Motor Mouth: When Economics 101 does not apply to S’pore car market

In October, Singapore gets a second BMW dealer – Eurokars Auto – which goes head-to-head with incumbent Performance Motors. PHOTO: EUROKARS GROUP
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SINGAPORE – In any efficient market, prices fall when competition rises. That is the conventional economic theory.

But this theory does not quite apply in the Singapore car market.

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