What's the most LEVC car in the back catalogue?

Carbodies/LTI/London Taxi Company/LEVC – whatever on earth you call it, the firm’s taxis have risen like cream to the top, despite the best efforts of rival companies.

- SAM BURNETT

LEVC TX/2017-present

Indeed, the 1958 FX4 (designed by Austin in conjunction with Carbodies and London taxi dealership Mann & Overton) set the template for almost all London taxis to follow – its retro design and upright stance have invariably been aped in subsequent generations or by rival efforts to take a slice of a healthy market.

The rules for hackney carriages are famously strict – the 7.6-metre turning circle is one of the toughest, designed so that a cab can get round the notoriously tight entrance at the Savoy hotel. There was still a rule on the books as late as 1976 that black cabs had to carry a bale of hay in the boot to feed the horses, but things are a bit more sensible these days.