Great in every respect: 2005 Hyundai Santa Fe (smallish SUV)

[mr bill]

Doyle, Don is correct.

Although you can accept money and hand a buyer the keys and paperwork for your car you cannot sell/trade/amend or have ammended the import permit. If that car stays in Mexico you are liable for whatever harm it causes - the new 'owner' could let's say just walk away from a personal injury accident and you'd be on the hook for any damages.

Regardless the book value of the vehicle it will be diminished by the hassle of you getting it [and the new owner] to the border, turning in the permit then turning the car over to the new owner who would then have to get his/her own permit and then the car, you and the new owner getting back here.

Really $68/year (a bit over $5/month) doesn't seem like a lot but there are a couple of alternatives: just don't pay it if you never intend to go back across but this may affect your ability to get Mexican insurance [not required] on the car. Option two: Consider registering the car in Clay County South Dakota which accepts non-resident registration [only place in the nation from what I'm told --really all those people around Lake Chapala are not South Dakotans - only their cars are and here in GTO so is mine as I had a TX car with 3 year out of date tags and I continue to cross the border but as a SoDak [Great Faces Great Places] not a Texan.

You could consider what Austin in SMA did - she found a car broker in Laredo to take her Bora off her hands.