Every GTA 6 vehicle identified so far, and how sure anyone actually is

There's no official Grand Theft Auto 6 vehicle list, and there probably won't be one before release. What exists is whatever people have identified by freezing official footage, which is why the counts going round disagree with each other by seventy or more.

We keep a vehicle database instead of a list, because the difference between the entries matters more than the total. It currently holds 92 vehicles, and every one of them is filed by how firmly it's known, so nothing gets mixed into one big number.

Four tiers, sorted by how sure anyone is

Blending those four together is exactly how the lists going round end up wrong. A car Rockstar has photographed, badged and told you where it's parked is a different kind of fact from a silhouette three streets back in a trailer, and a spreadsheet that prints both in the same font is lying to you by layout.

The Rumour column's empty on purpose. We haven't published a single vehicle that exists only in a leaked list.

The fourteen Rockstar has actually named

Every one of these comes from the studio's own Ultimate Edition or pre-order copy, with a manufacturer, usually a model year, and in several cases the exact garage it's parked in.

Plus the Crest Kayak, the Deviant and the rest of the Wyman collection, which Rockstar photographed as a yard of classics.

They've all got one thing in common. Every single one is an edition bonus or a pre-order item. Rockstar hasn't named a single vehicle that's simply in the base game, so these names exist because marketing needed them. The studio hasn't started publishing a list.

Where our pictures come from

Forty-eight of the 92 entries carry a photograph, and it's worth explaining where they come from, because most vehicle lists illustrate themselves with somebody else's screenshots.

Ours are either Rockstar press stills or frames we pulled from Rockstar's own trailer masters and cropped. The method's dull and repeatable: download the official trailer, scene-detect it, extract one frame per shot, read the contact sheet, then cut the car out of the frame. The vehicle crops on this page were cut from the 1080p masters. The frame browser was re-cut from the 2160p ones on 16 September, and these haven't caught up yet.

That turned out to be a better source than the press pack. The press stills are composed around characters, so the cars in them are wherever the art director left them. Trailer 1 is 43 shots and Trailer 2 is 47, and between them that's four and a half minutes of a working city full of traffic nobody was pointing a camera at.

Why the community count runs from 198 to 272

Trackers put the figure somewhere between roughly 198 and 272, and the gap's almost entirely down to what counts. A car clearly in focus in a screenshot is a confirmation. A silhouette in a trailer at 24 frames per second is somebody's opinion, and different databases draw that line in different places.

There are also big spreadsheets going round with hundreds of names on them, usually presented as datamined. Most of them aren't leaks at all. They're fan compilations: names read off freeze-frames, plus every vehicle in Grand Theft Auto Online that somebody assumes will carry forward, put into a table and captioned as though it came out of the game files.

Some individual entries in those lists will turn out to be right. That doesn't make the list right, and there's no way to tell which entries are which just by looking at it.

The manufacturers are the reliable part

Rockstar's in-universe marques have been stable for twenty years, and each maps onto a real maker closely enough that you can predict what a new model will be. If you see a Bravado badge, you're looking at a Dodge. Grotti is Ferrari, Pfister is Porsche, Vapid is Ford, Declasse is Chevrolet, Dinka is Honda, Canis is Jeep.

That's really handy when a car's only half visible. You don't need the model name to know what kind of car it is, and it's a much safer guess than reading a badge off six blurry pixels.

The gaps nobody can fill yet

We still don't know whether customisation goes beyond what Rideout Customs shows, or whether fuel and vehicle condition, both described in leaked builds, are real systems. Nobody knows how many vehicles you can actually drive and how many are just traffic. And there's the total, which Rockstar's never published and probably won't until people are playing.

The full database is here, and you can filter it by class, manufacturer and confidence tier.