New York, NY – New York City’s iconic taxi fleet is getting a Japanese makeover
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City officials announced Tuesday that they had picked Nissan to supply the fleet for the next 10 years. The Japanese automaker beat out Ford Motor Co. and Karsan USA in a contest for the rights to anchor the fleet.
Nissan’s tall, boxy NV200 minivan is already in use as a taxi in some other parts of the globe.
This marks the first time New York City has worked directly with automakers to design its taxicab model.
The anchor of the city’s current fleet of more than 13,200 taxis is Ford’s Crown Victoria, which was recently discontinued.
They should have chosen the Ford Escape, an American car.
Correction: Ford submitted the Transit Connect, not the Escape.
No other country in the world would have a manufacturer from another country as the “official” manufacturer for a municipality. Its a real shame, that NYC can’t lead by example, and keep US jobs in the USA.
The Ford Escape is a horrible SUV for taxis. Is has terrible legroom.
As much as it would be nice to have an American carmaker win the bid, it is not NYC’s job to subsidize the inferior US automakers. A taxi needs to be comfortable, roomy, and durable.
No. 3m – Really? and what are you going to say when spanish becomes Americas official language
It is not breaking my heart that the Turks who have not been too kind to Israel of late have lost out.
And let’s vote for Bloomberg another term cause he knows how to fix the economy and create jobs, but my problem is that he knows how to do it for other countries and not for us NYC taxpayers.
Mr. Bloomberg you are Mayor of NYC and you should create job and help the economy here in NYC not outsource to other countries. Shame on you!
Horrible looking car!