List roles before stats
The official experience confirms repairable cars and boats, and official updates have added vehicles over time. A trustworthy list records exact name, land/water type, observed seats, storage, required components, fuel, map/event scope, source role, availability, and check date. Speed and durability require current controlled testing.
Do not rank a vehicle from appearance. The best transport is the one that can move, supports the group and route, has enough fuel, and can stop somewhere safe.
Vehicle-role lookup
These roles avoid publishing a false complete roster from an outdated community table.
Inspect before entry
Observe windows, roads, ridges, and nearby cover. A vehicle can belong to another player or be watched. Check the live interaction for body, engine, tires, fuel system, glass, and other components the model exposes. Confirm fuel and storage without staying in the open.
Ask whether the vehicle can complete the next route and leave the destination. A running engine with critical body damage or insufficient fuel is not ready. Use Vehicle Repair for priorities.
If components are scattered nearby, assume someone interacted with the vehicle recently.
Land vehicles
Land transport follows roads efficiently but meets bridges, checkpoints, dense towns, damaged tires, and predictable turns. Choose a model whose size and route fit. Park facing an exit rather than directly at a building. Slow before blind corners and do not crest exposed terrain without a plan.
Record seats and storage from the current interface. Community numbers can lag updates. For groups, designate driver, navigator, and observers before moving. Everyone should know the stop and fallback.
Boats
Boats bypass some road danger and connect shorelines, but occupants are visible over open water. Identify two landing points and a covered route away from each. Confirm fuel before leaving shore. A landing that looks short on the map can be unusable because of exposure or terrain.
Record whether the boat belongs to Beta, Reimagined, or an event variant. Do not transfer a marina pin across maps.
Event and historical vehicles
Official release and event notes confirm vehicle additions. Preserve those dates while separating historical introduction from current spawn. Use current, event-limited, expired, legacy, returned, or unverified status.
An event vehicle visible in an old video may still exist in inventories or screenshots without remaining obtainable. Use Seasonal Events to confirm the window.
Compare a swap
Before changing vehicles, compare movement readiness, body protection, fuel, seats, storage, terrain role, and safe route. Move immediate healing and an escape weapon to the character. Transfer vehicle parts and group supplies only after securing the area.
A rarer vehicle with missing parts can be worse than a common working one. Keep the route goal more important than collecting models.
Maintain the list
For every observation record map, landmark, condition, components, fuel state, seats, storage, event state, date, and whether another player may have altered it. Recheck after vehicle, map, event, or storage updates. Do not convert a few sightings into spawn odds.
Verification status
Cars, boats, repairs, vehicle parts, and update additions are official. Vehicle names and categories may use community leads. Exact roster, seats, storage, speed, durability, fuel, components, and current sources require live verification. Last reviewed September 18, 2026.
Minimum useful field test
Test a candidate in open space before beginning the route. Confirm that it starts, turns, stops, reverses, and exits reliably on your platform. Check the visible seat and storage interactions with a teammate if available. Drive only far enough to detect steering or component problems, then stop and inspect again. Record terrain and fuel change without turning a short run into a speed claim. If the test requires different parts or repairs than a community page lists, preserve both dates and use the current interface result. A repeatable short test is safer and more informative than judging the model during an improvised escape.