Bye bye Checker, Caprice and Crown Vic. New NYC cab is...

NYC's new iconic yellow cab will be some horrific looking Nissan van thing.

practical it may be but charismatic?

For most of us our view of NYC comes from movies and TV.  We see those iconic yellow taxis nose to tail in the gridlock over the decades and they have always been big ol' yankeedoodle domestics.  But now the pressures of commerce, environment and whatever else have ended this with a Japanese model being selected by the city.

The current city fleet is Crown Victoria based

This is one of those sign-o-the-times things but its kinda sad as the yellow taxi is very much a signature of New York style.

 

 

 

 

As per the TV show...

But somehow with New York being one of the great multicultural cities its somehow fitting?  I'm not sure.