Garage

What the Garage Is

The garage stores every car you own. It is where you park your vehicles between uses, manage your collection and decide what to do with each ride. From the moment you buy your first Ford Model T to the day you park an exotic supercar, everything is kept here.

There are three main ways cars enter your garage: you buy them from the showroom, you earn them through car theft, or you win them at auction. Once parked, each car keeps its condition — and condition matters, because a battered vehicle is worth less and performs worse than a pristine one.

• Showroom purchases — buy the car outright.
• Car theft — boost vehicles off the streets.
• Auctions — win rides from other players.
• Storage — every owned car is parked here.

Car Stats Explained

Every car carries the same core set of stats, and understanding them is the difference between buying a useless trophy and buying a money machine. Name, type, speed, seats, price, smuggle rating, ramraid power and the OC-enabled flag tell you exactly what a vehicle is for.

Speed matters for racing and fast getaways, seats for moving crews and passengers, and the smuggle rating for how much cargo a car can carry. The table below shows a handful of classic cars with their stats to give you a feel for how they stack up.

Reading a car's stats is a skill in itself. Two cars can cost the same and yet be built for completely different jobs — one a racer with a great top speed, the other a smuggler with a huge cargo rating. Before you buy or steal, ask what you will actually do with the car, then let the stats answer.

Categories and Types

Every car also belongs to a type and a value category. The five types are starter, civilian, transport, truck and luxury — each with a different job in the game. A starter car gets you rolling, a transport bus moves your crew, and a luxury ride is pure flex and speed.

The value categories run from low, at under 5,000, through medium (5,000–30,000) and high, up to exotic. The Ford Model T sits at the bottom of the low bracket, while the Hudson Hornet at 11,000 is a solid medium-tier car. Category decides price range, theft pool and respect — a luxury car simply means more.

The garage display makes the whole system visible at a glance. From the low-budget starter lane to the exotic rows reserved for the city's wealthiest bosses, your collection tells your story. Filling it smartly — not just expensively — is what turns a garage into an engine of income.

• Starter — cheap, reliable, gets you moving.
• Civilian — everyday cars for everyday jobs.
• Transport — buses and vans for crews and cargo.
• Truck — heavy haulers built for smuggling.
• Luxury — fast, expensive, high status.

Smuggle, Ramraid and OC Content

Some car stats are not just numbers — they unlock content. A high smuggle rating is required to run the profitable smuggling routes, ramraid power opens the ram-raid activities, and the OC-enabled flag marks a car as usable in the OC Heist. Cars built for these roles are worth far more than their price suggests.

That is why you should never sell a car based on price alone. A modest truck with smuggle 44 or a school bus with smuggle 45 and 12 seats quietly earns more than an exotic that looks good in the garage but unlocks nothing. When in doubt, keep the workhorses and sell the showpieces.