Enter the 17-character VIN of your Bugatti to see the factory basics. Free, with no registration.
Look on the dashboard, the driver's door frame or in the registration document.
Type all 17 characters. The letters I, O and Q are never used in a VIN.
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Enter a 17-character Bugatti VIN and the decoder reads three things from it: the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture. It is free and needs no registration. Behind this page sit 11 Bugatti models in our data, among them Bolide, Centodieci, Chiron, Divo, EB 110, EB 112, La Voiture Noire, Tourbillon, Type 41 Royale, Type 57 and Veyron.
A VIN does not contain accidents, mileage, theft records or previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report, which you can order separately once you have the VIN.
Pick a Bugatti model to see how its VIN works.
The first three characters are the World Manufacturer Identifier, or WMI. For Bugatti we recognise two of them: VF9, which belongs to France, and ZA9, which belongs to Italy. So a VIN beginning with VF9 points to France as the country of manufacture, and one beginning with ZA9 points to Italy. Our list is not complete, and these are simply the codes we map to the brand.
Characters 4 to 8 form the descriptor section, where the manufacturer encodes vehicle details in its own way. Character 9 is the check digit. North America requires it, but many European VINs fill that position differently, so a Bugatti with an unusual ninth character is nothing to worry about. Characters 12 to 17 are the serial number, and character 11 marks the plant.
The model year sits in character 10. A J stands for 2018, an L for 2020 and a P for 2023, while the digit 5 means 2005. The letters I, O and Q are never used in a VIN. The 17-character format applies to cars built since 1981, although our version data for Bugatti reaches back to 1934 and some models are still being built.
Every VIN has six parts. This is what each of them means.
| Part | Characters | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| WMI | 1 to 3 | World manufacturer identifier: who built the vehicle and where |
| VDS | 4 to 8 | Vehicle descriptor: model, body type and engine, as set by the manufacturer |
| Check digit | 9 | Control value that helps confirm the VIN is valid |
| Model year | 10 | Code for the model year |
| Plant | 11 | Code for the assembly plant |
| Serial | 12 to 17 | Production sequence number of this vehicle |
On the driver's side, visible through the windshield.
On a sticker on the door frame or the edge of the door.
Printed in the vehicle registration or title.
Stamped on the firewall or the frame on many models.
A VIN is built from six parts, and each one says something about the vehicle. Our guides explain how to read it and what it can and cannot tell you.
Enter the 17-character VIN and see the factory basics in seconds.
Look on the vehicle registration papers and on the identification plate or markings on the car itself. Check that both show the same 17 characters before you enter them in the decoder.
The first three characters are the WMI. We map VF9 to France and ZA9 to Italy for this brand, so they show who built the car and in which country. A VIN starting with other characters can still be valid, because our list of codes is not complete.
Read the 10th character. For example, L means 2020 and P means 2023, and a digit such as 5 means 2005. The decoder does this for you and shows the year next to the manufacturer and country.
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft status or earlier owners, because none of that is stored in the VIN. It also does not read body style or power output from the number, even though our data lists Coupe and Roadster bodies and up to 1600 hp across the models.
Make sure the VIN on the car matches the registration documents, and that the model year character agrees with the year the seller states. Ask for the service records and have the car inspected in person before any money changes hands.