Picador
The Picador in GTA San Andreas.
Vehicle type	Civilian car
Body style	Coupé utility pickup truck
Capacity	2 (driver and passenger)
Appearance(s)	GTA San Andreas Grand Theft Auto V
Related vehicle(s)	Bucanneer

The Albany Picador is a coupé utility pickup truck featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto V.

Description

Design

The Picador is implied to be a pickup variant of the Buccaneer, which shares a similar frontal design, with the exception of a different headlight design, a thinner front bumper, and an additional emblem on the hood. The Picador is based on the 1971 or 1972 Chevrolet El Camino, which happens to share similar design cues with the 1970-1972 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, a car which the Buccaneer shares a likeness to. Picadors may occasionally been depicted with different items on its bed, such as planks or Sprunk cans.

Performance

The Picador has the highest top speed and acceleration for any pickup in the game possibly due to a large V8 engine. However, it is also the lightest and lacks the torque of the stronger trucks; its cornering is also a little unstable, owing to its rear wheel drive. As it is a pickup, the Picador can only carry two in the truck cab.

Modifications

• The Picador can be modified at TransFender:

Colours:

• Car colour 1 (does not change the vehicle's bed colour). ($150)

Hood:

• Fury Scoop ($150)
• Champ Scoop ($100)

Exhausts:

• Large Exhaust ($250)
• Small Exhaust ($150)
• Upswept Exhaust ($350)

Lights:

• Round fog lamp ($100)

Nitro:

• 2x Nitrous ($200)
• 5x Nitrous ($500)
• 10x Nitrous ($1000)

Roof:

• Roof Scoop ($80)

Side Skirts ($500)

Wheels:

• Import ($820)
• Atomic ($770)
• Ahab ($1000)
• Virtual ($620)
• Acess ($1140)
• Off Road Wheel ($1000)
• Mega ($1030)
• Grove ($1230)
• Twist ($1200)
• Wires ($1560)

Car Stereo:

• Bass boost ($100)

Hydraulics ($1500)

• The Transfender in Las Venturas has charges 20% more for each modification except colours.

Gallery

The Picador as seen in the GTA V trailer "Franklin".

Rear view of the Picador as seen in the Grand Theft Auto V trailer "Franklin"

Birds eye view of the Picador, an unidentified yellow car, and the Ruiner street racing as seen in Grand Theft Auto V trailer "Franklin"

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Trivia

• Ryder's car is a brown Picador with a license plate reading "SHERM", a slang term for a PCP-immersed Marijuana and Tobacco mixture (CJ calls Ryder "sherm-head" throughout the game). Even after Ryder's death in the mission Pier 69 his car still spawns regularly. The car takes the place of a Sadler as Ryder's car of choice during development of the game.^[1]
• The Spanish name Picador is a horse-mounted member of a bullfighting crew, which confronts the bull with his pike ("pica", hence the name) during the first third of each bull.
• The Spanish word Picado, without the "R," means "Chopped," or "Minced" in Portuguese.
• The default radio station in the Picador is Radio Los Santos.
• At 0:38 in the second GTA V trailer, a pickup truck resembling the Picador can be seen on the bridge, thus, the possibility of it returning.

Locations

• Can be found almost everywhere in Los Santos.
• Parked at Ryder's house in Ganton, Los Santos.
• Rarely found in San Fierro.

References

1. ↑ Ryder's Sadler