Mexican toll roads are expensive and worth every peso; the free roads beside them are slow and, at night, not advisable.
Two parallel networks: the cuota you pay for and the libre you do not, and the difference is more than speed.
- Take the cuota. The toll roads are faster, better maintained and better policed. The free libre runs through every village with topes - speed bumps that will destroy a low car at speed.
- Mexican liability insurance is compulsory and a foreign policy does not satisfy it. Cars hired locally include it; a car driven down from the United States needs a Mexican policy bought at the border.
- Do not drive intercity at night. Unlit vehicles, animals and the risk of roadblocks are the standard local advice, and hire agreements sometimes make it a condition.
- Fuel is sold by attendants and the pump should be at zero before they start. Pemex is the default, and cards are accepted at most but not all stations.
- Toll plazas take cash and cards, and the IAVE tag is common in hire cars.
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