2004 Lexus IS JTHBD192-4 — group E
101 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 JTHBD192-4 means
- JTH
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Lexus registered — assembled in Japan
- BD192
- together encode the IS line — Sedan, 3L 6cyl — as Lexus filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- 4
- in position 10 — model year 2004
- 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.