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Guapo Gabacho

Aug 1, 2003, 7:59 AM

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Buying a Mexican new car

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My father is retired and lives in Veracruz. He totaled his car yesterday in a one-car senior citizen type accident. He is doing well and except for a few cuts and bruises he is fine.

He now must replace his vehicle and since he gets his FM-2 in less than a year he needs a Mexican plated car. He wants, for what may be his last car, a new one and of course it will be bought in a Mexican agency.

The impression we get in Mexico at the agencies we visited in the past to get service work done is that everybody pays the Precio al público. It is hard for us to accept this, especially in a country where almost everything is bargained for, and quite frankly think that the two-tiered prices that we gabachos pay is getting old. Ya basta.

Would someone that lives in Mexico and knows the score please tell us a better way to shop for a new car short of walking into an agency with a $ on foreheads. My wife is Mexican, a jarocha, but not one person in her family owns a vehicle and they have no ideas for us.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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jennifer rose

Aug 1, 2003, 8:53 AM

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He now must replace his vehicle and since he gets his FM-2 in less than a year he needs a Mexican plated car.

With an FM-2, your father still has the right to temporarily import and drive a US-plated car. That right doesn't end until he becomes inmigrado, which would be five years from the grant of the FM-2. I know that isn't responsive to your question, but I did want to point out an option he may not have considered.

gpk

Aug 1, 2003, 12:01 PM

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There is some bargaining room if you are paying cash. You have to deal with the gerente--the salesmen have no authority. There is more room to bargain if you buy at the end of the model year--if the timing is right.