Best Taxi Service

The 10 best cabs in the best towns in the can.

Before it is too long, we took a look at the biggest taxi cars in the whole wide area. You have to clean your legs with the Shanghai taxi... after getting out. There is nothing Iconical about Shanghai?s boring Volkswagen Jettas squad and it is never clear whether the Perspex display around the rider should turn on or off the slime.

And if you run a Porsche for a living, then you can varnish it in any colour, okay? But somehow it makes more sense to get fetched by a Porsche in Moscow, where alligarchs have cash to burn and are apparently willing to foot a $95 banner crash.

Exactly how many wet Hong Kongers can you get in a Toyota? The box-shaped Toyota Crown Comfort cabs in Hong Kong are colour-marked in red, green and blue and have a calming Toy Town feeling with matching fares. Hong Kong riders will go anywhere for a fast buck, even in a Typhoon.

Taxi rides like no other. And if the speedy boundless highways in Germany are not quick enough, you can rent a stripped BMW taxi to take you to the country's Nürburgring Grand Prix track. You will be billed a small sum of money and you will end up almost exactly where you began, but that is where the resemblance to other cabs ends.

Driving rivalries with more secure four-wheel drive cabins has endangered their trading, but like roaches, tuk-tuks would probably live through a fallout of armageddon. Since 1948, another of the survivors, the ambassador, has been taxiing from the assembly line to the taxi shelters. The Amby's old-fashioned Amby bends, its turban-friendly standing height and its constantly updated audio -visual system have made it popular with generation of travellers in Calcutta and other India cites.

When you have tip someone to call the taxi and someone else you can put in your baggage, you will be eased to learn that India taxi riders do not want advice. Many of these cabs are informal and overloaded, but if you're not a big fans of coke, rums and limes, there's nothing left in Cuba today.

And with a powerful supercharged U8 motor under the bonnet, it's no wonder taxi drivers in New York are driving their Crown Vics as if they were being chased by taxpayers. Yellow labs swallow less petrol than bing-drinks, so they are substituted by environmentally friendlier Nissans. The London taxis, formally known as Hackney cars, are controlled by a dignified race of polymath.

Fortunately, these nifty Levitans - part of London as well as seafood and French fries, Buckingham Palace and Australia bars - have room for five people and their bags, leaving plenty of room for the driver's larger horse campus.