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The Bravado Bison is a four-door crew cab pickup truck manufactured in-universe by Bravado that appears in Grand Theft Auto VI. The truck was shown through multiple sightings in the second official trailer released in May 2025, with a heavy, modern silhouette drawn from the fifth-generation RAM 1500. In a state built around swamps, farmland, beach towns, and highway sprawl, the Bison fits the role of Leonida's blue-collar workhorse.

Overview

The Bison belongs to the larger family of pickup trucks, a class Rockstar has leaned into heavily for the rural and suburban parts of Leonida. It is a full-size four-door pickup with a short bed, shown in civilian and county work liveries in Trailer 2. Bravado itself is a thinly veiled parody of Dodge, and the Bison is the lineup's answer to the real-world RAM 1500.

Because Leonida is modelled on Florida and parts of Georgia, the Bison fits the setting naturally. Pickups are everywhere in that part of the United States, from beach towing duty to farm work to daily commuting, and Trailer 2 already shows the Bison towing on the highway and parked up as a county work truck. The truck is unglamorous on purpose. That contrast, where a dusty workhorse shares a highway with tuned exotics, is part of what gives the vehicles and combat side of the game its texture.

Appearance in GTA VI

A black Bison is visible parked near Vice City's artificial islands in Trailer 1, and the truck features more prominently in the second official trailer, published on May 6, 2025 alongside the updated release window. Pre-release coverage independently identified the truck in several trailer frames. The Bison shown in the trailer carries a squared-off grille, a wide stance, and a tall beltline, all cues pulled from the current-generation RAM 1500. Multiple body colors and at least two trim tiers have been spotted across the trailer's scenes, from stripped-down work trucks to chrome-trimmed daily drivers.

Trailer 2 Sightings

The three clearest Bison appearances in the second trailer are listed below.

The highway tow scene at 0:35 is the most significant of the three, because it shows a civilian pickup hauling a trailer in the game's own marketing footage (towing is covered on the Vehicles page). The utility Bison on the shoulder of the same highway wears a Vice-Dale County livery, placing the truck squarely inside the fictional county structure of Leonida.

Updated Design Language

The Bison shown in Trailer 2 is a large, aggressive crew-cab design. The front clip uses a tall, slab grille flanked by narrow headlight clusters, the fenders bulge over the wheels, and the cab roofline carries further back to accommodate a true four-door crew layout. The bed has a short, squared profile. Chrome trim, wheel designs, and mirror housings vary between civilian and commercial trims spotted in the trailer, suggesting multiple factory variants of the same base pickup.

Real-World Inspiration

Bravado, the fictional manufacturer, is Rockstar's parody of Dodge. The name, the bull emblem, and the heavy reliance on truck and muscle car archetypes all point directly at Dodge's branding, with the Bison specifically referencing the RAM sub-brand that Dodge spun off in 2010. The model's name follows the Bravado tradition of picking horned, heavyweight animals like the Buffalo and the Bison to echo the RAM badge.

The GTA VI Bison updates this template. Pre-release breakdowns repeatedly identify its primary real-world reference as the fifth-generation RAM 1500, which debuted in the real world in 2018 and remains in production. Secondary influences include the Chevrolet Silverado, especially in the rear quarter and side profile, and Ford F-Series cues in the mirror housings and bed. The result reads as a composite modern American full-size pickup rather than a direct one-to-one copy of any single vehicle.

The composite design communicates the vehicle's category at a glance while filing off enough identifying features to avoid copying any single truck. Anyone who has seen a modern full-size American pickup will recognise the Bison as one without needing a label on the tailgate.

Expected Role in Leonida

Rockstar has not said where the Bison spawns or how it is used in missions, but its Trailer 2 scenes point to several overlapping roles across the state. In the rural communities of Grassrivers and the surrounding swampland, it would suit farmers, hunters, contractors, and airboat operators. In the denser suburbs outside Vice City, it fits working-class residents who need one vehicle for commuting and hauling. On the interstates, the trailer already shows it towing a personal watercraft.

Utility and Government Use

The Vice-Dale County utility Bison spotted on the shoulder of Interstate 97 is a strong indicator that county and municipal services will rely on the truck. A Bison-based police variant has also been reported, but it is not confirmed.

Story and Heist Potential

Story-wise, the Bison fits naturally into the working-class framing Rockstar has established for Jason and Lucia. Rockstar has shown both protagonists occupying lower-middle-class spaces in marketing, including Lucia's community service sequence, and the Bison is exactly the kind of truck a character in that orbit would drive or steal. For heist play, its bed and towing capability make it a credible getaway vehicle for anything bulky, loud, or better hidden under a tarp. A separate dually Bravado pickup was also shown in Trailer 2 towing a large safe through the streets, which hints that pickup-based hauling jobs and heist sequences are designed around trucks of this class rather than vans alone.

Unconfirmed Details

The details in this article come from Trailer 2 and from visual identification of the truck in that footage. As of this writing, Rockstar has not published the Bison's in-game name, trim list, price, or performance figures such as top speed, acceleration, and handling, so any such numbers should be treated as unconfirmed until the game ships on November 19, 2026.

Related

• Pickup Trucks category overview

• Grassrivers, the rural Everglades-inspired region

• Leonida, the state-level setting of the game

• Vehicles and Combat system overview