2002 Saab 9-5 YS3EB49E-2 — all VINs
116 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What YS3EB49E-2 means
- YS3
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Saab registered — the manufacturer and plant group
- EB49E
- together encode the 9-5 line — Sedan, 2.3L 4cyl — as Saab filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- 2
- in position 10 — model year 2002
- 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.