Biff

As of the latest official GTA VI trailers and promotional material catalogued here, Biff is documented primarily from earlier GTA titles or Online history rather than a confirmed close-up Leonida/Vice City showcase. Treat any return as unconfirmed until a trailer timestamp, map screenshot, or Rockstar caption clearly shows this vehicle.

The sections below keep the useful franchise background so you can compare design and role if it does reappear — not as a claim that it is already a GTA VI unlock or mission reward.

In Grand Theft Auto V and Online, HVY’s Commercial-class Biff appears only as a refuse truck. Its dirty-looking waste body has green secondary paint, upper and lower marker lamps, silver edging along the side walls, a recycling symbol, and a load covered by mesh fastened to side hooks. The cab uses only a limited set of primary colours and commonly has a worn, rusty finish.

This version has revised hardware around the cab and chassis: a flat bumper with square openings and a centre plate, straighter exhaust stacks, extra right-side tanks, left-side storage boxes, and brown-textured mudguards. It retains industrial-style wheels comparable to those on the Mule and Phantom. These V and Online features are not established as GTA VI specifications.

Grand Theft Auto IV offered more body choices. The truck could appear as a flatbed or as a gravel-loaded dumper. Two dump-body forms existed: a short painted box, whose colour used the secondary paint slot, and a larger grey body with an overhanging tipping section, side lamps, and a rear door hinged at the top.

The IV cab had extensive bright metal on its grille, tanks, exhausts, and bumper. Door badges identified it as a Biff, while the mirror assemblies carried marker lamps and supported two antennas. Circular roof lights and air horns completed the upper cab treatment. The later V model removed the cab badges and altered several exterior fittings while keeping the basic heavy-truck layout.

The IV Biff is presented with a V8-like engine model, a five-speed transmission, and front-engine, rear-wheel-drive arrangement. Its engine model looked undersized beside comparable trucks such as the Phantom and Flatbed. It used the same engine audio associated with the Trashmaster and Ripley: rougher than the Mule’s sound but quieter than the Phantom’s.

Its bulk limited speed and made hard cornering prone to understeer. In dense streets around Star Junction and The Triangle, its more compact-looking nose gave it better visibility and made it easier to place than the Flatbed. V and Online changed the visible engine to a more proportionate double-overhead-cam inline-four model, still with five gears and rear-wheel drive. That version accelerates and travels slowly, has a much larger turning circle, but withstands repeated head-on impacts before smoking.

In IV, Biffs appeared around the Gainer Street construction site in South Bohan, Acter Industrial Park, Algonquin, and on major roads. They also featured in several missions: one blocked a street during Ivan the Not So Terrible; Patrick and Niko used one to obstruct a tunnel in Tunnel of Death; and a truck bed received the diamonds after the ambush in Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend. Patrick’s vehicle used a special red primary colour and one of thirteen possible finishes.

After all thirty Stevie vehicle requests were completed, Niko could sell a Biff for $4,000. In V’s enhanced edition, examples could be found around Pillbox Hill, La Puerta, and the Alta construction area, with timed movements and parking spots around Power Street, Occupation Avenue, Hardwood & Lumber Supply, and LT Weld Supply Co. The HOBO-themed waste-service outfit cut from The Diamond Casino Heist uses decals and the slogan “Dumping in your street since 1979,” linking that company to Biff operations.

The IV model showed rear differentials on both driven axles without a prop shaft joining them to the engine; V corrected that modelling omission. IV examples also lacked licence plates, another detail added in V. In The Lost and Damned files, unused references to a possible “biff2” variant remained, though its intended form is unknown.

The enhanced IV release lets loose paper escape from the rear waste container. That container is an attached extra rather than an integral body part, even though the truck always spawns with it fitted. The name references Biff Tannen from Back to the Future, whose car ends up in a manure-filled dump truck.