GTA IV — GTAMEN00 Ultimate Car Pack v. 1.3 (all the new things in the new version are listed on the nexusmod page of the mod)

This is my loveletter to my favourite game: GTAIV and my passion: cars.

After spending countless hours playing and enjoying GTA IV, I wanted to create something that would combine two of my biggest passions: Liberty City and cars.

This pack is the result of a huge personal project focused on giving GTA IV a more immersive, varied and realistic vehicle experience, while still respecting the atmosphere and identity of the original game.

📋 REQUIREMENTS
Required
FusionFix
dsound.dll — REQUIRED for the pack to work.
Recommended
Liberty Legacy Trainer — required only if you want to manually spawn the add-on vehicles.

If you don't install Liberty Legacy Trainer, the add-on vehicles will still appear naturally in traffic thanks to the included traffic setup.

🚗 DESCRIPTION

First of all, I am not the original creator/owner of the vehicle mods included in this pack.

Most of the work behind this project consisted of spending around two months selecting, testing and comparing hundreds of vehicles, trying to find the best possible cars while keeping the overall size and performance impact as low as possible.

I also created and modified specific textures for many of the vehicles, with the goal of improving their integration into GTA IV and making the cars feel more natural within Liberty City's world.

The final result is a 227 MB vehicle pack.

Honestly, even I initially thought that fitting this amount of work into such a small package would be almost impossible.

🌆 A COMPLETELY REWORKED VEHICLE FLEET

Virtually every vehicle in the game has been replaced with either:

A real-world counterpart
A high-quality lore-friendly vehicle
A heavily customized version of an existing vehicle

The goal wasn't simply to replace cars with real brands.

I wanted every vehicle to make sense within GTA IV's universe while preserving the atmosphere and identity of the original game.

As part of the project, I also carried out historical research into New York City's real-world traffic between 2006 and 2008. I used this research to select vehicles that would better reflect what you could realistically expect to see on the streets of New York during the same period in which GTA IV takes place.

This was especially important to me because I wanted the pack to remain as faithful as possible to the original GTA IV experience, rather than simply filling Liberty City with modern or randomly selected real-world cars.

Textures have also been modified wherever necessary to improve immersion and make vehicles fit their real-world counterparts.

For example:

Grotti GT500

The Grotti GT500 receives Ferrari badges and emblems because of its extremely close resemblance to the Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta.

Another example is the:

NRG 900

The original NRG 900 has been replaced with the Bati from TBOGT, transformed into its real-world counterpart: the Ducati 848.

These are just two examples of the many small details that have been changed throughout the pack.

🔧 DETAILS, TEXTURES & HANDLING

The amount of work involved goes far beyond simply replacing vehicle models.

There are countless small adjustments, including:

Custom textures
Badges and emblems
Vehicle liveries
Visual details
Vehicle selection
Traffic distribution
Handling adjustments
Lore-friendly replacements
Real-world vehicle conversions
Compatibility considerations
Optimization and file size management

Trying to list every vehicle, every microscopic texture change, or every handling adjustment would honestly take away from the experience itself.

There is a huge amount of work hidden behind this 227 MB package.

🚦 TRAFFIC SYSTEM

The pack also includes a pre-configured Traffic Loader.

It is already set up to provide what I consider the best possible solution for achieving a large variety of vehicles in traffic, without requiring you to configure the system yourself.

Just install the pack and experience the traffic as intended, unfortunately the taxis will Always be present (btw Liberty city and New York are full of taxis anyway. Rememebr that the trafficloader start working after 30 sec at least after you go in the map.

📦 INSTALLATION

Installation is very simple.

1. Download and extract the archive.
2. Open the extracted folder.
3. Drag all files and folders contained inside it into your GTA IV main directory.

The destination should be the folder containing:

GTAIV.exe

4. Do NOT copy the README file.
5. Make sure dsound.dll is present in the GTA IV directory.

The pack will NOT work without dsound.dll.

❤️ WHY I MADE THIS

I'm not a professional modder.

I learned some modding along the way specifically because I wanted to create this project.

This pack was something I had wanted to make for a long time, and eventually I decided to learn what was necessary to actually bring that idea to life.

The amount of work behind it is difficult to explain simply with a vehicle list.

There are so many little details, replacements, textures, configurations and handling adjustments that describing every single one of them would be incredibly reductive.

This pack is essentially my way of saying thank you to GTA IV.

It is a game that has remained incredibly special to me, and I hope that this project manages to communicate at least some of the passion I have for it.

🏁 FINAL WORD

I put a huge amount of time, research and personal effort into this project.

I hope you enjoy driving these cars through Liberty City as much as I enjoyed putting the pack together.

Rather than telling you exactly how many cars there are, listing every single replacement, or explaining every tiny modification I made...

I invite you to download the pack, play it, explore Liberty City and tell me what you think.

Your feedback is genuinely appreciated.

If you enjoy the pack, consider leaving a comment and sharing your experience.

Thank you for downloading, and enjoy Liberty City. ❤️

⚠️ CREDITS

I am not the original author of the vehicle mods contained in this pack.
- GTA V cars by Thundersmacker;
- Ambulance bt GCT;
- Honda CRX by Allcash & Arti9609;
- Lore friendly vehicles by TheMadeMan, sock_737, Thundersmacker, DrShagz, danieldraken, Xana, MrFinger, M4k3, Humsterbird;
- 500 Abarth by AIGE;
- Rolls Royce Phantom by FodRuxa;
- Audi A8 by DOMEHYC and Stiopa;
- Honda Accord by Seeratum;
- HQ original GTA IV cars from Ash's pack;
- all the not listed cars are:1- imported from City cars mod pack v 1.3 by frenzy_k; 2-found without a proper author credited; 3- From CGU Car Pack 1.3 by GCU MT.

Full credits for the original vehicle models, conversions and respective authors should be attributed to their original creators.

This project is primarily a curated and customized vehicle compilation, with extensive selection, configuration, texture work, optimization and integration carried out specifically for this pack.

Please support the original mod authors whenever possible.