GTA VI cars: what Rockstar has actually named

Ажурирано: 2026-08-17 · на енглеском

There is no list of GTA VI cars — Rockstar has not published one. What exists is different: ten vehicles whose name comes from the publisher, and hundreds of cars you can see in the trailers whose names the community borrows from earlier games by resemblance. Those are two different things, and this page keeps them apart.

Named officially: ten

Seven names sit in the captions to the edition screenshots. Three more are written on the bodywork itself in the official Classic Car Collection frames.

Every entry in the last column is a community reading. Rockstar never says which real car an in-game one is based on — that has been its position for decades, and there is no way around it. On each vehicle page the reading sits in a frame of its own, with how firm it is and who put it forward.

Where the line runs

The last three rows show the difference. Sirius, Riata and Deviant is what is written on the bodywork, and we read it off the official frames. The make, though, appears nowhere in those frames: the “Vapid Riata Classic” and “Schyster Deviant” you will meet in other lists are extrapolated from earlier games in the series. A sensible reading — but a reading, so our headings carry the model name only.

The same split shows up inside a single row. On the ’55 Vapid Stanier the community reads the body as a mid-fifties Ford Fairlane, while the yellow-and-white paint is traced to a different car altogether — the Oldsmobile 88 parked outside a hotel on Miami’s Ocean Drive. That part is not about the model, it is about the reference.

Jason’s vehicles

Rockstar named three things at once, in a single caption to the frame of his safehouse: the Ganado Retro Build pickup in yellow with a red stripe, the army-green Dinka Enduro motorcycle and the orange Crest Kayak. All three come with the Ultimate Edition and stand outside Jason’s place.

The kayak is the only named vehicle without an engine, and it has no prototype line: a kayak looks like a kayak, and dressing that up as a match would be a lie told to fill a cell.

The edition packs

The rest of the vehicles are tied to editions rather than to the story, and the descriptions say so outright — the details are in the piece on editions.

Those same official descriptions gave up place names that exist nowhere else: the buggy is called a Mud Club monster, meant for the backwoods of Mount Kalaga and stored at the Paradise Garage in Watson Bay, which comes with a weapon locker and a way to fence stolen goods. The Squalo is docked at Washington Beach and good for fishing in Gambit Bay. In one frame the Cheetah stands under a Pegassi South Tower sign.

The Classic Car Collection

A separate Ultimate Edition commission: track down abandoned classics and half-finished project cars across the state and bring them back. The client is Wyman, in Rockstar’s description an eccentric collector and local fixer; his tank top advertises his own scrapyard, Wyman’s World Auto Salvage Co.

Six official frames show five cars. Three carry a name you can read — Sirius, Riata and Deviant. The other two, a long-nosed red racer wearing number 36 and a pale green coupe on wire wheels, show no name in frame, so we have no entries for them. A readable name will make an entry.

Why there are not two hundred cars here

Other databases really do list close to two hundred. They are built like this: a car in a trailer frame looks like the one that was called, say, a Banshee in GTA V, so it goes down as confirmed. The resemblance is often convincing, but it is recognition by appearance, not a name somebody gave.

Here a hypothesis becomes a fact after two independent confirmations, and recognition from a frame does not carry that weight. Hence ten entries in the catalogue rather than two hundred. After November 19 the gap closes within a week: in every earlier game the name was right there in play — in the garage, on the dealer website, in the buy list — and every hypothesis either holds or does not.

What the trailers themselves show is covered separately, in the piece on the trailers and on the official screenshots.