[Erwin]

In Denmark, you could buy a car for taxi use at a much lower tax rate than normal people, but after driving it with passengers for around 250,000km and 2 years you could sell it as a private vehicle. The calculation made the car extremely cheap (I've seen a calculation of deprecation of 20% over 2 years despite the heavy use ) -- so you might as well get a nice Mercedes.

The tax a private person has to pay to buy a car was 180% in 2015 so essentially a luxury car is nearly triple of what it might be in US, with a new S350 being $250k.

Thos taxi rules have changed recently however, so Mercedes may lose their 90% taxi market share.

[tixocloud]

I've always curious about why the taxi differences between North America and the rest of the world. When I was younger in Asia, we had these "luxury" taxis that were still very reasonably price. I was appalled that taxi rates in North America were so high and the cars were just terrible.

Thanks for your clarification!