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Aside from the assets' credit quality, the bank's 60 years of experience originating and servicing auto loans is a boost to the notes' credit.

Borrowers in GCAR 2025-1's underlying collateral pool have a slightly lower FICO score than the GCAR 2024-4 deal, and they bought more new cars.

All the class A notes benefit from total initial hard credit enhancement totaling 21.0% of the pool balance. Classes B, C and D benefit from 17.0%, 11.5% and 6.5%, respectively.

The GMALT 2025-1 securitization has just 24.4% of contracts with original leases longer than 36 months. It's the lowest level for the platform, a credit positive.

Called collateral from various series increased to 6.0%, from 4.0%, while weighted average seasoning increased to 3.15 months from 2.82 months.

In a few notable changes from the 2024-1 deal, 0.73% of the current pool is composed of closed-end leases, an increase from 0.55%.

Despite Exeter's experience, it has low durability as a servicer. This puts its default probability in the unknown.

ODART 2025-1 will be the first transaction from the program that will include loans originated through OneMain Foursight, the lending unit that was formed when OneMain bought Foursight Capital from Jefferies Financial Group.

Notes will be repaid through a sequential pay structure that will require principal to be repaid in full to the class A1 notes.