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Originally Posted by BimmerTheGreek
The headlights, taillights, and interior parts are essentially the same.
I used to work in auto manufacturing, and when a product is updated (like headlights and taillights), any parts/equipment not used for the new part are usually sold to a third party manufacturer to make spare parts as legally required to be available x years after a model is changed/replaced.
There is no way that BMW will keep old headlights, taillights, etc. as some marketing ploy. The cost is to keep both is not even close to any possible gain.
Example: The 4 series LCI. The 2015-2017 M3 has the same headlights as the M4. The regular 3 series got its LCI in 2016, the M3 kept its original headlights yet it got LCI taillights because those are shared with the regular 3 series. Now that the 4 series LCI has new headlights, the M3 gets them too because those parts are shared.
This example is why any 2 series LCI that is a shared part on the M2 will be put into production for the M2.
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Exactly,this was confirmed by ynguldyn back in 2015 regarding the M2.
http://www.2addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1175944