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Whether it's your first journey of the day or the last, you can always rely on TX. A quiet, familiar and trusted fixture on city streets.
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Every city has its own character, its own rhythm and its own way of moving.
For generations, the iconic black cab and its drivers have been part of that story, connecting people with places and helping cities thrive.
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Over the years, the iconic black cab has evolved in many ways. Yet, its unmistakable design language has always remained.
Whether it's the Fairway, introduced in 1989, or today's modern TX, there's no mistaking a purpose-built black cab.
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Keeping London’s iconic black cabs cleaner & on the road 🥳
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The UK is in full-on heatwave mode. It’s hot, humid and the sun cream is flowing.
Thankfully our iconic TX taxi came prepared and was tested in the depths of the Arizona Desert before its launch in 2018. 🌵☀️
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To get a license to drive a black cab in London, you have to memorize 25,000 streets, 20,000 landmarks, and the fastest route between any two points in a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. It takes most people three to four years.
A British neuroscientist asked the obvious question nobody had thought to ask. What does that actually do to a human brain?
Her name was Eleanor Maguire. The study changed neuroscience forever.
The exam is called The Knowledge. It was introduced in 1865, and the format has barely changed since.
Applicants ride a moped around London for years with a clipboard strapped to the handlebars, tracing every possible route between every possible pair of points in the city.
They get tested in person by an examiner who can ask them, on the spot, for the shortest legal route between any two addresses in a database of tens of thousands. Half the people who attempt it fail.
The ones who pass have spent an average of four years studying full time and have taken the test 12 times before getting through.
Maguire was watching a TV movie about it in 1995 when she had the idea. These were not ordinary people. They were people running one of the most extreme spatial memory training programs that exists anywhere on Earth.
If the human brain could be reshaped by experience, this was the cleanest natural experiment anyone was ever going to find.
She put 16 of them in an MRI machine.
Their posterior hippocampi were significantly larger than the brains of matched controls. The longer a driver had been working, the bigger the difference got.
A 40-year veteran had a measurably more developed hippocampus than a 5-year veteran, and both had more than someone who had never driven a cab.
Here is why that finding broke a century of consensus.
Until 2000, every neuroscience textbook in the world taught a version of the same idea. The adult brain is essentially fixed. You are born with a set number of neurons. Childhood is the window where the wiring gets laid down. After puberty, the structure freezes, and the rest of your life is just slow decline.
Maguire's study was one of the first pieces of human evidence that this was simply wrong. Adult brains physically remodel themselves in response to what you ask them to do. Not metaphorically. Structurally. With grey matter you can measure on a scan.
The skeptics had an obvious objection. Maybe people with bigger hippocampi were just more likely to become taxi drivers in the first place. The brains were not changing. The job was selecting for brains that already looked that way.
So Maguire ran the experiment again. Properly this time.
She recruited 79 trainees who were just starting to study for The Knowledge and 31 controls who were not. She scanned all of them at the start. Then she waited four years. Of the 79 trainees, 39 eventually passed the exam and 20 failed. She scanned them again.
The trainees who passed had grown larger posterior hippocampi over those four years. The trainees who failed had not. The controls who never studied had not. The brain change was not selection. It was construction.
The act of memorizing the city had physically rebuilt the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory, and the rebuild only happened in the people who actually did the work.
There is a quieter finding from this research that almost nobody quotes, and it is the one I cannot stop thinking about.
The drivers had a bigger posterior hippocampus, but they had a smaller anterior hippocampus. The brain had not magically expanded. It had reallocated. Tissue that was being used for one type of memory had been compressed to make room for another.
When Maguire ran follow-up cognitive tests, the cabbies were measurably worse than controls at certain visual memory tasks unrelated to navigation. They had paid for The Knowledge with something else. The trade was real.
She also ran a second control experiment that is the part of the story most people never hear. She scanned London bus drivers. Same hours behind the wheel. Same city. Same traffic. Same stress. The only difference was that bus drivers follow fixed routes. They do not have to navigate. Their hippocampi looked completely normal.
The cab drivers had not grown bigger hippocampi from driving. They had grown them from the constant, active, effortful retrieval of spatial information from memory.
That distinction is the entire study.
Then in 2020, McGill researchers ran the inverse experiment. They tracked 50 regular drivers and measured how often they used GPS. The participants who relied most heavily on turn-by-turn navigation had measurably weaker spatial memory. When the researchers retested a subset of them three years later, the heavier GPS users had declined fastest.
The hippocampus, the same region the cabbies had built up by ignoring shortcuts, was being slowly hollowed out in everyone else by accepting them.
The mechanism Maguire spent 25 years documenting works in both directions. Brains grow what you make them grow. They lose what you stop asking them to do.
The taxi drivers were running the most intense spatial memory training program on Earth. Most of the rest of us are running the opposite program without realizing it.
Maguire died in early 2025. UCL's tribute described the cabbie study as a stroke of creative genius. She had spent her entire career on a single question. What does it physically take to remember something, and what changes inside a person who remembers a lot of it.
The answer is the part that should change how you live.

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Here’s a throwback to a circa-2000 cab rank, packed with some familiar faces from the past. 🚖
Today’s TX is built on decades of history and heritage, taking inspiration from some of our earliest models. But can you name the cabs pictured here? Over to you 👇
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From its signature coach doors to its unmistakable silhouette, every detail of the TX is designed with purpose to deliver comfort, style and effortless practicality in every journey.
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These drivers could now be working in London for Bolt or Datacars, yet @TfLTPH have zero responsibility. Is it now time for cross-border to be looked at very seriously. Especially so in light of the “grooming gangs” scandal and the “county lines” gangs?

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