UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM10-K

(Mark One)

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.2019.

or

For the transition period from _______________ to. _______________.

SANTANDER DRIVE AUTO RECEIVABLES TRUST2014-3 2019-3

(Exact name of issuing entity as specified in its charter)

Commission file number of the issuing entity:333-192513-02 333-228364-05

Central Index Key Number of issuing entity: 00016092200001783326

SANTANDER DRIVE AUTO RECEIVABLES LLC

(Exact name of depositor as specified in its charter)

Commission file number of depositor:333-192513 333-228364

Central Index Key Number of depositor: 0001383094

SANTANDER CONSUMER USA INC.

(Exact name of sponsor as specified in its charter)

Central Index Key Number of sponsor: 0001540151

83-6838118

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No. of the issuing entity)

c/o Santander Drive Auto Receivables LLC

1601 Elm Street, Suite 800

Dallas, Texas 75201

(Address of principal executive offices)

(214)292-1930

(Telephone number, including area code)

Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 (b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:None

Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 (g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Yes ☐   No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

Yes ☐    No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes ☒    No ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of RegulationS-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

Yes ☒    No ☐

Indicate by check mark if the disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of RegulationS-K (§229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein and will not be contained, to the best of the Registrants’ knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form10-K or any amendment to this Form10-K.  ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or anon-accelerated filer.an emerging growth company. See definitionthe definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and large accelerated filer”“emerging growth company” in Rule12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule12b-2 of the Act).

Yes ☐ No ☒

State the aggregate market value of the voting andnon-voting common equity held bynon-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter.

Not applicable.

List hereunder the following documents if incorporated by reference and the part of the Form10-K (e.g. Part I, Part II, etc.) into which the document is incorporated: (1) Any annual report to security holders; (2) Any proxy information statement; and (3) Any prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) or (c) under the Securities Act of 1933. The listed documents should be clearly described for identification purposes (e.g., annual report to security holders for fiscal year ended December 24, 1980).

None.

PART I

The following items have been omitted in accordance with General Instruction J to Form10-K:

Nothing to report.

Substitute information provided in accordance with General Instruction J to Form10-K:

Item 1112(b) of Regulation AB. Significant Obligors of Pool Assets (Financial Information).

Nothing to report.

Item 1114(b)(2) of Regulation AB. Credit Enhancement and Other Support, Except for Certain Derivatives Instruments (Information Regarding Significant Enhancement Providers).

Nothing to report.

Item 1115(b) of Regulation AB. Certain Derivatives Instruments (Financial Information).

Nothing to report.

Item 1117 of Regulation AB. Legal Proceedings.

U.S.Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,N.A., as the indenture trustee, has provided the following information:

SinceBeginning on June 18, 2014, various plaintiffs or groupsa group of plaintiffs, primarilyinstitutional investors have filed claimscivil complaints in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, and later the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against U.S.Wells Fargo Bank, National AssociationN.A., (“U.S.Wells Fargo Bank”), in its capacity as trustee or successor trustee (as the case may be) underfor certain residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) trusts. The plaintiffs or plaintiff groups have filed substantially similar complaints against other RMBS trustees, including DeutscheWells Fargo Bank Citibank, HSBC, Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo. The complaints against U.S. Bank allegealleged that the trustee caused losses to investors as a result of alleged failures by the sponsors, mortgage loan sellers and servicers for these RMBS trusts and assertasserted causes of action based upon, among other things, the trustee’s purportedalleged failure toto: (i) notify and enforce repurchase obligations of mortgage loan sellers for allegedpurported breaches of representations and warranties, concerning loan quality. The complaints also assert that the trustee failed to(ii) notify securityholdersinvestors of purportedalleged events of default, allegedly caused by breaches of servicing standards by mortgage loan servicers and that the trustee purportedly failed to(iii) abide by a heightened standardappropriate standards of care following alleged events of default.

Currently U.S. Relief sought included money damages in an unspecified amount, reimbursement of expenses, and equitable relief. In November 2018, Wells Fargo Bank isreached an agreement, in which it denied any wrongdoing, to resolve such claims on a defendantclass wide basis for the 271 RMBS trusts at issue. On May 6, 2019, the court entered an order approving the settlement agreement. Separate lawsuits against Wells Fargo Bank making similar allegations filed by certain other institutional investors concerning several RMBS trusts in multiple actions alleging individual or class action claims againstNew York federal and state court are not covered by the trustee withagreement. With respect to multiple trusts as described above withsuch litigations, Wells Fargo Bank believes plaintiffs’ claims are without merit and intends to contest the most substantial case being:BlackRock Balanced Capital Portfolioet al v. U.S. Bank National Association, No. 605204/2015 (N.Y. Sup. Ct.) (class action alleging claims with respect to approximately 770 trusts) and its companion caseBlackRock Core Bond Portfolio et al v. U.S Bank National Association, No.14-cv-9401 (S.D.N.Y.). Some of the trusts implicated in the aforementioned Blackrock cases, as well as other trusts, are involved in actions brought by separate groups of plaintiffs related tovigorously, but there can be no more than 100 trusts per case.

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U.S. Bank cannot assure youassurances as to the outcome of any of the litigation,litigations or the possible impact of thesethe litigations on the trusteeWells Fargo Bank or the RMBS trusts. However, U.S. Bank denies liability and believes that it has performed its obligations under the RMBS trusts in good faith, that its actions were not the cause of losses to investors and that it has meritorious defenses, and it intends to contest the plaintiffs’ claims vigorously.

PART II

The following items have been omitted in accordance with General Instruction J to Form10-K:

Item 6: Selected Financial Data

Item 7: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Item 7A: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Item 8: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Item 9: Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

Item 9A: Controls and Procedures

Item 9B. Other Information.

Santander Consumer USA Inc. (“SC”) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. (“SC Holdings”). On February 28, 2018,27, 2020, SC Holdings filed its Annual Report on Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 20172019 and disclosed certain legal and regulatory matters. Additional information about SC Holdings and its consolidated subsidiaries, including information contained in required annual reports on Form10-K, quarterly reports on Form10-Q and current reports on Form8-K, is on file with the SEC under the name “Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc.” and file number001-36270.

SC acts as the servicer for the issuing entity. Under the Servicing Agreement, dated July 15, 2016, by and between SC and Santander Consumer International Puerto Rico LLC (the “Subservicer”), and the related Program Portfolio Schedule (the Program Portfolio Schedule, together with the Servicing Agreement, the “Subservicing Agreement”), the Subservicer managed, serviced, collected, enforced, administered and provided other services with respect to each receivable held by the issuing entity that was a Performing Loan (as defined in the Subservicing Agreement). Pursuant to the written agreement of SC and the Subservicer, the Subservicing Agreement was terminated effective on December 31, 2017 at 11:59 p.m.

SC, as sole equity member, entered into a First Amendment, dated as of February 28, 2017, to the Amended and Restated Limited Company Agreement of Santander Drive Auto Receivables LLC, the depositor, amending the definition of independent director. The First Amendment is attached as an exhibit to this Form10-K.

On January 9, 2017, a First Amendment to Sale and Servicing Agreement was entered into amending the definitions ofNon-Investment Grade Notes and Restricted Notes in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The First Amendment is attached as an exhibit to this Form10-K.

On April 13, 2017, a Second Amendment to Sale and Servicing Agreement was entered into amending the definition of Liquidation Proceeds in the Sale and Servicing Agreement. The Second Amendment is attached as an exhibit to this Form10-K.

PART III

The following items have been omitted in accordance with General Instruction J to Form10-K:

Item 10: Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance

Item 11: Executive Compensation

Item 12: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

Item 13: Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

Item 14: Principal Accounting Fees and Services

Substitute information provided in accordance with General Instruction J to Form10-K:

Item 1119 of Regulation AB. Affiliations and Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.Transactions

Information required by Item 1119 of Regulation AB has been omitted from this report on Form10-K in reliance on the Instruction to Item 1119.

Item 1122 of Regulation AB. Compliance with Applicable Servicing Criteria.Criteria

Each of SC the Subservicer and U.S.Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (each, a “Servicing Participant”) have been identified by the issuing entity as parties participating in the servicing function with respect to the pool assets held by the issuing entity. Each of the Servicing Participants has completed a report on an assessment of compliance with the servicing criteria applicable to it (each, a “Report on Assessment”), which Reports on Assessment are attached as exhibits to this Form10-K. In addition, each of the Servicing Participants has provided an attestation report (each, an “Attestation Report”) by one or more registered public accounting firms, which reports are also attached as exhibits to this Form10-K.

Management’sNone of the Reports on Assessment of Compliance for SCor the related Attestation Reports has identified any material instances of noncompliance for the 2017 fiscal year, one of which is a continuation of a material instance of noncompliance reported by the issuing entity in its annual report on Form10-K filed March 30, 2017 and relates to reports to investors delivered during or prior to March 2017.

Management’s Assessment of Compliance for SC for the 2016 fiscal year identified a material instance of noncompliance related towith the servicing criterion set forth in Item 1122(d)(3)(i) – reports to investors, including those to be filed with the Commission, were not maintained in accordance with the transaction agreements and applicable Commission requirements. Specifically, reports to investors provided information that was not calculated in accordance with the terms specified in the transaction agreements. SC determined the existence of a material instance of noncompliance in March 2017, and the material instance of noncompliance related to this instance for the 2017 fiscal year relates to reports to investors delivered during or prior to March 2017. The instance of noncompliancecriteria described in this paragraph for both the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, which does relate to the asset-backed securities covered in this Form10-K and issued by the issuing entity, relates to two separate matters:

Under the transaction agreements for the Platform, SC, as Servicer, is entitled to receive all Supplemental Servicing Fees as additional servicing compensation, and such Supplemental Servicing Fees do not constitute Available Funds. However, SC included Supplemental Servicing Fees for certain transactions in the Platform under “other amounts received” and included such amounts as part of “Available Funds” in the investor reports; for these transactions, Supplemental Servicing Fees were distributed in accordance with the payment priorities set forth in the related transaction agreements rather thanReport on Assessment as being retained by the Servicer.

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To address this issue related to Supplemental Servicing Fees and the related instance of noncompliance, SC stopped including Supplemental Servicing Fees as “other amounts received” for all transactions in the Platform beginning with the March 2017 collection period and began retaining such amounts as additional servicing compensation as specified in the transaction agreements. SC believes that the inclusion of Supplemental Servicing Fees as available funds did not result in any material adverse effect on security holders.

Under the transaction agreements for the Platform, SC, as Servicer, is required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities as servicer other than expenses in connection with the sale of a repossessed vehicle, which may be netted from liquidation proceeds from such sale. For certain transactions in the Platform, SC did not net external costs associated with repossession expenses attributable to financed vehicles sold after the related receivables have become defaulted receivables; for these transactions, SC paid such repossession expenses and the “Liquidation Proceeds” included in the investor reports and distributed in accordance with the payment priorities set forth in the related transaction agreements were greater than they would have been had SC reduced the liquidation proceeds by the external costs associated with repossession expenses in accordance with the transaction agreements for those transactions.

To address this issue related to repossession expenses and the related instance of noncompliance, SC amended the transaction agreements for the effected transactions in the Platform to memorialize the agreement of the Servicer to pay such external costs of repossessions rather than netting such amounts from sale proceeds from the disposition of repossessed financed vehicles. SC believes that the payment of external costs associated with repossession expenses by the Servicer and the failure to report Liquidation Expenses on the investor reports net of such repossession expenses for certain transactions did not result in any material adverse effect on security holders.

Management’s Assessment of Compliance for SC for the 2017 fiscal year identified an additional matter that resulted in a finding of a material instance of noncompliance related to the servicing criterion set forth in Item 1122(d)(3)(i) – reports to investors, including those to be filed with the Commission, were not maintained in accordance with the transaction agreements and applicable Commission requirements— and Item 1122(d)(4)(iii) – any additions, removals or substitutions to the asset pool are made, reviewed and approved in accordance with any conditions or requirements in the transaction agreements. This matter relates to the following circumstance:

The transaction agreements for each transaction in the Platform specify the repurchase price to be paid by SC in connection with the repurchase of receivables from the issuing entity. In August 2017, the Servicer recalculated the accrued interest portion of the repurchase price paid in connection with the prior repurchase of receivables from issuers included in the Platform and, after recalculating the amount of accrued interest owed, determined that there was an aggregate shortfall in the repurchase price paid for certain of the transactions in the Platform. The material instance of noncompliance described in this paragraph does relate to the asset-backed securities covered by this Form10-K and issued by the issuing entity.

To address this issue related to the repurchase price for receivables and the related instances of noncompliance, SC recalculated the repurchase price for all affected transactions and made deposits on August 15, 2017 into the applicable collection account in an amount equal to the shortfall. Additionally, SC updated the related systems coding applicable to the methodology for calculating the repurchase price in August 2017 to avoid future shortfalls. SC believes that the shortfall in the accrued interest portion of the repurchase price paid in connection with the prior repurchase of receivables and the subsequent deposit of the shortfall into the applicable collection account did not result in any material adverse effect on security holders.

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With respect to the instances of noncompliance described above, SC has implemented additional procedures to confirm that calculations included in investor reports are completed as set forth in the transaction agreements and has implemented greater management oversight of reporting, enhanced quality assurance controls, and updated the related systems coding applicable to calculations included in investor reports.such Servicing Participant.

Item 1123 of Regulation AB. Servicer Compliance Statements.Statements

SC and the Subservicer havehas been identified by the issuing entity as the servicersservicer with respect to the asset pool held by the issuing entity. Each of SC and the Subservicer havehas completed a statement of compliance with applicable servicing criteria (each, a “Compliance Statement”) signed by an authorized officer. The Compliance Statements areStatement is attached as exhibitsan exhibit to this Form10-K. 10-K

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PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

Schedules

The exhibits listed below are either included or incorporated by reference as indicated:

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9Item 16.Form 10-K Summary

None.

Supplemental information to be Furnished With Reports Filed Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act by Registrants Which Have Not Registered Securities Pursuant to Section 12 of the Act.Act

No annual report, proxy statement, form of proxy or other proxy soliciting material has been sent to certificateholders, and the registrant does not presently contemplate sending any such materials subsequent to the filing of this report.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: March 30, 20182020

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