NISSAN: Chosen to supply New York’s next fleet of yellow taxi cabs, beating out two other finalists Ford Motor and Karsan Otomotiv Sanayi & Ticaret. City officials value the deal at $1 billion over 10 years.

They look quite a bit different too:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...i-of-tomorrow/

I saw some Nissan Altima taxis when I was there last in Dec/Jan.

nice... congrats to Nissan