Borgnine Taxis

Borgnine Taxis is a taxi firm that appears in Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Advance and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

Description

The company is based in the Harwood district of Portland, close to the high rise flats of Hepburn Heights and the Head Radio Headquarters. The Borgnine taxi is unlocked at the company's base after dropping off 100 passengers in the Taxi Driver side mission in GTA III.

In Grand Theft Auto Advance, the Borgnine is unlocked at the Portland safehouse after dropping off 50 passengers.

Rivals

• Mean Street Taxis
• Sunnyside Taxis (c. 1992)

Gallery

Two Borgnines parked outside Borgnine Taxis in Grand Theft Auto III - The Definitive Edition (Note the new phone number '1-999-XIS' in this version)

Trivia

• Borgnine Taxis is a reference to the science fiction action movie Escape from New York. Late actor Ernest Borgnine drives a Checker taxi cab throughout a ruined and walled New York City.
• The building has a completely nonsensically placed garage door that is half a meter away from a concrete wall, most likely an oversight.
• On Claude's pager, the business' phone number is given as 555-BORGNINE but on the signage on their headquarters, it is 555-7383.
• In the Definitive Edition of GTA III, the phone number displayed on the sign has been changed to 1-999-XIS. This is possibly a result of the AI-upscaling that was used especially for this remaster.