White transit bus

A modern low-floor transit bus in white with a blue roof, side on and seen from above in one of the Vice City press stills, nose to the left and passengers at the windows. Nothing on it reads as a name, and the page says what is there instead.

The bus sits in the lane along the kerb, side on and seen from above, nose to the left, low in an aerial press still of Vice City’s hotel district. It is a modern low-floor transit bus in white, on two axles, with no joint in the body, and the window line starts just above the wheel arches, as it does on a low-floor bus. The livery is not a band along the windows: the whole roof panel is blue, a white band runs along the top of the window line beneath it, and low on the flank a red stripe sits over a blue lower panel, both running level with the window line. There is a light graphic on that blue panel which does not come apart into characters at full size.

The side is mostly glass: a long run of windows down the flank, dark where a shadow falls across the front half and clear at the back, with passengers visible inside and yellow grab poles between them. Behind the last window the body ends in a windowless white rear section, grey on top with a dark slanted vent in it, which on a rear-engined bus is where the engine sits. At the front the windscreen wraps around the corner, a wing mirror stands out on an arm, and one headlight catches the sun at the lower corner. On the blue roof, about three quarters of the way back, sits a pale round device; whether that is an emblem or a roof hatch, this image does not say.

Inside this crop there is little besides the bus: the kerb and the pavement above it, a pale post on the pavement above the nose, a strip of road ahead of it and the tips of palm fronds over the rear corner. What the street holds around it is in the whole still, where a shelter with a green roof stands on the pavement just behind the bus and a dark estate car waits ahead of it in the same lane. For other vehicles that carry passengers, see the Vice City coach, the cutaway shuttle bus and the water taxi.

Several things have come off this page. An earlier note called the bus articulated; from this height there is no joint to see in the body, and two axles argue against it. Until 22 September 2026 this page said the blue was a band along the window line, with a thinner red stripe under it; that was written from a half-size copy, and the 4K original puts the blue on the roof and the red down at the skirt. And until 25 September it said both stripes swept up towards the rear and that the body stepped up into a rear section with a black louvred panel on top: at full resolution the stripes run level with the window line, there is no step to see, and the top of the rear section is grey with a single dark vent. The same day the page stopped calling it the only public transport we hold, which it never was.

How to recognise it

• Blue roof panel over the full length, stopping short of the windowless rear section
• Red stripe over a blue lower panel, running level with the window line
• Long run of side windows, then a blind white rear section with a dark vent on top
• A pale round device on the blue roof, about three quarters of the way back
• Seen from above and side on, nose to the left, in the lane along the kerb

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 441 by 129 of it. Also in it: Vice City, Hotel Valetta, and a building named Firefly Plaza.

How this was measured

These figures come from the dataset, not from the prose above. We measure everything and claim what counts. How we work

What we still do not know

• What the pale round device on the roof is. At full resolution it is a pale ellipse and nothing more.
• The light graphic on the blue lower panel, which does not separate into characters
• The operator, and whether it carries a route number
• Whether it is drivable, and whether buses run a fixed route
• Everything measured: top speed, capacity, where it spawns

A note on this record

This page was titled Bus, with a capital B, because a published vehicle list files it that way. A species name in a list is not a model name off the bodywork, and since 17 September 2026 this site only capitalises a name it can source to Rockstar or read in the frame. There is no name on this bus, so the page now says what it is instead. No hypothesis block is attached: nobody is claiming a model name for it, and inventing an argument to have one would be worse than the plain description. The old address redirects here.