This is a list of special vehicles in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Special vehicles are a type of vehicle that has unique qualities in contrast to standard ones. Such of these are unique/permanent colors and proofing against bullets, explosions, fire, or collisions.
| Unique trait | Code | Description | Storable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-proof | AP | The vehicles receives no damage from anything. (BP/FP/EP/DP/MP) | Yes |
| Bullet-proof | BP | The vehicle receives no damage from direct hits from bullets. This is especially important in GTA San Andreas as these vehicles cannot be blown up by shooting their gas tanks. Bullet-proof vehicles can still have their tires popped by gunfire. | Yes |
| Fire-proof | FP | The vehicle receives no damage from any flames or fires, except when the vehicle is already burning from other forms of damage. Do note that entering a vehicle while CJ is ablaze, even if it is fire-proof, will make it burn and then explode. | Yes |
| Explosion-proof | EP | The vehicle receives no damage from any explosions inflicted upon it. | Yes |
| Damage-proof | DP | The vehicle receives no damage from collisions or any form of physical damage. However, this does not protect the vehicle from melee damage if not coupled with melee-proofing. | Yes |
| Melee-proof | MP | The vehicle does not receive any damage from melee attacks (i.e. stomping or punching the vehicle). This does not protect the vehicle from collision damage if not coupled with damage-proofing. Do note that this property does not apply to the parachute, as stomping a melee-proof vehicle while being equipped with a parachute will still make it catch fire in the end. | Yes |
| Heavy | H | The vehicle's mass is greater than it should normally be, meaning the vehicle will lose less momentum when colliding into dynamic objects and will push other vehicles effortlessly. This also means that the vehicle takes more damage when colliding, therefore making the vehicle rather vulnerable if this property is not coupled with damage-proofing. | No |
| Unique Colors | UC, UC2 | The vehicle's colors are unique and cannot be obtained through spray shops, mod shops or found in traffic. However, the unique colors can be painted over and lost if the player enters a spray shop with the vehicle. | Yes |
| Unique Modifications | UM | The vehicle has modifications that cannot be obtained through mod shops under normal circumstances. | Yes |
| Rare | R | The model of the vehicle appears only during specific missions. | Yes |
- Destroying a proofed vehicle
The proofed vehicles are not completely indestructible; there are several ways to destroy an AP vehicle, which include:
- Flipping the car upside down.
- Sinking the car in the water. (the game treats sunk vehicles as destroyed, but the proofing properties will be preserved; the vehicles are just rendered inoperable, as vehicles that are pushed back on land from out of the water will still function)
- Using the Blow Up All Cars cheat.
- Getting in the vehicle while the player is on fire.
- Using a car bomb to detonate the vehicle.
- Taking it to a girlfriends' house and having coffee with her. The vehicle will lose its special properties and simply become normal again.
- Starting the Lowrider Challenge to remove its special properties.
- Punching and stomping on the proofed vehicle with the parachute equipped – melee attacks with the parachute ignore the vehicle's proofing.
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| Vehicle(s) | Unique trait(s) | Mission(s) | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admiral | AP | Los Sepulcros | Parked in the cemetery, prior to the getaway. |
| Admiral | AP, UC2 (40) | Los Sepulcros | Kane's, AP during the cutscene. |
| Admiral | EP, UC2 (1) | You've Had Your Chips | A blue Admiral, EP before CJ enters the factory. |
| Admiral | AP, UC2 (10) | You've Had Your Chips | A brown Admiral is spawned outside the factory, AP before Sindacco thugs enters the factory. |
| All Lowriders | AP | Lowrider Challenge | Any lowriders, AP during the dancing cutscene. |
| All Vehicles | FP, EP | Gray Imports | Any vehicle CJ drives into the marker. |
| All Vehicles | EP | Gray Imports | Any vehicle CJ drives into the marker and completes the mission with. |
| All Vehicles | AP | Hot Coffee cutscene | Any vehicles, AP during the Hot Coffee cutscene. |
| Andromada | R | Stowaway | Used by an unknown government agency to aoffload land mines into Middle Eastern countries |
| Bandito | AP | Jealous Girlfriend | Helena's car when she catches the player cheating. |
| Banshee | EP | Gray Imports | Used by Andre to escape from |
| BF Injection | UC, UC2 (0, Red) | Cut Throat Business | Parked outside Madd Dogg's Crib upon starting the mission |
| BF-400 | AP/FP, BP, EP, MP, | Just Business | Big Smoke's BP FP EP MP bike, AP during the cutscene Packer jumps off a surface road. |
| BF-400 | DP, FP, EP, | Just Business | Two bike are drived by Russians after killing all the thugs in Atrium. |
| BF-400 | UM (Mutant wheels) | Just Business | See Just Business/BF-400 Accquiration, PC Only |
| Blade | AP/FP, PP, TP | High Stakes, Low-Rider/Lowrider Race (FP, PP, TP only) | Other racer's. AP before CJ reachs the race start，otherwise it's FP PP TP. |
| Boxville | AP | T-Bone Mendez | Seen next to four FCR-900's, parked under the Garver Bridge . |
| Bravura | AP, UC2 (1) | The Green Sabre | Used by Cesar to show CJ that Big Smoke and Ryder are betraying him. |
| Bravura | UC2 (2) | You've Had Your Chips | A blue civilian car is parked in bushes near The Four Dragons Casino. |
| Broadway | AP | Photo Opportunity | Jizzy B's car, used by him to drive to the Loco Syndicate meeting. |
| Buffalo | AP | Misappropriation | Used by the DEA agent if he flies to The Emerald Isle. |
| Buffalo | AP, UC2 (0) | High Noon | Pulaski's Buffalo. It will lose its AP trait if Pulaski drives it for a while. |
| Burrito | UC2 (0) | Mike Toreno | A yellow Burrito, was used for containing the drug shipment. |
| Camper | EP, UM (Mothership Paintjob), UC2 (White) | Are You Going to San Fierro? | The Truth's Mothership, used to transport weed to CJ's new garage. |
| Camper | UC, UC2 (104, 61) | Jizzy | Owned by the men beating the ho under the Foster Valley intersection. |
| Camper | AP, UM (Mothership Paintjob), UC2 (White) | Black Project | The Truth's Mothership, used to drop off CJ at Area 69. |
| Camper | UM (Mothership Paintjob), UC2 (White) | Riot | The Truth's Mothership, parked outside Madd Dogg's Crib. |
| Club | PP, UC2 (126) | Key to Her Heart | Used by Millie Perkins to drive home from work. |
| Club | UC, UC2 (11,0) | Exports and Imports(Every Sunday and Wednesday) | Purchasable from the docks after Customs Fast Track. |
| Club | UC2 (1) | Millie Perkin's house | Millie's Club. |
| Coastguard | UC (White) | Boat School: Basic Seamanship | Provided to the player for the test. |
| Dinghy | UC (Red) | Boat School: Fresh Slalom | Provided to the player for the test. |
| Elegant | UC2 (0) | Management Issues | The black target vehicle. |
| Elegy | BP, FP, EP, MP, UC2 (80) | Farewell, My Love.../Badlands B | Driven by Claude in the race. |
| FCR-900 | AP | T-Bone Mendez | Four bikes, AP before the cutscene bikers running away. |
| Feltzer | AP, UC2 (Grey) | End of the Line | Driven by the player to chase after Tenpenny. |
| Feltzer | DP, FP, EP, UC2 (Grey) | End of the Line | Driven by Sweet after he drops off of Tenpenny's Fire Truck. |
| Feltzer | AP | Jealous girlfriend | |
| Fire Truck (ladder) | AP | End of the Line | Used by Tenpenny to escape from CJ and Los Santos. |
| Forklift | BP | Robbing Uncle Sam | Used to carry crates into the Mule. |
| Forklift | UC, UC2 (6,6) | Breaking the Bank at Caligula's | Used to prop open the garage door. |
| Fortune | BP, FP, EP, MP, PP, TP, UC2 (80) | Wu Zi Mu/Badlands A | |
| Glendale | AP | Los Desperados | |
| Greenwood | FP | Drive-Thru | Used to chase down a Ballas car heading to do a drive-by. |
| Greenwood | BP, FP | House Party | Used by Sweet to defend the Grove. |
| Greenwood | FP, EP, DP, MP | Reuniting The Families | Driven by Smoke to escape the police. |
| Greenwood | AP | Reuniting The Families | Flown into a Tanker at the end of the mission. |
| Greenwood | AP | End of the Line | Used by CJ and Sweet to get to Big Smoke's Crack Palace. |
| Hotring A | R | 8-Track | NPC-driven Hotring in 8-Track. |
| Hotring B | R | 8-Track | The player-driven Hotring in 8-Track. |
| HPV1000 | AP | Reuniting The Families | |
| HPV1000 | AP | Small Town Bank | |
| HPV1000 | U | Quarry Mission 7 | |
| Huntley | UC2 (0) H | Jizzy | |
| Hustler | AP, UC, UC2 | Jealous girlfriend | |
| Infernus | AP | Beat Down on B Dup | Used by Sweet to take Big Bear out to eat. |
| Leviathan | DP | Interdiction | Used to deliver Toreno's cargo. |
| Leviathan | AP & BP, FP, EP, DP | Up, Up And Away! | Stored on a helipad at K.A.C.C. Military Fuels before being stolen. |
| Majestic | AP/FP, TP, PP | High Stakes, Low-Rider/Lowrider Race (FP, PP, TP only) | Used by a Varrios street racer. |
| Manana | UC2(4) | Ran Fa Li | |
| Maverick | AP, UC, UC2 (10, 125) | Toreno's Last Flight | |
| Maverick | AP | The Da Nang Thang | |
| Maverick | UC, UC2 (0, 0) | Interdiction | Used by rival agencies to intercept Toreno's cargo. |
| Maverick | AP, UC, UC2 | Misappropiation | |
| Merit | AP, UC2 | 555 We Tip | |
| Mesa | UC, UC2 (37) | Robbing Uncle Sam | |
| Monster | AP | Jealous Girlfriend | Michelle's car when she catches the player cheating. |
| Mule | EP, PP | Robbing Uncle Sam | Used to carry weapons stolen from the army. |
| Nebula | UC, UC2 (115,115) | Just Business | Seen in scripted traffic at the beginning of the chase. |
| Nebula | UC2 (2)/(3)/(4)/(8)/(51)/(73)/(99)/(122) | Just Business | Seen in scripted traffic at the beginning of the chase. |
| Newsvan | AP, UC, UC2 (1,1) | Cut Throat Business | Parked next to OG Loc's video shoot prior to CJ and Madd Dogg's arrival. |
| Packer | AP | Just Business | Broken-down version, seen before blowing up. |
| Packer | UC, UC2 (Green) | Cop Wheels | Used by the Triads to store the stolen police bikes |
| Packer | DP, FP, EP | Just Business | Version of the Packer used to chase down CJ and Big Smoke. |
| Patriot | H | Robbing Uncle Sam | Used to chase after CJ and Ryder for stealing army supplies. |
| Patriot | BP, FP, EP, MP | Big Smoke's Cash | |
| PCJ-600 | AP | OG Loc | Driven by Freddy to escape CJ and OG Loc. |
| Perennial | UC2 (0) | Big Smoke | Big Smoke's car. Blown up outside the Vinewood Cemetery. |
| Picador | AP, UC2 (84) | Photo Opportunity | Used by Ryder to drive to the Loco Syndicate meeting. |
| Picador | UC2 (84) | Ryder/Catalyst | Ryder's car. |
| Pizzaboy | UC, UC2 (4,4) | Ice Cold Killa | Stolen by Jizzy as he is escaping the Pleasure Domes if his Broadway is destroyed. |
| Police (LS) | DP, FP, EP, MP | Reuniting The Families | Used to chase down CJ, Ryder, Sweet, and Big Smoke. |
| Police (LS) | EP | Reuniting The Families | Used to chase down CJ, Ryder, Sweet, and Big Smoke. |
| Police (LS) | FP, EP | End of the Line | Used to chase down CJ, Ryder, Sweet, and Big Smoke. |
| Polmav (Police Maverick) | AP | Reuniting The Families | Used by the police to ram straight into the Greenwood. |
| Pony | UM (offroad wheels), UC2 (4) | Life's a Beach | Stolen by CJ to get OG Loc a sound system. |
| Pony | UC, UC2 (7,1) | Toreno's Last Flight | |
| Race Vehicles | FP, TP, PP | Race Tournaments | |
| Rancher | DP, FP, EP, MP, DD | Lure | Driven by the player to get the Da Nang's attention. |
| Ranger | AP | An date in which a jealous girlfriend | |
| RC Bandit | FP, EP, R | New Model Army | Controlled by Zero in his last fight against Berkley. |
| RC Baron | FP, EP, R/EP R | Air Raid | Used by Berkley to attack Zero's RC Shop. |
| RC Baron | FP, EP, R | Supply Lines.../ Beefy Baron | Controlled by the player to take out Berkley's delivery services. |
| RC Goblin | FP, BP, R | New Model Army | Controlled by the player to assist Berkley's RC Bandit. |
| RC Raider | AP, R | Wear Flowers in Your Hair | Flown by Zero before the player picks him up. |
| RC Tiger | FP, BP, R | New Model Army | Berkley's tanks, used to stop the progress of Zero's RC Bandit. |
| Remington | AP, UC2 (4) | Cesar Vialpando/Lowrider Challenge | |
| Remington | AP/FP, TP, PP | High States, Low-Rider/Lowrider Race (FP, PP, TP only) | |
| Remington | UC2 (0) | Cesar Vialpando/Lowrider Challenge | |
| Remington | UC2 (6) | Cesar Vialpando/Lowrider Challenge | |
| Romero | AP | Jealous Girlfriend | Katie's car when she catches the player cheating. |
| Rumpo | FP, DP/FP | Outrider | |
| S.W.A.T. | BP, FP, R | End of the Line | Used to break down the door to the Crack Palace. A second one is used by the SWAT to crash through the walls of the Palace. |
| Sabre | AP | The Green Sabre | |
| Sabre | AP | Tanker Commander | |
| Sabre | FP, UC2 (80) | Wu Zi Mu/Badlands A | |
| Sadler | AP | Tanker Commander | |
| Sadler | EP | Are You Going To San Fierro? | |
| Sanchez | AP | Wrong Side of the Tracks | Used by CJ and Big Smoke to chase the Vagos on the train. |
| Sanchez | AP | Badlands | |
| Sanchez | AP | Yay Courier | |
| Sanchez | FP, EP | End of the Line | Driven by Vagos rioters while chasing CJ and Sweet. |
| Savanna | AP | Cesar Vialpando | |
| Savanna | AP/FP, BP, EP, PP, TP | High States, Low-Rider/Lowrider Race | |
| Savanna | AP | Photo Opportunity | Parked in the countryside prior to CJ's arrival. |
| Sentinel | AP | Running Dog | Only AP during the fail cutscene. |
| Sentinel | AP | The Green Sabre | It will only be AP if it is shot with a Minigun (preferably) until it leaves black smoke during the mission. |
| Sentinel | AP | Mountain Cloud Boys | |
| Sentinel | AP | Saint Mark's Bistro | Used by Kent Paul, Maccer, and Rosie to escape Las Venturas. |
| Stallion | FP, PP, TP, UC2 (80) | Wu Zi Mu/Badlands A | |
| Stretch | UC2 (0) | Jizzy | Owned by the priest, and used to escape CJ. |
| Stretch | UC2 (0) | Ice Cold Killa | Parked outside of Jizzy's Pleasure Domes. |
| Sultan | AP | Just Business | Seen next to the broken-down Packer. |
| Sultan | DP, FP, EP | Just Business | |
| Sultan | FP, PP, TP, UC2 (80) | Farewell, My Love.../Badland B | |
| Sultan | UC2 (34) | Test Drive | |
| Sultan | BP | Just Business | Carried on and dropped by the Packer. |
| Tahoma | BP, FP | House Party | Used by the Ballas to attack Grove Street. |
| Petrol Truck (trailer) | AP | Reuniting The Families | Crashed into by the Greenwood. |
| Petrol Truck (trailer) | AP | Tanker Commander | Stolen by CJ and Catalina, along with the Tanker. |
| Tanker | AP | Reuniting The Families | Crashed into by the Greenwood. |
| Tanker | BP | Tanker Commander | Stolen by CJ and Catalina, along with the Petrol Truck trailer. |
| Tampa | AP | Nines and AK's | Parked at Emmet's, prior to being blown up. |
| Topfun | FP, EP | Supply Lines... | |
| Topfun | AP | Supply Lines... | |
| Tornado | FP, EP | End of the Line | |
| Vincent | DD, UC2(0) | Home Coming | |
| Voodoo | UC2 (22) | Big Smoke/Drive-thru | Used by the Ballas to drive-by Grove Street members. |
| Voodoo | BP, FP | House Party | Parked by Families members to protect Grove Street. |
| Vortex | AP, UC, UC2 (White) | Cut Throat Business | |
| Vortex | AP, UC, UC2 (Grey,0) | Cut Throat Business | |
| Vortex | DP, UC, UC2 (White) | Cut Throat Business | |
| Vortex | DP, UC, UC2 (Grey,0) | Cut Throat Business | |
| Vortex | UC, UC2 (Strawberry and White) | Boat School: Fresh Slalom | |
| Vortex | UC, UC2 (Yellow and Blue) | Boat School: Flying Fish | |
| Walton | BP, MP | Madd Dogg | Stolen to save Madd Dogg from killing himself. |
| Washington | AP, UC2 (84) | Photo Opportunity | |
| Washington | UC2 (84) | Outrider/Vertical Bird | |
| Washington | UC2 (2) | Architectural Espionage | |
| Windsor | UC2 (0) | Home In The Hills | Used by CJ to chase Big Poppa. |
| ZR-350 | FP, UC2 (80) | Farewell, My Love... | |
| ZR-350 | AP, UC2 | Photo Opportunity | Driven by T-Bone Mendez to get to the Loco Syndicate meeting. |
| ZR-350 | UC2 (0) | Farewell, My Love... | Given to CJ to race with. |
Videos[]
GTA San Andreas - Special Vehicles
A complete playlist of all special vehicles in San Andreas
GTA San Andreas - Unique Vehicles
How to make any vehicle Fireproof & Explosion-proof, during the mission Gray Imports - GTA