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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Japan's Nissan Motor Co Ltd won New York City's 10-year lessen to physique the next generation of taxis for the city, a care estimated to be worth more than $1 billion, the New York Daily News reportable on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.

Mayor archangel Bloomberg and the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission were cod to announce the succeeder after on Tuesday.

The other two finalists for the concession were Turkish manufacturer Karsan Otomotiv and U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co.

The "Taxi of Tomorrow" would change the 16 models today authorized. The 10-year lessen is expected to begin in 2013.

Nissan's bid was based on its NY200 minivan, the Daily News reported.

Karsan's bid had gained attending because of its organisation for a straight roof for meliorate sight-seeing and a act that would make it wheelchair accessible off the factory floor.

Karsan also hoped to gain souvenir with municipality officials by promising to join the cars in Brooklyn, vowing to use organization labor. The being would hit scarred a return of auto-making to the municipality for first instance in most a century.

(Reporting by justice Trotta; editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Maureen Bavdek)

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