90 VIN's decoded for the 2015 GT350's!

ITLRUN · Jul 23, 2015

http://www.stangtv.com/news/decoding-the-shelby-gt350-vins-reveals-preferred-colors-options/

Anybody seen this yet?!?

krt22 · Jul 23, 2015

Man, that is a lot of white cars! I expected a lot of them, but not the clear majority. Also strange how the lighter colors (white and avalanche) have a huge favor with the track pack cars

B17drvr · Jul 23, 2015

Cars number 42 and 43 (which are not listed) both track pack with Magnetic. 42 has blue stripes and 43 has black stripes with black roof.

krt22 · Jul 23, 2015

I take it the first 37 are all the R cars.

DrumReaper · Jul 23, 2015

I don't see a build # prior to 520044. There must have been 44 TT/MP cars.

krt22 · Jul 23, 2015

37 R's..42/43 are supposed to be there..so only a hand full missing.

B17drvr · Jul 23, 2015

The first 37 are R cars.

Spa2k · Jul 23, 2015

krt22 said:
Man, that is a lot of white cars! I expected a lot of them, but not the clear majority. Also strange how the lighter colors (white and avalanche) have a huge favor with the track pack cars

All of my race cars have been white; none had air-conditioning. The guys in all-black cars really suffered.

Spa2k · Jul 23, 2015

You guys understand that these may not be real VINs, right? The guy who did this just guessed at what the VINs could be. Ford has said the VINs won't be sequential, and if it for example started at 1 instead of 0 for the third numeral from the end, this whole thing could go out the window. On the plus side, if the guy actually ran all of these numbers through a VIN decoder and they showed up as real, that's pretty cool.

Update: My cynical side is pretty much satisfied. These appear to all be real VINs, based on my sampling. :thumbsup:

krt22 · Jul 23, 2015

Spa2k said:
You guys understand that these may not be real VINs, right? The guy who did this just guessed at what the VINs could be. Ford has said the VINs won't be sequential, and if it for example started at 1 instead of 0 for the third numeral from the end, this whole thing could go out the window. On the plus side, if the guy actually ran all of these numbers through a VIN decoder and they showed up as real, that's pretty cool.

It looks like he took one VIN and decoded by looking up the window stickers. (im guessing some guess and check was involved)

From all the ones I have seen, they do appear to be sequential. Saw a similar trend of the MY16 window stickers I looked up as well (found the VINs on cars.com)

Spa2k · Jul 23, 2015

To clarify, what I heard secondhand is that Ford said it is not going to build the GT350s in sequential order (or assign the VINs in build order), so one owner couldn't necessarily claim that his car was built earlier because it had a lower VIN number - or later because it had a higher VIN number. Like most of the stuff here, it's a pretty good rumor - but I'm not putting it out here as fact because I wasn't a party to the conversation. :shrug:

I used a standard VIN decoder on several of these VINs and all I got was generic GT350 specs without pricing for all of them. However, when I used the window sticker generator, I did find real stickers with options and pricing. #42 (1FA6P8JZF4F5520042) is indeed a Magnetic Track Package with Black OTT Stripes and a Black Roof - but no pricing. It's tagged as being Not For Sale, so it may be a TT car or it just may not have found its way through the paperwork cycle yet. Somebody else can work through the possibilities on #43; my eyes are bugging out of my head from looking at all the fine print. :eyebulge:

Are we going to have this much fun when we actually get our cars? :lol:

krt22 · Jul 23, 2015

ahhh I gotcha, yeah that might be true in terms of build sequence, especially since some MY2016s are being built before some of the 2015s

BUt from the above

#52-7/20 Blend Date
#111-7/21 Blend Date
#136-7/22 Blend Date.

So there is some reasonable chronological order to things it seems.

Spa2k · Jul 23, 2015

A couple of other things...

I ran Shelby_r's VIN through the system (119), since the sticker is posted elsewhere, and exactly the same thing came up. I also tried both QR codes on several of the stickers. The smaller one at the top for the EPA is a dead link, but the larger bottom now will take you to a page showing the VIN, gas mileage and a picture of the car in the right color - although for now it looks like it's a base 5.0 GT. :headbang:

krt22, I'm going to leave it to you to run all the stickers and compare them to the build dates. Then we'll know about the sequencing for sure. :lol:

krt22 · Jul 23, 2015

We need more numbers! Not enough right now to be statistically significant But either way, I dont think they are going to build 50 cars between 7/20 and 7/22 :cheers:

Five Oh Brian · Jul 24, 2015

#37 is coming to my dealership. It's a '15 R in white with blue stripes.

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