Choose your NEXT car wisely?

[Meecar]

Consumer Reports' "Good bets" for making 200,000 miles: Honda Civic, Honda CR-V, Honda Element, Lexus ES, Lexus LS, Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Highlander, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Prius, Toyota RAV4

 

Consumer Reports' "Bad bets" for making 200,000 miles: BMW 7-series, Infiniti QX56, Jaguar X-type, V8-powered Mercedes-Benz M-class, Mercedes-Benz SL, Nissan Armada, Nissan Titan, Volkswagen Touareg, V6-powered Volvo XC90.

 

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/103...ath-save-31,000

[Soonalvin]

doesn't really matter for us does it? hardly anyone in singapore drives until that kind of mileage. always by 5th year or so sell car alr.

[Sfhuang]

yah lor

[Friendstar]

toyota owns the best bet table!

[Meecar]

my 2nd car honda accord own it for 12years has >100K km on it

 

had to give it up because COE a killer

 

[Vesfreq]

Still many old corollas on the road.

[Casey]

meecar, is it after 10yrs, when ur COE expires, u just have to bid for another one. And the new one lets u drive it for another 10 yrs.

 

and the penalty is just increased road tax every yr after the 10th.??

 

been trying to get some info on how it works

[Tigershark1976]

wah lau... 200,000 miles = 320,000km.... I used to click max 3500km per month and thats runing north, south, east & west like a mad dog everyday... 1 year only 42,000km, got to drive around 7 yrs to reach that kind of millage....

[Sfrtuscani]

doesn't really matter for us does it? hardly anyone in singapore drives until that kind of mileage. always by 5th year or so sell car alr.

hmm...possible ah.... mine only 2.5 yrs already done 110k km le.....

[Shox87]

^5 bro. haha. im doing approx. 1000km a week for my ride as well.

[Shox87]

thats quite high dude. so wad are u doing? from ur nick, i suppose its an tuscani?

 

i jus sold my old car(my mums) close to 3 years, mileage was around 121k. i muz say that car served us very well.

[Dynaway]

whaha..... i think my car is under utilised....

 

i'm doing less than 400km a week.....

[Thermodynamics]

With the impending hike in COE, I don't think it is feasible to do so now.

[Djcoolmax]

Here's a quote from the article...

 

All the cars in the magazine's "Good bets" list are manufactured by Honda and Toyota. (One extreme example was not enough to get the Ford Ranger onto the list.) The "Bad bets" are a mixture of European models and two Nissans.

 

Consumer Reports' "Good bets" for making 200,000 miles: Honda Civic, Honda CR-V, Honda Element, Lexus ES, Lexus LS, Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Highlander, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Prius, Toyota RAV4

 

Consumer Reports' "Bad bets" for making 200,000 miles: BMW 7-series, Infiniti QX56, Jaguar X-type, V8-powered Mercedes-Benz M-class, Mercedes-Benz SL, Nissan Armada, Nissan Titan, Volkswagen Touareg, V6-powered Volvo XC90.

 

Let's see how long I can make my Honda last... hahaha

Edited September 8, 2007 by Djcoolmax

[Auron]

400km per week is not under utilised.

400k per week = 20,000k per year which is the average.

[Kelpie]

20,000k is an average for those point A to B drivers. Thats why, exporters like Singapore cars.

 

Regards,

[macrosszero]

Yes, with the impending COE hike, car prices might be on the upward trend again, and people might be forced to keep cars for longer than they have been used to in the past 5 years.

 

The good times might be coming to an end.

[Shox87]

yup. its pretty true. thats the ave. in SG. for my old car, many dealers were not too keen to take in my old car.