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Old 05-27-2012, 09:24 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by fayth22 View Post
Just trying to find out where mine stands production wise. Its a white out with vin 1142
Well it means your FRS is the 1142nd one to roll off the production line, as VIN number does follow order of assembly, as a Scion FRS, produced for the USA, and inclusive of the first few production vehicles Toyota corporate decided to keep for various reasons, whether museum storage or PR, marketing use. This does not include though the handful of the Pre-Production units which do not have VIN numbers and were mostly hand-assembled for previews and testing in final form, as well as calibration of plant tooling, and PR firms and aftermarket R&D.

But for all practical purposes of collection or identity, it is indeed the 1142nd car made in the assembly line, and shipped for general consumer registered car as Scion FRS, USA model (I think includes Canada and certain parts of the world like Guam and Puerto Rico that also get US-DOT certified vehicles. And as such it will be valid to say you have the 1142nd FRS in the USA, by manufacture sequence, and of the cars that are allowed to be sold and registered in the USA.
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