Originally posted by linxd:
It's obviously that a 1.6 litres above car will consume more
fuel, produce more pollution, the size is bigger and occupy more
space whenever it park or moving.
Then such car should pay more fee than the bolow 1.6 litres cars.
The government can simply reduce above 1.6 litres car COE amount,
and increase the below 1.6 litres COE, such a simple thing, why it
so difficult to do?
1) pollution is addressed from road tax. thats why 3001cc diesel is paying ($3,050 + 2.0 x (3001 – 3,000) ) *6
http://www.lta.gov.sg/motoring_matters/motoring_vo_tax_pte.htm
2) COE is tied to market forces, means more pple buy, price go up. apparently got alot of ppl buying 1.3L and 1.5L cars lately. thats why go up.
3) Also the same reason no one goes for 2L cars coz the same ppl wont be able to afford it. these are the same groups who take 10 yr loans.
4) IMHO, LTA should give a different COE class to 1.4, 1.5,1.6 coz i believe there are more < 1.6L car owners nowadays. thus making it quite unfair to 1.6L owners.
but then again. this is sigapure.