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* The Stallion name, when first adopted in GTA 1, appears to be a play of the Ford Mustang name. Both names refer to equestrian terms for horses that are not fully domesticated. A "[[wp:mustang (horse)|mustang]]" is "a free-roaming feral horse of the North American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish", while a "[[wp:Stallion|Stallion]]" is simply "a male horse that has not been neutered, castrated, or gelded". | * The Stallion name, when first adopted in GTA 1, appears to be a play of the Ford Mustang name. Both names refer to equestrian terms for horses that are not fully domesticated. A "[[wp:mustang (horse)|mustang]]" is "a free-roaming feral horse of the North American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish", while a "[[wp:Stallion|Stallion]]" is simply "a male horse that has not been neutered, castrated, or gelded". | ||
* A version of the Ford Mustang called the Stallion Special was sold exclusively by Mainway Ford in 1967. | * A version of the Ford Mustang called the Stallion Special was sold exclusively by Mainway Ford in 1967. | ||
* The Stallion is the longest surviving car in the GTA series, and also one of the most frequently featured civilian cars in the series, appearing in 8 out of 14 GTA games, the exceptions being the two [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1969|GTA London]] [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1961|expansion packs]], [[Grand Theft Auto 2|GTA 2]] | * The Stallion is the longest surviving car in the GTA series, and also one of the most frequently featured civilian cars in the series, appearing in 8 out of 14 GTA games, the exceptions being the two [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1969|GTA London]] [[Grand Theft Auto: London 1961|expansion packs]], [[Grand Theft Auto 2|GTA 2]], [[Grand Theft Auto Advance|GTA Advance]] (although the [[Diablo Stallion|Diablo "Stallion"]] appears in the game), [[The Lost and Damned]] and [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]]. | ||
* The Stallion is one of the earliest in-game cars to be featured on a box art of a Grand Theft Auto game, appearing in several versions of GTA III cover arts. | * The Stallion is one of the earliest in-game cars to be featured on a box art of a Grand Theft Auto game, appearing in several versions of GTA III cover arts. | ||
* The interior of the GTA IV Stallion features a photograph taped to the dashboard, its purpose being largely unknown due to the poor quality of the photograph texture. The same interior is reused in the [[Rhapsody]], but the photograph is substituted with one depicting what seems to be Wayne and Garth from [[wp:Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]. | * The interior of the GTA IV Stallion features a photograph taped to the dashboard, its purpose being largely unknown due to the poor quality of the photograph texture. The same interior is reused in the [[Rhapsody]], but the photograph is substituted with one depicting what seems to be Wayne and Garth from [[wp:Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]. | ||