Use of the definite article

SpiderGal said:

Here's a sentence I came across at work.

This is a time for experimentation - with some teams launching their new cars and other still using last season's models - and fuel loads are unknown.

I keep thinking there has to be a definite article before "last season's". The noun - models - is a plural count noun, and it has been specified by "last season's". So why not "the last season's models"?

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Sorry. My eye keeps going to "other" to make it "others." Okay, having fixed that, to the old argument about putting in and taking out articles, especially "the":

You're correct and so is the writer who left out "the" before "last." Long usage of both idioms has made it style (which never fails to irk the reader used to "hearing" it the other way).

Chase is right: "others" and the article is optional.