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◊ 2008-08-28 00:39 |
2007 Toyota Corolla. I have just been to the supermarket and saw one in the carpark. |
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◊ 2008-08-28 08:20 |
agree. Corolla is correct |
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◊ 2008-08-28 17:34 |
But why 2007? This generation was introduced in the early 2000s (the exact year depends on the country) What country is this? |
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◊ 2008-08-28 17:41 |
In the background we see the Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok International Airport) Also note that you must travel with the taxameter, if they want to drive you for a fixed price you're being tricked (just because they have a 'TAXI-METER'-sign on the roof doesn't mean they actually have one! And if they have one you must check very carefully that they turn it on!). -- Last edit: 2008-08-28 17:47:19 |
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◊ 2008-08-28 17:50 |
Ok, so this is a 2002-2004 model then. Built in --> Thailand |
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◊ 2008-08-28 21:48 |
Are there any countries on the world, where there isn't the same problem? .gif ";)") Perhaps in Scandinavia. It's said about the European North, that there is no cheating, corruption and so on.I've expected that discussion for sooner or later. Sorry Max, but in a lot of countries taxi-drivers have a quite bad reputation.  |
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◊ 2008-08-28 23:42 |
Guess we're not called naive or 'blueeyes' for nothing... |
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◊ 2008-08-29 19:36 |
Yes, this is quite well known  Though I don't think it's as much of a problem in the US as it is in many of the Asian countries, where they can be quite the scam artists  The problem in the US is that taxi drivers are treated unfairly, like second-class citizens that are looked down upon by all. When I was in New York, we would ask each of our taxi drivers (most of them being the sterotypical middle-eastern turban wearing guys that you see on TV ) if people would yell at them and be rude, and they said it happened many times every day. We also would tell them that I wanted to be a taxi driver someday, and they said that it's the absolute worst job in the world and why in the world would I ever dream of that? |
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◊ 2008-08-29 20:58 |
A time ago I sat in a "PlusTaxi" (logo on the side). I've asked the driver of the E-Klasse-Mercedes, an older German lady, what this means. It's a voluntary community of taxi-drivers, which want to have a distance to the -very common- rough taxis, driven by immigrants, which have a rough behaviour, too. Their nickname is "flying carpets", because the most of them coming from Arabian countries. To be a "PlusTaxi", these items have to be: - able to speak, read and write German - clean, roadworthy and roadsafe cars - clean driver's clothes, skin and hair - knowledge about the town your are drving in - polite behaviour - smooth, not aggressive driving - helping the passenger's with their luggage - bringing old ladies into the house What a shame! I was really astonished and also a bit angry. All these things have to be self-evident!! A friend of mine is a taxi-driver in Hamburg. He told me, that the companies of foreign taxi-drivers are usually i nthe hands of their Mafia's. So other drivers should avoid to stop at some taxi-points, which are occupied by these Mafia's. Otherwise their children will throwing with stones or cut the tires. |
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◊ 2008-08-29 21:13 |
In 1997, at My Israel- and Jordan-backpacker-trip one day I arrived at the Tel Aviv-bus terminal. One of the taxi-drivers has catched and welcomed me like an old friend with shaking hands, carrying the bag etc. He asked me, where I want to go. I said "Hostel xxx, Ben-Yehuda-Street x" - "Wonderful, only 200 Shekel" (or so, it was more than 100 $ at that time!). I've answered: "Hmm, my friends have told me, that it cost to Ben Yehuda xx usually 15 Shekel!" - "O.k., get in, I drive you for 15 Shekel". I've heard before from other backpackers, that the taxi-drivers at the Tel Aviv-bus terminal are crooks, so I was careful. A guy from New York has paid the 200 Shekel. But he was ignorant and naive, too. So he had to work illegal in Israel to get money for the flight back. He entered the plany in N.Y. with 4000 $. He had put the bills in the top pocket of his shirt. After a short sleep in the plane he waked up and the 4000 bucks were gone. Bad rumours I've also heard about taxt-drivers in Prague/Czech Republic. The often have an electric shocker in the passernger's seat. Officially against gangsters and thieves. But some of them use it for discussions with angry passengers, too. |
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◊ 2008-08-29 21:17 |
Perhaps we should continue in the forum's taxi-thread: http://forum.imcdb.org/index.ks?page=forum_topic&id=3293&index=1 |
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