Taxi Drivers Must Die!

Bula Matari - Taxi Drivers
(Head Radio/King 130.7 radio track)

Type	MISSION
Taxi Drivers Must Die!
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto 2
For	Elmo (Loonies)
Location	Sunnyside, Downtown District, Anywhere City
Target	Taxis and Taxi Drivers
Requirements	Maximum Respect for the Loonies
Mission Objectives
Steal the Taxi. Kill the Taxi driver. Take the Taxi to the South Docks Car Crusher and get it crushed. Get out of the Taxi. Steal another Taxi. Kill the Taxi drivers. Take the Taxi to the South Docks Car Crusher and get it crushed. Get out of the Taxi. Steal one last Taxi. Kill the Taxi drivers. Take the Taxi to the South Docks Car Crusher and get it crushed. Get out of the Taxi.
Conditions of Mission Failure
Wasted Busted Taxi is destroyed in a different way Taxi Drivers escapes
Rewards
Rewards	$60,000 +1 Score Multiplier Loonies Respect
Unlock Requirements
Unlocks	Gang War A-Go-Go!
Technical Information
Time of day	In-game time

“Hey, Jumbo, it's Elmo. The Taxis in this city won't give me a ride. I have chosen three of them for special attention. Go get the first Taxi.”

— Elmo

Taxi Drivers Must Die! is a mission in Grand Theft Auto 2 available during Area 1: Downtown, given to the protagonist Claude Speed by the Loony boss Elmo. The mission is available from the red phone in the neighborhood of Sunnyside in Downtown District.

Maximum Respect for the Loonies is required in order to unlock this mission, indicated by the red light icon below the gang's respect-o-meter on the HUD.

Description

Elmo is angry at the Taxi Drivers around town because they won't give him any rides. He asks Claude to destroy some to show them his point of view. Claude jacks them all and crushes them at the South Docks, killing the drivers as well.

Reward

The reward for completing the mission is $60,000, +1 Score Multiplier, and increased Loonies Respect level.

Gallery

Walkthrough

Answering the phone, Claude Speed is told by Elmo that the Taxi Drivers around town refuse to give him any rides, so he has chosen three of them to be disciplined.

Looking for the first Taxi.

Locating it.

Stealing the Taxi.

Elmo tells Claude to kill the Taxi Driver.

Killing the Taxi Driver.

Elmo tells Claude to take the Taxi Driver to the South Docks car crusher in Flotsam.

Driving to Flotsam.

Arriving at the docks.

Delivering the Taxi to the crane.

The crane drops it into the car crusher and destroys it. Elmo tells Claude to steal a second Taxi.

Looking for the Taxi.

Locating it.

Stealing the Taxi.

Elmo tells Claude to kill the two Taxi Drivers.

Killing them.

Driving to the South Docks.

Delivering the Taxi to the crane.

Crushing the Taxi. Elmo tells him the Taxis are finally giving him free rides, but asks him to crush another Taxi just for fun.

Locating the last Taxi.

Stealing the Taxi.

A whole gang of armed Taxi Drivers emerges from the Taxi and Elmo tells Claude to kill them.

Killing the Taxi Drivers.

Getting back in the Taxi.

Driving to South Docks.

Delivering it to the crane.

The Taxi is crushed.

Job Complete!

Video Walkthroughs

PC Version

PlayStation Version

Trivia

• The mission is named after the chorus of the song "Taxi Drivers" by Bula Matari, featured on Head Radio and King 130.7 in GTA 2.
  • In the original PlayStation release specifically, any profanities in the song lyrics are comedically 'bleeped' (censored) using vehicle horn sound effects. This censorship was removed in subsequent releases of GTA 2 on other platforms.
• The Taxi Drivers share their appearance with members of the Yakuza, though they are not Yakuza gang members; as killing them won't cause Yakuza respect to drop.

Related Media

Taxi Drivers by Bula Matari (PlayStation censored version)

Navigation

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