For decades, the most common taxi on the streets of New York City was the Ford Crown Victoria. Thousands of them have prowled Gotham, most with crazy-high mileage on the odometers. But Ford pulled the ...

There are still two Ford Crown Victorias on the road. “I love this car,” one of the cabdrivers says. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. Today we’ll go for a ride in the two oldest taxis still ...

Two cars come to mind when you think of New York City yellow cabs: the Checker Taxi, and the Ford Crown Victoria. Just as the former aged off the Big Apple’s streets, so shall the latter, as the final ...

When Ford finally phased out the Crown Victoria, police departments stockpiled as many of these cars as they could. At first, it's difficult to see why: at the end of its life, the Crown Vic was as ...

But Ford pulled the plug on the Crown Vic a couple of years ago, and the taxi industry needed a successor. Enter the new Nissan taxi, based on their compact NV200 van. "We have a roomier, more usable, ...