2003 Saab 9-5 YS3EB49E-3 — all VINs
158 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-3 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
- 3
- in position 10 — model year 2003
- 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.