GTA 6 Best Cars: Top Picks in Every Class

Quick answer: the Grotti Cheetah is the early star of GTA 6’s garage — a supercar headlining the Ultimate Edition bonus fleet. Behind it: the Shitzu Squalo speedboat, the Vapid Stanier from the Vintage Vice City Pack, the Principe Alvino V1 on two wheels, and the returning Nagasaki Buzzard in the air. With 200+ vehicles counted and mod shops confirmed, here’s the class-by-class shortlist worth planning your first garage around.

Where Each Claim Stands

Best Supercar: Grotti Cheetah

The Cheetah has been the poster car of the series since the top-down days, and in GTA 6 Rockstar puts it front and centre: it headlines the Ultimate Edition’s bonus garage and features in more official shots than any other car so far. The design leans hard into the wedge-shaped Italian exotics of the late 80s — the Testarossa comparison suggests itself the moment you see those side strakes.

The wider supercar field belongs to Pegassi, Rockstar’s Lamborghini stand-in, which appears across trailers with several distinct models. Between Grotti’s retro flagship and Pegassi’s modern monsters, the top end of the market looks unusually strong — and mod shops will let you push engines, brakes, suspension and transmission further than the showroom spec.

Want the Cheetah on day one without hunting the streets? It comes with the Ultimate Edition.

Best Classic: Vapid Stanier

The Stanier — Rockstar’s take on the boxy American sedan — returns in a dedicated vintage build as part of the Vintage Vice City Pack. It’s the opposite of a spec-sheet pick: you drive it for the 80s Vice City fantasy, neon reflecting off the hood at 2 AM. Expect the classic scene to run deeper still — the Cheetah’s retro roots and the Vintage pack itself signal that Rockstar is treating old-school Vice City style as a first-class category, not a nostalgia footnote.

Best Utility Vehicle: Bravado Bison

The most interesting truck reveal isn’t a truck at all — it’s what the truck can do. Trailer 2 shows a Bravado Bison towing with a winch cable, pointing at a physics system where pickups actually haul, drag and recover things instead of just looking rugged. Add suspension sag under load and handling that changes with a full bed, and off-road utility becomes a genuine gameplay system. If missions lean into towing and recovery the way the footage hints, the Bison is the early utility king.

Best Motorcycle: Principe Alvino V1

Bikes get a bigger role this time — official screenshots show dirt bikes out on the Mount Kalaga trails, and the Principe Alvino V1 is the first new motorcycle Rockstar has named. Principe is the series’ Ducati analogue, so expect the Alvino to be the sharp, fast street option, while Maibatsu dirt bikes cover the trails. Improved crash physics raise the stakes: clip a curb at speed and the rider is thrown over the handlebars. Fans of the Sanchez — the series’ eternal jump machine — already expect it back for stunt work; the new map’s terrain practically begs for it.

Best on the Water: Squalo — and the Airboat

Leonida is a water map, and the garage reflects it. The Squalo speedboat is the confirmed performance pick, riding along in the Ultimate Edition fleet, with the Speedophile Seashark jet-ski for beach runs. The genuinely new toy is the airboat — a fan-propelled swamp skimmer, the first of its kind in the series, built for the Grassrivers wetlands where a propeller boat simply can’t follow. Three models have already been spotted — the Panther, the Airboat 09 and the Diamondback — which suggests swamp traversal is a real system, not a one-off gimmick.

Best in the Air: Nagasaki Buzzard

The Buzzard Attack Chopper — arguably the most-flown aircraft in GTA Online history — is confirmed for GTA 6. Fast, armed, and small enough to land anywhere, it was the default answer to “I need to be across the map five minutes ago,” and there’s no reason to expect that role to change.

So What’s the Fastest Car in GTA 6?

The honest fun of this question is that nobody outside Rockstar knows yet — performance stats haven’t been published, and that vacuum is where the community lives right now. The favourite theories: a Pegassi flagship taking the top-speed crown, a tradition since the Zentorno era; the Cheetah tuned as a legacy hero rather than an outright record-holder; and a returning Banshee as the outside chance. Judging by the trailers, Rockstar is chasing weight and realism over arcade extremes — heavy frame physics, real wakes on water, riders ragdolling off bikes — so the fastest car may matter less than the best-handling one. One practical limit is already known: the prestige end of the garage is out of reach at the start, because opening those cars needs a key cloner that only arrives later in the story.

FAQ

What is the best car in GTA 6?
Early on, the Grotti Cheetah — the flagship supercar of the Ultimate Edition bonus fleet and the most-featured car in official materials so far. For everyday variety, the Pegassi supercar lineup looks like the strongest part of the market.

What is the fastest car in GTA 6?
Performance stats haven’t been published yet. Community expectations point at a Pegassi flagship, with the Cheetah and a possible Banshee return as fan favourites.

What cars do you get with the GTA 6 Ultimate Edition?
The bundle includes the Grotti Cheetah supercar, the Shitzu Squalo speedboat, the Vapid Dominator Buggy, the Wyman Classic Car Collection and three safehouse vehicles, plus access to exclusive mod shops. The Vapid Stanier is separate: it comes with the Vintage Vice City Pack, which is a pre-order bonus on any edition.

Can you customize cars in GTA 6?
Yes. Mod shops cover engines, brakes, suspension, transmission, wheels, lights and paint. Two locations — Rideout Customs and One-Eyed Willie’s — are Ultimate Edition exclusives.

Where do you buy cars in GTA 6?
Rockstar hasn’t detailed how buying works. Safehouse garages are confirmed for storing your collection, and every previous GTA has sold cars through dealerships or a website, so expect something similar. Stealing off the street remains the traditional discount.

Is the Sanchez in GTA 6?
It hasn’t appeared by name yet, but with dirt bikes shown on Mount Kalaga’s trails and Maibatsu models on the roster, the series’ iconic jumper is widely expected back.

Everything here comes from official Rockstar materials. Analysis is labeled. We don’t publish leaks.