1998 BMW M3 WBSCD932-W — all VINs
115 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WBSCD932-W means
- WBS
- the World Manufacturer Identifier BMW registered — assembled in Germany
- CD932
- together encode the M3 line — Sedan, 3.2L 6cyl — as BMW filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- W
- in position 10 — model year 1998
- 9, 11–17
- vehicle-specific fields: check digit, plant code and production sequence
Groups
Too many vehicles to list on one page, so they are split by the next character of a fixed code derived from the VIN. Each group keeps its cars for good.