The “British taxi” pt cruiser

Found this browsing marketplace in a town a few hours away and damn that’s a face not even mother could love. I was curious as to why and who would take an already ugly car and make it uglier so I looked it up and read short article and apparently it’s from the early 2000s from a failed start up that wanted to import the London taxis for delivery duties but LTI the company didn’t think it would be financially a good decision and went to a shop that does customization and came up with this specimen as a work around. The classic we have the London taxi at home kind of scenario. It is a 1 of 20 tho so in a sense I guess it’s rare although rare doesn’t mean cool or valuable but it’s only 3k, it’s honestly so ugly it’s almost cool someone should buy it and slap the kit on the tjrbo model or engine swap it lol.