Grand Theft Auto Cars and their real world couterparts (part 1)

Since I got my first copy of Grand Theft Auto in 1998 -yes, the original one, the one with the zenithal viewpoint- I’ve always tried to find resemblances between cars in the game and real world cars. Well, since now I’m hooked to the latest version of the series I’ve decided to find the resemblances between cars in the game and their real counterparts. So here goes the first lot of comparisons between them, with pictures showing them together to ease your opinion when deciding if Grand Theft Auto’s IV designers and programmers got inspired by my choices or not.

Since I’m European I don’t know much about American cars, so if anybody has suggestions please let me know and I’ll put it in one of my next posts.

Blista Compact

I had my doubts with this one, but I was sure it was a relatively old Volkswagen. I was dubious between the Corrado and the old Scirocco, but after seeing pictures of both of them I’ve finally decided that the most similar one is the Corrado.

Cavalcade

This one is a very obvious one, because Cavalcade sounds suspiciously similar to Cadillac’s pimp-mobile, the Escalade SUV. When you see the picture of both of them together the source of inspiration becomes clear.

Cavalvade FXT

And if anybody was still unconvinced about the Cavalcade-Escalade duo, here comes the irrefutable proof. The game has a pick-up version of the Cavalcade called FXT, and guess what, so does the Escalade and it is called EXT.

Patriot

And another very easy one, the monster-truckish Patriot is like a mirror image of Greenpeace’s nightmare the Hummer.