West Coast Customs Built All Six Real GTA 6 Cars: Rockstar’s Side-by-Sides, Specs and Eight New Screenshots

Three weeks ago we could only report that someone had built real GTA 6 cars and let them loose on Miami. Now we know who. On November 6 Hypebeast published a set of Rockstar-credited photographs that put each real car directly above its in-game twin, with a paragraph of build details for every one, and the piece names West Coast Customs of Los Angeles as the shop that did the work. That matches what the fan footage hinted at in October, when a person who appeared to be from the shop was filmed talking to the drivers. It is the first time the builder has been named in material supplied by Rockstar rather than guessed at from a video.

Six cars. Six new in-game screenshots, plus two group shots. Eleven side-by-side comparisons. Rockstar has not posted any of it on its own channels yet, so Hypebeast’s gallery is the primary record, and we have added the eight screenshots to our screenshot archive at full resolution.

The Cheetah is the car Rockstar has been selling this whole campaign, right down to the ’95 model in the Ultimate Edition’s Vintage Vice City Pack. The real one is a mid-engined early-nineties shape with a 4.9-litre naturally aspirated V8, which is exactly the displacement you would expect under a car with those strakes down the side. West Coast Customs lowered it on track tyres, trimmed the cabin in custom-stitched Italian leather and laid down what Hypebeast calls a “Vice City fade”, pale blue melting into pink along the flanks. In the comparison frames the lights match, the louvres match and the Cheetah script on the tail panel sits in the same place.

Database page: Grotti Cheetah ’95.

This one got the most love. The Buccaneer is a fully restored 1960s lowrider with a 7.5-litre V8, candy apple green laid down in large metallic flake, then airbrushed and pinstriped by hand. Air-ride suspension drops it to the sill. Gold multi-spoke wheels, mahogany and gold trim inside, a cream ragtop, and a leather interior with zebra-print inlays, which Hypebeast justifies with two words: because Vice City. The gold-and-cream steering wheel in the comparison pair is the detail that convinced us the shop was working from Rockstar’s own model files rather than a screenshot, since the spoke shape and the horn button match so closely.

Database pages: Albany Buccaneer and the Buccaneer Custom.

Hypebeast calls the Emerus the wildest build in the set and it is hard to argue. Candy orange paint, an even louder orange interior, aero bodywork with fighter-jet-style vents, and a rear wing the article describes as one of the largest on the market, all wrapped around a twin-turbo 4.0-litre V8. Custom suspension and racing tyres finish it. The donor car is obvious to anyone who has seen a McLaren Senna, and the orange paint and gold wheels carry over to the in-game model without change.

Database page: Progen Emerus.

The Coquette is the car most people saw first in October, because a pink-and-teal camo Corvette is not something you forget in traffic. The real build is a mid-engined Coquette with a 6.2-litre naturally aspirated V8, custom wheels, lowered suspension and a fully custom leather interior. The livery is called Yeti Camo, flamingo pink with purple and mint, and it is the one piece of this project that reads as pure GTA rather than a tasteful restomod. Note that the mid-engined car here is the one our database lists as the Coquette D10; the classic front-engined Coquette is a separate entry.

Database pages: Invetero Coquette D10 and the original Coquette.

The Manana is the donk. A 1970s classic stripped and rebuilt with straight panels, a 7.7-litre V8, large-flake Vice City blue paint with gold bumpers and trim, a sky-high suspension and oversized gold-and-chrome wheels, plus a blue leather cabin edged in gold. Only one comparison frame was released for it, so it sits beside the in-game screenshot below. If you have ever driven down Biscayne Boulevard on a Sunday you have seen this car, or its cousins, and that is the point: this is the most Miami object in the entire set.

Database page: Albany Manana.

The one that stopped traffic in October, literally in some clips. The Tempesta runs a naturally aspirated 4.0-litre V10 and wears a full Vice Beach Police Department livery over lowered suspension and custom wheels, with a red underglow that the in-game screenshot shows too. Inside, Hypebeast describes a fighter-jet cockpit of custom leather, switchgear and police equipment. Whether any Leonida officer actually drives one in the game is a question the trailers have not answered, so treat the livery as a marketing build for now rather than confirmation of a Tempesta cruiser in the police roster.

Database page: Pegassi Tempesta.

The specifications below are the real cars’ numbers as Hypebeast printed them. They are not in-game stats, and Rockstar has published no performance figures for any GTA 6 vehicle, so do not read the V10 as a promise about how the Tempesta drives.

West Coast Customs has history here. In 2013 the shop turned a Dodge Viper into a real Bravado Banshee for a GTA 5 GameStop competition. Thirteen years on the brief is six cars instead of one, and the cars are still out there: our October report has the convoy footage, and the marketing round-up covers the rest of what Miami looks like right now.