Shanghai taxis are very clean and many of them are locally made VWs called Santanas. There are old and new model Santanas. In the US the old model was called the VW Quantum. I haven’t seen the new model Santanas except in Shanghai. Here’s a privately owned VW Santana
DSC04499, originally uploaded by Clipper Monsoon.
In the upper right corner of the windshield, a small LCD monitor provided the latest news in Mandarin. Upon entering a taxi, a recording in a woman’s voice would welcome us aboard the taxi, in both English and Mandarin. Some of the taxis had a plexiglass shield around the driver. We could go almost anywhere in Shanghai for about $1.30.
DSC_0569, originally uploaded by Clipper Monsoon.
I shot the following video from a taxi in Shanghai. I’m not sure exactly where we were, but we were coming from a delicious home-cooked lunch in a western residential neighborhood of SH. All of the high-rise buildings in this area are apartments. I think apartment is sometimes interchangeable with condominium, denoting ownership. The taxi goes past a few low-rise shops and then turns right onto a main avenue. Shot on my last full day in 上海, 31 Dec 2006.
