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17-09-2024, 04:22 AM | #1 | ||
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Recently saw this 1999 Mercedes C180 taxi in Melbourne (plate 6150M). Pretty crazy that someone can use a 25-year-old car as a taxi. That'd be like being in the year 2000 and someone still using a XB Falcon as a taxi, or in 2013 someone still driving an XF.
Remarkably, 42% of 1999 C-Classes are still registered. Last edited by MrZ; 17-09-2024 at 04:33 AM. |
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Yesterday, 09:04 PM | #2 | ||
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Rules vary a bit between states but generally age limits are no more since Uber.
Cars would still need some form of yearly roadworthy. |
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM | #3 | ||
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There's a BF wagon still getting around near me (not as old as that C-class but still over 15 years old)
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Yesterday, 09:42 PM | #4 | ||
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Vic had a maximum 10 year rule and all cabs had to be yellow.. now I see Kia rio,s and even saw a beaten up Corolla with green taxi plates, vic gov has made our cabs look like a 3 rd world conutry
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Yesterday, 10:16 PM | #5 | ||
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You are not wrong there, I have some cab owners living near me, my skin would crawl if I had to jump in one.
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All the drivers only come in one colour though
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Today, 01:08 AM | #9 | ||
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Years ago there was a story in one of the car magazines, an owner driver was running a Valiant in NSW that was about 20 years old.
The car was given a special exemption. In Victoria at one stage if you had a V8 Taxi the car was able to be registered as a Taxi for a longer time, I think it was an extra 2 years. |
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