We now have the full MY2017 BMW NA production schedule (see below). And there are a number of interesting facts revealed by the dates.
- The 60Ah i3 ends production early, signifying it is going out of production permanently, leaving just the new 94Ah and 94Ah REx models.
- The MY2017 2 Series and M2 end production in June 2017. This means that their LCI, which we know from prior information comes at the start of MY2018, will be from July 2017.
- The MY2017 4 Series and M4 end production in February 2017. This means that their LCI, which we know from prior information comes at the start of MY2018, will be from March 2017.
- The MY2017 M3 also ends production in February. This can only be for one reason: it will get the new 4/M4 LCI headlights. However, late breaking information from BMW NA has revealed that they will not start production of MY2018 until July. This means there will be a four month gap in production from the end of MY2017 to the beginning of MY2018.
See this thread for more discussion on this delay: http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho...9#post20952809
- The MY2017 F07 5 Series GT is ending production in February, while at the same time prior intel suggests this model will end production permanently in 6/17. Since it is unlikely there will be a short run of MY2018 models from March to June, BMW has apparently decided to end it early, leaving a small gap in production before its 6 Series GT successor debuts.
- The X3 28d is listed as only being in production for one month. This could be an error. Stay tuned on that. Meanwhile all other X3 models will have a very long, 17 month MY2017 before the F25 bows out for good in July and the new G01 comes online in August.
All other models appear to be facing routine model year change-overs.
Note that this schedule does not cover new models not yet introduced for MY2017, which we know include the G30 530e and M550i in March.
