Blue two-tone saloon

A two-tone blue saloon lifted onto enormous chrome wire wheels, rear tyres smoking, with a plate whose number reads EUL Y7 and two badges on the boot that will not resolve.

The car is a square American four-door of the early eighties, photographed from behind and a little to its right, so the right flank shows. The boot lid and roof are a pale blue; from the rear pillar forward the flank deepens to teal, so this is a two-tone finish rather than a reflection. It has been lifted onto wheels far bigger than it was built for, deep chrome wire-spoke rims on low-profile tyres, leaving the arches standing empty above them. The rear tyres are smoking.

The plate is the sharpest thing in the frame, and only part of it clears this site’s floor for lettering. The number, EUL, then a dolphin leaping over an orange disc, then Y7, reads above this site’s floor for lettering. The serif word across the top band and the two words on the orange bottom band are smaller again and fall under that floor, so they are not printed here as read. The layout is a serif word up top and a dolphin over an orange disc between the halves of the number; the same dolphin device sits on a motorcycle plate elsewhere, where the name above it is large enough to read, and the Gloriana page has it. A registration sticker sits in the top right corner.

The tail lamps are wide horizontal lenses divided into vertical segments, over a full-width chrome bumper. Two raised badges sit on the boot lid, one either side of the centre line. Enlarged at full press-pack resolution each stays a strip of shapes: the right-hand one runs to six or seven characters and we will not transcribe it. Behind the car a street is in full swing: a rider in green on an orange dirt bike, a bare-chested rider on a green quad bike with its nose in the air, murals along the wall, a grey car further up the road, and a woman in a red top leaning in at the far-side rear window of this car, her arm showing through the rear glass.

GTA 5 filled its streets with this outline as the Albany Emperor, which the GTA Wiki traces to Cadillacs of the late seventies and eighties, and the lift-and-wires treatment is the donk style GTA Online gave the Faction Custom Donk in its Lowriders: Custom Classics update. That is a comparison of shapes, not a name: the badges that would settle it are the two we cannot read.

How to recognise it

• Square early-eighties four-door, pale blue over deeper teal
• Deep chrome wire-spoke wheels on low-profile tyres, arches left empty
• Plate number EUL Y7 with a dolphin over an orange disc between the halves; the bands above and below are too small to read here
• Wide segmented horizontal tail lamps over a full-width chrome bumper
• Two raised badges on the boot lid, neither legible
• Rear tyres smoking

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 1305 by 799 of it. Also in it: a small income-tax office, Vice City, a modern muscle convertible, a red sport sedan, a stunt dirt bike, and Hawx side-by-side UTV.

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 boot badges read. We can count characters in the right-hand one and not read them.
• The words on the top and bottom bands of the plate, under the floor at this size
• Whether the lift and the wires are how the car comes or what somebody did to it
• Everything measured: top speed, acceleration, handling, price, where it spawns