Marketing Ploy or a way to lower inventory

[Drew Dowdell]

I'm in DC all this week. I arrived on Sunday.

In the two and a half days I've been here I've seen 6 new Toyota Avalon taxi cabs in black or beige just in the small 10 block radius I'm staying. They haven't been beat to hell and back...... yet......but I wonder how they'll hold up over time.

Interestingly, DC must not have the age or mileage laws for Taxi cabs as NYC because I have seen a number of B-body wagons from all 3 divisions that made them still chugging about. On my way back from lunch, I was passed by a Custom Bruiser in surprisingly good condition for any 14 year old car, much less a cab.

[Sixty8panther]

SLUDGE!!!!!!!!

[aaaantoine]

I'm glad there's a lot of love for American automobiles down in our nation's capital...

[DetroitNut90]

There is a fair amount of variety in the taxi fleets around here. Escalades and Navigators dressed in taxi regalia are becoming steadily more common in Southeast and Northeast.

[FUTURE_OF_GM]

I'm glad there's a lot of love for American automobiles down in our nation's capital...

LOL... There's plenty of love for american automobiles.... THE "NEW BIG THREE TRANSPLANTS"

[daves87rs]

I see all kinds of Taxis around here...

I saw a Venture and a Cavalier Taxi yesterday...

[balthazar]

Was in NYC a few months ago; shocked at the quantity of toyota sienna taxicabs there...