- Rockstar's latest GTA VI media drop includes 63 official screenshots tied to pre-order bonuses and editions.
- Rockstar names several cars directly, including the Grotti Cheetah, Vapid Stanier, Vapid Buggy and Vapid Ganado.
- Clearest real-world inspiration is Ferrari's Testarossa and Ford's Ranchero.
Rockstar has given car-spotters a fresh reason to freeze-frame Grand Theft Auto VI, releasing 63 new official screenshots ahead of pre-orders opening 25 June.
The images are not just more neon, palm trees and criminal glamour. Hidden among the Ultimate Edition and Vintage Vice City Pack material is a surprisingly rich garage of fictional metal, including several cars Rockstar names directly.
The Cheetah is back
The star is the Grotti Cheetah, shown in white with red striping outside what appears to be a Vice City hotel or apartment complex.
GTA fans will know Grotti as the series' Ferrari-adjacent badge, and this Cheetah leans hard into 1980s supercar theatre.
Its wedge stance, side strakes, pop-up headlight treatment and wide rear deck all appear to riff on the Ferrari Testarossa and later 512 TR family. The Miami connection is not subtle either: a white Testarossa became one of television's defining 1980s car images through Miami Vice.
Rockstar has not said the car is licensed from, or officially based on, Ferrari. But visually, it is hard to read the Cheetah as anything other than Vice City's in-universe love letter to Maranello's flat-12 poster car.
Vapid goes retro
The Vintage Vice City Pack also spotlights the '55 Vapid Stanier, a two-tone American cruiser with chrome, fins and enough 1950s swagger to fill Ocean Drive.
Vapid usually plays in Ford-flavoured territory, so the Stanier reads closest to a 1955 Ford Fairlane or Crown Victoria, though there are broader Tri-Five American cues in the mix.
Another named Vapid, the Ganado Retro Build, looks like GTA VI's take on a classic coupe ute. Its yellow paint, stripe package and long-bonnet pickup shape point strongly towards a Ford Ranchero or Torino-based custom.
Then there is the Vapid Buggy, a mud-slinging off-road build that appears to mash late-1960s and early-1970s pony-car lines with Baja-style suspension, lamps and tyres.
Rockstar's screenshots also show a Canis-branded 4x4 with Jeep-like proportions, plus a Wyman car collection containing a classic GT racer, an AMC Javelin-style Deviant and a green sports car that evokes Jaguar E-Type curves.
It is all fictional, of course. But that is the point: GTA VI's cars look ready to do what the series has always done best, remixing real automotive icons just enough to be familiar, funny and legally slippery.
