Gus Kodogiannis, 62, looks at a few cars from his fleet of 350 yellow taxis.

He owns the McGuinness Mgmt. Corp. today, but when he first arrived in the U.S. from Greece in 1969, he got a job driving a cab part-time and working as a grocery store butcher.

Asked about the “Taxi of Tomorrow” designs, he said, “You call that a cab?”