There has been much written about shipping cars to the island in these forums and the general consensus is not to ship from overseas, better to purchase in the D.R. The reason is financial, logistical, and emotional.
You have to figure what the market value of your vehicle is, add transportation, insurance, and documentation costs - in the thousands, add in customs fees, taxes, and payoffs - in the thousands; then you arrive at an approximate figure as a value of your car, when totaled may be of higher cost then the purchase price of a new or good(?) used vehicle in the D.R.
The logisitics involves getting your car from point A to point B, means finding a reputable agent to handle the paperwork and hands-on arrangement of preparing and carriage of the vehicle and coordination of car's export from your home country to import in the D.R.
What $ price do you place on your emotions to handle the stress of this move. Some of the happenings you may encounter for example are: are the documents correct, where is my vehicle, where is the ship, when has it sailed, when will it arrive, can't contact my broker in the D.R., nobody speaks English, the phones are always busy, nobody wants to answer the phone, they can't find the papers, the car is in the impound yard, they can't find it, they won't release it, what is the duty, where to you pay the duty, the duty is too much, we can release you car sooner for a favor, the inspector says your car is too old to import, the papers are not in order - you have to go to this faraway office to correct it, the car has been in impound too long - the impound fees are increasing, the numbers on the matricula don't match the vin number, we're not open today - come back tomorrow, the inspector is at lunch, the inspector cannot do this only his jefe can - the jefe is not in today - comeback tomorrow. Catch my drift.
Regards,
PJT