Car
Approximately 1 in 10 Singapore residents have cars. From a lowly Toyota to a Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and even a Rolls Royce, you can find almost any make of car on the roads (provided there is a right-hand-drive model). Despite high taxation on the import and ownership of motor vehicles (191% on new vehicles, an annual road tax based on engine size, and high pump prices) and a vehicle quota system known as the Certificate of Entitlement, or perhaps because of it, cars are very desirable and viewed as a status symbol despite Singapore's developed public transport infrastructure.
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Famous quotes containing the word car:
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)
“Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)