Why is the number of Insights sold significantly smaller than the highest VIN number weve seen?
Some people have been confused by the discrepancy between the actual Insight sales data and the highest VIN number reported in the Owner’s Registry. At least part of the discrepancy is due to the fact that all vehicles manufactured to date haven’t been sold yet. Some are sitting on lots, some are still in transport from one part of the world/country to another. For example, car #536 was sold around the beginning of July 2000. However, this car must have been sitting around somewhere for at least three months, as car #562 was sold about three and a half months earlier, in March 2000. Also, some of the discrepancy may be due to cars being sent to other countries. While the Insights going to Canada have their own sequence of serial numbers, this may not be the case for Insights bound for other countries. It is certainly clear that going just by the highest VIN seen so far isn’t a very accurate measure of actual sales.
