The now venerable Ford Crown Victoria has been scrapped from New York City's fleet of yellow cabs and the change has finally come in the form of a Ford Transit Connect taxicab. The new yellow cab had to fight off stiff competition from the Nissan NV200 and Karsan V1, after which it passed some stringent test.
The first Transits have now started their duty in the Big Apple, where they will strut the black “NYC Taxi” logo on their front doors and the license info on the back ones. New York is only the latest in a list of cities ‘conquered’ by the Ford model, as it’s carrying customers to their destination of choice in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa and West Haven.
Its standard 2.0-liter four-cylinder gas engine and automatic transmission, the conventionally powered Transit Connect delivers a 23 mpg combined fuel consumption level, an estimated 30 percent improvement in fuel efficiency versus many of today’s traditional taxis. Ford also offers engine prep packages that allow conversions to CNG and LPG (liquefied propane gas).
“Taxi operators are realizing the Transit Connect is a great vehicle and there’s a good reason they helped us develop it,” says Len Deluca, director of Ford’s Commercial Trucks. “During product development we visited cities across the US speaking with taxi owners, operators, drivers and city officials on the key attributes they wanted in a taxi.”
Ford is already reporting 1,000 deliveries in the first year the model has been on the market. With the total demand sitting at 6,000 taxis per year across the US, the Blue Oval is steadily securing a good position.
Its standard 2.0-liter four-cylinder gas engine and automatic transmission, the conventionally powered Transit Connect delivers a 23 mpg combined fuel consumption level, an estimated 30 percent improvement in fuel efficiency versus many of today’s traditional taxis. Ford also offers engine prep packages that allow conversions to CNG and LPG (liquefied propane gas).
“Taxi operators are realizing the Transit Connect is a great vehicle and there’s a good reason they helped us develop it,” says Len Deluca, director of Ford’s Commercial Trucks. “During product development we visited cities across the US speaking with taxi owners, operators, drivers and city officials on the key attributes they wanted in a taxi.”
Ford is already reporting 1,000 deliveries in the first year the model has been on the market. With the total demand sitting at 6,000 taxis per year across the US, the Blue Oval is steadily securing a good position.
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