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|games = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] |
|games = [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] |
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|name = Kaufman Cabs |
|name = Kaufman Cabs |
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|owner = [[Tommy Vercetti]] |
|owner = [[Tommy Vercetti]] |
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|tob = Taxi Firm |
|tob = Taxi Firm |
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| − | |location = [[Little Haiti]], [[Vice City |
+ | |location = [[Little Haiti]], [[Vice City (3D Universe)|Vice City]] |
| + | |caption = Kaufman Cabs Logo}} |
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| − | '''Kaufman Cabs''' is a taxi firm based in [[Little Haiti]], [[Vice City in |
+ | '''Kaufman Cabs''' is a [[taxi]] firm based in [[Little Haiti]], [[Vice City (3D Universe)|Vice City]], in [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]] and [[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories]], which is bought by [[Tommy Vercetti]] in [[1986]] for [[Money|$]]40,000. |
| − | The business operates a fleet of [[Kaufman Cab]] taxis, and employs long-serving employee [[Delores]] as a dispatcher and [[Ted]] as a taxi driver. Kaufman Cabs' main rivals are [[Vice City Cabs]], who are a bigger firm with more taxis. After completing the three missions for Kaufman Cabs, the asset will earn a maximum $5,000 between pick-ups. |
+ | The business operates a fleet of [[Kaufman Cab]] taxis, and employs long-serving employee [[Delores]] as a dispatcher and [[Ted]] as a taxi driver. Kaufman Cabs' main rivals are [[Vice City Cabs]], who are a bigger firm with more taxis. After completing the three missions for Kaufman Cabs, the asset will earn a maximum $5,000 between pick-ups. However in Vice City Stories Kaufman Cabs is closed and doesn't have a sign just like other assets in Vice City game. |
| − | The firm takes its name from actor [[wp:Andy Kaufman|Andy Kaufman]], who played a taxi mechanic in the [[wp:Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]] TV series. |
+ | The firm takes its name from the late actor [[wp:Andy Kaufman|Andy Kaufman]], who played a taxi mechanic in the [[wp:Taxi (TV series)|Taxi]] TV series. |
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| − | '''Delores''': Guess you're the new owner. What are you, mob? Cartel? You don't look Mexican... Anyhoo, I guess you better get on with the 'things are going to change around here' crap, maybe threaten one of the drivers, go steady on Ted over there, he's just had his hernia fixed. |
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| − | '''Tommy Vercetti''': Well, yeah. Things are going to change around here, lady. |
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| − | '''Delores''': Oh crap, sonny. Might as well leave this to me I've been doing this for years. (''Talks into microphone'') Now hear this. We are now under new management and things are going to change around here again. Our new management, the (''talking to Tommy'') Which gang are you? |
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| − | '''Tommy Vercetti''': Well, I'm not part of any gang actually. |
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| − | '''Delores''': What's your goddamned name kid? |
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| − | '''Tommy Vercetti''': Vercetti, Tommy Vercetti. |
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| − | '''Delores''': (''talking into the microphone'') Our new management, the [[Vercetti Gang]], is gonna make sure we get no trouble. Capiche? Out! (''Talking to Tommy'') Did you like the 'capiche'? I liked the 'capiche'. So this is how it's worked in the past, we run the firm as usual. If we get any trouble from rival firms, you beat the crap out of them. Then they beat the crap out of us, then you beat the crap out of them, etcetera, etcetera. You got it? |
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| − | '''Tommy Vercetti''': Uh, yeah, I guess... |
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| − | '''Delores''': Just grab a taxi from the garage if you feel like jumping in. |
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==Known Employees== |
==Known Employees== |
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==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
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| + | *Sometimes, when you drive a cab of Kaufman's, you can hear Delores on the dispatcher telling orders to Tommy (even though there is no marker nor a side mission). You can also hear her arguing with a cab driver, possibly Ted. |
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| + | * The song that can be heard playing in the background during the Kaufman Cabs purchase cutscene is "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy. The song is also featured on the in-game radio station [[V-Rock]]. |
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*There are arcade machines inside the firm like the [[Pogo the Monkey (game)|Pogo the Monkey game]] however, they are not playable. |
*There are arcade machines inside the firm like the [[Pogo the Monkey (game)|Pogo the Monkey game]] however, they are not playable. |
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| − | *There is a calendar inside the firm but the picture is a rival cab - the VC Cabs, which is unusual as the Kaufman Cabs taxis are Cabbies. The same calendar is on the refrigerator at Phil's mobile home. |
+ | *There is a calendar inside the firm but the picture is a rival cab - the VC Cabs, which is unusual as the Kaufman Cabs taxis are Cabbies. The same calendar is on the refrigerator at [[Phil's Place|Phil's mobile home]]. |
*Kaufman shares it's name with a character in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, which is another [[Rockstar Games]] title. |
*Kaufman shares it's name with a character in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, which is another [[Rockstar Games]] title. |
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| − | *The depot of Kaufman Cabs has the basic layout of the Sunshine Cab Company from the 1978 TV Series Taxi and one of the actors who appeared in the series was |
+ | *The depot of Kaufman Cabs has the basic layout of the Sunshine Cab Company from the 1978 TV Series Taxi and one of the actors who appeared in the series was named Andy Kaufman hence the name Kaufman Cabs. |
| + | [[File:Dmairrockstarlampmisplace.jpg|thumb|The misplaced Texture.]] |
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| + | *There is a texture which is misplaced on one of the lamps, instead the chains on it says [[DMAir Rockstar]]. |
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| + | *The name Kaufman is a play on the late [[wp:Andy Kaufman|Andy Kaufman]], the star of 70s US sitcom Taxi who passed away in 1984. |
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==Gallery== |
==Gallery== |
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KaufmanCabs-GTAVC-interior.jpg|The interior of Kaufman Cabs. |
KaufmanCabs-GTAVC-interior.jpg|The interior of Kaufman Cabs. |
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KaufmanCabs-GTAVC-logo2.png|Alternate logo of Kaufman Cabs. |
KaufmanCabs-GTAVC-logo2.png|Alternate logo of Kaufman Cabs. |
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| − | KaufmanCabs-GTAVC-driver.jpg|A Kaufman Cabs worker. |
+ | KaufmanCabs-GTAVC-driver.jpg|A Kaufman Cabs worker, Ted. |
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| + | [[pl:Taksówki Kaufmana]] |
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[[Category:Assets in GTA Vice City]] |
[[Category:Assets in GTA Vice City]] |
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[[Category:Businesses in GTA Vice City]] |
[[Category:Businesses in GTA Vice City]] |
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[[Category:Criminal Businesses]] |
[[Category:Criminal Businesses]] |
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Revision as of 22:11, 16 July 2015
Template:Infobox places
Kaufman Cabs is a taxi firm based in Little Haiti, Vice City, in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, which is bought by Tommy Vercetti in 1986 for $40,000.
The business operates a fleet of Kaufman Cab taxis, and employs long-serving employee Delores as a dispatcher and Ted as a taxi driver. Kaufman Cabs' main rivals are Vice City Cabs, who are a bigger firm with more taxis. After completing the three missions for Kaufman Cabs, the asset will earn a maximum $5,000 between pick-ups. However in Vice City Stories Kaufman Cabs is closed and doesn't have a sign just like other assets in Vice City game.
The firm takes its name from the late actor Andy Kaufman, who played a taxi mechanic in the Taxi TV series.
Known Employees
- Tommy Vercetti - current owner
- Delores - former owner, dispatcher
- Ted - cab driver
Rivals
Asset missions
Trivia
- Sometimes, when you drive a cab of Kaufman's, you can hear Delores on the dispatcher telling orders to Tommy (even though there is no marker nor a side mission). You can also hear her arguing with a cab driver, possibly Ted.
- The song that can be heard playing in the background during the Kaufman Cabs purchase cutscene is "Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy. The song is also featured on the in-game radio station V-Rock.
- There are arcade machines inside the firm like the Pogo the Monkey game however, they are not playable.
- There is a calendar inside the firm but the picture is a rival cab - the VC Cabs, which is unusual as the Kaufman Cabs taxis are Cabbies. The same calendar is on the refrigerator at Phil's mobile home.
- Kaufman shares it's name with a character in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, which is another Rockstar Games title.
- The depot of Kaufman Cabs has the basic layout of the Sunshine Cab Company from the 1978 TV Series Taxi and one of the actors who appeared in the series was named Andy Kaufman hence the name Kaufman Cabs.
The misplaced Texture.
- There is a texture which is misplaced on one of the lamps, instead the chains on it says DMAir Rockstar.
- The name Kaufman is a play on the late Andy Kaufman, the star of 70s US sitcom Taxi who passed away in 1984.
