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A mixed weekend for the Shane Ang Racing squad at the second round of the 2026 PT Maxnitron Racing Series
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August 2026 COE Results 2nd Bidding: Ghosts were hungry for food while people were hungry for car and bike COEs, whose premiums reopened the gates of monetary hell
Motorist and the Shane Ang Racing squad return to the track this weekend for a mid-season showdown in the 2026 PT Maxnitron Racing Series
Car Advice
The cars you'll see every day on Singapore's roads (and why they're so popular)
August 2026 COE Results 1st Bidding: COE bidders contributed to SG61 nation-building with over $339 million of fresh quota premiums
Category A gets fewer COEs and Category B gets more COEs in new quota for 2026 August-October
July 2026 COE Results 2nd Bidding: Singapore lost the World Cup of sensible vehicle prices, but with a minor pullback in quota premiums for Categories A, B and C
Fellow Motorist: Rene Gerhard, managing director, BMW Group Asia
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
A podium-filled weekend for Motorist and the Shane Ang Racing team at the opening weekend of the PT Maxnitron Racing Series
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
ZipZap is a new, no-deposit, car subscription service created by GetGo
August 2025 COE Results 1st Bidding: No SGD60k COEs for SG60, with all the car Categories still in the prohibitive six-digit price range and Cat B hitting a new high this year
Category E plus Category B get the lion’s share of the additional COEs slated for the quota tender period of 2025 August to October
Fellow Motorist: Carl Gotham, director of advanced design, SAIC Design Advanced Studio in London
Inchcape Certified Pre-Owned opens its new showroom in Leng Kee motor belt
July 2025 COE Results 2nd Bidding: LTA’s COE snake stayed on the same high rung of its ladder, with Cat A unchanged at $101.1k and Cats B & E still hovering at the $120k mark
