Taxi Driver

To start the Taxi Driver missions, you'll need to acquire a taxi vehicle and press the D-Pad Up button. There are a few different vehicles which can be used for the Taxi Driver missions, but the most basic and easiest to acquire is the standard Taxi. You'll find them all over the place - stand still long enough and one will drive past sooner or later. You'll usually find a Cabbie parked outside of Mean Street Taxis in Trenton.

Vehicles you can use for the Taxi Driver missions include;

• Taxi
• Cabbie
• Borgnine

The objective of the Taxi Driver missions is to find a fare - a pedestrian with a blue arrow above their head, pull up next to them so they can get in, then drive them to their requested destination. During a fare, it's possible to receive a speed bonus if you can get the fare to their destination almost flat-out and without crashing, but this isn't required and doesn't take away from the repetition of completing 100 fares.

The Taxi Driver missions are similar to many of the other vehicle sub-missions in the sense that there is no levelling system in place. You simply need to complete 100 singular fares in total, whether that's 100 in a row, or 1 fare on 100 separate occasions. Completing groups of 5 fares in a row will increase cash bonuses and will also allow you to build up your total time, making later fares easier as you'll have extra time to play with, but you can take the missions as strictly as you want to.

Completing 100 fares will be time consuming, repetitive and very grindy. It'll probably take at least an hour to two hours, but you will receive a lot of cash for your efforts. Although the cash bonus for delivering 100 in a row is great, you really don't want to risk your game crashing and needing to do all of your fares over again! I personally go to save the game after every 50 fares but you could definitely do it sooner.

Check out our Taxi Driver Locations guide to see all of the possible drop off points in GTA 3.

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Taxi Driver Locations

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Time Limits & Rules

The time will constantly count down, so you need to be reasonably quick at getting the passenger to their destination. Each sucessful drop off will give a time boost, which is based on the distance to the next destination.

If you're looking to complete all 100 fares in a row, you'll likely need to head to the Pay 'n' Spray to get your car fixed a few times as passengers will refuse to get in, or even flee in terror once it starts smoking pretty badly.

You don't have to collect the fare which the game assigns you - occasionally pedestrians will spawn behind barriers that you can't get to - simply drive away and the game will spawn another passenger.

You'll also fail the mission if you are Wasted, Busted or you run out of time.

Tips

The Taxi Driver missions are quite relaxing, albeit time consuming and repetitive. The time limit is often more than enough and the Taxi has decent handling and speed. Once your car starts to get damaged, take it to the Pay 'n' Spray to repair it so you can keep your streak going. Ultimately the only point in delivering passengers in a row is for more cash bonuses and cash isn't particularly useful in the game anyway so I personally wouldn't worry about it.

Rewards

• After completing 100 fares in total, a new unique maroon Taxi called the Borgnine will be unlocked and spawn outside Borgnine Taxis, right next to the Head Radio building in Harwood.
• Cash bonuses will increase with every 5 consecutive fares.

The Taxi Driver missions are a requirement towards 100% completion.

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