In December 2016, 20% of the vehicles circulating in the countries of the region were between 1 and 5 years old, and 19% between 6 and 10 years old.
Data from the report"Vehicle Fleet in Central America 2016" compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaDatashows the different characteristics of the vehicles circulating in Central American countries.
About 50% of the 147,000 new vehicles sold between March 2016 and December 2017 were financed by banks and financial institutions, for close to $1 billion.
An analysis of the vehicle fleet in Costa Rica by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData reveals that placement of loans for vehicle purchases during the period between March 2016 and March this year amounted to $1.2355 billion.
Of the total number of vehicles circulating in the country in January 2017, 61% corresponded to automobiles, 21% to motorcycles, 11% to light-duty vehicles and 3% to heavy loads.
Figures from the"Central American Vehicle Park"report, prepared by CentralAmericaData's Business Intelligence Unit, indicates that in January 2017, 1.5 million vehicles were circulating, of which more than half corresponded to automobiles.
Of all vehicles circulating in the country at the end of 2015, 63% were automobiles, 19% motorcycles, 13% light duty vehicles and 3% heavy load vehicles.
Figures from the report "Vehicular Fleet in Central America" prepared by the Business Intelligence unit at CentralAmericaData.com, indicate that 1.3 million vehicles were in circulation up to December 2015, of which 63% were cars.
With a 50% increase in the import of new units in the first quarter of 2012, a change has been seen in the traditional tendency of the country buying mostly used vehicles.
In the first 3 months of the year 9,272 new cars came into the country, 50% more than in the same period in 2011, which represents a turnaround in vehicle imports, according to statistics from the Ministry of Finance.