Certificate to own car in Singapore rockets to $106,000

Cost of certificate of entitlement', introduced in 1990 to control number of cars, now equivalent to four Toyota Camry Hybrids in US

To own a car in Singapore, a buyer must bid for a certificate that now costs $106,000, equivalent to four Toyota Camry Hybrids in the US, as a post-pandemic recovery has driven up the cost of the country's vehicle quota system to all-time highs.

Singapore has a 10-year certificate of entitlement" (COE) system, introduced in 1990, to control the number of vehicles in the small city-state, which is home to 5.9 million people and can be driven across in less than an hour.