Why is it very expensive to buy car in Mexico?

When I shopping in a car a few years ago, I was surprised at the price I was watching. I know new cars in dealerships were out of my range. But even the cars used, some of them appeared to be more precious, over 10 years of age.

“320,000 for the 2012 SUV? If someone had that kind of money, why would they not use to pay for a new car?” I think.

This is, it is infected. The distribution chains worldwide have found great disruption, and Mexico is no exception. Many places simply appeared “out” cars. I will enter the dealerships and be ignored, and the sellers will get a shock from the place where you are a customer to bring them down to court.

Eventually, I finally found a good -used car. At that time it was three years old, still under warranty. For that I paid 240,000 pesos, and I still repay the amount borrowed from a gracious uncle.

A recent friend of mine asked about buying my car and hoping to buy his own. “I don’t know how it looks like now,” I told him. Prices, as we all know, have gone up.

Over the past three years, in fact, the average price of a new car has been gone in Mexico 348,000 to 516,000 pesos by 2024. Alas.

Why, especially Mexico when making many cars? Saving them foreign travel does not reduce the cost?

Well, like most of life, the answer is more complicated than we want. Part of the cause, of course, the effects of the distribution chain complications are still handled for childbirth. Although they are assembled here, all the necessary items are not received here. Cars have increasingly complex and expensive computer systems. The tax on vehicles in Mexico is high and do not end when buying them. States differ, but in my own state, I have to pay a payment VerificationThat is, security test, twice a year.

Once you get the car, maintaining it is expensive. For example, petrol in Mexico has tripled in prices in the last 15 years. So far this has not shown signs of decreasing. Currently take 1,000 pesos to fill my 40 liter tank. When I looked, my sister filling her own car with the same ability and paying more than US $ 20 in the latest journey, my jaw was dropped. If Mexico is the source of this petroleum, why are we paying so much on earth?

Well, for a while, all of us have crude things, not a finished product. This means we often send crude to the United States, and then they sell it as gasoline. Shish.

According to Pemax, Petrol self -sufficiency for Mexico is possible within a few years. I hope both of them are right and I will believe it when you see it. I am not a very business -minded but tells me that my own logic is a company In the most debt It is not going to reduce its consumer prices at any time.

Fortunately, our environmental scientist seems to be ready to help us switch to electric vehicles. Not that she needs help.

Since 2020, Electric vehicles are already pouring from China into Mexico. Percentage of hybrid or electric new car sales Already approaching 10% faster. I don’t want to miss the boat, Mexico works on its own EVs (electric vehicles). First -made Mexico Electronic Bus There was no introduction to long ago, and there is a lot of excitement – and, yes, doubt – about Consumer EV produced by Mexican, OlleniaRetail is set for retail at a lower price than other new cars. This is not the same, but, hey, this is safer than motorcycles!

Of course, there is also the question of the request. If people still buy vehicles, why should someone cut their prices?

And the guy, do they buy when the car prices are increasing?

At least in my city: We are packed on the edge. My favorite joke is that half of the city should get rid of their cars to cut off the roads. I am not the half of it, apparently.

However, a quirky favorite entertainment, however, is to find the mental imagination around my city for a fantasy bus navy that we don’t have. “About 50 buses that go back and forth between these two points, another 50 between these two points – that outa does it!” My fantasies are clear.

That is, we have buses. Not enough for us, with all traffic, they can’t move anyway. But I am very happy to leave my car at home and trust in public transport so I don’t have to drive myself. I think that’s not the only one.

Fortunately, we have the models for what we have, and we have got them here in Mexico. My favorite public transport system in Mexico has so far – Metropus of Mexico, with its own dedicated paths – Already fully electricity. This is an organization I dream for my city. Some day!

Things in Mexico are recently given, especially when it is uncertain All the payment hysteriaThey are new, new. We are during the big change.

Mexico, I believe that the right path is on. I believe this is remembered by this famous proverb because it considers how the Mexican people are going to come around:

“The developed country is not a car for the poor, but the rich use public transport.”

Please take a large EV-eating public transport system for a community, please!

Sarah Devris A writer and translator of Varagruz’s Salaba. Can access her through her website, Sarahvris.Sapstag.com.