"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
Mar 16
Panama is changing its law and is going to start charging 25% tax on new cars. This new tax will go into effect in July. If you are planning on buying a car, you might need to speed up your thinking process.
UPDATE: The Panama News posted the Spanish text for Martinelli’s tax reform. I assume [...]
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Mar 13
While I was out running errands yesterday, I spied this car. I have googled all outstanding recalls that are in place and this car is not on the list. This car does not have any reports of randomly deciding to speed up and ignore all attempts to apply the breaks.
The air conditioning (provided by lowering [...]
Mar 05
I have received a lot of questions about used car lots in Panama. While I was waiting at the hospital today, I found these sites listed in the want ad section of La Prensa. These sites may give you an idea of what is available.
http://www.fullcarspanama.com/
http://www.autoestilo.net/
http://www.autoplaza.com.pa/
http://www.carspotpanama.com/
I often recommend people talk to the dealers of the [...]
Feb 07
I was on my morning walk and noticed that the Suzuki dealership has closed. This is one of the obstacles that car buyers have in Panama. You can buy a car and a week later there is no dealer. Last year the Mazda, Jeep and Chrysler dealership closed in David.
When I moved to Panama in [...]
Feb 04
If you are a BMW owner, you may be interested in the following email I just received.
From……: John Levasseur
Email…..:
Url…….:
Hi Don,
Just a heads up to let you know that David will be getting a small BMW Car repair shop beginning in March.
For further information contact Jayson Munoz 6619-9370 jmunoz@fasa.com.pa or Hugo Jeves (Probably badly misspelled) at [...]
Nov 20
Yesterday I saw an interesting article in the Autopista magazine. Autopista always publishes the sales activity by make of automobile.
I looked it up online and copied a couple charts to give you an idea of the cars in Panama and which ones are sold the most.
The following chart is the top 10 according to sales [...]
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Oct 14
Today I had to go out and while I was parked the Chiriquí Chatter chariot decide that the battery had produced it’s last start and would not work any more. How lucky could I be. I was about 50 yards from La Casa De Baterias.
I walked up tpo the stor and a fellow cam back [...]
Oct 09
The other day, I finally figured out that the new rattle I had in my car was really my tail pipe hitting the car frame. I looked under the car and saw that it had rusted through and needed to be replaced.
Yesterday, I took a little time and went to Taller Salvador, just a few [...]
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Aug 29
You may be wondering how my car service went. Well, I guess it went fair. There are definitely things that could have been done differently and I would have been more satisfied.
I was almost due for my 80,000 KM service on MY Daihatsu Terios. I bought it new and have religiously taken it to the [...]
Aug 02
Here is a 84,000 person survey, taken in Europe, of the 10 best and 10 worst new cars. Not all of these cars can be found in Panama, but some can.
The 10 most reliable new cars
1. Honda Accord 98.5%
2. Honda Jazz (2008-present) 98.2%
3. Daihatsu Sirion 97.5%
4. Hyundai i30 96.8%
5. Ford Fiesta 96.2%
6. Honda Jazz (2002-2008) [...]
