2008 Kia Optima KNAGE124-8 — all VINs
846 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What KNAGE124-8 means
- KNA
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Kia registered — assembled in South Korea
- GE124
- together encode the Optima line — Sedan, 2.7L 6cyl, Front-wheel drive — as Kia filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- 8
- in position 10 — model year 2008
- 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.