Hotring Racer

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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 8-Track 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 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 partially rectified for the GTA San Andreas rendition with the addition of netting.

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, #27 in GTA Vice City and #21 in GTA San Andreas, 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.

• In Vice City, the hotrina may spawn with the numbers #21, #34, #56 or #78, while the hotrinb may be marked with the numbers #14, #28, #65 or #69.
• In San Andreas, the hotrina can be numbered #14, #52, #73 or 96, while the hotrinb may obtain the numbers #07, #36, #65 or #86.

Cheats

GTA Vice City

• Enter GETTHEREAMAZINGLYFAST (first variant) (PC version)
• Enter GETTHEREVERYFASTINDEED (second variant) (PC version)

GTA San Andreas

• Enter VROCKPOKEY or PDNEJOH for the hotrina variant
• Enter WPJTQWV for the hotrinb variant. (PC Version)

Trivia

• 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.
• In GTA San Andreas, the three Hotring Racers have different default radio stations. They are as follows :
  • Hotring : Radio X
  • Hotrina : K-DST
  • Hotrinb : Radio X

Sponsors

GTA Vice City			GTA San Andreas
Variant 1	Variant 2	Variant 3	Variant 1	Variant 2	Variant 3
A+B Auto Beef Bandit Burger Shot Canoolaga Going Inside Track Jocksport Kappa Coffee House PetsOvernight Petstuffers Pizza Face Shaft Hot Dogs Spand Express Spray'n'go Sunshine Autos Tarbrush Café The Cheesy Crust Pizza Co. Vice City Air Vice'n'Easy	AM Petroleum Company Burger Shot Canoolaga Emotion 98.3 Flash FM Going Haul Hoodridge K-Chat King Storage PetsOvernight Spand Express Sprunk Lite SUMO Telecom Vice City Vice City Electric Company Wave 103	AM Petroleum Company Canoolaga Emotion 98.3 Finale Flash FM Frap Hoodridge K-Chat Rockstar Games Sprunk Sumo Tools Zip	Chilli Dogs Chuckup Eris Face Frap Hardon Hinterland K-Jah Radio West Panoramic ProLaps Rampage Ranch Tools	Base 5 Bobo Canoolaga Frap Heat Kakagawa Kronos Mercury Ranch Rockstar North Tools West Coast Talk Radio Zip	Canoolaga Cok O Pops Eris Face Fambly Frap Homies Sharp K-DST Ranch Shodi Sumo Tools

Gallery

GTA Vice City

• A variant of the Hotring Racer awarded to the player upon complete of the Sunshine Autos import side-quests (Rear quarter view).

  A variant of the Hotring Racer awarded to the player upon complete of the Sunshine Autos import side-quests (Rear quarter view).

• The "hotrina" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

  The "hotrina" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

• The "hotrinb" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

  The "hotrinb" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

GTA San Andreas

• A variant of the Hotring Racer awarded to the player upon complete of the 8-Track stadium event (Rear quarter view).

  A variant of the Hotring Racer awarded to the player upon complete of the 8-Track stadium event (Rear quarter view).

• The "hotrina" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

  The "hotrina" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

• The "hotrinb" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).

  The "hotrinb" Hotring Racer, not normally available for the player to drive (Rear quarter view).