A decline is usually a file problem rather than a verdict on the business. Most of the time nobody explained which part, which is why the next application fails the same way.
In luxury & exotic automotive, the same handful of things account for most declines. None of them is a verdict on the business.
Split deposit from balance
Send a deposit request instantly
Layer the verification
Separate the two architectures
And what share of it you would want on a card. That decides almost everything else.
Being declined once does not disqualify a business. It does mean the next file has to answer the objection rather than repeat the application — and nobody can do that without knowing which objection it was.