Rockstar’s Real GTA VI Grotti Cheetah Costs More Than Six Ferrari Testarossas
Grand Theft Auto VI’s Grotti Cheetah has escaped Vice City and parked itself inside one of London’s most famous department stores. No, we’re not joking. The real-life supercar is sitting in Selfridges with around $1.3 million asking price, built by West Coast Customs for Rockstar Games. And Ferrari fans will clock exactly what it’s copying in about half a second.
Why The Grotti Cheetah Has Always Been GTA’s Ferrari Testarossa
Rockstar has a long history of borrowing inspiration from real-world cars, and Grotti is the game’s stand-in for Ferrari. The Cheetah has been riding that wave since GTA III back in 2001. This one doesn’t even pretend. That low wedge, the pop-up headlights and those wide side strakes are pure Ferrari Testarossa, the mid-engined poster car that owned bedroom walls through the 1980s and early 1990s. Even the badge is in on the joke, with Ferrari’s prancing horse swapped for Grotti’s rearing rabbit.
West Coast Customs, best known for its work on MTV’s Pimp My Ride, soaked it in a Vice City fade, blue at the nose and pink at the tail. The result looks like it drove straight out of GTA’s neon-soaked streets. Now for the nerdy bit. Rockstar’s own description of the Cheetah talks up a 4.9-liter naturally aspirated V8, but a real Testarossa’s 4.9 is a flat-12. Nobody involved has said what’s actually under this one’s engine cover. It’s one of six real GTA VI cars West Coast Customs built for Rockstar, alongside the Pegassi Tempesta, Progen Emerus, Invetero Coquette, Albany Buccaneer and Albany Manana. Only the Cheetah has a price tag.
What $1.3 Million Gets You Compared With A Real Ferrari
The asking price might be enough to make even wealthy Ferrari collectors pause. Real Testarossas have sold for a median of around $202,000 at auction over the past 12 months. Selfridges wants enough for more than six of them. There’s a delicious irony here, too. In the 1980s, Ferrari got so fed up with the Corvette-based fake Daytona in Miami Vice that it handed the show two brand-new Testarossas, on the condition that the fake got blown up on screen. Forty years later, a Testarossa lookalike is wearing a seven-figure price tag.
The Cheetah is on display at The Corner Shop inside Selfridges’ Oxford Street store, where the GTA VI pop-up runs from November 9 through November 28, 2026. There’s no add-to-cart button for this one. Anyone with a spare million pounds has to go through Selfridges Personal Shopping. For everyone else, there’s always the considerably cheaper option. The $99.99 GTA VI Ultimate Edition throws in a ’95 Grotti Cheetah when the game lands November 19. That’s roughly 13,000 times cheaper, and nobody has to call you back.
Source: West Coast Customs
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