Maybe the OP is a diplomat or has connections with that power within the country. It's uncommon but not rare. I've been to Singapore and seen LHD vehicles on the road, mostly new high end cars. Cars there are $$$, not to mention the permits required, road taxes and other over the top fees charged to reduce congestion. The only thing cheap in Singapore is the food.

Or maybe the destination wasn't Singapore. These are the unknowns.

 

 

 

I don't live there but the overall costs add up really fast. There are fee's on fees, cost of entitlement, road taxes... It's insane but does lend to quite the the car show when you walk around in some of the higher end districts since that limits car ownership to the elite.

 

You're contradicting yourself. Red flags have almost no value if/when exporting is so easy that anyone could do it, red flags or not. If we're going to imagine things, a higher adm bidder (or dealer's buddy) is a far more realistic thing to imagine than a red flag of almost zero importance. When a desirable PTS GT3 is in play, the dealer could use anything at all as a "red flag" and as an excuse to take away the car from someone and give it to someone else.

Maybe some of the folks who claim to know the dealer and speak highly of them could forward this thread to them and invite them to provide the other side of the story?

 

How is that a contradiction? I don't claim to know what caused a red flag but obviously something spooked the dealer to the point of canceling a deal. You're right, anyone can export a car. Porsche knows this as well and I imagine they have measures in place both instructional and monetary to prevent this from happening. You know this happens enough for there to be certain tells dealers are taught to look for. But then again, who know's, I'm just a guy behind a computer.

I'm only speculating given the nature of the native we were told. I don't claim to know the other side of the story but I can only speculate given my experience with this dealer. I doubt they will post though since these matters should be handled offline.

 

Also, the reason I'm giving the dealer the benefit of the doubt on this is solely due to how late in the sale this occurred. According to the OP the deal didn't go sour until he swapped delivery locations. Up until that swap it was a done deal for pickup in Atlanta.

 

100% agree

 

Good job posting a link which completely contradicts the point you're trying to make, as it states that cars have to be RHD.

See this much better link instead, which indicates it would cost well over $200k to register the car there, even if it were RHD, which it isn't.

https://www.onemotoring.com.sg/conte...f_2017/Car.pdf

 

I spent some time in Singapore last year. Some friends and I were just spitballing the price of cars but my guess was that a GT3, if you could get it, would be $600-700K USD. Not an official number but $200K in taxes and fees would be bupkis.
$200K for the car and $200K for fees would be cheap for a GT3 in Singapore

 

Maybe it was presumptuous to say it was going to Singapore but either way, I said previously there are ways around the RHD problem. That being said, do you even know what the cost of a new GT3 is in Singapore? That is, if you can even get one.

Hint, it's much more than you think.

 

Fair enough. If it's 600k and you can import it for $400k I do see the appeal.