Yet, jump in a black cab -- London's iconic taxis -- anywhere in the city, and the driver will get you to where you want to go via the shortest possible route.
Another competitor, Oshkosh Trucks, has entered TerraMax, an 11-foot-tall, 12-ton robotic truck roughly the size of an 18-wheeler's cab.
The Vanquish's proportions aren't quite as radical and cab-rearward as those of the One-77, but it's still pretty much a heart attack on sight.
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For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
On the cab side, there's the so-called Taxi Assistant, a TomTom-branded device which alerts drivers to incoming requests.
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The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade alleges that the city and the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which is expected to approve the rules for so-called borough taxis on Thursday, are depriving owners of the city's 13, 000 yellow-cab medallions of their "exclusive right" to accept street hails.
You know how hard it is for your parents if they have to get on a bus to go get a head of lettuce and they just came home from work and they have to get in a cab to go to a grocery store -- that's hard and expensive for them, right?
This quality is also found in a more widely available Shafer cab called One Point Five, signifying the winery's generation-and-a-half tradition.
Traditional beers such as London Pride and London Black Cab have also benefited from what's been dubbed "the London-effect, " that came with hosting the Olympics, celebrating the Jubilee and the royal wedding.
Most of the time you would just leave the bed cover on and the five-seat cab closed and use the truck bed as a mammoth lockable trunk that's accessible from either end.
's Fox experimented with original eight-second shorts about "Oleg, the cab driver, " which ran during its commercial breaks.
His organization has already sued the TLC over its plan to create 18, 000 new street-hail taxis outside Manhattan's central business district, a move viewed by the yellow cab industry as a threat.
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