A friend living in London (no car) wants to hire a self drive FX4 taxi next Sunday/Monday. He has had no joy in sourcing one so far. Any ideas where he can hire one? Many thanks in advance. P.S. No I do not know why a Mondeo will not do!
SLT
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 17/10/2007 at 22:40
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A fairly horrible vehicle to drive. Might be a better idea to hire a later one with turbo and power steering and disc brakes.
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Google "Taxi rental repair" and take it from there
e.g.
www.sunrisetaxis.co.uk/
www.taxi-mart.co.uk/taxigar.aspx
Once you have spoken to one of them I would expect them to point you to a suitable source.
There is a Taxi repair /sales company in Surbiton but no idea if they would do a short hire.
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It is certainly possible to hire one but the problem I can see is that the hire company will almost certainly require any potential hirer to possess a Hackney carriage licence, considering that any cab on there hire fleet will almost certainly be plated and it is an offence to drive a plated vehicle without holding a hackney carriage licence.
Yours, njg
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There are sure to be unplated ones for hire (films and so on).
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I understand that, if you live in certain parts of London, you can hire these cabs on a short term basis, and can even have someone else drive you around in it.
Only problem arises, apparently, if you want to go South of the river after dark.
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Does OP want to drive in the bus lanes?
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I used to work in the fleet department of a large FTSE 100 comapny and our Chairman had one for trips in London the reasoning was
Economy - he could take 3 others and conduct a meeting - in the front was a fax machine and printer for his laptop - also his driver could park outside the majority of buildings in the city without being moved on !!
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There was a "civilian" version of the FX4, called the FL2, though I think it's a pretty rare beast.
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Stephen Fry has a taxi for driving round london in
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So has the Duke of Edinburgh. I used to fancy one with a Rover V8 transplant and power steering. They are commodious vehicles with a small turning circle.
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Bez from the happy mondays has got one too - his was featured on pimp my ride and given the bling treatment!
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>>Bez from the happy mondays
I was born in the first half of the last century. Is this why it means nothing to me?
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So was I bt.
But the reason bez means nothing to us is that we are IGNORANT and UNCULTURED.
And revelling in it. I trust you are too?
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