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Originally Posted by Laki021
It is still 7 year cycle, F10 debuted 2009 and deliveries started early 2010 (~January), so no problem here...
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Ya, I was half-joking. I know that "model years" are done differently in different parts of the world, dictated either by custom or law. In North America though, BMW has been incredibly consistent with its seven year cycle, sometime going through odd gyrations, like skipping years, to maintain that consistency. It's been that way for many, many years - model years 1 through 4 of an original design, followed by model years 5 through 7 of an LCI. But the F10 was different here early-on as the LCI was introduced in its fourth North American model year rather than the traditional year 5. We should have figured something was up then.
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