The Cartel Cruiser is the gang vehicle of the Colombian Cartel featured in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories .
The Cartel Cruiser is the gang vehicle of the Colombian Cartel featured in GTA III and GTA: Liberty City Stories.
The Cartel Cruiser is a four-door pickup truck resembling a ninth generation Ford F-Series with the side profile of a fourth generation Chevrolet C/K-Series. The Cruiser also features a roll bar in the back, side runners, a blue paint job, and fog lights on the grill. In GTA III, the reverse lights are mounted on the rear bumper; however, they are integrated into the tail light clusters in GTA Liberty City Stories; rear fog lights take the place of the reverse lights on the bumper instead in this game.
Similarly to the Forelli Exsess, Sindacco Argento and Yardie Lobo, it does not have a civilian variant, but its closest civilian counterpart, however, is the Bobcat. It is one of the only two four-door pickup trucks in the 3D Universe.
At one point of game development of GTA III, the Cartel Cruiser was known as the Columbia, which is possibly a reference to the name of the Colombian Cartel. The old name is still evidently used in a showcase of the truck on the official Rockstar North website. Also, in some pre-release screenshots, the truck is depicted in a black color and a grey trunk texture that were removed from the final model.
