Carol Smith hosts The RIDE with Carol on local radio station Kiss92 on weekdays, 4-8pm. She talks about her car ownership experience and how AutoApp saved her day and improves her car ownership experience Carol Smith considers it a privilege to drive in Singapore. Tell us a bit about your driving experience. I love driving and the sense of freedom that comes with it! I especially love driving around in the rural areas ...
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If you drive in Singapore, having these 5 must-have (FREE!) apps in your smartphone are guaranteed to make driving a hassle-free experience. Whether you’re a road warrior or just drive occasionally, there’s nothing worse than being unexpectedly inconvenienced. This could come in the form of getting lost or stuck in traffic. Or you could simply have insufficient value in your cash card just as you’re trying to exit the car park. ...
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The perennial MPV gets a timely facelift to keep it fresh and relevant as the 8-seater market heats up. If you’ve been in the market for an eight-seat people mover, there haven’t been really many choices. There’s the Toyota Previa, and er, that was more or less it, really. At least, until Hyundai and Kia unveiled the Palisade and Carnival respectively within a day of each other. Incredibly, within the same ...
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Customers can now use AutoApp to send their cars to a SpeedyCare Auto Service Centre without leaving their homes. There’s a time-honoured tradition where sending a car for servicing usually comes with three choices. One, waiting at the service lounge for hours on end and helping yourself to free coffee. Two, heading to a nearby coffee shop for a better quality brew and breakfast. Or three, hailing a ride back home ...
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Besides petrol, these other fluids and coolants are essential to keep your car running reliably. If you think about it, a car is a collection of thousands of metal parts that are kept off the ground by four round rubber tyres. In order for a car to move, all these parts, especially those of the engine and gearbox have to move in tandem. The spark plug ignites the fuel in the ...
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The BMW 420i M Sport gives the term ‘personal mobility’ a whole new meaning. A drive around Singapore proves that even the entry point to the two-door range has an appeal that is all its own. Beauty can be a fickle thing. For starters, it is completely subjective. Remember the rom-com Shallow Hal? The horribly superficial Hal Larson (Jack Black) gets hypnotised to appreciate the inner beauty of women rather than ...
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The employee limit in the workplace has been raised to 75 percent. For some, this also means spending more time on the road. Before you head back to work, here are 5 things to look out for to keep your car running reliably after a long period of inactivity. With the government raising the limit of employees allowed at the workplace to 75 percent, more of us are returning to our ...
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Have you heard the one about the EV that charges itself and runs on petrol? Like the idea of driving an Electric Vehicle but are still concerned about the range and lack of charging infrastructure? Or maybe installing a wall box is out of the question because you live in an apartment? One car that might be an ideal solution for such folks is the Nissan Note e-Power driven here. It has ...
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Sorry to disappoint those who were looking forward to our food delivery service. We were only kidding. Happy April Fools’! We couldn’t resist a little April Fools’ prank last week and ran the story below about AutoApp joining the hugely competitive food delivery segment. Coincidentally, we left a little Easter Egg for those to discover within our app last weekend that revealed the practical joke. Nonetheless, there were still a few ...
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The fourth-generation Toyota Harrier may just be the quietest and most comfortable car for its price. Singapore might be a little late to the Toyota Harrier party as it was only officially introduced 3-4 years ago. However, the market has more than made up for lost time as this Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) has quickly become a firm favourite. The sheer numbers seen on local road will attest to that. The style ...
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Stylish, fuel efficient and well-equipped, the self-charging Toyota Yaris Cross hybrid ticks (almost) all the right boxes. Some of you may be old enough to remember a tagline that the official Toyota dealer for Singapore used on its cars’ license plate frames: “Life with Toyota is a standard living”. I might be paraphrasing, but it was something to this effect. These words came to mind when I stepped into the Toyota ...
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Dubbed the most stylish Mercedes-Benz C-Class ever, the fifth generation sedan will feature a range of models that include a plug-in hybrid model with 100km battery range. The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is the brand’s highest-volume model for the last 10 years. Since 1982, over 10.5 million cars from this family have been sold. Although China has been the biggest C-Class market since 2016, the USA, Germany and Great Britain have been its ...
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BMW Luxury motoring is defined in 3 different ways as shown by these flagship models. Depending on your disposition, the idea of a luxury vacation for example, can take different forms. For some, their ideal holiday might be a stay in a 6-star resort in the heart of a mega-city that never sleeps, with hi-speed WiFi and the latest technology to automate their rooms. On the other hand, others would happily ...
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The facelifted Lexus IS 300h embodies the hallmark smoothness and refinement the brand is renowned for, with just enough sportiness to make the drive exciting. It is no secret that the BMW 3 Series has been the compact sports sedan benchmark for many car makers. Lexus is no exception. Their response comes in the form of the IS series. The first generation Lexus IS ticked all the right boxes in terms ...
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Here’s a tongue-in-cheek take on which cars would be suitable for your zodiac sign in the Year of the Bull Ox. There seems to be a zodiac guide for just about everything when the Lunar New year comes around the corner. So why not cars right? Well, we actually contacted some professionals about this and none was prepared to tackle this theme. So I’ll use nothing more than my prodigious ...
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