9 Worst GTA V Cars Ever.

Now, GTA V is an open-world game with a massive map that offers a variety of cars, some of which are good, and some are not. Some however, are horrible. The scum of the earth, ones that we all hate, or will at least agree to hate after this blogpost. Hopefully.

9 Worst GTA V Cars Ever.

Now, GTA V is an open-world game with a massive map that offers a variety of cars, some of which are good, and some are not. Some however, are horrible. The scum of the earth, ones that we all hate, or will at least agree to hate after this blogpost. Hopefully. And I should now mention for the people that don’t play GTA that the cars are made up, and therefore this is not in any way linked to real life and my opinion on their equivalents. Ok, here we go…

9. Vapid FMJ

Real life equivalent: 2017 Ford GT + Aston Martin Vulcan
Real life equivalent: 2017 Ford GT + Aston Martin Vulcan

I started the list off with this car because I felt it wasn’t the worst, and definitely not the ugliest. It was added into the game recently, and apparently, or at least according to some websites, “it trumps the Banshee [900R] in every departament”. That is, of course, if those departaments are sloppy handling and the inability to, no matter at what speed, take a hairpin without spinnig out into a nearby lamp pole. The Banshee still “trumps” it in airport races, which is the only thing this car is useful for. Also, let’s not forget that this car, upgrades considered, is around $2,000,000, which means that the Banshee, despite a variety of customisations, is cheaper as well. Way to go, Rockstar…

8. Ocelot Lynx

Real life equivalent: Some Jaguars
Real life equivalent: Some Jaguars

This is by no means a bad car - it handles well, looks great, has a top speed no less than that of a, say, Jester, and accelerates with no wheelspin and rather rapidly too. However Rockstar may have added one too many noughts to the pricetag. $1.7million? For a sportscar? That’s a bit steep. No, sorry, that’s Mt. Chilliad steep. Paying supercar money for something that still gets owned by a $400,000 racecar Massacro is, well, to be polite, f*king daft. Just make your life easier - don’t buy it.

7. Benefactor XLS

Real life equivalent: Mercedes SUV Range
Real life equivalent: Mercedes SUV Range

This car was also added to the game with the Finance and Felony DLC, which, in my opinion, was the worst vehicle DLC ever. Sure, we got some nice missions, an Office and we could finally buy a bloody Cargobob. That and the ability to transport some drugs around the city in a van with ladders on the roof, but no good cars. The FMJ is an excuse of a Banshee, the Reaper is just goddamn awful, and this is just an overpriced Baller. There is nothing special about this car - you cannot customise it in any special way, hell, you don’t even get to make the interior some wierd colour like you do on other armoured cars. It isn’t specifically fast, and, hate me for this if you want, but I find it rather ugly too.

6. Vapid Contender

Real life equivalent: Ford + Toyota Pickup Range
Real life equivalent: Ford + Toyota Pickup Range

This is the most recent and the most beloved (with the Off-Road community at least) addition to the game. The Contender. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even CT always talking about how it’s the “Fastest SUV!” Hold RIIIGHT THERE!!! An SUV? Seriously Rockstar, what is your problem. This would have made a brilliant and powerful Off-Roader, but no, you shove it in the Momvan category. A bit like the Drift Tampa then. A good car in the wrong place. Exept for the fact that the Deift Tampa actually looks nice. Have you tried taking this to the LSC? All you can do is remove that stupid lid off it’s back, and respray it. That’s it. Not even a bumper or some cool roof-mounted lights. This car was meant to be “the succesor of the Sandking”. More like an embarrassment to it.

5. Bravado Rumpo Custom

Real life equivalent: 1977 Chevrolet van
Real life equivalent: 1977 Chevrolet van

Now this car is probably the disappointment of the year. It is based off the “A-Team Van”, so you’d expect it to be fast.
It’s got “Custom” in it’s name so you’d expect it to be customisable. And since it’s a bloody van, you definitely wouldn’t expect it to be placed in the “Off-Road” category. However, all your expectations are wrong. Because, much like the Contender, this is a car in the wrong class, with no customisations to compensate for that. Only this time, instead of being the fastest, it’s the slowest. 0-60? 🎵Never gonna get it, never gonna get it🎵

4. Dundreary Regina

Real life equivalent: a dreary Chevy
Real life equivalent: a dreary Chevy

The only reason this car is not all the way at 1 is because it has been in the game since launch, and we all got used to it’s hopelessness. It is slow, ugly, has the turning circle the size of Belfast, and, however hard you try, it will still be the core cause of eye cancer after being taken to the Los Santos Customs for what your wallet will later regret. And as for the number of freeroam races it caused me to lose, well, let’s not go there. Ok, 34. It could have made a cool-ish lowrider, or, with wider customisation options, made a nice car in general. But as for now, you have to be Dun with you dreary life to own a Regina. See what I did there?

3. MTL Dune

Real life equivalent: Kamaz Dakar truck (the one from Goodwood)
Real life equivalent: Kamaz Dakar truck (the one from Goodwood)

So, as of this, we knew straight away this car would be bloody miserable. One word. Pegasus. No seriously, this could have been a cool vehicle if it wasn’t a Pegasus. Or at least that was what everyone said untill it actually came out. Because when it did, I, personally, took those words back. It would be daring of me to compare it to a snail - it is much slower, and much less sturdy. Trust me, a snail can take a speedbump without flipping over. This can’t. And that’s just not good enough for $1,335,000. Every time Pegasus can’t deliver it, I actually thank them. Not to actually mention that it handles like a Brickade, which brings me onto number 2.

2. MTL Brickade

Real life equivalent: another heavy piece of sh*t
Real life equivalent: another heavy piece of sh*t

Now, this car is basically THE SIN of Rockstar Games. I really thought I would put it at Number 1 at first. Let’s break it down. Firstly, that massive cabin is not openable, and that destroys the point of it - you can’t store a car in there, nor can you transport a bunch of your friends. Also, only three people can sit inside. Three. I don’t know why they didn’t add another set of doors and make it six, or at least four, but no, three. And apparently, according to Warstock, it can house 7 people. If “house” means “let them hang on the sides with crossed fingers that you won’t hit anything”, then yes, it does. Which you unavoidably will, because there is no such thing as “handling” to it. There is either “do an elevety million point turn to bloody go somwhere” or “crash into a wall”. Neither are very good options. The only worse option is buying the thing in the first place.

1. Grotti X80 Proto

Real life equivalent: Ferrari F80
Real life equivalent: Ferrari F80

Finally, you’re thinking, Number 1, that bit you were waiting for. But not the car you were expecting. “X80? The best car in the game? Boo!” Let me stop you there, because calling it “the best car in the game” is like calling the iPhone the best phone on the market. It bloody isn’t, you just want to think it is because of the money you blew on it. Same story here: when you spent Hydra money on a car, you wouldn’t want me to tell you that it’s an understeering piece of sh*t, would you? But, unfortunately, that’s exactly what I’ll do. It is, in a way, like a Hydra. That way, of course, is trying to take flight. Every single given opportunity, the X80 would bounce off and start flying into a tree, or off the stunt course you were trying to do, and then into a tree. It is too light to grip like the new RE-7B, and therefore it just understeers, and when you try to line it up, it oversteers, usually also into a tree. Really, the only advantage it has over the Hydra that you could have bought is that flying into a tree doesn’t kill it. But the RE-7B does just that. “In every departament”.

So, that’s the end of my first #blogpost. Most of these cars ended up here because of Rockstar’s greed for microtransactions, and careless gamers “buying the most expensive one”. Anything you disagree with? Anything to point out? Comment section is all yours. More from me on GTA (and other games) coming soon!

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WandererZero

In order:

9: FMJ, originally I thought this car was bad and a waste of money… until I learned how it worked and how to drive it. It’s pretty firm and bounces all over the place, so it takes some white knuckle driving skill to get the best out of it. Sucks for weaving in and out of city traffic, but is amazing in races that feature winding roads and plenty of room to work it. Biggest downside for me is that it has the Generic supercar sound, and as someone who had the Entity for over 2 years, that was not my favorite sound.

8: Ocelot, drove my friends Ocelot for a bit, and it was nice, but nothing really redeeming about it, aside from the price. Stupidly expensive means the majority will not buy it. Enjoy your diamond in the rough.

7: Armored/XLS, coming from a friend, it drives like a nice car that weighs about twice as much. Personally, I found it pretty boring, and starting the trend for useless secondary color options.

6: Contender, I do agree, pretty bland of a vehicle considering it used to be a single cab short bed F150 looking thing which was fun to drive, now it’s a mash up of a Tundra, Ram, and Raptor, the roof is rounded, the front doors aren’t color matched to the rest of the vehicle (1 shade lighter), but it drives nice, also, out of its class like the Drift Tampa, as mentioned.

5: Rumpo Custom, a very fun van and the only way to own a customized van anyway, considering you can only store half of the vans in the game and you can’t even do anything to any of them outside of the Paradise, Gang Burrito, and now the Rumpo Custom. Hilariously fun off-road, add aftermarket off road tires and you’ll be flipping yourself over taking turns. Fun over performance.

08/03/2016 - 01:30 |
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4: Regina, I like this wagon, as there aren’t many in it, but having the woodgrain permanently attached and in that shade of brown makes it not go with basically any color you could put on it. I don’t know why R* have some of these cars in-game but neglect them so much. I would much prefer the GTA 4 version, and maybe muscle it up a bit.

3 and 2, Dune and Brickade, basically the same vehicle in a different package, but the Dune is exponentially funner, especially when you knock the front bumper off, then you can ramp over most pedestrian traffic. It sucks that they’re pegasus vehicles, especially the Dune. Slightly shorter and it could fit in a garage, not including the glitch where they spawn livery-less as a personal vehicle too. Still hoping for a pegasus hanger customization update or something. The Brickade seems like an off road office or all terrain RV or something, it does seem silly to heavily limit the amount of people in it, as it should be like a bus, but it’s not. Considering you can “rent” a Brickade provided you have a large warehouse, buy the dune, pass on the Brickade.

1: X80 Proto, a wicked looking vehicle with handing that didn’t match. Made for straight line speed and nothing more. The start of the unique/different engine sounds, and quickly forgotten. Great color touches ensure more personalization than physical upgrades. Also, it climbs things at a stupid rate. Friend uses his to scale near-vertical walls at like 80 degrees or so. It’s definitely a waste of money compared to the new Stunning C*nts cars now though.

TL;DR, writer has no clue what he’s talking about for the majority of the list.

08/03/2016 - 01:30 |
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Anonymous

Well im never reading anything else you post…

08/03/2016 - 02:06 |
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Reiyn Simon

FMJ Review is wrong, ask every pro Racer. If you can drive properly it’s a beast
The Brickade and Dune have very true reviews and it don’t matter if the Dune is fastest in the service class cause it can only be used in off road races.
The Regina doesn’t deserve to be in this list purely cause it’s already obvious enough
The XLS was the fastest SUV so it’s justified in that regard + it’s armoured
The Contender was by no means intended to be a successor to the Sandking and is the fastest SUV so that’s justified
The Lynx review is to lenient cause the car is absolutely crap, it can’t turn or accelerate as well as half the cars in the sports class, hence why its the 24th fastest sports car I believe and is overpriced
The Rumpo custom isn’t that bad considering it’s price in comparison to recent DLC vehicles and is justified by it’s slight bulletproofness
The Proto is just really bad altogether considering it’s so light that in a racing situation if it gets slightly tapped once anywhere along the rear quarter panels/bumper it has a stroke and spins out. It is slower than the T20 and even the Osiris in some regards due to the fact it’s built to race on city tracks. Anywhere else and the T20 would obliterate it. And the Proto is overpriced in terms of performance…
And just a question, why isn’t the Drift Tampa on this list?

08/03/2016 - 02:10 |
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And before you fight back with it’s just an opinion, I know that. This is just my own opinion so bear with me if I say something is wrong. I do not mean it in that way I mean I don’t agree with you.

08/03/2016 - 02:13 |
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I just thought that the Drift Tampa would cause a sh*tstorm with Gymkhana fans, and also, it is quite the looker.

08/03/2016 - 02:18 |
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Roads-Watson

I’m honestly just assuming this is all one big troll to be honest.

‘ It is based off the “A-Team Van” - You keep telling yourself that

08/03/2016 - 03:30 |
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Not a troll as such, but my priority was to write a funny article, not an extremely accurate one. And to be honest, with that A-team van thing, I just couldn’t think of another “fast” van. So yes, my point is - don’t take it seriously.

08/03/2016 - 03:34 |
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Andrés Cely Herazo

I expected to find the dillettante on this list…

08/03/2016 - 04:14 |
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Anonymous

FMJ is fun
Ocelot is too much
XLS I get that one
Contender is fastest SUV
Rumpo Custom is rally van
Regina is Regina
Dune is Brickade
Brickade is Dune
My Proto looks like a tron car

08/03/2016 - 04:33 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Reginas gun be reginate.
Dunes be brickadin.

08/03/2016 - 22:01 |
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Anonymous

You can win almost any race online if you know how to play and It’s quite easy to outrun everybody and win a race with the FMJ unless you are against someone equally or better skilled than you with a fully customized 787B, and remember that the FMJ is a RWD car unlike most supercars so you cannot just floor it and expect it to go fast. About the X80 understeer, you just have to trail brake when necessary just like any other car.

08/03/2016 - 05:33 |
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Baden Gilmore

The only thing going through my head: next one better not be the futo

08/03/2016 - 06:14 |
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KyleAndTheClassics

Personally I love the Regina, it’s just fun to cruise the country in an old wagon, then again I’m biased since I drive and love slow old classic cars. But I wish they brought back the GTA IV TLaD version instead and had more customization to it (i.e. lowrider)

08/03/2016 - 06:18 |
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Can Elmen

XLS’ front looks more like Hyundai SantaFe actually, but I can agree with you that equivalent thing

08/03/2016 - 06:23 |
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