Newer BMW's are now using hard drive based Nav maps (CIC system) which are made by a different company (Tele Atlas) and not Navteq. In some models this change took place as long ago as September 2008. For the X5 it happened in October 2009. Thus I would presume they (BMW & Navteq) are slowly phasing out those updates (i.e. they used to be released once or even twice a year, and now it's less then once a year). Given that NavTeq has had 2010 disks available for different cars (Audi, Jaguar, etc.) and only has up to 2008.1 for BMW CD based systems, and 2009.1 for BMW High & Professional systems (which were released October 1, 2008), I'm starting to get the feeling that it's the end of the road. I hope I'm wrong, but again, since they no longer have the contract for updates from BMW/Mini, why would they bother to make them?

It is worth noting that NavTeq has a 2009-2010 update for Europe for the X5 e53 system, but only lists CD's and not DVD's. However, what is even more interesting is that Tele Atlas also sells updates for the older X5 e53 system for Europe only and they have a 2009-2010 update as well.

Online Shop - Tele Atlas

Even the older Nav operating system is no longer being updated and ver 32 which came out in June 2008 seems to be the end of the line.

In the case of the CIC system, they have already had 2 updates for 2009 and one for 2010.

See post #2:
http://www.xoutpost.com/electronics/...rt-number.html