<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/95cfae73-369f-4d4c-944a-ccbdab7ba5eb/4CF8A99F-52D2-45CD-B7F9-883C7F7B4AF2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean" href="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean" style="font-size: 11px;">jalopnik.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean"><P><IMG height="349" hspace="0" src="http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/03/Ford_Transit_Taxi_Live.jpg" width="503" vspace="0" />Remember those grainy pictures of the <A href="http://jalopnik.com/369343/ford-transit-connect-spied-in-different-duds">NYC Ford Transit Connect Taxi</A>? We can do you one better with live, colorful and shiny (thanks cleaning crew) shots of this latest iteration of the <A href="http://jalopnik.com/353468/chicago-auto-show-2009-ford-transit-connect-variants-take-bow">2009 Ford Transit Connect</A>. We think this is a smart move for Ford, as we think taxi service is more lucrative than <A href="http://jalopnik.com/353306/chicago-auto-show-2009-ford-transit-connect-early-peek">guitar delivery service</A>. Is this Ford's ultimate replacement for the aging Crown Victoria? Press release and more pics below the jump.<BR /><BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/jalopnik.com/img/918DB7E1-C20C-4E76-A063-2F586ECE90FC" alt="Ford Transit Connect Taxi" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean">The Transit Connect Taxi concept offers a new perspective on how to move people and their gear through congested city streets - more cleanly, efficiently and with new technology that could revolutionize the taxi industry.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean"><P>Most noticeable up top is a futuristic interpretation of the yellow "taxi bubble." The space-age looking flat-panel unit, mounted horizontally above the Taxi concept's roof, is lit on all four sides - green if the cab is available, orange if it's occupied.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean">The concept's standard high-roof</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jalopnik.com/369570/ford-transit-connect-taxi-live-yellow-and-clean">provides views of the urban architecture.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4CF8A99F-52D2-45CD-B7F9-883C7F7B4AF2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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