Definition of Axio - Smallest Cab in Singapore History

Got this rare chance to take Prime (the orange colour one) Axio cab.

If you do not know, Axio is the newest member of the Corolla family which is the bread and butter car for the typical Singaporean in Singapore. It is reliable, spacious,
simple to operate, good fuel consumption, blah blah blah...

That's okay if you using it as private family car. What happens now is that even the axio is a CAB now. The only difference is that it is powered by natural gas.

See, since time began, the cabs in Singapore are all dominated by big cars. The private version of the Toyota Crown is a 3000cc luxury saloon called Royal Crown. The Nissan Cedric is also a large car by any default. Even the old Toyota Corona isn't the typical average car in Singapore.

It feels like now smaller car can take the role of the bigger car. The next time your VIP is here, forget about an S-Class Merc or a 7-series. The Mini-Cooper can do the same job.

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS!

My colleague who lives 'somewhere near AMK' was like going "...can't believe you would wait for a better cab like sonata...rather than to get any cab on the road"

Recently she had to go yishun to meet some friends after work and we happened to be in the same cab back. From town till AMK, it was quite okay for her but then after the Yio Chu Kang Exit on CTE, she was like going "hmmm...now I know why you would rather wait for the newer, more comfortable cab..."

We were in a Crown cab.

HAHA...FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS!!!

It is the time of the journey and the process of the journey that makes you want to wait for the cab that could send you home comfortable after a long day of work. You really dont want to irritated by the shooting and the screaming of the toyota engine as it propels through the expressway at a
110kmh. Someime, you really feel like telling the engine to SHUT UP, which is not possible, or ask the uncle
to drive slower, and risk a scolding from the uncle.

"Ah Di, time is money to me..."

Haizz....

Taxi Version Sport

I recently took a sonata cab that "was driven to its fullest potential". When I says that, I meant that the driver really went all the way to the redline. Shiok feeling I must say and it is something that I would like to experience again. The G-force that pushes you all the way to the back of the seat shows either the fact that the car is a powerful one or that your rear suspension is broken.

The force is to illustrate how power the sport car...wait...i mean taxi can get.

This brings me to the next point why must taxi be so powerful?

Yes, it has to be big for the lugguages and such, comfortable for service, automatic for driver convenience, ABS for safety but why of all thing power?

A vicky or a picanto is also powerful enough to transport 4 or 5 pax from point A to B.
Even a Chery QQ or most of the Made-in-China car can do the job well

So why is there a need for TURBODIESEL supercharged engine in our taxi-s today? It is not like diesel price is dropping or something. It is not like the taxi drivers need to engage in traffic lights races. It is not like modern engines are so weak that they cant move the mass.

The petroleum companies are the ultimate winners.



Taxi Version Sport - So fast that I almost have problems capturing it...