Why are car models from a year from now sold new in the year prior?

Question

What is the history of selling say 2025 models in 2024? Why does the car industry do this?

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Answer 1

It’s just marketing.

They’ve figured out that people are more likely to buy something labelled as newer. You can buy year X products in year X-1 – it makes no sense really, but people lap it up, so companies keep doing it.