Hotring Racer

Revision as of 13:27, 6 July 2009 by gtw>DarkHedge (→‎Design and variants: After seeing what it says in my TXD viewer, car number data added.)
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One of three Hotring Racer variants in GTA San Andreas.

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 late '80s/early '90s, 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) and has only one car number available, the #21, while the "hotrina" and "hotrinb" are only available via cheats or mods, such as the use of a garage editor or trainers and each have 4 different car numbers. The hotrina can have the numbers #14, #52, #96 or #73, and the hotrinb, #36, #07 #86 and #65.

Sponsors

GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas
Variant 1 Variant 2 Variant 3 Variant 1 Variant 2 Variant 3
  • AM Petroleum Company
  • Canoolaga
  • Emotion 98.3
  • Finale
  • Flash FM
  • Frap
  • Hoodridge
  • K-Chat
  • Rockstar Games
  • Sprunk
  • Sumo
  • Tools
  • Zip
  • Canoolaga
  • Cok O Pops
  • Eris
  • Face
  • Fambly
  • Frap
  • Homies Sharp
  • K-DST
  • Ranch
  • Shodi
  • Sumo
  • Tools

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