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I didn't find anything about it in the forum, and I think this "news" will lead to some changes, as some french cars will have to be modified, like the habits of some contributors(1)
As written in an article of L'Argus(fr) (a french magazine specialized in secondhand cars, founded in 1927):
"Le décret n° 2000-576, publié au Journal officiel du 29 juin 2000, a supprimé du vocabulaire automobile le terme « millésime de l'année-modèle », autorisant ainsi l'adoption d'une classification des voitures en année calendaire - couvrant donc la période allant du 1er janvier au 31 décembre."
(The decree n° 2000-576, as published in the Journal Officiel of june 29. 2000, made the commercial version of the word « model year » disappear from automotive vocabulary, thus authorizing the identification of cars with the calendar year, from January 1. to December 31.")(2)
In practice(fr), that means that cars sold made in France:
- before July 2000 stay with the old model year system (from July 1 to June 30);
- between July 1, 2000 and December 31, 2000 are 2001 "new non model year" (transitional period);
- from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001 are "2001 cars" too.
And so on, from January 1 to December 31 of each year.
So we can proudly say that we had a "year and a half model year" in 2001 in France. You know how much we are attached to our French cultural exceptions
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(1) I was sure that the model year still started in july until a very recent discussion with dsl and atom. So I count myself among these contributors with bad habits
(2)Traduttore, traditore...
As written in an article of L'Argus(fr) (a french magazine specialized in secondhand cars, founded in 1927):
"Le décret n° 2000-576, publié au Journal officiel du 29 juin 2000, a supprimé du vocabulaire automobile le terme « millésime de l'année-modèle », autorisant ainsi l'adoption d'une classification des voitures en année calendaire - couvrant donc la période allant du 1er janvier au 31 décembre."
(The decree n° 2000-576, as published in the Journal Officiel of june 29. 2000, made the commercial version of the word « model year » disappear from automotive vocabulary, thus authorizing the identification of cars with the calendar year, from January 1. to December 31.")(2)
In practice(fr), that means that cars sold made in France:
- before July 2000 stay with the old model year system (from July 1 to June 30);
- between July 1, 2000 and December 31, 2000 are 2001 "new non model year" (transitional period);
- from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2001 are "2001 cars" too.
And so on, from January 1 to December 31 of each year.
So we can proudly say that we had a "year and a half model year" in 2001 in France. You know how much we are attached to our French cultural exceptions
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(1) I was sure that the model year still started in july until a very recent discussion with dsl and atom. So I count myself among these contributors with bad habits
(2)Traduttore, traditore...