Whats the deal with all these taco trains travelling south?

I have seen mexicans towing 15-20 tacos down the highway intermittently the past couple of years. I figure they find a stockpile and get them all and drive them back to Texas or what not. Thoughts?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

 

CLASSIC

 

Lol, my bad. But seriously have any of yall seen these trains too?

 

Nope, just packs of Tacos driving down I-5 north of Seattle (only like 2-3 of em) but I usually try and catch up to join in

 

maybe taking them down to Mexico to get built up into race or chase trucks...

 

i travel between texas and arizona alot and i see them all along I10.. i used to travel between sierra vista and phoenix every other weekend and on my way back south i'd always pass 2 or 3 of these caravans.. it was always 4 trucks.. 2 being driven, 2 being towed.. and they would be packed to the gills.. plywood sides on the beds stacked up over the top

 

more likely would be Guatemala and El Salvador

 

Their country's suck, have to come get them here.

 

I surf in Nicaragua and Mexico a lot and it seems to me that all of our wrecked or unwanted TAcomas end up down there

 

I work south Texas a lot and Mexicans (big M) haul many, many vehicles of all kinds to Mexico. It is a constant stream. Mostly worn out old crappy vehicles. Usually one vehicle in tow. They make a living doing this by reselling. Never seen a train of yotas but nothing would surprise me. I occasionally see a Tacoma but generally older trucks with damage. Mostly I see minivans.

 

A friend of mine said the first gen taco commands a premium especially a 4wd model. He lived down in Mexico and in Central America and said people pay cash money 20-25k for the really nice ones. I have a 2002 with only 100k and that's how much he said I would get.

 

Looks like I know what I'm doing this summer $$$

 

Yep the mexicans buy all the old yotas and sell em down there. We get a few passing through town every now and then

 

Maybe 25,000 pesos. Unless they're getting around high importation tarrifs or some other market distortion, it's unlikely that they sell for a huge premium. It is likely that vehicles that are cheap in the USA due to needing repairs at $75/hour shop rates are worth more in a country with very cheap labor. Also a lot of those exported vehicles are stolen, have salvage titles, or are otherwise not worth much in the US because of their legal status.

 

I have seem 'em heading south here in AZ... seems to me there would be a pretty good market for them down there. I sometimes wonder about my old '96 Taco I traded in... pretty sure it's running druglord duty down there with gold plate rims and a 50 cal mounted in the bed.