West Coast Customs, the Los Angeles custom shop, has built real versions of six cars from Grand Theft Auto VI. The GTA 6 real life cars are the Grotti Cheetah, Albany Buccaneer, Progen Emerus, Invetero Coquette, Albany Manana and Pegassi Tempesta, and the photos, credited to Rockstar Games, show each build next to its in-game version, so close that the two are hard to tell apart.
Each car comes with its own stats: engine, displacement and the custom work done by the shop, from paint and suspension to the leather interiors. The cars follow the game's Vice City setting, with flamingo pink, candy colours, gold trim and a police livery.
It is not the first time Rockstar Games and West Coast Customs have worked together. For Grand Theft Auto V in 2013, the shop built a screen-accurate Bravado Banshee from a Dodge Viper, given away as a GameStop contest prize, according to GTA BOOM. In mid-October, a convoy of cars styled after GTA VI vehicles was also filmed on the streets of Miami and Key Biscayne, as GTA BOOM reported.
Which GTA 6 cars West Coast Customs built
Grotti Cheetah
The Grotti Cheetah is a mid-engined 1990s supercar with Italian-styled lines and air intakes feeding a 4.9-litre naturally aspirated V8. West Coast Customs lowered it on track tyres, painted it in a "Vice City fade" and trimmed the cabin in custom-stitched Italian leather.
Albany Buccaneer
The Buccaneer is a fully restored 1960s lowrider with a 7.5-litre V8. Its candy apple green paint uses large metallic flake, with airbrushed details and pinstripes. It sits on air-ride suspension and gold multi-spoke rims, with a cream soft top, mahogany and gold trim, and a leather interior with zebra-print inlays.
Progen Emerus
The Emerus is the most extreme build of the six: a track car with aero bodywork and fighter jet-style vents, built around a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8. It is painted candy orange with an orange interior, and a large rear wing, custom suspension and racing tyres keep it on the ground.
Invetero Coquette
The Coquette is the most recognisable car of the series. The mid-engined coupé has a 6.2-litre naturally aspirated V8 and a "Yeti Camo" livery in flamingo pink and purple, with custom rims, lowered suspension and a fully custom leather interior.
Albany Manana
The Manana is a 1970s classic with a 7.7-litre V8, stripped and rebuilt with straight panels as a donk. It is painted in large-flake Vice City blue with gold bumpers and trim, raised on a tall custom suspension with oversized gold and chrome rims, and finished with a blue leather cabin edged in gold.
Pegassi Tempesta
The Tempesta is the police car of the group, a mid-engined supercar with a 4.0-litre naturally aspirated V10. It wears a Vice Beach Police Department livery over lowered suspension and custom rims, and its cockpit takes after a fighter jet, with custom leather, buttons and police equipment. In the real world, the Italian police also drives a Lamborghini Temerario.
When Grand Theft Auto VI comes out
Rockstar Games lists Grand Theft Auto VI for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game is set in Vice City, in the fictional US state of Leonida, and follows two protagonists, Jason and Lucia. Ahead of the launch, Rockstar has also worked with Travis Scott and Nike on an Air Force 1 Low "GTA 6", with colorways due on the same date.
Release date: 19 November 2026 (Grand Theft Auto VI, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S)
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