GTA 6 News Today (November 8, 2026): Real GTA Cars in Miami

Rockstar had the Los Angeles shop West Coast Customs build six real, drivable versions of GTA 6 cars and photographed them around Miami, and the Miami Heat unveiled a Vice City uniform made with Rockstar, Nike and Travis Scott's Cactus Jack for their November 18 game. Both are marketing, not game news. The release date and prices did not change: GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026, at $79.99 and $99.99 in the US, and the preload opens November 10.

West Coast Customs builds six GTA 6 cars

According to a press release quoted by Complex, Rockstar partnered with West Coast Customs to build real versions of six of the game's cars: the Grotti Cheetah, Pegassi Tempesta, Progen Emerus, Invetero Coquette, Albany Buccaneer and Albany Manana. The release says each build "combines traditional metal fabrication with modern composite construction, using CNC machining to produce custom wheels and structural components", and each has its own custom paint. The cars were driven around Miami for promotional photos on Leonida plates with Vice City text, in plate frames reading "VI", "West Coast Customs" and the Rockstar logo (Complex).

Wallpaper* ran the photos, credited to Rockstar Games, and names two of the backdrops: the Miami Marine Stadium and the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage. It describes the Tempesta in police livery and the Manana on tall custom wheels, which matches Complex's "lowriders to donks" headline.

This settles a story we held back in October. On October 16, IGN and GamesRadar reported a convoy of real cars styled as the Cheetah, Coquette, Tempesta, Manana and Emerus, plus a police-liveried Lamborghini lookalike, driving through Miami with Leonida plates, but the only evidence was fan videos and Rockstar had not claimed it. The line-up Rockstar has now shown is the same six models. No outlet says when the cars will be on show again or whether the public can see them.

One of the six shares its name with a car you can already read about here: the Grotti Cheetah, a 1995 model of which comes with the Ultimate Edition. Neither the release nor the outlets say the Miami build is that exact version.

Sources: Complex; Wallpaper*; IGN and GamesRadar (October)

The Heat's Vice City uniform for November 18

The Miami Heat, Nike, Cactus Jack and Rockstar unveiled the uniform for "A Night in Vice City" on November 6. In a post shared with Nike, the Heat and Rockstar Games, Cactus Jack says the Swingman Vice City Jersey and Vice City Shorts "will be available in limited quantities starting 11.18", and that the Heat will wear "an exclusive on court Cactus Jack Nike uniform" in the game that night. The Heat's own post, quoted by ESPN, says the gear is available on November 18 in limited quantities at A Night in Vice City.

ESPN describes the Swingman jersey as black with pink and white accents, "Vice City" across the chest, Scott's flipped Nike Swoosh and a "VI" nod to the game, with six pink stars and Cactus Jack branding at the hem and a tag carrying the Rockstar Games, Heat and Cactus Jack names. Sports Illustrated says the on-court version swaps the script for the usual "HEAT" wordmark. The Heat play the Milwaukee Bucks that night on ESPN, in front of a Vice City themed court. No price has been published.

Sources: Cactus Jack (Instagram); ESPN; Sports Illustrated; Hypebeast

Launch-month tie-ins so far

Our own tally of the real-world promotions around launch, from what the companies themselves have said:

Tie-in	What it is	When	Can you get it?
Skinny Louie's Burger Shot	Burger Shot branding and menu at participating Florida restaurants	Early November to December 31	Yes, in Florida
Xbox Series X-BITE	One working Series X inside a model alligator (the post never names GTA 6)	Sweepstakes November 3 to 10	US sweepstakes only
Spectrum Gig Speed Lift	Free speed boost for the download	November 9 to 30	Eligible US Spectrum customers
Travis Scott Air Force 1	A very limited pair Scott showed on November 5	Shown November 5	No retail release announced
West Coast Customs cars	Six real GTA 6 cars photographed in Miami	Photos out November 6	No, promotional builds
Heat Vice City uniform	Swingman jersey and shorts	From November 18	Limited quantities, at the game

What it means for players

Our take: the cars are the most fun piece of GTA 6 marketing so far, and they also answer a question we left open for three weeks. When fan videos showed GTA cars in Miami in October, we would not call them Rockstar's without a source, and that wait was the right call: the confirmation came with names, a builder and photos. For players the useful part is a look at how Rockstar's car designs hold up in metal, since the builds were made to match the in-game cars. None of this changes the game. If you are going to the Heat game on November 18, expect the jerseys to sell out fast, since every post stresses limited quantities and nobody has named a price or an online store. The bigger story is tomorrow: Take-Two reports its earnings on November 9, the last scheduled moment for anything to change before launch.

Not confirmed

• Travis Scott x Nike shoes on general sale. House of Heat says the uniforms arrive alongside a GTA x Nike Air Force 1 pack, but Nike, Rockstar and Scott have still not announced a retail release, a date or a price.
• Boxed PS5 copies in shops. Kotaku reports photos of a sealed PS5 box from a German retail worker, posted on Reddit and since deleted, showing the warning that there is no disc inside and an internet connection is needed for the code. Shops can sell boxed copies from November 12. Some sites read a different install size from the photos; Rockstar's own figure is still up to 212 GB.
• A rapper's cameo in the Launch Gallery. More outlets now name the person they think one screenshot shows, but Rockstar's gallery has no captions and Rockstar has named no one, so we don't either.
• PS5 Pro features, review copies and a November 18 embargo, a day-one patch. Still no word from Sony or Rockstar.

Coming up

1. November 9: Take-Two's earnings report after the US market close, with a call at 4:30 PM Eastern. Spectrum's speed lift starts, and the Xbox preload opens at 7 PM Eastern.
2. November 10: the PS5 preload opens at midnight local time, and the Xbox Series X-BITE sweepstakes closes at 11:59 PM Pacific.
3. November 12: boxed copies reach retailers, and Rockstar's union vote opens.
4. November 17 and 18: closing submissions at the Glasgow tribunal.
5. November 18: the Miami Heat's "A Night in Vice City" game, with the Vice City uniform on sale in limited quantities, and the first midnight launches, starting in New Zealand.
6. November 19: the game, Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album and Rockstar's free printable map.
7. December 10: The Game Awards 2026, with GTA 6 eligible.
8. December 11: Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score by Justice.