Their owners are now a little Singapoorer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Isn't this how baby lambergines are made?
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Pretty high odds if it’s Singapore
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Of course they did. And in what appears to be a parking lot; precious.
I attended Car Week in Monterey CA in 2009 I think, some huge ass car event for the millionaire set. Lots of great cars there (and many great people; I was in that years LeMons Rally) but you see too much shit like this.
A couple of us Lemons folk watched a rich couple in one of those generic supercar things do a 9000 point turn in a McDonalds parking lot, manual transmission of course, so they're slipping the clutch like crazy because they have absolutely no fkn idea how to drive it.
Those are not good cars. This isn't the 1960s any more. The engineers and drivers that made those famous, for good reason, are all long dead, the businesses now run by their kids to extract cash from fools. They're playthings for the rich whose main feature is that you can't afford them.
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
Oh I realize that. They're not without engineering virtue or history ! (Wasted on most owners of them..)
But they're also snobby status symbols and toys for the rich. And "fast car" is so 1970s... Expensive toys for the rich are an open target for ridicule for me, lol. YMMV!
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING STEP CAR
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
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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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This is like when two girls show up to the party wearing the same dress in a sitcom
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