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Fake Taxi on Dawson Street

  • 14-09-2007 7:43pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭


    Anybody see the pics in todays paper of the Fiat Punto pictured on Dawson Street during the week posing as a taxi? Bad enough trying to pull this stunt off with a PUNTO but the lad doing it had used a cardboard Taxi sign LOL

    Unbelievably the guy wasnt charged :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    It's hard to read the plate. Is it a G reg?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    Apparently it was a bit of a joke/prank. The Herald reported that the Gardaí and the owner of the Punto were laughing at the whole thing.

    Also reported was news that from 2010 taxis must be less than 9 years old (2008 for new taxi licences). About time too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    But what about the Carinas! Did anyone think how they'd be affected?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    colm_mcm wrote:
    But what about the Carinas! Did anyone think how they'd be affected?

    It'll be traumatic, colm. Mr. Usher will probably have something to say on the matter :D

    And then there's all those Mercs with the Nissan diesel engines..................


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    Mercs with Nissan engines? Pray tell more.

    I had a genuine sounding ex-chauffeur drive me home one night in an impecably maintained car. He was complaining about some drivers buying cheap cars in the UK and hiring them out with plates to other drivers. he was talking cars worth sub €2000. Any truth in this?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    ballooba wrote:
    Mercs with Nissan engines? Pray tell more
    A lot of the older MB S500/560s used to have Nissan Patrol 2.8 diesel engines fitted ;).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    The Punto taxi pics seem to be on every other motoring thread today so why not here also!

    TaxiPunto.jpg


    TaxiPunto2.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    A lot of the older MB S500/560s used to have Nissan Patrol 2.8 diesel engines fitted ;).

    Yep - it was a favourite conversion quite a few years ago and it worked quite well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Should we read anything into the fact that the Punto taxi is parked outside a whiskey shop? :D

    crosstownk wrote:
    Yep - it was a favourite conversion quite a few years ago and it worked quite well.
    There used to be an absolutely immaculate 560SEL taxi near me. I thought it really looked the business until I heard the clatter it made starting on a cold morning with black smoke everywhere! I used to think a Ford Dexta engine was installed by mistake :eek:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,402 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Was reported in the HWIST thread already!
    crosstownk wrote:
    And then there's all those Mercs with the Nissan diesel engines..................

    They're long gone by now, surely?

    Back in the mid 90s when I had to do a lot of travel for work, more often than not did I find myself in one of those on 5AM on a Monday. Rattling like bejaysis, but I felt a lot safer than in a similarly old Japanese tin box!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    unkel wrote:

    They're long gone by now, surely?

    In fairness I reckon they are all gone...................all that's left is me showing my age :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    crosstownk wrote:
    In fairness I reckon they are all gone...................all that's left is me showing my age :D
    I still a light blue 560 up at the airport now and again but I'm not sure if it's a converted one. I think it's a 1990 (but I won't attempt the model code as I always get them mixed up).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    I still a light blue 560 up at the airport now and again but I'm not sure if it's a converted one. I think it's a 1990

    Well, his days are numbered now............but at this stage the car isn't costing him a penny - it's served it's purpose!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    colm_mcm wrote:
    But what about the Carinas! Did anyone think how they'd be affected?


    ;) they'll find a home!



    There is still a 420SE doing the rounds in East Wall, got a lift in it one night not one dash light was on! Also the famous white Merc W123 In Clontarf.



    -VB-


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭E@gle.


    lol the punto even has an L plate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Back on topic - there used to be a genuine Fiat Punto taxi operating around North Dublin, especially around the Omni SC. Imagine him getting an airport run! :eek:


    Years ago, there used to be a Renault 4 taxi operating in Dublin. It had the required 4 doors! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    lots of Punto taxis in Italy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I was queing for a taxi in an African capital city a few years ago with herself and the baby and buggy etc. and what pulls up but a Fiat Cinquecento! :eek: A Punto would have been heaven.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,402 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    I was queing for a taxi in an African capital city a few years ago with herself and the baby and buggy etc. and what pulls up but a Fiat Cinquecento! :eek: A Punto would have been heaven.

    LOL! With a Cinquecento, you win this taxi competition hands down, Wishbone Ash :)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭nialler


    you'd know if you were in a modern S, not a sound, diesels sound like tractors when they first start up but once they're warmed up they're fine, still not as smooth as the petrol though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    nialler wrote:
    you'd know if you were in a modern S, not a sound, diesels sound like tractors when they first start up but once they're warmed up they're fine, still not as smooth as the petrol though.
    We were referring to the petrol MB S-classes that used to have diesel engines (usually Nissan patrol 2.8s) retro fitted, not the normal factory fitted diesel versions! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,482 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    unkel wrote:
    LOL! With a Cinquecento, you win this taxi competition hands down, Wishbone Ash :)

    I think that award goes to the Tuc Tuc over in Malaysia, etc:

    _42661609_tuctuc.jpg

    Though probably more practical than a Fiat C*nt-to-get-into (parden my French)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    bazz26 wrote:
    I
    Though probably more practical than a Fiat C*nt-to-get-into (parden my French)



    LOL!!!!!:D


    I'm keeping that one!



    -VB-


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭pa daly


    This thread make me laugh. The funniest I seen yet on here..:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭Tony255


    Talking about fiat punto's i passed a fiat punto garda car in youghal, Cork not so long back it was checking for speeding at the side of the road i thought it was a piss take.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Tony255 wrote:
    Talking about fiat punto's i passed a fiat punto garda car in youghal, Cork not so long back it was checking for speeding at the side of the road i thought it was a piss take.
    There's a few Punto patrol cars around Dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    There's a few Punto patrol cars around Dublin.

    There's a Yaris patrol car in Enniskerry (might be changed now, 'twas a while ago that I last saw it) - try chasing someone around the 21 bends in that... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Type 17 wrote:
    There's a Yaris patrol car in Enniskerry (might be changed now, 'twas a while ago that I last saw it) - try chasing someone around the 21 bends in that... :D
    The small cars are generally used for "community policing" and not for pursuits etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    The small cars are generally used for "community policing" and not for pursuits etc.

    Of course, but sometimes you see something, and there just isn't time to call for backup - ok, not every Garda car can be a 3-litre V6 or similar, but Yaris/Punto are a step too far in the other direction...1.6 Corolla/Astra should be the minimum sized vehicle for policing work...
    colm_mcm wrote:
    lots of Punto taxis in Italy.

    Back on topic, at least the Punto taxis in Italy have real signs :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,750 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Mazda 121's - the egg-shaped one - were popular as taxi's in Switzerland a few years ago..........most taxi trips are only carrying the driver + 1 passenger, anyhoo..........

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Volvoboy wrote:
    ;) they'll find a home!
    There'll be a 1990 Carina II diesel waiting for you here in Limerick then, if it lasts another couple of years... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭oleras


    Sizzler wrote: »
    Anybody see the pics in todays paper of the Fiat Punto pictured on Dawson Street during the week posing as a taxi? Bad enough trying to pull this stunt off with a PUNTO but the lad doing it had used a cardboard Taxi sign LOL

    Unbelievably the guy wasnt charged :eek:

    Saw a promo for a new show on Net2 last night, called "I dare you" or something, featured a Punto with a cardboard taxi sign...... mystery solved, finally i can get some sleep..........lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭C_Breeze


    oleras wrote: »
    Saw a promo for a new show on Net2 last night, called "I dare you" or something, featured a Punto with a cardboard taxi sign...... mystery solved, finally i can get some sleep..........lol


    ... I was in a proper taxi one night and the taxi driver was asking me had i heard about the punto taxi on dawson street etc, i said yeah ... and it was just a constant barrage of "feckin romanians, feckin polish , feckin immigrants takin our jobs ... etc etc" thereafter lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,402 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    oleras wrote: »
    Saw a promo for a new show on Net2 last night, called "I dare you" or something, featured a Punto with a cardboard taxi sign...... mystery solved

    Saw that too. Thought the same :)

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    oleras wrote: »
    Saw a promo for a new show on Net2 last night, called "I dare you" or something, featured a Punto with a cardboard taxi sign...... mystery solved, finally i can get some sleep..........lol
    unkel wrote: »
    Saw that too. Thought the same :)


    Both quite right :cool: -- show called "I dare ya" (airing 12th Nov if ye are interested -I recommend it)
    I sorta know the two comedians running it. Good stuff.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Sizzler wrote: »

    yupyup :D -- I wasn't going to put up the link because I wasn't sure about if you're allowed to promote sites?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭oleras


    star-pants wrote: »
    yupyup :D -- I wasn't going to put up the link because I wasn't sure about if you're allowed to promote sites?

    read the charter: you are allowed to promote anything that makes a punto look ****e.....lol *

    *may not actually be in the charter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


    Stop giving out bout puntos they are not bad cars. I have a nice nippy punto and shes well able to give any other car a run for their money. (although she does have some boy racer attributes so maybe some of her previous owners were tinkering with her insides)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,829 ✭✭✭robo


    Puntos on the streets of Dublin are as common as PJs :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    cazzy wrote: »
    they are not bad cars
    Why then, do you use negativity? "not bad"

    Why not say that "they are good cars"? ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


    Puntos are excellent cars then !

    And the PJ gang dont drive cars - they push buggies :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭oleras


    cazzy wrote: »
    I have a nice nippy punto and shes well able to give any other car a run for their money.


    you might want to narrow that down a wee bit...............

    fiesta, starlet, polo ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    oleras wrote: »
    you might want to narrow that down a wee bit...............

    fiesta, starlet, polo ?
    Cinquecento! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭cazzy


    yer all hilarious tonight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭oleras


    Cinquecento! ;)

    little tike :D


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