2017 Kia Sportage KNDPM3AC-H — group C
805 vehicles sit in group C of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What KNDPM3AC-H means
- KND
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Kia registered — assembled in South Korea
- PM3AC
- together encode the Sportage line — Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), 2.4L 4cyl — as Kia filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- H
- in position 10 — model year 2017
- 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.