It may not be a universal taxi color, but the association between yellow and taxicabs is a long one—and in NYC the color is mandated by law. Yellow cabs first appeared in the early 1900s but in ...

The taxi cab jumped the curb and struck six pedestrians in Herald Square shortly after 4 p.m. on Christmas Day after the driver suffered a medical emergency, police said.

There are some 54,000 taxis in Britain, 28,000 of them purpose-built. Of the 16,000 black cabs in London, 15,000 are FX4s. In 1990, FX4 production at Carbodies peaked at 75 per week.