The previous upgrade cycle was equally as long, nearly 18 months.

Season two had an average of 1.6 million viewers, an increase over the previous cycle.

Like in the previous cycle, the public will vote to eliminate contestants.

These are people who normally, in previous cycles, would be trading up.

But unlike previous economic cycles, this has not been a 'world' recession.

Two judges from the previous cycle did not retain their positions.

But the downturn could well turn out to be more extended than in previous cycles.

The season will premiere in Summer 2013 a year after the previous cycle(usually cycles air 3 of 4 months apart from each other).

The previous cycle was over a year and a half.

The previous "down" cycle for rates lasted from 1979 to 1984.