Jaguars on the streets of Santo Domingo will no longer be a rarity. El Siglo newspaper reports that in its first two weeks, the new Jaguar dealer in Santo Domingo has sold 35 of these vehicles. Note that the Jaguars sell for RD$995,000 to RD$1,665,000 (about US$62,000 to US$100,000). There have been Jaguars in the DR since the 1950s. One of the first models to come to the DR, if not the first, was a XJ12 property of Pacho Saviñón Trujillo. Viamar, the local distributor of Ford cars in the Dominican Republic opened the offices of its subsidiary, Jaguar Dominicana at the corner of Roberto Pastoriza and Tiradentes. They are selling the XJ, XKI8 and the S-Type models. El Siglo points out in a front page story today that there is an extraordinary boom going on in the sale of luxury vehicles. The boom of luxury vehicles began with the sale of luxury jeeps, to be followed by BMWs and Range Rovers, and now the Jaguars.
