Vehicle Features/Lights

Throught the Grand Theft Auto series, lights are a main feature of all cars that were vastly improved on every game. As a form to enhance the realism of the games, small details are added on various cars and improves the overall appearance of the vehicle that accompanies the main lights.

Daytime Running Lights
Daytime Running Lights, also referred to as DRLs, are small light strips or bulbs that cannot be controlled by the player. These lights turn on whenever the car's engine is on, and they remain on until the player turns the car off. Like normal headlights, these ones can get damaged and turn off during collisions. Much like in real life, DRLs seem to be a relatively new feature in the US only found on late-model cars. Not all vehicles have DRLs, just a select few;

Vehicles with DRLs

 * Alpha
 * Baller  (2nd generation only)
 * Baller LE and Baller LE (Armored)
 * Baller LE LWB and Baller LE LWB (Armored)
 * Carbonizzare
 * Cavalcade (2nd generation only)
 * Contender
 * Coquette
 * Huntley S
 * Insurgent (enhanced version only)
 * Interceptor
 * Issi
 * Jackal
 * Jester
 * Kuruma
 * Oracle (2nd generation only)
 * Perennial
 * Pinnacle
 * Surge
 * Windsor
 * Windsor Drop

Auxiliary lamps
Auxiliary lamps are lights that differs from the conventional lighting system. These usually provides either more illumination to the front of the car or where the car itself cannot provide from the sides or rear. It can include fog lamps, spotlights, searchlights, etc.

Although those appeared since the 3D Universe, most of them are just basic parts and were not coded to provide any source of light, although in the HD Universe, some lamps are used in conjuction with the lighting feature or with the car's engine on. Fake lamps do not work, but cannot be destroyed and only deforms like the car itself when crashes over an obstacle.

In Grand Theft Auto V, some cars allows for modifications that will include non-functional lamps at Los Santos Customs.

Vehicles with auxiliary lamps

 * 3D Universe
 * Alpha
 * Banshee (Excluding the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories rendition)
 * BF Injection (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories rendition)
 * Blista Compact
 * Bullet
 * Burrito
 * Cartel Cruiser
 * Comet (Excluding the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City rendition)
 * DFT-30
 * Diablo Stallion
 * Dune (Two are functional)
 * Euros
 * FBI Rancher (Excluding the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City rendition)
 * Fire Truck
 * Fire Truck (ladder variant)
 * Flash
 * Flatbed (Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories rendition)
 * Gang Burrito
 * Infernus (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas rendition)
 * Newsvan
 * Police Maverick (Fully interactive in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
 * Rancher (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas rendition)
 * Ranger
 * Roadtrain
 * Sindacco Argento
 * Stallion
 * Sultan
 * S.W.A.T.
 * ZR-350