Carjacking in Grand Theft Auto games has been, as the title denotes, a staple of the series. Up until now, it’s largely been the same. While there have been more details and animations added over the years, the premise has remained that you’ll walk up to a car, press Y or Triangle, throw the driver out, get in and drive away. If the car was parked, you’d execute the same button press to smash the window and steal it. With GTA 6, carjacking is getting a complete overhaul. Here, we’ve got all of the information we know so far on how to steal cars in GTA 6.
There are two ways to steal a car: taking one that’s stationary, or taking one that someone’s driving around in. However, there are more details that make GTA 6 feel more like true simulation gameplay now.
How to steal a parked car
As we saw in the GTA 6 extended look gameplay, when Jason approached a car, he had multiple options to choose from. The first option is a slim jim–a classic tool used to break into older vehicles. It slides down the window frame to adjust the lock, and in GTA 6, it seems like this is done via a lockpicking minigame. However, based on what we’ve heard so far, that won’t work for every car. Depending on the year and model of the vehicle, you might not be able to use a slim jim.
However, newer and more expensive cars might not work with this method. On top of that, there are trackers, meaning that the police can track your location when you steal a car. This changes the whole carjacking aspect of Grand Theft Auto. Normally, if you’d steal a car, you might catch some heat; maybe a nearby police officer sees you and follows you, but it’s pretty easy to get away cleanly. This time, that isn’t the case.
