Motor Mouth: Time to go without a car?

It takes willpower to stop driving once you start. PHOTO: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE – When I bought my current car, a Toyota Wish 1.8 compact seven-seater, in late 2005, it cost me a princely sum of $65,000, including certificate of entitlement (COE).

When its first COE was up, I paid around $59,000 to renew it.

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