Import limit makes '98 F-150 Mexico's most-wanted truckThe changes in Mexico's import law were urged by the Mexican Association of Automobile Distributors, which protested that cars newer or older than 10 years undercut their new-car sales. Before Monday, Mexican motorists and dealers were allowed to import vehicles that were 10-15 years old.
The flood of cars on the older end of that spectrum, the group argued, threatened to turn Mexico into "the world's biggest automotive garbage dump."
As Mexico on Monday limited used-car imports from the U.S. to those made in 1998, the ever-popular F-150 seemed poised to become one of the most-coveted used vehicles in Mexico. Prices for the truck — and for all other 1998 models — were expected to soar.
"The prices we'd be asking for them retail is what we're going to be paying wholesale," said Luis Esparza, sales manager for H.E.D. Sales Co., a Houston Heights used-car dealer. "You can throw the Blue Book away."
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Today's Automotive TOTD shamelessly stolen from those gearheads and car-nerds at Jalopnik. If you were limited to a vehicle from 1998, what would you drive?