“So unanswered is what happens in January 2025 if those of us living near the Texas border buy a vehicle in Lubbock or Midland/Odessa or El Paso? Will we be allowed to register the vehicle in New Mexico?”
If you’re a resident of Texas and buy the car in Texas and drive it there for a year, then you can move back to NM, otherwise you’re out of luck.
Well, that’s how California has always dealt with out of state cars being brought in.
I’m not sure a state can refuse to register a car bought out of state. They can make you pay taxes on it, but refuse to let you drive it? Sounds like something CONGRESS would need to do - Interstate commerce. But I’m no lawyer and I wouldn’t be surprised at anything the two stupid and evil states do to the east and west of Arizona.
Pity because I remember when New Mexico was a great state!