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NEW YORK-it looks like something that would see not inching through times square on a suburban cul-de-sac.

A boxy van, the Nissan be made the next iconic yellow cab in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday.

The model, selected from the three finalists in a city competition, is designed so that it could finally be updated with an electrical engine. The city examines whole fleet of more than 13,000 taxis to replace the way of the city ultimately with vehicles with electricity.

Bloomberg admitted at a press conference hall, the van - provides extra passenger legroom and trunk space for luggage of four persons - could make some think of suburbia, but he said the distinctive yellow livery will make it New York icons.

The minivan has an overhead panoramic Windows, which tourists a view of the city skyscrapers and onboard outlets and charging stations, with the professionals give, can handle the cabins as mobile offices. With facilities city taxi and limousine Commissioner David Yassky said he believed that the vehicles so beloved as Checker cabs of yesterday could be.

"Not a week goes by when someone tell me, ' why you can back bring the checker not?'", he said. "The cars that are on the road today only have created loyalty not the same kind of affection and passenger."

The anchor of the city current fleet of more than 13,200 taxis is the Ford Crown Victoria, which was set recently.

The Nissan van, the proposals made by Ford Motor Company and Turkey Karsan beat, is in from 2013 as taxis age be phased out of service. All current taxis, including the city hybrid cabs, are from the road up to the year 2018.

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Although the city was not legally allowed to make his decision, vehicles would Nissan double efficiency to 25 miles per gallon of the Crown Victoria's 12 to 13 miles per gallon, based on fuel efficiency, the mayor said. The Nissan was the most fuel efficient and the cheapest of the three finalists, and is expected to be about $29,000 costs - with expected $1 billion in total sales.

The new models are the first city taxi passenger airbags offer and go crash tests with equipment such as driver's partition be already installed. Doors are open sideways, push eliminates the possibility of opening a door in an oncoming cyclist or car.

And passengers no longer have it, won't know to deal with drivers who say how you to remote targets, because each car with a GPS system are equipped, the mayor said.

Some local officials said they were dissatisfied with the final selection and questioned, why the Karsan model chosen was not, after the automaker committed to build the cars in Brooklyn. Bloomberg, said that first approval for an automotive plant in the city and building such a place in the two years that is not feasible, and he said that Karsan have not enough U.S. experience, to meet the city that it could follow through on his plans.

Ford had its vehicles overseas, build, while Nissan plans to put finishing touches by a New York City and then build environment in Mexico planned. Sold about 70 percent of Nissan vehicles in the United States be made in the United States, according to the automaker.

Picking the Karsan model taxis would have wheelchair accessible city and advocate for people with disabilities protested before the City Hall on Tuesday. Bloomberg said that a new program allows riders in wheelchairs for properly equipped taxis call, and decide taxi owners can, to extra a disabled version of the Nissan vehicle purchase to pay.

City public advocate Bill de Blasio demanded an investigation of the selection procedure to say that a consultant employed by the city to help automakers proposals evaluate previously for Nissan and Ford had worked. The Mayor denied any conflict of interest there was.

A Ford spokesman said that the company would continue to work with New York. Karsan said that it would work to bring their proposal to other cities.

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