The Premier is a four-door sedan featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , Grand Theft Auto IV , Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online .
The Premier is a four-door sedan featured in GTA: San Andreas, GTA IV, GTA V and GTA Online. It is manufactured by Declasse in the .
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it is the civilian version of the Taxi and the Police Car, it also appears to be a "cousin" of the bulkier Elegant, while the more compact HD Universe rendition seems to be the older brother of the Asea.
The Premier strongly resembles a 1993-1994 Chevrolet Caprice, meaning it was likely a brand new model (the game is set in 1992, model years are generally one year ahead). The grille is lined with chrome and is split down the middle vertically, similar to the 1982-1984 or 1987-1988 Pontiac 6000. The tail lights, which are rectangular in shape as opposed to the Caprice's rounder tail lights, might have some influence from 1992-1994 Ford Crown Victoria's. Its very boxy greenhouse looks closer to the Australian Holden VK Commodore, but this may be to conserve graphics. In fact, graphics are likely to blame for the car's resemblance to the facelifted Caprice; a beta Police Car had a much closer resemblance to the 1991 model.
The car assumes a relatively simple design, with a wide grille, wide lights, large bumpers and ample room for four occupants. The Premier is the base car for San Andreas' Taxi, and the San Fierro Police Department's and Los Santos Police Department's Police cars. The Premier is available in a variety of single-tone colors.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, the Premier is redesigned as a more modernized compact design, which is more suited for urban city streets. It largely resembles the Chevrolet Cobalt, with some details that resemble the Daewoo Lacetti and the 2005-2011 Chevrolet Aveo sedan (for its Altezza style tail light design). Its front and rear are also similar to the Citroën C5 2001-2007.
Compared to the 3D Universe iteration, the car has a sleeker and more compact design, where the front bumper sports a lower grille that spans about half the car's width and a license plate in the center, followed by circular fog lamps beside the grille and inset formations with thin intakes on the outer edges of the bumper, whose upper lines coincide with the upper border of the grille. Above the bumper region, there is a rectangular upper grille with a slightly narrower width compared to the lower grille, a silver finish and five horizontal separations, while the outer sections have silver rounded headlight housings with sharp inner edges and black trim. Each one of the housings contains large circular headlights in the center, smaller ones on the inner edges and tiny amber indicators on the outer edges. The hood has distinctive lines that appear to start from around the headlight housings and almost reach the lower corners of the windshield, while the Declasse logo can be seen just above the upper grille.
The sides of the car make use of flared wheel arches and thin ridges separating the side skirts from the rest of the car, while additional ridges are seen passing through the doors and body lines that run parallel to the waist lines, starting from the upper edges of the headlight housings and leading towards the upper edges of the tail lights. The greenhouse area bears plastic/polymer trim around the windows and wide gaps for the front and rear doors, while the painted mirror shells are seen near the A-pillars, and an aerial sits on the roof. Silver horizontal door handles are fitted as standard.
The rear of the car consists of the trunk lid with a protruding lip on the upper border, a dedicated section for the license plate, and additional badges on the lower corners that display the car's name and manufacturer. Next to the trunk are rounded housings with similar features to the frontal ones, where each housing contains large circular red lights on the outer/central sections, small reverse lights on the inner sides, and wide amber indicator bars on the bottom edges. Below the upper region, there is the large rear bumper with a slightly impressed formation in the middle, while the bottom area features a vented section that is about two-thirds of the car's width and has two moldings for the exhaust pipes.
