A Lamborghini Huracán painted as a police cruiser, a McLaren made up as a Leonida supercar and a Corvette wearing the plate of a state that doesn't exist pulled into a Miami gas station this week, and the clips spread fast. The footage shows a convoy of real cars modified to look like GTA 6 vehicles driving around the city, a little over a month before the game's November 19 launch.

Rockstar hasn't said a word about the convoy on any official channel we could check, and none of the cars carries a GTA 6 logo. Still, the models identified by the gaming press leave little doubt about where the idea came from.

Who was in the lineup

Putting together what Game Rant, TechWiser, Yahoo, GamingHQ and VGTimes describe from the videos:

  • a Lamborghini Huracán in police livery, the car that drew the most attention;
  • a McLaren modified to resemble the Progen Emerus;
  • a Chevrolet Corvette wrapped as a Coquette, with a Vice City look and a Leonida plate;
  • real-world takes on the Cheetah, Coquette D10, Tempesta and Manana;
  • a Buccaneer, listed only by TechWiser.

None of the reports we read names the base cars behind the Cheetah, Tempesta or Manana. GamingHQ describes the Tempesta as a Lamborghini-inspired supercar, the Manana as a series classic and the Coquette D10 as a model GTA Online players will recognize.

Vice Beach or Vice City?

This is where the coverage splits. Yahoo, VGTimes and TechWiser call the Lamborghini's paint job Vice Beach Police (TechWiser writes “Vice Beach Police Department”), while Game Rant and GamingHQ say Vice City police. The post that spread the first images, from the GTA 6 Info account on X crediting Instagram user @andrewblakeames, says “Vice Beach Police”. We're going with that, since it's closest to the original footage. Our read is that the mix-up comes from the rest of the campaign, the blimp and the signage, all carrying the Vice City brand.

It's more than a naming quibble. A Vice Beach badge would hint that the game has more than one municipal police force around Vice City, the way real South Florida does, where Miami and Miami Beach run separate departments. That's our speculation, not anything Rockstar has said.

The Leonida plates

The most deliberate touch is the plates. According to VGTimes, they match the Leonida plate design seen earlier in a teaser featuring a Suzuki. Leonida is the game's fictional, Florida-inspired state.

Most of the footage came from local accounts. Game Rant credits ONLY in DADE with clips of each car parked at a Shell station; TechWiser points to a post from @GTAVI_Countdown showing the convoy at the same station with a Vice City-branded Goodyear blimp drifting overhead. Yahoo describes the blimp too.

One more piece of the Miami campaign

The convoy is the latest move in a campaign that has been taking over the city for weeks. We've covered the “Welcome to Vice City” sign on the Kaseya Center and the aerial banners, a deal put at roughly $975,000 by Yahoo and TechWiser citing GameSpot, as well as the Wynwood Walls partnership and the Miami Heat's Vice City night. TechWiser adds that Hard Rock Stadium was plastered in GTA 6 branding over a recent weekend, and that branded beach chairs and umbrellas have turned up on South Florida beaches.

TechWiser also reports that the cars are part of a campaign approved by the City of Miami Beach and valued at $3 million to $4 million. We didn't find that figure in any other source we read, so treat it as single-outlet reporting.

What about the county fight?

Game Rant says the deal with local officials was eventually completed despite early opposition from Commissioner Juan Carlos Bermudez and Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, who tied the series to crime. TechWiser paints a less settled picture: Commissioner Micky Steinberg said she is philosophically opposed, René Garcia complained the campaign portrays Miami “like a murder capital”, and Chairman Anthony Rodriguez argued that GTA 6 is fiction, that adults can tell a game from real life, and that turning down the money and attention makes little sense.

Those accounts don't have to clash. As we read it, the City of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County are separate governments, so the convoy can run under one deal while the other is still being argued over. The county's broader proposal, covering the airport, the port and the Metromover, is the one we reported is headed for a commission vote.

Are these cars actually in the game?

Cheetah, Coquette, Tempesta and Manana are long-running names in the series. But Rockstar hasn't published an official GTA 6 vehicle list on any page we checked, and the convoy came with no announcement. The fair way to put it: the campaign strongly suggests these models are back, and confirmation will only come from official material or the game itself.

Rockstar typically uses fictional brands modeled on real cars. That's why a real Huracán can play dress-up as a car that will carry a different name and badge in the game.

Anything like this outside Florida?

Not in the sources we read. The street campaign is concentrated in South Florida, the template for Vice City and the place where Rockstar's team did much of its research for the game. Everyone else will have to follow along through clips on X and Instagram until November 19, when the game launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PC version, according to GamesBeat, is expected in the first quarter of 2027.