GTA 6 vehicles: the seven official names, and who wrote all the others

You go looking for the list of GTA 6 vehicles and you find a very long one: dozens of models, familiar manufacturers, sometimes an exact total. Then you open Rockstar’s site and find there is no vehicles section at all, and that the vehicles named by make and model number seven.

Seven. This guide is the short list, and above all it explains, name by name, who wrote all the others.

The seven vehicles Rockstar has actually named

Vehicle	What Rockstar says	Where it appears
’95 Grotti Cheetah	”Grotti’s signature mid ’90s sports car and ode to Shore Drive”, minimalist retro-futuristic livery, available for later-stage action	Ultimate Edition
’55 Vapid Stanier	”timeless” two-tone sedan, with the Shore Court personal garage near Ocean Beach	Vintage Vice City Pack
’67 Vapid Dominator Buggy	”a Mud Club monster”, strong off-road handling for the backwoods of Mount Kalaga	Ultimate Edition
Dinka Enduro	”Army fatigue-tinged” motorcycle	Ultimate, Jason’s Safehouse Vehicles
Crest Kayak	the other half of the same bonus	Ultimate, Jason’s Safehouse Vehicles
Shitzu Squalo	gradient pink and blue boat docked at Washington Beach, with an explosives-laden weapons crate	Ultimate Edition
Vapid Ganado	”Jason’s well-worn low-riding pickup”	Ultimate, as a mod kit

Three clarifications, because these are the ones everyone gets wrong.

The Ganado is not a bonus vehicle. It is the pickup Jason already owns in the story: what the Ultimate Edition adds is the Ganado Retro Build, a set of mods.

The ‘55 Stanier is not Ultimate content but part of the Vintage Vice City Pack, which Rockstar states is included with all digital purchases made before November 20, 2026: it is not a reward for booking early.

Rockstar writes “Vapid Ganado” with no model year. Anyone writing “Ganado ‘70” is adding something the official text does not say.

There is one thing these seven have in common, and it is worth saying: Rockstar named them because it sells them. All of them sit inside a paid edition or a preorder bonus. The vehicles that merely appear in the films stay anonymous.

Five manufacturers, and a Pegassi that is not a manufacturer

Of the series’ dozens of invented marques, Rockstar has written five for GTA 6: Vapid, Grotti, Dinka, Shitzu and Crest.

Familiar names like Declasse, Bravado, Benefactor, Ubermacht, Albany, Karin, Annis, Enus, Imponte, Willard, Canis or Pegassi do not appear in a single line of official GTA 6 material. For this game they are expectations inherited from GTA 5, not confirmations.

A contrast that helps explain Rockstar’s editorial choice: on the same page where the vehicles stay nameless, the company happily names three weapons by make and model, the Hawk & Little Morgan revolvers, Jason’s Girardi ES9 and Lucia’s Klose K17, plus six businesses.

Why everyone else’s lists are so long

In the video and the trailers the vehicle’s name is written nowhere. What the journalist does is recognise a silhouette and apply a name from the GTA 5 and GTA Online catalogue.

Some outlets say so openly: Jalopnik writes that in the GTA universe that car is called a Sentinel and that a version already exists in GTA Online. It is an honest deduction, but a deduction all the same. And four outlets writing “Sentinel” are not four verifications: they are the same deduction made four times about the same silhouette.

The opposite deserves saying too, because it is fair. The two best press lists are honest and say so themselves: GamesRadar marks sixteen entries “Unknown” and reserves the word “confirmed” for the only two names that come from Rockstar; PC Gamer prefaces that many names are unconfirmed and until then it is mostly speculation.

The problem starts downstream, with people who copy those lists keeping the names and throwing away exactly the uncertainty labels.

The three names you can actually read in official material

Not all unofficial names are equal, and this distinction is one nobody else makes. There are three cases where the name is not deduced but read, because it is text rendered by the game inside an official film or screenshot.

• Caracara. In Trailer 2 the word is legible on the hood decal of Brian Heder’s pickup. The model is on the hood; the Vapid marque set beside it is the outlet’s attribution, and Rockstar has never written “Caracara”.
• Cheetah. In Trailer 1 the classic sports car’s licence plate reads “cheetah”. Note the double bottom: the plate supports the word, not the variant and not the year, and that is not the ‘95 Grotti Cheetah of the Ultimate Edition.
• Discover Gloriana. In the Extended Look the protagonists’ convertible carries this slogan on its plate, read independently by two outlets. The limit here too: you are reading a plate, and inferring that Gloriana is a state distinct from Leonida is a step the sources do not take. Gloriana never appears on the official site.

No list, no count

Rockstar has never published a list of GTA 6 vehicles and has never given a number. The figures in circulation, from 176 to over 270, all come from fan-run databases and are incompatible with each other: their divergence is itself the proof that none is official.

The clearest example of Rockstar’s choice is Wyman’s Classic Car Collection, the eccentric collector for whom you recover abandoned cars and unfinished projects. Rockstar publishes six official screenshots and in its own alt text describes those cars by colour and body only: a turquoise muscle car, a classic green sports car, a stars-and-stripes muscle car. None has a name.

How it drives

The defensible phrasing is duller and truer than the one going round.

Then the void needs stating, and it is bigger. Rockstar has never publicly described the driving model. On the official pages the words “physics”, “suspension”, “camera” and “first-person” never appear, and “handling” appears only inside the Dominator Buggy’s promotional line: the one time Rockstar writes about handling, it is selling a bonus vehicle.

The car press’s impressions should be taken for what they are. Some write that the physics look like an enormous leap; others describe more convincing suspension while admitting in the same paragraph that Rockstar has published no analysis. And there is the best caveat of all, from The Drive: you cannot judge handling by watching a video, because camera behaviour determines much of what we perceive as physics.

Nobody has driven it yet. Every published preview was hands-off, with journalists watching Nelson play.

Mod shops: two names, both behind a paywall

Rockstar labels exactly two destinations as mod shops, and puts the same condition on both.

• Rideout Customs: turns stock vehicles into works of art, with detailed interiors, rims and donk stylings.
• One-Eyed Willie’s: the Lake Leonida shop, specialising in off-road modifications and hand-painted automotive artistry.

Two clarifications almost nobody makes. The Paradise Garage at Watson Bay is not a mod shop: Rockstar labels it “Vehicle & Garage” and describes it as where the Dominator Buggy is stored. And the Ganado Retro Build is not a shop but a set of mods.

On performance there is a nuance worth the section: the current official pages describe cosmetics only, while the one time Rockstar mentions performance modifications is in the June 24, 2026 release, which calls the two shops “prominent vehicle customization destinations” with cosmetic and performance mods. Cite only the site and you lose the performance point; cite only the release and you attribute to the site a sentence that is not there.

Garages and ownership: the chapter nobody covered

This part comes from a single source, and it needs declaring: Famitsu visited Rockstar North in Edinburgh and on August 28, 2026 published an exclusive interview with Rob Nelson. It is a first-hand source on a par with IGN, but it is in Japanese, and most of what is in it has not been picked up by any English-language outlet.

Trunks work, and they are the part that dovetails with the wanted system: Nelson tells IGN he keeps changes of clothes in there, useful when the police know what you are wearing, and tells Famitsu that the weapons part extends to any car’s trunk, not just your own. How that connects to the suspect description is in our wanted level guide.

One divergence we leave open rather than resolve: on where you register a car, the two first-hand sources do not agree. In the quote IGN gathered, Nelson lists the registration cost without naming a place; the Famitsu text attaches it explicitly to the Pay ‘n’ Spray.

Pay ‘n’ Spray, fences, trackers

The Pay ‘n’ Spray returns, but what it does is described by one man. Again to Famitsu, Nelson says you check the sale price of a stolen car there, repair it and repaint it to escape the heat; the service, though, stops at a colour change, and after a sale you cannot bring another vehicle to the same Pay ‘n’ Spray for a while, so anyone in a hurry has to find one in another area.

On fences: there are two kinds, for goods and for cars, and one car fence has a name, Randy, who asks for specific vehicles to steal and deliver. Nelson also says that at some point a fence appears who can remove trackers, and the text does not make clear whether that is the same Randy: the two are named in different places, so we do not weld them together. The rest of the economy is in our how to make money guide.

On trackers the direction needs stating, because it is inverted everywhere: the more advanced ones report your position to the police when you travel below a certain speed. Speed therefore keeps you from being reported, it does not outrun a signal, and it detaches nothing. The only documented way to remove one is the fence.

What the official video shows

Here the grade goes up, because everyone watched the film.

Car theft: two prompts appear at the door, break the window or use the slim jim, and the second opens a short stick minigame. The key cloner, on the other hand, is not visible: that detail was described behind closed doors, and it stays separate. The full system is in our stealing cars guide.

The wanted level returns to six stars, and under the stars sits a row of icons, one of them for the vehicle: when the protagonists abandon the car for a van that icon disappears and patrol cars pass without stopping them.

Shooting out a patrol car’s tyres flips it, described consistently by several outlets watching the same film.

There are three racing segments: one on a paved circuit with competition cars and a genuine race interface, one off-road, and one street race with heavily modified cars, underglow and flames from the exhausts. On what those cars are the outlets do not agree at all, so all that is defensible is “closed-circuit race with competition cars”. The boost should be called an acceleration boost: “nitro” is a label one outlet applies by analogy.

Ten claims in circulation that do not hold

1. “The Ultimate Edition includes three mod shops, Paradise Garage among them.” There are two; the Paradise Garage is where the Dominator Buggy is stored.
2. “The mod categories are engine, brakes, suspension, transmission, turbo, body kits, tinted windows.” That list appears in no Rockstar text: it was built to the GTA Online template.
3. “The app shows the value at a chop shop and the cost of forging a clean title.” Nelson says Pay ‘n’ Spray or a car-specialist fence, and registering the car in your own name.
4. “With trackers you have to outrun the signal.” That inverts the mechanic.
5. “Personal garages scattered across Leonida.” Rockstar names two. That garages are bought around the map comes from Nelson to Famitsu, and that is the source to cite.
6. “GTA 6 returns to GTA IV’s physics.” The narrative comes from an analysis of leaked material published before the official video, so it is not usable even in a hedged form.
7. “GTA 6 marries GTA IV’s weight to GTA V’s accessibility.” Not a Rockstar sentence: it is an outlet’s interpretive headline over a Nelson quote that breaks off.
8. “The wanted system goes back to five stars.” It is six, and you can see it in the video.
9. “Jason shoots down a helicopter.” One outlet writes it; the others say he shoots at cars and helicopters, not that he brings one down.
10. “The video runs about twenty minutes.” Rockstar states 26 minutes and 48 seconds in the structured data of its own video page.

What we do not know, and nobody does

There is not a single figure on how many mod shops exist, how many modifications they offer, what they cost, what parts categories exist, what registering a car costs, what a fence pays, what a garage costs, how many vehicles you can own at most, how long the Pay ‘n’ Spray lockout lasts after a sale, or how much fits in a trunk. The only number that exists is the three initial garage slots.

On driving assists, adjustable difficulty, wheel support, selectable cameras, tyre wear, wet-weather handling and driver AI there is not a line in any source: if a guide to the game lists them, it is inventing them.

On first-person driving the sources contradict each other watching the same video, so until that knot comes loose it does not go in here.

And the most interesting question stays unanswered: whether those shops exist on the map anyway without the Ultimate Edition. One outlet states it asked Rockstar for clarification, and the piece records no answer.

In short

• Rockstar has written seven vehicles by make and model, all inside paid content.
• The official manufacturers are five: Vapid, Grotti, Dinka, Shitzu, Crest. Declasse, Bravado, Benefactor and Ubermacht do not appear.
• There is no official list and no count: the numbers in circulation come from fan databases and do not agree with each other.
• The names you read under the videos are the GTA catalogue applied to a silhouette by the press, not Rockstar’s words.
• Only three names can be read in official material, because they are text the game renders: Caracara, “cheetah” on a plate, Discover Gloriana.
• Two mod shops are named, both Ultimate Edition content; the Paradise Garage is not a mod shop.
• The only figure on ownership is three garage slots at the start, from Rob Nelson to Famitsu.
• Nobody has driven it yet: every preview was hands-off.

Frequently asked questions

How many vehicles are in GTA 6?

Unknown, and no official source says. Rockstar has published no vehicle list and has never given a number: the official site does not even have a vehicles section. The figures in circulation, from 176 to over 270, all come from fan-run databases and do not agree with each other.

Which vehicles are confirmed in GTA 6?

Seven, and Rockstar named them by make and model only because it sells them: ‘95 Grotti Cheetah, ‘55 Vapid Stanier, ‘67 Vapid Dominator Buggy, Dinka Enduro, Crest Kayak, Shitzu Squalo and Vapid Ganado. Six are Ultimate Edition content or part of Jason’s Safehouse Vehicles bonus; the ‘55 Stanier comes from the Vintage Vice City Pack. For none of them has Rockstar published performance or statistics.

Are the car names from the trailers official?

No. Names like Sentinel, Schafter, Tulip, Buffalo or Burrito appear on no official GTA 6 page: they are GTA 5 and GTA Online catalogue names journalists apply to silhouettes seen in the films. The proof the method is unstable is that two outlets, watching the same video, publish lists overlapping on three entries only.

Can you customise cars in GTA 6?

Rockstar has named two mod shops, Rideout Customs and One-Eyed Willie’s, and presents both as exclusive Ultimate Edition content: the first works on interiors, rims and donk stylings, the second on off-road modifications and hand-painted artistry. Whether shops exist without the Ultimate Edition, Rockstar has never said.

How many vehicles can you own in GTA 6?

Early in the game there are three slots, and owning more means buying garages around the map; with the slots full, registering a new car means selling one. Rob Nelson said so in Famitsu’s exclusive interview of August 28, 2026: it is the only figure that exists on this system.

Does the Pay ‘n’ Spray clear the wanted level in GTA 6?

No source says so, and it is worth not assuming it just because that is how earlier games worked. Nelson talks about escaping the heat, meaning the state where the police hold a description of clothing, appearance and vehicle, and puts repainting on the same footing as changing clothes. He also says only the colour changes there.

Can you buy cars in GTA 6?

No source mentions dealerships or in-game sites for buying vehicles: as things stand you steal the car and may register it in your own name, paying a cost the scanning app shows in advance. The only vehicle-related purchase a direct source describes is buying garages. Anyone writing about dealerships is transferring a habit from GTA 5.