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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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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