Traditionally in North America, next year's model shows up in the fall (eg. Sept-Sept cycle). Mirage has not followed this pattern AT ALL. (Neither has the competing Nissan Micra in Canada.)
Anybody have any theories?
- Possibly to prop up the resale value of the 2015 model, since it had a longer than normal run before a replacement showed up (through to March of 2016)?
- The 2017 model year is having a similarly long run before its replacement shows up.
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In Canada, Nissan played similarly strange model year shenanigans with the competing Micra: initially introduced in April 2014 as a 2015 model, the 2016 Micra wasn't released until March of 2016. That's a TWO YEAR run (minus 1 month) for the 2015 model year!
In many countries outside of N.A., cars are sold by calendar year (date of manufacture, I assume), not arbitrary "model years".