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Hi all, When buy/ get the new car, How I know it is car production 2008 or 2009? Thanks for any info Sorry, if this question/ topic already been asked before.

Direct from source, in great detail, http://www.mom.gov.sg/publish/momportal/en...ical_Table.html You can view by profession and age group within your profession here: http://www.mom.gov.sg/publish/etc/medialib...ages_table5.xls So are you above the median for your age or profession? Summary below from salary.sg, where I first saw this ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.salary.sg/2009/professionals-an...ove-the-median/ If you

hi folks, it has been quite a while since we had the last MCF photoshoot in Dec 2005. a couple of us feel that it will be great to organise another photo shoot session for 2008. also to meet up with the familiar faces again for the oldies and put a face to the nick/avatars for the newbies. details of the shoot as follow : 1) Date : 21st Jun 2008 (Sat) 2) Time : 3pm sharp 3) Venue : Marina south car park B (car park behind steamboat restaurant) please put your name down if you are keen to come for the photo shoot. we apologise that due to logistics constraints, we would only be waiting for at most half an hour before commencing of the shooting. so do please come on time. Volunteer Cameraman 1. Nikolaiski 2. Vanq List of attendee 1. Gadgeter 2. Linus 3. Maddriver. Sponsoring some lucky draws 4. Nhrisuzu 5. Rncw 6. Sturtles 7. Mrmazda3 8. vtim 9. vanq 10. Nikolaiski 11. Beei 12. Darklord 13. Xtraun 14. Josephteo (tentative) 15. Mazda323 16. Valencia and Bor In Love 17. Marusho p/s: to all MCFers, please feel free to add on to the list of volunteers for camera-men and attendees for the photo shoot. On top of the photo shoot, we have also come out with some lucky dip for the shootout. Although they are not alot but I think we should have some fun. Total 6 lucky draw price Prize 1 - Duragloss Leather condtioner + Leather Shampoo worth $40 Prize 2 - Duragoss Car Shampoo + Wash Mitten worth $ 30 Prize 3 - Duragloss Vinyl Protectant + Applicators worth $21 Prize 4 - Duragloss Aquawax worth $20 Prize 5 - Duragloss T- Shirt worth $12.90 Prize 6 - MCF limited edition Umbrella - sponsor by gad. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Guys! Firstly, thanks so much to all of you for taking time off from a Saturday to turn up for this photo shoot! Of course, we'll always want to give something back to you guys for showing such strong support. This year, apart from those very attractive (and very useful) lucky draw prizes, MCF also has 100 specially-designed, limited edition decals up for grabs! Here's what it looks like: All you need to do is turn up for Saturday's Mega Photo Shoot! Decals will be given out on a first-come-first-serve basis, so don't be late! This design will not be repeated again so only a lucky number of you will be receiving this freebie. Cheers, Petrolhead

It was a great reunion!

Hi, anyone any idea how is the discount like??

Better looking that its predecessor. Here's some info on it: http://news.trendaz.com/cgi-bin/readnews2....=965783&lang=EN Some photos as well - the stock IST and the TRD version:

For the Chevy Aveo potential buyer... Full link for the 2009 Aveo at http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-...Chevrolet_Aveo/ and the 2008 Aveo at http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-...olet_Aveo/2008/

Just for information to those Pivot fans. Dun like the colour though. http://pivotjp.com/product/frame-vs-m-e.html

From Soccernet... http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...gue&cc=4716 Manchester United vs Porto Liverpool vs Chelsea Barca vs Munich Villareal vs Arsenal

Pretty good. Hope it'll become a series.

This year Motorshow only got 3 major car manufacturers - Honda, Subaru and Nissan. Same show by Russell Swift. Will you go?

2008 Darwin Awards It's that time again... The Darwin Awards are finally out, the annual honor given to the persons who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out. This year's winner was a real rocket scientist... HONESTLY! Read on...And remember that each and every one of these is a TRUE STORY!!! And the nominees were: Semifinalist #1 A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting drunk cheaply, because he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixed gasoline with milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and he vomited into the fireplace in his house. This resulting explosion and fire burned his house down, killing both him and his sister. Semifinalist #2 Three Brazilian men were flying in a light aircraft at low altitude when another plane approached. It appears that they decided to moon the occupants of the other plane, but lost control of their own aircraft and crashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage with their pants around their ankles. Semifinalist #3 A 22-year-old Reston , VA , man was found dead after he tried to use octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot rail road trestle. Fairfax County police said Eric Barcia, a fast food worker, taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. 'The length of the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle and the ground,' Carmichael said. Police say the apparent cause of death was 'Major trauma.' Semifinalist #4 A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. It seems that he and a friend were playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as a ball. The friend - no doubt a future Darwin Awards candidate - was hospitalized. Semifinalist #5 Employees in a medium-sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the smell of a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building extinguishing all potentia l sources of ignition; lights, power, etc. After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they had difficulty navigating in the dark. To their frus tration, none of the lights worked. Witnesses later described the sight of one of the technicians reaching into his pocket and retrieving an object that resembled a cigarette lighter. Upon operation of the lighter-like object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces of it up to three miles away. Nothing was found of the technicians, but the lighter was virtually untouched by the explosion. The technician suspected of causing the blast had never been thought of as ''bright'' by his peers. And Now, for the winner of this year's Darwin Award: (As always, awarded posthumously): The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. Police investigators finally pieced together the mystery. An amateur rocket scientist... Had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet Assisted Take Off, actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra 'push' for taking off from short airfields. He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to the car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO! The facts as best as could be determined are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit the JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles from the crash site. This was established by the scorched and melted asphalt at that location. The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within 5 seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 mph and continuing at full power for an additional 20 -25 seconds. The driver, and soon to be pilot, would have experienced G- forces usually reserved for dog fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, causing him to become irrelevant for the remainder of the event. However, the automobile remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles (15-20 seconds) before the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface, then becoming airborne for an additional 1.4 miles and impacting the cliff face at a height of 125 feet leaving a blackened crater 3 feet deep in the rock. Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable. Epilogue: It has been calculated that this moron attained a ground speed of approximately 420-mph, though much of his voyage was not actually on the ground.

From a source. "Get my broker, Miss Jones." "Yes sir. Stock, or Pawn?" The market may be bad, but I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and cried. The problem with investment bank balance sheets is that on the left side nothing is right and on the right side nothing is left. How do you find a good small-cap fund manager? Find a good large-cap fund manager, and wait The credit crunch has helped me get back on my feet. The car's been repossessed. There's a surgeon, an architect and an economist. The surgeon said, 'Look, we're the most important. God's a surgeon because the very first thing God did was to extract Eve from Adam's rib.' The architect said, 'No, wait a minute, God is an architect. God made the world in seven days out of chaos.' The economist smiled, 'And who made the chaos?' There are two types of economists: those who cannot forecast interest rates and those who do not know that they cannot forecast interest rates. The United States has developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market. President Bush said clients shouldn't be concerned by all the bank closings. If the bank is closed, you just use the ATM, he said. President Bush said that he is saddened to hear about the demise of Lehman Brothers. His thoughts at this time go out to their mother as losing one son is hard but losing two is a tragedy. Two Lehman employees get into an elevator to go home. One pushes the button but it doesn't move. "What's going on?" he asks, "why doesn't it move"? The other pulls out his laptop and says "Well of course, according to my model, nothing can go down further." A new teacher was getting to know the kids by asking them their name and what their father did for a living. The first little girl said: "My name is Mary and my Daddy is a postman." The next child, a little boy said: "I'm Andy and my Dad is a mechanic." And so it went until one little boy said: "My name is Johnny and my father is a striptease artist." The teacher gasped and quickly changed the subject. Later, in the school yard, the teacher approached Little Johnny privately and asked if it was really true that his dad danced nude. Little Johnny blushed and said, "No, he's really a Business Development Director at Lehman Brothers, but I'm just too embarrassed to tell anyone." AIG, you know the insurance company who's getting over $11-billion of our dollars in bailout money? Well, they announced they're giving 130 of their executives cash awards of up to $3-million. These are cash awards, not bonuses. They say they are payments to guarantee that their top executives stay with the company. Oh, yeah, God forbid AIG should lose any of these business geniuses. Imagine what kind of shape they'd be in without these people. Again, these are cash awards, not bonuses. So we should send them to jail, not prison, see?

after few rounds up n down, Yes, it's TOYOTA again http://www.lta.gov.sg/corp_info/doc/M03-Ca...20by%20make.pdf

(SEOUL) March 21, 2008 -- Combining youthful exuberance with a sporty and sleek design, Kia Motors Corporation today debuted the KOUP concept at the 2008 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) during a press conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Illustrating the shape and evolution of future Kia vehicles, the simple yet bold and aggressive KOUP exterior is complemented by its realistic and sleek interior design. Originating from the Kia Motors America Design Center in Irvine, Calif., the KOUP concept embodies Kia's philosophy of "Exciting and Enabling" with its balanced proportions and fluid design set to evoke an emotional driving experience. 　　　 "The Kia KOUP concept represents the future of the Kia brand and its dynamic vehicles that speak to our core philosophies," said Tom Kearns, chief designer of Kia Motors America (KMA). "Kia strives to appeal to the emotional side of car enthusiasts who seek adventure and want to take a leap into the future with style and advanced technology, and the KOUP effectively delivers." First glance Curb appeal begins with the KOUP's balanced proportions and fluid design. From the tab-shaped and purposeful upper grille to the high-tech and pragmatic headlamps, the front fascia's form gives the vehicle a bold and aggressive stance. The KOUP features an uncomplicated yet dynamic wedge shape along its sides stemming from its glowing, carbon fiber and black chrome enhanced LED lamp lenses. While the KOUP's overall form is simple and precise, it makes a design statement with positive tension created by a "swoosh" that swoops from the C-Pillar forward, down to the A-Pillar and flares all the way back around to the rear deck lid. A trailing horizontal lip along the deck lid tapers up toward the outer ends to meet up with the swoosh from the beltline. The rocker sill has a distinctive "check mark" shape and prominent wheel flares that give the KOUP a strong, lowered stance. The short overhangs and wide stance reflect its well-balanced and responsive character. No element of high-style design is missing in the KOUP concept as illustrated by its greenhouse-integrated, panoramic-view glass with two panels extending from the windshield through the roof to the backlight, appearing as two parallel pieces of glass - similar to a fighter jet cockpit. Segregating the glass panels, an interior mood light runs the full length of the greenhouse. To further the performance-inspired appearance with sporty elegance, carbon fiber enhancements accent the KOUP's chin spoiler, lamp lenses, cowl panel, side-view mirrors, rear bumper insert and rear diffuser, while flashy twin wheel spokes include carbon fiber inserts paired with an open design to show off the Brembo® calipers and cross-drilled rotors. 　　　 Inside the cockpit Conceived artfully and with graphic precision, the KOUP's interior hones in on the desires of auto enthusiasts from the inward lean of the dashboard and Supervision instrument panel, enhancing the performance-inspired driving experience to the custom-designed, race-inspired steering wheel in front of a three-gauge instrument cluster. Carbon fiber accents on the shifter plate and seat tilt-adjust mechanism reinforce sporty performance. Audiophiles and car enthusiasts alike will take heed of eight speakers, including large rear deck speakers matched to a juke box audio system, further harmonizing the driving experience. A built-in Bluetooth-enabled navigation system with Map On Demand (MOD) is just the beginning of the telematics services, including safe driving, car maintenance and life/assistance offerings. The KOUP features a realistic interior design that integrates high-style materials, including rich and supple seat fabrics accentuated with concrete- and black-color trims. As a true driver's car, the front seats contrast the rear seats with opposing colors and patterning and horizontal, padded silicone bars occupy the seat backs for extra comfort. High-tech details are integrated into the interior, including convenient smart key with push button start, and a six-speed automatic transmission with steering column-mounted paddle shifters. Taking flight Powered by a commanding 2.0-liter Theta II turbocharged engine producing 290 horsepower paired with a GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection) twin scroll turbocharger for greater power and efficiency, the KOUP delivers astonishing torque of 289 lb-ft at a low 2,000 rpm sustained to 4,000 rpm. By injecting fuel directly into the cylinder under high pressure using the Kia GDI system, the intake charge is cooled and combustion behavior is improved. Improved combustion assures excellent fuel economy and low emissions. Lower grille openings enable additional air intake for extra power. 　　　 Built on a front-wheel-drive unibody frame, coil springs and stabilizer bars complement an independent front suspension featuring MacPherson struts and an independent dual link rear suspension to provide the optimal balance of ride comfort and engine responsiveness. An engine-speed-sensitive, power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering system adds the finishing touch for precise handling. In keeping with the KOUP's sporty essence, Continuous Damping Control (CDC) for quick movements and sharp turns paired with a sport-tuned, four-wheel independent suspension and strut tower bar offer a tighter grip for more spirited driving. Safety The KOUP concept features all of the standard safety features offered in Kia's regular production vehicle lineup including six standard airbags and a Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS). Electronic Stability Control (ESC) paired with CDC stabilizes the KOUP for maximum contact with the pavement. The large 245/40ZR19 tires complete the KOUP's impressive package. Also included is adaptive front lighting and cruise control, adding to the KOUP's advanced safety technology. [Extracted from Kia Global Website]

Hi all, On behalf of MCF admins and mods, we would like to wish each and every MCFer and your family, a wonderful, successful New Year! While u are celebrating the New Year. Be a responsible driver. When u drink, don't drive. When u drive, don't drink. Cheers everyone.

Carrerista Jamboree 2008 - karting available to public Hi all Just would like to let everyone know that there will be karting available to public during the below mentioned event. It should be priced fairly and it's based on a full sized kart track. There will even be races and championships during the 5 day event. 27th to 31st dec 2008 It's the first of it's kind. Let me know if there is a group of you coming so that i can arrange for your group to be on the track. you may contact me at 90283124 Adrian Tan http://www.mptmotor.com/08_events_CJ.html

Hi all starlet kakis, I will be holding my wedding on the 27th of Dec 2008 and would like to have a convoy to fetch my beloved wife to be. heehee. I hope most kakis can attend. Time: 0815hrs Meetup location: Blk 344 Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 All are welcome. Please list down your attendance. Thank you. 1)Ghaz 2)Robo 3)IanChan 4) 5)

Hi all, COE bidding again For this round: 1) How many backlog is not clear? 2) Last bidding for 2008, some dealers maybe pushing hard to register as many cars as possible. 3) 3 more biddigs before CNY 4) Yen is still strong

Anyone there?

Yes my fellow MCFers, this has abit to do with cars only....as in are we Driving there.. on top of that.....It is about SOCCER!!!! GENERAL Mobilisation call to fellow MCFers whom support our Singapore Lions, Please make yourself free on 21st December Sunday to Shout and Cheer our Lungs out!!!! Cheers to our Lions for making it to the SEMI Final............ Time and Venue will keep you gals and guys posted..........

trying my luck .................... yet again Date/Day : 13 or 20 Dec Saturday Time : 2 - 4 PM Venue : Bishan Golf Range Carpark (prawn fishing there) This is DEAD centre of spore liao ...

Hi all, COE bidding again. For this round: 1) After Cat A at historical low of $2 and Cat B at $4889, there is a mad rush to book a car, several car dealers even raise the car price several time. This remind of of the crash in Feb 07, where many people was asked to top up to secure a COE 2) 2 more biddings to the end of 2008, some dealers maybe pushing hard to register as many cars as possible 3) 4 more biddig before CNY [/color] My biggest question will be: How much COE will be ?