1997 Mazda Protege JM1BC141-V — group 2
13 vehicles sit in group 2 of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What JM1BC141-V means
- JM1
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Mazda registered — assembled in Japan
- BC141
- together encode the Protege line — Sedan — as Mazda 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
Vehicles in this group
13 vehicles in this group, in fixed VIN order.









