Originally Posted by
grahamb
Apparently other taxi firms are trading off the fact that foreigners generally like Bluebird taxis and are designing their logos to look like the Bluebird logo. I was surprised to see that there are quite a few 'regular' taxi firms that are all part of the Bluebird group but don't go under the Bluebird (or xxxbird) name. Unfortunately I can't remember what name they do go under so I still just look for the Bluebird logo!
This is due to the fact that there's some idiotic law restricting how many taxis a single company can have, so Blue Bird is split up into a whole bunch of pseudo-companies that differ in name only.
Anyway, there's only two logos you really need to recognize: one is the original Blue Bird logo, and the other is the "Flying Egg" (kinda like the old AT&T logo). Most, but not all, of the Flying Eggs are called "Pusaka Something", eg.
Pusaka Biru, which is Indonesian for -- you guessed it! -- "Blue Bird".
Here's Blue Bird's own handy reference chart, complete with pictures:
http://www.bluebirdgroup.com/taxis_in_jakarta.html
For the longest time now I've wanted to start a project to catalogue all the fake Blue Birds out there, their sheer number and variety is really amazing.