Vice City Cabs is a taxi company based in Vice City in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The company is a big rival of Kaufman Cabs. The location of the taxi company is unknown but is said to be somewhere in Vice City. They are bigger than Kaufman Cabs, having more taxis.[1] They are minor antagonists in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
All of the Kaufman Cabs missions involve the Vice City Cabs. The drivers in the missions are usually depicted as wearing a blue shirt instead of the red one which they appear with on the streets.
Rivals[]
Prominent Appearances in Missions[]
- Cannon Fodder - Three Cubans arrive in a Taxi from Vice City Cabs to help Tommy and Rico attack the drug factory.
- V.I.P. - A driver from Vice City Cabs steals Tommy's important fare on Starfish Island, forcing Tommy to either damage the driver's taxi or kill him to get the passenger back.
- Friendly Rivalry - Tommy destroys three taxis from the company around Vice City mainland, to diminish the size of the rival fleet and also prevent the Kaufman Cabs from losing business.
- Cabmaggedon - Tommy responds to a taxi request purportedly from Mercedes at an empty lot by the docks at Viceport. At the pickup site, Tommy is ambushed by six taxis from Vice City Cabs, but either manages to evade their attacks or destroy them. After a while, the owner of the Vice City Cabs enters the compound with a Zebra Cab, whom Tommy kills by blowing up the Zebra Cab or facing his rival one-one-one. These events deal huge damage to Vice City Cabs.
Gallery[]
A VC Cabs taxi.
A VC Cabs worker.
Trivia[]
- The cab drivers that appear around the city wear a red shirt, while the cab drivers with blue shirts only appear in Kaufman Cabs missions and inside The Pole Position Club.
References[]
- ↑ Kaufman Cabs Driver: "VC Cabs keep beating us to it. They've got too many cars - we can't compete". (From the Friendly Rivalry mission).