"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 [...]
Mar 02
I get emails often asking about Super Replicas of David. The last post on Chiriquí Chatter, that contained information related to them, came from the comments on THIS POST. The opinions are those of the people commenting and are not mine.
The first post I ever did about Super Replica was because I was contacted [...]
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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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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) [...]
Oct 01
For those of you that continue to write me every month, I received the following message from Super Replicas. I was supposed to visit a forth location in David in September. According to this message, I will see cars in October.
Hi Don Ray,
sorry for the delay we have decided to invite you to one of [...]
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Aug 18
If you were not at the Chiriquí Mall recently, you may have missed a display of cars and pickups that were there on Saturday. There were displays from all of the major dealers. I didn’t take photos of all of the cars, but I did take photos of a few that I don’t normally see [...]
Aug 01
I called Tony Sinclair this morning and agreed to meet him at 1:30 PM to see their third location in David. This is the site that was in the recent video that Tony referenced on a comment on the previous post on Super Replica. I see that this video was uploaded on July 31 and [...]
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May 26
I received an email for a person in the US asking about a replica car manufacturer in David. I hadn’t heard of then and I didn’t even remember seeing them. As it turns out, I just haven’t been paying enough attention.
Super Replicas is in David and the location is presented on their YouTube Video below.
I [...]
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