Tamerlane's Thoughts: Thousands of dead London taxis in Azerbaijan

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

From Tarlan: These have old Nissan Patrol chassis with plastic body panels from China.

What?

Anonymous said...: What a waste! What happened there? These oil rich countries...; September 19, 2017 at 4:55 PM
Tarlan said...: I guess some damages was fatal cause thousands of them still running on city streets. Or maybe they been out of service due to extremely high mileage.; September 22, 2017 at 10:55 AM
Anonymous said...: I know earlier London Taxis had a Nissan diesel engine, but I'm unsure about it ever having a Nissan chassis. And these look like later models that had either VM or Ford engines. Also, they are not that old, and I imagine Geely can still service them?

Maybe Azerbaijan could export them to some poor neighbour.; September 23, 2017 at 3:27 PM
Tarlan said...: Don't think so, they been imported under special custom clearance as public transport. Means whoever wants to buy them now have to pay full custom cost like for new imported car ( 0.75$ for cm3); September 24, 2017 at 6:24 AM

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