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  1. Contest from 1st Sept 2012 till 30th Sept 2012 Take part in our monthly sgCarMart contest by answering questions about Autokinetics & tyres and stand a chance to win attractive prizes worth up to $1,470. More details here : http://www.sgcarmart.com/contest/index.php Proudly sponsored by Autokinetics
  2. Anyone tried using this to sell their rides? Will appreciate if can share feedback on this system. And thinking whether to use this to sell my car. :)
  3. Example price is advertise as 40-43k Personally, I feel it is stupid cos who will go and buy the car at 43k? Do you feel it is stupid? And idea why they price it as such?
  4. Hi sgarmart moderators/owners I am a frequent visitor/user of sgcarmart and I would like to strongly suggest that you include an additional filter for Normal and OPC cars. Usually potential buyers would already have decided whether they want normal car or opc car hence being unable to filter out the unwanted type makes the search more tedious. Eg. someone looking for a cheap old normal car just to get from Point A to Point B may put in a $30,000 to $40,000 as budget criteria but in the end his search results will include many OPC cars which he doesn't want to consider. Hope you will take my suggestion into serious consideration. Thanks and keep up the good work!
  5. Fabulous-x having promotion for servicing, check it out at sgcarmart - articles page. http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/index.php
  6. Check out these Auction Rides....wohoo. Even a Cayenne out there for repo.... http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/listing.php?CAT=15
  7. Contest from 1st August 2012 till 31st August 2012 Take part in our monthly sgCarMart contest by answering questions about Pirelli Tyres and stand a chance to win attractive prizes worth up to $1,500. More details here : http://www.sgcarmart.com/contest/index.php Proudly sponsored by Pirelli
  8. Contest from 1st July 2012 till 31st July 2012 Take part in our contest by answering questions about the Explorer GPS Add-On Module in the month of July and stand a chance to win attractive prizes worth up to $1,175. More details here : http://www.sgcarmart.com/contest/index.php Proudly sponsored by http://explorer-gps.com
  9. Was wondering why there are so many Golf GTi for sale lately.... I was thinking that probably because fuel prices have been high lately so people are trading in their fast cars for more economical models. Then when I was checking one of the units out ( hoping to find one cheap enough ) then I realise why people are selling their GTi.... The consumption is overwhelming....at 49.9 litre/100km or 2 km/litre . Guess that that is at a spirited ride session but wahpei-ehh....sepai jiak lak ! How to tahan this kind of consumption ??? I put off the idea of ever getting a car like this !
  10. Contest from 1st June 2012 till 30th June 2012 Take part in our contest by answering 3 simple questions and stand a chance to win 3M
  11. Contest from 1st May 2012 till 31st May 2012 Take part in our contest by answering 3 simple questions and stand a chance to win Pioneer Audio Products worth up to $967 (3 prizes in total). More details here : http://www.sgcarmart.com/contest/index.php
  12. Contest from 1st Apr 2012 till 30th Apr 2012 Take part in our contest by answering 3 simple questions and stand a chance to win Seiko watches worth $593 (two to be won). More details here : http://www.sgcarmart.com/contest/index.php
  13. Business Times - 21 Feb 2012 SME INC It's full speed ahead for sgCarMart Online car portal sgCarMart's annual turnover is some $5m with over 10,000 listings on its site, report EDWIN LOH & JASMINE NG THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Vincent Tan Boon Kiat's experience is best epitomised by this line from Robert Frost's famous poem - he took the one less travelled and that has made all the difference. He took a step off the conventional path during his university days to develop local online car advertising and resource portal sgCarMart.com. 'Everyone during my time was doing engineering; about 80 per cent of the guys were doing engineering because it's safe. It's safe but didn't have good prospects,' says Vincent, who graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in mechanical engineering. 'For my partners and I, our courses in university have always been Plan B. Plan A was to do something else but we had to figure out what it was going to be,' he adds. Incorporated in June 2004, sgCarMart was born out of an idea that Vincent and his partners, Henry Seah and Tan Jing Lun, had when they were students at NUS. During their first summer holidays, Vincent and Henry were tossing up between giving tuition and starting their own business. After evaluating their opportunity cost and career prospects, they decided to go with the latter. 'Our opportunity cost was very low. It was just forsaking tuition. We thought the prospects of being an engineer were also not very good,' Vincent says. The astute entrepreneur subsequently came up with the idea of an online car portal as he found there were no big players in the market then. 'There were many small players but no one visible,' Vincent adds. From there, he roped in his close friends, Henry and Jing Lun, and they took on different roles in the business based on their strengths. Vincent was the brains behind the operation and focused on developing the business strategy. Henry, who was in the school's chemical engineering course, was stronger at marketing and public relations, while Jing Lun was the architect for the website with his background in IT. In the beginning, sgCarMart acted as a platform for car owners and businesses to list their cars for sale. It also offered car buyers a consolidated source of information to help in their car-buying decisions. The journey was a rough one. Vincent recalls having to make endless cold calls and run around car dealerships to offer them their services. He explains that it was not easy to get sales for such high-involvement products, as dealers were depending mainly on print advertising then and were not receptive to online advertising. 'Even when we offered our services for free, people didn't want it. They didn't know anything about it and felt it was a waste of time because they wouldn't get anything out of it,' he says. If things then looked bad on the business end, Vincent did not find it any easier dealing with family. His father, who is also a car dealer, was sceptical of his son's business model, deeming it not feasible. The support extended to helping the fledging business along was to allow Vincent the use of the family car to get around to meet clients. Eventually, his father softened his stance and agreed to lend his son a helping hand by introducing business partners and industry contacts. Their perseverance eventually paid off in 2007, when they were about to graduate. The trio never expected that one day this would be their full-time profession, earning them much more than just pocket money. As Vincent puts it, the three of them finally saw light at the end of the tunnel when car dealers became more receptive to technology and started to list their cars online. 'In 2007, we finally reached the critical mass (that we needed). When we graduated, the company could break even by paying our salary - but it was at a 'pay-cut',' he said. While they could have been earning about $2,800 a month as engineers upon graduation, they could only afford to draw a salary of less than $2,000 a month from the business. Looking back, Vincent says he has no regrets. Had he not taken his chances then, he reckons that he would now perhaps be a senior engineer awaiting his next promotion scaling the corporate ladder. 'I don't even know if there's such a post as senior engineer!' he quips. Not that it matters now. Today, sgCarMart's annual turnover is some $5 million with over 10,000 listings on its site. Its stellar report card earned it a place on the list of Singapore's top 1,000 small and medium enterprises. The bulk of sgCarMart's revenue comes from car listings while labour makes up the bulk of his operating cost. The once three-man outfit is now a bustling office with 40 staff under the different arms of the business. The services offered are: used car classified system, new car listings, motor directory listing (which includes repair services and car-grooming workshops), editorial content, and a car forum which sgCarMart bought in 2007 as a discussion platform for customers. With so many listings, Vincent says the company is able to keep track and update the listings because they charge for them. A listing on sgCarMart will cost $38 to run for six weeks. 'All listings are updated within the last 30 days. We call (our customers) to update the listings regularly - this is a service we provide because it's a paid listing,' he says, adding that the firm takes pride in the accuracy of its listing. Since its inception, the firm has seen a constantly growing market as the listing rate has outstripped dropout rates. 'We have not hit any plateau so far. Business has always been going up; it's only a matter of how fast the rate of increase is,' Vincent says. Even the financial crisis in 2009 did little to dampen the company's growth, he adds. Earlier this year, the firm unveiled the launch of a new one-stop online car transaction service, sgCarMart Connect, to assist motor vehicle buyers and sellers in their transaction process. Its services include sgCarMart.com listings, insurance sourcing, car loans, 'Buyer Protected' vehicle ownership transfer, and legal documentation. With sgCarMart Connect, the firm says it not only covers the information gap, but it also covers the transactional gap. 'Even if you can find a buyer, there's nobody there to do the transaction like loan insurance, paperwork, and ownership transfer. SgCarMart is set up to overcome this transactional gap, to encourage more transactions between direct buyers and sellers,' Vincent says. The company is exploring opportunities in Indonesia and has received a $100,000 grant from IE Singapore. Its latest grant is from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore of between $30,000 and $100,000. 'Indonesia is our first step forward; it's sort of a testing bed for us. If it's successful, we may expand into other countries in the region,' Vincent says. Currently, the business in Jakarta offers three products: new car listings, after-market products directory, and editorial content. Vincent says the firm is looking to grow the number of products offered there. When he first started out, Vincent says he knew 'nuts about cars'. Today, he tells a different story. 'After being in the car industry for so long, I can name you any car on the road so long as I see the profile of the car,' he says.
  14. I always get a laugh from the sales ads on SG car mart. Some of them put ridiculous bhp and torque figures that you know are unlikely true. Some of them reduce the car's mileage until you see also want to laugh. Some of them have irrelevant information (director owner, lady driver, doctor owner, etc) that makes you wonder why they became sales people in the first place. Some of them, obviously ah bengs, try to write in exciting and flowery language and end up looking ridiculous. Let me start the ball rolling with this ad posted by a not-so-funny but utterly ill-informed used car salesgirl who obviously knows nuts about the car she is selling. http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.ph...391&DL=1369 What is "Concealed System"? "Roof Power At 309KW"???? Wow! It even has a "Double Overhead Camera"!!!!!
  15. sgCarMart's Car of the Year is back for 2011, and it's bigger and better than ever with many more prizes to be won! This year, the contest has expanded to 21 categories. There are 17 main categories to cater for the huge plethora of new cars launched in the past year or so, as well as four special categories to recognise unique achievements, such as design, technological features and environmental-friendliness. There is also not one, not two, but THREE contests to enter, with prizes such as a MacBook Air, Ipod Nanos, GPS systems, In-Car Cameras, petrol vouchers and many many more! sgCarMart is going all out to reach out to voters this year, and aside from voting on the specially set-up COTY 2011 microsite, the public can also go to sgCarMart's Facebook page for more details and prizes. It promises to be an exciting contest, so vote now!
  16. Hi all, I have this for sale. It's in very good condition. Great undercarrige and handles well too. Anyone keen ??? http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.ph...988&DL=1000 ps - If this is not allowed here, I apologise and can the MODERATOR please delete the post. Thanks.
  17. http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/listing...TRN=2&AVL=2 weird??? any idea? maybe test drive car?
  18. Not everyone has the chance to wake up on a Sunday morning knowing that he'll be witnessing the creme de la creme of drifters burning rubber on a scorching race track.Last Sunday, quite a number of people tasted that feeling. MyCarForum members had the opportunity to witness the entire Formula Drift 2011
  19. Contest from 1st May 2011 till 31st May 2011 Score to Win! Earn as many points as possible by uploading photos and gathering votes. Let's wait no more and be the next person to walk away with Caltex Starcash may just be you! Voters & Interesting Photos has a chance to win too! Find out more: http://on.fb.me/lyCrUL
  20. Which is it? Anybody knows? Tot one of my friends might want to know.
  21. Sometime in December last year the guys over at Sgcarmart.com had tested the Mazda MX-5 2.0. I happened to have a drive in one recently and I liked it. This car isn't the latest super smiley facelifted one that they tried but it is essentially the same car except this is the soft top 2.0 JDM roadster version with the earlier less-smiley nose that only had 10,000km on the clock. It had the optional hard top fitted when I drove it. This car is very much the traditional British roadster. By that I mean that is is small, agile, nimble, light and most importantly affordable. This are the basic criteria that makes the MX-5 as 'British' as they come even though the car is 100% made in Japan. The car fits me well and I am a really chunky guy. I did not have any problems entering and exiting the car. The last Mazda I remember clambering in was the 1990s FD3S Mazda RX7 Efini. That car was a superb pure sports car where every gram counted, and boy was it tight. No problems here though and I sat snug in its seats, low to the ground. Let's head straight to the driving experience now. The car really felt brand new and while I first was skeptical about the low mileage, the car felt new all over. It was still tight and nothing squeaked at all. This car is actually faster than its quoted 8.9seconds 0-100km/h time. I'd say if you're gunning it you'd achieve mid-8 second times instead of that high 8.9second quoted. It is also very nimble, and direction changes are made with ease. The car's steering is extremely feelsome. There is feedback through the wheel (although not at sensitive as some would have liked it) but it is certainly better than most of the cars on sale today. It is in my opinion better than the all-wheel drive rally specials that we can buy these days and even better than a large brute, the Nissan Fairlady. Of course, this car isn't in those categories but it still has one of the purest helms a person can have their hands on. Maybe bar a Lotus Elise or two. At speeds above 120km/h it feels secure and safe even though it only has a curb weight of around 1,150kg. When you turn into a sharp bend it responds. I remember that the front end reacts well (uncorrupted by any power as its rear wheel driven) and that rear felt secure yet not tied down till it dulls the car. Push it harder and the tail comes into play like any other rear wheel drive car. If you're in the mood (and skillful enough) you could push the tail out into oversteer if the conditions allow. I would not recommend this in town as you have curbs, sidewalks and property everywhere around you. One more trait that I like about this car is that you sit very close to the rear axle. Not many cars give you this experience. The only other cars that allow you to sit way back are the Mercedes SLK and the BMW Z4 and these cars cost a whole lot more than the Mazda MX-5. Sitting on the axle brings you another level of car control as you can tell how the tail is reacting. And with that quick responding steering, it is a driving experience to savor. On bumpy undulating roads, especially mid-corner bumps the tail would hop and skip a bit. This is due to the lightness of the car and the slightly firm damping that a sports car like this has. However this makes the experience of driving a British roadster even more realistic. I have driven lots of traditional British sports cars
  22. sgcarmart suddenly got many many skodas quite new somemore ..
  23. Just a heads up, I just saw a Skoda Superb 3.6A on sale on Sgcarmat. The 3.6A would be lovely to drive, must be really stable and powerful grunt! http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.ph...439&DL=1179
  24. [extract] After a long and hectic five weeks of voting, choosing and judging, the results that all of us have been longing for are finally out! And yes, you guys have certainly made it happen. Apart from the enthusiastic judges from sgCarMart
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