VIN Lookup - Scooby Register

Scooby Register

Decode a Subaru VIN or chassis number, and see what's publicly known about how many were built.

Try: 4S4BP67C454323456 JF1GD70695L100000 BP5-123456 GDB-000123 GC8B47D (1994 Impreza WRX Type RA) E-BC5 (1989 Legacy RS Turbo)

Chassis / generation reference

Prefix	Model	Generation	Years	Market	Confidence

Production & limited-run figures (publicly sourced)

Model	Figure	Source	Confidence

Impreza (GC8/GF8) applied-model reference, MY93–MY00

The Impreza didn't exist before November 1992 (it replaced the Leone), so MY93 is the earliest possible coverage — there is no 1989 Impreza. Enter any code below (e.g. GC8B47D) into the decoder to look it up directly.

Model Year	Model	Applied Model	Engine	Gearbox	Power	Dates

Legacy 1st generation (BC/BF) applied-model reference, 1989–1993

Launched at Japanese dealers 1 February 1989. This table is sourced more thinly than the Impreza one above — several codes cover more than one trim/output level (see Data & Limitations).

Applied Model	Model	Body	Power

Exact production counts by colour and variant — not an estimate. See Data & Limitations for sourcing.

What this is

Scooby Register decodes standard 17-digit Subaru VINs (manufacturer, model line, body, engine, approximate model year, plant and transmission) and identifies Japanese-market chassis numbers by their generation prefix. Where a genuine, published production figure exists for a model or a limited edition, it's shown alongside the decode with its source.

Exact "car number 4,532 of 12,000" style answers for every individual VIN require a large real-world dataset of chassis numbers to count against — that kind of dataset (built up over years from sources such as auction records or long-running user submissions) isn't part of this build. Where a figure isn't publicly known, this tool says so rather than guessing.

Where the colour-by-variant matrix comes from

The GC8/GF8 WRX Type RA/STi production-by-colour matrix (8,282 units, MY95-MY99) is genuine exact production data reproduced from a third-party production-data archive, which states it compiled that specific matrix from a dedicated JDM Impreza owners' club database. It is the one table in this build that answers "how many made" with the same precision the original inspiration for this project offered — everything else here is either a generation-level figure or a named limited-edition total.

Improving accuracy over time

The reference tables (chassis codes, trim codes, production figures) live in assets/js/data.js and are designed to be extended as better sourced information becomes available.