1997 Lexus LS JT8BH28F-V — all VINs
691 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What JT8BH28F-V means
- JT8
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Lexus registered — assembled in Japan
- BH28F
- together encode the LS line — Sedan, 4L 8cyl — as Lexus filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- V
- in position 10 — model year 1997
- 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.