For years the iconic London black cab has been the sole vehicle of choice for ferrying passengers around the crowded city streets of Old Blighty. That may all soon change. No less than 120 Mercedes Benz Vito vans are now being pressed into taxi service in London, with another 500 to join the fleet before the end of this [...]

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Checker Motors, the 87 year-old company responsible for building America’s most iconic taxi, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after rising raw material costs and a dwindling market share left it with enormous bills and a long line of creditors.

Curiously, Checker Motors hasn’t built a single taxi since 1982, when increased labour costs and [...]

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New York, its streets once synonymous with the famous Checkers Cabs, is now turning to hybrids under a five-year environmental agenda first proposed in 2007 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The Checkers’ replacement was a spacious but genuinely deplorable hunk of metal otherwise known as the Ford Crown Victoria - also favoured by US cops (you’ll remember [...]

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Cairns-based taxi operator Graham Boundy reckons the Toyota Prius is just about the best thing that ever happened to the taxi service, and with approximately 550,000 kilometres under its belt—achieving half the fuel and maintenance costs of other conventionally-powered cars in the taxi fleet—his is a perfect example. Some 32 Prius [...]

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British sports car maker has announced that they will be developing a new range of low-emissions vehicles in conjunction with the British Government. What kind of vehicles you ask? Perhaps a hybrid Exige S 240 to shuttle around visiting dignitaries? Or maybe some Lotus-tuned suspension for Liz’s biofuel powered horse-drawn state carriage? Nope, instead Lotus [...]

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Honda have launched the Freed compact minivan in Japan, which delivers seating for up to eight people in a package that uses just 6.1 litres of fuel per 100km.

Based on the same platform as the Honda Jazz, the Freed lays claim to being the first true 8-seater in the small car class. Of course, it’s [...]

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