Foreign Travel

[Guest red7]

Reading about Peter Bells trip to China reminded me of the Taxi Driver we had in Beijing. Here he is posing by our ride, I think it's a Russian Zil?

[Peter Bell]

The taxis now are mostly either VW Santanas, Citroen ZX / Xara, Hyundai? Elantra.

Peter

[Guest Nick]

Its actually a Chinese "copy" of the old Audi 100

 

Nick

[Guest mastarforth]

As previous statement, it is a copy of the old Audi.

 

I think as Audi moved into China, they signed an agreement with a chinese motor company and supplied the old dies to make this car! Or at least I seem to remember that is what my Chinese Boss once told me! (we had one as a company car).

 

They do a pretty job of finishing them though as these sometimes even had curtains in the things! (why I do not know! but I am sure you can think of reasons)

 

I do believe the London Cab company are in the process of putting a factory into Shanghai at the moment. Would be a long way to go to get a ride in a London Cab however, or will this be the death of yet another English car manufacturing company.

 

Andrew

[Guest salty_monk]

The Chinese did a lot of deals for old tooling.. there is a Shanghai GM based on the mk2 Astra & you can still buy a brand new boxy Jetta from VW... I suspect we'll be seeing some Rovers out there soon now too...!