Sultan Classic

"What's that you're saying - the Karin Sultan was already a classic? That might be true, but the Sultan Classic is both an evolution and a throwback. Something like the true essence of a high-octane four-door racer. It's a time machine to the late 90s when haircuts were bad, movies were good, gang warfare was everywhere and the sitcoms you stream were on TV. Get in, take a ride, don't look back."

- Southern San Andreas Super Autos description.

The Karin Sultan Classic is a four-door sports sedan featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the continuation of the The Diamond Casino Heist update, released on January 16, 2020, during the Sultan Classic Week event.

Description
The Sultan Classic was initially featured as a mission-only vehicle in the "Getaway Vehicles" preparation and later used as a possible getaway vehicle in the Casino Heist. However, as of the Sultan Classic Week event, it became available for purchase.

Grand Theft Auto Online
The Sultan Classic acts as a classic predecessor of the original Sultan, at the same time an HD Universe equivalent to the 3D Universe rendition of the same car. It has two main inspirations: the and the. The headlights are clearly inspired by the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV.

The vehicle assumes a more traditional design compared to the original Sultan, but it keeps the four-door layout and sporty appearance from its successor. The front bumper of the car features a rectangular mesh intake spanning about half the car's width and a central number plate mounted in front of it, while the outer sections have smaller intakes with unusable circular fog lamps. On the upper area, the car has a trapezium-shaped grille bearing the manufacturer logo on the centre, followed by silver/chrome housings with rectangular headlamps and small amber indicators. The bonnet is relatively simple, featuring two elevated lines starting from each side of the grille, slightly curving outwards as they approach the windscreen. The same also opens to reveal the engine bay and a strut brace.

On the sides, the car has concave shapes above the side skirts, as well as thin ridges passing through the doors, painted door handles, and rectangular marker lamps on the front fenders, near the front doors. The cabin area makes use of frameless doors with black fittings around the windows and painted mirror wings near the A-pillars, along with black lines separating the roof panel from the rest of the car.

On the rear, the car has a simple boot lid with silver lettering on each side and a spoiler mounted on top, while the outer sections have rectangular tail lamps with slight transparency, each one consisting of upper red lamps, lower white lamps and outer amber indicators. The bumper has ridged detail on the upper side and a dedicated section on the centre intended for the number plate, while a single titanium exhaust can be seen on the driver side, below the bumper. Its interior is the same used primarily on the Sultan, but featuring the Karin logo on the horn cap.

The vehicle's bodywork, engine cover and interior stitching are painted in a primary colour, while the mirror wings are painted in secondary. The stock wheels are identical to the "Apex" tuner wheels seen in Los Santos Customs, wrapped in low-profile tyres.

Grand Theft Auto Online
Acceleration and top speed are very good like any sports sedan car, but in terms of top speed, it is outclassed by most high end sports cars in the game, especially the Pariah, the Itali GTO and the Banshee 900R. Lowering the suspension makes the car prone to wheelspin, subsequently making it hard to control. Being an AWD car, it can do well in off-roading if the suspension is not upgraded.

The Sultan Classic is powered by a 6-cylinder, twin-cam engine fitted with twin turbochargers, which is stated to be a 3.5L engine. This engine is coupled to a 5-speed gearbox and powers all four wheels with equal torque distribution. Its engine sound is similar to that of the Sultan RS, with a slightly different pitch. A turbocharger sound is present by default, which become more noticeable with the "Turbo" upgrade.

GTA Online: The Diamond Casino Heist

 * Two pre-modified variants of the Sultan Classic can be chosen as getaway vehicles to steal for The Diamond Casino Heist. They are one of the four sets of vehicles driver Eddie Toh randomly allocates for the player.

Grand Theft Auto Online

 * Should the player employ Eddie Toh as the driver for The Diamond Casino Heist, he may request the player to steal two Sultan Classics as getaway vehicles.

Grand Theft Auto Online

 * Available for purchase from Southern San Andreas Super Autos for $1,718,000 or for the trade price of $1,288,500 after completing The Diamond Casino Heist as the Heist Leader and using the Sultan Classic as a getaway vehicle.

Grand Theft Auto Online

 * It could be won from the Lucky Wheel in the Casino during the Gerald's Last Play Week event.

Bugs/Glitches

 * The last two exhaust options appear to be named incorrectly and reuse the names from two previous exhaust modifications; they are actually carbon exhaust tubes, available in single and dual setups.
 * The upper inner portions of the headlights do not light up when activated. It may be either a minor texture issue or an intended feature to give the car a more aggressive styling.
 * The rear-right passenger window is unable to break nor can be shot through. When blowing up the vehicle, the player will be able to see said window still holding up and having burn-marks.

General

 * With the correct modifications, one can modify the car to resemble Bunta Fujiwara's Subaru Impreza WRX from the anime and manga series, Initial D (as well its arcade game, Initial D Arcade Stage 7 AAX).

Grand Theft Auto Online

 * The default radio stations of the Sultan Classic are FlyLo FM, Los Santos Underground Radio and Soulwax FM.
 * The "Redwood Racing" and "Karin Performance" liveries appear to be similar to two liveries from the Sultan RS that go by the same names.
 * The "Karin Performance" livery looks similar to the Subaru World Rally Team livery, used on Subaru Impreza rally cars.
 * The "Redwood Racing" livery looks similar to the Tommi Mäkinen's Malboro Mitsubishi Lancer.
 * The "Backside Skateboards" livery seems to be inspired by the Massimo Checchin Subaru Impreza GC8.
 * The "Impotent Rage" livery looks similar to Bert de Jong's Subaru Impreza WRC.
 * The description of the Sultan Classic mentions the obsolescence of the HD-Era Sultan, which first came out in Grand Theft Auto IV.

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