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Old November 30th 08, 08:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Andrew Heenan wrote:

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Mercedes - Benz Vito Taxi approved earlier this year & widely reported in
I don't see what merits the TX4 has over it - other than Britain
manufacturing jobs perhaps.

I thought that the Benz Vito was simply an option, and that there are no
plans to get rid of the standard designs.


Quite right; it's a free market. Just the Mercedes is probably better,
and certainly better value than the TX4 unless they drop their prices to
planet Earth. Which they may well do, when faced with competition.


According to the article, the Merc is going to be about the same price as
the TX4. It's only going to be better value if it's a substantially better
vehicle - is it?

tom

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