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Original Daily Mail long title:

End of the road for the Black Cab? They’re a British icon—but now the factory that makes London taxis has run out of cash. And without a rescue, it’s doomed.

Sounds like a couple of similarities to what happened to the Checker Marathon, even though we did have a non-taxi version of that for a long time, and no US city had absurd regulations to dictate specifics of taxicabs. I do miss the Checkers; tough design, and nothing that followed could measure up.
1 posted on 12/03/2012 10:15:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

well, raise their taxes, that’ll fix it


2 posted on 12/03/2012 10:18:12 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Olog-hai

I remember driving to work one day a few years ago, I saw a London Taxi here in the Pittsburgh area, it was one of the old Austins. I thought, I sure would hate to pay that cab fare. B-)


4 posted on 12/03/2012 10:41:03 PM PST by Nowhere Man (It is about time we re-enact Normandy, at the shores of the Potomac.)
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To: Olog-hai

If I remember right, it almost had a dance floor in the back. No worries about leg toom or getting in or out.

5 posted on 12/03/2012 10:58:44 PM PST by mountn man (ATTITUDE- The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It.)
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7 posted on 12/04/2012 3:29:16 AM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Olog-hai

Export them to the US. I would love to ride in one.


10 posted on 12/04/2012 6:16:13 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Olog-hai

“how do you develop a design which a) complies with all these regulations”

I think I found the heart of the problem.


11 posted on 12/04/2012 10:32:27 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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