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Old 07-03-2004, 11:41 AM   #3
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I think TT was trying to say that the E36 is the previous generation of 3 series, as the 2-series hasn't yet hit the market. As for the manner of designation, E34, E36, E39 etc... this is just a means of serializing the product numbers so that they fall into a logical sequence.
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