Fastest Car in GTA 4: All 110 Cars Ranked by Top Speed

The fastest car in GTA 4 is a five-way tie. The Coquette, Infernus, Comet, Turismo and Banshee all top out at exactly 160 km/h (99 mph). Counting the episodes, the Bullet GT from The Ballad of Gay Tony beats them all at 163 km/h. Since top speed cannot separate the five, the ranking below orders them by how quickly they reach it.

The 21 fastest GTA 4 cars: Bullet GT 163 km/h; Banshee, Comet, Coquette, Infernus, Police Stinger, Super Diamond, Super Drop Diamond and Turismo 160 km/h; Buffalo and Super GT 155 km/h; Blista Compact, Cognoscenti, DF8-90, FIB Buffalo, NOOSE Cruiser, Police Cruiser, Police Patrol, Ruiner, Sentinel and Sultan RS 150 km/h. All 110 cars, with where to find each ↓

Why Five Cars Have Exactly the Same Top Speed

Because GTA IV stores the figure in kilometres per hour, and Rockstar gave five of its eight sports cars the same ceiling. You can check this without trusting anyone: every published speed converts to a whole number of km/h. 99.42 mph is 160.00 km/h. 101.28 is 163.00. 96.31 is 155.00, 93.21 is 150.00, 90.10 is 145.00. Not one of them lands between two round values.

That is why every site listing GTA IV cars by top speed produces the same flat tie at the top, and why a ranking built on that column tells you nothing. It also explains a stranger result: a Super Diamond saloon and a police Stinger appear alongside the Infernus in speed-sorted lists, because The Ballad of Gay Tony gave them the same 160 km/h ceiling.

What Actually Separates Them

Acceleration, and it separates them clearly. Among the five cars that reach 160 km/h, the Coquette gets there in 4.2 seconds and the Banshee needs 5.9. That is nearly two seconds between two cars with an identical top speed, which on Liberty City's street grid decides every chase you will ever be in.

The sharpest example is the Sultan RS: it accelerates in 4.1 seconds, faster than anything else in the class, and its ceiling is 150 km/h rather than 160. It wins any race decided in the first few blocks and loses any race with a long straight in it. If you are picking one car for missions, that trade is the whole decision.

Which One Should You Actually Drive?

The Infernus, for most players. It is tied for the highest top speed, second quickest to reach it, and it spawns in enough places to be worth going after. The Coquette is marginally quicker off the line but heavier to place in a corner. The Banshee is the one to avoid if you care about any of this: same ceiling, worst acceleration of the group.

All 110 GTA 4 Cars by Top Speed

Every car in GTA IV, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, ranked by the top speed the game gives it. Bikes have their own table below. Tied cars share a rank. The last column names the boroughs where a car turns up, or how to get it when it never shows up in traffic.

Top speeds are the game's own handling values, for all 110 cars. Five vehicles are left out because the published figures disagree or rest on a single reference: the Airtug, the F620, the Securicar, the Yankee and the Buffalo police cruiser of The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Fastest Bikes in GTA 4 and the Episodes

The two fastest bikes both come from The Lost and Damned: the Hakuchou Custom and the Double T Custom, tied at 160 km/h. The Vader, from The Ballad of Gay Tony, reaches 154. Six bikes share 150, among them the NRG 900, the fastest bike in the base game. All 27 are ranked below, tied bikes on the same rank.

Top speeds from the game's handling file, for all 27 bikes. The few speeds measured in game that are published differ from each other and from the file, so they are left out.

More GTA IV on GTAside

The weapons you will be carrying in these cars are ranked on the GTA IV weapons page, all twenty-nine across the base game and both episodes. Elsewhere: the cheat codes, which will spawn a Turismo or a Comet on demand, the two endings and the game page. For the other games, the fastest cars in GTA III and the San Andreas rankings.