GTA Online Import/Export & Vehicle Warehouse Guide
A full GTA Online import export guide: buy a Vehicle Warehouse, source cars by range, avoid damage, and bank up to $80,000 profit per top range export.
The GTA Online import export business is one of the most reliable CEO money methods in the game, and it all runs through a single property: the Vehicle Warehouse. Once you own one, you steal high-end cars off the streets, store them, then export them for a clean profit. With the right setup, a single top range car nets $80,000 per sale. This guide covers buying a warehouse, sourcing cars, managing your stock by range, avoiding damage, and squeezing the most money out of every export.
What You Need to Start Import/Export
Vehicle Cargo arrived with the Import/Export update and is built around the CEO role. Before you can buy a Vehicle Warehouse you need an Executive Office, which registers you as a CEO and unlocks the SecuroServ network. With an office in place, open the SecuroServ laptop or the Dynasty 8 Executive site and pick a warehouse.
There are 9 Vehicle Warehouse locations, priced from $1,500,000 (La Mesa, the cheapest) up to $2,850,000 (Murrieta Heights). Location barely affects the business itself since source missions send you all over the map, so buy the cheapest one that suits you unless you want a specific neighborhood.
How Sourcing Cars Works
Each Vehicle Warehouse holds up to 40 cars. You source a vehicle by starting a sourcing mission from the warehouse computer, which spawns a target car somewhere in Los Santos or Blaine County. Drive to it, deal with any rival NPCs (and sometimes the law), then deliver it back to the warehouse to add it to your stock.
The pool contains 32 distinct models split into three ranges:
- Standard range (10 models): the cheapest economy and compact cars
- Mid range (10 models): mid-tier sports cars and sedans
- Top range (12 models): the high earners, including the Pegassi Osiris, Progen T20, Grotti X80 Proto, Truffade Z-Type, and Pfister 811-class supercars
The game pulls your next target at random, but it will not give you a duplicate model until you have one of each of the 32 stored. That single rule is the key to the whole money method.
Forcing Only Top Range Cars
This is the part every serious import export operator learns. Because the game avoids duplicates, you can flood your warehouse with cheap cars to lock out the cheap spawns.
Source and permanently keep all 10 Standard range and all 10 Mid range models in the warehouse, and never sell them. With 20 of the 32 models occupied by junk, every future sourcing mission can only roll one of the 12 top range cars. From that point on you are sourcing $80,000 exports and nothing else.
It takes patience to build that 20-car buffer, but once it exists your import export loop is pure top range. Keep your warehouse around three-quarters full so there is always room to source and store another exotic before selling.
You can see the full map of source spawns and warehouse interiors on the GTA Online game hub, and our screenshots gallery shows the warehouse fit-outs.
Export Profit Per Car
When you sell, you choose a buyer. The Specialist Dealer pays the most because the buyer wants the car heavily modified, and that modification fee is taken upfront and folded into the math. Selling a car in mint condition through the Specialist Dealer pays:
- Standard range: $30,000
- Mid range: $50,000
- Top range: $80,000 (a $100,000 commission minus the $20,000 modification cost)
The lower-paying buyer options (private sale and showroom) net $40,000 and $60,000 for a top range car respectively, so always pick the Specialist Dealer when the modification request is one you can fulfill. There is roughly a 20-minute cooldown between exports, which caps you at around three top range sales per hour solo.
If you and your organization deliver a full collection of cars together, an extra collection bonus of $20,000 to $50,000 is shared among the members who contributed.
Avoiding Damage to Protect Your Profit
The export prices above assume the car arrives in mint condition. Every scratch chips away at your payout, so damage control is where most of the real money is won or lost.
- Source carefully: do not ram the target car, shoot out its tires, or trade it down a hillside.
- Bring the car back gently. The repair deduction on a top range export can erase a large slice of that $80,000 if you drive recklessly.
- Watch other players. In a public lobby, griefers will try to blow up your cargo. Source in an invite-only or solo public session where possible.
- If the modification request from the Specialist Dealer is something awkward (for example a specific paint or sale window you cannot hit cleanly), it can be worth taking the showroom buyer instead of forcing a damaged sale.
Treat every source-and-store trip as the easy half and every export drive as the part that actually pays you. Clean deliveries are the difference between a $80,000 car and a $50,000 one. For more money methods and unlocks, check the GTA Online cheats and tips page.
Quick Reference
- Requirement: CEO Office, then a Vehicle Warehouse ($1.5M–$2.85M, 9 locations)
- Capacity: 40 cars, sourced from 32 models (10 standard, 10 mid, 12 top)
- Strategy: keep all 20 standard and mid models stored to force top range spawns
- Best buyer: Specialist Dealer, $80,000 per mint top range car
- Cooldown: about 20 minutes between exports
- Profit killer: damage, so deliver clean
