my dream is to touch other people's lives.:wave::angel:
Careful, you might end up on the sex offender list!
Remember, "No" is No!
my dream is to touch other people's lives.:wave::angel:
Careful, you might end up on the sex offender list!
Remember, "No" is No!
Damn beat me to it![]()
Singapore has a really good metro system and lots of reasonably cheap taxis so it's not a real problem.
For a clearer picture, for a car to be road-worthy in Singapore, a Certificate of Entitlement must first be obtained. This applies to all cars, imported or not, if you want to drive them on the road. It works on a quota-based, bidding, demand-supply system.
The policy right now is about a 1.5% growth in vehicles every year, so the supply is the number of cars being scrapped + 1.5% of all cars.
There are tenders for certificates every half a month. If demand outweighs supply, as in the case currently, COE prices will rise.
Currently, for normal cars (1600cc and below), the COE price is S$56,002 (about US$44k). The lowest it ever reached was S$2 about 3 years ago during the recession. Add to that the base cost of a car, which for some reason is much higher here, and a average Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic costs upwards of S$100,000 currently. Most people here pay for their cars on instalments.
Oh, and the COE lasts only ten years, so you gotta pay again if you want to renew it at the end of ten years.
It's kinda crazy, but these prices show that people are still willing to pay for them here.
Wait - normal car is 1600cc and below? I can't even think of a car here (except maybe a Honda Civic) with an engine that small. I mean, ----, my 1991 Honda Prelude is 2100cc.
About $8.25/gal. We're around $4/gal right now. Don't get me wrong, I'd love if I could easily buy a used car that gets extremely good gas mileage. But "good gas mileage" here for a used car means around 20-30mpg.That's because the USA is a gas guzzling country, compare fuel costs, today at my local supermarket fuel station it's 133.7p (£1.33 point 7) per litre compare that to your local gas price and you'll see why other countries are quite happy with lower capacity, my GV is a 2.8 diesel stick shift my run around a 1.4 auto petrol and diesel is about 139.7p compared to unleaded (not lower in cost due to diesel being the 'greener fuel', total fail on the greens there).
---- that ----. I'll stick to my ford v8 engines. I couldn't imagine driving around in some piece of ---- 1.6L rice burner car.
My dream in life is to successfully use the pick-up line "Do you wanna get naked and start the revolution?"
Don't see that many hippy chicks around now do you!
To be a prep your IQ has to be <90
They're called Chavs here, although <50 0r 60 is the norm
I always thought chavs were ghetto?