Rockstar Games and Los Angeles-based West Coast Customs brought six vehicles from Grand Theft Auto VI into the real world for a Miami promotion. Reports describe drivable builds and Rockstar-credited images pairing them with their in-game counterparts. They reveal a few design references and construction methods, but do not identify the exact donor vehicles or confirm what customization options players will have.
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The six GTA VI cars
The lineup consists of the Grotti Cheetah, Pegassi Tempesta, Progen Emerus, Invetero Coquette, Albany Buccaneer and Albany Manana.
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Two reported real-world design references stand out: the Grotti Cheetah is compared with the Ferrari Testarossa, while the Progen Emerus is described as Rockstar’s take on the McLaren Senna.
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2 The other builds lean into contrasting styles, including a lowrider Buccaneer and a raised, donk-style Manana.
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What’s known about the builds
A report on the project describes traditional metal fabrication, composite body panels, CNC-machined wheels and structural parts, and custom paint finishes.
41 Coverage also notes distinctive details such as the Cheetah’s “Vice City fade” paint.
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The cars were shown with Leonida- and Vice City-marked plates. One report also describes plate frames carrying “VI,” West Coast Customs and Rockstar branding.
37 These details help make the builds read as pieces of the game’s fictional setting, rather than generic replicas.
The available reporting does not name the exact donor vehicles or document every construction step for each car. Claims about a specific donor chassis, or a complete build recipe applied uniformly across all six, should therefore be treated as unconfirmed.
Miami locations—and what the photos prove
The cars were photographed at Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road garage in Miami Beach and at Hilario Candela’s Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key.
8 The stadium’s design and the distinctive garage give the promotional images a strong Miami setting.
Rockstar-credited images compare the physical builds with their in-game counterparts.
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7 That makes the photos useful for seeing how the campaign translated the vehicles’ appearance into real materials. But a promotional side-by-side is not, by itself, proof of the game’s final visual fidelity or of specific player-facing customization features. Reporting on the builds likewise cautions against treating the promotional cars as evidence of the game’s graphics.
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Part of a wider Miami promotion
The cars fit a broader campaign that brought fictional Vice City branding into Miami. Coverage described NINE1NINE plane-banner advertising over South Beach, while a campaign timeline reported that E11EVEN was rebranded as the in-game parody NINE1NINE.
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5 Those reports establish the wider promotional context, not a confirmed display of these six cars at the club.
The reported release date is November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Rockstar’s store lists November 10, 2026, as the start of pre-loading.
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