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Vinny
Senior Golfer
Posts: 333
Join date: 2010-08-25
Location: Singapore
 |  Subject: Re: COE....  Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:12 pm | |
| | Derek wrote: | @blee
bought a new Honda CRZ for myself and a new 1000cc car for my wife ...
On the road (incl insurance, full options and road tax) for both cars less than 65K SGD total ... which I think can't even buy a COE in Singapore
And the traffic (at least during peak hours) seems equally bad in both places ...
so all in all ... I am pretty happy to have left |
Can your golf bag fit into the CRZ? |
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blee
Incredibly Active Golfer
Posts: 4876
Join date: 2009-12-05
Location: Singapore
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:20 pm | |
| Vinny, Golf bag or golf bags??  |
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Vinny
Senior Golfer
Posts: 333
Join date: 2010-08-25
Location: Singapore
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blee
Incredibly Active Golfer
Posts: 4876
Join date: 2009-12-05
Location: Singapore
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Bear
Junior Golfer
Posts: 184
Join date: 2011-08-26
Location: out of bounds
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3131T
Super Active Golfer
Posts: 1141
Join date: 2009-12-08
Location: YCK
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:01 pm | |
| Ha ha...
Take it or leave it...
Wat to do??? LL lor... |
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Derek
Super Active Golfer
Posts: 1729
Join date: 2009-10-20
Age: 39
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:12 pm | |
| The golf bag fits comfortably ... it is just that my car is now permanently a 2-seater ... not a 2+2 anymore ... I push the back seat down and treat the whole thing as a boot
When I have people to ferry around ... I just use my wife's car ... 4 doors with 4 seats
However, gone are the days I could take 4 pax and 4 golf bags to go golfing in my Toyota Altis |
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Technospaz
Advisor
Posts: 14552
Join date: 2009-06-18
Age: 37
Location: Typically OOB
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:33 pm | |
| Traffic in KL is NOTHING like traffic in SG.
I swear, there are times when I wished that the M'sian govt. imposed a similar regime in Malaysia. It's complete gridlock all over the damn place and getting from Damansara Utama to SS2 (which, for those of you who know, should take no more than 10 minutes) can take 30-45 minutes.
Like it or not, I don't see the COE approach going away any time soon. What I can say is that buy a car when you need it. Don't wait to buy based on the COE. If it drops, it's a bonus. If it doesn't, that's the way things work. |
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Master
Very Active Golfer
Posts: 554
Join date: 2011-02-10
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:12 pm | |
| | Happy Feet wrote: | I think we need to look at it fm the bigger picture.
USA is facing problem with figuring out how to tax the wealthy.....and imagine this, in SG, we don need to worrk about that.....the wealthy are already indirectly tax....
Garmen si pek clever |
There are numerous indirect tax burdens, be it on the wealthy or the poor, which the government levies on us.
I think what matters more is the distribution of wealth, as well as income equality, to really gauge the true impact on society.
$100K to a billionaire is different from $100K to a young family with kids who really needs the car for transport purposes but can't afford it.
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Technospaz
Advisor
Posts: 14552
Join date: 2009-06-18
Age: 37
Location: Typically OOB
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:14 pm | |
| | Master wrote: | | Happy Feet wrote: | I think we need to look at it fm the bigger picture.
USA is facing problem with figuring out how to tax the wealthy.....and imagine this, in SG, we don need to worrk about that.....the wealthy are already indirectly tax....
Garmen si pek clever |
There are numerous indirect tax burdens, be it on the wealthy or the poor, which the government levies on us.
I think what matters more is the distribution of wealth, as well as income equality, to really gauge the true impact on society.
$100K to a billionaire is different from $100K to a young family with kids who really needs the car for transport purposes but can't afford it.
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Master, what is the COE for the tank which ferries you around? |
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TDO
Super Active Golfer
Posts: 1161
Join date: 2011-10-02
Age: 57
Location: West
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Khorkar
Incredibly Active Golfer
Posts: 2843
Join date: 2009-06-19
Age: 38
Location: Sinkapoh
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:54 am | |
| Seriously, I am worried in 3 yrs it will be in 150k in 3-6 months. Would super rich car junkie be serious mad enough to pay for this amount.
Crazy times.... it would have makes sense for top bidders named. Bid for more, then be famous! |
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outlander
Newbie Golfer
Posts: 63
Join date: 2012-10-21
Location: Sengkang
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Tue Dec 11, 2012 6:27 pm | |
| Cheap car loans are fuelling this craze. If the govt stops allowing loans on the COE portion, I'm sure premiums will drop drastically. |
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TDO
Super Active Golfer
Posts: 1161
Join date: 2011-10-02
Age: 57
Location: West
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chien
Super Active Golfer
Posts: 1232
Join date: 2012-03-22
| | Subject: Re: COE.... Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:05 pm | |
| To me, ERP is not working... So whats next ? COE... The govment gotta show they are putting in policies and efforts to control rapidly growing car population so as to limit the jams building up on our roads.. Sooner or later, the prices of cars gonna be so expensive that people will buck away from buying cars.. And Singapore, among many countries, has a reasonably good public transport system.. (not to mention the "once a while" breakdowns..) That's where they want to drive people towards..  |
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