- Rockstar Games and West Coast Customs recreated six cars from Grand Theft Auto VI.
- The builds include two Albany customs and a Pegassi Tempesta in Vice Beach police livery.
- Preloading starts on 10 November, with New Zealand at the front of the 19 November rollout.
A black-and-white supercar with Vice Beach police markings and a Leonida number plate has been filmed driving through Miami.
It’s a Pegassi Tempesta, one of six cars Rockstar Games commissioned Los Angeles shop West Coast Customs to build from Grand Theft Auto VI. The replicas wore plates from the game’s fictional state.
We spotted the real cars behind the fictional ones in the first GTA VI trailer. West Coast Customs had to work the other way round.
From Testarossa cues to gold wheels
The Grotti Cheetah’s wedge profile and side strakes brought Ferrari’s Testarossa to mind in our look at Rockstar’s June screenshots.
The Miami build keeps that shape and trades the white paint for a fade from a blue nose to a pink tail. Hypebeast’s build rundown lists a 4.9-litre V8 without naming the donor car.
Lowrider meets donk
The two Albanys take opposite approaches to ride height. The green Buccaneer is a 1960s lowrider on air suspension, with a cream soft top and zebra-print upholstery.
The blue Manana is a donk, an American custom lifted to clear oversized wheels. Its gold bumpers match the gold centres of its rims.
Vice City supercars
The Progen Emerus has a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8 and a rear wing that stands well clear of the deck.
Beside it, the Corvette-like Invetero Coquette wears pink camouflage over a mid-mounted 6.2-litre V8. The Tempesta gets the most recognisable accessory of the lot: a red-and-blue light bar.
Hypebeast’s comparison clip puts the Miami builds above their in-game counterparts.
Vice City goes global
The cars are part of a global launch campaign. On 18 November, the Miami Heat will host Milwaukee on a Vice City court, with the game’s Cluckin’ Bell and Burger Shot at arena concessions.
Further afield, Rockstar premiered an extended gameplay preview on Netflix and teamed up with Atlantic Records for a launch-day soundtrack album.
GTA VI is a contender for the decade’s biggest entertainment launch: its first trailer drew more than 90 million YouTube views in 24 hours, a record for a video game reveal. Publisher Take-Two says more than 230 million copies of GTA V had shipped by August.
When New Zealand can play
Rockstar confirms a local midnight release on 19 November for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. New Zealand is at the front of the rollout: the game unlocks here 18 hours before Miami.
Digital preloading starts at midnight NZDT as 10 November begins on PS5, and at 1pm NZDT that day on Xbox. Rockstar says to allow up to 212GB.
