Vehicle Missions are optional side missions in all GTA III era games that are activated from relevant vehicles.
To trigger a vehicle mission,the player must use the corresponding controls while inside the appropriate vehicle. The missions give the player a time limit to complete the set of objectives in that level, which is calculated with respect to distance. Cash is rewarded for completion within time. If the player runs out of time, or leaves the vehicle for too long, the mission fails and the player must start from level 1 (for certain GTAs).
Each level gets progressively harder, but the remaining time on the previous levels stacks up to make the harder levels easier. Once the top level is completed (usually level 12), a relevant reward is given to the player. For example in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, completing the Firefighter missions grants the 'Fireproof' ability, which makes the player immune to flames.
Grand Theft Auto III
- Paramedic - Ambulance
- Firefighter - Firetruck
- Vigilante - Police / Enforcer / Fbi Car / Barracks OL / Rhino
- Taxi Driver - Taxi / Cabbie / Borgnine
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Pizza Boy - Pizza Boy
- Paramedic - Ambulance
- Firefighter - Firetruck
- Vigilante / Brown Thunder - Police / Enforcer / Cheetah / FBI Washington / FBI Rancher / Barracks OL / Rhino / Hunter
- Taxi Driver - Taxi / Cabbie / Kaufman Cab / Zebra Cab
Grand Theft Auto Advance
- Paramedic - Ambulance
- Firefighter - Firetruck
- Vigilante - Police / SWAT Van / FBI Car / Barracks / Tank
- Taxi Driver - Taxi / Borgnine
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Paramedic - Ambulance
- Firefighter - Firetruck
- Vigilante / Brown Thunder - HPV-1000 / Police / Ranger / Enforcer / FBI Rancher / FBI Truck / SWAT Tank / Barracks OL / Rhino / Hunter
- Taxi Driver - Taxi / Cabbie
- Pimping - Broadway
- Burglar - Boxville Black
- Freight Missions - Brown Streak / Freight
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- Noodle Punk - Noodleboy
- Pizza Boy - Pizza Boy
- Paramedic - Ambulance
- Firefighter - Firetruck
- Vigilante - Police / Enforcer / FBI Cruiser / Barracks OL / Rhino
- Taxi Driver - Taxi / Cabbie / Bickle '76
- Trash Dash - Trashmaster
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Paramedic - Ambulance
- Firefighter - Firetruck
- Vigilante - VCPD Wintergreen / VCPD Cruiser / Enforcer / VCPD Cheetah / FBI Washington / FBI Rancher / Barracks OL / Rhino / Hunter
- Taxi Driver - Taxi / Cabbie
- Air Rescue - Air Ambulance
- Beach Patrol - BF Injection / Coastguard
- Fire Copter - Armadillo
- Vice Sights - Maverick