lpickup
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I don't think it's that either...VINs from day 1 reservationsists that finalized their order almost as soon as they received their invites on 11/21 have VINs all over the map. If you look at this crowd-sourced spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17XHQahHGwBjWgDFpJSSx3UOPZB8X4UUSSymD-3oUr1Q/edit#gid=0 and look at those that configured on 11/22 (probably the largest group that have VINs), we see the following VINs:lorenfb said:So, most likely the M3 VINs may have been assigned relative to a deposit date and not a production date, which is atypical in the
automotive industry.
079X 15XX 16XX 1698 1727 1737 189X 1921 1927 199X 2502
However, while most of the cars that have configured so far are silver, the VINs do appear to line up somewhat with color, although I don't think there is enough data yet to really draw any conclusions. in particular the 19xx range seems to have examples for 3 different colors and the VIN 1921 (silver) in particular seems to break up a run of Reds. I have analyzed some of the other "parking lot reports" and it does appear that there is some evidence that they are building the cars in batches by color (assuming they are building them in VIN order) and then matching cars to buyers arbitrarily later on vs. making them to order.
Silver: 5xx 12xx 16xx 1698 17xx 1737 1921 28xx
White: 15xx
Red: 189x 1927
Blue: 199x 2564
Black: 2185