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Originally Posted by chunder
They are popular in Luton because there is a cottage industry here looking after them because of the airport and the cabbing.
Always been a lot of Japanese parts blokes here as it's Luton and a lot of Asians buy Japanese cars, until they get money then Mercs and Beemers!
They are fairly cheap to run, but it's mainly the cheap road tax, a bit silly, but it's a trend that has caught on.
They are not that roomy or economical, but it's the tax that they love, as I said before.
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Bet you that there is some special discount from the manufacturers to the cabbies available on the hybrids from the manufacturers.
Are there government incentives paid to the cabbies if they are driving hybrids?
Here we go, mystery of hybrid taxis cleared up courtesy of gurgler:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g...ssion-vehicles
Govt paying hundreds of millions of pounds to purchase hybrids, up to 35% off the price of your taxi.
Nothing like our political masters squandering your tax contributions against the nearest wall.