Unsuitable Taxis

C_Breeze

Volvoboy wrote: »

If you look at the NCT yellow round sticker on the rear window the sticker is on the right hand side of the car, as its a left hand drive.


All RHD taxi's have these stikers on the left hand side of the car.

I'll post a pic of this if i can find one.


-VB-

Hardly conclusive evidence now is it! :rolleyes:

Pointless putting up that pic in the first place imo!


Its like me saying I seen a Veyron yesterday and posting up a pic of a DublinBus and saying .. "eh yeah it was just behind the bus - why would i bother posting up this pic if it wasn't" LOL :rolleyes:


Also, was in a lovely Lexus LS 4.0 V8 Taxi on friday night - Absolutely beautifull car ... taxi man told me he was averaging 15mpg :eek:

Volvoboy

C_Breeze wrote: »

Hardly conclusive evidence now is it! :rolleyes:

Pointless putting up that pic in the first place imo!


Its like me saying I seen a Veyron yesterday and posting up a pic of a DublinBus and saying .. "eh yeah it was just behind the bus - why would i bother posting up this pic if it wasn't" LOL :rolleyes:


Also, was in a lovely Lexus LS 4.0 V8 Taxi on friday night - Absolutely beautifull car ... taxi man told me he was averaging 15mpg :eek:

Well i know it is, Spook ie or Screw the unions can say for sure also, as they were former members of Taxi.ie, and i assume they seen the pictures of it in the kesh also.


-VB-

Wishbone Ash

C_Breeze wrote: »

Pointless putting up that pic in the first place imo!

Its like me saying I seen a Veyron yesterday and posting up a pic of a DublinBus and saying .. "eh yeah it was just behind the bus - why would i bother posting up this pic if it wasn't" LOL :rolleyes:

The thread is about unsuitable taxis. I posted a pic (without revealing taxi number or registration) of an actual left hooker taxi which I think is unsuitable. How is that pointless? I would have thought it was more interesting than merely just saying I saw one.

Spook_ie

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

The thread is about unsuitable taxis. I posted a pic (without revealing taxi number or registration) of an actual left hooker taxi which I think is unsuitable. How is that pointless? I would have thought it was more interesting than merely just saying I saw one.

[TIC on]
Ah you see you've just been associating with them lieing, coniving taxi drivers and supporting their assertions about LHD taxis being dangerous, when we all know that there aint no such beasts because we aint never seen one, and the taxi drivers would say that anyway because they wouldn't give a damn if we all got out of taxis into free flowing traffic from the wrong door etc. etc. etc.[TIC Off]


:rolleyes:

L1011

Saw a filthy 94 Ford Escort with French-style yellow headlights on it in Sallins there yesterday with hackney plates on it. Not really unsuitable per se, but not something I'd want to get in to...

Wishbone Ash

MYOB wrote: »

Saw a filthy 94 Ford Escort with French-style yellow headlights on it in Sallins there yesterday with hackney plates on it. Not really unsuitable per se, but not something I'd want to get in to...

The debate or the taxi?

Cantab.

I've got a 1994 Carina E that's passed the NCT and is on the road.

I'll have to get an upgrade next year once the 8-year rule comes in to force.

Volvoboy

Cantab. wrote: »

I've got a 1994 Carina E that's passed the NCT and is on the road.

I'll have to get an upgrade next year once the 8-year rule comes in to force.

The due date for existing SPSV holders is 2012.


-VB-

FonixDude

There are some cars on Irish roads which are questionable as taxis. I have seen a Daewoo Matiz or something similar and also another small hatchback, which I would have thought to be below standards. However, I think anything such as a Ford Focus, Volkswagen Bora and Skoda Octavia are perfectly acceptable. Oh, the off-roader type vehicle is also questionable, for (i) accesibility for old or physically challenged peoples and (ii) for their basic unsuitability for road use, that is to say they are prone to rolling. As for using luxury cars like Audis, Mercedes and BMWs, well that is down to driver/owner choice.

S.I.R

seen a silver nissan almera with all the " go faster " dodge ipr stripes , Giant wing and sponser stickers all over it in killester the other day.... must be the worlds fastest taxi

G Luxel

as regards the xsara picasso, maybe if i saw the whole number plate i could tell if its left hand drive, ie very high digits, should be around 83000 +.

the japanese taxi in the picture is a Toyota Crown Comfort that is one of the standard taxis built for the JDM. Others include the Nissan Cedric and Crew and they dont bear any resemblance to the Camry ZV which isnt used as a taxi over there.

Nissan Cedric

Spook_ie

Max_Damage wrote: »

Yep, that's the one I saw that was a LHD. I don't see what all the fuss is about to be honest.

Have you never noticed that most sane passengers in a taxi scoot over to the kerbside door to get out, trouble is that there's a driver/gear lever etc. in the way of the front seat passenger, so he has to get out into traffic

Wishbone Ash

G Luxel wrote: »

as regards the xsara picasso, maybe if i saw the whole number plate i could tell if its left hand drive, ie very high digits, should be around 83000 +

Do you not believe me? What other reason would I have for taking a picture of an otherwise mundane Citroen?

(Unfortunately, I foolishly edited the pic without making a copy so I don't have an unedited pic! )

tinofapples

In Galway I've seen:

A 97 Fiat Marea (Working out of "Galways Premier Taxi Company" Big O)
A 98 Ford Escort
Numerous 94/95 Corolla's
A Merc ML270
Hyundai Tucson

A year or two ago there was a 01 Range Rover doing the rounds.

Nicest I've seen has been a couple of S 320's !!

Preset No.3

One of the worst cars has to be in my area. A '91 something. Its a jap import of some description and its dirty brown and manky looking car. The guy that drives it is about as chatty as a dead body and drives like hes got miss daisy in the car!

tinofapples

there's a manky looking 91 Nissan Urvan (I think) Jap Import doing the rounds in Galway as a hackney