Bravado Bison in GTA 6: the Ram-style pickup seen in Trailer 2

The Bison is the workhorse pickup of the GTA world and it is all over Trailer 2. The Drive spotted one towing a jet ski through Vice City, and a heavier dual-rear-wheel version turns up around the two-minute mark in the vault sequence⁴. Breakdowns of the highway chase also place a Bison in the traffic³.

Where it appears, scene by scene

The Drive's own trailer breakdown treats the Bison as one of the more recognisable trucks on screen precisely because Rockstar shows it doing truck things rather than just idling in traffic: towing a personal watercraft through Vice City, and, separately, a heavier dual-rear-wheel version rolling through the vault sequence near the two-minute mark, which reads as a distinct variant rather than the same model twice⁴. Neither the towing shot nor the dual-rear-wheel truck has been confirmed by name in the August 27, 2026 Extended Look, and outlets covering that footage's real-world car counterparts did not single out a Ram-style Bravado pickup, so its confirmed screen time to date is still Trailer 2⁴.

Real-world inspiration

GTABase reads the GTA 6 Bison as a fourth-generation Dodge Ram Quad Cab, and other breakdowns land on the same Ram family²³. That is a change of era rather than a change of identity: the Bison has always been the series' Ram, and the fourth-generation truck moves it forward from the older shape used in GTA V².

The real car behind it

Dodge split its truck line into a standalone Ram brand around 2010, midway through the fourth generation's run, positioning Ram as a truck-first identity aimed at buyers who wanted a workhorse rather than an image vehicle⁸. That generation, built on the DS platform, is the one most GTA 6 trailer breakdowns land on for the Bison's shape, and it stayed in production long enough to be sold alongside its own successor for years afterward under the Ram 1500 Classic name⁸. Engine choices ranged from a 3.7-liter V6 up to a 5.7-liter HEMI V8 rated at 390 horsepower, with a diesel option added partway through the run, and the truck was good enough in period to win Motor Trend's Truck of the Year award twice⁵. The Quad Cab body specifically, a four-door cab shorter than the largest crew-cab option, is the detail GTA trackers point to for the Bison's proportions².

Series history and the Bravado badge

Bravado is the Dodge analogue in GTA, the badge behind the Buffalo, the Banshee and the Gauntlet². The Bison itself appeared in GTA V as a mid-range pickup and returns for GTA 6 with an updated body². GTABase files the truck under Vans in its own taxonomy, which is a database quirk rather than a statement about the vehicle².

What earlier GTA games did with this model

The Bison has been in GTA Online since launch day, September 17, 2013, selling for a flat $30,000 from Southern San Andreas Super Autos, which made it one of the cheapest trucks in the game rather than a premium pickup⁷. GTA Online's own vehicle data lists a towing hitch and a missile-lock jammer among its equipment, features that line up neatly with the jet-ski-towing shot in the GTA 6 trailer even though nothing confirms towing itself is a player-usable mechanic rather than a scripted detail⁷. Two cosmetic-only steal liveries, the McGill-Olsen and Mighty Bush versions, have also existed in Online without ever being sold outright, the kind of variant history that makes the dual-rear-wheel truck in the GTA 6 vault scene plausible as a similar unlockable rather than a separate model⁷.

Why there are so many pickups

Leonida is not Los Santos. Trailer 2 spends large stretches in the Keys, on rural highways and around boat ramps, and the traffic mix reflects that with trucks pulling trailers, towing watercraft and hauling gear¹⁴. A Bison with a jet ski on the back is the clearest single image of that change in the whole trailer⁴.

What we expect in GTA 6

Given that the GTA Online Bison already ships with a towing hitch as a stated feature, it would not be a surprise if GTA 6 turns that into an actual player mechanic given how much of Trailer 2's Leonida footage leans on boats, docks and watercraft, though Rockstar has not said so directly¹⁷. It is similarly reasonable to expect Bravado's usual affordable positioning to hold, meaning the Bison likely remains a mid-tier or budget truck rather than a flagship, matching both its GTA V pricing and the blue-collar framing of its in-game marketing description²⁷.

What we do not know

• Whether the dual-rear-wheel truck in the vault scene is a separate model or a Bison variant⁴
• Whether trailer towing is a player mechanic or a scripted background detail¹
• Price, stats and customisation options, none of which Rockstar has published²
• Whether older Bison variants such as the flatbed return²

Community theories

The open question trackers keep returning to is whether the dual-rear-wheel Bison spotted in the vault sequence is a heavier factory trim, the kind of dually configuration real Ram trucks offer on commercial models, or a completely separate Bravado nameplate that just happens to share styling cues, since Rockstar has not shown the two trucks side by side or named either one on screen⁴. There is a smaller side debate over the jet-ski tow itself: some read it as confirmation that GTA 6 will let players hitch trailers and watercraft freely, others point out Rockstar has staged non-interactive tows in cutscenes before without turning them into systems, so this is treated as an open mechanic question rather than a settled one¹.