2012 Buick Regal 2G4GR5EK-C — group B
121 vehicles sit in group B of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 2G4GR5EK-C means
- 2G4
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Buick registered — assembled in Canada
- GR5EK
- together encode the Regal line — Sedan, 2.4L 4cyl — as Buick filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- C
- in position 10 — model year 2012
- 9, 11–17
- differ on every car: check digit, plant code and the serial number
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.