 New York's first taxis were imported from France in 1907, and taxis were famously used for troop transportation during the First Battle of the Marne.Within last two decades a big part of taxis in France were Peugeot cars among them we can find the mythic Peugeot 406 used in ""Taxi"" the French action-comedy film.An important event in the history of the taxi was the invention of the taximeter by Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn, a German engineer, in 1891.