2017 BMW M3 WBS8M9C3-H — all VINs
576 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WBS8M9C3-H means
- WBS
- the World Manufacturer Identifier BMW registered — assembled in Germany
- 8M9C3
- together encode the M3 line — Sedan, 3L 6cyl, Rear-wheel drive — as BMW filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- H
- in position 10 — model year 2017
- 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.