Template:Infobox vehicles The Vapid The Liberator is a monster truck in featured in the Independence Day Special for Grand Theft Auto V.
Design
Being modeled as a high-performance monster truck, The Liberator features a tubular frame with a fiberglass body, and it sports large unproportional wheels with offroad tires. The Liberator's fiberglass body seems to emulate the design of the Sandking SWB, however it is not entirely identical. For example, the front end has a strong resemblance to the Bravado Rumpo. The truck features a realistic tube-frame chassis (real life monster trucks use these to maintain the truck's integrity on hard hits; a normal truck would simply break apart), with shock towers and sway-bars to maintain the realism of what a normal monster truck would have to offer. The Liberator can only seat two.
Performance
The Liberator is a very high performance vehicle, despite its size. It has a decently high speed that can can keep up with almost all "normal" cars in the game. It is the fastest accelerating four wheel drive vehicle in the game, without any upgrades, reaching its top speed in very little time. For a vehicle of its size, The Liberator has a surprisingly good handling, as it remains generally stable at high speeds and rarely loses control, possibly due to its large, thick tires and its 4WD drivetrain. Also, The Liberator is unique in that it is the only vehicle in the game to feature four-wheel steering, and this results in the vehicle having an impressive turning radius. The truck, not surprisingly, has a very high damage tolerance, meaning it is very hard to destroy, although can still be blown up by one sticky bomb. Also, as expected, the truck can crush certain vehicles in game and do tricks in the air.
Gallery
(Rear quarter view)
Locations
- Found in each protagonist's garage in single player.
- Can be purchased from Warstock Cache & Carry for $742,014 in GTA Online.
Trivia
- The Liberator is the first vehicle in the series to have "The" in its name.
- The Liberator is the fifth monster truck in the series, the first being the Monster Bug and the Monster Truck in GTA San Andreas, since it has three variants, and it is also the first monster truck to debut in the HD Universe.
- The pricing of the truck, $742,014, is clearly a poke on 7/4/2014, which is the date of Independence Day in the United States for 2014.
- The Liberator is one of the first vehicles in the GTA series to have four wheel steering. However, due to this, The Liberator cannot do donuts(despite the fact that four wheel steering is what enables real-life monster trucks to do donuts).
- The Liberator is also the first DLC vehicle that cannot be modified at Los Santos Customs.
- The default radio stations for The Liberator are Los Santos Rock Radio and Radio Mirror Park.
- It has a unique horn and engine sound.
- The Liberator actually doesn't have any working external lights. This is due to the fact that the truck has no lights at all, since its entire body is fiberglass. This is more than likely due to the fact that its original purpose was to be used as a show-car. Other vehicles that don't have external lights are the Caddy and the Tractor.
- The Liberator's horn sounds like a higher pitched version of the Rhino's horn.
- The Liberator's tires are completely impervious to all forms of damage. This makes it excellent for escaping from the police.
- For unknown reasons, when participating in an online race, its manufacturer name will display as Vulcar instead of Vapid.