West Coast Customs built the GTA 6 cars from the Miami convoy, and one's on sale for £1 million

The GTA 6 cars that people filmed driving around Miami in October were built by West Coast Customs for Rockstar. Complex reported it on 7 November, working from a press release: Rockstar partnered with the Los Angeles shop on six real cars. The side-by-side shots with the game went up a day earlier on HypeDrive, Hypebeast's car account on Instagram.

That answers the question we left open in our convoy piece. Back then a few posts credited West Coast Customs and nobody had confirmed it. Now it's on the plates. Complex says the frames read "VI", "West Coast Customs" and carry the Rockstar logo, around Leonida plates with Vice City lettering.

PC Games Hardware's Sven Bauduin says Rockstar commissioned the cars for the launch campaign, and that the mid-October convoy through Miami and over to Key Biscayne was a promo shoot. Notebookcheck adds two of the locations: the 1111 Lincoln Road car park in Miami Beach and the old Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key.

The six cars

Here's the line-up, with the build details from PC Games Hardware's write-up of the HypeDrive posts:

• Grotti Cheetah: a 90s-style mid-engined supercar, lowered, in a blue-to-pink "Vice City Fade" with Italian leather inside.
• Pegassi Tempesta: the one that led the convoy, in Vice Beach Police Department livery. Miami onlookers said they could see a Lamborghini Huracán under it.
• Progen Emerus: candy orange, race suspension and a big rear wing.
• Invetero Coquette: lowered, in a pink and violet "Yeti Camo".
• Albany Manana: a 70s donk in Vice City blue, with gold bumpers, gold-chrome wheels and raised suspension.
• Albany Buccaneer: the oldest of the six, a restored 60s lowrider in apple-green candy with airbrushed pinstripes, gold spoke wheels, air suspension and zebra-print seats.

The Buccaneer's the one I'd want to see in the game. A green lowrider with a zebra interior is about as Vice City as a car gets.

What's under them

Rockstar hasn't named the donor cars, and Notebookcheck says so plainly. What it does list is what the in-game designs are drawn from: the Cheetah from the 80s Ferrari Testarossa, the Tempesta from the Huracán, the Emerus from the McLaren Senna, the Coquette from the mid-engined Corvette C8, the Manana from a late-60s Cadillac Eldorado and the Buccaneer from a mix of Buick Riviera and Ford Fairlane.

Be a bit careful with the engine numbers going round. The posts list a 4.9-litre V8 for the Cheetah and a 4.0-litre V10 for the Tempesta, among others, but PC Games Hardware points out that a real Huracán has a 5.2. It thinks at least some of those figures describe the cars in the game, not the builds.

Complex says the press release describes old-school metalwork mixed with composite panels, CNC-machined wheels and structural parts, and custom paint on each car.

The Cheetah's in London, with a price tag

One of them has already left Miami. The Grotti Cheetah is on show at Selfridges' Corner Shop in London as part of a GTA 6 pop-up running from 9 to 28 November, and Man of Many and Dexerto both report it's for sale at £1 million. You can't add it to a basket. Buyers have to go through Selfridges Personal Shopping. Man of Many says it's the only one of the six confirmed for sale.

Nobody's said where the other five end up, or whether they'll be shown anywhere else before 19 November.

Have we seen them in the game?

Several of these names were already in our vehicles overview from the trailers and screenshots, and the Cheetah's an Ultimate Edition car with its own wiki page. A real car in a car park still isn't the game, so these builds don't change anything's status there. We'll update it once people are actually driving them.

This isn't the first time, either. West Coast Customs built a real Bravado Banshee for Rockstar in 2013 to promote GTA 5, off a Dodge Viper. This time it built six.