Uneconomical Taxi's

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There is a local taxi firm where i used to live in Elgin in Scotland who have run a Subaru Legacy GT-B as a taxi. I cant understand why. Ok it probably gets them between jobs faster than than the normal variant of diesel mondeos/vectras etc. But it doesnt make any sense to me. It certainly not an executive taxi, the interior is no more plush than a garden shed. It must cost a fortune to run in fuel and servicing etc. And its ancient now!
Has anyone else seen some unusual taxis about?

I thought taxis should be ones that were cheap to run to make more money since its a buisness!

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Are the profits really that great that the car doesn't have an effect on things? I'm no Donald Trump but I'd probably not run a gt-b if I was in the taxi business!