Question on VIN

[Huchipapa]

Greetings all. Eagerly awaiting my rollover '23>'24 Lariat Hybrid, due to start production next week. General question: I always was under the impression that the last number of a car's year was someplace in the VIN. Yet the preproduction VIN I got from Ford doesn't have a "4" in it. Am I missing something? Many thanks.

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[Bobkath]

Greetings all. Eagerly awaiting my rollover '23>'24 Lariat Hybrid, due to start production next week. General question: I always was under the impression that the last number of a car's year was someplace in the VIN. Yet the preproduction VIN I got from Ford doesn't have a "4" in it. Am I missing something? Many thanks.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vehicle_Identification_Numbers_(VIN_codes)/Model_year

 

[Waterick]

It's always the eighth digit from the end. For MY'24, it's the first "R", MY'23's were "P". For a while, after the year 2000, it was the year number but... Bobkath just posted a better explanation so I'll defer to that now.

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