2021 Volvo XC40 YV4162UL-M — group A
96 vehicles sit in group A of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What YV4162UL-M means
- YV4
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Volvo registered — the manufacturer and plant group
- 162UL
- together encode the XC40 line — Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), 2L 4cyl, All-wheel drive — as Volvo filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- M
- in position 10 — model year 2021
- 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.