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Occasional Jalopnik contributor and avid Ferrari collector Chris Harris apparently needs some extra money to cover his insurance premiums, so he's picked up some shift work as a cab driver. Specifically, the Top Gear Live taxi. More »
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Filmmaker Mark Malkoff knows the recession's tough on everyone so he rented a cab for a day to give a handful of New Yorkers a free ride. The only catch was you had to take a cab with a small, strange man with a love for Tony Danza. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5845068&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're 22 and someone loans you a Lamborghini Murcielago and you crash it while "showing off" you should blame yourself... and also the idiot who lent a 22-year-old a Lamborghini and didn't expect this outcome. (H/T Vavon!) More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802763&view=rss&microfeed=true Today's Econ 101 lesson: Buying a luxury car for a taxi service whose prices are set by the government doesn't pay off. They do make for happier drivers — who are now having their hybrids sidelined by the taxi commission. More »
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A British cabbie was made to remove the small blue glass cross from his dashboard after a passenger complained it looked too phallic. Who, exactly, would see a cross and think "Penis?" A teenage boy, of course. More »
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A couple of Jalopnik superfriends took to the Nürburgring and snapped this pic of the infamous 'Ring Taxi, currently an M5. Dab of oppo, anyone? [Photo: Zerin Dube] More »
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Few things are more fascinating than the unrealized dream. In the 1930s, one man tried to reinvent the taxicab, only to disappear into obscurity. Daniel Strohl of Hemmings Blog takes this look at his plans. —Ed. More »
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A taxi driver went on a three-hour shooting spree from his taxi in northern England yesterday. 52-year-old Derrick Bird killed 12 people and shot 25 in total, many at random, before taking his own life. [The Guardian] More »
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I wonder if there's an equivalent saying in Mandarin for "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." In this case, the lemon is the Chrysler Sebring and the lemonade is this surprisingly attractive Chinese electric car. More »
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Equipped with spacious rear seats and a fuel-efficient 4.8-liter, twin-turbo, 500 HP V8 engine, the Porsche Panamera Turbo should make the perfect taxi, right? At least that's what AutoBild thought. More »
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When New York City compared cab GPS data against fares, they discovered some cabbies had been charging double the going rate, bilking passengers out of $8.3M. The City's now concocting a refund scheme for riders who paid in plastic. [IndependentMail] More »
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Go ahead: Search for "Asif Hussain Shah." Can't resist, can you? His plan is working, but that's nothing — wait 'til you see the interior. We're stone sober, and it freaked us the hell out. More »
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This photo, just in from NYC's Snowpocalypse-hit streets, has me rethinking my decision to tell my mom to take a cab. Update: She made it! More »
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My mom's flying in today for her first visit ever to New York. Since there'll be a foot of snow, and my press car doesn't have snow tires, she'll have to take a taxi. Here's the note I sent her. More »
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There are lots of marathons that you can run in — Boston, New York, etc. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a Marathon that's not only big enough to run in, but one that you could also drive. More »
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A New York taxi company owner makes enough money to not only live near Monaco but also to buy a Tesla Roadster. More shocking? He wants his neighbors to actually know how he made his money with a taxi-liveried Tesla. More »
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Typically an act of frustrating desperation, a cyclist has turned hailing a New York City cab into a congratulation. He's probably trying to get people to think about cycling instead of taxis, but really he's just scaring commuters and tourists. More »
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These rollerblading kids seem to have found the best and cheapest way to cruise through the taxi-packed streets of NYC. Well, until one of them falls off and breaks their face. More »
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Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's the fourth 1930s car I've found down on the Alameda street.
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Don't want the debauchery trade conference to wait while you sit around for 30 minutes in the notorious taxi line at Las Vegas's McCarran Airport? Twitter to the rescue. More »
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We've just received a note from a former U.S. Marine-turned-taxi-driver regarding the extent of his "professional services." Full email below the jump. More »
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The BBC’s Christian Fraser reports from the back seat of a dilapidated Fiat taxicab to describe a city of utter traffic mayhem. More »
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While we've seen every variety of sedan-based hybrid taxi including the Chevy Malibu, Toyota Camry and Prius, we've never seen a Lexus RX400h-based taxi. We spotted this one-of-a-kind sitting out on 38th St. this weekend. More »
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Geely, co-owner of Manganese Bronze, the manufacturer of the London Cab, is reportedly interested in converting the taxis to run on electric power. The Chinese automaker reportedly held talks with London mayor Boris Johnson during the Beijing Summer Olympics, and Geely chairman Li Shufu says "we are doing research on this project." In other words, it seems like a good idea but we don't know what motor we'll use or how we're going to package the batteries in a way that would still allow for passengers. Still, the Chinese have significant electric experience with minibikes and small vehicles — Tang Hua anyone? — so we're not going to doubt Geely's resolve. We just don't want to be the first fares one of these new electric London Cabs picks up. More »
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The news today of AM General getting set to assemble Standard Taxis got us thinking of our favorite livery vehicles. The Russians may demand Maybach cabs, and the Euro-trash only appear content with their mass-produced stripped Mercedes, but most of us don't need quite that level of luxury. Nor do we need the strange comfort of the Vulva taxi. What car is your ideal cab? More »
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The Standard Taxi by VPG Auto has been working the publicity circuit for a while now, but it appears AM General may step up to actually produce it. With the likely death of the Hummer H2, AM General will have excess capacity at its Mishawaka, Indiana plant. Assuming VPG can secure financing, they'll be able to start building the taxis next year. Details and full release after the jump. More »
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(Our good friend and Jalopnik institution UDMAN was out on business when he came across the Taxi of the future that has, unfortunately, been resigned to the past. His story below — Ed.) More »
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The $10,000 Acura NSX ran away with 62% of the votes in Friday's Choose Your Eternity poll, though the Corvette put in a good showing (and it's unfortunate that the late-in-day timing of PCH made it impossible to give Graverobber Commenter of the Day recognition for this methtastic Inland Empire tale, because he totally deserved it). Today we're going to look at some projects that, if by some miracle you ever managed to get finished, would give you the highly coveted "weirdest car in town" status that true Hell Project aficionados seek. There's no common theme, other than misery obscurity and slippery slope leading straight to the abyss low price of admission, so let's see how a single Bavarian stacks up against a threesome of Brits! More »
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The age of high speed police chases may be coming to an end as the coppers are cutting out the middlemen and deciding to just pick up the criminals in their supposed getaway vehicles. This was the case when two teenagers robbed a store in Ontario. Little did they know that their getaway vehicle was being driven by police officers taking the two directly to jail. Then again, the getaway vehicle was a taxi cab and the police were tipped off by the cab company after the two kids, out of breath, called for a cab in an area that police knew a robbery would be taking place. More »
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It was just like old times! On the eve of the New York Auto Show, several Jalopnik staffers hopped into a cab, called out an address—and immediately felt the familiar sensation of a Ford Crown Vic having its pedal jammed to the metal. Gotta love NYC cab drivers. As we were being tossed hither and yon in the back seat, we noticed that...NYC cabs now have nav/entertainment systems for he benefit of passengers. More »
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The Ford Transit Connect first peeked its head out back at the Chicago Auto Show, but these latest shots show it wearing some different duds of the yellow, taxi variety. Word has it that this retrofitted Transit Connect will be rearing its yellow head at the New York Auto show. This model was seen roaming the streets of Detroit and was spied by a keen overlooker and we mean overlooker in the literal sense because the shots were taken from a third story window. More »
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With the looming crude oil madness, you can bet that the masses will be pretending to care about clamoring for alternatives when gas tops five bucks. Bad for most, spectacular timing for the the folks running the Solar Taxi project. A ragtag international group of environmentalists and engineering nerds has put together a completely solar powered car and they're in the midst of driving it around the world to show off the benefits. The trek began in July after a departure from Switzerland, and they've made their way through Europe, the Middle East and South Asia so far. Right now they're tooling around in Australia. The planned 15 month route will cover around 50,000 km and what looks like a couple Jalop back yards in the coming months. You can follow their progress through blogs and maps at their website solartaxi.com. More »
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We told you about Schumacher's Taxi Ride in which he commandeered a taxi in order to get his family to the airport on time. While we all think it's kind of badass that the driver recognized driving greatness and relinquished control to Schumi &mdash the authorities don't quite see it that way and are considering talking punitive actions against the Schum and the driver. But the driver has a plan to make some money: auction that puppy off. More »
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Wide World of Sports Australia is reporting on a taxicab drivers' tall tale that both thrills and delights. According to German cabbie Tuncer Yilmaz, Michael Schumacher was late to the airport after picking up a new puppy for the family, so he did what any self respecting racing god would do, take the wheel himself. In Yilmaz's own words: More »
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Put on your finest top hat governor! Among the cars that Geely will be bringing to the Detroit Auto Show this year is the London Taxi, which as its name suggests is their version of the recognizable black English cab. The Chinese automaker has made a deal with the largest British maker of these cabs (Manganese Bronze Holdings) to produce the classy black boxes in Shanghai on-the-cheap and then hopefully bring them to the US for sale by 2010. The free market works! Below are some photos of the British TX4 version: More »
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Here's a fine idea, take the tried and true bicycle taxi and update it with such luxurious amenities as a roof, brake lights, and... what's this? GPS?! Once you've made those upgrades, give it snazzy bodywork with some nice flat adspace and pump up your profit margin! It almost made us want to be slowly chauffeured through town like a minor island dictator reviewing our subjects, but then we realized the subway is way faster and cheaper and runs with flawless reliability.. More »
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Yesterday's Quattro versus Quattroporte Choose Your Eternity poll (in which the Audi emerged victorious over the Maserati) featured two fairly different types of vehicle, but there was still a unifying theme involved. Today we're going to go back to the format of the first few matchups, in which two very different avenues to Eternal Vehicular Torment are offered at the gates of Project Car Hell. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=310490&view=rss&microfeed=true We caught this off of the NYT YouTube feed this morning. We're betting they're totally glad they invested in all that video equipment. We wonder if anyone thought to run downstairs and actually get close to the taxi cab caught on fire — or was everyone worried it was a terrorist attack? Maybe this means there's going to be one more medallion up for auction — woo-hoo! A new top price story! Yay! More »
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