Heil Me a Cab! ; Germans Cut Into London's Taxi Rank As Secret Mercedes Model Set to Get Green Light

Mail on Sunday › June 01, 2008

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KATE Moss has one. Stephen Fry has one. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger drives one in California. But now London's iconic black cab is facing its first overseas competition as Mercedes looks poised to win approval for a new, environmentally friendly cab for the capital.

Black cabs are as much a symbol of London as red buses and Beefeaters. Their drivers are renowned for their encyclopaedic knowledge of the capital's back streets - and their ready opinion on everything from football to immigration policy..

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Heil Me a Cab! ; Germans Cut Into London's Taxi Rank As Secret Mercedes Model Set to Get Green Light

For decades the black cab itself has been provided almost exclusively by one British company - London Taxi International (LTI), a division of stock market-...

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