Caption Contest: NYC taxis turn 100, have midlife crisis
By Evan Blass 
posted April 6th 2007 12:17AM
posted April 6th 2007 12:17AM
Apparently the New York taxi cab, a staple for fare-based "horseless carriage" rides, turns 100 this year. To celebrate, the NY International Auto Show is holding the Taxi 07 Exhibit, a showcase of radical re-conceptions of what the yellow and checkers can look like and do. Take, for example, the Standard, a natural gas powered vehicle with extended range; or Antenna Design's interactive signage, which offers up destinations and ride-sharing availability; or, possibly our favorite, Rides Magazine's Crown Vic (above). CNET's got the full scoop, check it out. Or, you know, leave a funny caption. As always we won't pick a winner, but perhaps your Engadget-reading peers will raise you on their shoulders, raise you high enough to get in that pimped out cab you see above.
Peter: "I can't take you to JFK, but we could go cruising for a couple of hours"
Ryan: "See BigFoot, this is what happens when you get freaky with the taxi groupies after the monster truck rally."
Evan: "After 20 thankless years on the job, Joe finally got cut off one too many times and decided to take action."
Paul: "Look out pedestrians... oh wait, it's a taxi, you already do."
Peter: "I can't take you to JFK, but we could go cruising for a couple of hours"
Ryan: "See BigFoot, this is what happens when you get freaky with the taxi groupies after the monster truck rally."
Evan: "After 20 thankless years on the job, Joe finally got cut off one too many times and decided to take action."
Paul: "Look out pedestrians... oh wait, it's a taxi, you already do."
A week after removing Cheesequake O'Lennox from the front air dam, Aquim finally gave his cab the ground clearance to avoid hitting Hobos sleeping in the street.
50inch crome rims, $2000. lift kit, $500. the joy of running over pedestrians, priceless.
With the new "Pimp My Ride: Pimp It Yourself"© kit, why wait behind cars when you can just go over them?
They spinnin! They spinnin!
"Will it bend? That is the question."
$5 extra charge for disabled passengers
when snoop does community service, let just say he does it in style.
more cars
"Throw Some D's on that B****, just bought a yellow cab."
'catastrophe cab' - now ready for katrina II.
Jimmy Fallon is back in an all new Crappy movie. Taxi 2: Taxier!
Now I can go stuntin' with my ride while sitin' sideways.
AKBlade13
Finally! A cab that will actually stop for me!
"It was either these, or a flux capacitor...and I said forget 88 MPH, lets do 38...inches that is!! Doc Brown didn't laugh, not really...last I heard he got some dumb kid and a Delorean doing something weird in the old west. Anyways, were to lady?"
Compton's #1 taxi here at your service!
New gangs in New York are finding it harder and harder to find unique colors. Unfortunately for the Yellow Street Angels there was only one color for them to choose.
"Do my wheels look big in this?"
New York??? C'mon! That cab's from Atlanta!
"Please make sure your seat is in a laid back position, and secure all junk in the trunk."
@Sean:
BTW, Cheesequake is the best freaking name ever. I was originally going to name my drag queen baby "Chan-da-leer", but you've shown me the light.
Colin and Andrea's captions are the best so far.
This is what happens when a super agent from the agency in crackdown enters a cab...
1. Gives a new meaning to "air ride" capable.
2. When Jeffus came to the city he wanted to set himself apart from his fellow co-workers.
'We cater to a very particular clientele'.
'Hey, it's better then taking the subway'
'Call 999-999-hood when you need to roll'
'This is how we be ridin'
'Beau kicked yo ass out? Too many 40s? Too high to walk home? We got yo ass covered dog, we sittin' on 30s and this is how we roll'
Rolling on 22s with my 22
You think I am 22
I'll make you eat 22
'It's been long noted that even the police don't dare venture into
deep Queens Bridge neighborhoods, Big Yellow Cab, Company has set out
to change that reality.'
I'm surprised there isn't a trashy Asian/Myspace import model in this shot... Don't they just flock to a chance to pose in front of anything with a set of rims? And where is the NOS?
another tasteless example of rapper culture rubbing off on us
and how do people get in to this w/o a ladder
The first cab modified to deal with rising sea levels caused by gloable warming hits the streets of New York. The loading ramps, promised by the Mayor, have yet to materialize.
This is what happens when Mohammed starts listening to Snoop Dogg, and Ludacris!
Next up, Mohammed's gon' get his grill all "iced" up!
1. "In an official announcement, Snoop Dogg revealed the plans for his new 'Six-Fo Taxizzy Surr-vice'."
2. "Looking for alternative ways to repair the lift jacks on the Mack 5, Speed Racer went to downtown New York."
3. "So this is how the Knicks get around when the team bus breaks down?"
"If you like my taxi, wait until you see my school bus!"
"Budget cutbacks force local taxi drivers to take matters into their own hands to deal with large NYC potholes."
Ride Magazine Taxi: "Shaq tried to ghost this very tall whip. Unfortunately, the taxi refused to stop for a brotha."
Antennae Design: "Sure it can do availability lookups, but can it run Doom?"
"Are those real!"
"NY Senator Clinton proposes an inventive solution to the pothole problem."
Trying to teach out to a new demographic, New York Taxi Company sports their new 'Afro Cab', which lets their brothers ride in style. Every ride includes a bucket of KFC and some Kools.
" Super Wheels!, activate! "
NYC Taxi Driver and Paparazzi Photographer Split Windfall from Latest Britney Upskirt Pics Taken While She was Getting Out of this Cab
... and they still don't stop for black people.
In a surprise announcement, Michael Bay has announced that due to the bitching about the flames on Optimus Prime, the Bot will now transform from a New York taxicab. "No matter what I did with the semi, people were gonna be pissed so I said screw it and made him a cab."
and then prince Adam said: I HAVE THE POWER!!!