Taxi (pt.1)

One of the most famous cars ever built is the London Taxi. It was voted by people (at #36 on USA's Channel 4; see the whole list) numerous times as a favourite and it's definately a classic.

Don't miss all the information on all the vehicles that graced the London streets throughout the times. Just go to London Taxi Cab website and you can get loads of information on various models. The model you probably know best is the Austin FX-4.

Actually, the story of this taxicab is inextricably linked with both BMC and Rover. Many will be aware that the first car to be adopted by the Public Carriage Office as the standard London cab, the FX3, was an Austin product, as was its replacement the FX4 (the FX and FX2 were development models). But it is less well known that Alec Issigonis was working on a replacement for the FX4 in 1968; that a later 1970s taxi project dubbed FX5 was to be based on the Rover SD1; and that in the 1980s, the FX4 almost gave way to a design that was part Range Rover, part Land Rover... and part Morris Ital.