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.
Nice
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.
that’s every used car sold in eastern europe
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
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.
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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save the mansplaining
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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?
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)
Two trucks having sex
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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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