Red convertible

Name not confirmed

We think this is the Bentinel

The badge at the right of the boot lid reads BENTINEL. That is our own reading off the bodywork, not a name anyone has published, and it is the only word on the car. It is put here as a hypothesis rather than as the title because it rests on a single character in a single frame: the last seven letters were already readable on 20 September 2026, and on 21 September the first one resolved as a B. One frame, one character. Other lists file this car as an Ubermacht Sentinel Classic; Bentinel is not Sentinel, so that name is contradicted by the same reading - see below and /how-we-work/verification/.

What supports it

Measured on the 3840 by 2160 master at 8:27.29. The lettering band is 208 by 36 pixels and each character about 20 pixels tall. Rendered at true pixel scale with local contrast normalisation and no interpolation, all eight characters separate.
The first character was checked against known letters in the same frame rather than against our expectation. The plate below the badge carries an S in DISCOVER, a B in RB9, an R in HRP and RB9 and a P in HRP, all at a comparable size. The badge glyph matches that B: a full-height stem down the left with two closed lobes to the right of it. The S on that plate is an open double curve with no stem at all.
The last seven characters, ENTINEL, were read independently a day earlier, in a separate sitting and before the first character gave way.

What does not

One frame carries this. At 8:58.27 the same car is shot from behind again, the boot is foreshortened, and the badge does not come apart at all. The other two shots are side views.
One character carries the difference between this reading and the borrowed name. That character is about 13 by 15 pixels, and on 20 September it counted as unreadable; it was a further measurement that resolved it, not a sharper source.
On the same day two other readings from this round fell over when they were re-measured on the true pixel grid - a word on a dial that read as DOMINAT at twelve times magnification, and a boot badge that read as 700 or 750 at two times. Both were interpolation. This one survived the same test, but the base rate of that day argues for caution.
There is no manufacturer badge in any of the four shots. The roundel in the centre of the boot is a device, not a word, so Bentinel stands without a maker in front of it.
Nobody else publishes this name. That is not evidence against it - we read it and they did not - but it does mean there is no second party to check it.

We have not confirmed this. Our confidence in the identification: medium.

When the real name is confirmed, this page moves to that name and this address keeps working.

Last updated: September 23, 2026
Status: Confirmed
Image quality: Usable frame

The source frame, with the Red convertible marked — Detail 2457 × 831 px

Four shots in forty-seven seconds of the Extended Look make this sun-faded red convertible the most completely filmed vehicle in the database, down to a readable plate and a boot badge that reads BENTINEL.

Between 8:11.25 and 8:58.27 the Extended Look covers this car from the front three-quarter, from both sides and from directly behind, with the soft top raised in the first two shots and stowed in the last two. Nothing else in this database gets a walk-around; everything else is one angle and a hope.

It is a two-door convertible in a red the sun has taken the life out of, oxidised and flat across the bonnet and glossier where the body sits in shade. The nose carries four headlamps behind glass covers, two a side, flanking a narrow slatted grille with a round blue badge on the bonnet above it. The bumpers are body-coloured with a black rubber insert, a moulding strip runs the full length of the flank, and the wheels are a fine multi-spoke in the basketweave pattern. Inside, the seats are pale cream and the rear bench is split.

At 8:27.29, square from behind with the top stowed, the plate carries HRP RB9 as its number, at a size that reads. The band above the number and the band below it carry much smaller lettering, under this site's floor for reading: what those bands say is recorded as our own reading on the sighting and is not printed here as read. The <a href="/gta6/locations/gloriana/">Gloriana</a> page sets out where the same layout is read at a size that counts. A badge sits at the right of the boot lid, and this is the frame that carries it: eight characters that clear this site's floor for lettering, reading BENTINEL, with the first character checked against the known letters on the plate below it. A round device sits in the centre of the boot above the plate, and it stays unreadable.

By 8:58.27 the car is moving along a causeway with the top down and two people aboard, a man at the wheel and a woman beside him; the rear bench behind them is empty, its two headrests standing clear. From that angle the boot is foreshortened and the badge does not come apart at all.

The name is set out in the hypothesis block below rather than in the title, because it rests on one badge in one frame and on one character in that badge. Other lists call this car an Übermacht Sentinel Classic; GTA 5's Sentinel Classic is a two-door of exactly this outline, quad lamps and all, which is why the borrowed name is plausible in shape and why the reading matters: a B is not an S.

How to recognise it

Four headlamps behind glass covers, either side of a narrow slatted grille, with a round blue badge on the bonnet
Soft top raised at 8:11.25 and 8:19.55, stowed at 8:27.29 and 8:58.27
Body-coloured bumpers with a black rubber insert
Moulding strip along the full length of the flank
Basketweave-pattern multi-spoke wheels
Plate number HRP RB9; the bands above and below it are under the reading floor
An eight-character badge at the right of the boot lid reading BENTINEL, read on the true pixel grid

The frame it comes from

The frame is Extended Look at 8:19.55. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 2457 by 831 of it.

How this was measured

Source	Extended Look, 8:19.55
Frame	3840 × 2160
Crop	2457 × 831 — a good part of the frame
Image check	23 September 2026 — crop checked against the frame
Text check	23 September 2026 — 30 claims read against the image, 2 corrected
Read at	the true pixel grid, 1:1

Lettering	Letter height	Contrast	Reads
BENTINEL	22 px	—	every character
HRP RB9	40 px	—	every character
the small band above the plate number	15 px	—	no
the small band below the plate number	15 px	—	no
the round device in the centre of the boot lid	30 px	—	no

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

Whether Bentinel is the model name, a trim name or a body-shop addition. It is the only word on the car, there is no manufacturer badge in any of the four shots, and the roundel above the plate is a device rather than a word.
What the two small bands on the plate say, and whether HRP RB9 is scripted or generated
Whether the soft top is one body style of several, or the only one
Everything measured: top speed, acceleration, handling, price, where it spawns

Every frame we have

Red convertible — side — Extended Look · snt-00145 · 8:19.55 · usable frame

Red convertible — rear — Extended Look · snt-00146 · 8:27.29 · usable frame

Red convertible — front-three-quarter — Extended Look · snt-00148 · 8:11.25 · usable frame

What we know

Class Sports classics
Real-world counterpart BMW E30 M3 GTABase lists this donor; read 17 September 2026
Source frame Extended Look snt-00145

Waiting on the game

Not measured yet

Top speed from 19 November
Acceleration from 19 November
In-game price from 19 November
Where to find it from 19 November
Customizable from 19 November

GTA 6 launches 19 November 2026. From launch day these rows are filled from measured runs by named testers, each with the video, the timecode and the method, checked here against the source. The super class we run ourselves on a PlayStation 5.

How a top speed gets measured here