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And i am as disingenuous as Tony Blair.....

I can't believe that anyone in their right minds could think that a Metrocab is value for money.

It's a pile of s***.

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Could you point out where I have said that a Metrocab is "value for money?"

And also tell me how you know "It's a pile of s***.?" Mr LPH, ever owned one? Thought not.

I got into a PH in London, but as the driver did not know the way to Marble Arch from Tottenham Court Road, I decided to use the tube.

You remind me of the mush who got a ticket for being parked on a rank, whilst he was taking this old dear somewhere.

But at least you preferred the tube to a black cab.

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So what bearing does that have on whether a Metrocab represents value for money?

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Nothing at all.

But I suspect he was desperate to share his fable with us all.

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Yes your wright there Ollie, it must have been hell driving your Metrocab around the streets of London for all those years . . . . .Oh hang about, I nearly forgot, your a Minicab driver, ha, silly me I thought just for a fleeting moment you were a Taxi driver . . . .

So tell us all Ollie, in your experience as a Metrocab expert why you regard them as s***, or are you just talking s***?

Ohhh I want to be in your gang . . .

Well, I don't know on that little question you ask.

I have yet to meet a TTT owner who has not sung praises about the Toyota engined version (Euro 3 compliant) with very little mechanical problems to speak of.

Now the Mk 2 and 3's are not popular in London, given that you can pick up a P reg with about 130,000 on the clock for about £3-4K, wheras the fairways still go for the £7k mark.

So given the choice (if they ever do come back in any numbers) a purring Toyota engine, or a rattling ford, many may opt for the Metro. ?

Plus, they retail for less than LTI.

Yes, I won't quibble with you with regard to the purpose builts.

But my point was in response to Jimbo's original claim that seemed to be that he would rather drive a purpose built than a saloon.

My response was that where drivers can choose between PBs and saloons, then the overwhelming majority choose saloons, and thus Jimbo was just trying to make it look as if he prefers a PB to a saloon, whereas in reality he'd much prefer to be driving a nice Skoda Superb or suchlike

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I work in Lincoln as a Hackney Carriage owner/driver. since 1994 I have had a choice of Metrocab or LTI. (or now also a converted van) I cannot license a saloon. I have never said whether I would put on a saloon in preference to a purpose built, because I do not have that option and there is no point in speculating on what I would drive if I could choose.
If I could though, would I put on a £15,000 new saloon, or a £30,000 purpose built? well, let me think about that for a moment... But tonight when some smug saloon driver gets four burly guys climbing into his car, is he going to be wishing he had a nice partition between them and him?
When they spill chilli sauce all over his nice carpet, from the kebabs they smuggled in under their jumpers, is he going to wonder how long it will take to get rid of the stink?

So, to work in Lincoln for the last eleven years, I had four choices: Get a Metro, get a TX, get a breadvan(no thanks, the punters hate them,) or go Private Hire. I chose the lesser of four evils. The Skoda may be lovely, I don't know, because I have never driven one, so therefore I will not pass judgement on them. They built crap cars in the past, most owners say they are wonderful now. The same could be said about Metrocabs, By people who own one. Give peace a chance, Love and respect, Jimbo.

we have lads that got there plates for nothing and still but secondhand skodas.
yet we also have lads that buy brand new wavs having just bought a £45,000 plate.
so one pays £6,000 to work. the other £75,000 but both charge the same.
how much sense does that make?

Yes, I did assume that you didn't have the choice to run a saloon, because the essence of my point was that because you don't run a saloon then you obviously couldn't choose to.

But my point was in response to when you said further up the thread:

I'd rather be a mush in a metro than a magpie in a montego

Perhaps I misconstrued what you meant?

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Perhaps, but as I said originally, the proof of the pudding is in the eating......even in big cities like Brighton, I don't think there are many Metros or even TXs, particularly when, as in the case of the vast majority of plates, the ownere can choose a saloon.

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What I meant when I said i'd rather be a mush in a metro... was, simply put, I'd rather be my own boss in a hack, than a PH owner/driver working from an office, paying a ton a week for my jobs, being told when to start, when to finish, when to take a break, or a day off, or a week off, and not daring to say no to the boss for fear of being laid off for an hour or more as punishment for refusing a job, in short, I would rather work as a freeman than as a serf to someone earning vast sums off my sweat.
Under these circumstances, owning a Metrocab is a small price to pay.

Yes, I get the point Jimbo - you mean you'd rather by a taxi than a PH driver - when you compared the Metro with the Montego I thought you perhaps meant that you'd rather drive a PB rather than a saloon even if you had the choice

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