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Are you deceived by your car loan interest rate?

April 16th, 2010

Car loan interest rate in Singapore usually ranges from 2% to 3+%. The “low interest rate” was a selling point used by the car salesperson on me when I was buying my Mercedes last year.

“Interest rate only 2.45%” he boasted.

Is he telling the truth? Not really.

Usually, the interest rate is being calculated flatly on the loan amount. For example, if you take 5 years $10,000 loan at an interest rate of 3%, your monthly repayment is calculated this way:

Step 1: Total interest repayment = (3% of $10,000) x (5 years) = $1,500

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