above activities. The operations of a trust are governed by the trust agreement and the indenture or by the pooling and servicing agreement, as applicable. Under the administration agreement the administrator will be obligated to perform the administrative duties of the related trust and trustee. A trust does not have the discretion to engage in activities other than those described above. The Receivables On the closing date for a trust, the seller will sell and transfer receivables to the depositor, and the depositor will sell and transfer the receivables to the trust, in an amount specified in the related prospectus supplement. Generally, the trust will have the right to receive all payments on those receivables that are received on or after the date (a "cut-off date") specified in the related prospectus supplement. The property of each trust will also include: o security interests in the financed vehicles; o the rights to proceeds, if any, from claims on certain theft, physical damage, credit life or credit disability insurance policies, if any, covering the financed vehicles or the obligors; o the depositor's rights to certain documents and instruments relating to the receivables; o such amounts as from time to time may be held in one or more accounts maintained for the trust; o any credit, yield or payment enhancement specified in the related prospectus supplement; o certain payments and proceeds with respect to the receivables held by the servicer; 22 o certain rebates of premiums and other amounts relating to certain insurance policies and other items financed under the receivables; and o any and all proceeds of the above items. If the trust issues notes, the trust's rights and benefits with respect to the property of the trust will be assigned to the indenture trustee for the benefit of the noteholders. Funding Periods To the extent provided in the related prospectus supplement, the seller will convey additional receivables ("Subsequent Receivables") to the depositor, and the depositor will convey those additional receivables to the trust, as frequently as daily during the period (the "Funding Period") specified in that prospectus supplement. A Funding Period will not exceed one year. A trust will purchase any Subsequent Receivables with amounts deposited in a pre-funding account on the closing date. Up to 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of the securities issued by a trust may be deposited into a pre-funding account for the purchase of Subsequent Receivables. A trust will invest funds in its pre-funding account in Permitted Investments in the manner described under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Accounts." The Subsequent Receivables will be required to meet the applicable criteria set forth in the related prospectus supplement. We will note any differences from the criteria used for the initial pool purchased by the trust. There will not be any independent verification of the depositor's determination that the Subsequent Receivables satisfy such criteria. We will describe in the prospectus supplement any events the occurrence of which would result in the termination of the Funding Period and the distribution of funds, if any, in the pre-funding account to securityholders. After the Funding Period ends, to the extent required by applicable rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, we will file a report on Form 10-D with the SEC that gives required information in respect of the final pool of receivables for the trust. The Trustee The trustee for each trust will be specified in the related prospectus supplement. The trustee's liability in connection with the issuance and sale of the securities and the operation of a trust is limited solely to the express obligations of the trustee set forth in the trust agreement and the sale and servicing agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement. The servicer will reimburse and indemnify the trustee for all liabilities, losses, damages and expenses that are incurred by the trustee or arise out of its actions in connection with the trust, except where such liabilities, losses, damages or expenses arise from the trustee's willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence (except for errors in judgment). The trustee will not be liable for any error in judgment made by it and will not be liable for any action taken at the direction of the administrator or any certificateholder. The trustee will not be required to expend its own funds or incur any financial liability in respect of any of its actions as trustee if the trustee has reasonable grounds to believe that reimbursement to it of such funds or for such liabilities is not reasonably assured. A trustee may resign at any time, in which event the administrator will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee. The administrator of a trust may also remove the trustee if the trustee ceases to be eligible to continue as trustee under the related trust agreement. In such circumstances, the administrator will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee. Any resignation or removal of a trustee will not become effective until acceptance of the appointment by the successor trustee. To be eligible to be a trustee, a 23 financial institution must have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, be subject to supervision by state or federal authorities and have (or have a parent that has) a long-term debt rating of investment grade from each applicable Rating Agency or otherwise be acceptable to the applicable Rating Agencies. The administrator will be responsible for the expenses of changing a trustee. The trustee is not required to give any certificateholder or other person notice of any event of default under any of the documents relating to the trust. The trustee is required to deliver to the certificateholders information required by the Code that is necessary for the preparation of their tax returns as they relate to the certificates. The holders of a majority interest in the certificates issued by a trust may direct the actions to be taken by the related trustee so long as such actions are not contrary to the provisions of the trust agreement or any document to which the trust is a party. Under the administration agreement the Bank, as administrator, is obligated to perform on behalf of the trustee all of the administrative obligations of the trustee under the trust agreement. The trustee shall not have any liability for those obligations that the administrator has agreed to perform. The trustee of a trust will be a financial institution or trust company with which the sponsor and its affiliates may have other banking relationships in the ordinary course of their businesses. In some instances the trustee may be acting in similar capacities for other asset-backed transactions of the depositor for similar or other asset types. The trustee will charge fees for its services as such and such fees will be payable by the servicer. You will find the addresses of the principal offices of the trust and the trustee in the related prospectus supplement. THE DEPOSITOR The depositor is a limited liability company formed under the laws of the State of Delaware on July 22, 2002. The depositor maintains its principal office at 9830 Colonnade Blvd., Suite 600, San Antonio, Texas 78230. Its telephone number is 210-498-0626. The depositor is a wholly-owned, special purpose subsidiary of USAA Federal Savings Bank. The depositor was organized solely for the limited purpose of acquiring receivables and associated rights, issuing securities, selling and otherwise transferring receivables (including for the purpose of securitizing them) and engaging in related transactions. The depositor's limited liability company agreement limits the activities of the depositor to the foregoing purposes and to any activities incidental to and necessary for these purposes. The depositor's limited liability company agreement also includes a provision that requires the depositor to have at least two directors who are not directors, officers or employees of USAA Federal Savings Bank or any of its affiliates (other than the depositor). The only obligations, if any, of the depositor with respect to the securities issued by any trust may be pursuant to certain limited representations and warranties and limited undertakings to repurchase (or, if so specified in related prospectus supplement, substitute for) receivables under certain circumstances, but only to the extent the seller simultaneously performs its obligation to repurchase those receivables. The depositor will have no ongoing servicing obligations or responsibilities with respect to any financed vehicle. The depositor does not have, is not required to have, and is not expected in the future to have, any significant assets. 24 Unless expressly set forth in a prospectus supplement, none of the depositor, the seller, the servicer or any of their respective affiliates will insure or guarantee the receivables or the securities issued by any trust. Certain Bankruptcy Considerations Regarding the Depositor The depositor intends that the transfer of the receivables from the depositor to the trust constitutes a sale, rather than a pledge of the receivables to secure indebtedness of the depositor. However, if the depositor were to become a debtor under the federal bankruptcy code, it is possible that a creditor or trustee in bankruptcy of the depositor, as debtor-in-possession, may argue that the sale of the receivables by the depositor was a pledge of the receivables rather than a sale. This position, if presented to or accepted by a court, could result in a delay in or reduction of distributions to the securityholders. SPONSOR, SELLER AND SERVICER USAA Federal Savings Bank (the "Bank") is a federally chartered savings association and a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. The Bank is subject to the supervision of the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the "FDIC"). Deposits held by the Bank are insured by the Savings Association Insurance Fund and the Bank Insurance Fund of the FDIC. The Bank is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of United Services Automobile Association ("USAA") and is engaged in providing consumer banking products and services primarily to the USAA membership. As of December 31, 2005, its total assets and total common and preferred stockholders' equity were $19.6 billion and $1.9 billion, respectively. The Bank's executive offices are located at 10750 McDermott Freeway, San Antonio, Texas 78288 and its telephone number is (210) 498-2265. USAA is a reciprocal interinsurance exchange formed in 1922. As of December 31, 2005, USAA and its subsidiaries have a combined membership of approximately 5.5 million. USAA and its various property and casualty insurance subsidiaries provide personal line insurance, which includes automobile, homeowners, and renters insurance, to their policyholders. In addition, through its various wholly-owned subsidiaries and affiliates, USAA offers personal financial service products, including life insurance, mutual funds, banking services and financial planning services. USAA is the seventh largest private passenger automobile and the sixth largest homeowners insurer in the United States, based on 2004 direct written premiums. USAA markets its products and services principally through direct mail, telecommunication and electronic means. USAA's insurance financial strength has been rated "Aaa" and "AAA" by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, respectively. USAA is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas and employs more than 22,000 people. The Bank began its motor vehicles financing operations in 1984 and has serviced the related receivables since that time. The Bank has been securitizing its motor vehicle loans since 1993 and has done 17 public securitizations of its motor vehicle loans. We describe the Bank's origination procedures in detail under "The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans". The Bank also originates home equity loans, mortgage loans and credit card receivables. It securitized a portion of its portfolio of credit card receivables in 2005. The Bank participates in the structuring of its securitizations, services the securitized assets and usually acts as administrator for the issuing entity. In the normal course of its servicing operations, USAA outsources certain of its administrative functions to third party providers. With respect to its securitization trusts, USAA remains responsible to 25 the issuing entity for its obligations under the sale and servicing agreement regardless of whether the performance of an obligation has been outsourced to a third party. USAA believes that such third parties can be replaced with other providers of such services. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the Bank outsources custody of the vehicle titles or other evidence of the perfected security interest of the Bank to FDI Consulting, Inc., in Sacramento, California. FDI Consulting Inc., is a California corporation, that has been in the business of title administration since 1987. FDI holds such titles or other evidence in a fire-resistant vault; it has FM200 gas suppression. No event of default or performance trigger event has occurred in securitizations sponsored by USAA. USAA has not taken any action outside of its contractual servicing obligations to prevent the occurrence of any such event. USAA engages investment banks for structuring its motor vehicle loan securitizations and selling the resulting asset-backed securities to investors. We describe the continuing obligations of USAA in its capacities of seller of the receivables to the depositor and servicer of the receivables on behalf of a trust under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements". THE BANK'S PORTFOLIO OF MOTOR VEHICLE LOANS Origination of Motor Vehicle Loans The Bank directly originates motor vehicle installment loans secured by new and used automobiles and light-duty trucks (the "Motor Vehicle Loans"). Applications for Motor Vehicle Loans are made by individuals to the Bank's office in San Antonio, Texas and are reviewed by the Bank in accordance with the Bank's underwriting procedures. Applications are generally accepted by telephone but may also be accepted in person, through the internet, or by mail. The Bank's primary source of applicants is the membership and associate membership of USAA, which consist of officers and former officers of the U.S. military, their dependents and former dependents and, more recently, enlisted personnel in the U.S. military. The Bank services all of its Motor Vehicle Loans. The servicing functions performed by the Bank include customer service, document file keeping, computerized account record keeping and collections. Vehicle title processing is outsourced to FDI Consulting, Inc. The Bank may change its servicing and origination policies and practices over time in accordance with the Bank's business judgment. Unless otherwise stated in the prospectus supplement, there have been no material changes in the Bank's policies or procedures for its origination of retail motor vehicle loans during the three years preceding the date of that prospectus supplement. Underwriting of Motor Vehicle Loans The Bank makes credit decisions with respect to Motor Vehicle Loans in two alternative ways: on a pre-approved basis or on a judgmental basis, which, since September 1992, has included a credit scoring process. 26 Pre-Approval Process. The Bank has a program of pre-approving potential customers for Motor Vehicle Loans. The Bank obtains names of potential customers from its existing Motor Vehicle Loan database, credit card database and various other sources. All potential pre-approved customer names are screened against the database maintained by the Bank's parent company USAA. USAA's database must show that the potential customer: o is an active USAA insurance policyholder or is eligible to be one; and o is not identified in USAA's database as a customer who should not receive advertising from USAA or its subsidiary companies. The Bank then screens those potential customer names against its database of credit card accounts, although an existing credit card account is not a prerequisite for pre-approval. A potential customer will be pre-approved if the potential customer has a credit card account, has had no internal record of bankruptcy or account closure due to a collection problem on any Bank loan product or USAA product, and the Bank's credit card database shows that the account: o is current and is open; o is currently not more than 30 days delinquent; and o has no lost or stolen account or fraudulent activity record. A potential customer who is pre-approved using the credit card account screening process is offered a Motor Vehicle Loan in an amount determined by the individual's credit and internal behavior scores and in some cases by the credit limit amount of the individual's credit card accounts and in other cases by the individual's payment-to-income ratio. The Bank offers those pre-approved potential customers Motor Vehicle Loans in amounts up to $50,000. A potential customer without a credit card account with the Bank is eligible for a pre-approved Motor Vehicle Loan in an amount up to $50,000 if the individual has no record of bankruptcy or collection problems on any Bank loan products and has an existing Motor Vehicle Loan with the Bank that: o has not been more than 30 days delinquent; o has a term greater than one year and has been outstanding for more than one year; and o had an original principal balance in excess of $7,500. The Bank also offers pre-approved Motor Vehicle Loans in an amount up to $50,000 to customers who do not have a credit card or an existing Motor Vehicle Loan with the Bank. Such customers must meet all of the following credit bureau criteria: o no bankruptcy record; o no record of a major derogatory item (foreclosure, repossession, garnishment, etc.); o no public records (unpaid judgment, tax lien, suit, etc.); 27 o does not possess more than two of the following derogatory items within the past 24 months: collections, major derogatory credit items or items of public record; o does not possess any account 90 days or more past due within the past 24 months; o does not possess any account 120 days or more past due within the last 12 months; o possesses at least one satisfactory trade line; and o has a credit bureau score of at least 620. The Bank notifies potential customers that they have been pre-approved for a Motor Vehicle Loan by direct mail under certain circumstances and, if a pre-approved individual contacts the Bank to inquire about a Motor Vehicle Loan, by telephone or via the Bank's password-protected Web site. A potential customer who has been pre-approved need only identify the make, model, year and price of the financed vehicle and, in the case of recent originations, disclose such potential customer's gross monthly income and, because of the information known by the Bank through USAA's database and the Bank's credit card database, is not required to provide additional credit related information. Judgmental Process. If an applicant is not pre-approved for a Motor Vehicle Loan as described above, the Bank requires the applicant to submit an application, generally over the telephone, which sets forth the applicant's income, liabilities, credit and employment history, and other personal information as well as a description of the financed vehicle which is intended to secure a Motor Vehicle Loan. The Bank reviews each application for completeness and for compliance with the Bank's guidelines and applicable consumer regulations. The Bank evaluates each applicant using uniform underwriting standards developed by the Bank. These underwriting standards are intended to assess the applicant's ability to repay such Motor Vehicle Loan and the adequacy of the financed vehicle as collateral, based upon a review of the information contained in the applicant's loan application and the credit bureau reports referred to below. Automated Review. The Bank first performs the evaluation on an automated basis. If the automated review of the application shows that the applicant meets certain criteria in the Bank's underwriting guidelines described below at specified levels and has at least a specified credit score in the Bank's credit scoring process referred to below, then the application is approved. If the application is not approved in the automated review and has not been submitted by a pre-approved customer, an underwriter performs a judgmental review using the same criteria and standards. Credit Criteria. Among the criteria considered in evaluating each application are: o stability of the applicant with specific regard to the applicant's occupation and length of employment; o the applicant's payment history based on information known directly by the Bank or as provided by various credit reporting agencies with respect to present and past debt; o a debt service to gross monthly income ratio test; and o a loan to value ratio test taking into account the age, type and market value of the financed vehicle. 28 The Bank uses an empirically based credit scoring process (the FICO credit scoring system described below) that uses credit scores provided by credit bureaus to objectively assess an applicant's creditworthiness. Through credit scoring, the Bank evaluates credit profiles to quantify credit risk. The credit scoring process entails the use of statistics to correlate common characteristics with credit risk. The Bank's standards are periodically reviewed and updated, if necessary. The Bank's standards are intended to provide a basis for lending decisions, not to supersede the judgment of the underwriter. A FICO score is a credit score derived from a scoring system created by the Fair Isaac Company. A FICO score is used to evaluate creditworthiness on the basis of, among other things, information that a credit bureau keeps about the applicant for credit and the debt service-to-income ratio of the applicant. The highest score a person can receive is 850, the lowest 300. Because the FICO score depends on the information gathered by a credit bureau, it is possible that the FICO score for a person will vary depending upon which credit bureau is used. The Bank has approved applications that do not meet its standard credit guidelines, both before and after implementation of the credit scoring process. Generally, those approvals require approval of a designated credit analyst or credit manager of the Bank. Applications that do not comply with all the Bank's guidelines must have compensating factors which indicate a strong capacity to repay the loan. In such cases, the reason for approving the Motor Vehicle Loan is often because the applicant has made a down payment and the amount financed is lower than the maximum permitted by the Bank's guidelines. Amount Advanced. The amount advanced by the Bank under any Motor Vehicle Loan, including Motor Vehicle Loans offered pursuant to the pre-approved program, generally has not exceeded: o for a new financed vehicle, the manufacturer's suggested retail price plus the cost of additional options, taxes and title and license fees on the financed vehicle or o for a used financed vehicle the "retail" value stated in the most recently published National Auto Research Black Book used vehicle guide, adjusted for high or low mileage and before credit for any optional equipment, plus taxes and title and license fees. However, the maximum amount advanced for Motor Vehicle Loans is often less than such amounts depending on a number of factors, including the length of the Motor Vehicle Loan term and the model and year of the financed vehicle. These adjustments are made to assure that the financed vehicle constitutes adequate collateral to secure the Motor Vehicle Loan. In addition, whether a financed vehicle is new or used, the Bank will also finance service warranties under a Motor Vehicle Loan. Periodically, the Bank makes a detailed analysis of its portfolio to evaluate the effectiveness of the Bank's credit guidelines and scoring process. If external economic factors, credit delinquencies or credit losses change, the Bank adjusts its credit guidelines to maintain the asset quality deemed acceptable by the Bank's management. The Bank reviews, on an annual basis, the quality of its Motor Vehicle Loans by conducting internal audits of certain randomly selected Motor Vehicle Loans to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures. Insurance Each Motor Vehicle Loan requires the obligor to obtain comprehensive and collision insurance with respect to the financed vehicle. After the funding of the Motor Vehicle Loan, the Bank does not monitor the obligor's compliance with such requirement. Most obligors obtain the required comprehensive and collision insurance from USAA or an affiliate thereof. 29 If an obligor fails to maintain the required insurance, the Bank may, but is not obligated to, purchase limited comprehensive and collision insurance to protect the interests of the Bank and those of the obligor and charge the obligor for the cost of such insurance (the "Force Placed Insurance"). The Bank currently does not obtain Force Placed Insurance if an obligor fails to maintain the required insurance. Collection Procedures The Bank performs collection activities with respect to delinquent Motor Vehicle Loans including the prompt investigation and evaluation of the causes of any delinquency. An obligor is considered delinquent when he or she makes any payment that is less than 95% of a scheduled payment. The Bank maintains an on-line collection system for use in collection efforts. The collection system provides relevant obligor information (for example, current addresses, phone numbers and loan information) and records of all contact of the Bank with obligors. The system also records an obligor's promise to pay, affords supervisors the ability to review collection personnel activity and modify priorities with respect to obligor contacts and provides reports concerning Motor Vehicle Loan delinquencies. Under the Bank's current practices, contact by mail is initiated with an obligor whose Motor Vehicle Loan has become ten days delinquent. An additional mail contact is initiated with an obligor when his or her Motor Vehicle Loan has become 20 days delinquent. Telephone contact with the obligor is attempted on or about the 16th day of delinquency if (a) the credit score is less than 600 and the loan payment history reflects less than 18 payments or (b) more than three 30-day late payments have been made. For payment defaults of the first payment, telephone contact is initiated on or about the 22nd day of delinquency. Generally, after a Motor Vehicle Loan continues to be delinquent for 35 days, the Bank sends a demand letter. After 50 days of delinquency, the Bank accelerates the Motor Vehicle Loan. Repossession procedures generally will be initiated after a Motor Vehicle Loan continues to be delinquent for 60 to 90 days, depending on factors such as payments made and credit score. However, if a Motor Vehicle Loan is deemed uncollectible, if the financed vehicle is deemed by collection personnel to be in danger of being damaged, destroyed or made unavailable for repossession, or if the obligor voluntarily surrenders the financed vehicle, a repossession may occur without regard to the length or existence of payment delinquency. Repossessions are conducted by third parties engaged in the business of repossessing vehicles for secured parties. After repossession, the obligor generally has an additional 15 days to redeem the financed vehicle before the financed vehicle is resold. Losses may occur in connection with delinquent Motor Vehicle Loans and can arise in several ways, including inability to locate the financed vehicle or the obligor, or because of a discharge of the obligor in a bankruptcy proceeding. The current policy of the Bank is to recognize losses when it determines that the Motor Vehicle Loan is uncollectible, or during the month the Motor Vehicle Loan becomes 120 days delinquent, whichever occurs first. Upon repossession and sale of the financed vehicle, the Bank pursues any deficiency remaining to the extent deemed practical by the Bank and to the extent permitted by law. The loss recognition and collection policies and practices of the Bank may change over time in accordance with the Bank's business judgment. The Bank offers certain obligors credit-related extensions. Generally, these extensions are offered only when: o the extension will result in the obligor's payments being brought current; 30 o the number of credit-related extensions granted on the Motor Vehicle Loan will be limited to one per twelve month period; and o no more than two credit-related extensions will be granted on the Motor Vehicle loan in any five year period, and the total credit-related extensions granted on the Motor Vehicle Loan generally will not exceed four months in the aggregate in such five year period. Any deviation from this policy requires the concurrence of the Bank's collection manager and collection officer. See "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Servicing Procedures" for certain additional conditions on credit-related extensions which must be satisfied with respect to receivables owned by a trust. The Bank may also offer certain obligors payment extensions in respect of receivables that are not delinquent. To qualify for such a payment extension, an account must satisfy certain criteria which are designed to preserve the quality of the loan portfolio in the Bank's judgment. Any extension may extend the maturity of the applicable receivable beyond its original term to maturity and increase the weighted average life of the receivables. The Bank may, from time to time, review its portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans and offer certain obligors with consistent payment experience reduced contract rates on their receivables either for a specified number of payment dates or for the remaining term to maturity of such receivable. Any such reduction will not affect the original amount financed under such receivable. If so specified in a prospectus supplement, the Bank may take such actions with respect to receivables owned by a trust. THE RECEIVABLES POOLS Criteria for Selecting the Receivables. The receivables, including Subsequent Receivables, to be held by each trust will be selected from the Bank's portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans on the basis of several criteria, including that each receivable: o is secured by a new or used automobile or light-duty truck; o was originated in the U.S.; o has a fixed or variable interest rate; o provides for level monthly, semi-monthly or bi-weekly payments that fully amortize the amount financed over its original term to maturity or provides for a different type of amortization described in the related prospectus supplement; and o satisfies the other criteria, if any, set forth in the related prospectus supplement. The Bank will select the receivables from the Motor Vehicle Loans in its portfolio that satisfy the above criteria. No selection procedures which the Bank believes to be adverse to the securityholders of the trust will be used in selecting the receivable for the trust. The receivables may provide for payments: o monthly; o semi-monthly, which provides for payments twice a month on the specified dates, resulting in 24 payments in a calendar year; or 31 o bi-weekly, which provides for payments once every two weeks, resulting in 26 payments in a calendar year. Variable interest rate receivables have an interest rate subject to adjustment on the date specified in the related receivable, generally, equal the sum, rounded to the nearest 0.05% (or such other percentage as specified in the related prospectus supplement) of the four week average of the 182-day treasury bill rate and a fixed percentage amount specified in the related receivable. Variable interest rate receivables may provide, if specified in the related prospectus supplement, that the amount of any monthly increase or decrease in the interest rate is subject to a specified cap and/or that the maximum and minimum rate of interest charged is subject to one or more caps or floors specified in the related prospectus supplement. If specified in the related prospectus supplement, variable interest rates on receivables may also be determined by reference to a London interbank offered rate, Federal funds rate or U.S. government treasury securities rate. Any index on which a variable rate is based will be described in more detail in the related prospectus supplement. Additional information regarding the variable interest rate receivables on the underlying receivable pool will be set forth in the related prospectus supplement. Simple Interest Receivables. The receivables may provide for the application of payments on the simple interest method. If an obligor on a simple interest receivable pays a fixed monthly installment before its scheduled due date-- o the portion of the payment allocable to interest for the period since the preceding payment was made will be less than it would have been had the payment been made as scheduled; and o the portion of the payment applied to reduce the unpaid principal balance will be correspondingly greater. Conversely, if an obligor pays a fixed monthly installment after its scheduled due date-- o the portion of the payment allocable to interest for the period since the preceding payment was made will be greater than it would have been had the payment been made as scheduled; and o the portion of the payment applied to reduce the unpaid principal balance will be correspondingly less. In either case, the obligor pays a fixed monthly installment until the final scheduled payment date, at which time the amount of the final installment is increased or decreased as necessary to repay the then outstanding principal balance. If a simple interest receivable is prepaid, the obligor is required to pay interest only to the date of prepayment. Receivables Other Than Simple Interest Receivables. If the receivables are not simple interest receivables, the related prospectus supplement will describe the method of applying payments on the receivables. We Will Provide More Specific Information About the Receivables in the Prospectus Supplement We will provide information about the receivables to be held by each trust in the related prospectus supplement, including, to the extent appropriate: o the portion of the receivables secured by new vehicles and by used vehicles; 32 o the aggregate principal balance of all of the receivables; o the average principal balance of the receivables and the range of principal balances; o the number of receivables; o the average original amount financed and the range of original amounts financed; o the weighted average contract rate of interest and the range of such rates; o the weighted average original term and the range of original terms; o the weighted average remaining term and the range of remaining terms; and o the distribution by contract rate of interest and by the states of origination. STATIC POOL DATA Static pool data consisting of delinquency, cumulative loss and prepayment data for securitized pools of Motor Vehicle Loans originated by the Bank may be made available online on a website set forth in the related prospectus supplement. Except as stated below, the static pool data provided through the website will be deemed part of this prospectus and the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part from the date of the related prospectus supplement. Static pool information may also be provided in the related prospectus supplement, through filing a Form 8-K or in the form of a CD-ROM accompanying the related prospectus supplement. The related prospectus supplement will specify how the static pool will be presented. We cannot assure you that the prepayment, loss or delinquency experience of the receivables sold to a trust will be comparable to the historical prepayment, loss or delinquency experience of any of the securitized pools sponsored by the Bank. In this regard, you should note how the characteristics of the receivables in those securitized pools differ from the characteristics of the receivables to be purchased by the trust in the related prospectus supplement. Such differences, along with the varying economic conditions to which those securitized pools were subject over their respective lives, may make it unlikely that the receivables described in any prospectus supplement will perform in the same way that any of those securitized pools has performed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following information shall not be deemed part of the prospectus, the accompanying prospectus supplement or the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part: o with respect to information regarding prior securitized pools that do not include the currently offered pool, information regarding prior securitized pools that were established before January 1, 2006; and o with respect to information regarding the pool described in the related prospectus supplement, information about the pool for periods before January 1, 2006. 33 MATURITY AND PREPAYMENT CONSIDERATIONS The weighted average life of the securities of any trust will generally be influenced by the rate at which the principal balances of its receivables are paid, which payment may be in the form of scheduled amortization or prepayments. "Prepayments" for these purposes includes the following circumstances: o Prepayments by obligors, who may repay at any time without penalty. o The depositor may be required to repurchase a receivable from the trust if certain breaches of representations and warranties occur and the receivable is materially and adversely affected by the breach. o The servicer may be obligated to purchase a receivable from the trust if certain breaches of covenants occur or if the servicer extends or modifies the terms of a receivable beyond the Collection Period preceding the final payment date for the securities specified in the related prospectus supplement. o Partial prepayments, including those related to rebates of extended warranty contract costs and insurance premiums. o Liquidations of the receivables due to default. o Partial prepayments from proceeds from physical damage, credit life and disability insurance policies. o Also, the servicer may, in its discretion, offer certain obligors payment extensions in respect of receivables that are not delinquent. Any such extension may extend the maturity of the related receivable beyond its original term to maturity and increase the weighted average life of the receivables. In light of the above considerations, neither the seller nor the depositor can assure you as to the amount of principal payments to be made on the securities of a trust on each payment date since that amount will depend, in part, on the amount of principal collected on the trust's receivables during the applicable Collection Period. Any reinvestment risks resulting from a faster or slower incidence of prepayment of receivables will be borne entirely by the securityholders. The related prospectus supplement may set forth certain additional information with respect to the maturity and prepayment considerations applicable to the receivables and the securities of the trust. The rate of prepayments on the receivables may be influenced by a variety of economic, social and other factors, including the fact that an obligor may not sell or transfer the financed vehicle without the seller's consent. These factors may also include unemployment, servicing decisions, seasoning of loans, destruction of vehicles by accident, sales of vehicles and market interest rates. A predominant factor affecting the prepayment of a large group of loans is the difference between the interest rates on the loans and prevailing market interest rates. If the prevailing market interest rates were to fall significantly below the interest rates borne by the loans, the rate of prepayment and refinancings would be expected to increase. Conversely, if prevailing market interest rates were to increase significantly above those interest rates, the rate of prepayments and refinancings would be expected to decrease. 34 USE OF PROCEEDS The net proceeds from the sale of the securities of a trust will be applied by the trust or the depositor, as indicated in the related prospectus supplement-- o if by the trust, to the purchase of the receivables from the depositor; o if the trust has a pre-funding account, to make the deposit into that account; o if the trust has a yield supplement account, to make the deposit into that account; o if the trust has a reserve account, to make the initial deposit into that account; and o for any other purposes specified in the related prospectus supplement. The depositor will use the portion of net proceeds from the sale of the securities of a trust paid to it to purchase receivables from the seller and to pay for certain expenses incurred in connection with the purchase of the receivables and the sale of securities. The seller will add the funds received by it to its general funds. The trust may also issue certain classes of securities to the depositor in partial payment for the receivables. PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS In general, the operations of a trust will be governed by the following documents: If the trust issues notes:
Document Parties Primary Purposes -------- ------- ---------------- Trust Agreement Trustee and depositor o Creates the trust o Provides for issuance of certificates and payments to certificateholders o Establishes rights and duties of trustee o Establishes rights of certificateholders Indenture Trust, as issuer of the notes, o Provides for issuance and indenture trustee of the notes, the terms of the notes and payments of noteholders o Establishes rights and duties of indenture trustee o Establishes rights of noteholders Receivables Purchase Seller and depositor, as o Effects sale of Agreement purchaser receivables to the depositor o Contains representations and warranties of seller concerning the receivables 35 Sale and Servicing Agreement Depositor, as seller, the Bank, o Effects sale of as seller and servicer, and a receivables to trust as purchaser the trust o Contains representations and warranties of depositor concerning the receivables o Contains servicing obligations of servicer o Provides for compensation to servicer o Directs how cash flow will be applied to expenses of the trust and payments on its securities If the trust is a grantor trust (as specified in the prospectus supplement): Document Parties Primary Purposes -------- ------- ---------------- Receivables Purchase Seller and depositor, as purchaser o Effects sale of Agreement receivables to the depositor o Contains representations and warranties of seller concerning the receivables Pooling and Servicing Trustee, depositor, as seller, and o Creates the trust Agreement Bank, as servicer o Effects sale of receivables to the trust o Contains representations and warranties of depositor concerning the receivables o Provides that assignees of the depositor, specifically the trustee, may enforce the seller's representations and warranties directly o Contains servicing obligations of servicer o Provides for compensation of servicer o Provides for issuance of certificates and payments to certificateholders o Directs how cash flow will be applied to expenses of the trust and payments to certificateholders o Establishes rights and duties of trustee o Establishes rights of certificateholders
Various provisions of these documents are described throughout this prospectus and in the related prospectus supplement. The prospectus supplement for a series will describe any material provisions of 36 these documents as used in that series that supplements in a material way from the provisions described in this prospectus. A form of each of these principal documents has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. The summaries of the principal documents in this prospectus do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and are qualified in their entirety by reference to, all the provisions of those principal documents. PAYMENTS ON THE SECURITIES The related prospectus supplement will describe: o the timing, amount and priority of payments of principal and interest on each class of the securities, o their interest rates or the formula for determining their interest rates, o the method of determining the amount of their principal payments, o the priority of the application of the trust's available funds to its expenses and payments on its securities, and o the allocation of losses on the receivables among the classes of securities. The rights of any class of securities to receive payments may be senior or subordinate to other classes of securities. A security may be entitled to: o principal payments with disproportionate, nominal or no interest payments, or o interest payments with disproportionate, nominal or no principal payments, or o residual cash flow remaining after all other classes have been paid. Interest rates may be fixed or floating. A class may be redeemable at any time at the option of the trust or when the principal balance has declined to a level specified in the prospectus supplement or when the aggregate principal balance of the trust's receivables has declined to a level specified in the prospectus supplement. The related prospectus supplement will describe when a class may be redeemed and at what price. The aggregate initial principal amount of the securities issued by a trust may be greater than, equal to or less than the aggregate initial principal amount of the receivables held by that trust. The residual cash flow remaining after all classes of securities have been paid may be transferred to an affiliate of the depositor or another person and may be represented by a class of certificates not offered by the related prospectus supplement. Payments of principal and interest on any class of securities will be made on a pro rata basis among all the security holders of such class. If the amount of funds available to make a payment on a class is less than the required payment, the holders of the securities of that class will receive their pro rata share of the amount available for the class. A series may provide for a liquidity facility or similar arrangement that permits one or more classes of securities to be paid in planned amounts on scheduled payment dates. 37 Optional Prepayment Generally, the servicer will have the option to purchase the receivables of each trust on any payment date when the aggregate principal balance of the receivables sold to the trust has declined to 10% (or such other percentage specified in the prospectus supplement) or less of the initial principal balance of the pool. Upon such a purchase, the securities of that trust will be prepaid in full. The related indenture trustee will be obligated to mail a notice of the redemption to the related noteholders at least 30 days prior to the redemption date, stating the redemption date, which must be a payment date, and the redemption price, which will be the principal amount of the outstanding notes of that series plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to but excluding the redemption date. The trustee will give a similar notice to the certificateholders. CERTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING THE SECURITIES Each class of securities entitled to receive interest payments may bear interest at a fixed rate of interest or a floating rate of interest as more fully described below and in the related prospectus supplement. Fixed Rate Securities Each class of fixed rate securities will bear interest at the applicable per annum interest rate or pass-through rate, as the case may be, specified in the related prospectus supplement. Interest on each class of fixed rate securities may be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months or on such other day count basis as is specified in the related prospectus supplement. Floating Rate Securities Each class of floating rate securities will bear interest for each applicable interest accrual period described in the related prospectus supplement at a rate determined (i) by reference to a base rate of interest, plus or minus the number of basis points specified in the related prospectus supplement, if any, or multiplied by the percentage specified in the related prospectus supplement, if any or (ii) by reference to the rate or rates of interest applicable to specified assets or instruments (e.g., the contract rate borne by the underlying receivables). Interest on each class of floating rate securities will be computed on the day count basis specified in the related prospectus supplement. The base rate of interest for any floating rate securities will be based on a London interbank offered rate, commercial paper rates, Federal funds rates, U.S. government treasury securities rates or negotiable certificates of deposit rates set forth in the related prospectus supplement. The prospectus supplement will describe the base rate and will specify the manner in which the base rate will be calculated. A prospectus supplement may specify some other meaning for the following rates, but if it does not: o "London interbank offered rate" or "LIBOR" means the rate for deposits in the specified currency having the maturity designated in the applicable prospectus supplement, commencing on the determination date specified in the applicable prospectus supplement at the specified time on the display on Moneyline Telerate Service or any successor or other designated service on the page designated in the applicable prospectus supplement or any page as may replace the designated page on that service for the purpose of displaying the London interbank rates of major banks for the applicable currency; 38 o "commercial paper rate" means the Money Market Yield on the applicable determination date of the rate for commercial paper having the maturity specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Commercial Paper--Nonfinancial." "Money Market Yield" means a yield (expressed as a percentage rounded upwards to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point) calculated in accordance with the following formula: Money Market Yield = D x 360 x 100 ------------- 360 - (D x M) where "D" refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal, and "M" refers to the actual number of days in the interest period for which interest is being calculated. "H.15(519)" means the weekly statistical release designated as H.15(519) or any successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. o "Federal funds rate" means the rate on the applicable determination date for United States dollar federal funds as published in H.15(519) under the heading "Federal Funds (Effective)" as displayed on Moneyline Telerate Service or any successor or other designated service on the page designed in the applicable prospectus supplement or any other page as may replace the applicable page on the service. o "treasury rate" means the rate from the auction held on the applicable determination date of direct obligations of the United States having the maturity specified in the applicable prospectus supplement, under the heading "Investment Rate" on the display on Moneyline Telerate Service, or any successor or other designated service on the page designed in the applicable prospectus supplement or any other page as may replace the applicable page on the service. o "certificate of deposit rate" means the rate on the applicable determination for negotiable United States dollar certificates of deposit having the maturity designated in the applicable prospectus supplement as published in H.15(519) under the heading "CDs (secondary market)." A class of floating rate securities may also have either or both of the following (in each case expressed as a rate per annum): o a maximum limitation, or ceiling, on the rate at which interest may accrue during any interest accrual period; in addition to any maximum interest rate that may be applicable to any class of floating rate securities, the interest rate applicable to any class of floating rate securities will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by applicable law; and o a minimum limitation, or floor, on the rate at which interest may accrue during any interest accrual period. Each trust issuing floating rate securities may appoint a calculation agent to calculate interest rates on each class of its floating rate securities. The prospectus supplement will identify the calculation agent, if any, for each such class of floating rate securities, which may be either the trustee or indenture trustee 39 with respect to such trust. All determinations of interest by a calculation agent shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the holders of the floating rate securities. All percentages resulting from any calculation of the rate of interest on a floating rate security will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100,000 of 1% (.0000001), with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward. Book-Entry Registration The Trusts May Use Book-Entry Registration Instead of Issuing Definitive Securities. Except for the securities, if any, of a trust retained by the seller or its affiliates, each class of securities offered through this prospectus and the related prospectus supplement may initially be represented by one or more certificates registered in the name of DTC's nominee, except as set forth below. The securities will be available for purchase in the denominations specified in the related prospectus supplement and may be available for purchase in book-entry form only. Accordingly, such nominee is expected to be the holder of record of any class of securities issued in book-entry form. If a class of securities is issued in book-entry form, unless and until Definitive Securities are issued under the limited circumstances described in this prospectus or in the related prospectus supplement, you, as an owner of securities will not be entitled to receive a physical certificate representing your interest in the securities of such class. If a class of securities is issued in book-entry form, all references in this prospectus and in the related prospectus supplement to actions by holders of such class of securities refer to actions taken by DTC upon instructions from its participating organizations and all references in this prospectus and in the related prospectus supplement to distributions, notices, reports and statements to holders of such class of securities refer to distributions, notices, reports and statements to DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered holder of such class of securities, for distribution to certificateholders of such class of securities in accordance with DTC's procedures with respect thereto. Any securities of a given trust owned by the seller or its affiliates will be entitled to equal and proportionate benefits under the applicable indenture, trust agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, except that, unless the seller and its affiliates own the entire class, such securities will be deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of determining whether the requisite percentage of securityholders have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or other action under those documents. The related prospectus supplement will specify whether the holders of the notes or certificates of the trust may hold their respective securities as Book-Entry Securities. You may hold your securities through DTC in the United States, Clearstream or the Euroclear System in Europe or in any manner described in the related prospectus supplement. The global securities will be tradable as home market instruments in both the European and U.S. domestic markets. Initial settlement and all secondary trades will settle in same-day funds. Initial Settlement of the Global Securities. All global securities will be held in book-entry form by DTC in the name of Cede & Co. as nominee of DTC. Investors' interests in the global securities will be represented through financial institutions acting on their behalf as direct and indirect participants in DTC. As a result, Clearstream and Euroclear will hold positions on behalf of their customers or participants through their respective depositaries, which in turn will hold such positions in accounts as DTC participants. Investors electing to hold their global securities through DTC will follow the settlement practices that apply to U.S. corporate debt obligations. Investor securities custody accounts will be credited with their holdings against payment in same-day funds on the settlement date. 40 Investors electing to hold their global securities through Clearstream or Euroclear accounts will follow the settlement procedures that apply to conventional eurobonds, except that there will be no temporary global security and no "lock-up" or restricted period. Global securities will be credited to the securities custody accounts on the settlement date against payment in same-day funds. Except as required by law, none of the administrator, if any, the applicable trustee or the applicable indenture trustee, if any, will have any liability for any aspect of the records relating to payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of the securities of any trust held by DTC's nominee, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests or transfers thereof. Secondary Market Trading of the Global Securities. Since the purchaser determines the place of delivery, it is important to establish at the time of the trade where both the purchaser's and seller's accounts are located to ensure that settlement can be made on the desired value date. Trading between DTC participants. Secondary market trading between DTC participants will be settled using the procedures applicable to U.S. corporate debt obligations in same-day funds. Trading between Clearstream customers and/or Euroclear participants. Secondary market trading between Clearstream customers or Euroclear participants will be settled using the procedures applicable to conventional eurobonds in same-day funds. Trading between DTC seller and Clearstream or Euroclear purchaser. When global securities are to be transferred from the account of a DTC participant to the account of a Clearstream customer or a Euroclear participant, the purchaser will send instructions to Clearstream or Euroclear through a Clearstream customer or Euroclear participant at least one business day prior to settlement. Clearstream or Euroclear will instruct the respective depositary, as the case may be, to receive the global securities against payment. Payment will include interest accrued on the global securities from and including the last coupon payment date to and excluding the settlement date. Payment will then be made by the respective depositary to the DTC participant's account against delivery of the global securities. After settlement has been completed, the global securities will be credited to the respective clearing system and by the clearing system, in accordance with its usual procedures, to the Clearstream customer's or Euroclear participant's account. The securities credit will appear the next day (European time) and the cash debit will be back-valued to, and the interest on the global securities will accrue from, the value date (which would be the preceding day when settlement occurred in New York). If settlement is not completed on the intended value date (that is, the trade fails), the Clearstream or Euroclear cash debit will be valued instead as of the actual settlement date. Clearstream customers and Euroclear participants will need to make available to the respective clearing systems the funds necessary to process same-day funds settlement. The most direct means of doing this is to pre-position funds for settlement, either from cash on hand or existing lines of credit, as they would for any settlement occurring within Clearstream or Euroclear. Under this approach, they may take on credit exposure to Clearstream or Euroclear until the global securities are credited to their accounts one day later. As an alternative, if Clearstream or Euroclear has extended a line of credit to them, Clearstream customers or Euroclear participants can elect not to pre-position funds and allow that credit line to be drawn upon to finance settlement. Under this procedure, Clearstream customers or Euroclear participants purchasing global securities would incur overdraft charges for one day, assuming they cleared the overdraft when the global securities were credited to their accounts. However, interest on the global securities would accrue from the value date. Therefore, in many cases the investment income on the 41 global securities earned during that one-day period may substantially reduce or offset the amount of such overdraft charges, although this result will depend on each Clearstream customer's or Euroclear participant's particular cost of funds. Since the settlement is taking place during New York business hours, DTC participants can employ their usual procedures for sending global securities to the respective depositary for the benefit of Clearstream customers or Euroclear participants. The sale proceeds will be available to the DTC seller on the settlement date. Thus, to the DTC participant a cross-market transaction will settle no differently than a trade between two DTC participants. Trading between Clearstream or Euroclear seller and DTC purchaser. Due to time zone differences in their favor, Clearstream customers and Euroclear participants may employ their customary procedures for transactions in which global securities are to be transferred by the respective clearing system, through the respective depositary, to a DTC participant. The seller will send instructions to Clearstream or Euroclear through a Clearstream customer or Euroclear participant at least one business day prior to settlement. In these cases, Clearstream or Euroclear will instruct the respective depositary, as appropriate, to deliver the securities to the DTC participant's account against payment. Payment will include interest accrued on the global securities from and including the last coupon payment date to and excluding the settlement date. The payment will then be reflected in the account of the Clearstream customer or Euroclear participant the following day, and receipt of the cash proceeds in the Clearstream customer's or Euroclear participant's account would be back-valued to the value date (which would be the preceding day, when settlement occurred in New York). Should the Clearstream customer or Euroclear participant have a line of credit with its respective clearing system and elect to be in debit in anticipation of receipt of the sale proceeds in its account, the back-valuation will extinguish any overdraft charges incurred over that one-day period. If settlement is not completed on the intended value date (that is, the trade fails), receipt of the cash proceeds in the Clearstream customer's or Euroclear participant's account would instead be valued as of the actual settlement date. Finally, day traders that use Clearstream or Euroclear and that purchase global securities from DTC participants for delivery to Clearstream customers or Euroclear participants should note that these trades would automatically fail on the sale side unless affirmative action were taken. At least three techniques should be readily available to eliminate this potential problem: o borrowing through Clearstream or Euroclear for one day (until the purchase side of the day trade is reflected in their Clearstream or Euroclear accounts) in accordance with the clearing system's customary procedures; o borrowing the global securities in the U.S. from a DTC participant no later than one day prior to settlement, which would give the global securities sufficient time to be reflected in their Clearstream or Euroclear account in order to settle the sale side of the trade; or o staggering the value dates for the buy and sell sides of the trade so that the value date for the purchase from the DTC participant is at least one day prior to the value date for the sale to the Clearstream customer or Euroclear participant. The securityholders who are not participants, either directly or indirectly, but who desire to purchase, sell or otherwise transfer ownership of, or other interest in, securities may do so only through direct and indirect participants. In addition, securityholders will receive all distributions of principal and interest from the indenture trustee or the applicable trustee through the participants who in turn will receive them from DTC. Under a book-entry format, securityholders may experience some delay in their receipt of 42 payments, since such payments will be forwarded by the applicable trustee to DTC's nominee. DTC will forward such payments to its participants which thereafter will forward them to indirect participants or securityholders. To the extent the related prospectus supplement provides that Book-Entry Securities will be issued, the only "noteholder" or "certificateholder," as applicable, will be DTC's nominee. Securityholders will not be recognized by the indenture trustee or the trustee as "noteholders" or "certificateholders" and securityholders will be permitted to exercise the rights of securityholders only indirectly through DTC and its participants. Under the rules, regulations and procedures creating and affecting DTC and its operations, DTC is required to make book-entry transfers of securities among participants on whose behalf it acts with respect to the securities and is required to receive and transmit distributions of principal and interest on the securities. Participants and indirect participants with which securityholders have accounts with respect to their respective securities similarly are required to make book-entry transfers and receive and transmit such payments on behalf of their respective securityholders. Accordingly, although securityholders will not possess their respective securities, the rules provide a mechanism by which participants will receive payments and will be able to transfer their interests. Because DTC can only act on behalf of participants, who in turn act on behalf of indirect participants and certain banks, the ability of a securityholder to pledge securities to persons or entities that do not participate in the DTC system, or otherwise take actions with respect to such securities, may be limited due to the lack of a physical certificate for such securities. DTC will advise the related administrator or servicer of each trust that it will take any action permitted to be taken by a securityholder under the related indenture, trust agreement or pooling and servicing agreement only at the direction of one or more participants to whose accounts with DTC such securities are credited. DTC may take conflicting actions with respect to other undivided interests to the extent that such actions are taken on behalf of participants whose holdings include such undivided interests. Non-U.S. holders of global securities will be subject to U.S. withholding taxes unless such holders meet certain requirements and deliver appropriate U.S. tax documents to the securities clearing organizations or their participants. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences." The Depositories. DTC is a limited-purpose trust company organized under the laws of the State of New York, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a "clearing corporation" within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code, and a "clearing agency" registered under the provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. DTC was created to hold securities for its participants and facilitate the clearance and settlement of securities transactions between participants through electronic book-entries, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates. Participants include securities brokers and dealers (who may include any of the underwriters of securities of the trust), banks, trust companies and clearing corporations and may include certain other organizations. Indirect access to the DTC system also is available to others such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a participant, either directly or indirectly. Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme ("Clearstream"), is incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg and is a professional depository, Clearstream holds securities for its customers and facilitates the clearance and settlement of securities transactions between Clearstream customers through electronic book-entry changes in accounts of Clearstream customers, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificates. Transactions may be settled by Clearstream in any of 28 currencies, including United States dollars. Clearstream provides to its Clearstream customers, among other things, 43 services for safekeeping, administration, clearance and settlement of internationally traded securities and securities lending and borrowing. Clearstream interfaces with domestic markets in several countries. As a professional depository, Clearstream is subject in Luxembourg to regulation by and supervision by the Luxembourg Monetary Institute. Clearstream customers are recognized financial institutions around the world, including underwriters, securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations and may include any of the underwriters of any securities of the trust. Indirect access to Clearstream is also available to others, such as banks, brokers, dealers and trust companies that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Clearstream customer, either directly or indirectly. The Euroclear system was created in 1968 to hold securities for its participants and to clear and settle transactions between Euroclear participants through simultaneous electronic book-entry delivery against payment, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of certificated securities and the risk from transfers of securities and cash that are not simultaneous. The Euroclear system has subsequently been extended to clear and settle transactions between Euroclear participants and counterparties both in Clearstream and in many domestic securities markets. Transactions may be settled in any of 34 currencies, including United States dollars. In addition to safekeeping (custody) and securities clearance and settlement, the Euroclear system includes securities lending and borrowing and money transfer services. The Euroclear system is operated by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (the "Euroclear operator"). All operations are conducted by the Euroclear operator and all Euroclear securities clearance accounts and cash accounts are accounts with the Euroclear operator. They are governed by the Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear and the related Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System and applicable Belgian law. These terms and conditions govern all transfers of securities and cash, within the Euroclear system, and receipts and withdrawals of securities and cash from the Euroclear system. All securities in the Euroclear system are held on a fungible basis without attribution of specific certificates to specific securities clearance accounts. Euroclear participants include banks (including central banks), securities brokers and dealers and other professional financial intermediaries and may include any of the underwriters of any trust securities. Indirect access to the Euroclear System is also available to other firms that clear through or maintain a custodial relationship with a Euroclear participant, either directly or indirectly. The Euroclear operator acts under the Terms and Conditions, the Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System and Belgian law only on behalf of Euroclear participants and has no record of or relationship with persons holding through Euroclear participants. Definitive Securities With respect to any class of notes and any class of certificates issued in book-entry form, such notes or certificates will be issued as Definitive Notes and Definitive Certificates, respectively, to noteholders or certificateholders or their respective nominees, rather than to DTC or its nominee, only if (1) the administrator of the trust or trustee of the trust determines that DTC is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its responsibilities as depository with respect to such securities and the administrator or the seller, as the case may be, is unable to locate a qualified successor and so notifies the indenture trustee or the trustee in writing or (2) after the occurrence of an Event of Default under the indenture or an Event of Servicing Termination with respect to such securities, holders representing at least a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the notes or the certificates, as the case may be, of such class advise the indenture trustee or the trustee through DTC in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system 44 through DTC (or a successor thereto) with respect to such notes or certificates is no longer in the best interest of the holders of such securities. Upon the occurrence of any event described in the immediately preceding paragraph, the indenture trustee or the trustee will be required to notify all applicable securityholders of a given class through participants of the availability of Definitive Securities. Upon surrender by DTC of the definitive securities representing the corresponding securities and receipt of instructions for re-registration, the indenture trustee or the trustee will reissue such securities as Definitive Securities to such securityholders. Distributions of principal of, and interest on, such Definitive Securities will thereafter be made by the indenture trustee or the trustee in accordance with the procedures set forth in the related indenture or the related trust agreement directly to holders of Definitive Securities in whose names the Definitive Securities were registered at the close of business on the record date specified for such securities in the related prospectus supplement. Such distributions will be made by check mailed to the address of such holder as it appears on the register maintained by the indenture trustee or trustee or, if the securityholder satisfies certain requirements in the related indenture or the related trust agreement, by wire transfer. The final payment on any such Definitive Security, however, will be made only upon presentation and surrender of such Definitive Security at the office or agency specified in the notice of final distribution to the applicable securityholders. Definitive Securities will be transferable and exchangeable at the offices of the indenture trustee or the trustee or of a registrar named in a notice delivered to holders of Definitive Securities. No service charge will be imposed for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the indenture trustee or the trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith. Reports to Securityholders On or prior to each payment date, the administrator or the servicer will prepare and provide to the related indenture trustee and/or trustee a statement to be delivered or made available to the securityholders on such payment date. With respect to securities of each trust, each such statement to be delivered or made available to securityholders will be based solely on the statement provided by the servicer and will include (to the extent applicable to those securityholders) the following information (and any other information so specified in the related prospectus supplement) with respect to such payment date or the period since the previous payment date, as applicable: (1) the amount of the distribution allocable to principal of each class of such securities; (2) the amount of the distribution allocable to interest on or with respect to each class of securities; (3) the amount of the distribution allocable to draws from any reserve account or payments in respect of any other credit, yield or payment enhancement arrangement; (4) the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the beginning of business on the first day of the preceding Collection Period, and close of business on the last day, of the preceding Collection Period; (5) any overcollateralization amount or credit enhancement amount; (6) the aggregate outstanding principal amount for each class of such securities, each after giving effect to all payments reported under clause (1) above on such date; 45 (7) the amount of the servicing fee paid to the servicer and the amount of any unpaid servicing fee with respect to the related Collection Period or Collection Periods, as the case may be; (8) the amount of the aggregate amount of losses realized on the receivables during that Collection Period calculated as described in the related prospectus supplement; (9) previously due and unpaid interest payments (plus interest accrued on such unpaid interest), if any, on each class of securities, and the change in such amounts from the preceding statement; (10) previously due and unpaid principal payments (plus interest accrued on such unpaid principal), if any, on each class of securities, and the change in such amounts from the preceding statement; (11) the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of receivables, if any, repurchased in such Collection Period; (12) the balance of any reserve account, if any, on such date, after giving effect to changes therein on such date; (13) the amount of Advances to be remitted by the servicer on such date; (14) for each such date during any Funding Period, the amount remaining in the pre-funding account; (15) for the first such date that is on or immediately following the end of any Funding Period, the amount remaining in the pre-funding account that has not been used to fund the purchase of Subsequent Receivables and is being passed through as payments of principal on the securities of such trust; and (16) the amount of any cumulative shortfall between payments due in respect of any credit, yield or payment enhancement arrangement and payments received in respect of such credit, yield or payment enhancement arrangement, and the change in any such shortfall from the preceding statement; (17) the applicable record dates, accrual dates and determination dates for calculating distributions and the actual payment date; (18) the amount of collections received on the receivables and any other assets of the trust for the related Collection Period and any fees and expenses of the trust paid with respect to the Collection Period; (19) delinquency and loss information for the receivables for the related Collection Period; and (20) information on any coverage ratios or performance triggers, if applicable, and an indication if such triggers have been reached. Each amount set forth under clauses (1), (2), (7), (9) and (10) with respect to the notes or the certificates of any trust will be expressed as a dollar amount per $1,000 of the initial principal amount of such securities. 46 Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the indenture trustee will make these reports available to each noteholder of record as of the most recent record date and to the trustee for the trustee to forward to each certificateholder of record as of the most recent record date. Such statements may be posted by the indenture trustee on its website. Within the prescribed period of time for federal income tax reporting purposes after the end of each calendar year during the term of each trust, the indenture trustee or the trustee will mail to each person who at any time during such calendar year has been a securityholder with respect to the trust and received any payment thereon a statement containing certain information for the purposes of such securityholder's preparation of federal income tax returns. See "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences." Reports to be filed with the SEC The depositor will file for each trust the reports required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These reports include but are not limited to: o Reports on Form 8-K (Current Report), following the issuance of the series of securities of the trust, including as exhibits to the Form 8-K (i), the agreements or other documents specified in the related prospectus supplement, if applicable, and (ii) the opinions related to the tax consequences and the legality of the securities being issued that are required to be filed under applicable securities laws; o Reports on Form 8-K (Current Report), following the occurrence of events specified in Form 8-K requiring disclosure, which are required to be filed within the time-frame specified in Form 8-K for that type of event; o Reports on Form 10-D (Asset-Backed Issuer Distribution Report), containing the distribution and pool performance information required on Form 10-D, which are required to be filed 15 days following the related payment date. The content of a report on Form 10-D will be substantially similar to the information to be furnished under "-- Reports to Securityholders" above; and o Report on Form 10-K (Annual Report), containing the items specified in Form 10-K with respect to a fiscal year and filing or furnishing, as appropriate, the required exhibits. These reports will not be made available on a website by the depositor, the servicer or the sponsor or any other party as these reports and exhibits can be inspected and copied at prescribed rates at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC and can also be viewed electronically at the Internet Web site of the SEC shown above under "Where You Can Find Additional Information" in this prospectus. You may obtain copies of these reports free of charge by contacting the depositor at the address set forth above under "Copies of the Documents" in this prospectus. The depositor does not intend to file with the SEC any reports required under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, with respect to a trust following completion of the reporting period required by Rule 15d-1 or Regulation 15D under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Unless specifically stated in the report, the reports and any information included in the report will neither be examined nor reported on by an independent public accountant. Each trust will have a separate file number assigned by the SEC, which, unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, is not available until filing of the final prospectus supplement for the trust. Reports filed with respect to a 47 trust with the SEC after the final prospectus supplement is filed will be available under the trust's specific number, which will be a series number assigned to the file number of the depositor, which is 333-131356. THE INDENTURE One or more classes of notes of a trust will be issued under the terms of an indenture between the trust and the indenture trustee specified in the related prospectus supplement, a form of which has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. This summary describes the material provisions common to the notes of each trust that issues notes; the attached prospectus supplement will give you additional information specific to the notes which you are purchasing. This summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all the provisions of the notes and the indenture. Events of Default With respect to the notes issued by a trust, unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, an "Event of Default" under the related indenture will consist of any of the following: o a default continuing for five days (or such longer period specified in the related prospectus supplement) or more in the payment of any interest on any notes (or if so specified in the related prospectus supplement, on the senior-most class of notes then outstanding); o a default in the payment of the principal of or any installment of the principal of any note when the same becomes due and payable; o a default in the observance or performance of any covenant or agreement of the trust made in the related indenture other than those dealt with specifically elsewhere as an Event of Default which default materially and adversely affects the noteholders and which default continues for a period of 60 days after notice thereof is given to the trust by the applicable indenture trustee or to the trust and such indenture trustee by the holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Controlling Class of notes (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement); o certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or liquidation of the applicable trust or its property as specified in the indenture; or o such other events, if any, set forth in the related prospectus supplement. The "Controlling Class" of notes of a trust will be its Class A Notes as long as they are outstanding. When they have been paid in full, the next most senior class of the trust's notes, if any, will become the Controlling Class so long as they are outstanding, and so on. If any Event of Default (or an event that, with notice or the passage of time or both, would be an Event of Default) occurs and is continuing and is known to the officer of the indenture trustee who has direct responsibility for the indenture trustee's administration of the indenture, the indenture trustee will mail to each noteholder a notice of that default within 90 days after it occurs. However, unless the default is a default in the payment of principal or interest, the indenture trustee may withhold such notice if and so long as a committee of its officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the noteholders. 48 The amount of principal due and payable to holders of a class of notes under the related indenture until its final scheduled payment date generally will be limited to amounts available to pay principal thereon. Therefore, the failure to pay principal on a class of notes generally will not result in the occurrence of an Event of Default under the indenture until the final scheduled payment date for such class of notes. Rights upon Event of Default. If an Event of Default should occur and be continuing with respect to the notes of any trust, the related indenture trustee or holders of a majority in principal amount of the Controlling Class of notes (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) may declare the principal of such notes to be immediately due and payable. Such declaration may be rescinded by the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Controlling Class (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) then outstanding if both of the following occur: o the issuer has paid or deposited with the indenture trustee enough money to pay: o all payments of principal of and interest on all notes and all other amounts that would then be due if the Event of Default causing the acceleration of maturity had not occurred; and o all sums paid or advanced by the indenture trustee and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, indemnities and advances of the indenture trustee and its agents and counsel; and o all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the notes that has become due solely by the acceleration, have been cured or waived. If an Event of Default has occurred with respect to the notes issued by any trust, the related indenture trustee may institute proceedings to collect amounts due or foreclose on trust property, exercise remedies as a secured party or sell the related receivables. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default resulting in acceleration of the notes, the indenture trustee may sell the related receivables if: o the holders of 100% of the notes issued by such trust consent to such sale (excluding notes held by the seller, the servicer or their affiliates), o the proceeds of such sale are sufficient to pay in full the principal of and the accrued interest on the notes of such trust at the date of such sale, or o there has been an Event of Default arising from the failure to pay principal or interest and the indenture trustee determines that the proceeds of the receivables would not be sufficient on an ongoing basis to make all payments on the notes of such trust as such payments would have become due if such obligations had not been declared due and payable, and such indenture trustee obtains the consent of the holders of at least 66(2)/3% of the aggregate outstanding amount of the Controlling Class of such trust. Any money received in realizing on trust property will first be applied to pay any due and unpaid fees and expenses of the indenture trustee. In addition, unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, if the Event of Default relates to a default by a trust in observing or performing any covenant or agreement (other than an Event 49 of Default relating to non-payment of interest or principal, insolvency or any other event which is otherwise specifically dealt with by the indenture), the indenture trustee is prohibited from selling the receivables unless the holders of all outstanding notes and certificates issued by that trust consent to such sale or the proceeds of such sale are sufficient to pay in full the principal of and the accrued interest on the outstanding notes and certificates of that trust. The indenture trustee may also elect to have the trust maintain possession of the receivables and apply collections as received without obtaining the consent of securityholders. Subject to the provisions of the applicable indenture relating to the duties of the related indenture trustee, if an Event of Default under the indenture occurs and is continuing with respect to notes of the trust, such indenture trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under such indenture at the request or direction of any of the holders of such notes, if such indenture trustee reasonably believes it will not be adequately indemnified against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in complying with such request. Subject to the provisions for indemnification and certain limitations contained in the related indenture, the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Controlling Class of a given trust (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) will have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding or any remedy available to the applicable indenture trustee, and the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Controlling Class (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) may, in certain cases, waive any default with respect thereto, except a default in the payment of principal or interest or a default in respect of a covenant or provision of such indenture that cannot be modified without the waiver or consent of the holders of all of the outstanding notes of the related trust. No holder of a note of any trust will have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the related indenture, unless-- o such holder previously has given to the applicable indenture trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default; o the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Controlling Class of such trust (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) have made written request to such indenture trustee to institute such proceeding in its own name as indenture trustee; o such holder or holders have offered such indenture trustee reasonable indemnity; o such indenture trustee has for 60 days after such notice, request and offer of indemnity failed to institute such proceeding; and o no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to such indenture trustee during such 60-day period by the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Controlling Class (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement). Each indenture trustee and the related noteholders, by accepting the related notes, will covenant that they will not at any time institute against the applicable trust any bankruptcy, reorganization or other proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law. With respect to any trust, neither the related indenture trustee nor the related trustee in its individual capacity, nor any holder of a certificate representing an ownership interest in the trust nor any of their 50 respective owners, beneficiaries, agents, officers, directors, employees, affiliates, successors or assigns will be personally liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on the related notes or for the agreements of the trust contained in the applicable indenture. Each Trust Will be Subject to Covenants Under the Indenture Each trust will be subject to the covenants discussed below, as provided in the related indenture. o Restrictions on merger and consolidation. The related trust may not consolidate with or merge into any other entity, unless: o the entity formed by or surviving such consolidation or merger is organized under the laws of the United States, any state or the District of Columbia, o such entity expressly assumes the trust's obligation to make due and punctual payments upon the notes of the related trust and the performance or observance of every agreement and covenant of the trust under the indenture, o no event that is (or with notice or lapse of time or both would become) an Event of Default under the indenture shall have occurred and be continuing immediately after such merger or consolidation, o the trust has been advised that the rating of the notes and the certificates of such trust then in effect would not be reduced or withdrawn by the Rating Agencies as a result of such merger or consolidation, o the trust has received an opinion of counsel to the effect that such consolidation or merger would have no material adverse federal income tax consequence to the trust or to any related noteholder or certificateholder, o any action as is necessary to maintain the lien and security interest created by the related indenture shall have been taken, and o the trust has received an opinion of counsel and officer's certificate each stating that such consolidation or merger satisfies all requirements under the related indenture. o Other negative covenants. Each trust will not, among other things-- o except as expressly permitted by the applicable Basic Documents, sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise dispose of any of the assets of the trust, o claim any credit on or make any deduction from the principal and interest payable in respect of the notes of the related trust (other than amounts withheld under the tax code or applicable state law) or assert any claim against any present or former holder of such notes because of the payment of taxes levied or assessed upon the trust or its property, o dissolve or liquidate in whole or in part, o permit the lien of the related indenture to be subordinated or otherwise impaired, 51 o permit the validity or effectiveness of the related indenture to be impaired or permit any person to be released from any covenants or obligations with respect to such notes under such indenture except as may be expressly permitted thereby or o permit any lien, charge, excise, claim, security interest, mortgage or other encumbrance to be created on or extend to or otherwise arise upon or burden the assets of the trust or any part thereof, or any interest therein or the proceeds thereof, except for tax, mechanics' or certain other liens and except as may be created by the terms of the related indenture. No trust may engage in any activity other than as specified under the section of the related prospectus supplement titled "The Trust." No trust will incur, assume or guarantee any indebtedness other than indebtedness incurred under the related notes and indenture, the related certificates and as a result of any Advances made to it by the servicer or otherwise in accordance with the related sale and servicing agreement or other documents relating to the trust. No trust may make any loans, advances, or guaranties or otherwise become liable for any debts, other than as contemplated by the Basic Documents. Additionally, except as permitted under the related documents and described in this prospectus and the related prospectus supplement, no trust will invest in other securities. Security Interest in Receivables The indenture to which a trust is a party will create a security interest in the receivables owned by that trust in favor of the related indenture trustee on behalf of the related noteholders. The trust will perfect such security interest by filing a financing statement under the uniform commercial code with the appropriate authority in the State of Delaware. The trust will be obligated to maintain such perfected security interest. List of Noteholders With respect to the notes of any trust, three or more holders of the notes of any trust or one or more holders of such notes evidencing not less than 25% of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Controlling Class (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) may, by written request to the related indenture trustee accompanied by a copy of the communication that the applicant proposes to send, obtain access to the list of all noteholders maintained by such indenture trustee for the purpose of communicating with other noteholders with respect to their rights under the related indenture or under such notes. Such indenture trustee may elect not to afford the requesting noteholders access to the list of noteholders if it agrees to mail the desired communication or proxy, on behalf of and at the expense of the requesting noteholders, to all noteholders of the trust. Annual Compliance Statement Each trust will be required to file annually with the related indenture trustee a written statement as to the fulfillment of its obligations under the indenture. Indenture Trustee's Annual Report If required by the Trust Indenture Act, the indenture trustee for each trust will be required to mail each year to all related noteholders a brief report relating to its eligibility and qualification to continue as indenture trustee under the related indenture, any amounts advanced by it under the indenture, the amount, interest rate and maturity date of certain indebtedness owing by the trust to the applicable 52 indenture trustee in its individual capacity, the property and funds physically held by such indenture trustee as such and any action taken by it that materially affects the related notes and that has not been previously reported. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture An indenture will be discharged with respect to the collateral securing the related notes upon the delivery to the related indenture trustee for cancellation of all such notes or, with certain limitations, upon deposit with such indenture trustee of funds sufficient for the payment in full of all such notes. Modification of Indenture Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, any trust, together with the related indenture trustee, may, without the consent of the noteholders of the trust, execute a supplemental indenture for any of the following purposes: o to correct or amplify the description of any property at any time subject to the lien of the indenture, or better to convey to the indenture trustee any property subject or required to be subjected to the lien of the indenture, or to subject to the lien of the indenture additional property; o to evidence the succession, in compliance with the applicable provisions of the indenture, of another person to the trust, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the trust in the indenture and in the notes; o to add to the covenants of the trust, for the benefit of the noteholders, or to surrender any right or power in the indenture conferred upon the trust; o to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the indenture trustee; o to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision in the indenture or in any supplemental indenture that may be inconsistent with any other provision in the indenture or in any supplemental indenture or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the indenture or under any supplemental indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of the indenture; provided that such action shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the noteholders; o to evidence and provide for the acceptance of the appointment under the indenture by a successor trustee with respect to the notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of the indenture as shall be necessary to facilitate the administration of the trusts under the indenture by more than one trustee; or o to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of the indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to effect the qualification of the indenture under the Trust Indenture Act or under any similar federal statute enacted after the date of the indenture and to add to the indenture such other provisions as may be required by the Trust Indenture Act. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the trust and the applicable indenture trustee may also enter into supplemental indentures, without obtaining the consent of the noteholders of the related trust, for the purpose of, among other things, adding any provisions to or changing in any 53 manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the related indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of such noteholders (except with respect to the matters listed in the next paragraph which require the approval of the noteholders) provided that: o such action will not, as evidenced by an opinion of counsel, materially adversely affect the interest of any noteholder; o such action will not, as confirmed by the Rating Agencies rating the notes of the related trust, cause the then current rating assigned to any class of such notes to be withdrawn or reduced; and o an opinion of counsel as to certain tax matters is delivered. Without the consent of the holder of each such outstanding note affected thereby (in addition to the satisfaction of each of the conditions set forth in the preceding paragraph), however, unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, no supplemental indenture will: o change the due date of any installment of principal of or interest on any such note or reduce the principal amount thereof, the interest rate thereon or the redemption price with respect thereto, change the application of the proceeds of a sale of the trust property to payment of principal and interest on the notes or change any place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any such note or any interest thereon is payable; o impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of certain provisions of the related indenture regarding payment; o reduce the percentage of the aggregate amount of the Controlling Class or of the notes, the consent of the holders of which is required for any such supplemental indenture or the consent of the holders of which is required for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of the related indenture or of certain defaults or events of default thereunder and their consequences as provided for in such indenture; o modify or alter the provisions of the related indenture regarding the voting of notes held by the applicable trust, any other obligor on such notes, the depositor, the seller or an affiliate of any of them; o reduce the percentage of the aggregate outstanding amount of the Controlling Class, the consent of the holders of which is required to direct the related indenture trustee to sell or liquidate the receivables after an Event of Default if the proceeds of such sale would be insufficient to pay the principal amount and accrued but unpaid interest on the outstanding notes and certificates of such trust; o decrease the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Controlling Class or of the notes required to amend the sections of the related indenture which specify the applicable percentage of aggregate principal amount of the notes of such trust necessary to amend such indenture or any of the other Basic Documents; o affect the calculation of the amount of interest or principal payable on any note on any payment date (including the calculation of any of the individual components of such calculation); 54 o affect the rights of the noteholders to the benefit of any provisions for the mandatory redemption of the notes provided in the related indenture; or o permit the creation of any lien ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the related indenture with respect to any of the collateral for such notes or, except as otherwise permitted or contemplated in such indenture, terminate the lien of such indenture on any such collateral or deprive the holder of any such note of the security afforded by the lien of such indenture. The Indenture Trustee The indenture trustee of notes for each trust will be specified in the related prospectus supplement. The indenture trustee for any trust may resign at any time, in which event the administrator of the trust, on behalf of the trust, will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee. The administrator of a trust, on behalf of the trust, will be obligated to remove an indenture trustee if such indenture trustee ceases to be eligible to continue as such under the related indenture or if such indenture trustee becomes insolvent. In such circumstances, the administrator of the trust will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee for the notes of the applicable trust. In addition, if the indenture trustee fails to provide certain information or perform certain duties related to the depositor's reporting obligations under the Exchange Act with respect to the trust, the depositor, may, without the consent of any of the holders of the notes or the certificates terminate the indenture trustee. In addition, a majority of the Controlling Class (or such other principal amount of notes as specified in the related prospectus supplement) may remove the indenture trustee without cause and may appoint a successor indenture trustee. Any resignation or removal of the indenture trustee for any series of notes does not become effective until acceptance of the appointment by the successor trustee for such series. To be eligible to act as indenture trustee, an entity must satisfy section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and have long-term debt that is rated investment grade by the applicable rating agencies or otherwise be at acceptable to those rating agencies. The administrator is responsible for the expenses incurred in changing an indenture trustee. If a trust issues a class of notes that is subordinated to one or more other classes of notes and an Event of Default occurs under the related indenture, the indenture trustee may be deemed to have a conflict of interest under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and may be required to resign as trustee for one or more of the classes of notes. In any such case, the indenture will provide for a successor indenture trustee to be appointed for those classes of notes. Any resignation or removal of the indenture trustee and appointment of a successor trustee for the notes of the trust does not become effective until acceptance of the appointment by the successor trustee for such trust. The indenture trustee is obligated to perform only those duties that are specifically assigned to it in the indenture. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the indenture trustee is required to exercise its rights under the indenture and use the same degree of skill and care in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own affairs. The indenture trustee may conclusively rely on certificates and opinions furnished to it in accordance with the indenture. The indenture does not require the indenture trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability if it has reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk is not reasonably assured to it. The indenture trustee is not liable for any error of judgment made by it in good faith. The indenture trustee will not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take pursuant to directions from the noteholders in accordance with the indenture. 55 We describe many of the duties of the indenture trustee under the indenture and the limitations on those duties above in this section "The Indenture". Also, upon receipt of instructions from the servicer for a payment date, the indenture trustee will apply the funds in the accounts of a trust to pay specified expenses of the trust and to make payments on the securities of that trust. Each trust is obligated to, or to cause the administrator to, indemnify the indenture trustee against any and all loss, liability and expense in connection with the performance of its duties under the Indenture, except for any loss, liability or expense incurred through the indenture trustee's own willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith. Any indemnification payments made by a trust would reduce the amount available to make payments on its securities. The indenture trustee will be a financial institution with which the depositor and its affiliates may have other banking relationships in the ordinary course of their businesses. In some instances the indenture trustee may be acting in a similar capacity for other asset-backed transactions of the depositor for similar or other asset types. The indenture trustee will charge fees for its services as such and such fees will be payable by the administrator. DESCRIPTION OF THE RECEIVABLES TRANSFER AND SERVICING AGREEMENTS The following summary describes certain terms of the documents pursuant to which the seller sells receivables to the depositor, the depositor sells those receivables to a trust and the servicer services the receivables on behalf of the trust. In the case of a trust that is not a grantor trust, those documents are the receivables purchase agreement and the sale and servicing agreement. For a grantor trust, they are the receivables purchase agreement and the pooling and servicing agreement. This section also describes certain provisions of the trust agreement for a trust that is not a grantor trust. Forms of those documents have been filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus forms a part. This summary describes the material provisions common to the securities of each trust; the attached prospectus supplement will give you additional information specific to the securities which you are purchasing. This summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, all the provisions of those documents. We discuss in general terms the servicer and its experience in originating and servicing motor vehicle loans under the "Sponsor, Seller and Servicer" section. We discuss the servicer's collection procedures under "The Bank's Portfolio of Motor Vehicle Loans--Collection Procedures". Unless otherwise stated in the prospectus supplement, there have been no material changes in the servicer's policies or procedures for its servicing of retail motor vehicle loans during the three years preceding the date of that prospectus supplement. Sale and Assignment of Receivables Sale and Assignment by the Seller. When the trust issues securities, the seller will sell and assign to the depositor under a receivables purchase agreement, without recourse, the seller's entire interest in the receivables, including its security interests in the related financed vehicles. Each such receivable will be identified in a schedule to the related receivable purchase agreement. Sale and Assignment by the Depositor. The depositor will sell and assign to the trust under a sale and servicing agreement or a pooling and servicing agreement, without recourse, the depositor's entire interest in the receivables, including the security interests in the related financed vehicles. Each of those receivables will be identified in a schedule to the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and 56 servicing agreement. The trustee of the trust will not independently verify the existence and eligibility of any receivables. The trustee of the trust will, concurrently with that sale and assignment, execute and deliver the related notes and/or certificates. Sale and Assignment of Subsequent Receivables. The related prospectus supplement for the trust will specify whether, and the terms, conditions and manner under which, Subsequent Receivables will be sold by the seller to the depositor and then to the applicable trust from time to time during any Funding Period on each Subsequent Transfer Date. Representations and Warranties. In each receivables purchase agreement the seller will represent and warrant to the depositor, and in each sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, the depositor will represent and warrant to the applicable trust, among other things, that at the date of issuance of the related notes and/or certificates or at the applicable Subsequent Transfer Date-- o each receivable (a) has been originated for the retail financing of a financed vehicle by an obligor located in one of the states or territories of the United States or the District of Columbia; (b) contains customary and enforceable provisions such that the rights and remedies of the holder thereof shall be adequate for realization against the collateral of the benefits of the security; and (c) provides for fully amortizing level scheduled monthly, semi-monthly or bi-weekly payments and for accrual of interest at a fixed rate according to the simple interest rate method; o each receivable and the sale of the related financed vehicle complies in all material respects with all requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, and regulations thereunder, including usury laws, and any consumer credit, equal opportunity and disclosure laws applicable to such receivable and sale; o each receivable constitutes the legal, valid, and binding payment obligation in writing of the obligor, enforceable by the holder thereof in all material respects in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to applicable bankruptcy and other similar laws and equitable principles relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights; o immediately prior to the sale and assignment thereof to the trust, each receivable was secured by a validly perfected first priority security interest in the financed vehicle in favor of the seller as secured party or all necessary action with respect to such receivable has been taken to perfect a first priority security interest in the related financed vehicle in favor of the seller as secured party, which security interest is assignable and has been so assigned by the seller to the depositor and, pursuant to the related agreement, by the depositor to the trust; o as of the cut-off date, there are no rights of rescission, setoff, counterclaim, or defense, and the seller has no knowledge of the same being asserted or threatened, with respect to any receivable; o as of the cut-off date, the seller had no knowledge of any liens or claims that have been filed, including liens for work, labor, materials or unpaid taxes relating to a financed vehicle, that would be liens prior to, or equal or coordinate with, the lien granted by the receivable; o except for payment defaults continuing for a period of not more than 30 days (or such other number of days specified in the related prospectus supplement) as of the cut-off date, the seller has no knowledge that a default, breach, violation, or event permitting acceleration under the terms of any receivable exists; the seller has no knowledge that a continuing condition that with notice or lapse of time would constitute a default, breach, violation or event permitting 57 acceleration under the terms of any receivable exists, and the seller has not waived any of the foregoing; o each receivable requires that the obligor thereunder obtain comprehensive and collision insurance covering the financed vehicle; and o each receivable satisfies the criteria for the selection of receivables for the trust described in the related prospectus supplement. Seller Must Repurchase the Receivables Relating to a Breach of Representation or Warranty That has a Materially Adverse Effect. As of the last day of the first or second Collection Period following the discovery by or notice to the seller of a breach of any representation or warranty of the seller which materially and adversely affects the interests of the related trust in any receivable, the depositor, unless the breach has been cured, will be obligated to repurchase such receivable from the trust and the seller will be obligated to repurchase such receivable from the depositor. However, the depositor will be obligated to repurchase such receivable only if the seller performs its obligation to repurchase such receivable from the depositor. Alternatively, if the related prospectus supplement so provides, the depositor may assign to the trust the representations and warranties made by the seller under the receivables purchase agreement and not itself make any representations and warranties to the trust in respect of the receivables. The repurchase price will equal the "Purchase Amount", which is the unpaid principal balance of that receivable plus accrued interest thereon at the weighted average interest rate borne by the trust's securities through the end of the related Collection Period. The purchase obligation will constitute the sole remedy available to the certificateholders or the trustee and any noteholders or indenture trustee in respect of the related trust for any such uncured breach. Servicing of the Receivables. Under each sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer will service and administer the receivables held by each trust and, as custodian on behalf of the trust, will maintain possession of the installment loan agreements and any other documents relating to such receivables. To assure uniform quality in servicing the receivables, as well as to facilitate servicing and save administrative costs, the installment loan agreements and other documents relating thereto will not be physically segregated from other similar documents that are in the servicer's possession or otherwise stamped or marked to reflect the transfer to the trust. The obligors under the receivables will not be notified of the transfer. However, Uniform Commercial Code financing statements reflecting the sale and assignment of the receivables by the seller to the depositor and by depositor to the trust will be filed, and the servicer's accounting records and computer systems will be marked to reflect such sale and assignment. Because those receivables will remain in the servicer's possession and will not be stamped or otherwise marked to reflect the assignment to the trust if a subsequent purchaser were to obtain physical possession of such receivables without knowledge of the assignment, the trust's interest in the receivables could be defeated. See "Some Important Legal Issues Relating to the Receivables--Security Interests in the Financed Vehicles." Accounts For each trust, the servicer will establish and maintain one or more collection accounts in the name of the indenture trustee on behalf of the related securityholders or, if the trust does not issue notes, in the name of the trustee for the related certificateholders. The servicer will deposit all collections on the receivables into the collection account. If the trust issues notes, the servicer or the indenture trustee may establish and maintain a distribution account (which may be a subaccount of the collection account), in the name of the indenture trustee on behalf of such noteholders, into which amounts released from the collection account and any other accounts of the trust for payment to such noteholders will be deposited 58 and from which distributions of interest and/or principal to such noteholders will be made. The servicer or the trustee may establish and maintain one or more certificate distribution accounts, in the name of the trustee on behalf of the certificateholders, into which amounts released from the collection account and any other accounts of the trust for distribution to the certificateholders will be deposited and from which all distributions to the certificateholders will be made. Any other accounts to be established with respect to securities of the trust, including any pre-funding account, yield supplement account or reserve account, will be described in the related prospectus supplement. For any securities of the trust, funds in the trust accounts will be invested as provided in the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement in Permitted Investments. Permitted Investments satisfy criteria established by the Rating Agencies and are generally limited to obligations or securities that mature on or before the date of the next payment date. However, to the extent permitted by the Rating Agencies, funds in any reserve account may be invested in securities that will not mature prior to the date of the next distribution on the notes or certificates and which will not be sold to meet any shortfalls. Thus, the amount of cash available in any reserve account at any time may be less than the balance of the reserve account. If the amount required to be withdrawn from any reserve account to cover shortfalls in collections on the related receivables (as provided in the related prospectus supplement) exceeds the amount of cash in the reserve account, a temporary shortfall in the amounts distributed to the related noteholders or certificateholders could result, which could, in turn, increase the average lives of the notes or the certificates of such trust. Net investment earnings on funds deposited in the trust accounts shall be deposited in the applicable collection account or distributed as provided in the related prospectus supplement. The trust accounts will be maintained as Eligible Deposit Accounts, which are accounts at a depository institution satisfying certain requirements of the Rating Agencies. Except to the extent, if at all, covered under the annual accountants attestation report described under " Evidence of Compliance", there will not be any independent verification of a trust's accounts or the activity in those accounts. Servicing Procedures The Bank will act as servicer and make reasonable efforts to collect all payments due with respect to the receivables held by each trust and will use the same collection procedures that it follows with respect to Motor Vehicle Loans that it services for itself, in a manner consistent with the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement. Consistent with its normal procedures, the servicer may, in its discretion, arrange with the obligor on a receivable to defer or modify the payment schedule. Some of such arrangements may require the servicer to purchase the receivable while others may result in the servicer making Advances with respect to the receivable. The servicer may be obligated to purchase a receivable if, among other things, it extends the date for final payment by the obligor of such receivable beyond the last day of the Collection Period during which the latest maturing receivable matures, as set forth in the related prospectus supplement, or changes the contract rate of interest or the total amount or number of scheduled payments of such receivable. If the related prospectus supplement so specifies, the servicer, in its sole discretion, may repurchase any receivable as to which the related obligor has indicated that the obligor intends to prepay in full. The servicer may, in its discretion, also offer certain obligors payment extensions in respect of receivables that are not delinquent. If the servicer determines that eventual payment in full of a receivable is unlikely, the servicer will follow its normal practices and procedures to realize upon the receivable, 59 including the repossession and disposition of the financed vehicle securing the receivable at a public or private sale, or the taking of any other action permitted by applicable law. The servicer will be entitled to recover from the related proceeds all reasonable expenses incurred by it in the course of converting the financed vehicle into cash proceeds. The servicer in its discretion may also waive the payment of any late payment charge or any other fee due from an obligor. Collections With respect to securities of each trust, so long as the Bank is the servicer and provided that (1) there exists no Event of Servicing Termination and (2) each other condition to making monthly deposits as may be required by the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement is satisfied, the servicer may retain all payments on the related receivables received from obligors and all proceeds of the related receivables collected during a Collection Period until the business day preceding the applicable payment date or the payment date itself. However, if such conditions are not met, the servicer will be required to deposit such amounts into the related collection account not later than the second business day after receipt. The servicer or the seller, as the case may be, will remit the aggregate Purchase Amount of any receivables to be purchased from the trust to its collection account on or prior to the business day preceding the applicable payment date. Pending deposit into the collection account, collections may be employed by the servicer at its own risk and for its own benefit and will not be segregated from its own funds. To the extent set forth in the related prospectus supplement, the servicer may, in order to satisfy the requirements described above, obtain a letter of credit or other security for the benefit of the related trust to secure timely remittances of collections of the related receivables and payment of the aggregate Purchase Amount with respect to receivables purchased by the servicer. Collections on a receivable made during a Collection Period shall be applied first to any outstanding Advances made by the servicer with respect to such receivable (to the extent described below under "--Advances"), second, to the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, third, to the payment of principal and, fourth, to the payment of any late fees or certain other fees or charges. Advances The servicer will make a payment with respect to each receivable (other than a receivable designated as a defaulted receivable) equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the product of the principal balance of such receivable as of the first day of the related Collection Period and one-twelfth of its contract rate of interest, over (b) the interest actually received by the servicer with respect to such receivable from the obligor or from the payment of the Purchase Amount during or with respect to such Collection Period (any such payment, an "Advance") unless the servicer, in its sole discretion, determines that such Advance is not recoverable from subsequent payments on such receivable or from funds on deposit in the reserve account, if any. Because the difference between the amortization rates among receivables with scheduled monthly payments, semi-monthly payments and bi-weekly payments is minimal, Advances with respect to receivables will be calculated in the same manner for all receivables. In the event that the servicer does not make an Advance, any payment deficiency on the securities resulting therefrom will be funded by the application of available amounts, if any, in the reserve account or any other available credit enhancement. To the extent that the amount set forth in clause (b) above with respect to a receivable is greater than the amount set forth in clause (a) above with respect thereto, such amount shall be paid to the servicer on the related payment date to reimburse the servicer for previous unreimbursed Advances (the "Outstanding Advances") with respect to such receivable. Any such reimbursement will be from past due interest paid by the obligor under such receivable. Also, the servicer will reimburse itself for an 60 Outstanding Advance for a receivable out of any funds of the trust when the receivable is designated a defaulted receivable. The servicer will deposit all Advances into the collection account on the business day immediately preceding the related payment date. Servicing Compensation and Expenses The servicer will be entitled to receive a servicing fee for each Collection Period equal to a per annum percentage (specified in the related prospectus supplement) of the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the first day of such Collection Period. The servicer also will be entitled to receive as a supplemental servicing fee for each Collection Period any late fees and other administrative fees and expenses collected during such Collection Period. The servicer does not currently charge such fees and expenses, but may do so in the future. If specified in the related prospectus supplement, the supplemental servicing fee will include net investment earnings on funds deposited in the trust accounts and other accounts with respect to the trust. The servicer will be paid the servicing fee and the supplemental servicing fee for each Collection Period on the applicable payment date. The servicing fee and the supplemental servicing fee are intended to compensate the servicer for performing the functions of a third party servicer of the receivables as an agent for the trust, including collecting and posting all payments, responding to inquiries of obligors on the receivables, investigating delinquencies, sending payment coupons to obligors, reporting federal income tax information to obligors, paying costs of collections and repossessions, and policing the collateral. The fees will also compensate the servicer for administering the particular receivables pool, including making advances, accounting for collections, furnishing monthly and annual statements to the related trustee and indenture trustee with respect to distributions, and generating federal income tax information for the trust. The fees, if any, will also reimburse the servicer for certain taxes, the fees of the related trustee and indenture trustee, if any, accounting fees, outside auditor fees, data processing costs, and other costs incurred in connection with administering the applicable receivables. The amount of the servicing fee was determined in light of the foregoing duties of the servicer as well as with a view toward providing the servicer with a reasonable profit. The servicing fee, together with additional compensation consisting of investment earnings described above, is comparable to fees that would be paid to parties unaffiliated with the Bank. Distributions With respect to securities of each trust, beginning on the payment date specified in the related prospectus supplement, distributions of principal and interest (or, where applicable, of principal or interest only) on each class of such securities entitled thereto will be made by the applicable trustee or indenture trustee to the noteholders and the certificateholders of such trust. The timing, calculation, allocation, order, source, priorities of and requirements for all payments to each class of securityholders of such trust will be set forth in the related prospectus supplement. Allocation of Collections on Receivables. On the business day before each payment date, the servicer shall determine the amount in the collection account available to make payments or distributions to securityholders on the related payment date and will direct the indenture trustee, if any, and/or the trustee to make the distributions as described in the related prospectus supplement. 61 Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement Any Form of Credit Enhancement May be Limited and May Only Apply to Certain Classes of Securities. The presence of a reserve account and other forms of credit, yield or payment enhancement for the benefit of any class or securities of the trust is intended to (1) enhance the likelihood of receipt by the securityholders of such class of the full amount of principal and interest due thereon and (2) decrease the likelihood that such securityholders will experience losses. The various types of credit, yield or payment enhancement that a trust may have are listed under "Summary--Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement." The credit, yield or payment enhancement for a class of securities may not provide protection against all risks of loss and may not guarantee repayment of the entire principal amount and interest thereon. If losses occur which exceed the amount covered by any credit enhancement or which are not covered by any credit enhancement, securityholders will bear their allocable share of deficiencies, as described in the related prospectus supplement. Depositor May Replace Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement with Rating Confirmation. If so provided in the related prospectus supplement, the depositor may replace the credit, yield or payment enhancement for any class of securities with another form of credit, yield or payment enhancement without the consent of securityholders, provided the Rating Agencies confirm in writing that substitution will not result in the reduction or withdrawal of the rating of any class of securities of the related trust. Reserve Account. If so provided in the related prospectus supplement, the reserve account will be funded by an initial deposit by the trust or the depositor on the closing date in the amount set forth in the related prospectus supplement and, if the related trust has a Funding Period, will also be funded by the trust on each Subsequent Transfer Date to the extent described in the related prospectus supplement. As further described in the related prospectus supplement, the amount on deposit in a reserve account will be increased on each payment date thereafter up to the specified reserve balance by the deposit therein of the amount of collections on the related receivables available therefor or as described in the prospectus supplement. The related prospectus supplement will describe the circumstances and manner under which distributions may be made out of a reserve account. Depositor May Assign Rights in Reserve Account Subject to Conditions. The depositor may at any time, without consent of the securityholders of a trust, sell, transfer, convey or assign in any manner its rights to and interests in distributions from a reserve account of that trust provided that-- o the Rating Agencies confirm in writing that such action will not result in a reduction or withdrawal of the rating of any class of securities issued by that trust; o the depositor provides to the applicable trustee and any indenture trustee an opinion of counsel from independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be classified as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes; and o such transferee or assignee agrees in writing to take positions for federal income tax purposes consistent with the federal income tax positions previously taken by the depositor. Net Deposits As an administrative convenience and for so long as certain conditions are satisfied (see "Collections" above), the servicer will be permitted to make the deposit of collections, aggregate Advances and payments of Purchase Amounts for any trust for or with respect to the related Collection Period, net of 62 distributions to the servicer as reimbursement of Advances or payment of fees to the servicer with respect to such Collection Period. The servicer, however, will account to the trustee, any indenture trustee, the noteholders, if any, and the certificateholders with respect to each trust as if all deposits, distributions, and transfers were made individually. Statements to Trustees Prior to each payment date with respect to securities of each trust, the servicer will provide to the applicable indenture trustee, if any, and the applicable trustee as of the close of business on the last day of the preceding Collection Period the report that is required to be provided to securityholders of such trust described under "Certain Information Regarding the Securities--Reports to Securityholders." Evidence as to Compliance Each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement will require that the servicer provide annually to the indenture trustee or the trustee, as applicable, a report on its assessment of compliance during the previous calendar year with the minimum specified servicing criteria required under the Exchange Act. The servicing criteria generally include four categories: o general servicing considerations; o cash collection and administration; o investor remittances and reporting; and o pool asset administration. The report is required to disclose any material instance of noncompliance with the servicing criteria. Each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and service agreement will provide that a firm of independent public accountants will furnish annually to the indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, an attestation as to whether the servicer's assessment of its compliance with the applicable servicing criteria referred to in the preceding paragraph is fairly stated in all material respects, or a statement that the firm cannot express that view. Under each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement the servicer will also be obligated to deliver annually to the indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, a certificate signed by an officer of the servicer stating that the servicer has fulfilled its obligations in all material respects under the sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, as applicable, throughout the preceding calendar year (or, in the case of the first such certificate, from the Closing Date). However, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation in any material respect, the certificate will describe each such default. The servicer has agreed to give each indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, notice of Events of Servicing Termination (or events that with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both would become Events of Servicing Termination) under the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement. Each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement will provide that a firm of independent certified public accountants will furnish to the related trust and indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, annually a statement as to compliance by the servicer during the preceding twelve months (or, 63 in the case of the first such certificate, from the applicable closing date) with certain standards relating to the servicing of the applicable receivables. Each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement will also provide for delivery to the related trust and indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, substantially simultaneously with the delivery of such accountants' statement referred to above, of a certificate signed by an officer of the servicer stating that the servicer has fulfilled its obligations under that agreement throughout the preceding twelve months (or, in the case of the first such certificate, from the closing date) or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, describing each such default. Copies of such statements and certificates may be obtained by securityholders by a request in writing addressed to the applicable trustee. Certain Matters Regarding the Servicer; Limitation on Liability Each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement will provide that the Bank may not resign from its obligations and duties as servicer thereunder, except upon a determination that the Bank's performance of such duties is no longer permissible under applicable law. No such resignation will become effective until the related indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, or a successor servicer has assumed the Bank's servicing obligations and duties under such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement. The servicer will also have the right to delegate any of its duties under those agreements to a third party without the consent of any securityholder or the confirmation of any rating. Notwithstanding any such delegation, the servicer will remain responsible and liable for its duties under those agreements as if it had made no delegations. Each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement will further provide that neither the servicer nor any of its directors, officers, employees and agents will be under any liability to the related trust or the related noteholders or certificateholders for taking any action or for refraining from taking any action under such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement or for errors in judgment; except that neither the servicer nor any such person will be protected against any liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or negligence in the performance of the servicer's duties thereunder or by reason of reckless disregard of its obligations and duties thereunder, except that employees of the servicer or its affiliates will be protected against liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of negligence. Such agreement will further provide that the servicer, and its directors, officers, employees and agents are entitled to indemnification by the trust for, and will be held harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred in connection with any legal action relating to the servicer's performance of its duties under such agreement other than any loss, liability or expense incurred by reason of the servicer's willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence in the performance of duties or by reason of the servicer's reckless disregard of obligations and duties thereunder. However, such indemnification will be paid on a payment date only after all payments required to be made to securityholders and the servicer have been made and all amounts required to be deposited in enhancement accounts have been deposited. In addition, each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement will provide that the servicer is under no obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action that is not incidental to the servicer's servicing responsibilities under such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement and that, in its opinion, may cause it to incur any expense or liability. The servicer may, however, undertake any reasonable action that it may deem necessary or desirable in respect of a particular sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, the rights and duties of the parties thereto, and the interests of the related securityholders thereunder. In such event, the legal expenses and costs of such action and any liability resulting therefrom will be expenses, costs, and liabilities of the trust, and the servicer will be entitled to be reimbursed therefor. 64 Under the circumstances specified in each sale and servicing agreement and pooling and servicing agreement, any entity into which the servicer may be merged or consolidated, or any entity resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the servicer is a party, or any entity succeeding to the business of the servicer or, with respect to its obligations as servicer, any entity 50% or more of the equity of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by USAA, which corporation or other entity in each of the foregoing cases assumes the obligations of the servicer, will be the successor of the servicer under such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement. Events of Servicing Termination Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, "Events of Servicing Termination" under each sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement will consist of: o any failure by the servicer (or, so long as the seller is the servicer, the seller) to deliver to the trustee or indenture trustee for distribution to the securityholders of the related trust or for deposit in any of the trust accounts or the certificate distribution account any required payment, which failure continues unremedied for five business days after written notice from the trustee or indenture trustee is received by the servicer or the seller, as the case may be, or after discovery by an officer of the servicer or the seller, as the case may be; o any failure by the servicer (or, so long as the seller is the servicer, the seller) duly to observe or perform in any material respect any other covenant or agreement in such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, which failure materially and adversely affects the rights of the noteholders or the certificateholders of the related trust and which continues unremedied for 90 days after the giving of written notice of such failure (A) to the servicer by the trustee or the indenture trustee or (B) to the servicer, the trustee or the indenture trustee by holders of notes or certificates of such trust, as applicable, of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Controlling Class (and after the notes have been paid in full or if the trust has not issued notes, the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% of the certificate balance) (or such other amount of notes or certificates as specified in the related prospectus supplement); o if the Bank or another depository institution is not the servicer, the occurrence of certain insolvency events specified in the sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement with respect to the servicer; and o such other events, if any, set forth in the related prospectus supplement. Rights Upon Event of Servicing Termination As long as an Event of Servicing Termination under a sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement remains unremedied, the related indenture trustee or holders of not less than a majority of the Controlling Class (and after the notes have been paid in full or if the trust has not issued notes, the trustee or the holders of not less than a majority of the certificate balance) (or such other amount of notes or certificates as specified in the related prospectus supplement) may terminate all the rights and obligations of the servicer under such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, whereupon such indenture trustee or trustee or a successor servicer appointed by such indenture trustee or trustee will succeed to all the responsibilities, duties and liabilities of the servicer under such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement and will be entitled to similar compensation arrangements. If the indenture trustee is unwilling or legally unable to so act, it 65 may appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of, a successor servicer with a net worth of at least $100,000,000 and whose regular business includes the servicing of motor vehicle receivables. The indenture trustee or trustee, as applicable, may make arrangements for compensation to be paid to the successor that is not greater than the servicing compensation to the servicer under the sale and servicing agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement. The terminated servicer is obligated to cooperate with the successor servicer in transferring documentation and any accounts related to the receivables that are held by it to the successor servicer. The terminated servicer is responsible for the reasonable costs of such transfer. A trust will not set aside any funds to cover the costs of such a transfer. If, however, a receiver, bankruptcy trustee or similar official has been appointed for the servicer, and no Event of Servicing Termination other than such appointment has occurred, such receiver, bankruptcy trustee or official may have the power to prevent such indenture trustee, such noteholders, the trustee or such certificateholders from effecting a transfer of servicing. In the event that such indenture trustee or trustee of the trust is legally unable to act as servicer, it may appoint, or petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of, a successor servicer. Waiver of Past Events of Servicing Termination The holders of not less than a majority of the Controlling Class (and after the notes have been paid in full or if the trust has not issued notes, the trustee or the holders of not less than a majority of the certificate balance) (or such other amount of notes or certificates as specified in the related prospectus supplement) may, on behalf of all such securityholders, waive any Event of Servicing Termination under the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement and its consequences, except an Event of Servicing Termination consisting of a failure to make any required deposits to or payments from any of the trust accounts in accordance with such sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, which shall require the unanimous vote of all holders of the outstanding securities. Amendment The parties to each of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements may amend any of such agreements, without the consent of the related securityholders, to add any provisions to or change or eliminate any of the provisions of such Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements or modify the rights of such securityholders; provided that such action will not materially and adversely affect the interest of any such securityholder as evidenced by either (i) an opinion of counsel or an officer's certificate to that effect and (ii) notification by each Rating Agency then rating any of the related securities that the rating then assigned to the securities will not be reduced or withdrawn by such Rating Agency. The Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements may also be amended by the seller, the servicer, the depositor, the related trustee and any related indenture trustee with the consent of the holders of any notes of such trust evidencing not less than a majority in principal amount of the notes, and the holders of the certificates of such trust evidencing not less than a majority of the certificate balance of the certificates then outstanding (or such other amount of notes or certificates as specified in the related prospectus supplement), to add any provisions to or change or eliminate any of the provisions of such Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements or modify the rights of the securityholders; provided, however, that no such amendment may (1) increase or reduce in any manner the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, or change the allocation or priority of, collections of payments on the related receivables or distributions that are required to be made for the benefit of such securityholders or change any interest rate on the securities or the amount required to be on deposit in the reserve account, if any, or (2) reduce the percentage of the notes or certificates of such trust the holders of which are required to 66 consent to any such amendment, without the consent of the holders of all the outstanding notes and certificates of such trust. Payment of Notes The indenture trustee will agree in the related indenture that, upon the payment in full of all outstanding notes of a given trust and the satisfaction and discharge of the related indenture, to continue to carry out its obligations under the sale and servicing agreement as agent for the trustee of the trust. Termination With respect to each trust, the obligations of the servicer, the seller, the depositor, the related trustee and the related indenture trustee under the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements will terminate upon the earlier of (1) the maturity or other liquidation of the last related receivable and the disposition of any amounts received upon liquidation of any such remaining receivables and (2) the payment to noteholders and certificateholders of the related trust of all amounts required to be paid to them under the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements. In order to avoid excessive administrative expense, the servicer will be permitted at its option to purchase from each trust as of the end of any applicable Collection Period, if the aggregate principal balance of the receivables held by the trust is 10% (or such other percentage specified in the related prospectus supplement) or less of the aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the cut-off date, all remaining related receivables at a price equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate of the Purchase Amounts thereof as of the end of such Collection Period, after giving effect to the receipt of any monies collected on the receivables, and (ii) the fair market value of the receivables. However, the servicer will not be entitled to exercise such purchase option if such purchase is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the outstanding securities in full. If and to the extent provided in the related prospectus supplement with respect to the trust, the applicable trustee will, within ten days following a payment date as of which the aggregate principal balance of the receivables is equal to or less than the percentage of the initial aggregate principal balance of the receivables as of the cut-off date specified in the related prospectus supplement, solicit bids for the purchase of the receivables remaining in the trust in the manner and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in such prospectus supplement. If the applicable trustee receives satisfactory bids as described in such prospectus supplement, then the receivables remaining in the trust will be sold to the highest bidder. As more fully described in the related prospectus supplement, any outstanding notes of the related trust will be paid in full concurrently with either of the events specified above and the subsequent distribution to the related certificateholders of all amounts required to be distributed to them under the applicable trust agreement will effect early retirement of the certificates of such trust. List of Certificateholders With respect to the certificates of any trust, three or more holders of the certificates of such trust or one or more holders of such certificates evidencing not less than 25% of the certificate balance of such certificates (or such other percentage specified in the related prospectus supplement) may, by written request to the related trustee accompanied by a copy of the communication that the applicant proposes to send, obtain access to the list of all certificateholders maintained by the trustee for the purpose of communicating with other certificateholders with respect to their rights under the related trust agreement or pooling and servicing agreement or under such certificates. 67 Administration Agreement The Bank will be the administrator of each trust that is not a grantor trust and will agree, to the extent provided in an administration agreement, to provide the notices and certain reports and to perform other administrative obligations of the trust and the trustee required by the related indenture. The administrator will be entitled to a periodic administration fee which will be paid by the seller as compensation for the performance of the administrator's obligations under the applicable administration agreement and as reimbursement for its expenses related thereto. The administrator may resign its duties under the administration agreement upon at least 60 days' prior written notice. The trust may remove the administrator without cause upon at least 60 days' prior written notice. The trust may also remove the administrator upon (i) its default in any material respect in its duties under the administration agreement that remains uncured for ten days (or such longer period acceptable to the trust) or (ii) certain insolvency events in respect of the administrator. No such resignation or removal will be effective until a successor has agreed to be the administrator and the applicable rating agencies have confirmed the ratings of the securities of that trust. Duties of Trustee The trustee will not make any representations as to the validity or sufficiency of any agreements, the securities (other than its execution and authentication of the securities), or the receivables or any related documents, and will not be accountable for the use or application by the seller or the servicer of any funds paid to the seller or the servicer in respect of the securities or the receivables, or any monies prior to the time such monies are deposited into any account in its name. The trustee will not independently verify any receivables. The trustee will be required to perform only those duties specifically required of it under the trust agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement. Generally, those duties will be limited to the receipt of the various certificates, reports, or other instruments required to be furnished to the trustee under the applicable agreement, in which case it will only be required to examine them to determine whether they conform to the requirements of the agreement. The trustee will not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by the trust agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement or to make any investigation of matters arising thereunder or to institute, conduct, or defend any litigation thereunder or in relation thereto at the request, order, or direction of any of the certificateholders, unless the certificateholders have offered to the trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses, and liabilities which the trustee may incur. No certificateholder will have any right under the trust agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement to institute any proceeding with respect to that agreement, unless such holder previously has given to the trustee written notice of default and unless, with respect to a class of certificates, the holders of certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the certificate balance of that class of certificates have made written request upon the trustee to institute such proceeding in its own name as trustee thereunder and have offered to the trustee reasonable indemnity and the trustee for 30 days has neglected or refused to institute any such proceedings. The Trustee The trustee will be named in the related prospectus supplement. The trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice to the depositor or the servicer, in which event the trustee, in the case of a pooling and servicing agreement, or the depositor or the administrator, in the case of a trust agreement, will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee. The trustee will be obligated to resign if the trustee ceases to be eligible to continue as such under the trust agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement, becomes 68 legally unable to act, or becomes insolvent. In such circumstances, the trustee, in the case of a pooling and servicing agreement, or the depositor or the administrator, in the case of a trust agreement, will be obligated to appoint a successor trustee. In addition, if the trustee fails to provide certain information related to the depositor's reporting obligations under the Exchange Act with respect to the trust, the depositor, may, without the consent of any of the holders of the notes or the certificates terminate the trustee. Any resignation or removal of the trustee and appointment of a successor trustee will not become effective until acceptance of the appointment by the successor trustee. The trust agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement will provide that the servicer will pay the trustee's fees. That agreement will further provide that the trustee will be entitled to indemnification by the servicer for, and will be held harmless against, any loss, liability, or expense incurred by the trustee not resulting from the trustee's own willful misfeasance, bad faith, or negligence (other than by reason of a breach of any of its representations or warranties set forth in the agreement). If the servicer fails to indemnify the trustee, the trustee will be entitled to be indemnified by the trust. Any such indemnification will be paid on a payment date only after all amounts required to be paid to the securityholders have been paid and certain other distributions have been made and, with respect to a successor servicer, if any, after the servicing fee has been paid. The seller, the servicer and their respective affiliates may have normal banking relationships with the trustee and its affiliates. CREDIT, YIELD OR PAYMENT ENHANCEMENT Credit, yield and other enhancements are intended to enhance the likelihood of full payment of principal and interest due and to decrease the likelihood that securityholders will experience losses. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the credit, yield or other enhancements for a class or series of securities will not provide protection against all risks of loss and will not guarantee repayment of the entire principal balance and accrued interest. If losses occur which exceed the amount covered by any credit enhancement or which are not covered by any credit enhancement, securityholders of any class or series will bear their allocable share of losses, as described in the related prospectus supplement. A prospectus supplement for a series will specify whether there is any credit, yield or cash flow enhancement and provide more detail on how it works. Examples are: o Subordination of one or more classes of securities of a series - Such subordination is usually accomplished through the application of available funds to the payment of principal or interest on one or more classes of senior securities before any available funds are applied to the payment of principal or interest on one or more classes of subordinated securities; o Reserve accounts - Funds may be deposited in a reserve fund at the commencement of a transaction or out of available funds during the transaction as described above under "Description of the Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreement - Credit, Yield or Payment Enhancement", as specified in the prospectus supplement; o Overcollateralization - Overcollateralization is the amount by which the principal balance of the pool of receivables for a trust exceeds the aggregate principal balance of the specified securities issued by that trust; 69 o Excess interest collections - Funds may be deposited in an account from the excess of the anticipated interest collections on the receivables over servicing fees, interest on the trust's securities and any amounts required to be deposited in a reserve account; o Letters of credit - The indenture trustee or the owner trustee would have the right to draw on a letter of credit issued by a financial institution or other entity to cover losses on the receivables or shortfalls in payments due on specified securities issued by the related trust; o Credit or liquidity facilities - The facility, issued by a financial institution or other entity, would cover specified losses on the receivables or shortfalls in payments due on specified securities issued by the related trust; o Insurance policies, surety bonds and guaranties - An insurance policy, surety bonds or guaranty, issued by a financial guaranty insurer or other insurer, would cover shortfalls in payment due on one or more of the securities issued by the related trust; o Guaranteed investment contracts - Specified available funds may be invested under a guaranteed investment contract issued by an insurance company, financial institution or other entity; o Interest rate swaps, caps or floors or currency swaps - A trust may enter into an interest rate swap, cap or floor to enable it to pay a fixed or floating rate of interest on one or more classes of its securities, or pay a floating rate based on a particular interest rate index to floating based on another interest rate index; to provide payments in the event that any interest rate index related to the receivables or the securities issued by the trust rises above or falls below specified levels; or provide protection against interest rate changes. A trust may enter into a currency swap to enable it to pay one or more classes of its securities in a specified currency; o Yield supplement agreements and accounts - A trust may have the benefit of a yield supplement agreement or account that provides additional funds to the trust for application to payments due on one or more classes of its securities; o Revolving notes issued to an affiliate of the Bank or another third party - A trust may have the ability to issue notes to an affiliate or third party that would loan money to the issuing entity for the purposes specified in the related prospectus supplement. The notes would be repaid (and the amounts would become available again for draw upon the repayment of the borrowed amounts) in the priority set forth in the related prospectus supplement; o Demand obligations issued or guaranteed by an affiliate of the depositor -- A trust may have the benefit of a demand obligation issued or guaranteed by an affiliate of the depositor to provide funds upon request of the issuing entity for certain specified purposes. The demand obligation would be repaid in the priority set forth in the related prospectus supplement; or o Any combination of two or more of the above. 70 SOME IMPORTANT LEGAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE RECEIVABLES Security Interest in the Receivables The receivables are "tangible chattel paper" as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code (the "UCC") in effect in the States of Texas and New York. Pursuant to the UCC, the sale of tangible chattel paper is treated in a manner similar to perfection of a security interest in tangible chattel paper. In order to protect a trust's ownership interest in its receivables, the seller will file UCC-1 financing statements with the appropriate governmental authorities in the State of Texas to give notice of the depositor's acquisition of the receivables and the depositor will file UCC-1 financing statements with the appropriate governmental authorities in the State of Delaware to give notice of the trust's ownership of its receivables and their proceeds. Under the sale and servicing agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer will be obligated to maintain the perfection of the trust's ownership interest in the receivables. However, a purchaser of tangible chattel paper who gives new value and takes possession of it in the ordinary course of such purchaser's business has priority over a security interest in the tangible chattel paper which is perfected by filing UCC-1 financing statements, and not by possession by the original secured party, if such purchaser acts in good faith without knowledge that the specific tangible chattel paper is subject to a security interest. Any such purchaser would not be deemed to have such knowledge by virtue of the UCC filings and would not learn of the sale of the receivables from a review of the documents evidencing the receivables since they would not be marked to show such sale, although the seller's master computer records will indicate such sale. Security Interests in the Financed Vehicles The receivables consist of motor vehicle installment loans made pursuant to contracts with obligors for the purchase of automobiles and light-duty trucks and also constitute personal property security agreements that include grants of security interests in the financed vehicles under the UCC in the applicable jurisdiction. Perfection of security interests in the financed vehicles generally is governed by the motor vehicle registration laws of the state in which the financed vehicle is located. In all states in which the receivables have been originated, a security interest in a vehicle is perfected by notation of the secured party's lien on the vehicle's certificate of title or actual possession by the secured party of such certificate of title, depending upon applicable state law. The practice of the seller is to effect such notation or to obtain possession of the certificate of title, as appropriate under the laws of the state in which a vehicle securing a motor vehicle installment loan originated by the seller is registered. The receivables prohibit the sale or transfer of the financed vehicle without the seller's consent. The seller will assign its security interest in the individual financed vehicles to the depositor and the depositor will then assign its interest in that security interest to the trust purchasing the related receivables. However, because of the administrative burden and expense and since the seller remains as servicer of the receivables, neither the seller nor any other person will amend the certificates of title to identify the depositor or the trust as the new secured party and, accordingly, the seller will continue to be named as the secured party on the certificates of title relating to the financed vehicles. In most states, such assignment is an effective conveyance of such security interest without amendment of any lien noted on the related certificates of title and the new secured party succeeds to the seller's rights as the secured party as against creditors of the obligor. In some states, in the absence of such endorsement and delivery, neither the indenture trustee, the trust nor the trustee may have a perfected security interest in the financed vehicle. In such event or in the event that the seller did not have a perfected first priority security interest in the financed vehicle, the only recourse of the trust vis-a-vis third parties would be against an obligor on an unsecured basis or, if the seller did not have a perfected security interest, against the seller pursuant to the seller's repurchase obligation. See "Description of Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Sale and 71 Assignment of Receivables." If there are any financed vehicles as to which the seller has failed to perfect the security interest assigned to the trust, (a) that security interest would be subordinate to, among others, holders of perfected security interests and (b) purchasers of such financed vehicles would take possession free and clear of that security interest. Except as described above, in the absence of fraud or forgery by a vehicle owner or administrative error by state recording officials, the notation of the lien of the seller on the certificate of title will be sufficient to protect the trust against the rights of subsequent purchasers of a financed vehicle or subsequent lenders who take a security interest in the financed vehicle. There also exists a risk in not identifying the trust as the new secured party on the certificate of title that, through fraud or negligence, the security interest of the trust could be released. If the owner of a financed vehicle moves to a state other than the state in which such financed vehicle initially is registered, under the laws of most states the perfected security interest in the financed vehicle would continue for four months after such relocation and thereafter until the owner re-registers the financed vehicle in such state. A majority of states generally require surrender of a certificate of title to re-register a vehicle. Accordingly, the seller must surrender possession if it holds the certificate of title to such financed vehicle or, in the case of financed vehicles originally registered in a state which provides for notation of lien but not possession of the certificate of title by the holder of the security interest in the related motor vehicle, the seller would receive notice of surrender if the security interest in the financed vehicle is noted on the certificate of title. Accordingly, the seller would have the opportunity to re-perfect its security interest in the financed vehicle in the state of relocation. In states which do not require a certificate of title for registration of a motor vehicle, re-registration could defeat perfection. In the ordinary course of servicing its portfolio of motor vehicle installment loans, the seller takes steps to effect such re-perfection upon receipt of notice of re-registration or information from the obligor as to relocation. Similarly, when an obligor under a receivable sells a financed vehicle, the seller must surrender possession of the certificate of title or will receive notice as a result of its lien note thereon and accordingly will have an opportunity to require satisfaction of the related receivable before release of the lien. Under the sale and servicing agreement or the pooling and servicing agreement, the servicer will be obligated to take such steps, at the servicer's expense, as are necessary to maintain perfection of security interests in the financed vehicles. Under the laws of many states, certain possessory liens for repairs performed on a motor vehicle and storage, as well as certain rights arising from the use of a motor vehicle in connection with illegal activities, may take priority even over a perfected security interest. Certain federal tax liens may have priority over the lien of a secured party. The seller will represent in the receivables purchase agreement that as of the cut-off date it has no knowledge of any such liens with respect to any financed vehicle. However, such liens could arise at any time during the term of a receivable. No notice will be given to the indenture trustee or the trustee if such a lien arises. Enforcement of Security Interests in Financed Vehicles The servicer on behalf of each trust may take action to enforce its security interest by repossession and resale of the financed vehicles securing the trust's receivables. The actual repossession may be contracted out to third party contractors. Under the UCC and laws applicable in most states, a creditor can repossess a motor vehicle securing a loan by voluntary surrender, "self-help" repossession that is "peaceful" or, in the absence of voluntary surrender and the ability to repossess without breach of the peace, by judicial process. The UCC and consumer protection laws in most states place restrictions on repossession sales, including requiring prior notice to the debtor and commercial reasonableness in effecting such a sale. In the event of such repossession and resale of a financed vehicle, the trust would be entitled to be paid out of the sale proceeds before such proceeds could be applied to the payment of the 72 claims of unsecured creditors or the holders of subsequently perfected security interests or, thereafter, to the defaulting obligor. Under the UCC and laws applicable in most states, a creditor is entitled to obtain a deficiency judgment from a debtor for any deficiency on repossession and resale of the motor vehicle securing such debtor's loan. The UCC requires a written explanation of any surplus or deficiency before the deficiency can be collected or if the consumer obligor requests an explanation. Failure to comply with the explanation requirements can result in penalties to the creditor. Some states impose prohibitions or limitations on deficiency judgments. Moreover, a defaulting obligor may not have sufficient assets to make the pursuit of a deficiency judgment worthwhile. Certain other statutory provisions, including federal and state bankruptcy and insolvency laws, and general equitable principles may limit or delay the ability of a lender to repossess and resell collateral or enforce a deficiency judgment. Other Matters Numerous federal and state consumer protection laws may impose requirements applicable to the origination and lending pursuant to the contracts, including the Truth-in-Lending Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act. Under each receivables purchase agreement, the seller will warrant to the depositor, which will in turn assign its rights under that warranty to the applicable trust under the related sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement, that each receivable complies with all requirements of law in all material respects. Accordingly, if an obligor has a claim against that trust for violation of any law and that claim materially and adversely affects that trust's interest in a receivable, such violation would constitute a breach of the warranties of the seller under that receivables purchase agreement and would create an obligation of the seller to repurchase the receivable unless the breach is cured. CERTAIN FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES The following is a general summary of certain federal income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the notes and the certificates. The summary does not purport to deal with federal income tax consequences applicable to all categories of holders, some of which may be subject to special rules. For example, it does not discuss the tax treatment of noteholders or certificateholders that are insurance companies, regulated investment companies or dealers in securities. Additionally, this summary does not deal with the federal income tax consequences of any investor treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes. If a partnership (or other entity treated as a partnership for federal income tax purposes) is a noteholder or certificateholder, the treatment of a partner in the partnership will generally depend upon the status of the partner and upon the activities of the partnership. A noteholder or certificateholder that is a partnership for federal income tax purposes and the partners in such partnership should consult their tax advisors regarding the United States federal income tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and disposition of the notes or certificates, as the case may be. The following discussion generally deals with the federal income tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the notes and certificates to a U.S. Person and, unless otherwise specified, does not deal with the federal income tax consequences to a Foreign Person. There are no cases or Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") rulings on similar transactions involving both debt and equity interests issued by a trust with terms similar to those of the notes and the certificates. As a result, the IRS may disagree with all or a part of the discussion below. Prospective investors are urged to 73 consult their own tax advisors in determining the federal, state, local, foreign and any other tax consequences to them of the purchase, ownership and disposition of the notes and the certificates. The following summary is based upon current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder and judicial or ruling authority, all of which are subject to change, which change may be retroactive. Each trust will be provided with an opinion of special federal tax counsel as specified in the related prospectus supplement ("Federal Tax Counsel"), regarding certain federal income tax matters discussed below. An opinion of Federal Tax Counsel, however, is not binding on the IRS or the courts. No ruling on any of the issues discussed below will be sought from the IRS. For purposes of the following summary, references to the trust, the notes, the certificates and related terms, parties and documents shall be deemed to refer, unless otherwise specified herein, to each trust and the notes, certificates and related terms, parties and documents applicable to such trust. The federal income tax consequences to certificateholders will vary depending on whether (i) the trust is characterized as a partnership under the Code, (ii) all the certificates are retained by the seller or an affiliate thereof, or (iii) the trust is characterized as a grantor trust. The prospectus supplement for each series of certificates will specify whether a partnership election will be made or the trust will be treated as a grantor trust. TRUSTS STRUCTURED AS PARTNERSHIPS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES Tax Characterization of the Trust as a Partnership Federal Tax Counsel will deliver its opinion that a trust structured as a partnership for federal income tax purposes will not be an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. This opinion will be based on the assumption that the terms of the trust agreement and related documents will be complied with, and on counsel's conclusions that the nature of the income of the trust will exempt it from the rule that certain publicly traded partnerships are taxable as corporations. Tax Consequences to Holders of the Notes Treatment of the Notes as Indebtedness. The depositor will agree, and the noteholders will agree by their purchase of notes, to treat the notes as debt for federal income tax purposes. In general, whether a class of notes issued by the issuing entity constitutes debt or equity for federal income tax purposes is a question of fact, the resolution of which is based upon the economic substance of such class rather than its form or label. Although the IRS and the courts have set forth several factors to be taken into account in determining whether a given class of notes or trust certificates will be treated as debt or equity, the primary factor in making this determination is whether the noteholder or certificateholder, as applicable, has assumed the risk of loss or other economic burdens relating to the property of the issuing entity and has obtained the benefits of ownership thereof. Federal Tax Counsel will analyze and rely upon several factors with respect to any opinion that any class of notes is treated as debt for federal income tax purposes. Federal Tax Counsel will, except as otherwise provided in the related prospectus supplement, advise the trust that the senior notes will be classified as debt for federal income tax purposes. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the subordinate notes will be issued under the prospectus supplement without an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that such subordinate notes will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes because it is anticipated that the balance of factors in any particular transaction would not support an opinion with respect to the treatment of the 74 subordinate notes as debt for federal income tax purposes. If the subordinate notes are treated as debt for federal income tax purposes, their tax treatment will be as described below in this section. If the subordinate notes are treated as equity for federal income tax purposes, they will be treated as interests in a partnership that owns the assets of the issuing entity and that has issued the senior notes and their tax treatment will be as described for holders of the certificates under "--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates." Treatment of the subordinate notes (or any other class of notes) as equity interests in a partnership could have adverse tax consequences to certain holders of those notes. For example, income to certain tax-exempt entities (including pension funds) would be "unrelated business taxable income" and individual holders might be subject to certain limitations on their ability to deduct their share of trust expenses. In addition, as a partner in a partnership, the amount and timing of items of income and deductions to a holder of a note characterized as equity for federal income tax purposes could differ from the amount and timing of income to a holder of a note that is treated as debt for federal income tax purposes. Because interest payments on notes that are characterized as equity would be treated as guaranteed payments for federal income tax purposes, income to foreign holders generally would be subject to U.S. tax and U.S. tax return filing and withholding requirements. See "--Possible Alternative Treatments of the Notes." Interest Income on the Notes. Based on the above assumptions, except as discussed in the following paragraph, the notes will not be considered issued with OID. The stated interest thereon will be taxable to a noteholder as ordinary interest income when received or accrued in accordance with such noteholder's method of tax accounting. Under the OID regulations, a holder of a note issued with a de minimis amount of OID must include such OID in income, on a pro rata basis, as principal payments are made on the note. It is believed that any prepayment premium paid as a result of a mandatory redemption will be taxable as contingent interest when it becomes fixed and unconditionally payable. A purchaser that buys a note for more or less than its principal amount will generally be subject, respectively, to the premium amortization or market discount rules of the Code. A holder of a note that has a fixed maturity date of not more than one year from the issue date of such note (a "Short-Term Note") may be subject to special rules. An accrual basis holder of a Short-Term Note (and certain cash method holders, including regulated investment companies, as set forth in Section 1281 of the Code) generally would be required to report interest income as interest accrues on a straight-line basis over the term of each interest period. Cash basis holders of a Short-Term Note would, in general, be required to report interest income as interest is paid (or, if earlier, upon the taxable disposition of the Short-Term Note). However, a cash basis holder of a Short-Term Note reporting interest income as it is paid may be required to defer a portion of any interest expense otherwise deductible on indebtedness incurred to purchase or carry the Short-Term Note until the taxable disposition of the Short-Term Note. A 75 cash basis taxpayer may elect under Section 1281 of the Code to accrue interest income on all nongovernment debt obligations with a term of one year or less, in which case the taxpayer would include interest on the Short-Term Note in income as it accrues, but would not be subject to the interest expense deferral rule referred to in the preceding sentence. Certain special rules apply if a Short-Term Note is purchased for more or less than its principal amount. Sale or Other Disposition. If a noteholder sells a note, the holder will recognize gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference between the amount realized on the sale and the holder's adjusted tax basis in the note. The adjusted tax basis of a note to a particular noteholder will equal the holder's cost for the note, increased by any market discount, acquisition discount, OID (including de minimis OID) and gain previously included by such noteholder in income with respect to the note and decreased by the amount of bond premium (if any) previously amortized and by the amount of principal payments previously received by such noteholder with respect to such note. Any such gain or loss will be capital gain or loss if the note was held as a capital asset, except for gain representing accrued interest and accrued market discount not previously included in income. Any capital gain recognized upon a sale, exchange or other disposition of a note will be long-term capital gain if the seller's holding period is more than one year and will be short-term capital gain if the seller's holding period is one year or less. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to certain limitations. Prospective investors should consult with their own tax advisors concerning the U.S. federal tax consequences of the sale, exchange or other disposition of a note. Foreign Holders. Interest payments made (or accrued) to a noteholder who is a Foreign Person generally will be considered "portfolio interest," and generally will not be subject to United States federal income tax and withholding tax, if the interest is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States by the Foreign Person and the Foreign Person (i) is not actually or constructively a "10 percent shareholder" of the trust or the depositor (including a holder of 10 percent of the outstanding certificates) or a "controlled foreign corporation" with respect to which the trust or the seller is a "related person" within the meaning of the Code and (ii) provides the indenture trustee or other person that is otherwise required to withhold U.S. tax with respect to the notes with an appropriate statement (e.g., IRS Form W-8BEN or successor form), signed under penalties of perjury, certifying that the beneficial owner of the note is a Foreign Person and providing the Foreign Person's name and address. If a note is held through a securities clearing organization or certain other financial institutions, the organization or institution may provide the relevant signed statement to the withholding agent; in that case, however, the signed statement must be accompanied by an appropriate IRS Form W-8BEN or successor form provided by the Foreign Person that owns the note. A foreign partnership holding notes on its own behalf may be subject to substantially increased reporting requirements and should consult its tax advisor. If such interest is not portfolio interest, then generally it will be subject to withholding tax at a rate of 30 percent, unless the Foreign Person provides a properly executed (1) IRS Form W-8BEN (or successor form) claiming an exemption from or reduction in withholding under the benefit of a tax treaty or (2) IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form) stating that interest paid is not subject to withholding tax because it is effectively connected with the Foreign Person's conduct of a trade or business in the United States. If the interest is effectively connected income, the Foreign Person, although exempt from the withholding tax discussed above, will be subject to United States federal income tax on such interest at graduated rates. Any capital gain realized on the sale, redemption, retirement or other taxable disposition of a note by a Foreign Person will be exempt from United States federal income and withholding tax, provided that (i) such gain is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States by the Foreign Person and (ii) in the case of an individual Foreign Person, the Foreign Person is not present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year and does not otherwise have a "tax home" within the United States. 76 Backup Withholding. Each holder of a note (other than an exempt holder such as a corporation, tax-exempt organization, qualified pension and profit-sharing trust, individual retirement account or nonresident alien who provides certification as to status as a nonresident) will be required to provide, under penalty of perjury, a certificate containing the holder's name, address, correct federal taxpayer identification number and a statement that the holder is not subject to backup withholding. Should a nonexempt noteholder fail to provide the required certification, the trust will be required to withhold on the amount otherwise payable to the holder and remit the withheld amount to the IRS as a credit against the holder's federal income tax liability. Possible Alternative Treatments of the Notes. If, contrary to the opinion of Federal Tax Counsel, the IRS successfully asserted that one or more of the notes did not represent debt for federal income tax purposes, the notes might be treated as equity interests in the trust and subject to the federal income tax treatment described for holders of the certificates below under "--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates." Certain classes of subordinate notes issued under the prospectus supplement may be issued without an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that such subordinate notes will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes and may be more likely to be so recharacterized. If any class of notes is treated as equity for federal income tax purposes, the trust might be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation with potentially adverse tax consequences (and such publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation would not be able to reduce its taxable income by deductions for interest expense on notes recharacterized as equity). Alternatively, and most likely in the view of Federal Tax Counsel, the trust would be treated as a publicly traded partnership that would not be taxable as a corporation because it would meet certain qualifying income tests. Nonetheless, treatment of the notes as equity interests in such a partnership could have adverse tax consequences to certain holders of notes treated as equity interests. For example, income to certain tax-exempt entities (including pension funds) would be "unrelated business taxable income" and individual holders might be subject to certain limitations on their ability to deduct their share of trust expenses. In addition, as a partner in a partnership, the amount and timing of items of income and deductions to a holder of a note characterized as equity for federal income tax purposes could differ from the amount and timing of income to a holder of a note that is treated as debt for federal income tax purposes. Because interest payments on notes that are characterized as equity would be treated as guaranteed payments for federal income tax purposes, income to foreign holders generally would be subject to U.S. tax and U.S. tax return filing and withholding requirements. Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates Treatment of the Trust as a Partnership. The depositor will agree, and the certificateholders will agree by their purchase of certificates, to treat the trust as a partnership for purposes of federal and state income tax, franchise tax and any other tax measured in whole or in part by income, with the assets of the partnership being the assets held by the trust, the partners of the partnership being the certificateholders (including the depositor in its capacity as recipient of distributions from the reserve account), and the notes being debt of the related partnership. However, the proper characterization of the arrangement involving the trust, the certificates, the notes, the depositor and the seller and the servicer is not clear because there is no authority on transactions closely comparable to that contemplated herein. A variety of alternative characterizations are possible. For example, because the certificates have certain features characteristic of debt, the certificates might be considered debt of the depositor or the trust. Any such characterization would not result in materially adverse tax consequences to certificateholders as compared to the consequences from treatment of the certificates as equity in a partnership, described below. The following discussion assumes that the certificates represent equity 77 interests in a partnership. Notes characterized as equity for federal income tax purposes would be subject to the federal income tax treatment described below with respect to the certificates. Indexed Securities, etc. The following discussion assumes that all payments on the certificates are denominated in U.S. dollars, that the certificates are not indexed securities, that principal and interest are distributed on the certificates, and that a series of securities includes a single class of certificates. If these conditions are not satisfied with respect to any given series of certificates, additional tax considerations with respect to such certificates will be disclosed in the applicable prospectus supplement. Partnership Taxation. As a partnership, the trust will not be subject to federal income tax. Rather, each certificateholder will be required to separately take into account such holder's allocated share of income, gains, losses, deductions and credits of the trust. The trust's income will consist primarily of interest and finance charges earned on the receivables (including appropriate adjustments for market discount, OID and bond premium) and any gain upon collection or disposition of receivables. The trust's deductions will consist primarily of interest accruing with respect to the notes, servicing and other fees, and losses or deductions upon collection or disposition of receivables. The tax items of a partnership are allocable to the partners in accordance with the Code, Treasury regulations and the partnership agreement (here, the trust agreement and related documents). The trust agreement will provide, in general, that the certificateholders will be allocated taxable income of the trust for each month equal to the sum of (i) the interest that accrues on the certificates in accordance with their terms for such month, including interest accruing at the applicable pass through rate for such month and interest on amounts previously due on the certificates but not yet distributed; (ii) prepayment premium payable to the certificateholders for such month; and (iii) any other amounts of income payable to the certificateholders for such month. In the trust agreement, the certificateholders will agree that payments on the certificates at the pass through rate are intended to qualify as "guaranteed payments." A guaranteed payment is treated as ordinary income regardless of whether the guaranteed payment exceeds the trust's net income (i.e., income net of deductible expenses and interest on the notes). If a payment on a certificate at the stated rate is not treated as a guaranteed payment, then the income received by a certificateholder would be limited to the certificateholder's proportionate amount of the trust's net income. The rules applicable to debt instruments related to OID, market discount, and bond premium do not apply to partnership interests. The treatment of premium or discount at original purchase is unclear. If a certificateholder is considered to receive its certificate in exchange for a contribution to the trust, a discount could result in immediate income (as a capital shift in favor of the certificateholder treated as a guaranteed payment) and a premium could result in an amortizable deduction (as a capital shift to the depositor treated as a guaranteed payment that is only deductible over time). If the certificateholder is considered to purchase an outstanding interest, then any discount generally would result in gain only once the certificateholder received distributions in excess of such certificateholder's tax basis (or upon sale) and any premium would result in a loss upon the liquidation of the trust (or upon sale). The character of the loss generally would be capital upon sale, but could be ordinary at liquidation if all notes had been retired (which generally would be a miscellaneous itemized deduction for individuals subject to limitations on deduction for regular tax purposes and non-deductible for alternative minimum tax purposes). 78 All remaining taxable income of the trust will be allocated to the depositor. Except as provided below, losses and deductions generally will be allocated to the certificateholders only to the extent the certificateholders are reasonably expected to bear the economic burden of those losses or deductions. Any losses allocated to certificateholders could be characterized as capital losses, and the certificateholders generally would only be able to deduct those losses against capital gain, and deductions would be subject to the limitations set forth below. Accordingly, a certificateholder's taxable income from the trust could exceed the cash it is entitled to receive from the trust. Based on the economic arrangement of the parties, this approach for allocating trust income should be permissible under applicable Treasury regulations, although no assurance can be given that the IRS would not require a greater amount of income to be allocated to certificateholders. Moreover, even under the foregoing method of allocation, certificateholders may be allocated income equal to the entire pass through rate plus the other items described above even though the trust might not have sufficient cash to make current cash distributions of such amount. Thus, cash basis holders will in effect be required to report income from the certificates on the accrual basis and certificateholders may become liable for taxes on trust income even if they have not received cash from the trust to pay such taxes. In addition, because tax allocations and tax reporting will be done on a uniform basis for all certificateholders but certificateholders may be purchasing certificates at different times and at different prices, certificateholders may be required to report on their tax returns taxable income that is greater or less than the amount reported to them by the trust. See "--Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees" below. A significant portion of the taxable income allocated to a certificateholder that is a pension, profit sharing or employee benefit plan or other tax-exempt entity (including an individual retirement account) will constitute "unrelated business taxable income" generally taxable to such a holder under the Code. An individual taxpayer's share of expenses of the trust (including fees to the servicer but not interest expense) would be miscellaneous itemized deductions. Such deductions might be disallowed to the individual in whole or in part and might result in such holder being taxed on an amount of income that exceeds the amount of cash actually distributed to such holder over the life of the trust. The trust intends to make all tax calculations relating to income and allocations to certificateholders on an aggregate basis. If the IRS were to require that such calculations be made separately for each receivable, the trust might be required to incur additional expense but it is believed that there would not be a material adverse effect on certificateholders. Discount and Premium. It is believed that the receivables were not issued with OID, and, therefore, the trust should not have OID income. However, the purchase price paid by the trust for the receivables may be greater or less than the remaining principal balance of the receivables at the time of purchase. If so, the receivables will have been acquired at a premium or discount, as the case may be. (As indicated above, the trust will make this calculation on an aggregate basis, but might be required to recompute it on a receivable-by-receivable basis.) If the trust acquires the receivables at a market discount or premium, the trust will elect to include any such discount in income currently as it accrues over the life of the receivables or to offset any such premium against interest income on the receivables. As indicated above, a portion of such market discount income or premium deduction may be allocated to certificateholders. Section 708 Termination. Under Section 708 of the Code, the trust will be deemed to terminate for federal income tax purposes if 50 percent or more of the capital and profits interests in the trust are sold or exchanged within a 12-month period. If such a termination occurs, the trust will be considered to have 79 contributed the assets of the trust (the "old partnership") to a new partnership in exchange for interests in the partnership, and the taxable year of the trust will terminate. Such interests would be deemed distributed to the partners of the old partnership in liquidation thereof, which would not constitute a sale or exchange. The trust will not comply with certain technical requirements that might apply when such a constructive termination occurs. Consequently, the trust may be subject to certain tax penalties and may incur additional expenses if it is required to comply with those requirements. Disposition of Certificates. Generally, capital gain or loss will be recognized on a sale of certificates in an amount equal to the difference between the amount realized and the seller's adjusted tax basis in the certificates sold. A certificateholder's adjusted tax basis in a certificate will generally equal the holder's cost increased by the holder's share of trust income (includible in income) and decreased by any distributions received with respect to such certificate. In addition, both the adjusted tax basis in the certificates and the amount realized on a sale of a certificate would include the holder's share of the notes and other liabilities of the trust. A holder acquiring certificates at different prices will be required to maintain a single aggregate adjusted tax basis in such certificates, and, upon sale or other disposition of some of the certificates, allocate a portion of such aggregate tax basis to the certificates sold (rather than maintaining a separate tax basis in each certificate for purposes of computing gain or loss on a sale of that certificate). Any gain on the sale of a certificate attributable to the holder's share of unrecognized accrued market discount on the receivables would generally be treated as ordinary income to the holder and would give rise to special tax reporting requirements. The trust does not expect to have any other assets that would give rise to such special reporting requirements. Thus, to avoid those special reporting requirements, the trust will elect to include market discount in income as it accrues. If a certificateholder is required to recognize an aggregate amount of income (not including income attributable to disallowed itemized deductions described above) over the life of the certificates that exceeds the aggregate cash distributions with respect thereto, such excess will generally give rise to a capital loss upon the retirement of the certificates. Allocations Between Transferors and Transferees. In general, the trust's taxable income and losses will be determined monthly and the tax items for a particular calendar month will be apportioned among the certificateholders in proportion to the principal amount of certificates owned by them as of the close of the last day of such month. As a result, a holder purchasing certificates may be allocated tax items (which will affect its tax liability and tax basis) attributable to periods before the actual transaction. The use of such a monthly convention may not be permitted by existing regulations. If a monthly convention is not allowed (or only applies to transfers of less than all of the partner's interest), taxable income or losses of the trust might be reallocated among the certificateholders. The depositor will be authorized to revise the trust's method of allocation between transferors and transferees to conform to a method permitted by future regulations. Section 754 Election. In the event that a certificateholder sells its certificates at a profit (or loss), the purchasing certificateholder will have a higher (or lower) basis in the certificates than the selling certificateholder had. The tax basis of the trust's assets will not be adjusted to reflect that higher (or lower) basis unless (i) there is a "substantial basis reduction" within the meaning of the Code and the trust does not qualify as a "securitization partnership" for this purpose or (ii) the trust were to file an election under Section 754 of the Code. Absent guidance to the contrary, the trust intends to take the position that it will qualify as a securitization partnership for this purpose. With respect to the election under Section 754 of the Code, in order to avoid the administrative complexities that would be involved in keeping accurate accounting records, as well as potentially onerous information reporting requirements, the trust 80 will not make such an election. As a result, certificateholders might be allocated a greater or lesser amount of trust income than would be appropriate based on their own purchase price for the certificates. Administrative Matters. The trustee is required to keep or have kept complete and accurate books of the trust. Such books will be maintained for financial reporting and tax purposes on an accrual basis and the fiscal year of the trust will be the calendar year. The trustee will file a partnership information return (IRS Form 1065) with the IRS for each taxable year of the trust and will report each certificateholder's allocable share of items of trust income and expense to holders and the IRS on Schedule K-1. The trust will provide the Schedule K-1 information to nominees that fail to provide the trust with the information statement described below and such nominees will be required to forward such information to the beneficial owners of the certificates. Generally, holders must file tax returns that are consistent with the information return filed by the trust or be subject to penalties unless the holder notifies the IRS of all such inconsistencies. Under Section 6031 of the Code, any person that holds certificates as a nominee at any time during a calendar year is required to furnish the trust with a statement containing certain information on the nominee, the beneficial owners and the certificates so held. Such information includes (i) the name, address and taxpayer identification number of the nominee and (ii) as to each beneficial owner (x) the name, address and identification number of such person, (y) whether such person is a United States person, a tax-exempt entity or a foreign government, an international organization, or any wholly owned agency or instrumentality of either of the foregoing, and (z) certain information on certificates that were held, bought or sold on behalf of such person throughout the year. In addition, brokers and financial institutions that hold certificates through a nominee are required to furnish directly to the trust information as to themselves and their ownership of certificates. A clearing agency registered under Section 17A of the Exchange Act is not required to furnish any such information statement to the trust. The information referred to above for any calendar year must be furnished to the trust on or before the following January 31. Nominees, brokers and financial institutions that fail to provide the trust with the information described above may be subject to penalties. The depositor will be designated as the tax matters partner in the related trust agreement and, as such, will be responsible for representing the certificateholders in any dispute with the IRS. The Code provides for administrative examination of a partnership as if the partnership were a separate and distinct taxpayer. Generally, the statute of limitations for partnership items does not expire before three years after the date on which the partnership information return is filed. Any adverse determination following an audit of the return of the trust by the appropriate taxing authorities could result in an adjustment of the returns of the certificateholders, and, under certain circumstances, a certificateholder may be precluded from separately litigating a proposed adjustment to the items of the trust. An adjustment could also result in an audit of a certificateholder's returns and adjustments of items not related to the income and losses of the trust. Reportable Transactions. Pursuant to recently enacted legislation, a penalty in the amount of $10,000 in the case of a natural person and $50,000 in any other case is imposed on any taxpayer that fails to timely file an information return with the IRS with respect to a "reportable transaction" (as defined in Section 6011 of the Code). Prospective investors are advised to consult their own tax advisers regarding any possible disclosure obligations in light of their particular circumstances. Tax Consequences to Foreign Persons. It is not clear whether the trust would be considered to be engaged in a trade or business in the United States for purposes of federal withholding taxes with respect to Foreign Persons because there is no clear authority dealing with that issue under facts substantially similar to those described herein. Although it is not expected that the trust would be engaged in a trade or business in the United States for such purposes, the trust will withhold as if it were so engaged in order to protect the trust from possible adverse consequences of a failure to withhold. The trust expects to 81 withhold on the portion of its taxable income that is allocable to foreign certificateholders pursuant to Section 1446 of the Code, as if such income were effectively connected to a U.S. trade or business, the highest rate applicable to (i) corporations, in the case of foreign holders that are treated as corporations for federal income tax purposes or (ii) to individuals, in the case of all other foreign holders. Subsequent adoption of Treasury regulations or the issuance of other administrative pronouncements may require the trust to change its withholding procedures. In determining a holder's withholding status, the trust may rely on IRS Form W-8 BEN or the holder's certification of nonforeign status signed under penalty of perjury. Each foreign holder might be required to file a U.S. individual or corporate income tax return (including, in the case of a corporation, the branch profits tax) on its share of the trust's income. Each foreign holder must obtain a taxpayer identification number from the IRS and submit that number to the trust on IRS Form W-8 BEN (or substantially identical form) in order to assure appropriate crediting of the taxes withheld. Foreign partnerships holding certificates on their own behalf may be required to satisfy substantially increased information requirements. A foreign holder generally would be entitled to file with the IRS a claim for refund with respect to taxes withheld by the trust, taking the position that no taxes were due because the trust was not engaged in a U.S. trade or business. However, payments made (or accrued) to a certificateholder that is a Foreign Person generally will be considered guaranteed payments to the extent such payments are determined without regard to the income of the trust. If these payments are properly characterized as guaranteed payments, then the payments will not be considered "portfolio interest." As a result, certificateholders will be subject to United States federal income tax and withholding tax at a rate of 30 percent, unless reduced or eliminated pursuant to an applicable treaty. In such case, a foreign holder would only be entitled to claim a refund for that portion of the taxes in excess of the taxes that should be withheld with respect to the guaranteed payments. Backup Withholding. Distributions made on the certificates and proceeds from the sale of the certificates will be subject to a "backup" withholding tax if, in general, the certificateholder fails to comply with certain identification procedures unless the holder is an exempt recipient under applicable provisions of the Code. TRUSTS IN WHICH ALL CERTIFICATES ARE RETAINED BY THE DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR Tax Characterization of the Trust Federal Tax Counsel will deliver its opinion that a trust which issues one or more classes of notes to investors and all the certificates of which are retained by the depositor or an affiliate thereof will not be an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. This opinion will be based on the assumption that the terms of the trust agreement and related documents will be complied with, and on counsel's conclusions that the trust will constitute a mere security arrangement for the issuance of debt by the single certificateholder. Treatment of the Notes as Indebtedness. The depositor will agree, and the noteholders will agree by their purchase of notes, to treat the notes as debt for federal income tax purposes. In general, whether a class of notes issued by the issuing entity constitutes debt or equity for federal income tax purposes is a question of fact, the resolution of which is based upon the economic substance of such class rather than its form or label. Although the IRS and the courts have set forth several factors to be taken into account in determining whether a given class of notes or trust certificates will be treated as debt or equity, the primary factor in making this determination is whether the noteholder or certificateholder, as applicable, has assumed the risk of loss or other economic burdens relating to the property of the issuing entity and has obtained the benefits of ownership thereof. Federal Tax Counsel will analyze and rely upon several 82 factors with respect to any opinion that any class of notes is treated as debt for federal income tax purposes. Federal Tax Counsel will, except as otherwise provided in the related prospectus supplement, advise the trust that the senior notes will be classified as debt for federal income tax purposes. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the subordinate notes will be issued under the prospectus supplement without an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that such subordinate notes will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes because it is anticipated that the balance of factors in any particular transaction would not support an opinion with respect to the treatment of the subordinate notes as debt for federal income tax purposes. Assuming characterization of the notes as debt is correct, the federal income tax consequences to noteholders described above under the heading "Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Notes" would apply to the noteholders. If, contrary to the opinion of Federal Tax Counsel, the IRS successfully asserted that one or more classes of notes did not represent debt for federal income tax purposes, such class or classes of notes might be treated as equity interests in the trust and subject to the federal income tax treatment described for holders of the certificates above under "--Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates." Certain classes of subordinate notes issued under the prospectus supplement may be issued without an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that such subordinate notes will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes and may be more likely to be so recharacterized. If any class of notes is treated as equity for federal income tax purposes, the trust might be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation with potentially adverse tax consequences (and such publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation might not be able to reduce its taxable income by deductions for interest expense on notes recharacterized as equity). Alternatively, and more likely in the view of Federal Tax Counsel, the trust would be treated as a publicly traded partnership that would not be taxable as a corporation because it would meet certain qualifying income tests. Nonetheless, treatment of notes as equity interests in such a partnership could have adverse tax consequences to certain holders of such notes. For example, income to certain tax-exempt entities (including pension funds) could be "unrelated business taxable income," and individual holders might be subject to certain limitations on their ability to deduct their share of trust expenses. In addition, as a partner in a partnership, the amount and timing of items of income and deductions to a holder of a note treated as equity for federal income tax purposes could differ from the amount and timing of income to a holder of such a note that is treated as debt for federal income tax purposes. Because interest payments on notes that are characterized as equity would be treated as guaranteed payments for federal income tax purposes, income to foreign holders generally would be subject to U.S. tax and U.S. tax return filing and withholding requirements. In the event one or more classes of notes were treated as interests in a partnership, the consequences governing the certificates as equity interests in a partnership described above under "Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Certificates" would apply to the holders of such notes. See "Certain Federal Income Consequences--Trusts Structured as Partnerships for Federal Income Tax purposes--Tax Consequences to Holders of the Notes--Possible Alternative Treatments of the Notes." Reportable Transactions. Pursuant to recently enacted legislation, a penalty in the amount of $10,000 in the case of a natural person and $50,000 in any other case is imposed on any taxpayer that fails to timely file an information return with the IRS with respect to a "reportable transaction" (as defined in Section 6011 of the Code). Prospective investors are advised to consult their own tax advisers regarding any possible disclosure obligations in light of their particular circumstances. 83 TRUSTS STRUCTURED AS GRANTOR TRUSTS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES Tax Characterization of the Trust as a Grantor Trust If a trust is structured as a grantor trust, Federal Tax Counsel will deliver its opinion that the trust will not be classified as an association taxable as a corporation and that such trust will be classified as a grantor trust under subpart E, part 1, subchapter J, chapter 1 of subtitle A of the Code. In this case, owners of certificates (referred to herein as "Grantor Trust Certificateholders") will be treated for federal income tax purposes as owners of a portion of the trust's assets as described below. The certificates issued by a trust that is treated as a grantor trust are referred to herein as "Grantor Trust Certificates." Characterization. Each Grantor Trust Certificateholder will be treated as the owner of a pro rata undivided interest in the interest and principal portions of the trust represented by the Grantor Trust Certificates and will be considered the equitable owner of a pro rata undivided interest in each of the receivables in the trust. Any amounts received by a Grantor Trust Certificateholder in lieu of amounts due with respect to any receivable because of a default or delinquency in payment will be treated for federal income tax purposes as having the same character as the payments they replace. Each Grantor Trust Certificateholder will be required to report on its federal income tax return in accordance with such Grantor Trust Certificateholder's method of accounting its pro rata share of the entire income from the receivables in the trust represented by Grantor Trust Certificates, including interest, OID, if any, prepayment fees, assumption fees, any gain recognized upon an assumption and late payment charges received by the servicer. Under Code Sections 162 or 212, each Grantor Trust Certificateholder will be entitled to deduct its pro rata share of servicing fees, prepayment fees, assumption fees, any loss recognized upon an assumption and late payment charges retained by the servicer, provided that such amounts are reasonable compensation for services rendered to the trust. A Grantor Trust Certificateholder that is an individual, estate or trust will be entitled to deduct its share of expenses only to the extent such expenses plus all other Code Section 212 expenses exceed two percent of its adjusted gross income. In addition, Section 68 of the Code provides that the amount of itemized deductions otherwise allowable for an individual whose adjusted gross income exceeds a specified amount will be reduced by the lesser of (i) 3 percent of the excess of the individual's adjusted gross income over such amount or (ii) 80 percent of the amount of itemized deductions otherwise allowable for the taxable year. The reduction in the amount of itemized deductions will be phased out beginning in 2006, but the phaseout of such reduction in itemized deductions is scheduled to expire in 2010. Further, a Certificateholder (other than a corporation) subject to the alternative minimum tax may not deduct miscellaneous itemized deductions in determining its alternative minimum taxable income. A Grantor Trust Certificateholder using the cash method of accounting generally must take into account its pro rata share of items of income and deductions as and when collected by or paid to the servicer. A Grantor Trust Certificateholder using an accrual method of accounting must take into account its pro rata share of items of income and deductions as they become due or are paid to the servicer, whichever is earlier. If the servicing fees paid to the servicer are deemed to exceed reasonable servicing compensation, the amount of such excess could be considered as an ownership interest retained by the servicer (or any person to whom the servicer assigned for value all or a portion of the servicing fees) in a portion of the interest payments on the receivables. The receivables would then be subject to the "stripped bond" rules of the Code discussed below. Stripped Bonds. If the servicing fees on the receivables are deemed to exceed reasonable servicing compensation, each purchaser of a Grantor Trust Certificate will be treated as the purchaser of a stripped bond which generally should be treated as a single debt instrument issued on the day it is purchased for purposes of calculating any original issue discount. Generally, under applicable Treasury regulations (the "Section 1286 Treasury Regulations"), if the discount on a stripped bond is larger than a de minimis 84 amount (as calculated for purposes of the OID rules of the Code) such stripped bond will be considered to have been issued with OID. See "Original Issue Discount on Stripped Bonds." The original issue discount on a Grantor Trust Certificate would be the excess of such certificate's stated redemption price over its issue price. The issue price of a Grantor Trust Certificate as to any purchaser will equal the price paid by such purchaser therefor. The stated redemption price of a Grantor Trust Certificate will be the sum of all payments to be made on such certificate other than "qualified stated interest," if any. Based on the preamble to the Section 1286 Treasury Regulations, Federal Tax Counsel is of the opinion that, although the matter is not entirely clear, the interest income on the certificates at the sum of the pass through rate and the portion of the servicing fee rate that does not constitute excess servicing will be treated as "qualified stated interest" within the meaning of the Section 1286 Treasury Regulations, and such income will be so treated in the trustee's tax information reporting. Notice will be given in the applicable prospectus supplement when it is determined that Grantor Trust Certificates will be issued with greater than de minimis OID. Original Issue Discount on Stripped Bonds. If the stripped bonds have more than a de minimis amount of OID, the special rules of the Code relating to "original issue discount" (currently Sections 1271 through 1273 and 1275) will be applicable to a Grantor Trust Certificateholder's interest in those receivables treated as stripped bonds (the "stripped bonds"). Generally, a Grantor Trust Certificateholder that acquires an interest in a stripped bond issued or acquired with OID must include in gross income the sum of the "daily portions," as defined below, of the OID on such stripped bond for each day on which it owns a certificate, including the date of purchase but excluding the date of disposition. In the case of an original Grantor Trust Certificateholder, the daily portions of OID with respect to a stripped bond generally would be determined as follows. A calculation would be made of the portion of OID that accrues on the stripped bond during each successive monthly accrual period (or shorter period in respect of the date of original issue or the final payment date). This would be done, in the case of each full monthly accrual period, by adding (i) the present value of all remaining payments to be received on the stripped bond under the prepayment assumption used in respect of the stripped bonds and (ii) any payments received during such accrual period, and subtracting from that total the "adjusted issue price" of the stripped bond at the beginning of such accrual period. No representation is made that the stripped bonds will prepay at any prepayment assumption. The "adjusted issue price" of a stripped bond at the beginning of the first accrual period is its issue price (as determined for purposes of the OID rules of the Code) and the "adjusted issue price" of a stripped bond at the beginning of a subsequent accrual period is the "adjusted issue price" at the beginning of the immediately preceding accrual period plus the amount of OID allocable to that accrual period and reduced by the amount of any payment (other than "qualified stated interest") made at the end of or during that accrual period. The OID accruing during such accrual period would then be divided by the number of days in the period to determine the daily portion of OID for each day in the period. With respect to an initial accrual period shorter than a full monthly accrual period, the daily portions of OID must be determined according to an appropriate allocation under either an exact or approximate method set forth in the OID Regulations, or some other reasonable method, provided that such method is consistent with the method used to determine the yield to maturity of the stripped bonds. With respect to the stripped bonds, the method of calculating OID as described above will cause the accrual of OID to either increase or decrease (but never below zero) in any given accrual period to reflect the fact that prepayments are occurring at a faster or slower rate than the prepayment assumption used in respect of the stripped bonds. Subsequent purchasers that purchase stripped bonds at more than a de minimis discount should consult their tax advisors with respect to the proper method to accrue such OID. Market Discount if Stripped Bond Rules Do Not Apply. A Grantor Trust Certificateholder that acquires an undivided interest in receivables may be subject to the market discount rules of Sections 1276 through 1278 to the extent an undivided interest in a receivable is considered to have been purchased at a 85 "market discount." Generally, the amount of market discount is equal to the excess of the portion of the principal amount of such receivable allocable to such holder's undivided interest over such holder's tax basis in such interest. Market discount with respect to a Grantor Trust Certificate will be considered to be zero if the amount allocable to the Grantor Trust Certificate is less than 0.25 percent of the Grantor Trust Certificate's stated redemption price at maturity multiplied by the weighted average maturity remaining after the date of purchase. Treasury regulations implementing the market discount rules have not yet been issued; therefore, investors should consult their own tax advisors regarding the application of these rules and the advisability of making any of the elections allowed under Code Sections 1276 through 1278. The Code provides that any principal payment (whether a scheduled payment or a prepayment) or any gain on disposition of a market discount bond shall be treated as ordinary income to the extent that it does not exceed the accrued market discount at the time of such payment. The amount of accrued market discount for purposes of determining the tax treatment of subsequent principal payments or dispositions of the market discount bond is to be reduced by the amount so treated as ordinary income. The Code also grants the Treasury Department authority to issue regulations providing for the computation of accrued market discount on debt instruments, the principal of which is payable in more than one installment. While the Treasury Department has not yet issued regulations, rules described in the relevant legislative history will apply. Under those rules, the holder of a market discount bond may elect to accrue market discount either on the basis of a constant interest rate or according to one of the following methods. If a Grantor Trust Certificate is issued with OID, the amount of market discount that accrues during any accrual period would be equal to the product of (i) the total remaining market discount and (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the OID accruing during the period and the denominator of which is the total remaining OID at the beginning of the accrual period. For Grantor Trust certificates issued without OID, the amount of market discount that accrues during a period is equal to the product of (i) the total remaining market discount and (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of stated interest paid during the accrual period and the denominator of which is the total amount of stated interest remaining to be paid at the beginning of the accrual period. For purposes of calculating market discount under any of the above methods in the case of instruments (such as the Grantor Trust certificates) that provide for payments that may be accelerated by reason of prepayments of other obligations securing such instruments, the same prepayment assumption applicable to calculating the accrual of OID will apply. Because the regulations described above have not been issued, it is impossible to predict what effect those regulations might have on the tax treatment of a Grantor Trust Certificate purchased at a discount or premium in the secondary market. A holder that acquired a Grantor Trust Certificate at a market discount also may be required to defer a portion of its interest deductions for the taxable year attributable to any indebtedness incurred or continued to purchase or carry such Grantor Trust Certificate purchased with market discount. For these purposes, the de minimis rule referred above applies. Any such deferred interest expense would not exceed the market discount that accrues during such taxable year and is, in general, allowed as a deduction not later than the year in which such market discount is includible in income. If such holder elects to include market discount in income currently as it accrues on all market discount instruments acquired by such holder in that taxable year or thereafter, the interest deferral rule described above will not apply. Premium. The price paid for a Grantor Trust Certificate by a holder will be allocated to such holder's undivided interest in each receivable based on each receivable's relative fair market value, so that such holder's undivided interest in each receivable will have its own tax basis. A Grantor Trust Certificateholder that acquires an interest in receivables at a premium may elect to amortize such premium under a constant interest method. Amortizable bond premium will be treated as an offset to interest income on such Grantor Trust Certificate. The basis for such Grantor Trust Certificate will be 86 reduced to the extent that amortizable premium is applied to offset interest payments. It is not clear whether a reasonable prepayment assumption should be used in computing amortization of premium allowable under Section 171. A Grantor Trust Certificateholder that makes this election for a Grantor Trust Certificate that is acquired at a premium will be deemed to have made an election to amortize bond premium with respect to all debt instruments having amortizable bond premium that such Grantor Trust Certificateholder acquires during the year of the election or thereafter. If a premium is not subject to amortization using a reasonable prepayment assumption, the holder of a Grantor Trust Certificate acquired at a premium should recognize a loss if a receivable prepays in full, equal to the difference between the portion of the prepaid principal amount of such receivable that is allocable to the Grantor Trust Certificate and the portion of the adjusted tax basis of the Grantor Trust Certificate that is allocable to such receivable. If a reasonable prepayment assumption is used to amortize such premium, it appears that such a loss would be available, if at all, only if prepayments have occurred at a rate faster than the reasonable assumed prepayment rate. It is not clear whether any other adjustments would be required to reflect differences between an assumed prepayment rate and the actual rate of prepayments. The final Treasury regulations (the "Amortizable Bond Premium Regulations") dealing with amortizable bond premium specifically do not apply to prepayable debt instruments subject to Code Section 1272(a)(6). Absent further guidance from the IRS, the trustee intends to account for amortizable bond premium in the manner described above. It is recommended that prospective purchasers of the certificates consult their tax advisors regarding the possible application of the Amortizable Bond Premium Regulations. Election to Treat All Interest as OID. The OID regulations permit a Grantor Trust Certificateholder to elect to accrue all interest, discount (including de minimis market or original issue discount) and premium in income as interest, based on a constant yield method. If such an election were to be made with respect to a Grantor Trust Certificate with market discount, the Grantor Trust Certificateholder would be deemed to have made an election to include in income currently market discount with respect to all other debt instruments having market discount that such Grantor Trust Certificateholder acquires during the year of the election or thereafter. Similarly, a Grantor Trust Certificateholder that makes this election for a Grantor Trust Certificate that is acquired at a premium will be deemed to have made an election to amortize bond premium with respect to all debt instruments having amortizable bond premium that such Grantor Trust Certificateholder owns or acquires. See "--Premium" above. The election to accrue interest, discount and premium on a constant yield method with respect to a Grantor Trust Certificate is irrevocable. Sale or Exchange of a Grantor Trust Certificate. Sale or exchange of a Grantor Trust Certificate prior to its maturity will result in gain or loss equal to the difference, if any, between the amount received and the owner's adjusted tax basis in the Grantor Trust Certificate. Such adjusted tax basis generally will equal the seller's purchase price for the Grantor Trust Certificate, increased by the OID included in the seller's gross income with respect to the Grantor Trust Certificate, and reduced by principal payments on the Grantor Trust Certificate previously received by the seller. Such gain or loss will be capital gain or loss to an owner for which a Grantor Trust Certificate is a "capital asset" within the meaning of Code Section 1221, and will be long-term or short-term depending on whether the Grantor Trust Certificate has been owned for the long-term capital gain holding period (currently more than twelve months). Grantor Trust Certificates will be "evidences of indebtedness" within the meaning of Code Section 582(c)(1), so that gain or loss recognized from the sale of a Grantor Trust Certificate by a bank or a thrift institution to which such section applies will be treated as ordinary income or loss. 87 Reportable Transactions. Pursuant to recently enacted legislation, a penalty in the amount of $10,000 in the case of a natural person and $50,000 in any other case is imposed on any taxpayer that fails to timely file an information return with the IRS with respect to a "reportable transaction" (as defined in Section 6011 of the Code). Prospective investors are advised to consult their own tax advisers regarding any possible disclosure obligations in light of their particular circumstances Tax Consequences to Foreign Persons. Generally, to the extent that a Grantor Trust Certificate evidences ownership in underlying receivables that were issued after July 18, 1984, interest or OID paid by the person required to withhold tax under Section 1441 or 1442 to (i) an owner that is a Foreign Person or (ii) a Grantor Trust Certificateholder holding on behalf of an owner that is a Foreign Person would not be subject to withholding if such Grantor Trust Certificateholder complies with certain identification requirements (including delivery of a statement, signed by the Grantor Trust Certificateholder under penalties of perjury, certifying that such Grantor Trust Certificateholder is not a U.S. Person and providing the name and address of such Grantor Trust Certificateholder), and is not a bank receiving interest described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code or a controlled foreign corporation related to the trust within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code. Foreign partnerships may be subject to increased identification requirements. Additional restrictions apply to receivables of which the obligor is not a natural person in order to qualify for the exemption from withholding. Information Reporting and Backup Withholding. The servicer will furnish or make available, within a reasonable time after the end of each calendar year, to each person who was a Grantor Trust Certificateholder at any time during such year, such information as may be deemed necessary or desirable to assist Grantor Trust Certificateholders in preparing their federal income tax returns, or to enable holders to make such information available to beneficial owners or financial intermediaries that hold Grantor Trust Certificates as nominees on behalf of beneficial owners. If a non-exempt holder, beneficial owner, financial intermediary or other recipient of a payment on behalf of a beneficial owner fails to supply a certified taxpayer identification number or if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that such person has not reported all interest and dividend income required to be shown on its federal income tax return backup withholding may be required with respect to any payments. Any amounts deducted and withheld from a distribution to a recipient would be allowed as a credit against such recipient's federal income tax liability. CERTAIN STATE TAX CONSEQUENCES The activities of servicing and collecting the receivables will be undertaken by the servicer. Because of the variation in each state's tax laws based in whole or in part upon income, it is impossible to predict tax consequences to holders of notes and certificates in all of the state taxing jurisdictions in which they are already subject to tax. Noteholders and certificateholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors with respect to state tax consequences arising out of the purchase, ownership and disposition of notes and certificates. * * * The federal and state tax discussions set forth above are included for general information only and may not be applicable depending upon a noteholder's or certificateholder's particular tax situation. Prospective purchasers should consult their tax advisors with respect to the tax consequences to them of the purchase, ownership and disposition of notes and certificates, including the tax consequences under state, local, foreign and other tax laws and the possible effects of changes in federal or other tax laws. 88 ERISA CONSIDERATIONS Section 406 of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code prohibit a pension, profit sharing or other employee benefit or other plan (such as an individual retirement account and certain types of Keogh plans) that is subject to Title I of ERISA or to Section 4975 of the Code (each, an "ERISA Plan") from engaging in certain transactions involving "plan assets" with persons that are "parties in interest" under ERISA or "disqualified person" under the Code with respect to the plan. Certain governmental, church and foreign plans, although not subject to ERISA or the Code, may be subject to other federal, state or local laws ("Similar Laws") that impose similar restrictions (such plans subject to ERISA, Section 4975, or Similar Law referred to herein as "Plans"). A violation of these "prohibited transaction" rules may generate excise tax and other liabilities under ERISA and the Code or applicable Similar Law for such persons. Depending on the relevant facts and circumstances, certain prohibited transaction exemptions may apply to the purchase and holding of the securities by an ERISA Plan--for example: o Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption ("PTCE") 96-23, which exempts certain transactions effected on behalf of a Plan by an "in-house asset manager"; o PTCE 95-60, which exempts certain transactions between insurance company general accounts and parties in interest; o PTCE 91-38, which exempts certain transactions between bank collective investment funds and parties in interest; o PTCE 90-1, which exempts certain transactions between insurance company pooled separate accounts and parties in interest; or o PTCE 84-14, which exempts certain transactions effected on behalf of a Plan by a "qualified professional asset manager." There can be no assurance that any of these exemptions will apply with respect to any ERISA Plan's investment in the securities, or that such an exemption, if it did apply, would apply to all prohibited transactions that may occur in connection with such investment. Furthermore, these exemptions may not apply to transactions involved in operation of a trust if, as described below, the assets of the trust were considered to include plan assets. The depositor, the seller, the servicer, an underwriter, the indenture trustee, the owner trustee and their affiliates may be the sponsor or the investment advisor with respect to one or more Plans. Because they may receive certain benefits in connection with the sale of the securities, the purchase of securities using plan assets over which any of them has investment authority might be deemed to be a violation of the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code for which no exemption may be available. Accordingly, any Plan for which the depositor, the seller, the servicer, an underwriter, the indenture trustee, the owner trustee or any of their respective affiliates o has investment or administrative discretion with respect to plan assets to be invested in the securities; o has authority or responsibility to give, or regularly gives, investment advice with respect to those plan assets for a fee and pursuant to an agreement or understanding that such advice 89 o will serve as a primary basis for investment decisions with respect to those plan assets and o will be based on the particular investment needs for the Plan; or o is an employer maintaining or contributing to the Plan. may not purchase a security unless a prohibited transaction exemption applies to the investment. ERISA also imposes certain duties on persons who are fiduciaries of Plans subject to ERISA, including the requirements of investment prudence and diversification, and the requirement that such a Plan's investments be made in accordance with the documents governing the Plan. Under ERISA, any person who exercises any discretionary authority or control respecting the management or disposition of the assets of an ERISA Plan is considered to be a fiduciary of such Plan. Plan fiduciaries must determine whether the acquisition and holding of securities and the operations of the trust would result in prohibited transactions or a violation of applicable Similar Laws if Plans that purchase the securities were deemed to own an interest in the underlying assets of the trust under the rules discussed below. There may also be an improper delegation of the responsibility to manage plan assets if Plans that purchase the securities are deemed to own an interest in the underlying assets of the trust. Pursuant to Department of Labor Regulation ss.2510.3-101 (the "Plan Assets Regulation"), in general when an ERISA Plan acquires an equity interest in an entity such as the trust and such interest does not represent a "publicly offered security" or a security issued by an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the ERISA Plan's assets include both the equity interest and an undivided interest in each of the underlying assets of the entity, unless it is established either that the entity is an "operating company" or that equity participation in the entity by "benefit plan investors" is not "significant." In general, an "equity interest" is defined under the Plan Assets Regulation as any interest in an entity other than an instrument which is treated as indebtedness under applicable local law and which has no substantial equity features. The treatment in this context of notes and certificates of a trust will be discussed in the related prospectus supplement. However, it is anticipated that the certificates will be considered equity interests in the trust for purposes of the Plan Assets Regulation, and that the assets of the trust may therefore constitute plan assets of an ERISA Plan if "benefit plan investors" hold 25% or more of any class of certificates. In such event, the fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction restrictions of ERISA and Section 4975 of the Code would apply to transactions involving the assets of the trust. As a result, certificates and subordinate notes of classes that have been issued without an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that such subordinate notes will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes generally shall not be transferred to an ERISA Plan or a person using ERISA Plan assets to acquire the certificates or the subordinate notes unless the Exemption, as described below, is available. Each transferee of certificates or subordinate notes of these classes to which the Exemption is not applicable will be deemed to represent that the proposed transferee is not a Benefit Plan Investor and is not acquiring the certificates or subordinate notes of these classes on behalf of or with the assets of a Benefit Plan Investor, including assets that may be held in an insurance company's separate or general accounts, unless the insurance company is using plan assets held in its general account and satisfies certain conditions. Unless otherwise specified in the related prospectus supplement, the notes issued with an opinion of Federal Tax Counsel to the effect that they will be treated as debt for federal income tax purposes may be purchased by a Plan. A fiduciary of a Plan must determine that the purchase of a note is consistent with its fiduciary duties under ERISA and does not result in a nonexempt prohibited transaction as defined in 90 Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. A fiduciary of a Plan acquiring a note will be required or deemed to make certain representations. Employee benefit plans that are governmental plans (as defined in Section 3(32) of ERISA) and certain church plans (as defined in Section 3(33) of ERISA) are not subject to ERISA requirements. However, any such governmental or church plan which is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and exempt from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code is subject to the prohibited transaction rules in Section 503 of the Code. A fiduciary of a Plan considering the purchase of securities of a given series should consult its tax and/or legal advisors regarding whether the investment will cause the assets of the related trust to be considered plan assets, the possibility of exemptive relief from the prohibited transaction rules and other issues and their potential consequences. Certificates Issued by Trusts and Certain Subordinate Notes The U.S. Department of Labor (the "DOL") has granted to the lead underwriter named in the related prospectus supplement an exemption (as amended, the "Exemption") from certain of the prohibited transaction rules of ERISA and the Code with respect to the initial purchase, the holding and the subsequent resale by Plans of securities, including certificates, representing interests in asset-backed entities, including trusts, that consist of certain receivables, loans and other obligations that meet the conditions and requirements of the Exemption. The receivables covered by the Exemption include fully-secured motor vehicle installment loans. The Exemption will apply to the acquisition, holding and resale of the certificates or certain classes of subordinate notes by an ERISA Plan when certain conditions (some of which are described below) are met. The prospectus supplement for a series of securities will indicate whether the Exemption may apply to the subordinate notes and certificates of the series. Among the conditions which must be satisfied for the Exemption to apply to the certificates or subordinate notes are the following: o The acquisition of the securities by a Plan is on terms (including the price for the securities) that are at least as favorable to the Plan as they would be in an arm's length transaction with an unrelated party; o The rights and interests evidenced by the securities acquired by the Plan are not subordinated to the rights and interests evidenced by other securities issued by the trust, unless the investment pool contains certain types of collateral, such as consumer loans fully secured by motor vehicles; o The securities acquired by the Plan have received a rating at the time of such acquisition that is in one of the three highest generic rating categories (or one of the four highest categories if the transaction's investment pool contains certain types of collateral, such as consumer loans fully secured by motor vehicles) from either Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or Fitch, Inc.; o The trustee is not an affiliate of any other member of the Restricted Group (as defined below) other than an underwriter; o The sum of all payments made to and retained by the underwriters in connection with the distribution of the securities represents not more than reasonable compensation for underwriting the securities; the sum of all payments made to and retained by the seller pursuant to the sale of 91 the receivables to the trust represents not more than the fair market value of such receivables; and the sum of all payments made to and retained by the servicer represents not more than reasonable compensation for the servicer's services under the applicable agreement and reimbursement of the servicer's reasonable expenses in connection therewith; o The Plan investing in the securities is an "accredited investor" as defined in Rule 501(a)(1) of Regulation D of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933; and o For certain types of issuers, the documents establishing the issuer and governing the transaction must contain certain provisions intended to protect the assets of the issuer from creditors of the sponsor. The Exemption extends exemptive relief to certain mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities transactions using pre-funding accounts. Secured receivables (the "Obligations") supporting payments to securityholders, and having a value equal to no more than 25% of the total principal balance of the securities being offered by the trust, may be transferred to the trust within a 90-day or three-month period following the closing date, instead of being required to be either identified or transferred on or before the closing date. The relief is available when the pre-funding arrangements satisfy a number of conditions. The Exemption would also provide relief from certain self-dealing/conflict of interest or prohibited transactions that may occur when the Plan fiduciary causes a Plan to acquire securities in a trust that owns obligations on which the fiduciary (or its affiliate) is an obligor only if, among other requirements, o in the case of the acquisition of securities in connection with the initial issuance, at least 50% of each class of securities in which Plans invest and at least 50% of the aggregate interests in the trust are acquired by persons independent of the Restricted Group (as defined below), o such fiduciary (or its affiliate) is an obligor with respect to no more than 5% of the fair market value of the obligations contained in the trust, o the Plan's investment in a class of securities does not exceed 25% of all of the securities of that class outstanding at the time of the acquisition and o immediately after the acquisition, no more than 25% of the assets of any Plan with respect to which the fiduciary has discretionary authority or renders investment advice are invested in securities representing an interest in one or more trusts containing assets sold or serviced by the same entity. This relief does not apply to Plans sponsored by the depositor, the seller, any underwriter, the indenture trustee, the trustee, the servicer, any obligor with respect to receivables included in the trust constituting more than five percent of the aggregate unamortized principal balance of the assets in the trust, a provider of credit support to the trust or any affiliate of such parties (the "Restricted Group"). Any Plan fiduciary which proposes to cause a Plan to purchase securities should consult with its counsel concerning the impact of ERISA and the Code, the applicability of the Exemption (as amended) and the potential consequences in their specific circumstances, prior to making such investment. Moreover, each Plan fiduciary should determine whether, under the general fiduciary standards of investment prudence and diversification, an investment in the securities is appropriate for the Plan, taking into account the overall investment policy of the Plan and the composition of the Plan's investment portfolio. 92 PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION The depositor may sell notes and/or certificates, or cause the related trust to sell notes and/or certificates, o through one or more underwriters or dealers, o directly to one or more purchasers or o through agents. If underwriters are used in the sale of securities, the depositor will agree to sell, or cause the related trust to sell, to the underwriters named in the related prospectus supplement the notes and/or certificates of the trust specified in an underwriting agreement. Each of the underwriters will severally agree to purchase the principal amount of each class of notes and/or certificates of the related trust set forth in the related prospectus supplement and the underwriting agreement. Each prospectus supplement will either-- o set forth the price at which each class of notes and/or certificates, as the case may be, being offered thereby will be offered to the public and any concessions that may be offered to certain dealers participating in the offering of such notes and/or certificates; or o specify that the related notes and/or certificates, as the case may be, are to be resold by the underwriters in negotiated transactions at varying prices to be determined at the time of such sale. After the initial public offering of any such notes and/or certificates, such public offering prices and such concessions may be changed. The seller and the depositor will indemnify the underwriters of securities against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or contribute to payments the several underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof. Dealers and agents may also be entitled to such indemnification and contribution. Each trust may, from time to time, invest the funds in its trust accounts in investments acquired from such underwriters or agents or from the seller. Under each underwriting agreement with respect to a given trust, the closing of the sale of any class of securities subject to such underwriting agreement will be conditioned on the closing of the sale of all other such classes of securities of that trust (some of which may not be registered or may not be publicly offered). The place and time of delivery for the securities in respect of which this prospectus is delivered will be set forth in the related prospectus supplement. LEGAL OPINIONS Certain legal matters relating to the securities of any trust will be passed upon for the trust, the depositor, the seller and the servicer by Sidley Austin LLP, New York, New York. Certain other legal 93 matters will be passed upon for the seller by Michael J. Broker, Esq., Vice-President and Banking Counsel. GLOSSARY OF TERMS FOR THE PROSPECTUS Set forth below is a list of the defined terms used in this prospectus, which are also used in the accompanying prospectus supplement. "Additional Obligations" means, with respect to the Exemption, all Obligations transferred to a trust after its closing date. "administrator" means the Bank, in its capacity as administrator of the trust under an administration agreement. "Advances" means, with respect to a delinquent receivable and a payment date, the excess of (a) the product of the principal balance of that receivable as of the first day of the related Collection Period and one-twelfth of its contract rate of interest, over (b) the interest actually received by the servicer with respect to that receivable from the obligor or from the payment of the Purchase Amount during or with respect to such Collection Period. "Amortizable Bond Premium Regulations" means the final regulations issued on December 30, 1997 by the IRS dealing with amortizable bond premium. "Bank" means USAA Federal Savings Bank and its successors. "Benefit Plan Investor" means: o "employee benefit plans" (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), including without limitation governmental plans, foreign pension plans and church plans; o "plans" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, including individual retirement accounts and Keogh plans; and o entities whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in such entity, including without limitation, as applicable, insurance company general accounts. "Book-Entry Securities" means the notes and certificates that are held in the U.S. through DTC and in Europe through Clearstream or Euroclear. "certificate balance" means with respect to each class of certificates and as the context so requires, (i) with respect to all certificates of such class, an amount equal to, initially, the initial certificate balance of such class of certificates and, thereafter, an amount equal to the initial certificate balance of such class of certificates, reduced by all amounts distributed to certificateholders of such class of certificates and allocable to principal or (ii) with respect to any certificate of such class, an amount equal to, initially, the initial denomination of such certificate and, thereafter, an amount equal to such initial denomination, reduced by all amounts distributed in respect of such certificate and allocable to principal. "Clearstream" means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, a professional depository under the laws of Luxembourg. 94 "closing date" means that date specified as such in the prospectus supplement on which the trust issues its securities. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. "Collection Period" means with respect to securities of each trust, the period specified in the related prospectus supplement with respect to calculating payments and proceeds of the related receivables. "Controlling Class" means, with respect to any trust, the Class A Notes described in the prospectus supplement as long as any Class A Notes are outstanding, and thereafter, in order of seniority, each other class of notes, if any, described in the prospectus supplement as long as they are outstanding. "cut-off date" means the date specified as such in the applicable prospectus supplement. "daily portion" is computed as specified under "Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences--Trusts Structured as Grantor Trusts for Federal Income Tax Purposes--Original Issue Discount--Stripped Bonds." "defaulted receivable" means a receivable (i) that the servicer determines is unlikely to be paid in full or (ii) with respect to which at least 5% of a scheduled payment is 120 or more days delinquent as of the end of a calendar month. "Definitive Certificates" means with respect to any class of certificates issued in book-entry form, such certificates issued in fully registered, certificated form to certificateholders or their respective nominees, rather than to DTC or its nominee. "Definitive Notes" means with respect to any class of notes issued in book-entry form, such notes issued in fully registered, certificated form to noteholders or their respective nominees, rather than to DTC or its nominee. "Definitive Securities" means collectively, the Definitive Notes and the Definitive Certificates. "DOL" means the United States Department of Labor. "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company and any successor depository selected by the trust. "Eligible Deposit Account" means either-- o a segregated account with an Eligible Institution; or o a segregated trust account with the corporate trust department of a depository institution organized under the laws of the U.S. or any one of the states thereof or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), having corporate trust powers and acting as trustee for funds deposited in such account, so long as any of the securities of such depository institution have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in one of its generic rating categories which signifies investment grade. "Eligible Institution" means-- o the corporate trust department of the indenture trustee or the related trustee, as applicable; or 95 o a depository institution organized under the laws of the U.S. or any one of the states thereof or the District of Columbia (or any domestic branch of a foreign bank), (1) which has either (A) a long-term unsecured debt rating acceptable to the Rating Agencies or (B) a short-term unsecured debt rating or certificate of deposit rating acceptable to the Rating Agencies and (2) whose deposits are insured by the FDIC. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. "ERISA Plan" means a pension, profit sharing and other employee benefit or other plan (such as an individual retirement account and certain types of Keogh plans) that is subject to Title I of ERISA or to Section 4975 of the Code. "Euroclear" means a professional depository operated by Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. "Events of Default" under the related indenture will consist of the events specified under "Description of the Notes--The Indenture." "Events of Servicing Termination" under each sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement will consist of the events specified under "Description of the Transfer and Servicing Agreements--Events of Servicing Termination." "Exemption" means the exemption granted to the lead underwriter named in the prospectus supplement by the DOL and described under "ERISA Considerations." "Federal Tax Counsel" means the special federal tax counsel to each trust specified in the related prospectus supplement. "Foreign Person" means a nonresident alien, foreign corporation or other entity that is not a U.S. Person. "Funding Period" the period specified in the related prospectus supplement during which the seller will sell any Subsequent Receivables to the trust, which period may be as frequently as daily. "Grantor Trust Certificateholders" means owners of certificates issued by a trust that is treated as a grantor trust. "Grantor Trust Certificates" means certificates issued by a trust that is treated as a grantor trust. "indenture" means the indenture by and between the Trust, as issuer of the notes, and the indenture trustee, identified in the related prospectus supplement. "IO" means interest-only. "IRS" means the Internal Revenue Service. "Motor Vehicle Loans" means motor vehicle installment loans secured by new and used automobiles and light-duty trucks. "Obligations" means, with respect to the Exemption, mortgage loans or other secured receivables. "OCC" means Office of Comptroller of the Currency. 96 "OID" means original issue discount. "OID regulations" means those Treasury regulations relating to OID. "payment date" means the date specified in each related prospectus supplement for the payment of principal of and interest on the securities. "Permitted Investments" means: o direct obligations of, and obligations fully guaranteed as to timely payment by, the United States of America or its agencies; o demand deposits, time deposits, certificates of deposit or bankers" acceptances of certain depository institutions or trust companies having the highest rating from the applicable Rating Agency rating the notes or certificates; o commercial paper having, at the time of such investment, a rating in the highest rating category from the applicable Rating Agency rating the notes or certificates; o investments in money market funds having the highest rating from the applicable Rating Agency rating the notes or certificates; o repurchase obligations with respect to any security that is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed by, the United States of America or its agencies, in either case entered into with a depository institution or trust company having the highest rating from the applicable Rating Agency rating the notes or certificates; and o any other investment acceptable to the applicable Rating Agencies. Permitted Investments are generally limited to obligations or securities which mature on or before the next payment date. "Plan" has the meaning specified in "ERISA Considerations." "Plan Assets Regulation" means a regulation, 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, issued by the DOL. "pooling and servicing agreement" means the pooling and servicing agreement among the depositor, the Bank, as seller and servicer, and the trustee identified in the related prospectus supplement. "PTCE" means a Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption under ERISA. "Purchase Amount" means a price at which the seller or the servicer must purchase a receivable from a trust, equal to the unpaid principal balance of the receivable plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the weighted average interest rate borne by the trust's securities through the end of the related Collection Period. "Rating Agency" means a nationally recognized rating agency providing, at the request of the seller, a rating on the securities issued by the applicable trust. 97 "receivables purchase agreement" means the receivables purchase agreement between the seller and the depositor pursuant to which the depositor purchases receivables from the seller. "Receivables Transfer and Servicing Agreements" means, collectively, (i) each sale and servicing agreement under which the trust will purchase receivables from the depositor and servicer will agree to service such receivables, each trust agreement under which the trust will be created and certificates will be issued and each administration agreement under which the Bank will undertake certain administrative duties or (ii) in the case of a trust that is a grantor trust, the pooling and servicing agreement. "Record Date" means the business day immediately preceding the payment date or, if definitive securities are issued, the last day of the preceding calendar month. "Restricted Group" means, with respect to the Exemption, Plans sponsored by the seller, any underwriter, the trustee, the servicer, any obligor with respect to receivables included in the trust constituting more than 5% of the aggregate unamortized principal balance of the assets in the trust, or any affiliate of such parties. "sale and servicing agreement" means the sale and servicing agreement among the depositor, as seller, the Bank, as servicer, and the trust, as purchaser. "SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Section 1286 Treasury Regulations" means Treasury regulations under which, if the discount on a stripped bond is larger than a de minimis amount (as calculated for purposes of the OID rules of the Code), such stripped bond will be considered to have been issued with OID. "seller" means the Bank as seller of receivables to a trust. "Senior Certificates" means the nonsubordinated certificates issued by a trust. "servicer" means the Bank acting in its capacity as servicer of the receivables under the applicable sale and servicing agreement or pooling and servicing agreement. "Short-Term Note" means a note that has a fixed maturity date of not more than one year from the issue date of such note. "Similar Laws" means federal, state or local laws that impose requirements similar to Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. "Subsequent Receivables" means additional receivables sold by the seller to the applicable trust during a Funding Period after the closing date. "Subsequent Transfer Date" means each date specified as a transfer date in the related prospectus supplement on which Subsequent Receivables will be sold by the seller to the applicable trust. "tax code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. "trustee" means the trustee of the trust identified in the related prospectus supplement. "trust agreement" means the trust agreement between the trustee, the depositor and the Bank, identified in the related prospectus supplement. 98 "U.S. Person" means a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation or a partnership organized in or under the laws of the United States, a state thereof or the District of Columbia, an estate, the income of which is includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes regardless of its source, a trust if a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision of the administration of the trust and one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or a trust that has filed a valid election to be treated as a United States person under the Code and applicable Treasury regulations. "USAA" means United Services Automobile Association and its successors. 99 PART II INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.* Expenses in connection with the offering of the Securities being registered herein are estimated as follows: SEC registration fee................................... $1,284,000.00 Legal fees and expenses................................ $ 425,000.00 Accounting fees and expenses........................... $ 150,000.00 Blue sky fees and expenses............................. $ 20,000.00 Rating agency fees..................................... $1,390,000.00 Trustees' fees and expenses............................ $ 50,000.00 Printing............................................... $ 75,000.00 Miscellaneous.......................................... $ 15,000.00 Total.................................................. $3,319,000.00 * All amounts are estimates of expenses incurred or to be incurred in connection with the issuance and distribution of a series of Securities in an aggregate principal amount assumed for these purposes to be equal to $12,000,000,000 of Securities registered hereby. Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The Registrant's Limited Liability Company Agreement provides for indemnification of directors and officers of the Registrant to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law for any loss, damage or claim incurred by such director or officer by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such director or officer in good faith on behalf of the Registrant and in a manner reasonably believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such director or officer by the Limited Liability Company Agreement, except that no such director or officer shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such director or officer by reason of gross negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions. For the undertaking with respect to indemnification, see Item 17 herein. Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statements (a) 1.1 Form of Underwriting Agreement for Owner Trusts*** 1.2 Form of Underwriting Agreement for Grantor Trusts*** 3.1 Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Registrant* 4.1 Form of Pooling and Servicing Agreement between the Registrant and the trustee (including form of Certificates)*** 4.2 Form of Indenture between the trust and the indenture trustee (including forms of Notes)*** 4.3 Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement between the Registrant and the owner trustee (including forms of Certificates)*** 4.4 Form of Certificate of Trust for trusts (included as part of Exhibit 4.3)*** 5.1 Opinion of Sidley Austin llp with respect to legality*** 5.2 Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. with respect to legality*** 8.1 Opinion of Sidley Austin llp with respect to certain tax matters*** II-1 23.1 Consent of Sidley Austin llp (included as part of Exhibits 5.1 and 8.1) *** 23.2 Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger (included as part of Exhibit 5.2) *** 24.1 Power of Attorney for USAA Acceptance, LLC ** 25.1 Form of T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association*** 99.1 Form of Sale and Servicing Agreement among the Registrant, USAA Federal Savings Bank and the trust*** 99.2 Form of Administration Agreement among the trust, the Administrator and the indenture trustee*** 99.3 Form of Receivables Purchase Agreement between the Registrant and USAA Federal Savings Bank*** * Incorporated by reference to Registrant's filing on Form 8-K with the Commission on October 4, 2005. ** Previously filed in connection with the filing of this Registration Statement on January 27, 2006. *** Previously filed in connection with the filing of Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to this Registration Statement on March 17, 2006. (b) Financial Statements: Not applicable. Item 17. Undertakings (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes: (1) to file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement: (i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; (ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment hereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement; and (iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement; Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is part of the registration statement; and II-2 Provided further, however, that the undertakings set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those clauses is provided pursuant to Item 1100(c) of Regulation AB. (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering. (4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, if the registrant is relying on Rule 430B: (i) each prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in this registration statement; and (ii) each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5) or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in this registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date. (5) That for purposes of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser: (i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424; (ii) any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant; (iii) the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and (iv) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser. (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the II-3 payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. (d) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to file an application for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the trustee to act under subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission under Section 305(b)(2) of the Act. (e) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 of a third party that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement in accordance with Item 1100(c)(1) of Regulation AB (17 CFR 229.1100(c)(1)) shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. (f) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, except as otherwise provided by Item 1105 of Regulation AB (17 CFR 229.1105), information provided in response to that Item pursuant to Rule 312 of Regulation S-T (17 CFR 232.312) through the specified Internet address in the prospectus is deemed to be a part of the prospectus included in the registration statement. In addition, the undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to any person without charge, upon request, a copy of the information provided in response to Item 1105 of Regulation AB pursuant to Rule 312 of Regulation S-T through the specified Internet address as of the date of the prospectus included in the registration statement if a subsequent update or change is made to the information. II-4 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Antonio, State of Texas on the 25th day of April, 2006. USAA ACCEPTANCE, LLC By: /s/ Michael A. Luby -------------------------- Name: Michael A. Luby Title: President Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registrant Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Signature Title Date /s/ Michael A. Luby Chairman, President and Director April 25, 2006 -------------------- (Principal Executive Officer) Michael A. Luby * Treasurer, Senior Vice President April 25, 2006 ----------------- and Director Fritz D. Bohne (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) Director, Senior Vice President and * Secretary April 25, 2006 ----------------- Luther G. Branham -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * by Michael J. Broker, attorney-in-fact By: /s/ Michael J. Broker --------------------------------------- Michael J. Broker Attorney-in-Fact II-5 EXHIBIT INDEX 1.1 Form of Underwriting Agreement for Owner Trusts*** 1.2 Form of Underwriting Agreement for Grantor Trusts*** 3.1 Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of the Registrant* 4.1 Form of Pooling and Servicing Agreement between the Registrant and the trustee (including form of Certificates)*** 4.2 Form of Indenture between the trust and the indenture trustee (including forms of Notes)*** 4.3 Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement between the Registrant and the owner trustee (including forms of Certificates)*** 4.4 Form of Certificate of Trust for trusts (included as part of Exhibit 4.3)*** 5.1 Opinion of Sidley Austin llp with respect to legality*** 5.2 Opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. with respect to legality*** 8.1 Opinion of Sidley Austin llp with respect to certain tax matters*** 23.1 Consent of Sidley Austin llp (included as part of Exhibits 5.1 and 8.1) *** 23.2 Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger (included as part of Exhibit 5.2) *** 24.1 Power of Attorney for USAA Acceptance, LLC ** 25.1 Form of T-1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 of JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association*** 99.1 Form of Sale and Servicing Agreement among the Registrant, USAA Federal Savings Bank and the trust*** 99.2 Form of Administration Agreement among the trust, the Administrator and the indenture trustee*** 99.3 Form of Receivables Purchase Agreement between the Registrant and USAA Federal Savings Bank*** * Incorporated by reference to Registrant's filing on Form 8-K with the Commission on October 4, 2005. ** Previously filed in connection with the filing of this Registration Statement on January 27, 2006. *** Previously filed in connection with the filing of Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 to this Registration Statement on March 17, 2006. 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