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It’s on the Meter - World Taxi Challenge was a round-the-world motoring expedition that broke the Guinness World Records for the longest ever journey by taxi and the highest altitude ever reached by taxi. The expedition’s three man team used a 1992 Fairway Driver London Black Cab to drive 43,319.5 miles (69,716.12 km) around the world. The expedition officially began at the London Transport Museum on 17 February 2011 and finished at the same point on 11 May 2012 having circumnavigated the globe. The team raised £20,000 for the British Red Cross; the nominal meter fee for the finished journey was £79,006.80. ==History== The expedition was conceived of in 2008 when the participants were travelling by taxi and wondered how high a taxi meter fee had ever been. The team researched the previous record which stood at 21,691 miles (34,908 km) and was set in 1994. The team then planned a new route from London to Sydney with an estimated distance of 32,000 miles, bought a taxi for £1500 on eBay and began securing sponsorship. The expedition departed from the London Transport Museum on 17 February 2011 with support from Boris Johnson〔 and Sir Ranulph Fiennes. The team broke the previous record in August 2011 in Tibet having travelled through 34 countries. The expedition arrived in Sydney, Australia, nine months after setting off from London having travelled through forty-one countries and three continents. Upon arrival in Sydney the team announced that they had secured a sponsorship partnership with Smartphone Taxi ordering-app company GetTaxi and would be extending the expedition back to London via the USA, Israel, Russia and Europe. The vehicle was shipped from Sydney to San Francisco over the Christmas of 2011 and the team continued the journey from California to New York before air-freighting the car to Israel in March 2012. The expedition then shipped from Israel to Greece before continuing back through Russia, Europe and Spain and finishing in London on 11 May 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's on the Meter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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