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Until recently, the most common vehicle I saw being used as a taxi was a Ford Crown Victoria -- a large standard sedan with an aftermarket partition between the

• masklinn 8y ago
  Indeed the vast, vast majority of taxis throughout the world are fairly standard large sedans and hatchbacks with either aftermarket or manufacturer-provided modifications. The UK (and especially London and its famous purpose built "black cabs") is probably the biggest exception (the models are exported and can be found outside the UK, but I doubt that would be the case if TfL didn't have such stringent license regulations that simple conversions are not an option).
• ema 8y ago
  The taxis I have been driven in in Germany and Spain didn't even have a partition between the front and back seats. Honestly I would feel weird sitting in the back of a taxi when the shotgun seat is empty. Must be some internalized egalitarianism.
  • rsynnott 8y ago
    In Ireland, it's normally, or at least common (it's not required) to sit in the front seat if in a taxi on your own. I think it's similar in some other countries.
• akiselev 8y ago
  Most likely because they were mass produced by Ford for commercial fleets - most notably for many (if not most) police departments in the United States and Canada. Ford stopped producing them in 2011, so they've slowly been making their way out of the rotation.