^ lol. preach preach!
I looked at importing a car a few months ago. I didn't do it, and just decided to buy an old rust bucket here with air conditioning. That way I don't care if it's hit by a carro publico, or if it gets stolen etc.
Here's some of the intel I discovered when I looked into this:
1. you can't import a car that's more than 5 years old.
2. importing a car that you've owned for at least 2 years nets you preferential importation tax
3. importing a 'rare' car will mean the tax you have to pay will be more of a 'wild card' ie. if they haven't seen that kind of car very often, they'll try to hustle you. so best to import something very common like a tercel or camry etc.
4. buying a car in mayaguez or san juan and taking the ferry in and registering it here etc, is possible, but it's a bit complicated - you need to have apostled copies of the matricula equivilent printed from the DMV, that needs to be notarized by the dominican embassy outside the country, ideally the whole thing is in your name, you will get inspected and reinspected, and every chance they get somebody will have their hand out for a propina - again it's not impossible, it just yields a lot of brain damage if you're not careful.
5. The one thing that we didn't get a chance to explore that I would encourage you to pursue and report back to the board is if it's possible with OAC, to lease (or finance for ownership) a car in America, at really low financing rates, then ferry it here from mayaguez. Obviously lease is harder, but I think it could be done with the financing... but we didnt' pursue it as our neighbours rust bucket became available for purchase last minute.