EXHIBIT 24.1


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

         The undersigned, being a director or officer or both of Capital Auto
Receivables, Inc., hereby constitutes and appoints Gerald E. Gross and Richard
V. Kent, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents,
with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities (including his capacity as director
and/or officer of Wholesale Auto Receivables Corporation), to sign a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering Asset Backed Notes and Certificates
to be sold by Capital Auto Receivables, Inc. and any or all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statement, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this power
of attorney has been executed by the undersigned on December 19, 2001.

/s/ PAUL D. BULL                             /s/ WILLIAM F. MUIR
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Paul D. Bull                                 William F. Muir

/s/ RICHARD E. DAMMAN                        /s/ CYNTHIA A. RANZILLA
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Richard E. Damman                            Cynthia A. Ranzilla

/s/ JOHN D. FINNEGAN                         /s/ JEROME B. VAN ORMAN, JR.
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John D. Finnegan                             Jerome B. Van Orman, Jr.

/s/ JOHN E. GIBSON                           /s/ GUNTER DUFEY
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John E. Gibson                               Gunter Dufey

/s/ GERALD E. GROSS
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Gerald E. Gross