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i'm joe weisenfelder from cars dot comi'm here at the new york auto show at an exhibit called taxi 07 a hundredyears of the yellow cab what we're looking athere is the first-ever taxi belt to be a taxi is from 1956 and it was designed to be a little bitlonger and to hold more passengers than a regular sedan of the day this one was made to bestretched and a hold eight people the second generation checker cab madeby the check a manufacturing company is this one and someone people recognizemore because it was made for

decades the last ones were built in 1982 and that's one cab companies want toregular old sedans that most people could buy to drive their families andsuch cars haven't been made to be usedspecifically as taxicabs since the checker now withthey moved onto regular passenger sedans stuff like thechevy caprice which has been retired and now just about every cab you see in mostmajor cities is a crown victoria from ford usually start out as policecars and then kev retired become caps

repairs are calm still love the crownvictoria we love it it's our favorite car because thestandard taxi is designed to be a cab 10 things they kept in mindwas how elegant survive a crash and how easy it would beto repair afterward all these panels like the hood and the top offender here are innertheir modular and their bolted on so it's really easyand quick to get them replaced and quickness is important for thedrivers because they need to get back on the road

even though the standard actually ashorter from bumper to bumper than a crown victoria it is extremely roomy inside and theposition that you are in right now is a place where strollers or realchairs can be secured every standard taxi is wheelchair-accessible has its own rampand as the right height i'm here with mark line the president ofstandard taxi which is the first cab made to be a cab since the checkerin the eighties one that will this become a real producti within 18 months

where can we first expect to see thecenter taxi on the road well we had a a very positive interestfrom new york chicago san francisco washington

car hire new york,seattle toronto vancouver where theyhaving the olympics and the paralympics in 2010 there's really been a universal interestfrom across north america for all the latest car news check outkarzai calm and our blog kicking tires