Guess who is the new king?

We all know that once upon a time, the king of choice of taxis is the Toyota Crown, for being all obvious reasons.

They were:
- Spacious (just take note of how generous the leg room is when you next take a crown and compare it with a Sonata, which is a much bigger car)
- Comfortable (just look at how much they cushion the ride on the road)
- Powerful
- Accomodating (Boot space and such)
- Reliability (Tell me how often you seen a broken down Crown taxi pulling over at the side of the road)
- Fuel Efficient (It is a Toyota!)

In fact they still are now, just that there are other better car around...

Be it the consumers or the peeps from the cab company love the Toyota Crown and susbsequently, not surprisingly, the crown became the dafault choice of taxis on the roads. Every taxi companies out there started to buy the Toyota Crown, replaced a Crown with a Crown and wanted nothing but the Crown.


The Toyota Crown - The old king of taxis

Pulling you back to the Present, environmental factors have changed. Oil price reached record high price, technology improves (auto becomes as efficient as the manual) and people want something more confortable.

This translate to people switching to automatic cabs, increasingly more cabs using CNG and people prefering cabs which take them home without annoying them.

So someone has to take over, and NO, it is not the Sonata....

Why?

Because to be the King, the model has to be the first choice for taxi companies and from my observation, except for Comfort / CityCab (which is the same company), no other companies use the Sonata (you realised? Despite being very common, Sonata cab is either in comfort blue or citycab yellow). Therefore, it cannot be acclaimed as the king. I am not giving it the honour just because one big company bought many of them.

So, if it is not the Sonata, who is the King?

The TOYOTA WISH!!!

Why?

See, the 1st Wish that started the whole thing is a CNG yellow top cab, then Prime Cab took in a couple more and then only recently, Transcab brought into a lot more. Have you notice how the streets today are filled with red colour Toyota Wish? (below)

What more, it is automatic, it is a Toyota, it is powered by CNG, with space for lugguage even with the huge CNG tank and it is relatively spacious and refined.

It is therefore the new King of taxi on the road in time to come.

Not convinced? Email me.


The Toyota Wish - The new enthroned king of taxis


The King is dead, long live the King...