Cabbie
The Cabbie is one of the two standard taxis featured in GTA III era games (See also: Taxi).
Overview
The Cabbie is generally slower and heavier than it's more modern cousin. The handling is no better as it's somewhat unstable under heavy cornering. These factors make the Cabbie a poor choice for the taxi sub-mission, where speed is critical.
There are minor cosmetic differences between the vehicles in each game.
- In Grand Theft Auto III, the Cabbie sports a checker pattern running in a line from the front to the rear of the car.
- In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the Cabbie looks slightly different. The front of the car is slightly more rounded, and the wheels are closer together and set noticably deeper inside the wheel wells. It's stripe also consists of forward arrows in place of the checker pattern seen in GTA III. The Cabbie is the most numerous taxi in Vice City. Vice City also features an operational taxi service, taking a formerly wasted or busted player to the last mission trigger.
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the Cabbie is back again, being virtually the same as the previous ones, but completely lacking any stripes or markings.
Trivia
- Completing the Kaufman Cabs asset in GTA Vice City unlocks the special Zebra Cab - a souped-up Cabbie.