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This Summer, Grand Theft Auto Online Is All About Racing and Discounts

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While we're patiently waiting for the second Grand Theft Auto VI trailer (or the second leaked trailer), Rockstar Games isn't slowing down the GTA Online content one bit. In fact, this summer, they're doubling down on racing seemingly like never before.
It appears people are enjoying the living daylights out of racing in GTA Online because the developers are keen on further expanding the tools to build custom drift and drag race tracks and circuits. You will use the game's updated mechanics and props from the Creator mode to develop your perfect track. Let's not pretend Fornite's creator mode isn't influencing every facet of the interactive entertainment industry.

You can even customize the behavior of NPCs during the drift and drag racing events and add extra entertainment value by having them perform various tricks like donuts or even "program" them to bounce their squeaky-squeaky lowriders. Crowd animations can also be manipulated. Coincidently, The Crew Motorfest is introducing donk and lowrider car cultures starting July 3 with the Season 4 update.

Rockstar proves that player feedback is important by implementing much-requested features like increasing the Sell Mission timer, automatically replenishing snacks during most missions, or buffing the defensive and armor capabilities of Sparrow and Bombushka aircraft. Vehicle-related activity rewards from Contact Missions, Taxi Work, Open Wheel Races, Operation Paper Trail, and others will be handsomely multiplied.

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The LS Car Meet is known as the place to be when it comes to the urban car scene in Grand Theft Auto Online. Players get twice the GTA$, RP, and LS reputation this week when engaging in activities like Street, Pursuit, Drift, and Drag Racing.

Auto Shop Client Jobs also offer double the regular cash amount when upgrading, configuring, and delivering the proper vehicles. Sessanta will text you when a new customer arrives. If you want to make an easy $100,000, you must complete the weekly challenge by delivering three vehicles.  

The best part is that the provocative LS Customs Coveralls will await you upon finishing. Win in the LS Car Meet Series for three days in a row, and you'll be driving home in a Karin Calico GTF (Sports). The Toyota Celica-inspired Karin costs $1,197,000, but if you're going to upgrade it, the total price hovers around $1,530,000.

Multiplied rewards also come from Exotic Exports and Offense Defense activities. As far as discounts go, take your pick.

  • Auto Shop Properties – 40% off
  • Auto Shop Upgrades and Modifications – 40% off
  • Emperor ETR1 (Super) – 40% off
  • Dinka Jester RR (Sports) – 30% off
  • Dinka RT3000 (Sports) – 30% off
  • Dinka Sugoi (Sports) – 30% off
  • Nagasaki Stryder (Motorcycle) – 30% off
  • Maibatsu Penumbra FF (Sports) – 30% off
  • Annis 300R (Sports) – 30% off
  • Annis ZR350 (Sports) – 30% off
  • Annis Elegy Retro Custom (Sports) – 30% off
  • Nagasaki Blazer Aqua (Off-Road) – 30% off
  • Nagasaki Outlaw (Off-Road) – 30% off

Let's not forget the ever-booming Gun Van Inventory discounts, including the Battle Rifle at 50% off for GTA Members, or the Heavy Revolver discounted 30% for everyone. You'll find the rest of the weapons at their typical prices: Military Rifle, Tactical SMG, Pistol .50, Machete, Grenades, Pipe Bombs, Sticky Bombs, and Armor.

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GTA+ members are getting the usual $1,000,000 monthly allowance until August, but come the summer's update, they'll also be rewarded with the Överflöd Pipistrello (Super). The hypercar is allegedly based on the real-life 2,012-hp Automobili Estrema Fulminea EV.

Priced around $2,100,000, the Fulminea weighs 3,307 pounds or 1,500 kilograms, compared to the Rimac Nevera, which weighs 4,740 lbs. (2,150 kilograms). The bulk of the car comes from the 100kWh battery (661 lbs/300 kg), which should be good for 323 miles or 520 km, but it's not like you'll take it on the main roads. It can reach a top speed of 200 mph or 320 kph in under 10 seconds, which promises exciting things for the GTA version.

Security Contracts as part of the F. Clinton and Partner Agency and Lamar's Short Trips offer double rewards for members through June 24. This month, the Vinewood Car Club is handing out the Bravado Greenwood muscle car. The vehicle is an in-game representation of multiple cars, such as the Dodge Monaco and Plymouth Fury.

For the more fashionable players who enjoy getting a tan at the beach or taking a morning walk at the pier, the airbrushed Vespucci Beach Tee and Vespucci Beach Flip-flops await you. You'll find a 50% discount from the Record A Studios Merch Store to the right of reception at Record A Studios in Rockford Hills. The Pastel Yellow Pearl Chameleon, Pink Prismatic Pearl Chameleon, and the wheels with the Light Purple Pearl Chameleon Wheel Paint are free for GTA+ until June 24 as well.

GTA Online is doing brilliantly, with GTA V making over $10 billion in bookings since it launched on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013.

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About the author: Codrin Spiridon
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Codrin just loves American classics, from the 1940s and ‘50s, all the way to the muscle cars of the '60s and '70s. In his perfect world, we'll still see Hudsons and Road Runners roaming the streets for years to come (even in EV form, if that's what it takes to keep the aesthetic alive).
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