1989 Mercedes-Benz 420 WDBCA35E-K — all VINs
112 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WDBCA35E-K means
- WDB
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Mercedes-Benz registered — assembled in Germany
- CA35E
- together encode the 420 line — Sedan — as Mercedes-Benz filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- K
- in position 10 — model year 1989
- 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.