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GTA IV shipped with 127 vehicles, GTA V with 347. A bigger number in the new game would surprise nobody, so the interesting question is what Rockstar did to each individual car. In the official frames, vehicles have modeled interiors, brake discs that heat up, and dirt that builds up on the paint. In GTA V the interior was a texture painted on the glass, and a car stayed clean until you crashed it.
This is every vehicle Rockstar has shown officially: the frames, the names readable on the bodywork, and the real-world prototypes.
How to read this: model names come from badges in the official frames and from Rockstar’s own copy. The prototypes are matches made by press and community, not statements from the studio.
Wyman’s classic car collection
Six frames from the Ultimate Edition bonuses make up the most detailed car showcase of the whole campaign. In-fiction they are commissions for Wyman, the “eccentric collector and local fixer” who runs a salvage yard in Port Gellhorn.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
Wyman himself, in a Wyman’s World Auto Salvage Co. tank top, with a stars-and-stripes muscle car and a red number 36 racer behind him. Both get their own close-ups.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
Sirius. The name sits on the rear pillar. Turquoise paint with gold stripes, a rear wing, three-spoke caps on steel wheels and a chromed exhaust tip. The stance and roofline put it in late-sixties American coupe territory, AMC Javelin style. Look at the tyre sidewall: the tread pattern and lettering are legible even though the wheel is incidental to the shot.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
Riata. Same trick, badge on the fender. A body-on-frame off-roader with a canvas top and seventies sunset stripes, drawn from the first-generation Ford Bronco. This frame shows the dirt system best: mud sits in layers from the sill upward, clogs the tread and leaves clean streaks where it has been washed off.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
Racing coupe #36. An open-top racer with a white stripe, hood vents and a Buck Sniper decal on the fender. Through the windscreen you can see the spartan cabin: bare dashboard, thin-rimmed wheel, roll cage.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The pale green roadster. An R badge on the nose, a round headlight under a hooded rim, wire wheels with a centre-lock nut. The type is a sixties European sports car, a class the series has rarely touched.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
Deviant. Stars-and-stripes livery, badge on the rear pillar. The value of this frame is the cabin: through the glass you can make out a dashboard with four round gauges, a slim three-spoke wheel and a stitched leather seat. Exactly what earlier games never had.
The Ultimate Edition vehicles
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The 1995 Grotti Cheetah. Wedge profile, rectangular lights, louvers over the deck: the prototype is unmistakable, a Ferrari Testarossa, the car that defines eighties Miami. The frame doubles as a lighting demo — one lamp burns white, the other yellow, and each throws a different pool of light on the cobbles.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The 1967 Vapid Dominator buggy. A muscle car jacked up on off-road tyres: tubular bull bar, auxiliary lamps, a yellow stripe down the hood. One headlight is taped in a cross, exactly what real off-road racers do to stop glass scattering. Dust has settled on the paint and the bumper carries scratches.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The 1955 Vapid Stanier from the Vintage Vice City pack. The oldest car shown so far. The shot is taken through the windscreen: street neon smears across the glass while the cabin is lit entirely from outside. Jason drives, Lucia rides along with a sawn-off.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
A donk interior from Rideout Customs. Orange velour with gold piping, a colour-matched wheel and patterned floor mats. Real Southern donk builds look exactly like this, and it is the strongest argument for the depth of the tuning: the paint is not the only thing that changes.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
A Canis truck from One-Eyed Willie’s garage at Lake Leonida, a shop Rockstar describes as specialising in off-road work and hand-painted bodywork. The snake is airbrushed along the flank, with a Warning decal on the fender.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The Shitzu Squalo. A speedboat and a series veteran going back to the classic Vice City, here in an exclusive palm-pattern finish. Scuba gear on the stern hints at underwater activities.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The Vapid Ganado retro build. A Ranchero-style ute with stripes and a 434ci badge, engine displacement in cubic inches, a detail aimed squarely at people who care. Jason is at the wheel.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The Dinka Enduro. An off-road bike in the spirit of seventies Japanese enduros. The scuffs on the tank and seat are baked in: the machine looks lived-in before the player ever touches it.
Vehicles in the region frames
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
A donk on wheels the size of a Ferris wheel, the calling card of Southern ride-out culture. Bikers pull wheelies alongside, in the same frame where murals cover the overpass columns.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The Final Chapter MC on cruisers. The patches date the club to 1982, and half the bikes carry bodywork and ape hangers.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
A camo pickup drags a trailer through the swamp with a police SUV behind and a sheriff’s helicopter overhead. The pickup has already lost paint, and the water parts in a wake behind the wheels.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
A Lurepredator with Dinka and Nagasaki outboards, a Whirlwind tour boat, jet skis. The outboard brands are in-universe marques and legible right on the cowlings.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
The airboat, the Everglades’ swamp taxi. Caged propeller, flat hull, and three alligators gliding underneath.
Official Rockstar Games screenshot.
A Crest kayak and a freight train on a truss bridge in one frame. That train is the only official confirmation of a railroad in the game.
What was identified in Trailer 2
autoevolution went through the trailer frame by frame and named more than twenty models. Most have no official still, so the list below carries prototypes rather than photos.
| In-game model | Real-world prototype | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Vapid Caracara 4x4 | Ford Raptor | Pickup |
| Dundreary Landstalker XL | Lincoln Navigator | SUV |
| Declasse Granger 3600LX | Chevrolet Suburban | SUV |
| Gallivanter Baller | Range Rover | SUV |
| Declasse Rancher | Chevrolet K5 Blazer | SUV |
| Bravado Bison | Ram | Pickup |
| Maibatsu Penumbra | Mitsubishi Eclipse | Coupe |
| Invetero Coquette | Chevrolet Corvette C7 | Sports car |
| Bravado Gauntlet Hellfire | Dodge Challenger | Muscle |
| Bravado Buffalo STX | Dodge Charger | Sedan |
| Bravado Banshee | Dodge Viper | Sports car |
| Benefactor Schafter | Mercedes-Benz E-Class | Sedan |
| Pfister Growler | Porsche 718 Cayman | Sports car |
| Pegassi Tempesta | Lamborghini Huracán | Supercar |
| Enus Windsor Drop | Rolls-Royce Ghost | Convertible |
| Imponte Phoenix | 1977 Pontiac Firebird | Muscle |
| Declasse Tulip | 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle | Muscle |
| Vapid Stanier LE | Ford Crown Victoria | Police sedan |
| Brute Police Riot | Lenco BearCat | Special |
| Liberty City Cycles Avarus | chopper | Motorcycle |
| Maibatsu Sanchez | dirt bike | Motorcycle |
A seaplane, a sheriff’s helicopter, an airliner, a city bus and a metro train also appear across the frames.
What changed since GTA V
Judged by the official frames rather than by promises:
- Interiors. In GTA V the cabin was a texture on the glass; here every shown vehicle has a modeled dashboard, wheel and upholstery.
- Dirt and wear. Bodywork gets dirty in layers, and the bikes ship with scuffs already on them.
- Light. Headlights throw different pools depending on the bulb, and brake discs glow when they heat up (GamingBolt).
- Small stuff. Daytime running lights on modern cars, turn signals used by NPCs, legible lettering on tyres and badges.
- Tuning. Five shops across the edition bonuses, from donk styling to hand airbrushing, upholstery included.
August 27 is when all of it gets tested: An Extended Look should show these cars in motion and with a HUD. Our breakdown lands within a day of the premiere; until then, every region’s frames are pinned on the interactive map.
