it turns out there is a LOT of money for the govt in forcing people to pay to register their cars. But there is a side effect when the govt suddenly digs for more money from it's people.

The Mexican govt made 375 Million, in the last 3 years, JUST on the tiny fraction of cars that hadn't yet been registered by the few people who went into the USA to buy a car and bring it over the border into Mexico

According to the president of the Tijuana’s chamber of commerce, who said there are currently 115 used car lots in Tijuana when there were more than 1,000 just a few years ago.

And, he says, it’s the result of the state of Baja California’s policy on so-called “chocolate cars,” or unregulated vehicles imported from the United States.

The term “chocolate cars” is a play on words from the word “chueco,” which means crooked in Spanish.

For years, many residents in Tijuana purchased vehicles north of the border and used them in Mexico without registering them or paying for Mexican license plates.

Seeing the revenue-generating potential, the Mexican government has extended the deadline several times allowing for more cars to get registered.

According to the Mexican government, through the end of September, 2.6 million of these cars had been registered in 14 different states, earning $346 million for road-infrastructure projects throughout the country.

In Baja California alone, 400,000 chocolate cars have been registered.

https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/border-culture/mexican-government-has-made-346-million-by-registering-chocolate-cars-in-last-3-years/