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Originally Posted by Casotakar
I never understood how automakers got away with releasing a vehicle in the current calendar year and called it a model year in which the entire planet does not yet live and breathe. but do you really have a 2019 if it's 2018 AND then when calendar year 2019 rolls around they release a 2020 model....? lol nahhhhh. you don't. it's when it was built. 
someone explain the phenomena to me please.  |
It's all marketing. Sometimes they also release current year model within the current year. You really have to judge a car by it's in-service date for things like warranty anyway.
If they base it on build date, then on January 1st they would be switching to "a new model". Say the new X5 gets released this September, would you expect them to call this a 2018 model then come January 1st they suddenly call it a 2019 model?