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The Hotring Racer is a fairly fast vehicle, and is used in the Stadium challenges in both GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas. It can be obtained in GTA Vice City by completing the [[Sunshine Autos]] import missions, and in GTA San Andreas it is unlocked by beating the Stadium challenge. The Hotring Racer is the second fastest vehicle in GTA San Andreas. Each variant of the Hotring Racer features well known [[businesses]] as sponsors that appear in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]], [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] and [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]]. | The Hotring Racer is a fairly fast vehicle, and is used in the Stadium challenges in both GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas. It can be obtained in GTA Vice City by completing the [[Sunshine Autos]] import missions, and in GTA San Andreas it is unlocked by beating the Stadium challenge. The Hotring Racer is the second fastest vehicle in GTA San Andreas. Each variant of the Hotring Racer features well known [[businesses]] as sponsors that appear in [[Vice City in GTA III Era|Vice City]], [[Liberty City in GTA III Era|Liberty City]] and [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]]. | ||
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=== Design and variants === | |||
There are three variants of the Hotring Racer, however, they all perform exactly the same. They all resemble cars from the '80s, presumably based on a NASCAR stock cars: The first variant (internally named "hotring") vaguely resembles a Ford Taurus, the second (internally named "hotrina") is a Chevrolet Camaro, the third (internally named "hotrinb") has design aspects from a Chevrolet Monte Carlo (rear side window) and an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (the grille). The "hotring" in GTA Vice City noticeably lacks the roll cages and netting of the "hotrina" and "hotrinb", an inconsistency rectified for the GTA San Andreas rendition. | |||
Under normal circumstances, the "hotring" is the only version of the Hotring Racer available for the player to drive (during Hotring races and at Sunshine Autos), while the "hotrina" and "hotrinb" are only available via cheats or mods, such as the use of a garage editor or trainers. | |||
== Sponsors == | |||
*Base 5 | *Base 5 | ||
*[[Cok O Pops]] | *[[Cok O Pops]] | ||
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*[[WCTR]] | *[[WCTR]] | ||
*[[ZIP]] | *[[ZIP]] | ||
== Cameo in GTA IV == | == Cameo in GTA IV == |
Revision as of 15:03, 29 April 2009
The Hotring Racer is an unlockable race car featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Description
Overview
The Hotring Racer is a fairly fast vehicle, and is used in the Stadium challenges in both GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas. It can be obtained in GTA Vice City by completing the Sunshine Autos import missions, and in GTA San Andreas it is unlocked by beating the Stadium challenge. The Hotring Racer is the second fastest vehicle in GTA San Andreas. Each variant of the Hotring Racer features well known businesses as sponsors that appear in Vice City, Liberty City and San Andreas.
Design and variants
There are three variants of the Hotring Racer, however, they all perform exactly the same. They all resemble cars from the '80s, presumably based on a NASCAR stock cars: The first variant (internally named "hotring") vaguely resembles a Ford Taurus, the second (internally named "hotrina") is a Chevrolet Camaro, the third (internally named "hotrinb") has design aspects from a Chevrolet Monte Carlo (rear side window) and an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (the grille). The "hotring" in GTA Vice City noticeably lacks the roll cages and netting of the "hotrina" and "hotrinb", an inconsistency rectified for the GTA San Andreas rendition.
Under normal circumstances, the "hotring" is the only version of the Hotring Racer available for the player to drive (during Hotring races and at Sunshine Autos), while the "hotrina" and "hotrinb" are only available via cheats or mods, such as the use of a garage editor or trainers.
Sponsors
- Base 5
- Cok O Pops
- Eris
- Fambly
- Hardon
- Heat
- Hinterland
- Homies
- K-DST
- K-JAH West
- Kakagawa
- Kronos
- Panoramic
- ProLaps
- Ranch
- Shodi
- Sumo
- WCTR
- ZIP
Cameo in GTA IV
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the Hotring Racer makes a cameo appearance in a racing commercial on television for the "Patriot 500" actually taking place in GTA San Andreas at Los Santos International Airport, where Carl Johnson drives the Hotring Racer (with different colors) on the airport runway.
Cheats
GTA Vice City
- Enter GETTHEREAMAZINGLYFAST (first variant) (PC version)
- Enter GETTHEREVERYFASTINDEED (second variant) (PC version)
GTA San Andreas
- Enter VROCKPOKEY (PC version)
Gallery
GTA Vice City
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A variant of the Hotring Racer awarded to the player upon complete of the Sunshine Autos import side-quests.
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Rear quarter view of the standard Hotring Racer.
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The "hotrina" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive.
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Rear quarter view of the "hotrina" Hotring Racer.
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The "hotrinb" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive.
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Rear quarter view of the "hotrinb" Hotring Racer.