SR3 model years by chassis number

For quite a while I have been trying to find a way to identify the exact chassis number that starts / ends each model year.  Unfortunately, that is more difficult that it sounds for a couple of reasons.  The first reason is that unlike street-based cars where changes are often made to the cars to differentiate each model year, Radicals major changes don't necessarily coincide with model year changes.  Additionally, Radical typically considers a car to be of the model year when the car was delivered to the customer.  This makes identifying the exact chassis number for the switch of model year a bit difficult.  For example, say chassis number 689 and 690 were both built on December 1st 2011 and chassis number 690 was delivered the next day in the UK while 689 was shipped to Australia on a ship and was delivered to the customer in January, that would make 690 a 2011 and 689 a 2012.  

Understanding that identifying the exact chassis number for each model year change would be challenging and not 100% accurate, Tom from Radical North America and I took a shot at identifying the cut off points.  There will always be a bit of fuzziness on the cars that were built at the end of each year but this is pretty close.  The criteria we used was to identify when the cars were delivered to the customer, so in some cases a car made in November or December could be counted as the next model year.  We did our best to make the cut off points as accurate as possible.

Here is what we came up with.

2002 was the first model year for the SR3

2003 - The first chassis number for the 2003 model year is SR300043

2004 - The first chassis number for the 2004 model year is SR300131. Chassis 124-127 could be considered 2004 since they were built in 2003 but delivered in 2004

2005 - The first chassis number for the 2005 model year is SR300201.

2006 - The first chassis number for the 2006 model year is SR300254.

2007 - The first chassis number for the 2007 model year is SR300309.  Note that many cars built in 2007 had a "Special Edition" Chassis number plate to commemorate Radicals 20th year.  These plates were put on chassis' SR300316 through SR300367

2008 - The first chassis number for the 2008 model year is SR300354.

2009 - The first chassis number for the 2009 model year is SR300400.  Note that SR300400 was the first SR3 RS (Gen 2) built.  However, chassis number 403 was built with SS (Gen 1) bodywork.

2010 - The first chassis number for the 2010 model year is SR300483.

2011 - The first chassis number for the 2011 model year is SR300585.  But 583 is also considered a 2011 because it was sent to the U.S. by ship and was delivered in March 2011.

2012 - The first chassis number for the 2012 model year is SR300694. However, Chassis 682 through 689 are also classified as 2012s because they were built in November and shipped to Australia for 2012 delivery

2013 - The first chassis number for the 2013 model year is SR300782.

2014 - The first chassis number for the 2014 model year is SR300875. Note Chassis number 930 and 931 were the first two SR3 RS test cars built in October 2014. And 933 was the last SR3 RS (gen 2 car built)

2015 - The first chassis number for the 2015 model year is SR300934. 

2016 - The first chassis number for the 2016 model year is SR301003.

2017 - The first chassis number for the 2017 model year is SR301069.

2018 - The first chassis number for the 2018 model year is SR301140.

2019 - The first chassis number for the 2019 model year is SR301202.

2020 - The first chassis number for the 2020 model year is SR301245.

I hope you find this helpful.  

Charley