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NALs

NALs

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According to the Direccion General de Impuestos Internos (the Dominican version of the IRS), the numbers are as follows:

Notice: The most recent data available is for 2005.

In 2005, the Dominican Republic had officially registered:

1,900,564 vehicles
44.4% are motorcycles
29.51% automobiles
14.55% cargo vehicles
11.55% jeeps, buses, heavy machinery, etc.

Based on the manufacturing year of the vehicles:

1.14% are 2005 models
22.15% 1997 - 2004 models
76.73% are models of 1996 and prior

In terms of automobile brands for the years 2000-2005:

23.74% Toyota
14.92% Honda
10.17% Nissan
7.23% Mitsubishi
7.84% Volkswagen
6.08% Skoda
3.06% Chevrolet
2.08% Ford

Now, to focus on the famous/infamous yipetas:

2004: 98,488
2005: 124,802

Yipetas are the fourth most popular type of vehicles on Dominican roads, after motorcycles, automobiles, and cargo vehicles.

In other words, 6.57% of all vehicles in DR are yipetas.

Now, let's focus on select brand vehicles:

The Dominican Republic has a total registered amount of the following vehicles (from 2000 to 2005 registration years):

Mercedes-Benz: 2,144 (283 were 2005 models)
Jaguar: 343 (45 were 2005 models)
Volvo: 194 (17 were 2005 models)
BMW: 1,031 (81 were 2005 models)
Audi: 459 (89 were 2005 models)
Lexus: 250 (20 were 2005 models)
Toyota: 15,602 (713 were 2005 models)
Nissan: 6,681 (522 were 2005 models)
Honda: 9,804 (620 were 2005 models)

Source: DIRECCION GENERAL DE IMPUESTOS INTERNOS

In the Dominican Republic, the average household size is around 4 individuals.

Assuming a national population of 9 million, this will amount to 2,250,000 households nationwide.

The DR has .84 vehicles per household.
" " " " .38 motorcycles per household or 2.67 households per motorcycle.
" " " " .25 automobiles per household or 4 households per automobile.

-NALs
 
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laurapasinifan

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NALs said:
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In other words, 6.57% of all vehicles in DR are yipetas.

Now, let's focus on select brand vehicles:

The Dominican Republic has a total registered amount of the following vehicles (from 2000 to 2005 registration years):

Mercedes-Benz: 2,144 (283 were 2005 models)
Jaguar: 343 (45 were 2005 models)
Volvo: 194 (17 were 2005 models)
BMW: 1,031 (81 were 2005 models)
Audi: 459 (89 were 2005 models)
Lexus: 250 (20 were 2005 models)
Toyota: 15,602 (713 were 2005 models)
Nissan: 6,681 (522 were 2005 models)
Honda: 9,804 (620 were 2005 models)


-NALs
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question for clarification....the information above in red...is the number of yipetas...for each brand?...or the total number between 2000-2005 for that brand( not just yipets)

BOB
 
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Dolores1

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These numbers do not take into account the thousands of yipetas and luxury vehicles that use Placas Oficiales.
 
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Dolores1

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Yipeta: This is a Dominicanism for a SUV. The term has its origins in the first Jeeps, and was Dominicanized into the phonetically sounding yipeta. Its success in the local market can be attributed to its comfort + being able to ride out the occasionally flooding of streets when there are big rainfalls.

Maybe the day will come when the Real Academia de la Lengua in Spain, the authority for words in Spanish, will validate the term as a Spanish language word for luxury SUV.
 
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Dolores1

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More on yipetas

This was featured in DR1 Daily News of Wednesday, 20 December and explains a bit more about the Dominican yipeta culture.

Yipetocracia
The Dominican Republic has become a jeepetocracy (yipetocracia), declares businessman Federico A. Martinez, in a contribution to the 19 December edition of Hoy newspaper. According to him, Dominicans change once they get behind the wheel of their luxury SUVs, known here as yipetas. He says that the individual then becomes "me and my yipeta". He points to the fact that while in 2000 there were 40,621 yipetas, by 2005 this number had tripled to 124,802. He says that interestingly, Tax Department (DGII) reports do not include the number of yipetas that are part of the official inventory. He estimates that once these are counted - the Presidency with its 21 ministries, and more than 100 decentralized organizations - there are several thousand more. Martinez mentions the case of one minister who purchased 20 or so luxury SUVs from a friend of his, who had already sold more or less the same amount to his predecessor.
He observes that the British government publishes a section on Propriety and Ethics on its web page, including a list of authorized vehicles that may be assigned to officials of Her Majesty's government: the highest ranks are assigned Rover 75 Connoisseur vehicles.
He mentions that the SUVs used by Dominican government officials have CIF value of US$56,549 to US$67,211. He comments that if the government were to auction off these vehicles, it could collect US$100 million or more, with which it could purchase 2,000 vehicles according to the British government guidelines, and still have millions of dollars left over to tackle poverty.
To read the entire column, go to Tomando en cuenta
 
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