china has the most number of cars in the world.
who has most number of cars in the world?
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as the factory produced the 82 models from december 81 though may 82 and sent them to the dock, there started to be a backlog of cars at the dock which continued until everything stopped when the factory was shut down in may. on february 19, 1982 the company was placed into receivership and the receivership kept the factory operating until may 31, 1982. during this time only one shift was working - producing 35 to 40 cars per week, much lower than the 80 cars per day being produced the previous november. when consolidated international acquired the unsold and partially assembled cars in november 1982, they brought back workers to complete the cars remaining on the assembly line. it was decided to make the remaining completed 82 model year cars into 83 models. the remaining cars vins were re-vined into 83 cars by taking the original vin number and adding 5000 to it and changing the "cd" in the middle of the vin to "dd" thus making an 83 model. for example the 15,xxx series cars were originally 10,xxx series cars. logically most of the early 10,xxx series cars made it to the united states before the backlog started. there are many 82 cars in the 10,xxx series and much fewer in the 15,xxx series vin and most of the 15,xxx vin cars are in the upper vin range. this makes sense because the early 82`s were being shipped before the backlog started. as time went on and shipments of 82s to the united states stopped, the 82s began piling up at the dock and factory. none of the later 82s made it to the united states (the latest known 82 is vin 11,788). all of the rest of the vehicles were later converted to 83 models. from evidence gathered, it appears that there was a full production run in the 10,xxx series through the 11,xxx series and into the early 12,xxx series. in the 12,xxx series it appears they made those cars up to vin 12160. these 12,xxx series cars were re-vined to 17,xxx series cars. evidence indicates that the last 82 made in regular production would have been vin 12170, which would have been given vin 17170. the cars left on the assembly line were completed later that year were given 20,xxx series vin number.
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