taxis

Without exception the W124's were in better nick than the W210's

Just been brought back to our holiday villa on Lanzarote in a lovely W211 E270cdi taxi with 475,000km on the clock. Driver said his old. W124 had done1,070,000km and there is a mercedes e class taxi on the island with over 2m km! Apparently rust is not an issue over here, so it is just the more...

Serious question: why do taxis get to use bus lanes? I've just spent an hour trying to get across the Runcorn Bridge*. One of the two lanes on the approach road is a bus lane. Setting aside the efficacy of this (one bus used it the whole time I was sitting there), why are taxis allowed to use...