> Quick view: Grab opened a car sales site on 9 September 2026 at rentals.grab.com/car-marketplace. On launch evening it carried 44 cars from eight sellers: 24 brand new and 20 used, priced S$11,800 to S$249,988. It is open to anyone, not only Grab drivers.
Grab is known here for rides, food and payments. As of 9 September 2026 it also sells cars.
Car Marketplace by Grab went live quietly at rentals.grab.com/car-marketplace, with no press release and no launch campaign. The site is run by GrabRentals, the arm that already leases cars to private-hire drivers, and it lists both brand new cars from authorised dealers and used cars, including Grab's own retired fleet.
We read every listing on the site on the evening it launched. Here is what is actually on it.
What is on the site
At the time of checking, the marketplace held 44 cars, all marked available:
- 24 brand new, from S$166,888 to S$249,988
- 20 used, from S$11,800 to S$204,997
It leans hard towards electrified cars. Only 7 of the 44 run on petrol alone. The rest break down as 17 fully electric, 16 hybrid and 4 plug-in hybrid.
Eight sellers are on the platform: SG Car Choice (8 cars), BYD by JC (7), GrabRentals (6), CarTimes Automobile (6), EV Hub (6), Volt Auto (5), Komoco Motors (4) and Proton e.MAS Singapore (2).
The six cheapest cars are ex-Grab cars
This is the part worth reading slowly. The six cheapest listings all come from GrabRentals, which means Grab selling its own retired private-hire vehicles. They are cheap for a reason, and the reason is on the odometer.
| Car | Price | Mileage | COE expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazda 3 Sedan 1.5 | S$11,800 | 665,481 km | 9 May 2027 |
| Toyota Vios 1.5E | S$13,800 | 527,013 km | 12 Jun 2027 |
| Honda Vezel Hybrid 1.5X | S$13,800 | 719,171 km | 31 May 2027 |
| Toyota Prius Hybrid 1.8 | S$16,800 | 598,156 km | 5 Jul 2027 |
| Honda Vezel Hybrid 1.5X | S$19,800 | 612,581 km | 30 Sep 2027 |
| Toyota Prius Hybrid 1.8 | S$22,800 | 674,807 km | 8 Nov 2027 |
Every one has between 527,000 and 719,000 km on the clock. A private car in Singapore typically covers around 17,000 km a year, so these have done what an ordinary family car would take three decades to do.
Every one also has a COE that expires during 2027.
Worth noting: these six are the only cars on the whole site carrying Grab's own G-Assured label. That badge reflects that Grab owned and maintained the car and knows its history. It is not a statement that the car has low mileage, and on this evidence it plainly is not one.
By contrast, the 14 used cars from the outside dealers span 88 km to 204,000 km. One of them, a Honda Freed Hybrid at S$189,888, has done 88 km and is effectively a new car.
The COE maths on an S$11,800 car
A car with a COE expiring in May 2027 gives a buyer roughly eight months of driving from now. After that you either deregister it or pay to renew the COE.
Renewal does not involve bidding. You pay the Prevailing Quota Premium (PQP), a moving average of the quota premiums from the last three bidding exercises, published monthly by LTA. For September 2026 that is S$126,208 for Category A and S$128,697 for Category B.
The options, per LTA:
- 10-year renewal: the full PQP. Category A and B cars can do this repeatedly, with no limit on the number of times.
- 5-year renewal: 50 per cent of the PQP, so about S$63,104 at September's Category A rate. For a car you can only do this once, and at the end of those five years the vehicle must be deregistered.
So the S$11,800 Mazda is an S$11,800 car for about eight months, and then a decision worth roughly sixty to a hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars at today's rates. The PQP moves every month, so nobody can tell you today what May 2027 will cost. That is not a reason to avoid these cars, and for someone who wants a cheap runabout for a fixed short period it can be a sensible buy. It is a reason to do the sum before, not after.
For context on how tight the market is, the first COE bidding exercise of September 2026 closed on 9 September with premiums up in every category, and Category A set an all-time high of S$133,009, passing the S$129,000 record set on 8 July 2026. Category B closed at S$135,001 and the Open Category at S$137,890.
The new cars
The 24 new cars are all electric, hybrid or plug-in hybrid. The cheapest is the Dongfeng Box Electric Essential at S$166,888; the dearest is the Aion Hyptec HT Electric Luxury at S$249,988. Familiar names sit in the middle: the BYD Atto 3 at S$175,388, the Proton e.MAS 7 Electric at S$182,988, and Hyundai's Avante Hybrid from S$198,999 and Kona Hybrid from S$201,999.
Each listing shows an annual depreciation figure alongside the price, which is the number most Singapore buyers actually compare. On the new cars these run from about S$16,689 a year at the cheap end to S$24,435 at the top.
The fine print, from Grab's own terms
Grab publishes a full set of Terms of Use for the marketplace. A few clauses are worth knowing before you put money down.
- The advertised price may not be the price. Grab states that displayed amounts may exclude transfer fees, inspection fees, administrative fees, financing charges, insurance premiums and road tax.
- A deposit may be required, and fees are generally non-refundable. Grab may ask for a booking fee, reservation fee or deposit, with the refundability stated on the platform at the time.
- Clicking to register interest does not buy the car. Submitting interest is treated as an offer. A contract exists only once a sale and purchase agreement is signed and any required deposit is paid.
- Grab does not stand behind third-party listings. For cars sold by outside dealers, Grab provides the platform only. Its terms say it does not warrant that any listing, specification, description, mileage or accident and repair history is accurate, complete or current, and that it is the buyer's responsibility to inspect the car and satisfy themselves as to its condition, history and ownership.
That last point sits alongside marketing copy on the same site promising "fair prices, guaranteed mileage". The two are not necessarily in conflict, since Grab is the actual seller for its own six cars and knows their service history, but for the other 38 the terms are explicit that the platform is not vouching for the numbers. Inspect before you buy, as you would anywhere else.
Test drives and inspections are arranged with the seller and may carry their own fees.
What this means for buyers
The useful thing here is not a discount, because there is no launch promotion. It is a new place to look, with two things most classifieds do not give you in the same view: an annual depreciation figure printed on every listing, and, on Grab's own cars, a seller that genuinely knows the car's history because it owned it.
The catch is that the headline-grabbing prices belong to cars that have been worked extremely hard and are close to the end of their COE. If you have been sending people the S$11,800 screenshot, send them the mileage and the COE expiry date with it.
If you are shopping seriously, the ordinary rules still apply: get an independent inspection, price the COE renewal at the current PQP rather than a remembered one, and compare the annual depreciation rather than the asking price.
Sources: Car Marketplace by Grab (rentals.grab.com/car-marketplace) and its published Terms of Use, read 9 September 2026; COE quota premiums and PQP rates from LTA. Photos: vehicle listing images from Car Marketplace by Grab.
