2012 Ford Escape 1FMCU0D7-C — group A
612 vehicles sit in group A of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 1FMCU0D7-C means
- 1FM
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Ford registered — assembled in the United States
- CU0D7
- together encode the Escape line — Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), 2.5L 4cyl — as Ford 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.