1.   Domestically produced cars are overpriced while prices for imported cars verge on the absurd.

2.   Autolatina claimed that a combination of the price freeze and the government decision to reduce tariffs on imported cars had forced it to make the decision.

3.   Before that, imported car sales rose every month for almost three years.

4.   About a fifth of the imported cars were made at Japanese plants outside the country.

5.   About a quarter of imported cars sold so far this year were made by Japanese companies at overseas plants, particularly in the U.S.

6.   Brazil cuts its quotas on imported cars last June in an effort last year to turn around a series of monthly trade deficits.

7.   But it yielded to GM by waiving taxes on the imported car parts.

8.   Car stocks dropped amid concern about the rise in the cost of imported car parts as the ringgit weakens.

9.   College girls and boys strolled up and down the rows of obediently lined-up Audis, Mustangs and other imported cars, looking for each other.

10.   Customers who buy imported cars must also pay consumption, purchasing and value-added taxes on top of the import tariff.