Benjamin Tan, 28, Bought His Second-Hand Mercedes For “Less Than S$60K”
The Mediacorp actor, who also runs a curtains and blinds business, tells us more about his new ride and why it took him so long before showing it off on IG.
It looks like James Seah isn’t the only actor who was lucky enough to find a second-hand Mercedes-Benz at a pretty good deal recently.
After four or five years of driving a Hyundai that he spent almost S$80K on, Mediacorp artiste Benjamin Tan had just three months to find a new ride before the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) on the old one expired. After doing some thinking and calculating, he concluded that getting a new vehicle would be more worth it than renewing the COE.
His car-hunting adventure actually started last year, but his more savvy friends advised him to wait a while longer before buying anything as the COE prices were very high at that time.
Then, a few months ago, his pals found him a used Mercedes-Benz C180 that they believed ticked all the right boxes and had the right price.
“So I went down to the dealership to take a look and do a test drive, and that’s how it became my car!” Ben told 8days.sg in a phone interview, adding that it happened on March 25, two days before his 28th birthday.
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