Vapid Ganado
A coupe utility in a retro build, one of the vehicles waiting at Jason's safehouse in the Ultimate Edition.
The Vapid Ganado arrives as a retro build with exclusive modifications, parked at [Jason's](/wiki/characters/jason-duval) safehouse as part of the Ultimate Edition.
What it actually is
The shot shows a coupe utility: a car from the windscreen forward and a pickup bed behind, in a yellow and orange striped seventies livery with a bonnet scoop and chrome bumpers.
That body style is a specific and slightly odd piece of Americana. It was never quite a truck and never quite a car, sold to people who wanted one vehicle to do both jobs, and it survives today almost entirely as a restoration object.
Where the shape came from
Not America, as it happens. The coupe utility was an Australian idea from the nineteen thirties, built in response to a request for a vehicle that could carry somebody to church on Sunday and livestock to market on Monday. Australia has called them utes ever since.
America imported the concept two decades later. Ford launched the Ranchero in 1957, Chevrolet answered with the El Camino, and the two spent the next twenty years as direct rivals selling to farmers, tradesmen and eventually to people who simply liked them. Both were gone by the early eighties, killed by the compact pickup, which did the same job without pretending to be a coupe.
What is left is a body style with no modern equivalent and a strong following, which is why almost every surviving one has been restored by somebody.
Why it suits Jason
Putting one at Jason's place is good character writing. It is exactly the vehicle a man living rent-free on somebody else's boat yard would end up driving: useful, cheap to keep running, and old enough that nobody asks about it.
It also does real work in a game that has put larger weapons in the vehicle rather than on your body. An open bed is a different proposition from a boot, and a vehicle that can carry something awkward is a vehicle with a use beyond getting places.
Vapid
Vapid is Rockstar's Ford analogue, which puts the Ganado in the Ranchero lineage rather than the El Camino one, though the two were close enough at a glance that the distinction is mostly for people who care about badges.
What is not known
Rockstar has not detailed what the exclusive modifications are, has not said whether a standard Ganado appears in the base game, and has published no handling detail.
Related: Dinka Enduro and the safehouse vehicles.