Foreign Taxis

art0925 SG

Fading, I think it lost the battle alreay, even in domestic market, Toyota taxi outsell nissan of 1/6. and they've lost HK, Macau, and Singapore is special because it's usually special fleet buys.

SBS3572Y SG

so how much did u pay for the Taxi Licence back then? and the taxis u scrapped.. after calculating.. u need to top how much if u get the new 2006 crown?

art0925 SG

Well, the license worth about 3,500,000, ( 2,800,000 when I bought) the first Nissan I paid about 220,000 brandnew, then scrapped it for around 20,000, the second Toyota (Current) cost be about 100,000(used 2003 bought in late 2004 (20,000 as down payment), and the new taxi is 198,000, and if it's goes well, then the old toyota selling rate will be the down payment. total payment for the cab is like $20,000/ month, if get new cab, probably $25,000/month. I also sublease the cab to a driver @ night shift (Sunday to Friday 5:00pm-6:00am), ($260/shift/day)and a saturday shift from 11:00pm to 7:00am to a friend ($220/shift)

BTW: The brochure that I got today from the taxi dealer of the New Easyaccess taxi. BTw: the taxi company/dealer raised the price to $205,000 with P - 2% interest...As I can't just buy the cab off Crown Motor (Toyota Dealer) because all cab are alreay bought by the taxi company/ dealer, then they will either Long term least/ shift least or sell to individual owners, some also hire drivers to drive.

BTW: Regarding on the question of why HK taxi has short lifespan, I finally got the offical answer, because Hk LPG vehicles has to do a major check up once it
's life reach 5 years (disassembly the engine, doors, everything, then check/ clean everything inside out, then repaint...and this cost alot, therefore, drivers/ company decided to scrap a cab once it reach 5 years, but many scrapped even eariler because it's easy to get a new cab with out paying too much.

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105090 SG

so buy the Cedric at 220,000, scrap at 20,000
Crown bought at 100,000 less 20,000 (top up 80,000)

New Crown at 198,000.. so the price dropped and upped. (220,000 to 100,000 then up to 198,000)..

HKD 80,000 = SGD17,400 hmm.. quite a reasonable price as compared to SG cabbies!

SG cabbies: rent $46/day x 30 days = $1380/ month just on rentals!(expensive)

then the 20,000/month is monthly installment u pay?

funny why another HK fella says HK cabby too poor until need to commit suicide at the Lantau Island bridge?

art0925 SG

Well, you know why, because sometimes, u can't even earn more then $500 / shift, if you really hard work, u earn like $700-1000, but alot of drivers earn $ 500/shift, then minus LPG which is about $220, minus shift rental, about $260, that means in that senaro, you earn like $20 total for the whole shift, this is especially the case for last few years in Red cab, in Green cab, usually earn like $1000-$1200/ shift. if I am that driver that earn $20/shift, I wanna die too la, with house payment and other expenses (remember HK living standard is only behind London and Tokyo) We also face competitions from those Van...cause they claim to only carry goods, but infact, they also do alot of Long Distance passenger (such as Airport..illegally)

SGEMP SG

Taxis in Bintan, Riau Province, Indonesia

Here are the pictures of taxis operating on Bintan, Riau Province, Indonesia.

Well, they uses not-so-old station wagons, and the cabbies always wait outside the cabs for businesses.

I do not know about the taxi fares of Bintan cabs.

But, more importantly, take note that if anyone takes photographs of Bintan taxis, the cabbies may stare into the photographer's camera, and shout! (In this case, you may have to use hit-and-run tactics, that is, run away after taking pictures of Bintan cabs immediately!)

Also note that Bintan streets are chocked full of mini vans that acts as buses, instead of Singapore's case of taxis filling up the streets!

105090 SG

nice!

they use those still in working condition vehicles... to charm singaporeans and angmohs.. Laughing

SGEMP SG

And yeah, are there any foreign/overseas taxis in which its service quality is generally better than those in Singapore?

SBS9818A SG

Uh, many other places.

art0925 SG

New types of Macau Taxi: Toyota Hiace (JDM version), these are 5 seaters taxi, with seating arrangment like (3 in the front (included driver, 2 at middle, and one at the rear)

Another Toyota Litace (These are replacing the Nissan Cedric, as less and less parts available, Nissan stop selling Diesel Cedric in 1998, and Cedric LPG in 2005, the Macanese once are left over diesel stock from HK)

All of the taxi witht the yellow place (Taxi plate) are new license granted last year by the MOSAR

Photo founded on the web at another forum.

105090 SG

Just want to share..

when i went to China 7 years ago.. took a taxi.. the ride was 4 hours, distance is approx 400km.

The final fare on meter? ~RMB200 (SGD40) and the meter fare was only about RMB160 + some midnite surcharge..

art0925 SG

haha, now adays, u can get good deal as this ga la, as even Shanghai now has the Merc, and BMW taxis, their fare are like start @ 12RMB.

SGEMP SG

Now in HK.

Just returned from china (shenzhen, guangzhou, zhuhai) and macau.

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lots of cabs there

but the taxi ride in guangzhou is a hell

taxis in guangzhou are very much affected by traffic jams. this causes the taxi(s) to make frequent hard fast braking along the way. so the taxi rides there can be so shaky until i felt dizzy upon reaching my destinations there.

the ventilation in taxis there may be poor as well

worst, if kena volkswagen, the taxi would appear cramped after my family members were onboard --- the volkswagen are simply too small-built

anyway taxi fares in guangzhou starts from RMB 2.60 (1 sgd = 5 rmb appx)

the make of taxis there are mostly Volkswagen taxis made in Shanghai under the name of "Shanghai Da Zhong"

pixs would be up later

SBS9818A SG

The older-model Volkswagen Santanas (those with the small window behind the rear passenger door) are cramped. The newer-model ones (without the window) are more comfortable.

SGEMP SG

Originally posted by art0925:

BTW: The brochure that I got today from the taxi dealer of the New Easyaccess taxi. BTw: the taxi company/dealer raised the price to $205,000 with P - 2% interest...As I can't just buy the cab off Crown Motor (Toyota Dealer) because all cab are alreay bought by the taxi company/ dealer, then they will either Long term least/ shift least or sell to individual owners, some also hire drivers to drive.

did not see any Easyaccess taxi in HK when I was there

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