Riding In An In Service Ford Crown Victoria NYC Taxi!
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2022
- Last week I got the lucky chance to be able to ride in an in service NYC taxi Crown Victoria. Totally surreal experience riding one of these 2011s in the last days of 2021, almost 2022.
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there is nothing better than traveling in a Crown Vic in New York
absolutely right
Yup.
Yup. They've been the icons and face of New York City for years! Now all those Vics have been replaced by Toyota Priuses and Nissans, which I think is terrible.
What if Ford brought back the Crown Victoria at some point? Not that it’s gonna happen, but what if they could?
Amen
They should bring back production of these crown Vic taxis!! They were gems!! True symbolism of NYC!! 😎🙌
I think Ford actually is going to bring back the Crown Victoria soon in a few years probably as an electric car, with its successors, the Ford Taurus and Ford Explorer, being over 10 years old by now! Besides, I'm pretty sure many police departments, taxi companies and car enthusiasts want to see a return of the iconic Crown Vic that has appeared in countless movies and TV series since 1992 and has since become one of the faces and icons of not just NYC, but America as a whole!
I'm so glad I'm a Vic owner now and can help keep these things alive. Thanks for getting this footage. Seeing inside the LWB model with all the cab bells and whistles was a treat.
Wow, you actually have a Crown Vic? Dang, I'm jealous! I wish I can own a Crown Vic soon, so that I can preserve one of these cars for the future, and also to scare drivers into thinking that I'm a cop. ;)
On my trip to NYC in September 2019, I got to hail and ride in Crown Vic taxi 8C98. Having wanted to just see one my whole life, I couldn't believe it when I saw it pull up. Truly a dream come true having experienced one of these! I believe that the last ever NYC Crown Vic taxi retires in May 2023, so not long left now guys!
What in the world? I thought they stopped using Taxi Crown Vics! Nice to see one still going! Just like police, they were legendary as those, too!
There are only 6 of them left
@@haechiwr How about now?
@@42luke93 probably 3 or 4, the taxi in this video is apparently already retired in New Jersey.
@@haechiwr Wait was this the one in regular cars then?
@42luke No that's 3E43, it was retired in early 2021. 1A21 retired somewhere in mid 2022
I have some pictures of this exact cab from my 10 years of working in NYC, surprised to still see it working.
Still drive one, fully active, for work. 2008, black P71. Love that car
Great video. I spotted this same car still in service on February 17th. Didn't get to ride in it unfortunately!
thanks!!!
Wow, I didn't know that Ford Crown Victorias were still in service as taxis in NYC, about 10 years since they stopped being built! They're basically one of the famous icons of NYC, and America as a whole! Although, the driver of this particular Vic stated that he thinks that there are only about 6 Crown Vics still in service, so unforunately I don't think they're going to stay on New York's streets any much longer, now that it's 2022. Hopefully, Ford will make the decision to bring this car back soon, so that the Vic can live once more again in the present day!
I remember there was nothing but these driving around. Gonna miss these
Yup. Now the only thing driving around are Nissans and Toyota Priuses.
What a beautfiul Crown Vic, I'm glad you were able to ride in one of these in 2021!
My friend, I almost forgot how it feels to be in a Crown Victoria. My dad used to drive one here in nyc in 2009 or 2010 I don’t remember but thank u so much for this video💯 and thank u for bringing me flashbacks💪🏽
“What a beautiful whale”lol. I agree, these panther cars are awesome: I have a 2009 Grand Marquis with 245,000 miles and she purrs like a kitten.
That was a great catch. So sad they're almost all gone. These were the best cars to drive as cabs. The only other one that looks as good is 6Y12, the undercover cop cab car. It's in the West Village all the time.
Dang that is so cool, quite an experience. I wish to visit NYC one day
Dang I love these LWBs. They are so unique
Too bad that I probably won't get a chance to ride in those that are still in service, if I ever go to the states.
Documenting history right there. Thanks for sharing!
Wow one of the last ones
Ford Crown Victoria will always be New York's car icon!
When I was a kid these were once commonplace in NYC now rarely if not all are in use
Just bought a LWB crown vic yesterday.... drove from philly to Manhattan for it
what medallion?
Post more crown Victoria videos please
will do!
Absolutely jealous I’ve tried to find one the last time I visited!!!!
Wow thats great!! I miss NYC!!
That's amazing. I have a cvpi but I also want to get a taxi variant as well
So awesome! I see some in upper east side.
Holy shit, I thought these were all gone years ago. I feel like I've seen "the last NYC Crown Vic taxi" for a few years now lol
Thats a Taxi Ride What i've searching for :)
Crown vic 4 life 💯
Wow that’s awesome, I am extremely lucky to own a genuine retired crown Vic NY taxi medallion number 1M93 here in the U.K. that retired in 2019. I’ve unfortunately never managed to go to NY but hopefully will later on this year.
Still 6 left....the driver says.
Doing gods work saving and videoing the old cabs. Greetings from Australia Look up for falcon AU taxi And/or Ford falcon BA taxi for the aussie version based on the aussie ford falcon ( they where inline 6 )
I drove in one back in late 2017... didn't wan't to get into a Prius or a Nissan NV so i really waited an hour to catch one. It unit C684 who drove me from Union Square park to Manhattan on a hot early october night.
I didn't drive in New York, but I drove the piss out of a bunch of p71 taxis. I miss those days 😀
Amazing that the interior looks as good as it does not sure if that's been redone or original
It's soo depressing that 200 or so new ones got destroyed in that flood way back when.
When did NYC get flooded?
@@miguelmontero6130 Hurricane Sandy
Very nice!
I miss those Vic's. Now all we have are the NV200's crapboxes and Toyota's. New York is just another city over run with Uber's.
Glad that you got your own in 2022. The Crown Jewels of inner city transportation. A limousine for welfare moms taking their kids to school or the doctor, and then picking up a high powered Wall Streeter mover and shaker finishing a billion dollar deal on the phone as he or she rides in the back to the office or club. Maybe a billionaire like Elon will buy the assembly line and start making these again with electric or hydrogen motors. And there's always the internal combustion old reliable engine to fall back on when 'green' doesn't cut it.
I don’t leave in New York but I’m very upset nowadays there is no ford crown Victoria in New York 2022
I liked that the driver knew that the other CV was an unmarked police car.
Niko Bellic might be in town
It's looks more new then before and they should upgrade the crown victoria and make more newer instead of scraping them.
Sad to see those babies go!...❤❤❤😒😒😒😔😔😔🚕🚕🚕🚖🚖🚖
didn't even know they made lwb vics, is this a taxi fleet version only, or there also is a civvie lwbs?
Taxi fleet only for nyc
In the Middle East is where those exist.
They did it for the Lincoln Town Cars too. Fleet vehicles only.
Nice
sad that these are a dying breed in NYC
Only 5 left? Lmao hundreds of thousands left. Good video good vibes love it. Love your enthusiasm for Crown vics
How can that CV still be in service in 2022? I thought there was a NYC law that stated a cab had to be retired from taxi service after the car turned 7 years old. That cab has to be at least 11 years old!
I've owned vix my entire life, the cage is insanely uncomfortable for passengers, the driver n psngr seats full up omg my bk
How many of these NYC Crown Vic's are preserved?
Shame some of them got destroyed by the flood in 2012/3.
Here are the data:
01/01/2017: 224
01/01/2021: 34
01/01/2022: 19
05/10/2023: 2
The one in the video was withdrawn from service 29th of june 2022.
I have some doubts about the car models you got in the U.S. I am from Argentina, and here the cars that look more or less like Crown Victoria were discontinued in the 90's or early 00's to be replaced for new models or new generations from the same model that looked more modern than the existing by the time. Those models are, in great part, pretty similar to the cars we got nowadays (Example: toyota corolla, the models from the 90's are so different from the ones we got today, but the ones from the early 00's are similar to the new ones). What is curious for me is that in many movies from the U.S you see people driving cars that look old (but I know that cars are not too expensive in U.S, so I guess that actually they aren't old). In adition, the other day I was exploring some locations from the U.S with Google Street View, and if I switched the year of the footages to 2007-2012, cars looked, in many cases, really old. If I see the footages from 2021, the majority of the cars change, are different in shape and design, and look similar to the ones we got here in Argentina since many years ago.
The question would be, am I right? Did you still produce cars with "old designs" in the recent years? What were the most popular models? And finally, are you replacing those models for new ones that look newer? Greetings!
What have they been replaced with?
Garbage
Japanese junk
But the engine mark on gauges this taxi need service ☹️
Sadly there are no more Crown Vics in NYC they should have continued production of this car just like Checker Taxi did until the 80's
There would be tens and hundreds still if it weren't for that stupid retirement rule.
Ford shot themselves in the foot when they discontinued a time proven work horse, same with the Econoline vans. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it!
I can clearly hear 4.6 v8