2018 Ford F-150 1FTEW1CB-J — group E
271 vehicles sit in group E of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 1FTEW1CB-J means
- 1FT
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Ford registered — assembled in the United States
- EW1CB
- together encode the F-150 line — Pickup, 3.3L 6cyl — as Ford filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- J
- in position 10 — model year 2018
- 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.