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DARTZ is building a $1 million real-life Nightshark with a fighter-jet gaming seat
Latvian carmaker DARTZ says it's building a physical GTA Online Nightshark for more than $1 million. The back is a one-player gaming lounge with an ejection seat and a weapon wheel for a buckle.
Somebody is paying more than $1 million to sit in the back of a real GTA Online Nightshark and play video games. Latvian luxury carmaker DARTZ says it's building one, and it sent the details and pictures straight to iGrandTheftAuto.
There's no back seat here. The whole rear is a lounge for exactly one player: no bench, no second passenger seat, no second controller. You get one seat, and it's a former fighter-jet ejection seat converted for car use. It can't eject you anymore, but the frame, rails, mechanical parts and five-point harness all stay on show.
The buckle? A metal GTA weapon wheel, engraved with slots for a grenade, pistol, Uzi, rifle, sniper rifle, launcher, shotgun and melee weapon. Holy shit.
In front of you sits a big low-latency display, with a current-gen console hidden behind the trim. PS5 or Xbox Series X|S? DARTZ won't say. There's also satellite internet, a high-end sound system, Metaxas & Sins electrostatic headphones, a mode that switches the screen to live exterior cameras, and gun ports. Obviously.
The cabin is mostly ivory white until a lighting mode floods it with cyan and pink, which DARTZ calls a one-player neon gaming chamber. The shark skin and alligator hide are fakes made from engineered and bio-based materials, because the customer wanted no real animal leather. NIGHTSHARK on the harness, a DARTZ skull on the headrest.
Founder Leonard F. Yankelovich explains the madness:
"The obvious solution for a million-dollar car is two massage seats in the back. But this is the Nightshark. It came from a game. So the customer wanted the whole world of the game inside it."
DARTZ also claims its own designs helped inspire the in-game Nightshark, and a customer who knew the company ordered this one. It has supplied cars for The Dictator, The November Man and Die Hard, and says its clients have included people and families linked to Kanye West, Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Now the cold water: every word of this comes from DARTZ. Rockstar and Take-Two didn't sponsor, endorse, approve or license it. The customer, the exterior, the base vehicle, the console maker and the protection spec are all still secret. The reveal is planned for Miami, during GTA VI's launch week in November.
Show me the truck.
