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.End of the road for the Black Cab? Theyre a British iconbut now the factory that makes London taxis has run out of cash. And without a rescue, its doomed.
well, raise their taxes, that’ll fix it
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-)
If I remember right, it almost had a dance floor in the back. No worries about leg toom or getting in or out.
Export them to the US. I would love to ride in one.
“how do you develop a design which a) complies with all these regulations”
I think I found the heart of the problem.