Their owners are now a little Singapoorer.
The cost of cars in this country, you can be sure those guys don’t get poor.
As a Singaporean, those guys might not even be Singaporean citizens. :)
The cost to drive on the road is probably about the same as the cost to buy one.
About 10 years ago a Chevy Malibu had a sticker price of $120k USD, which included registration for 10 years.
It’s about $120k USD just for the registration now, depending on the car.
Why?
In case you’re serious; in most places in the world, cars are a luxury and taxed as such. In island nation in particular, imports are also very expensive in general and import taxes are most of their revenues.
TLDR: tax the rich, poor don’t need cars in sane cities.
Nah, thats mainly just singapore and vietnam.
A lot of island nations have extreme import taxes on cars. See: every Caribbean island.
developing countries always have the highest taxes. i’m not aware of a single developing country that has cheap cars…
Because it’s a small island country and there’s no need for cars. Public transit there is intense. Automated light rail between communities connect to subways that connect to everything. Their buses are great too.
They want to limit the number of cars in use in the country. I believe they limit it to around 1M. The price of the tax actually increases/decreases depending on demand to keep the total number around 1M.
And, after ten years, the car must be scrapped and taken away from Singapore
In Hong Kong, the parking spot for a car may cost more than the car itself.
The insurance company: “You crashed a what, into a what?!”
I got close to an accident once, I was driving a rental and the other cat was also a rental, same model, same company, not the same color though.
I imagine it would have been an interesting phone call to the rental company!
Tbh you could make one fixed Lamborghini if you’d took the parts from both
Lamborghini of Theseus.
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Fixed lamborghinis?
Does the Community !nevertellmetheodds exist yet?
Pretty high odds if it’s Singapore
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Doesn’t exist yet
Isn’t this how baby lambergines are made?
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Those are definitely not parking lots. The yellow lines suggests they are at a junction.
Also the street sign showing that it’s a street.
That said, first glance made my American ass think it was a parking lot too.
Nah, the cars are still pretty cool from the engineering side. Not disagreeing with the rest though
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bro can’t even:
- spell LeMans
- has no clue how carbon and triple plated clutch works,
- and appreciate the fact that super cars have terrible turning radius…
probably doesn’t know shit about cars making a stupid dumb statement like that. there are so many modern analog cars that have not only more soul, but outperform any older cars by every single metric in terms of reliability, engineering, safety, comfort etc. Case in point : LFA, Pagani Zonda, 911 GT3 RS, Nissan GTR and MANY MANY more.
No, he spelled LeMons correctly, Enzo.
you’re phrasing it as if it’s common knowledge and everybody should know some shitty local race from the other side of the pond.
you could probably tell judging by the tone he’s probably one of those insufferable boomer right? and you know i’m right, how can anyone claim that 1960s cars are better than what car manufacturers have put out in the past 20-30 years? If he’s talking from the point of nostalgia it’s OK, we all love classic cars. But to dismiss modern cars because apparently people that built them died is just stupid.
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i’m not the binary guy here. i love all cars hey? I do believe an old ass Honda Fit modded in the garage gives you more satisfaction than owning a supercar. there i said it.
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Is there something like Cars for Dummies? All of this sounds really cool but I’ve no idea what any of it means.
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That sounds pretty amazing. Is it an expensive thing to get into?
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I’m going to at least go to a track nearby and watch people do this and maybe talk to them and see if anything clicks for me.
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bro can’t even spell LeMans, and has no clue how carbon and triple plated clutch works, and the fact that super cars have terrible turning circle, but is somehow critiquing about how modern cars suck?
You’ve really never heard of LeMons? If he races in LeMons then he’s probably also a decent mechanic and probably knows a lot more about cars than you do. Just sayin…
also, a decent mechanic would have known that a supercar equipped with a manual will most likely come with heavy duty clutches that are a fucking bitch to drive at low speed.
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I don’t get it – why are so many here sooo defensive about a rich toy thing you’ll never own? And if you do own one, so what? Sheesh it’s just metal, not your identity.
Did you just try to make 2 assumptions and hopefully 1 of them applies to me, and then make a projection assuming that one of the assumption is correct…? wat?
too bad, the answer is neither, i’m JDM all the way, they’re not supercars, they’re easy to drive when you don’t put in a carbon clutch lol…
let’s keep this civil and save the ad-hominem insults, and discuss this like an adult. are we all capable of being an adult? i hope so?
…and the nitwits who buy them ought to know how to drive them, no?
Yea, but a non-car enthusiast that does not know how to drive a manual will likely not purchase a manual supercar.
The clutch are designed like that. Cars with heavy duty clutches inherently struggle at low speeds, that combined with super light flywheel.
You should watch Jay Leno or Harry’s Garage, they review older supercars from time to time. they don’t look like they’re nice to handle around town either. Jeremy Clarkson has a video about the Countach too, you should watch it. I hope you would come to the conclusion that supercars are not exactly the nicest cars to drive…
I note that you run some kind of a blog with old automobiles. i suggest that you keep your mind open, be open to ideas and listen to what other people have to say and not bash other people for the sake of bashing it. You would think we left this kind of mentality at Reddit but here we are. I wish you all the best and hope you drop this immature mentality. You’re old, you know what to do. Make the world a better place and not make it worse.
Hate to see a nice car damaged like that, but its incredibly satisfying to think about how some rich guy lost a shit load of money because of something stupid
Normally I’d agree, but even filthy rich that’s gotta suck!
I don’t really care when a rich person makes expensive mistake. Like at all. They’ll be fine and likely won’t have to change a damn thing about their life after fucking up like this.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING STEP CAR
Imagine owning a Lamborghini in a city
Come to Vancouver, I see 10 a day.
I see them in my city too and I always laugh. I live on an island where the top speed limit is 100kph, and in the city you can rarely drive faster than 40
Yellow Lamborghini
Yellow top missing
Yeah, yeah
That shit look like a toupée
I get what you get in ten years, in two days
two yellow lamborghinis mating in their natural habitat
(* In David Attenborough Voice)
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You sure those aren’t just generic brand racing cars?
What’s a generic brand racing car?
This is like when two girls show up to the party wearing the same dress in a sitcom
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