2012 Hyundai Sonata KMHEC4A4-C — all VINs
7,055 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What KMHEC4A4-C means
- KMH
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Hyundai registered — assembled in South Korea
- EC4A4
- together encode the Sonata line — Sedan, 2.4L — as Hyundai filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- C
- in position 10 — model year 2012
- 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.