LDD MOC: New York Taxi Cab

[Thetford]

So, aside from my bus of questionable scale and aerodynamic performance, I have also created a vintage New York yellow taxicab with seating capacity for four. The basic design is inspired by the Ford Anglia from 4728 Escape from Privet Drive, whose design and scale is the basis for which I design cars. The taxi is quite simple, with mostly common parts. The checkerboard pattern provides a break from the yellow, but it itself is broken up by the doors. I have seen people who create their own taxicabs use bricks and build it up as a wall instead of doors, but I prefer the functionality of opening doors, plus they allow for two minifigures to sit side by side. Anyway, I imagine if TLG did a taxi, they would just produce stickers to put on the doors. While the driver and any potential front seat passenger will be locked into place by the "gear stick", there is no such mechanism in the back seat, so if only one minifigure is riding the taxi, they will be sliding along the tile pieces side to side, I did consider using 1x2 jumper plates (which I had to use to get the minifigures to sit on tiles in LDD), but I think I will be fine with tiles for now.

[CityBuilder]

This is really good, I've always loved the old NYC taxi cabs.

[Yzalirk]

This looks awesome!

[Thetford]

And with just a recolour, add some lights and a fence to protect the officers, the taxi becomes a police car, all it is missing is a few decals, but it still looks like a squad car without it.

[lightningtiger]

AWESOME digital creations there 'Thetford'.......do you have the lxf file to share with us ?

Brick On LDD On 'Thetford' !

[slimani]

Fantastic

Could you share the lxf file?

[Thetford]

I hope I'm doing this right ...

Taxi Cab http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Thetford/Vehicles/taxi.lxf

Police Car http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Thetford/Vehicles/police.lxf

[slimani]

Thank you very much the lxf file!

[Colossus]

I love the width of your car designs. Being able to sit 2 minifigs side by side in a build seems like a no-brainer, yet Lego keeps producing cars, trucks, even semi tractor trailers (I'm looking at you, Ultra Agents Mobile HQ!) that fit only one minifig. Thank you for posting this build, and also for sharing the file! I may have to do some mods to make a station wagon for the collection. Now, I just gotta figure out a way to incorporate wood paneling.