With victories over England, albeit by slim margins, en-route to winning the World Cup in February and the Twenty20 crown last October, it is the visitors who will perhaps start as marginal favourites.
The new test has been slimmed to 320 routes but Peter Hendy, who is responsible for regulating London's cabs, denies this represents a dumbing-down.
Testing the new Sant Antoni route, I found slim pickings in the vegetable-only realm.
Still, Mayor José Torres held out the slim hope for taking that expensive route in the future, with federal financing, likening it to the maintenance of interstate highways.
En route, he meets Soulja Slim and King George, Choppa and Big Slack, their lives as extraordinary in their resourcefulness as their adopted names suggest.
Delta Air Lines is among the latest to announce plans to use the slim Boeing 757 on trans-Atlantic routes serving destinations like Britain and Ireland.
The latest version of the company's Spark line (number 3) is slimmer than its predecessor, while adding route tracking the mix courtesy of on-board GPS.
Unlike earlier departure routes that fanned outward and headed east, then north, its path looks as slim as a feather.
For anyone living along the pipeline's route, they say, economic benefits are slim because it's Canadian oil and will be sold on the international market.
If you go down the route of thinking, now they've got a slim majority in parliament it means they face no opposition, that's a very dangerous situation.
