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    Turkish taxi of tomorrow design beats Nissan, Ford proposals among New Yorkers [w/video]     1297797600

    Karsan V1 New York City Taxi – Click above for high-res image gallery
    The people of New York City have spoken, and they've found the taxi designs from both Ford and Nissan lacking. You may remember that the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission recently set about polling residents ...

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    Surprise! New York cabbies prefer Crown Vics to hybrids     1280444340

    If it weren't for the somewhat obsessive and frankly narrow-minded love by taxi drivers and police officers for the body-on-frame Ford Crown Victoria, we'd imagine the old Panther platform would have been put out to pasture a very long time ago. As it stands, though, New York cabbies especially ...

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    New MetroKing taxi could be equipped with hybrid power     1233436020

    Click on the image above for a gallery of MetroKing's new taxi
    The City of New York would like to improve the fuel mileage of its fleet of taxis, but the issue is proving more difficult than planned to implement. After the city announced plans to place fuel economy requirements on all taxis ...

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    New York judge puts the brakes on hybrid taxi rules     1225584120

    New York City's attempt to mandate an all-hybrid cab fleet have been put on hold thanks to federal judge Paul Crotty. A city taxi regulation that was scheduled to take effect on November 1 would have phased in fuel economy rules for new cabs operated in the city. A group of cab operators that ...

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    Hybrid taxis in NY endangered?     1223654700

    Let's get one fact straight right off the bat: no current vehicles on American roadways were designed from the start to serve as taxis. Sure, the Crown Victoria from Ford may be the most often used vehicle for taxi service around the country, but it and its Fox platform were not specifically ...

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    Nissan, GM and Ford agree to build hybrid taxis for New York City     1216320960

    It's time to say adios to the classic yellow Ford Crown Vic. In May 2007, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans to transform the city's ubiquitous yellow cab fleet from the old school Ford Crown Victorias to all hybrids. For the past couple of years, a variety of hybrid vehicles have ...

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    Nissan Altima hybrids have joined the New York City taxi fleet     1216303260

    I was in Manhattan for a couple of days this week on a press event and noticed a new addition to the local cab fleet. For years now, the classic Crown Vics have been getting supplemented by Toyota Siennas, Ford Escape hybrids and the odd Prius. While cabbies love the mileage they get with the Prius ...

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    New York City Councilman David Yassky one of the forces for NYC's hybrid taxis     1183154280

    David Yassky has been a New York City Council member for five years. That means he is a 21st century politician. He is willing to go tilting after windmills that other, older politicians might be afraid to touch. One such area is New York Taxi Industry, 13,000 taxis mostly owned by fleet operators ...

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    All tomorrows taxis: New York fleet will be all hybrid by 2012     1179853320

    It's not like there has been a lack of news about New York's hybrid taxis recently (see links below), but I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of it now: Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that all of city's yellow taxi will be switching over to hybrid models within five years. The AP ...

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    Ford Escape hybrid taxis top 175,000 miles     1175623440

    There have been eighteen Ford Focus Hybrids operating as New York City taxis for about two years now. Each of the vehicles in the fleet has now exceeded 175,000 miles in service. That's the equivalent of eleven years of typical driving for average customers. Since urban driving of the type done by ...

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