Bravado Gauntlet Hellfire

The Gauntlet Hellfire is the straight-line car: a two-door muscle coupe based on the Challenger SRT Demon, built for a drag strip and not for corners.

What a Demon actually is

The real car's worth knowing about, because it explains this one. The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was a production car built specifically, and openly, for drag racing. It came with narrower front tyres, drag radials at the back, a transmission brake and a huge amount of supercharged power. It shipped with a crate of tools, and you could order it without a passenger seat.

It's a car with basically one talent, pushed well past the point of sense. That makes it a great starting point for a Grand Theft Auto car.

Fast in a line, scary in a bend

In practice a car like this is a thrill in a straight line and a liability everywhere else. Vice City's boulevards and the causeways out to the Keys are where you'll want it. Anything with a corner, a wet road or the wetland tracks in Grassrivers won't go well.

Rockstar's usually given its heavy muscle cars a loose back end on purpose, and that's where both the frustration and the fun come from. Grand Theft Auto V's Gauntlet had it, and the Hellfire variant, with more power on the same tyres, had even more of it.

Its history in the series

The Gauntlet's been Bravado's version of the Challenger since Grand Theft Auto V, and the Hellfire came later as the extreme version once the real Demon existed to copy. Seeing it in Grand Theft Auto 6 fits Rockstar's habit of bringing its more popular later additions forward. The studio doesn't tend to start the car list from scratch.

What isn't known

No specs have been published, and Rockstar hasn't confirmed whether the standard Gauntlet shows up alongside it. We also haven't seen whether drag racing exists as an activity.

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