Real GTA 6 cars are driving around Miami, led by a Vice City police Lamborghini

On 15 and 16 October, people in Miami started posting videos of a convoy of cars that should not exist: six to eight of them, in Grand Theft Auto VI liveries, on Leonida plates, driving through the city and out over the causeway to Key Biscayne.

Leading them was a Lamborghini Huracán dressed as a Vice City police car, with the full livery and the lights.

What was in the convoy

The cars are real cars wrapped and kitted to look like their GTA versions. Matching the in-game names to what is under the wrap is guesswork, but the line-up reported from the footage includes:

• A Vice City police Lamborghini Huracán
• Two Corvette-based Invetero Coquettes, one of them with an angular body kit
• A McLaren-based hypercar dressed as the Progen Emerus
• A classic Ferrari dressed as the Grotti Cheetah
• Classic American coupes styled as the Albany Manana and a green Albany Buccaneer with gold wheels and a zebra-print interior

Several of those names are already in our vehicle list from the trailers and screenshots. A car in a parking lot is not the same as a car in the game, so none of them changes its status there.

And a blimp

At one point the convoy stopped at a petrol station, and in the video a GTA VI blimp is overhead. Another was reported flying down the coast. Between the cars, the Welcome to Vice City sign on the Kaseya Center, the Heat's Vice City night and the City of Miami's banners, Rockstar is now doing in Miami roughly what its games do to Miami.

Who built them

Nobody has said. Several posts credit West Coast Customs, which built a real Bravado Banshee for Rockstar in 2013 to promote GTA V, but that is a reasonable guess rather than a confirmation. Rockstar has not posted about the convoy at all.

There is also talk, from a single account on X, that the cars were being filmed for a live-action video. That is a rumour, and it is labelled as one here.

What is not known

Who organised it, whether it is part of a filmed campaign, and whether the cars will turn up anywhere else before launch. If they do, it will almost certainly be in Miami.