Los Santos and Blaine County — Michael, Trevor, and Franklin's three-protagonist masterclass.
GTA V's car list runs into the hundreds, and a lot of those are filler. The handful below are the cars you actually remember from a playthrough: the Hollywood-fast supercars Trevor never affords, the import-flavoured GT cars that make Los Santos feel like a real coastal city, and the all-American muscle that the Vinewood Hills demand by law. We ranked by a mix of top-end performance, story footprint, and how often they show up on the cover art of someone's playthrough.
The Adder is GTA V's Bugatti Veyron, full stop. Sits at the absolute top of the supercar tier for raw top speed and is the car the entire single-player economy was built around when the game launched. Buying one used to be the late-game purchase ceiling; even with newer DLC cars edging past it, the Adder still owns the iconography of being rich in Los Santos.
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The Zentorno is a Lamborghini Sesto Elemento with the styling cranked up another notch. For years it was the practical pick over the Adder, with better cornering and a more usable top speed across the LS freeway network. Trevor's Vinewood detour car, and the default flex for a player who's done with the story and just wants to terrorize traffic.
GTA V's take on the McLaren P1, the T20 is the supercar that finally took the speed crown away from the Adder in pure handling tests. Hybrid-styled bodywork, brutal acceleration out of corners, and one of the few cars where the in-game looks actually do justice to the real-world inspiration.
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The X80 Proto is GTA V's Ferrari F80 Concept, an actual unreleased real-world car turned into a fully-driveable in-game one. It has no street presence whatsoever and looks like a spaceship in the rearview mirror of anything else on the road. The car you spawn when you want a friend's free-roam session to ask what they just saw.
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The Elegy RH8 is the Nissan GT-R analogue, and it's free to anyone who linked a Rockstar Social Club account at launch. Fast, predictable handling, and uniquely good at racing the supercar tier despite sitting one rung below. The community's default 'first real car' for years.
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Obey's 9F is GTA V's Audi R8, with the V10 growl to match. Sharper handling than most of the European exotics, a sleek coupe profile, and a convertible variant for the times you want the LS sun on your face while you're being chased by five star wanteds.
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The Infernus moved from Italian supercar legend in the 3D era to Lamborghini Murcielago analogue in GTA V. It lost its top-of-the-table crown to newer DLC supercars but kept its silhouette, its name, and the sentimental claim to being the single car most synonymous with the Grand Theft Auto series.
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The Cheetah in GTA V is a Ferrari LaFerrari (a far cry from the Vice City Testarossa). It's a mid-tier supercar by HD-era pricing but one of the prettier ones to chase down the Vespucci coast. The default Lifeinvader-millionaire pick before you start blowing real money on the Adder.
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A Dodge Viper SRT-10, all bonnet and exhaust. The Banshee is the muscle-flavoured American sports car that bridges the gap between the Dominator's pure muscle and the supercar tier. Cheap to insure, fast enough to take any non-supercar in a straight line, and one of the most common starter cars in early-game Online too.
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Franklin's car. The Dominator is GTA V's Ford Mustang, the muscle car the entire single-player ending arc revolves around. It is not the fastest car here and it does not pretend to be, but it is the one with story weight. Spawning a Dominator and cruising Sandy Shores still feels like the most Grand Theft Auto thing in the game.
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