It was fabricated in Italy, and it is so exquisitely detailed that you can't see any moving metal parts in the elevator cab, only sliding surfaces of glass.
Yellow cabs slide and screech on slickened roads.
We hailed a cab, and I slid inside.
Nissan estimates that the cab's rear sliding doors will be slammed shut 300,000 times during the vehicle's street duty.
I rewarded the driver with a great tip, but then, fidgeting with the clunky sliding cab door, I was reminded that nothing escapes Bloomberg's influence.
Doors that swing open can hurt bicyclists, so now, once again inconveniencing the many to appease the few, we have sliding cab doors.
Members of the Chevy Avalanche Fan Club of North America prize the Avalanche, a large sport utility vehicle, for its versatility, including a rear cab wall that slides forward for a larger pickup bed or backward for more passenger room.
The cab car coupler slides back 23 inches, absorbing much of the crash impact.
Once, I could not drag my right leg into a cab before the sliding door closed on it, and a nice young woman, waiting for a bus, walked into the street to hold the door open until my leg was safely inside.
"There's no room, absolutely no room," said Larry McCoy, 76, as a woman slid out of a cab, knees at her chest, with a walking boot on one foot.
