2014 MAZDA MAZDA2 SPORT VIN JM1DE1KY6E0174397

This Mazda MAZDA2 Sport is a 2014 model. Power comes from a 1.5-litre petrol engine with four cylinders, rated at 100 hp. The drivetrain combines an automatic gearbox with front-wheel drive. Details for this car come from a single data source and may differ from its documents.

The recorded mileage is 147,552 miles. A later figure lower than an earlier one points to a replaced instrument cluster or an odometer that has been wound back.

No damage entry is on file for this car. Paint depth, panel gaps and the underbody show whether the body has been repaired.

A key is on file for the car. A condition note describes the car at one moment; months of standing or later work on the car can change the picture in either direction.

According to the source data, the car has a clean title. With a clean title the car can be registered and insured in the usual way.

A car’s history is everything logged against it since it left the factory: registrations and owners, inspections, repairs and insurance claims. No single office holds the whole story of a car: registries, workshops, insurance companies and lenders each keep their own part. A car’s past rarely shows on the paintwork: a well-repaired accident or water damage that was dried out is easy to miss.

A petrol engine in good order starts cleanly, idles evenly and pulls without hesitation. Automatic transmissions, CVTs included, are expensive to repair, so the test drive should include pulling away from a standstill and a stretch at motorway speed.

Every modern car carries a 17-character VIN, and no two cars share one. The VIN on file for this car is JM1DE1KY6E0174397. The number in the car’s documents should match the one stamped into the body and the one on the plate at the base of the windscreen.

What a history report can list depends on what has been documented about the car: registrations, mileage readings, damage, branded titles and theft reports. The absence of an entry is not proof that nothing happened; it may only mean that nobody wrote it down. A history report says nothing about the car’s present condition: the frame, corrosion, electrics and the quality of any repair are judged on a lift by a mechanic. The next step is to look up the history behind VIN JM1DE1KY6E0174397.