Freeway
- This article is about a motorcycle. For the roadway, see highways.
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GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas GTA Liberty City Stories GTA Vice City Stories GTA IV |
| Vehicle type | Civilian motorbike |
| Body style | Chopper |
| Capacity | 2 (rider and passenger) |
| Manufacturer | Western Motorcycle Company (GTA IV) |
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The Freeway is a motorcycle that appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV.
Description
Design
Resembling a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle in all its incarnations, as is the basis for the Angel, the Freeway was originally designed to represent typical cruiser motorcycle.
Between GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories, the bike is designed with ape handles, and was largely unchanged in form, as the GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories renditions were recycled GTA Vice City Freeways with the left exhaust pipes removed (the GTA Vice City rendition is the only Freeway with exhaust pipes on both sides), while the GTA San Andreas rendition is the only one to receive significant cosmetic refinements. Presumably the result of bad coding, the GTA Vice City Stories Freeway is only available in black.
In GTA IV, the Freeway sports a Western Motorcycle Company brand and conventional handlebars, distinguishing it from more radically designed choppers. The bike is also available with one or two-tone colors, two combination of carburetor cap and gas tank configurations (with one featuring a gas tank-mounted speedometer), two exhaust pipe configurations, and optional side panniers (saddlebags) at the rear. Unusually, the Episodes from Liberty City version of the Freeway in The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony is not available with saddlebags.
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Grand Theft Auto IV, with optional side panniers (saddlebags) at the back.
Performance
Freeways between GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories feature fairly powerful engines; in GTA Vice City and GTA Liberty City Stories, the Freeway the third fastest motorcycle behind the PCJ-600 and Angel. However, its steering and braking are less responsive due to its heavier weight, resulting in the constant need for e-brake-aided turns around sharper corners. Due to its heavy weight, it is also unsuitable for stunts or off-roading, but its speed makes it suited for ordinary street-cruising.
The Freeway in GTA IV features similar performance traits from its previous incarnations, retaining an average top speed of 117 kph/73 mph and average acceleration, as well as fairly weak steering. Due to the bike's average grip, it also has a tendency to tailspin, making the bike less controllable when cornering. Its brakes, however, are fairly responsive.
Variants
Angels in GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories generally share the exact body design of Freeways in their respectable games, but feature unique paintwork, modified performance traits and, in the case of GTA Vice City, additional accessories. The Avenger in GTA Liberty City Stories is also similarly based on the Angel.
In GTA IV, a Freeway is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a beige coloring. As a new Freeway will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
Trivia
- A minor graphical bug in the GTA San Andreas Freeway exists involving the rear side of the Freeway's license plate. Bizarrely, it features an entire texture map for four-wheel vehicles.
- In GTA San Andreas the Freeway has two exhaust gas plumes, on either side of the rear wheel, but only one exhaust on the right of the wheel. This implies that the freeway was originally meant to have two exhausts in the game.
- In GTA IV, some game files (handling.dat and POLICE_SCANNER.rpf) refer to the Freeway as a "Bobber", although there already is a vehicle named "Freeway" in POLICE_SCANNER.rpf. "Bobber" may have been the Freeway's name in the GTA IV beta.[1][2][3] "Bobber" is a term that refers to a stock motorbike stripped of superfluous parts to reduce weight.
- After collecting all thirty cars for Stevie in GTA IV, a Freeway may be sold at his garage for $2,000.
- The Freeway plays the following radio stations by default when entered:
- K-DST in GTA San Andreas.
- VCFL in GTA Vice City Stories
- Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 in GTA IV.
Locations
- GTA Vice City
- By a wall south of the North Point Mall in Vice Point.
- GTA San Andreas
- Usually found in Fort Carson.
- Spawns randomly in The Panopticon, Red County (parked)
- Found in the Xoomer gas station in Flint County, near the RS Haul depot.
- Parked outside Hippy Shopper in Queens, San Fierro (Starts a courier mission)
- Parked outside Bike School in Blackfield, Las Venturas after achieving all bronze in Bike School
- Found at most truck-stops and gas stations throughout Tierra Robada and Bone County
- Spawns regularly around The Strip, Las Venturas
- Spawns regularly in the countryside and in the desert
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- Alleyway in Red Light District, Portland. (Starts 9mm Mayhem)
- Underground parking lot of Liberty Tree offices, Bedford Point, Staunton Island.
- In the parking lot east of Carson General Hospital in Rockford, Staunton Island.
- Ferry terminal, Rockford, Staunton Island.
- Newport Multistory Car Park, Newport, Staunton Island.
- Beside Papa's 12 Inch and a public phone booth in Belleville Park Staunton Island
- East of the LCPD Police Station under a section of concrete that connects the parking lot to the road, Torrington, Staunton Island.
- AmCo parking lot, Torrington, Staunton Island.
- In the parking lot at Francis International Airport in Shoreside Vale
- In front of the main terminal at Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale.
- 2 spawn in the north parking lot of the apartment complex, Wichita Gardens, Shoreside Vale.
- GTA Vice City Stories
- Outside The Greasy Chopper in Downtown, Vice City
- Two can be found outside The White Stallionz in Little Haiti, Vice City.
- One is found parked at the (unmarked) Maison Wenifall hotel in Ocean Beach.
- GTA IV
- Though it is somewhat harder to find than the other two chopper bikes, the Hellfury and Zombie, the Freeway can still sometimes be found in a specific part of the city. The Freeway can usually be found near the player's Safehouse in South Bohan, though it can be found elsewhere in Bohan also.
- Can be found parked in front of The Willis Wash and Lube car wash in Willis, Dukes, when Stevie ask's you to collect one.
- Very common in Multiplayer, often spawning around the airport or Star Junction.
- Often spawns in Algonquin near Meadow Park.
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