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[Dipster]

Gordon Murray and his dynamic little company have just such a design more or less ready to go - peerlessly green... All they need is a customer to build it.

DCN

Can this project be seen anywhere on the 'net?

[Doug Nye]

Can this project be seen anywhere on the 'net?

I doubt it, but take an initial look here:

http://www.gordonmur...n.com/index.php

DCN

[BRG]

The ability to do a U-turn is quite important for London driving - you wouldn't want to have to do three-pointers!

Most other UK cities don't have many black cabs, relying on a variety of other types, mostly normal production vehicles, yet they seem to manage OK.

And aren't U-turns illegal? Except for government ones, obviously.

Edited by BRG, 01 November 2012 - 20:00.

[Allan Lupton]

And aren't U-turns illegal? Except for government ones, obviously.

Only when the roadsign prohibiting them is displayed.

[David McKinney]

They might be legal, but equally inconsiderate

I always go around the block to avoid holding up other road-users. Does that make me a wimp? More likely a hangover from my first 20+ of driving being in a country where u-turns were illegal

[Steve O'Brien]

i feel its important that people understand why LTI continued to build what on the face of it appears to be an outdated vehicle in the face of modern and better alternatives...

The rules for what constitutes a hackney carriage in london were written when they were horse drawn ... two rules stand out , one which is the rules regardinging the turning circle , which is actually the kerb to kerb distance outside one of londons top hotels ( i want to say The Dorchester, but im not 100% sure) .. you cant achieve that with a front wheel drive vehicle of any type , and no other rear wheel vehicle gets close..... its a protection racket to keep money flowing .. the cab manufacturers cant move with the times and still get the vehicle licensed for use in London .. so they stay as they are .. the latest ones have modern engines and transmissions, but the rest of is it out of the ark

Well they will have to eventaully if LTI go under.

[kayemod]

They might be legal, but equally inconsiderate

I always go around the block to avoid holding up other road-users. Does that make me a wimp? More likely a hangover from my first 20+ of driving being in a country where u-turns were illegal

Don't think I've ever owned a car that could manage a U-turn on any normal road. I'd do lots of them on really wide roads like motorways of course, but there always seems to be some kind of central barrier that gets in the way.

[Dipster]

Well they will have to eventaully if LTI go under.

Perhaps that nice Mr Cameron will bail them out as he did with the bankers.........

[alansart]

Don't think I've ever owned a car that could manage a U-turn on any normal road. I'd do lots of them on really wide roads like motorways of course, but there always seems to be some kind of central barrier that gets in the way.

You've obviously not driven down the Curry Mile in Manchester of an evening. I've never known so many cars want to pull out of parking spaces (or is often the case double parked) and want to go in the opposite direction. There's no waiting, they're straight out and it's up to you if you want to wreck the front of your car......manic!

Taxi drivers are angels compared to that lot

[kayemod]

You've obviously not driven down the Curry Mile in Manchester of an evening.

No, but in my teens I used to live in Rusholme, Dickenson Road in fact, but I was still a few years away from passing my test (or being able to afford a car of course), and I must have eaten many hundreds of curries in the eating establishments that line both sides of Wilmslow Road.

[alansart]

No, but in my teens I used to live in Rusholme, Dickenson Road in fact, but I was still a few years away from passing my test (or being able to afford a car of course), and I must have eaten many hundreds of curries in the eating establishments that line both sides of Wilmslow Road.

It's still going strong