I know some Mexicans who have very nice and expensive cars which were bought new in the US. Those cars never go into Mexico. They are garaged at second homes in the US. Many of those on the northside of San Antonio.
Oh yes, there’s lots of Mexican citizens who are well off and buy nice vehicles, but like all people of means, they trade them in and buy new and their vehicles are resold in Mexico. And of course there are many with second homes or foreign students who have vehicles in the US.
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Many of the insurance company totaled vehicles in the US get imported to MX, fixed and are driven daily there.
That’s not surprising. Lots of people there are seeking cheap transportation.
Yep then quite often very nice vehicles, often F350's and other 3/4, 1 tons and some luxury vehicles - Caddy Denali's are popular - get stolen while in MX or stolen north of the border and taken south and when recovered and repatriated to the insurer in the states the vehicle has been "up-armored" shall we say to the point it has no real value as a vehicle in the US. Some are shot full of holes. The insurer cannot afford to sell it in that condition for liability reasons. I frequently had calls from insurance companies asking if they should pay $xx to bring back a vehicle that was recovered and they had paid out high $$'s for. My first question was 'What do you know FOR SURE about the condition of it." It's real interesting dealing with salvage south of the border.
I bet. I’ve traveled to Mexico several times, but never dealt with the criminal element there. But chop shops in the US are selling parts in Mexico to dispose of stolen vehicles, or just taking stolen vehicles to Mexico where they disappear.
Don't forget the Automatic added 1k back in the 70's and today $8k to the sales price of most fullsize Pickups! So yeah, They want to sell Auto's!
Considering how the vast majority of pickups are sold in suburban areas, I'm not surprised that most people want an automatic - manuals suck in heavy traffic.
Actually if you know how to drive one, it's not that bad. I did it for years. You just pick low enough gear and let traffic speed up and down while you just move at a slower, more constant rate when traffic moves.
I didn't find it bad ether... it's only harder to drink a coffee and eat a muffin while doing it... but would still take a manual any day, then I could leave the key inside all day long.
More vehicles we have are manual than automatic.
I went on a tour of the auto impound yards in Juarez a couple years ago with a group of auto theft investigators from several agencies and TxDPS. There were then 3 municipal operated impound yards and one operated by the state. I was working on a lot of auto theft cases and repatriated vehicle issues and coordinating the process improvements between the TxDPS, the TxDMV (then part of TxDOT) and the NICB on reported stolen vehicles.
Off the topic a bit, but in 2019 I took a weeklong trip with a professional society to Chihuahua City. What a difference between that and Juarez. Chihuahua City is beautiful, safe, and very clean. The citizens there look prosperous and there are many high end stores, restaurants, and hotels. A big contrast to Juarez. Chihuahua City is full of manufacturing facilities for US companies. Some of the relatively new facilities I saw were: Ford Motors, Polaris, Trane, GE, and many more that I’ve forgotten. The Southern Pacific RR has a spur there to transport goods to the Santa Theresa, NM port of entry. Yes these were all formerly in the US and the jobs are now in Mexico. But, one benefit is that the people working there are making a decent living and not interested in crossing their northern border to look for work. And better to buy from Mexico than China.
