I loved my P71s, especially my '03 and it’s sad to see the end of an era, but I suppose this day has already been delayed a few times to reduce the time gap between this and the start of production with the new Taurus & Explorer PI’s.
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yeah, when i saw it reported, i was gonna post it here…
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bittersweet over the last of anything…
here is the c4 corvette
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Found a video of the last Vic being built from frame to final asy:
Very true. But think about how many of them were made and just how significant they were to North America and the world. Up until only a few years ago, every NYC Taxi was a Crown Vic right?
Not to mention every police department bought them. lol
Ford has also begun marketing the Transit Connect van as a taxi cab. It was was recently approved for that use use in New York City, but in the longer term New York has agreed to a deal with Nissan to produce what, beginning in 2013, will be the sole New York City taxi option.
This is from the CNN article in the link in post one. I didn’t know you HAD to drive whatever the city said you had to drive as a taxi drive. Or am I misunderstanding that
Yup. They have limited options now, but they plan on mandating only one vehicle for use as cabs. It was down to the Transit, a Nissan model not yet sold here, and a Karsan from Turkey. Karsan got the majority vote but was voted out because they decided it was way to much of a risk to give a 10-year contract to them.
I agree with what you’re saying except the bit about NYC taxis. When I was a kid all the cabs were all made by Checker, not Ford. Then there were tons of Chevy Caprice’s after they stopped producing Checkers. When they stopped making Caprice’s there were lots of Ford Crown Victorias, but then they started allowing all sorts of different cars so I don’t remember them being all Crown Vics for a lot of years.
I would really like to see a intelligent decision made there. don’t care what they use just make it a turbo diesel. I was next to a transit connect and it did a burnout leaving a stop light yesterday. I was impressed.
