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Old December 2nd 08, 12:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default New London Taxi
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:18:52PM -0000, wrote:

The Mercedes can make U-turns better, one driver told me. IIRC, it is
because the rear wheels can also turn to a degree.

It's basically a converted small van. A driver told *me* that they had
to make the rear wheels turn because otherwise the turning circle
wouldn't be tight enough. He didn't vouchsafe to me how he got this
insight into Mercedes' manufacturing :-)

He also told me that he quite liked the one he'd tried, except for one
thing - he thought that because it didn't look like a taxi, customers
wouldn't hail it.

Isn't there some Peugeot thing that's also been approved?

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