| Start | Take any car, bike, boat or aircraft you find, or pick up the vehicle a mission or side job gives you |
|---|---|
| Opens after | Available from the start; some special vehicles come from missions |
| Needed for 100% | Nothing directly, but many side jobs need a specific vehicle |
| Reward | Free special vehicles from certain missions |
The game files list 111 vehicles, from hatchbacks and golf carts to helicopters, hovercraft and a seaplane. Most you simply take off the street, but several side jobs put you in a fixed vehicle, and a few special models are mission rewards. This page sorts them by type.
Vehicle categories
| Category | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| Sports and muscle cars | Banshee, Cheetah, Comet, Deluxo, Infernus, Phoenix, Polaris V8, Sabre, Sabre Turbo, Stallion, Stinger |
| Two-door cars and hatchbacks | Blista Compact, Esperanto, Hermes, Idaho, Manana, Virgo, Voodoo |
| Four-door sedans | Admiral, Glendale, Greenwood, Oceanic, Perennial, Regina, Sentinel, Sentinel XS, Stretch, Washington |
| SUVs, pickups and vans | Bobcat, Burrito, Landstalker, Mesa Grande, Moonbeam, Patriot, Sandking |
| Commercial and industrial | Benson, Boxville, Bulldozer, Flatbed, Forklift, Linerunner, Mule, Pony, Rumpo, Walton, Yankee |
| Gang vehicles | Biker Angel, Cholo Sabre, Cuban Hermes, Gang Rancher |
| Government and emergency | Air Ambulance, Ambulance, Armadillo, Barracks OL, Coast Guard, Enforcer, FBI Rancher, FBI Washington, Firetruck, Hunter, Predator, Rhino, VCPD Cheetah, VCPD Cruiser, VCPD Maverick, VCPD WinterGreen |
| Public service | Cabbie, Coach, Mr Whoopee, Securicar, Taxi, Trashmaster |
| Bikes | BMX, Faggio, Freeway, PCJ-600, Quad, Sanchez, Streetfighter, Ventoso, WinterGreen |
| Boats | Bovver’64, Dinghy, Jet Ski, Jetmax, Marquis, Reefer, Rio, Speeder, Squalo, Tropic, Violator, Yola |
| Aircraft | Aeroplane, Biplane, Little Willie, Maverick, Sea Sparrow, Skimmer, Sparrow, VCN Maverick |
| Miscellaneous | Baggage Handler, BF Injection, Caddy, Splitz-6 ATV |
Vehicles the side jobs use
| Vehicle | Used for |
|---|---|
| Firetruck | Firefighter |
| Ambulance | Paramedic |
| Taxi | Taxi Driver |
| Helicopter | Air Rescue, Vice Sights |
| BF Injection, Ambulance and Coast Guard boat | Beach Patrol |
| Hovercraft | Harbor Hover Race and Haiti Hover Race |
| Caddy | Caddy Daddy golf cart race |
| Biplane and seaplane | Crims On Wings and Crims On Water Wings |
| Hunter | Skywolf drone course |
| Sanchez, BMX and Quad | The matching time trials |
| Jet Ski | Watersports courses |
Aircraft and boats
Helicopters appear in missions such as High Wire, where you fly a chopper with a magnet. The biplane and seaplane fly checkpoint rings in the Crims On Wings and Crims On Water Wings challenges, and the hovercraft cover the hover races on the water. See timed challenges for the targets.
Vehicles missions give you
Infernus
From Zero to Hero pays an Infernus along with $3000 and opens Vice City Beach.
Biker Angel
Taking the Fall pays $300 and a Biker Angel motorcycle.
Bovver’64
White Lies pays $1500 and lets you buy the Bovver’64 at The Clymenus Suite safehouse.
Bulletproof Stretch
Kill Phil makes a bulletproof Stretch available to buy at Sunshine Autos.
Hunter
Over the Top has you steal a Hunter at Fort Baxter and fly it to the Diaz mansion, and the Skywolf challenge, which opens after the final mission, has you fly a Hunter again for a drone course.
