This lone picture is the first spy shot of the next generation 3-series (code – F30). Going by BMW’s history of launching a model change every 7 years, the F30 3er should hit the market around 2012. The spy model though, has lots of camouflage and is masked to the extreme and BMW has used plastic panels to cover the design lines.

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