sumeyedea

The situation is a bit more complex than that. The Mexican government has regulations in place to try and prevent drug cartels from purchasing.

We try our hardest to do vet each of our customers to prevent this sort of transaction from occurring. But there is no guarantee we get it right due to the fact that there are what are called "presta nombres" which means people who are hired by cartels with a good background etc to use their name as the one buying the car.

Bad Luck.

My dad was driving in Mexico one day, and got assaulted. They shot him and stole his car.

At the time this industry did not exist and crime was starting to get pretty bad in Mexico so he decided to do something about it.

1)The pope mobile.

When he went to Mexico had some issues when they flew it in years ago. We where selected to fix it. This is probably one of my dad's proudest moments.

2)Not really sure, as the cars get more complex over the years even a simple car becomes a complex task.

For people that lack the financial means we generally offer older generation cars that we took in as payment. Bullet proofed cars depreciate in value very quickly due to the fact that unless the car was done with purely ballistic steel, there is a caducity and shorter half life to other materials such as kevlar. As well as the added wear and tear of the extra weight constantly being put on every mechanism of the car.

Other than that, there are different levels, with lower price points that only resist certain type of hand guns.

Sports cars in general are very difficult to bullet proof. The more glass the car has (think a Mitsubishi Cclipse for example) the harder it is to get the ballistic gaps down as far as possible