Realistically, is Grab everywhere cheaper than owning a car in SG?

I actually tracked this for a year after selling our car. Owning realistically costs a lot monthly once you total COE amortised over 10 years, road tax, insurance, petrol, ERP, parking at home and work, servicing and depreciation, easily well over a thousand a month for a modest car, often much more with today's COE. For that same budget you can Grab a LOT. The break-even depends entirely on usage: if you drive daily, long distances, odd hours, with kids and car seats and grocery runs, ownership's convenience and the per-trip savings start to justify it, especially during surge-heavy rainy periods when Grab prices spike. If you mostly commute by MRT and only need a car occasionally, Grab plus the occasional weekend rental crushes ownership on cost. For your case, family plus irregular hours, run your own week honestly: log every trip you'd take, price the Grabs including surge, and compare to the true all-in monthly cost of a car. For many families the answer is car-lite until the kids and logistics genuinely tip it. Convenience is real, but so is a thousand-plus dollars a month.