Unfortunately, your requirements just aren't compatible with each other.

You want a 'luxury' brand - and by the way that you throw out Toyota and Skoda, I'm assuming you want BMW, Audi, Merc or the like.

But you also want it to have depreciated a lot, you want parts to be cheap, you want cheap insurance ... all things that you will NOT get with a luxury brand !

And then there's the service interval. Virtually every single professional owner-operator will tell you that you want plentiful and regular servicing to keep a car going for a long time. You, on the other hand want long service intervals. But you also want a car that can do hundreds of thousands of miles !

What you really want is probably a Skoda Octavia/Superb, with the 1.4 TSi engine and a manual gearbox. Get the oil changed every 10k miles at most.

Yes, it's not got the cachet of an Audi. But it'll cost you half the price to buy, will be just as reliable, parts and servicing will be half the cost ...

Best I can think of is some sort of Lexus hybrid but let me know if you find something that matches your list perfectly as I'll take 2 for personal use.

"Anything I missed from list above?"

No - just one point too many. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of taxi drivers have Toyotas and Skodas and run them successfully. Do you really think that you'll get more business by having a Lexus? - a brand which the majority of your customers won't have heard of.

I'm not saying that a Lexus would be unsuitable - just that you'll either have to pay more or accept an older car for the same budget than if you went for a Toyota or Lexus.

I suggest either a Skoda Superb 1.4 petrol (which ticks all your other boxes) or a Prius. The Superb isn't underpowered: two of our regular members have them and are very satisfied.

Edited by Avant on 22/07/2018 at 01:15

Assume you've checked your local authority's vehicle requirements for granting a taxi/private hire licence - some have quite strict and precise requirements?

"1.4 petrol engine underpowered for motorways for these big skoda cars?"

I don't find my 1.4 Superb underpowered on the motorway - it's still a 127mph car!

Some councils don't allow such a car as a taxi as they have an outdated minimum 1600cc rule

However the best car to run as a taxi is one with the Toyota hybrid drivetrain. Real life eonomy drving around town is great, they are very light on brake pads as most braking is regenerative and they can do starship mileges. However if you have decided Toyota is not luxury enough (why???) then the same hybrid drivetrain is fitted to Lexus cars.

Edited by Big John on 22/07/2018 at 11:14

I believe you are looking for a unicorn. PS. Do clients really care if your taxi is a Skoda, Toyota or Kia rather than something German that you either lose business or can somehow justify charging higher rates for its use if you did buy an Audio such and such? Seems to me that you're doing this for image purposes amongst your colleagues, friends and family rather than for hard-headed business reasons.

Buying an older luxury German barge will still cost a lot and will be far more expensive to run than the others mentioned which you can buy newer and cheaper and will likely be more reliable if you don't load it up with electronic gizmos that passengers will not ever use but you will have to pay for.

Between 3 and 8 yrs old.

Non diesel but hybrid diesel or plug in or petrol.

Luxury name. No Toyotas or Skoda.

Capable of doing 100000's of miles.

Lots of "stock kit".

Cheap insurance.

No mention of how much this thing might cost.

Shouldn't be too difficult then.