Cars newer than that were banned from imports as unwelcome competition for Mexican car dealers, and anything more than 15 years old was seen as a potential environmental and safety hazard.
But now, under pressure from Mexico's new car dealers who say jalopies undercut their sales, the Mexican government is allowing only 10-year-old used cars to be legally imported into Mexico.
The Mexican Association of Automobile Distributors says the change was needed to "stop the accelerated conversion of the country into, as they put it "the world's biggest automotive garbage dump."
