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The nearest place with motorsport facilities (if we ignore the F1 street circuit) is Malaysia. I have not yet investigated what I could hire or even buy over the border.
One wrinkle about Singapore is the idea of a non-road licenced vehicle really doesn’t exist, unless you are so wealthy that normal concerns cease to apply.
Motorcycles have COE applied as well- not to the same degree as cars, but also non-trivial. I’d also have to wait significant number of years before I could ride a big bike- although that’s no bad thing in my view.
I could certainly export a vehicle when it hits 10 years old, the question would be where too.
I also wonder about importing something interesting from Japan- another RHD market. However- for a full road licence it has to be under 3 years old, and then you need to buy it 10 years of COE, so still significant money.
I should probably put a spreadsheet together but my hand wavey view is that for my usage pattern a couple of vintage cars would work better than one modern one as the overall running costs are so much lower- and two vintage cars would provide motoring for 90 days per year, which is likely to be fine.
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I suppose it largely boils down to how long you're planning to stay in SG? If it's only a few years I'd consider doing the aforementioned spreadsheet, working out the cost of car ownership over that period, and then having a look at what excellent motoring experiences you could spend that money on over the time instead? Do a bunch of trackdays and maybe even look into race school/ racing in Malaysia?
It just seems like an awful lot of money to be able to pootle around Singapore on (almost) every Sunday for a year? That being said if you've moved to SG for a job that's paying big and that cost of ownership doesn't bother you then I suppose fire on! That impact-911 is very nice indeed! Here's a nice Elise at half the money too...
Nahguavkire
Have you considered buying a track car/ drift car/ time attack car/ racing kart/ motorbike and just doing trackdays for your sped fix while you're there? The 911 just seems like it would be hard to enjoy given the costs...
Alternatively do they have some sort of Classic Car Hire club there where you can just shell out a day rate to zip around in someone else's motor? I appreciate your perfectionism would balk at the shortcomings of other peoples cars but imagine how much worse that 911 will be by the time it gets the Dammit treatment?
One other question... if you export the 911 after the eight years and brought it home to UK would you get a big tax rebate from SG government or no?