Forklift
The Forklift is an industrial vehicle that can be found and used in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV.
Description
The Forklift is a small, light vehicle, to the point where it cannot sustain high velocity hits without being knocked over. Control can be a problem, due to its rear-wheel steering. While the lift is functional in the GTA San Andreas and GTA Vice City Stories rendition, there is no apparent way to raise or lower the lift in GTA IV. The GTA IV rendition of the Forklift houses a tank of what seems to be propane; shooting it will either cause it to leak ignited gas, or to itself ignite and eventually explode, taking the entire vehicle with it. Safety illustrations are printed on the vehicle, accompanied by the caption "YOU WILL DIE".
The Forklift is used during the Robbing Uncle Sam mission in GTA San Andreas, with Carl Johnson loading boxes of firearms into a truck at a National Guard armory in Los Santos; it also plays a small role in the mission, Breaking the Bank at Caligula's, when Carl Johnson must open the garage for Zero and the team during the bank heist with a Forklift. In the mission Gray Imports, gangsters in Forklifts loaded with explosives will attack Carl as he exits the warehouse. In the GTA Vice City Stories mission Boomshine Blowout, Victor Vance uses the Forklift to load Phil Cassidy's boomshine onto the latter's Walton before a factory blows up.
Performance
In GTA Vice City Stories, the Forklift goes faster in reverse than during regular driving. The Forklift is the slowest vehicle in GTA IV, and the handling is atrocious -- sudden turns will pitch it violently to one side, frequently tipping it over. It has the fastest acceleration of any vehicle GTA IV (3.4 seconds to top speed), presumably to compensate for its negligible top speed of 29mph (just over half that of the Ripley).
Locations
GTA San Andreas
- Spawns in Ocean Docks, Los Santos
- By the docks in Easter Basin, San Fierro
- By the factory in Angel Pine, Whetstone
- Las Venturas Airport in Las Venturas
GTA Vice City Stories
- By a factory west of the Vice City Port Authority building in Viceport
GTA IV
- Happiness Island, just off the boat wharf adjacent to Algonquin.
- Acter Industrial Park in Alderney, parked on the streets and around many buildings.
- Sometimes on the small dead end near 8-Ball.
Gallery
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A Forklift in GTA Vice City Stories.
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A Forklift in GTA IV. The GTA IV rendition comes with any one of two shades of yellow for the body and a blue or red tank in the rear.
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