GTA 6 getaway cars: fuel, engine health, trackers, Scooter Bros and WAINK, explained

Short version first. In GTA 6, a car is a machine you have to look after. It has a fuel gauge and engine health, some cars carry police trackers, and two phone apps, Scooter Bros and WAINK, handle delivery and selling. All of it comes from Edge's preview, published today. Here is how it fits together.

I'm Rolo. I do the hardware on this site, and a car is the most important bit of hardware you will own in Leonida.

What is confirmed

These details come from Edge's preview, where Rob Nelson played the game live. Where Rockstar's own words are the source, I say so.

Confirmed: fuel and engine health. Every car shows both. Edge reports tanks go a long way and a refuel is a quick stop. Range still matters when you choose a car for a long job. We first saw the fuel gauge in August.

Confirmed: trackers. Some cars broadcast their location to the police. Edge mentions expensive cars in particular.

Confirmed: carjacking is a gamble. Pull someone out of a car on the street and the car may have a tracker, an armed driver or an almost empty tank.

Confirmed: WAINK. A phone app that lists the models fences want, with each car's security features. Fences usually run a signal jammer at the drop-off, and the condition of the car changes the payout.

Confirmed: Scooter Bros. For a fee, a courier delivers your own car within seconds, then leaves on a scooter they brought. Kotaku notes it is slower than calling a car in GTA V.

Confirmed: weapons go in the boot. You cannot carry everything at once. Your arsenal lives in the car.

Not known: fuel prices, how fast a tank empties, what happens when engine health hits zero, and what Scooter Bros costs.

General advice: planning a getaway

Edge describes two ways to set up a robbery: leave a getaway car in place beforehand, or take one off the street. This is how I would approach both, based on what we know.

1. Plant your own car when you can. You know its fuel, its condition and that nobody is tracking it. It costs you time up front, and saves you surprises later.
2. Check fuel before the job, not after. Long range does not mean infinite range. Top up on the way in.
3. Stealing on the street? Pick the plain car. Expensive cars are the ones Edge says are likely to carry trackers. A dull saloon is a better getaway than a supercar that tells the police where you are.
4. Look after the engine. A damaged car is slower to escape in and worth less to a fence.
5. Swap cars, not just clothes. The police work from a description, and your vehicle is part of it. Ruby explains the clothes half in her piece today.
6. Keep the right weapons on you before you leave the car. What is in the boot stays in the boot when you are on foot.

Where Scooter Bros fits

Think of Scooter Bros as a convenience, not a getaway. It brings your car to you after a few seconds. That is ideal for getting back to work after a long trip on foot or by train. It is not something to call during a chase. Bama compares it to whistling for your horse in Red Dead, and he is right.

Six has everything else from the Edge feature. When the game is out, our vehicle database will list fuel range and tracker risk for every model we can test.