Car for Taxi

veronica

Hi,

I am changing my car shortly and was wondering as Taxi would Diesel be better then petrol regarding wear and tear of engine?

Celtic Mech

one word--yes! Doing the amount of driving you would be doing as a taxi driver, diesel would be the way to go...even the economical side of it. Wear and tare on the engine...if you are doing the same miles in a petrol vs a diesel...the wear and tare is the exact same!!

Max_Damage

Diesel would be far better.

Many taxi drivers go for the Jap-import Toyota Camry 2.2TD. Many have autos too which is handy for city driving.

JHMEG

Aren't fuel costs offsettable against tax, so the economy of a diesel doesn't really come into the cost equation?

A taxi driver friend of mine had a 1992 Camry 2.2 petrol. It gave no major trouble and he got rid of it at 320,000 miles as it was getting tatty. He replaced it with a 1998 Camry 2.2 petrol, auto.

Slidey

Think there is a new law comin in where all new taxis must be under 8 years of age.. or something along those lines.
Diesels are built heavier and stronger and as far as i'm aware you can claim the vat back on it, although i could be wrong here... someone is bound to correct me if i am!

moose112

slideways wrote: »

Think there is a new law comin in where all new taxis must be under 8 years of age.. or something along those lines.
Diesels are built heavier and stronger and as far as i'm aware you can claim the vat back on it, although i could be wrong here... someone is bound to correct me if i am!

Have heard similiar myslf alright.

Diesel def makes more sense for a taxi and a automatic if you a city driver.
Friend of mnie bought a diesel Passat last year reckons it runs on the smell of it and the comfort of the drive cant be beatin.

meathstevie

If you're contemplating starting taxiing forget about it. The cream is well gone of the milk, there's even hardly any milk left...

Volvoboy

http://www.carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=917852

FTW



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