Spotted this on my way home from a ride on the About.com Top Secret Curvy Test Road yesterday -- a Chevrolet Aveo taxicab, right here in good ol' semi-civilized Los Angeles. (Click the image or here for a larger photo.) I mean, honestly -- can you think of a car less well suited to taxi service? Maybe this... or this. -- Aaron Gold
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Photo © Aaron Gold
Perhaps the cabbie found the Aveo “oddly likable” like you did?
I thought most cities had regulations on what kind of car could be a taxi cab? Although based on the old chev caprice that picked me up at the airport last time I flew in, I’m beginning to doubt it.
Apparently you’ve never tried catching a cab in the Dominican Republic. If you had you’d know anything is possible.
We have a couple of them here in Mountain Home. I was surprised to see them at first, but now they are a common sight. I still wonder how they make it up some of the steep grades here with a full load of passengers. On the other hand, at the price of gas now, it seems like a great idea!
Yesterday I saw a Lexus Hybrid Limo in Las Vegas. I guess it serves the “rich with a social conscience”. Perhaps this taxi also has some lofty “social meaning” I haven’t figured out yet!
In Mexico they use Volkswagen Beetles as taxicabs, even though they are small and only have two doors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vws.jpg
Since the original Beetle was finally discontinued in 2003 I suppose that they will eventually fade away, but they should be around for the new few years.