Vapid Ganado
A coupe utility in a retro build, and one of the vehicles waiting at Jason's safehouse in the Ultimate Edition.
The Vapid Ganado comes as a retro build with exclusive modifications, and it's parked at Jason's safehouse as part of the Ultimate Edition.
Half car, half pickup
The shot shows a coupe utility: a car from the windscreen forward and a pickup bed behind. This one's in a yellow and orange striped seventies livery, with a bonnet scoop and chrome bumpers.
That body style's a specific and slightly odd piece of Americana. It was never quite a truck and never quite a car. It was sold to people who wanted one vehicle to do both jobs, and today it survives almost entirely as something people restore.
The ute started in Australia
It didn't start in America, as it happens. The coupe utility was an Australian idea from the nineteen thirties, built in response to a request for a vehicle that could take somebody to church on Sunday and livestock to market on Monday. Australians have called them utes ever since.
America picked the idea up two decades later. Ford launched the Ranchero in 1957, Chevrolet answered with the El Camino, and the two spent the next twenty years as direct rivals, selling to farmers, tradesmen and eventually people who just liked them. Both were gone by the early eighties. The compact pickup killed them off, because it did the same job without pretending to be a coupe.
What's left is a body style with no modern equivalent and a strong following, which is why almost every surviving one has been restored by somebody.
Why it suits Jason
Putting one at Jason's place is good character writing. It's exactly what a man living rent-free on somebody else's boat yard would end up driving: useful, cheap to keep running, and old enough that nobody asks about it.
It's also handy in a game that keeps larger weapons in the vehicle, with less carried on your body. An open bed is a different proposition from a boot, and a vehicle that can carry something awkward has a use beyond getting you places.
Vapid
Vapid is Rockstar's Ford stand-in, so the Ganado belongs in the Ranchero's family tree, closer to it than to the El Camino. The two looked close enough at a glance that the difference mostly matters to people who care about badges.
What isn't known
Rockstar hasn't said what the exclusive modifications are. It hasn't said whether a standard Ganado is in the base game either, and it hasn't published any handling detail.
Related: Dinka Enduro and the safehouse vehicles.