The List Is Bigger Than Any Single Store Shows
There is no one page in GTA Online that shows you every car. The game's full vehicle roster runs to more than 800 vehicles across all classes, and the GTA Wiki's model-by-model count puts it at 864 controllable vehicles, from supercars and sedans to aircraft, boats and bicycles.
Cars are the biggest share of that roster, and they are scattered across several in-game websites and physical showrooms. What any one store shows you on a given day is only a slice of what exists.
That split is why the June 2023 change caused so much confusion. Around 190 vehicles lost their listings on the in-game websites, and many players assumed the cars had been deleted. They had not, and the difference matters.
Key Takeaways
- GTA Online holds over 800 vehicles in total; the GTA Wiki counts 864 controllable vehicles, with more than 500 added by updates since the 2013 launch.
- Cars are sold mainly through Legendary Motorsport and Southern San Andreas Super Autos, with other dealers covering military vehicles, aircraft and boats.
- In June 2023, with the San Andreas Mercenaries update, over 180 lesser-used vehicles were removed from the in-game websites. Community counts put the total between roughly 186 and 195.
- Removed cars were not deleted and owned cars were untouched. They return through showrooms, the Lucky Wheel, the LS Car Meet and the GTA+ Vinewood Car Club.
- The deepest customisation lives at Benny's Original Motor Works, where conversions add interiors, hydraulics and extra trim that standard mod shops never offer.
1. How Many Vehicles There Really Are
GTA Online launched in 2013 with the vehicle set from GTA V's story mode, and updates have added more than 500 further vehicles since. Almost every major update brings a fresh batch, drip-fed over the following weeks.
The headline counts need care. The 864 figure covers every controllable vehicle model in the game files: cars, motorcycles, trucks, helicopters, planes, boats, service vehicles and oddities like the golf cart and the lawnmower.
Road cars still dominate. Sports and super cars alone run into the hundreds once a decade of updates is counted, and whole families, like the tuner cars celebrated in our look at GTA Online's themed cars, exist because the roster grew wide enough to support niches.
For buying decisions, the raw total matters less than the class lists. Racers buy by class, collectors buy by theme, and money-makers buy the handful of vehicles that double as tools, which is the thinking behind our guide to the best cars in GTA Online at every budget.
2. Where Cars Are Actually Bought
Most road cars come from two websites on the in-game phone browser. Legendary Motorsport handles the high end: supercars, sports cars and expensive classics. Southern San Andreas Super Autos covers everything else, from compacts and sedans to muscle cars and off-roaders.
Specialist dealers fill the edges. Warstock Cache & Carry sells military and armoured vehicles, Elitás Travel sells aircraft, DockTease sells boats, and Pedal and Metal sells bicycles that no garage is complete without.
Two physical showrooms add a rotating layer: Luxury Autos in Rockford Hills and Simeon's Premium Deluxe Motorsport. Each displays a small stock that changes with the weekly update, and both became important after 2023 for reasons covered below.
The LS Car Meet adds test rides and its weekly Prize Ride challenge, while workshops like Benny's Original Motor Works and the Arena Workshop are where bought cars go to be transformed rather than purchased.
3. June 2023: The Removed-Cars Change, Explained
On 8 June 2023, Rockstar used a Newswire post about experience improvements to warn that "lesser-used vehicles will be removed from in-game websites to streamline the browsing experience." The change landed five days later, on 13 June, with the San Andreas Mercenaries update.
Players then counted what was missing. Depending on how variants and later adjustments are counted, community trackers put the total between roughly 186 and 195 vehicles, including familiar names like the Comet, the Infernus and the Stirling GT alongside genuinely obscure models.
Two things were true at once. The cars were gone from the websites, so you could no longer order one at will, and the cars themselves were not deleted from the game. Anyone who already owned one kept it, fully usable, in their garage.
Rockstar's own wording in that announcement was the key detail: the vehicles "will be made available via events showrooms, The Lucky Wheel, and other places." Removal from the websites meant rotation, not extinction, even if the rotation runs on Rockstar's schedule rather than yours.
4. How to Still Get a Removed Car
The Casino's Lucky Wheel is the most visible route. The podium vehicle changes weekly and regularly features removed models, and winning one costs nothing beyond the daily free spin and some patience.
The two showrooms do quiet, steady work. Luxury Autos and Premium Deluxe Motorsport both stock removed cars in their weekly rotations, at normal prices, so checking them each Thursday is the collector's habit now.
At the LS Car Meet, the Prize Ride challenge gives a removed car away for meeting a weekly target, and the test-ride cars can be bought directly. On PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S you can also buy a copy of another player's parked car at the Meet, which makes any removed model obtainable if its owner shows up.
Auto Shop owners get another route: customers bring cars in for servicing, and some of those cars, including removed models, can be bought and kept. A few removed motorcycles also surface through Clubhouse work, and street-spawned examples of the cheaper removed cars can still simply be stolen and stored like any street car.
GTA+ members have the most controlled option. The Vinewood Car Club keeps a rotating floor of vehicles for members, removed models included, as our GTA+ explainer describes.
5. What "Most Customisable" Actually Means
Every car can visit Los Santos Customs for the standard menu: resprays, engine, brakes, suspension, transmission, turbo, wheels, armour and a spread of cosmetic parts. For most models that menu is identical, so "customisable" only becomes interesting where a workshop adds more.
Benny's Original Motor Works is the deep end. Its conversions, applied to cars like the Elegy, the Sultan and a family of lowriders, add whole extra categories: interior trim and ornaments, custom dials, speakers and trunk layouts, hydraulics, and liveries no standard shop stocks.
The Arena Workshop specialises in Arena War vehicles, adding armour plating, weapons and shunt boosts. On the current-generation versions, Hao's Special Works instead pushes performance, which is a different kind of upgrade; our fastest cars in GTA Online rankings show what that does to top speeds.
So the honest answer to "which car is most customisable" is a Benny's conversion, with lowriders at the very top of the pile. If you want one car to spend an evening on, buy a convertible-eligible classic or an Elegy and take it to Benny's.
6. Owning the List Without Going Broke
Garage space is the quiet limit on collecting. Apartments, offices, the Nightclub, the Agency and dedicated garage properties stack up to hundreds of spaces, so room is rarely the real problem; money is.
Buy in order of use. A fast daily driver, an armoured option and a race-competitive car for your favourite class cover almost everything, and they should come before the third showpiece.
When a car leaves your life, it leaves properly: our walkthrough of how to sell cars in GTA Online covers the daily sell limits and which cars are worth selling at all, including why some street cars should just be replaced instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many cars are in GTA Online?
Across all vehicle types, the GTA Wiki counts 864 controllable vehicles, and more than 500 of them arrived in updates after the 2013 launch. Cars make up the largest share of that total, spread across sports, super, muscle, sedan, classic and several other classes.
How many cars were removed in 2023?
Over 180. Community trackers who catalogued the missing listings put the figure between roughly 186 and 195 vehicles, depending on how variants are counted. Rockstar never published an exact number of its own.
Were removed cars deleted from the game?
No. They were removed from the in-game buying websites only. The cars remain in the game, still spawn or appear through rotating routes, and any car you already owned stayed in your garage untouched.
Can I still buy a removed car?
Yes, through rotation. Removed models appear in the Luxury Autos and Premium Deluxe Motorsport showrooms, as the Casino podium vehicle, as LS Car Meet Prize Rides and test rides, in the GTA+ Vinewood Car Club, and as buyable customer cars at an Auto Shop. On PS5 and Xbox Series X|S you can also buy a copy of another player's car at the LS Car Meet.
Why did Rockstar remove them?
Officially, to streamline the browsing experience on the in-game websites, which had grown to hundreds of listings. Players have debated the change ever since, partly because some removed cars later appeared inside the GTA+ Vinewood Car Club, but the stated reason remains the website tidy-up.
Which GTA Online car is the most customisable?
The Benny's conversions, especially the lowriders. Beyond the standard Los Santos Customs menu they add interior trim, ornaments, dials, speakers, hydraulics and exclusive liveries, giving them more modifiable categories than any standard car.
Where do I buy cars in GTA Online?
Mainly from the Legendary Motorsport and Southern San Andreas Super Autos websites on your in-game phone. Military vehicles come from Warstock Cache & Carry, aircraft from Elitás Travel and boats from DockTease, while Luxury Autos and Premium Deluxe Motorsport run physical showrooms with rotating stock.
Do removed cars still appear in traffic?
Some do. Cheaper removed models can still spawn on the street, and those the game allows you to keep can be driven into your garage like any other street car. High-end cars generally cannot be claimed from the street, removed or not.
Will the removed cars ever come back to the websites permanently?
Rockstar has not announced any permanent return. Since June 2023 the pattern has been steady rotation through showrooms, events and the Vinewood Car Club, and nothing official suggests that is about to change.
Does owning a removed car make it valuable?
Only to you. There is no player-to-player selling of owned cars for profit, and a removed car has the same performance as it always had. Its scarcity makes it a collector's piece inside your own garage, nothing more.
Final Verdict
Read the car list as a library with a rotating catalogue, not a shop that lost stock. The cars all still exist; what changed in 2023 is that some of them now require timing instead of a phone browser, and the deepest customisation still waits at Benny's for the cars that deserve it.
