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June 2026 COE Results 2nd Bidding: The COE horse was in a school holiday mood and slowed down in four of the five Categories, while Open Category E barely moved
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A podium-filled weekend for Motorist and the Shane Ang Racing team at the opening weekend of the PT Maxnitron Racing Series
Fellow Motorist: Tzong Lee, co-founder & co-CEO, TRAPO
The official Formula 1 Exhibition is coming to Singapore in July
June 2026 COE Results 1st Bidding: The COE stallion was a costly workhorse again, with Cat C premium at a new peak of $94k, while the car Categories were more or less still expensive
Motorist is going racing with Aiden Chong and the Shane Ang Racing team for the 2026 season
May 2026 COE Results 2nd Bidding: The COE horse went racing again, with Category E at $130k and commercial-vehicle Category C at an all-time high of $92.2k
Motormouth: May the downforce be with you on the road in our home galaxy
Cat A needs more COEs to meet current demand but gets fewer instead, while Cat B gets more COEs
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The Motorist Guide to buying a used car
mReview: Dongfeng Box – A Cool Little Car That Blew In From The East
December 2025 COE Results 2nd Bidding: The COE monster was both naughty and nice for Santa Claus who’s coming to town, with price-drop presents only for the “big car” and motorbike Categories
December 2025 COE Results 1st Bidding: The COE monster wanted to clear its annual leave, but was interrupted by the mostly downward price movements in the second-last COE bidding exercise of this year
mPreview: NIO Firefly – Winging Its Way Into The Electric Supermini Segment
November 2025 COE Results 2nd Bidding: The COE monster roared at the November rain and crawled upwards, along with premiums for all the Categories except Cat A, which went down by a token $1k
The most promising Japanese prototypes at Japan Mobility Show 2025 in Tokyo
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November 2025 COE Results 1st Bidding: The COE monster calmed down again, with big five-digit drops in the premiums for cars, while the price gap between Cat B and overcrowded Cat A was merely $5k
A difficult weekend at the Songkhla Grand Prix for the Motorist racing department
October 2025 COE Results 2nd Bidding: Scarier than Halloween is the COE monster, whose supernatural quota premiums for cars crept down in this round but were still frighteningly high
October 2025 COE Results 1st Bidding: The COE street circuit ran its own “F1 Singapore Grand Prix”, with Cat A racing to another record and Cat B speeding past $140k
LTA revises VES to incentivise electric vehicles only and progressively increase the penalties for the more pollutive petrol-powered new cars
September 2025 COE Results 1st Bidding: The COE snake still vaped like there’s no tomorrow, with premiums for the car Categories at a new high again
August 2025 COE Results 2nd Bidding: COEs continued their NDP flypast at an even higher altitude, with premiums for the car and commercial-vehicle Categories at their highest levels so far this year
BYD led the Singapore new car market in first half of 2025
