Taxi

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The Taxi is a traffic car seen in multiple Need for Speed installments.

Differences

• The Chevrolet Caprice in Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit appears as a taxi cab. There are some visual differences between the PC and PlayStation releases.
• The Taxi Cab in the PlayStation release of Need for Speed: High Stakes was reimported from the PlayStation release of Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit. It is only seen in Route Adonf.
• In the EA Canada release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, the Taxi can be seen in either a grey, blue, green or a traditional yellow colour scheme. The car is depicted to be based on the Sedan.
• The Taxi in the Underground series shares the same body with the 2000 to 2005 Chevrolet Impala based sedan. Underground 2 also features a second taxi model, which is based on the Audi A4 (B5).
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Need for Speed: Carbon, and Need for Speed: World feature the Taxi as a mimicry of the 1998 to 2005 Lexus IS.
• The Taxi in Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 and Need for Speed Carbon: Own the City looks similar to the 1992 to 1997 Ford Crown Victoria.
• Overall, two variants of the taxi cab are featured in Need for Speed: Undercover. The PlayStation Portable release of the game feature a model based on the 1991 to 1996 Chevrolet Caprice. The second variant, which is based on the Taxi, featured in Burnout Paradise, appears in the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 releases. The same model is featured in PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii releases, but with less geometry detail.
• The Ford Crown Victoria appears as a New York City Taxi Cab in Need for Speed: The Run.
• The Dodge Grand Caravan appears as a Fairhaven City Taxi Cab in Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012).

Trivia

• The Taxi in Need for Speed: Most Wanted can be driven by the player in a tollbooth race in Challenge Series event #47.
• A driveable variant of the taxi cab in Need for Speed: The Run can be unlocked as a rare bonus wheel reward. It is known in the game as "Super Taxi" Signature Edition. The Dodge Charger SRT-8 is also a "Super Taxi" variant and is also unlockable through the bonus wheel.
• A white unused taxi variant of the Dodge Charger SRT-8 can be found in the files of Need for Speed: The Run.
• In Need for Speed: World, the side of every taxi says "NFS TAXI SERVICE".
• The Taxi in Most Wanted (2012) has a writing that says "Who You Gonna Call?" below the large "TAXI" writing on the roof sign, side and bonnet. This is a reference to the famous Ghostbusters catchphrase.

Gallery

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit
(PlayStation)

Need for Speed: High Stakes
(PlayStation)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
(EA Canada - Blue)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
(EA Canada - Grey)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
(EA Canada - Yellow)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
(PlayStataion 2 - Variant #1)

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
(PlayStataion 2 - Variant #2)

Need for Speed: Underground

Need for Speed: Underground 2
(Variant #1)

Need for Speed: Underground 2
(Variant #2)

Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0

Need for Speed: Carbon

Need for Speed: Undercover
(Wii)

Need for Speed: Undercover
(PlayStation Portable)

Need for Speed: Undercover

Need for Speed: World

Need for Speed: The Run
(Ford Crown Victoria)

Need for Speed: The Run
(Dodge Charger SRT8)

Need for Speed: The Run
(Unused Dodge Charger SRT8)

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)