Why most of the 3D Universe vehicles don't have manufacturers?

[Johan The Channel]

In the HD Universe, almost all the vehicles have their fictional brands (like Karin, Vapid and others), but in the 3D Universe just a few vehicles have their fictional brands and there's only a few brands, same goes for the 2D Universe. Vehicles like heavy trucks and buses is understandable, but cars like Banshee, Greenwood and Bobcat doens't have defined manufacturers.

[cant remember]

Just older more primitive times

[Lioshenka]

I much preferred them this way. I find the manufacturers' names in GTA 4 and 5 stupid, and also the way the cars have been allocated is bizarre. I would expect certain manufacturers to only make one model of a car, or focus on certain group of vehicles. Instead, we have a bunch of manufacturers with poorly designed logos that almost all make estates, sports cars, military SUVs, aircraft... Stupid.

 

Historically, I think this was a more natural way of doing it. With GTA 3 only having a limited number of slots for vehicles, the developers probably tried to portray the most popular real-life models, which means that each real-life manufacturer would only be presented by one or two examples. Thus there was no reason to have in-game manufacturers.

 

Though the manufacturers existed in the games' universe independent from cars, Zaibatsu and Grotti spring to mind.

[universetwisters]

17 hours ago, Johan The Channel said:

...but cars like Banshee, Greenwood and Bobcat doens't have defined manufacturers...

 

I have a theory that BOBCAT is meant to be the brand than the model. Not only do pickup trucks have the brand as opposed to the model written on the tailgate, but also most people refer to cars based on their make than their model i.e. "go pick up my ford" as opposed to "go pick up my ranger"

 

Also I think, at least in III and VC, Rockstar wanted it to take place within "our world" so, theoretically, Porsche and Lincolns etc could totally exist in the gtaverse at the time (one of the Love Fist songs written specifically for VC specifically mentions Porsches), or rather, the gta games could totally exist in our worlds like how III mentions The Exorcist by name, VC mentions Red Dawn by name etc. and it wasnt until SA did they finally start making their own true universe. That's when they started making more car brands like Grotti, Willard etc

[Silver]

It wasn't a priority for R* at the time. They just made cars inspired by their real-life counterparts and called it a day.

[Johan The Channel]

I decided to make a list of the known 3D Universe brands and possible brands with their vehicles and possible vehicles.

 

Known brands

American Motors

Spoiler

Origin: USA

Influence: AMC

Appears in: GTA Vice City Stories

 

Vehicles:

Splitz-6 ATV

 

Possible Vehicles:

Barracks OL

Flatbed

Patriot

 

CJD

Spoiler

Origin: USA

Influence: GMC

Appears in: Manhunt

 

Vehicles:

Hauler (Carcer Move Truck)

 

Possible Vehicles:

Boxville

Monster (B)

Mr Whoope (VC, SA & VCS)

Rancher

Ranger

Utility Van

Yosemite

 

DUDE

Spoiler

Origin: USA

Influence: Caterpillar & MAN

Appears in: GTA Vice City (Beta), GTA San Andreas and Manhunt 2

 

Vehicles:

Cement Truck

Crane

Dizer

Dumper

 

Possible Vehicles:

Bulldozer

 

Grotti

Spoiler

Origin: Italy

Influence: Ferrari

Appears in: GTA San Andreas

 

Possible Vehicles:

Cheetah

Stinger (VC & VCS)

Turismo

 

Imponte

Spoiler

Origin: USA

Influence: Pontiac

Appears in: GTA Vice City Stories

 

Vehicles:

Insurrection

 

Possible Vehicles:

Buffalo

Phoenix

Regina

Sunrise

 

Maibatsu

Spoiler

Origin: Japan

Influence: Mitsubishi

Appears in: GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories 

 

Vehicles:

Monstrosity

Thunder

Womb

 

Possible Vehicles:

Alpha

Sandking

Uranus

 

NAG

Spoiler

Origin: USA

Influence: Caterpillar

Appears in: GTA Vice City, Manhunt, GTA San Andreas

 

Vehicles:

Crawl Crane

972

 

Possible Vehicles:

Bulldozer

 

Willard

Spoiler

Origin: USA

Influence: Buick

Appears in: GTA San Andreas

 

Vehicles:

Elegant/Elegance

Willard

 

Possible Vehicles:

Hotring (B)

Idaho

Majestic

Romero Hearse

 

Possible Brands (in my opinion)

BF Motors

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Origin: ???

Influence: Volkswagen (possibly)

Appears in: GTA San Andreas

 

Possible Vehicles:

BF-400

BF Injection

Bug (Alpha III)

Camper

Club

 

Kunst

Spoiler

Origin: USA (possibly)

Influence: ???

Appears in: GTA San Andreas (carcols files)

 

Possible Vehicles:

???

 

Nioka

Spoiler

Origin: Japan (possibly)

Influence: ???

Appears in: GTA San Andreas (carcols files)

 

Possible Vehicles:

???

 

Pfister

Spoiler

Origin: Germany (possibly)

Influence: Porsche (possibly)

 

Possible Vehicles:

Comet

Stinger (III & LCS)

Yakuza Stinger

 

Shitsu

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Origin: Japan (possibly)

Influence: Suzuki (possibly)

 

Possible Vehicles:

BF-400

PCJ-600

 

Unknown Ford-based brand (Fosta/Echo)

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Origin: USA

Influence: Ford

 

Vehicles:

Brickle '76

Echo/Premier/Stanier (Civilian III & LCS Police/Taxi)

FBI Cruiser

Police (III, Advance & LCS)

Taxi (III, Advance & LCS)

 

Possible Vehicles:

Ambulance

Benson

Bobcat

Bullet

DFT-30

Fortune

Hustler

Luton (Alpha III)

Mule

Pony

Tow Truck

Trashmaster (VC, SA & VCS)

Yankee

 

Edited July 2 by Johan The Channel