GTA 5 vehicle data

Hotknife in FiveM: spawn code, top speed and engine sound

The Vapid Hotknife spawns with hotknife. Below: its handling numbers explained and ranked against the Muscle class, ready Lua spawn code, the three forms of its hash, how to use its sound on an add-on car, and its mod kit, colour and light ids.

Read from the game files of GTA V Legacy build 1.0.3889.0 on November 8, 2026. It already exists in game build 3258, the build many FiveM servers enforce. By the FiveMRides team.

How the Hotknife drives, in numbers

• Rear-wheel drive: fDriveBiasFront is 0.0, so all of the drive force goes to the rear wheels. It has 5 forward gears.
• Top-gear limit: about 168 km/h (104 mph), from fInitialDriveMaxFlatVel 140 x 1.2. 58 of the 97 Muscle vehicles in the game files have a higher limit; the class median is 174 km/h.
• Drive force per tonne: 0.429 (fInitialDriveForce 0.3 on 700 kg). That is 111% more than the Muscle median of 0.203; it is a handling index for how hard it pulls for its weight, not horsepower.
• Brakes: fBrakeForce 0.43 with 50% of the braking on the front axle (class median 0.7).
• Grip: peak traction 1.85 and sliding traction 1.65 (fTractionCurveMax / Min). The gap of 0.2 is how much grip it loses once the tyres slide; 49% of the grip sits on the front axle.
• Weight: 700 kg, 55% lighter than the Muscle median of 1,550 kg.

Against all 97 Muscle vehicles in the game files

The bar runs from the lowest to the highest value in the class, the filled part ends at the Hotknife, the light tick is the class median. Hover a row for the numbers. Stock values without upgrades.

What each field does: handling.meta fields explained.

Spawn the Hotknife in FiveM

Client script (spawns it where the player stands and seats them in it):

local model = `hotknife` -- 0x0239E390
RequestModel(model)
while not HasModelLoaded(model) do Wait(0) end
local ped = PlayerPedId()
local pos = GetEntityCoords(ped)
local veh = CreateVehicle(model, pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, GetEntityHeading(ped), true, false)
SetPedIntoVehicle(ped, veh, -1)
SetModelAsNoLongerNeeded(model)

Server script (OneSync, the server owns the entity; admin only through the ACE restriction):

RegisterCommand('spawnhotknife', function(source)
    local ped = GetPlayerPed(source)
    local pos = GetEntityCoords(ped)
    local veh = CreateVehicleServerSetter(`hotknife`, 'automobile', pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, GetEntityHeading(ped))
    while not DoesEntityExist(veh) do Wait(0) end
    SetPedIntoVehicle(ped, veh, -1)
end, true)

• vMenu: Vehicle Spawner, then Spawn Vehicle By Model Name, type hotknife.
• txAdmin: in-game menu, Spawn Vehicle, type hotknife.
• QBCore / ESX: /car hotknife for admins.
• The second argument of CreateVehicleServerSetter is the vehicle type; for the Hotknife it is automobile. A wrong type makes the server entity fail.

An add-on car that does not appear is a different problem (stream folder, data_file lines, model name): see FiveM car not spawning. All vanilla codes in one table: FiveM spawn codes list.

Hashes

All three are the same number: the joaat (Jenkins one-at-a-time) hash of the lower case name, which is what GetHashKey('hotknife') and the Lua backtick form `hotknife` return.

Use the Hotknife engine sound on your car

The game has a car audio object named after this model, so one line in the vehicles.meta of an add-on car makes it use the Hotknife sound set:

<audioNameHash>hotknife</audioNameHash>

• Engine audio type: granular. Recorded engine samples blended by engine speed, the type most modern GTA cars use.
• The audio object sets rev limiter pops and exhaust pops.
• In our engine sound catalogue it is listed in the V8 muscle family.
• The audio object is the whole vehicle sound: engine, horn, doors and radio genre change together. How it sounds on your car also depends on that car's gears and top speed.

Want a recorded engine instead of a GTA one? FiveM engine sounds lists 102 packs and the Soundpack Maker builds the resource.

Mod kit, colours and lights

• Mod kit id 62: 3 visible parts.
• 9 factory colour combinations in carvariations.meta.
• carvariations lightSettings 1: the headlight and taillight preset it reads from carcols.
• sirenSettings 0 (no siren lights).
• Plates: rear only.
• Stock wheel category at the mod shop: Muscle.
• Seat layout LAYOUT_LOW_RESTRICTED, 2 seats.

Visible mod parts by slot

• bonnet 2
• chassis 1

vehicles.meta flags

In plain words: appears as traffic in rich areas; never placed as a parked car by the game.

All 6 flags

• FLAG_SPORTS
• FLAG_EXTRAS_STRONG
• FLAG_RICH_CAR
• FLAG_NO_BROKEN_DOWN_SCENARIO
• FLAG_DONT_SPAWN_IN_CARGEN
• FLAG_INCREASE_PED_COMMENTS

Make an add-on car feel like the Hotknife

FiveMRides add-ons like this

Ready add-on cars from our shop for the same kind of vehicle. They install next to the vanilla Hotknife, they do not replace it.

Questions

What is the spawn code for the Hotknife in GTA 5 and FiveM?

The spawn code (model name) is hotknife. Its joaat hash is 0x0239E390 (37348240 as an unsigned number). Admin menus such as vMenu, txAdmin and the /car command of QBCore or ESX take the model name as it is.

How fast is the Hotknife in GTA 5?

Its handling gives a top-gear limit of about 168 km/h (104 mph): fInitialDriveMaxFlatVel 140 x 1.2, the value GetVehicleModelEstimatedMaxSpeed returns for ordinary handling values. Drag and upgrades change what a driver sees. It is RWD with 5 gears and weighs 700 kg.

Can I give an add-on car the Hotknife engine sound?

Yes. Put <audioNameHash>hotknife</audioNameHash> in the add-on car's vehicles.meta. The game then uses the Hotknife audio object, which is the whole vehicle sound: engine, horn, doors and radio genre change together.

Numbers read from the game files, nothing measured on a track yet: how this data is read.

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