LTI Fairway

The LTI Fairway was the late form of the London taxicab that began as the Austin FX4, built in Coventry by Carbodies, which traded from 1992 as London Taxis International, or LTI. It went into production in 1989 with a Nissan 2.7 litre diesel engine, coupled to a choice of a Nissan four-speed automatic or a five-speed manual gearbox, and it was the first FX4 to be wheelchair accessible, which the new rules for London cabs then required. A later variant, the Fairway Driver, added new front suspension and disc brakes at the front. The last Fairway left the production line on 1 October 1997 and was presented to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, carrying the registration R1 PFX. It was replaced by the TX1, which reused the Fairway Driver running gear under an entirely new body. The Fairway is the final chapter of a design that stayed in production for almost forty years.