2009 Mercury Sable 1MEHM40W-9 — all VINs
155 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 1MEHM40W-9 means
- 1ME
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Mercury registered — assembled in the United States
- HM40W
- together encode the Sable line — Sedan, 3.5L 6cyl, Front-wheel drive — as Mercury filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- 9
- in position 10 — model year 2009
- 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.