2001 Ford Explorer 1FMCU70E-1 — all VINs
220 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 1FMCU70E-1 means
- 1FM
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Ford registered — assembled in the United States
- CU70E
- together encode the Explorer line — Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), 4L 6cyl, Four-wheel drive — as Ford filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- 1
- in position 10 — model year 2001
- 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.