Admiral

The Dundreary Admiral is a 4-door sedan featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Performance
In the GTA III-era, performance wise, the car is generally acceptable with light weight, stable handling, and good acceleration and top speed, to the point it is offered as a starter car which the player may first control in GTA Vice City. Surprisingly, it is front-wheel drive, in contrast to the S-Class or Volvo 200 which are both rear-wheel drive, making it quite suspectible to understeer. The GTA Vice City Stories's Admiral has a different engine from San Andreas and Vice city renditions.

In GTA IV, it is slow and hard to stop due to its weight. It is powered by a mid-range V8 engine with a RWD configuration coupled to a 5-speed transmission. Acceleration is mediocre (0-60 in 8.8 seconds), and handling is poor, feeling heavy and unresponsive. Its top speed is a decent 172 mph (276kmh). Despite ABS is standard, it takes a long time to stop the heavy sedan completely. The Admiral, however, is very resilient to crashes thanks to its bulky construction. The weight is also useful for ramming other vehicles off the road. The Admiral is rather rare, it is more common to find it in limo form, the Stretch.

In GTA Chinatown Wars, the Admiral retains the mediocre performance from GTA IV. There is a purple and white Triad variant on which sports upgraded acceleration and top speed as well as a smoother engine sound.

Design
In GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City Stories, the car resembles a 1980s Mercedes-Benz S-Class (W123), with a front facia similar to the Volvo 240. In GTA San Andreas, it appears to feature a minor 1990s facelift, although in reality, at this point of time, the W123 was replaced by the Mercedes-Benz W124. The design remains unchanged throughout GTA III era.

In GTA IV, the Admiral sports a completely different design with no reminiscence to the previous renditions. Gone with the Mercedes appearance, it is now based on the 2003-2005 Mercury Grand Marquis with taillights from the  11th generation Toyota Crown.

In GTA Chinatown Wars, the Admiral still retains the Mercury Grand Marquis design, but a different year, particularly the 1983-1991 model.

GTA Vice City

 * Introduction
 * Jury Fury
 * Guardian Angels
 * Check Out At The Check In
 * Loose Ends

GTA San Andreas

 * Stowaway (Alternate Cutscene)
 * Los Sepulcros, as the car you're meant to drive after killing Kane. It's everything-proof, though, so you may want to store a Tow Truck in your garage to keep the Admiral.

GTA Chinatown Wars

 * Yu Jian
 * Evidence Dash

Notable Owners

 * In GTA Vice City, Ken Rosenberg owns a unique white Admiral.
 * In GTA Vice City, Amy Sheckenhausen owns an Admiral with a random color.
 * In GTA Vice City, Ricardo Diaz owns a unique bullet proof, fire proof, and explosion proof grey Admiral.
 * Huang Lee owns a Triad's Admiral.
 * Wade Heston Owns a Black Admiral which was given to him by his wife before they were divorced as seen during the mission Evidence Dash

Unique colors

 * In GTA Vice City, black Admirals are available on the mission Check Out At The Check In and Loose Ends.

Variants

 * The Triads are depicted to use the Admiral as one of their cars in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, but they are never used (except in Yu Jian ), but are instead spawned around Cerveza Heights and other nearby places from the start. The violet-white car sports upgraded acceleration and top speed as well as a smoother engine sound.

GTA Vice City

 * It is found everywhere in Vice City.

GTA San Andreas

 * The car will mostly appear in Las Venturas
 * Often spawned at The Strip.
 * It will also appear in the mission Los Sepulcros.
 * Outside the visiting center in Juniper Hollow (only when wanted for export).
 * Found around Santa Maria Beach &Rodeo

GTA Vice City Stories

 * Driven by members of the Trailer Park Mafia until you kill their leader Marty Jay Williams.
 * Parked at all Loan Shark empire sites that Victor Vance owns.
 * It is one of the gang cars of the Vance Crime Family,with them driving it mainly around Little Havanna and Escobar International Airport. Even though you are their leader, if you attempt to steal the car from them, they will shoot at you, as would other gang members whos cars you try to steal in GTA:VCS.
 * Parked at the Beachcomber Hotel in Viceport.
 * At the car lot at Sunshine Autos.
 * Driven by original pedestrians in Vice City.

GTA IV

 * It is a rather rare car in GTA IV, but will spawn if driving a Stretch.Admiral_badges.png
 * It will also spawn somewhat more when driving a PCJ-600.
 * Also spawns easily while driving a Steed.
 * In TBOGT, in the mission Going Deep, there are several Admirals parked in the garage.

GTA Chinatown Wars

 * Spawns commonly in traffic.
 * The Triad variant is parked in certain areas in Cerveza Heights and outside Kenny Lee's house.
 * Used as a drug stash by certain drug dealers, however, it is locked.
 * Near the entrance of your Cerveza Heights safehouse

Trivia
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 * Ken Rosenberg's unique white Admiral appears in GTA Vice City's first mission Introduction.
 * The Russians in GTA San Andreas drive these cars along with the Feltzer and the Sentinel
 * It's named Admiral due to the car's luxury design (driven by admirals)
 * When entered,it plays default radio stations:
 * Since first appearing in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, it can be assumed that it is the predecessor of the Kuruma, since it does not appear in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
 * During Grand Theft Auto:Vice City development, the car originaly had Grand Theft Auto III offroad rims.
 * In GTA IV, you can see the Dundreary logo in the reverse lights.
 * In GTA IV there is a wrecked version of the Admiral.