RE: Shed of the Week: London Taxi (!)

[Fresh Air Ian]

Awesome. That really has made me chuckle.

[yme402]

Buy it and then sign up,as a driver for Uber

[anothernameitist]

J4CKO said:

X5TUU said:

J4CKO said:

What is this about it being a "Fake Taxi", looks like a real one but isn't registered as such, it is just a private car in effect ?

Fake Taxi....
DEFINITELY NSFW!!

I was cracking on dumb, prob best remove that link !

So much better with the new Female fake taxi driver...

NSFW... Self employed not a problem for me!

[Impasse]

No good for me. I live south of the river.

[darkyoung1000]

A group of friends and I bought an FX4 to take to Le Mans a while back.
www.lemans-or-bust.com if anyone's interested.
It was a comedy experience and there were some great times (being handed a beer from an adjacent Skyline while flat out at 56mph was one of them) but as a long term prospect? Hell no.
In no way pleasant to drive - I accept that may have been because ours was knackered, but I don't think it was all down to that!
Cheers,
Tom

[iMACHOPyou]

Great shed, definitely something different. I'm surprised Fake Taxi wasn't hinted at in the write up. Surely Mr Shed has spent many an hour viewing such videos in order to avoid Mrs Shed.

If only it gave better mpg, it'd be a really practical run around.

[chris_speed]

A Fake Taxi, if you will.

[soad]

yme402 said:

Buy it and then sign up,as a driver for Uber

[Earl of Petrol]

No no no. On every level it's wrong. I'm now worried that next weeks will be a hearse. Here's something to cheer everyone up...
My Z4 on the EVO triangle....

[AH33]

Drive Blind said:

a taxi 2 weeks in a row for SOTW....

[QuantumTokoloshi]

awooga said:

Doesn't Michael O'Leary have a registered London taxi so that he doesn't have to repeatedly pay the congestion charge and he can use the bus lanes?

Just turn the yellow light off so you don't have to pick up fares and it could be a worthy commuter vehicle.

Not in London, but in Dublin. He is also making a profit from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillingdale

[cookie1600]

I suppose I could shoe-horn a Skyline lump and drive train in/under it? That could be the ultimate sleeper in the metropolis.

[MadDog1962]

Another actual shed.

This one is diesel powered and has 4 wheels.

Terrible ride, and surprisingly noisy.

OK around London as long as you stay below 25mph. Otherwise avoid.

[MadDog1962]

chris_speed said:

A Fake Taxi, if you will.

Been watching [porn link removed] have we?

[V8 TEJ]

Dan_1981 said:

Glad i'm not the only pervert that reads PH.

Lol

+1

[MarJay]

SOTW has dropped in quality recently. This picks up the interest factor, but not the 'I would buy' factor. Better than a bum basic saab or something, but SURELY you can find something more interesting for a grand?

[PetrolAholic]

David87 said:

Could make my very own Fake Taxi for only £975.

Beat me to it!

[simonpieman]

It's now sold. My plan was to install a bar and plonk it at the end of the garden as a general sitting area. Shame.

[Shnozz]

awooga said:

Doesn't Michael O'Leary have a registered London taxi so that he doesn't have to repeatedly pay the congestion charge and he can use the bus lanes?

He had a Mercedes "taxi" that was his personal car in Dublin to be able to use the taxi lanes.

[lostkiwi]

I suppose it might mean you could use bus lanes with impunity....

A guy I knew back in the late 80s had one and he was forever getting people trying to get in the back if he drove through town on a Friday or Saturday night.