Kiev or bust

What is the furthest you have driven your cab? Or the strangest taxi journey you have ever undertaken? Well LTI think they can beat any story you might have to tell with one of their own.

How about a 650 mile taxi journey from Warsaw to Kiev!

That’s what two employees of The London Taxi Company the international brand for LTI, are going to do to make sure a London Taxi gets to Kiev in time for an important launch event.

“We are launching The London Taxi Service in Kiev and there is a high profile launch at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the 12th May. We obviously need to make sure the star of the show was there and getting it transported was proving very difficult,” said Matthew Cheyne, International Market Development Director for The London Taxi Company. “Then we thought about the demonstrator we had in Poland and thought why not drive it to Kiev.”

And that’s what they are doing.

Matthew is being partnered by Nigel Walters, Overseas Operations Coordinator on the trip and they are setting off on Tuesday 27th and hope to be in Kiev by late Wednesday 28th April.

“Nigel and I were happy to accept the challenge and we know the taxi will cope just fine with different road conditions and weather. We will be keeping a blog along the way so people can follow what we are doing. In fact if it creates enough interest we might do it again, or even travel further next time after all we want to sell the taxi all over the world, this could just be another way of getting there!”

The London Taxi Company is holding a series of events in Eastern Europe to launch The London Taxi Service. Prague will host an event on the 5th May before other countries announce events.

To find out more about The London Taxi Service visit londontaxis.co.uk or follow Matthew ‘s and Nigel’s trip on thelondontaxicompany.blogspot.com/