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Black Cabs …

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It appears that coming to a city near me, you’ll be able to find the newest version of the taxi cab — the black cab or the London taxi. Built in Tim’s hometown of Coventry, these black cabs are all the rage in London and now will begin to appear in cities like Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Massachusetts and the New York and Washington areas.

As is, they look pretty interesting. Far from the Crown Victoria or police car look that we have around here … the cabs will finally have a look of their own, like they did until the 1980’s when the old Checker cab car was discontinued. Of course, like Americans always do, we’ll HAVE to put our own touch on it because why leave a good thing alone. So, along with changes like moving the steering wheel to the left and changing the engine and fuel lines to accomodate our American systems, most will also be painted yellow as many states regulations require and the rear seats will have more padding because American’s apparently have larger asses than our London counterparts. If they aren’t painted yellow, then they’ll be fully wrapped in advertising … so just look for a rolling billboard and chances are that’s a London cab.

I guess now I can’t say that London never gave us anything … afterall, now we’ll have their taxi cabs. Now if we could just get their polite cab drivers, we’d be set.

2 Responses to 'Black Cabs …'

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    Katie | 16 September 2003

    Is that PT Cruiser…


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    Greg | 16 September 2003

    Funny, it kind of reminded me of a hearse. Which, I might add, is fitting in most cities where the guy behind the wheel that speaks very little english is going to kill you anyway with his reckless driving… so you’ll be set.


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