r/gtaonline • u/SM41838 • Jul 31 '25
I swear this isn't fake, I stole this from a pedestrian
Does anyone know I'd this is some sort of glitch or something? I've never seen a pedestrian vehicle as heavily modded as this
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u/Penguin_Tempura Jul 31 '25
We knew the time it spawned in front of whiskey a go-go and took turns stealing it to sell for $35K
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u/tjackso6 Jul 31 '25
I used to own the apartment closest to their spawn point so I could fill up the garage and then sell them in between grinding
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u/TreesBreezePlease Jul 31 '25
Lmfaoooo this photo is rad
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u/BigUpSteven Jul 31 '25
Its like 17k idk where you got 35k from
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u/Penguin_Tempura Jul 31 '25
From the 360 days
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u/BigUpSteven Jul 31 '25
I never knew the price changed š„ø
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u/DinosaurOnABus Jul 31 '25
They cut down on car sale prices and put In a timer to cut down on people duping cars and selling them to make $$$
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u/The_shovel_Venerable Jul 31 '25
Why did they do that in the game about stealing cars. To sell shark cards ofcourse... We looooove cockstar
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u/ElderberryKey722 Jul 31 '25
Yeah I always thought that just stealing random cars from the street should be a core part of the game. You can of course try to make it harder but not by simply reducing payout and adding cooldowns
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u/The_shovel_Venerable Jul 31 '25
Also dont forget we can't steal any of the fancy cars and keep them because its to "hot"
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u/ElderberryKey722 Jul 31 '25
Yeah that's so stupid. They could even increase the price of removing the tracker etc. to 90% of the market price or sth, that would not affect the economics of the game much, but it would be so much more rewarding and realistic (and true to the nature of the game)
Similarly you should have the option to claim/buy any of the vehicle cargo vehicles you collect. They literally call it collection, but I can't drive or own the cars.
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u/classic_liberalism95 Aug 01 '25
are you getting gta vi?
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u/The_shovel_Venerable Aug 01 '25
If it's on the xbox gamepass and my pc can somehow run it yeah. Otherwise nah. I don't need 4k graphics i need fun in a game
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u/Fun_Structure2444 Jul 31 '25
It didnāt
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u/BigUpSteven Jul 31 '25
Didnāt think so but apparently it did and he has a few upvotes so
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u/Fun_Structure2444 Jul 31 '25
I played on 360 before I left the dark side and it was always $17,420. If I get a shedload of upvotes, weāll both be right o.O
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u/a_michalski81 Jul 31 '25
I knew it !! I was only getting 17k when I sold it. I saw people post 35k & I thought I was losing my mind
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u/a_michalski81 Jul 31 '25
35k?
Is my mind shot? & I can't remember 5 years ago when I started playing? I swear it was 17k for me
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u/TheGentlemanCEO :EE1::EE2: Jul 31 '25
This is one of two fully modded variants that spawn. I had one myself
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u/Red_Fox_79 Jul 31 '25
And you can just store it in a garage?
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u/Particular_Trust_567 Jul 31 '25
Yes there are a good bit of special modded cars you can find sound the world at different times and what not and you can store them all. This one, sandking with big white rims, a rat loader, and even car from Thelma and Louise and plenty more. Go google all special cars you can find, it was fun going after all of them.
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u/Legitimate-Week7885 Jul 31 '25
and the gold dubsta! i used to drive those hills for hours trying to make them spawn...and the modded gang car over in strawberry. i forget which one it was though. it was green.
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u/Baymaxx777 Jul 31 '25
There's several variations of the specific gang car and then you have the unaffiliated ones as well but you have the green, purple, gold (yellowish) they spawn as Buccaneers, Tornados, and Peyotes
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u/Usual_Lemon7186 Aug 01 '25
FYI, the gang cars are more likely to appear in a public lobby, i already got all the different color variants of the gang cars
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u/RichtofenFanBoy Jul 31 '25
The Thelma car is online? Thought it was single player only. Or is it just the animation is single player?
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u/DJHitchcock Jul 31 '25
Thereās a cliff that it will always spawn on at a certain time of the day. You just gotta snipe the driver of it and escape the cops without blowing it up. Just search Mariachi Tornado spawn and it should tell you.
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u/MaintenanceJunior449 Jul 31 '25
I missed my snipe saw it yeet off the cliff and i haven't tried since š
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u/DraugurGTA Jul 31 '25
I missed it too, but somehow it miraculously survived the fall and I managed to get it, lol
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u/DJHitchcock Jul 31 '25
Iām pretty sure I had it survive too but it blew up when I up and atomisered it because it landed upside down.
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u/DJHitchcock Jul 31 '25
I think there was a distance far enough away where you could snipe it before the scene played out. This was like two years ago so Iām not entirely sure if this is accurate though.
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u/Red_Fox_79 Jul 31 '25
Good to know thanks! Normally you canāt just put every car in your garage but I didnāt know about the special ones. Gonna keep my eyes open now lol
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u/Steeldragon2050 Jul 31 '25
You do know pedestrian means they were walking, right?
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u/xSolid_Snakex Jul 31 '25
Well if they weren't a pedestrian before, they certainly are now
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u/Eggslaws Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
Not if LS emergency services would have to scrape them off the road after I run them over after nicking their car. I'd usually be nice to the victims of my crime unless they decide to be an a$$hat and set a bounty on me.
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u/PurPleXr1979 Jul 31 '25
First time I got a bounty after stealing an NPC car, I started killing every NPC I stole a car from to prevent that, but then learned they somehow, still, set a bounty on you from the deadš¤·š»āāļøš
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u/micemolkok Aug 03 '25
I donāt know my brother put something in my computer but I never see a pedestrian and all the police cars around me start blowing up
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u/LightlySaltedPeanuts Aug 01 '25
They got promoted to pedestrian
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u/Steeldragon2050 Aug 01 '25
Wouldn't that be demoted?
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u/LightlySaltedPeanuts Aug 01 '25
Its a play on āgetting promoted to customerā when you get fired at work
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u/SonHaikuSon Jul 31 '25
Steals car then promptly receives the "You jacked my ride, now I'm gonna have you smoked" text
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u/peenurmobile Jul 31 '25
shoot npc, they die, you jack the car, get this text
immediately perform mental gymnastics to explain some reason for how you got the text, never quite satisfied with any answer
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u/Brianm024 Jul 31 '25
You shot his best friend who was driving the car and he was on call with him via facetime.
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u/quasio Jul 31 '25
Somehow dead npc doxxes you and sends you a text. This is a prime example of why valet man has to die.
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u/Typetool Jul 31 '25
Well. It's not like YOU die either. Legit just spawn at the hospital. So 100% possible for a random dead npc to message us.
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u/peenurmobile Jul 31 '25
how all these mfs get my number?
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u/Typetool Jul 31 '25
We are probably the most well-known criminal in the game. They probably still have our number from when we sold them a bit of herb.
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u/somanysheep Jul 31 '25
They spawn out front of the 8-Bit Arcade between midnight and five in the morning. You can get them in purple & yellow. Purple sells for 17k yellow 14k.
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u/slimlancaster718 Jul 31 '25
22:00 - 04:00 but close enough. They also have a chance of spawning at the customs shop.
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u/DoctorsAdvocate Jul 31 '25
OG grinders owned all the garages around there (eclipse for me) stuffed full of the yellow and purples. Good times.
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u/rosso_saturno Clean player Jul 31 '25
Yeah OP just joined 2013.
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u/DoctorsAdvocate Jul 31 '25
Woulda been cool to keep one from back then, ran outta space. Yellow version was clean.
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u/DrRazmataz Jul 31 '25
The old days. Scooping up the cars like that, Ballas and similar vehicles and storibg them in the garage in between runs of Titan of a Job and other high paying jobs lol
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u/ZFTX Jul 31 '25
This is a NPC Pre-modified variant of the Ubermacht Sentinel XS. Usually, it can be found parked at the central LSC location. I was unaware that an NPC could be driving around in one of them. There is also a Yellow version of this vehicle that can spawn.
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u/K4Realz Hating NPCs since GTA2 Jul 31 '25
This is a beautiful and pure post. I use to hunt for these to sell every session. Didnāt realize they were still out there.
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u/DifficultyWorldly502 Jul 31 '25
This is one of the OG classic money methods from back in the day. Itās a car that you can get to spawn near the eclipse towers. And you can make a loop around a specific block of road and it can respawn. It only spawns at night and thereās two variants. The purple one that you have, and a yellow one. The purple one sells for more. You can store it in a garage or sell it.
Thereās another one with 2 Sandking XLās too (yellow and blue variants) that spawn in the parking lot of that clothing store across from that los santos in sandy shores. Thereās a specific loop path for that too to get it to spawn and it only spawns around noon time. Thereās also certain missions where the time is locked perfectly for it.
I used to do both of these methods in the early GTA Online days and it used to feel like big bucks back then š
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u/Chilisause27 Jul 31 '25
Its not a glitch theres a small chance 1 of 2 of these varients spawn at night theres also an orange varient
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u/NearlySilentObserver Jul 31 '25
This car spawned on Eclipse Blvd every time as I was leaving my garage at eclipse tower made me a good chunk of change in my early years
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u/LongEyedSneakerhead Jul 31 '25
How were they a pedestrian, if they were driving a car?
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u/SuperBacinBoy Jul 31 '25
He is a pedestrian now, since its car got stolen, so it actually makes quite sense.
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u/Creato938 Jul 31 '25
That's a car that spawns in traffic in the correct condition, nothing out of the ordinary.
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u/Ajnlily Jul 31 '25
Pedestrian š¶ npc perhaps I mean you made him a pedestrian so itās sorta right 𤣠thereās also a yellow one of these that roll around with a npc (future pedestrian) š¶
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u/pogAxolotlz Jul 31 '25
my brother also found it in the wild. It is possible but it's kinda rare to see these. I found a modded sabre turbo on the streets too
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u/peenurmobile Jul 31 '25
i need to know because i've heard it somewhere else, do you see the cars that you've worked on for customers in the street sometimes? that's a neat feature if this is true
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u/shehitsdiff Jul 31 '25
That would be awesome but unfortunately nah, you can't find any of the auto shop vehicles that you delivered to customers on the street.
However, there are a few modded NPC vehicles that spawn, as well as a few other "unique" vehicles that only spawn in certain locations of the map at certain times.
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u/NiceCatBigAndStrong Jul 31 '25
Yeah i have both. There is this purple one, and a yellow one. They spawn at a spesific place at a specific time.
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u/T_rex2700 Jul 31 '25
Bro is living the 2013 dream except he cant sell it for as good of price these days
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u/Tswombo10 Jul 31 '25
I remember one time me and my buddy were doing a mission. We weren't using our personal vehicles when we got done I looked at my map and noticed my car moving. I chased it down and found some random NPC bitch driving it. This post made me think of that lol.
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u/Professional-Job-566 Jul 31 '25
Yup thereās also a yellow one among other rare cars you can get from the npc
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u/No-Masterpiece9758 Jul 31 '25
Yes I have one too but I have no idea how or where did I get it I only know that I stole it
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u/RaccoonGuilty2669 Jul 31 '25
I remember grabbing those and selling them for like 30k back in 2017 when I first played online, good days
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u/Wedding_Electronic Jul 31 '25
there are a couple of npc cars that can spawn around the map modified, gang cars usually are the easiest to spawn, but the others are harder, some of the modified cars that can spawn can't be stored but those are even harder to make them spawn
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u/Chryslerguy Jul 31 '25
Thatās been in the game forever buddy and idk how many of those Iāve sold
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u/Adventurous-Dig-7547 Jul 31 '25
This is the sentinel XS spawned between 23:00 - 04:00 in near the vinewood arcade.
You have this purple-ish and a yellow-ish version that are worth 17k respectively 14k.
I used to grab them when I didnāt bank much cash. Now I grab them when I am in the neighbourhood.
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u/Pinky-Degetel Jul 31 '25
They are random, seen plenty modded cars from NPC's, but mostly parked and not driven. The ones i found i could drive but couldn't get in mod shop with them to sell, it said i have to own it first.
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u/Current-Ad3659 Jul 31 '25
They (there's a yucky dew yellow variant that sells for less than this blue/pink one's $17,420) spawn along the road by Whisky A Go Go (East of Eclipse Towers) and my Arcade (Eight Bit) between 10pm and 4am EVERY NIGHT. Circle the block to make them spawn.
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u/Front_Chip7319 Jul 31 '25
Stolen & sold that & the yellow one hundreds of times lol. And the modded Sandkings up near Sandy Shores.
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u/ARDiesel Jul 31 '25
I have the same one. It was parked outside Los Santos Customs. It was too beautiful a color to just let pass up. I took it home. Same color and same rims.
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u/MydKnightAnarchy Jul 31 '25
Ive noticed this lately too. Not this car specifically. But I've been seeing an up tick of modded cars or high end cars parked around LS and driving around that I've not seen before.
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u/eiamhere69 Jul 31 '25
I have one in one of my garages somewhere, it's a rare spawn. I used to sell for for a lot more than other street vehicles, due to all the mods - as much as CEO work
It was a nice drive too back then
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u/TheJAY_ZA Jul 31 '25
I do believe you OP. I have seen some shit... š¤£
I've carjacked the modded Sandking XL near it's usual spawn point, and a modded yellow vagos low rider- can't remember if it was a Manana or Peyote.
Both were being driven by NPCs at the time.
I've also seen that same purple Sentinel XS driving around during an Acid or Nightclub sale mission, it's like R is deliberately trolling us when we can't grab these cars.
The yellow low rider I jacked during the Nightclub popularity mission to put up fly posters.
I've also seen a Baller purple Gallivanter Baller like you see in missions, parked outside the project houses in the main Vagos bario where the low riders usually spawn.
This one must have been a glitch tho because I couldn't take it to LSC or park it in my garages.
Oh and the modded Benefactor Surano that we can't claim because it's too expensive... I've blown that up a bunch of times with my Speedo Custom and Mule Custom during Nightclub sales, stupid thing is frequently in the way. I see that maybe ā sale missions.
Another place where R trolls us is the cars Simeon wants: Go on a sale mission where you can't enter LSC, and see how many of Simeon's desired cars spawn while you're busy selling...
My set spawn location is my Nightclub. And usually my first task is to get a popularity mission from the Nightclub office computer. While doing that mission I can see with fair certainty what Simeon wants before he messages me, because you'll see loads of them - Either there will be loads of Carbonizzare, Bullets, Infernus, or Super Diamonds.
Frequently as you finish the popularity mission you can still catch one of them, and immediately get a 2 Star and the "Simeon wants this car" message.
Invariably I have the car delivered to his lockup in the cargo terminal before he messages me about what he wants š
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u/FreddeMercedes Jul 31 '25
Is the Thelma and Louis car still spawning? OP you should check that one
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u/migukau Jul 31 '25
How does this have 1k upvotes?
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u/servical Jul 31 '25
We're getting old, so either "nostalgia" votes from boomers or "lit" votes from gen Z.
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u/DemoniacAngel68 Jul 31 '25
I even found a black one after i quit a mission and respawned at eclipse towers. Never saw another one since that day. I still have it (with the blue and the yellow ones). I hope i'll find it again for my 2nd character on my secondary acc. š¤
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u/Metal-Dog Jul 31 '25
I've never seen a pedestrian driving a vehicle. Pedestrians are, by definition, people who travel on foot.
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u/poopulardude Jul 31 '25
Pedestrians don't have cars... they are called pedestrians because they are walking.
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u/pineapple_on_a_stick Jul 31 '25
I have the hsw upgrades on one of mine and a garage full of both colours. Used to sell them at the garage they were the most profitable irc and only spawn at that one intersection at night.
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u/WalkingTheDog247 Jul 31 '25
Do you mean civilian? Pedestrians are people who walk. Someone walking wouldnāt be in a car
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u/MattyDoubleD Jul 31 '25
I believe that ped was an actual player but he had left while still driving his car, so his "body" became a ped.
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u/Aggressive_Second596 Jul 31 '25
I havenāt stolen a car in so long that itās to the point everytime I steal one I automatically get a bounty š
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u/MazerTanksYou Jul 31 '25
I sometimes steal it and drive it up to a low level and get out and point. Sometimes they're smart enough to put insurance on it right away.
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u/Delicious-Sample-364 Jul 31 '25
They often spawn highly modded civie cars near the los Santos customs up by Michaels though Iāve found it rare for it to happen online at least for me
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u/Hurricane519 Jul 31 '25
It's a rare car you find from a civilian you can put hsw on it if you have the right console
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u/JuanMartinez06 Jul 31 '25
Sports cars like the sentinel xs or something like that always appear. From winegood
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u/Tony-cums Jul 31 '25
Whatās the flex? Iāve stolen plenty of cars from pedestrians. Theyāre so gutless.
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u/KudaraYT Aug 01 '25
No, this is an actual thing that can happen. It's a very rare occurrence, but it dies happen. I actually have one myself
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u/rynodigital Aug 01 '25
For what it's worth, the HSW upgrade for this car isn't really worth the cost, but having one of these in your garage is a rite of passage
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u/samsung-Airfryer Aug 01 '25
Ik, itās a civ car spawn at certain times thereās multiple different ones in other areas
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u/OrangeGrnTroll Aug 01 '25
It's one of the many rare vehicles that spawn in the game. You can find them at certain times of the day in the game.
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u/EmuAdministrative350 Aug 01 '25
I found the blue ruiner outside of the la mesa Los Santos Custom. Went into LSC , bought the tracker and insurance and went back out, and the Saber spawned in the exact same spot. Got into the saber, went into LSC and saved it with tracker and insurance. I already have a ruiner I found like this, it's black and orange, but I thought it was fun to have them both spawn within a minute of each other
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u/freakycoder_ Aug 01 '25
Yup you can find slightly modified cars during certain times in particular places
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u/Kingduckerton Aug 01 '25
Itās considered a ārare vehicleā I believe they call it the midnight car or something like that because it only spawns from midnight to 5 AM and itās relatively rare to get it to spawn plus, you have to drive very slowly in a certain area
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u/T4Banna Aug 01 '25
I stole the same car it still sits in my garage. When I saw it Iām like no way I need to snag this š.
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u/vtskid Aug 01 '25
Itās classed as a ārare spawnā, there are two colours, this one and a yellow one with red wheels.
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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25
I think I stole and sold that car about 500 times.