Bravado Gauntlet Hellfire
A two-door muscle coupe modelled on the Challenger SRT Demon.
The Gauntlet Hellfire is the straight-line car: a two-door muscle coupe based on the Challenger SRT Demon, built around a drag strip rather than a corner.
What a Demon actually is
The car it is drawn from is worth understanding, because it explains the whole vehicle. The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was a production car built specifically and openly for drag racing. It came with a narrower front tyre, drag radials at the back, a transmission brake, and a great deal of supercharged power. It was sold with a set of tools in a crate and the option to leave the passenger seat out.
It is a car with essentially one talent, pursued past the point of sense. That is a very good basis for a Grand Theft Auto vehicle.
How that plays
In practice a car like this is thrilling in a straight line and a liability everywhere else. Vice City's boulevards and the causeways out to the Keys are where it will be worth having. Anything involving a corner, a wet surface or the wetland tracks in Grassrivers will not be.
Rockstar has generally modelled its heavy muscle cars with deliberate rear-end looseness, which is the source of both the frustration and the appeal. Grand Theft Auto V's Gauntlet had it and the Hellfire variant, with more power on the same tyres, had more of it.
Series lineage
The Gauntlet has been Bravado's Challenger analogue since Grand Theft Auto V, and the Hellfire arrived later as the extreme version once the real Demon existed to copy. Its appearance in Grand Theft Auto 6 continues Rockstar's habit of carrying its more popular later additions forward rather than starting the catalogue from scratch.
What is not known
No specifications have been published, and Rockstar has not confirmed whether the standard Gauntlet appears alongside it. Whether drag racing exists as an activity has not been shown.
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