Why not, outside rental mercedez cost around $200 per day,
taxi only $130++ and still can make money out of it. I met one
retired executives driving merc taxi, he told me, if he buy a merc,
it will cost a bomb with all those petrol and taxes, just rent out
one merc taxi, make enuf for the day and the rest can fetch family
around in merc comfort.
As our society upgrade at such a fast pace when the poors cannot
catch up with the growing rich, by 5 years time, i foreseen a
change in TD fleets altogether, those jap cars are going to be
cheapsake stuff, we will see Audi, BMW, Merc, VW and even
Volvo as Taxi on the road, I saw that in western Europe, in
Germany, Merc is very common, in fact, in the 80s, they already use
Merc, now they got more variety. Who knows, we may end up driving
Porsche taxi.
Rental for private merc on a monthly basis is $3K+ but cannot
fetch paxs unlike merc taxis.
Cheers!