Blista Compact

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A Blista Compact in GTA Vice City.

The Blista Compact is a 2 door hatchback available in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV.

Description

The Blista Compact is commonly found almost anywhere in Vice City or San Andreas, and is generally considered to be a satisfactory car. It is also highly useful for quick getaways and general evasive purposes. The Blista, a minivan which Blista Compact's name is similar to, exists in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories; strangely there are no Blista Compacts there, so you never see the two vehicles at the same time.

In GTA IV, the Blista Compact (stamped with a Dinka brand) is worth $1,500 at Stevie's garage, when Niko can bring the vehicle after completing all of his Text Message Car missions.

Design

Unlike many other vehicles, the Blista Compact's design has remained almost exactly the same throughout all of the games it has appeared in, apart from it's different engine sound and minor cosmetic differences.

Like its design influence, the first generation Honda CRX, the Blista Compact sports a fastback design and a very small curb weight. In fact, the Blista Compact is easily the smallest (and lightest) passenger car in GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas, however, the Uranus is lighter in GTA IV.

The body of the car originally features a constantly black half at the bottom in GTA Vice City, but was later remodeled to feature a variety of colors, resulting in one or two-tone body colors, which was carried on to GTA IV. In GTA IV, Blista Compacts may appear with optional spoilers or sunroofs, while a minor variant of the Blista Compact exists additionally and comes with side skirts, a twin-exhaust and a windscreen banner. There is also several burnt out wreck versions of the Blista Compact in GTA IV.

Performance

Since its introduction in GTA Vice City, the Blista Compact has always been an impressive small sports car, capable of outrunning the more expensive and rarer performance cars in the various games (despite the car featuring the engine sound of a larger capacity engine, due to programming limitations.) However, in GTA Vice City Stories, the Blista Compact has a very noticeable slower speed, and suffers from terrible oversteer. Blista Compacts all adopt front wheel drive.

In GTA IV, the Blista Compact is powered by a high revving, twin cam 1.4L four-cylinder engine. Although lacking in size, it propels the lightweight car to very high speeds. Surprisingly for a front-wheel drive car, the Blista is almost immune to understeer, and can corner at speed, thanks to a stiff chassis and a well engineered suspension system.

Locations

GTA San Andreas

Modifications (GTA San Andreas)

  • Color
  • Hood
  • Vents
  • Exhausts
  • Nitro (all)
  • Roof
  • Spoilers
  • Side Skirts
  • Wheels
  • Car Stereo
  • Hydraulics

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