"It's better looking than you. It can fire machine guns and rocket launchers more accurately than you. It can jump higher than you and it's always got a parachute. Your mother prefers its company to yours. You know what they say: if you can't beat it, own it, and pray people don't notice that all your belongings are cooler than you are.



Note, the production model of this vehicle has a reduced missile capacity." ―Warstock Cache & Carry description.

The Imponte Ruiner 2000 is a modified variant of the Ruiner, featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the Import/Export update.

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Design

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"Ruining Imports Since '67." ―Ruiner 2000's placeholder description.

The Ruiner 2000 is heavily based on the Pontiac Trans Am (KITT) from the TV series

The vehicle, being a variant of the Ruiner, retains the overall design. However, it gains a new front end with a slightly pronounced nose, having a small screen with moving red dots when the car's engine is on. The headlights are now hidden in the car and acts as pop-up headlights, which reveals that those are the same as the ones seen on the Ruiner. Its hood now sports a long intake placed on the left side of the vehicle by default and a permanently-solid roof, equipped with a small hatch. The rear end now gains a smoothened rear bumper, different break and new LED tail lights, as well as new rims. Contrary to the Ruiner's traditional dashboard, the Ruiner 2000 gains two digital screens that display the speed and the revolutions per minute, alongside numerous buttons. The car only spawns in a metallic black color by default, although like the standard variant, the car's primary and secondary colors can be changed at Los Santos Customs.

The Ruiner 2000 is armed with machine guns and rocket launchers, as well as a parachute hatch on the roof and a power hop mechanism. Both the machine guns and the rocket launchers are located on the lower vents of the front bumper, with dual guns and four rockets per side.

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Performance

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Vehicle

The vehicle improves the performance of the regular Ruiner with increased acceleration and top speed. Powered by the same single-cam V8, coupled to a 5-speed gearbox in a front engine, rear wheel drive layout, the Ruiner 2000 is a great performer on its class, as much as its standard version.

Abilities

The vehicle has access to special abilities that not only help in sorting out obstacles in general, but also helps during its way to a destination.

It has a deployable parachute on the roof that can be used infinitely. This parachute helps the vehicle to slow down while falling and allows to reach a destination quicker if used from a considerable height. It also helps for recovering the vehicle when it flips while falling. Despite it has the same weakness as its normal counterpart of being ripped apart with gunfire or crashing with an obstacle, another one can be deployed almost immediately, suppressing this flaw significantly.

As for the power hop, the vehicle can jump for four/five metres, and recharges for a few seconds to be used again. This helps at sorting out barriers and traffic in general, but caution should be taken, as the jump often makes the vehicle unable to control at high speeds and may end up crashing into a building, getting stuck or even accidentally falling into deep water or flammable objects. It is best to use the parachute shortly afterwards, so the player can manage the landing easily and avoid any of the aforementioned circumstances.

Weaponry

The Ruiner 2000 comes with a set of weapons that can be operated by the driver, making it a threat for road users:

Two standard machine guns that have moderate firepower against enemies and unarmored vehicles. These are in a fixed position and therefore, aiming is a bit difficult.

Rocket launchers on either side that provides heavy firepower against armored vehicles. The homing missiles track targets extremely well, even better than missiles fired from any other attack vehicles or the Homing Launcher, making them nearly impossible to avoid. However, as a result of a gameplay balance, said launchers have a limited capacity of eight rockets when purchased in free-roam, as well as shorter range.

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Modifications

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Category Modification Cost Armor No Armor $1,000 Armor Upgrade 20% $7,500 Armor Upgrade 40% $12,000 Armor Upgrade 60% $20,000 Armor Upgrade 80% $35,000 Armor Upgrade 100% $50,000 Brakes Stock Brakes $1,000 Street Brakes $20,000 Sport Brakes $27,000 Race Brakes $35,000 Engine EMS Upgrade, Level 1 $9,000 EMS Upgrade, Level 2 $12,500 EMS Upgrade, Level 3 $18,000 EMS Upgrade, Level 4 $33,500 Explosives Ignition Bomb $5,000 Remote Bomb $7,500 Horns Main article: Los Santos Customs/Horns - Lights Headlights Stock Lights $600 Xenon Lights $7,500 Neon Kits Main article: Los Santos Customs/Lights - Plates Blue on White 1 $200 Blue on White 2 $200 Blue on White 3 $200 Yellow on Blue $300 Yellow on Black $600 Respray Main article: Los Santos Customs/Respray Colors Suspension Stock Suspension $200 Lowered Suspension $1,000 Street Suspension $2,000 Sport Suspension $3,400 Competition Suspension $4,400 Transmission Stock Transmission $1,000 Street Transmission $29,500 Sports Transmission $32,500 Race Transmission $40,000 Turbo None $5,000 Turbo Tuning $50,000 Wheels Main article: Los Santos Customs/Wheels Windows None $500 Light Smoke $1,500 Dark Smoke $3,500 Limo $5,000

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Prominent Appearances in Missions

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Freemode

One Ruiner 2000 is provided during VIP Work Fully Loaded, used to destroy Turreted Limos or Technicals scattered around the map. If destroyed, the game will spawn a new one at a suitable location near the player. This version of the vehicle features unlimited missiles, immunity to lock-on, and resistance against explosions.



Contact Missions

One Ruiner 2000 needs to be destroyed in Repo - Blow Up IV.

Special Vehicle Work

The Ruiner 2000 appears in the eighth Special Vehicle Work mission, Arms Embargo, where it is used to get rid of the US Army's arms cache. This version has unlimited rockets.

Adversary Modes

Gunrunning Resupply

A white modified Ruiner 2000 appears in a Steal Supplies mission used to distract cops (gaining 4 stars).

Locations

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Can be purchased from Warstock Cache & Carry for $5,745,600 or for $4,320,000 after completing Arms Embargo as a CEO.

Trivia

General

The number "2000" in the Ruiner 2000's name is a direct reference to the car it is based on, being the Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT).

If the player restricts access to the vehicle, players attempting to enter the Ruiner 2000 will be electrocuted as if they were shot with the Stun Gun, causing them to fall on the ground. The vehicle's offensive capability can be compared to the Q-Branch series of cars, that Agent 007 often uses during car chases. Most notably Bond's BMW 750iL from Tomorrow Never Dies, which also featured an electrical defense system.

The vertical jumping ability of the Ruiner 2000 pays homage to Knight Rider's KITT, as in the TV show, KITT could perform a "turbo boost" which allowed it to easily pass obstacles by jumping over them.

The default radio stations for the Ruiner 2000 are Radio Mirror Park, Vinewood Boulevard Radio, and Los Santos Rock Radio.

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If the Ruiner 2000 is warped to the player (by starting a Job then exit), the rockets will reappear as if they were replenished. This does not affect the actual amount of rockets it holds, however.

Although there is a wrecked version of the Ruiner 2000 in the mission Breakdown Recovery, the rear end and the rims are the same as those seen on the Ruiner.

Like the Rocket Voltic, this vehicle can allow prostitutes to be picked up in it.

Bugs/Glitches

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There was a glitch where the front-left brake disc would clip through the rim of the car when turning left. This was fixed in the 1.38 update.



See Also

Scramjet - Another vehicle with jump capabilities, added in the After Hours update.

Ruiner - Standard version.