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TiberiuS
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Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« on: Apr 1st, 2007, 9:02pm » |
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8:15 tonight at Thorpe Le Soken in Essex, Tourmallard Ultima saloon with Hackney carriage plates on, reg R 14 OXY. I let you over so you could make a (may I say slightly illegal  ) U-turn to go back torwards Weeley 
Anyone?
Regards, Bruce .
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Jonnycab
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Re: Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« Reply #1 on: Apr 1st, 2007, 9:07pm » |
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Bruce...there are a few Scorp taxi's around that I've seen in Essex.
There are three alone in Brentwood....mine, a dark blue 2.3 Ghia X estate , & a light blue 2.5 TD saloon
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Baz
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Re: Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« Reply #2 on: Apr 1st, 2007, 9:30pm » |
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There is a 24v in Warrington.... seen it a few times now
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Jonnycab
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Re: Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« Reply #3 on: Apr 4th, 2007, 1:28am » |
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The Scorp, although a bit juicy.......is like the Granada, an ideal Taxi (leather seats, lots of leg room etc ) & very cheap to buy..........so no loan payments
The passengers love the luxury, & as I've found, always try to get in the Scorp rather than that tacky Ford Focus or Vauxhall Vectra that may be in front or behind.....especially the ones that want to go on longer journeys 
Put it like this....even though the Scorp is alot more expensive to run that a Focus diesel....I find people prefer it (costs the same on the meter as a no-leg room Focus), due to the pure luxury & comfort, & tend to ring me rather than the local large taxi company that run a fleet of Focus diesels
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TiberiuS
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Re: Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« Reply #4 on: Apr 5th, 2007, 3:31pm » |
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Thinking about that, I did see a nice auralis blue estate on the Ingrave road near Brentwood about a year back, thought how nice it would be to be driven around in a nice Scorpio taxi
Regards, Bruce.
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Re: Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« Reply #5 on: Apr 6th, 2007, 6:03pm » |
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Bruce...
Remind me one time, I'll get my oldest son to tell you what its like to be driven round in a Scorpio taxi!!
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wbph
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Re: Another Scorpio taxi in our midst???
« Reply #6 on: Apr 9th, 2007, 6:05pm » |
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I ran a black Scorpio 2.3 ultima for three years as a private hire car in Newbury. As stated above everybody loved the comfort and the leather.
Everything going all right until one night down the M27 the customer had said what a lovely quiet car it was when one piston exited through the side of the engine !
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