NTE Vehicles Guide: How to Get Cars, Bikes and the Tide Watercraft

Driving is not a side mode in NTE. It is how you cross Hethereau, how several income activities work, and where a good chunk of the game’s cosmetic economy lives.

How to buy a car

Vehicles are purchased with Fons at the TerraX vehicle dealership. The most recent example with a confirmed price is the Version 1.3 addition:

• Sirocco — Fons ×4,000,000, permanent stock at TerraX

That number is the reason the Fons farming guide exists. A single car costs more than most players earn in their first week.

Vehicles that came from limited content

The Tide is worth calling out: it is summonable in ocean and lake areas, which matters now that Duskmoor’s Tearlake and Starfall Bay are in the game. See the map guide.

Liveries: where the cosmetics come from

Liveries are vehicle skins, and they arrive through four channels:

• Limited boards — “Sandy Mirage” for the Sirocco (Alluring Shadows), “Tiger Incoming!” for the M1000 (The Ichi-daime), “Three’s Company” for the B100 (The Lifeline), “Hidden Dragon” for the Blizzard-V4 (Before the Dawn)
• The shop — the Porsche 918 Spyder liveries “Tomato Dash” and “Rose & Violet” at Riftcrystal ×980 or Fons ×3,000,000 (one or the other, not both)
• Mystery boxes — the Everdriving boxes from the Porsche collaboration
• Perks milestone pages — the 50/120/200 roll rewards on each board

Named vehicle models seen so far include the Sirocco, M1000, B100, Blizzard-V4, Draco and the Porsche 918 Spyder from the collaboration.

What you actually do with a car

• City Delivery — delivery orders across the city; Version 1.3 added orders for the new locations and, crucially, Auto-Drive support
• Swift Cab — passenger orders, also extended to the new Duskmoor locations in 1.3 (the notes also mention updated voice lines for unhappy passengers)
• Races — Challenge — course runs; 1.3 added the routes Night Raptor, Chapter Nova, First Sense and Silver Crown
• Races — Online — multiplayer racing, with multiple new racetracks in 1.3
• Passenger ride-alongs — reach the required Bond Level with a character and they will ride shotgun; added for Shinku, Iroi and Zankou in successive versions

Version 1.3 also enabled Photo Mode while driving, and lets you display rare big fish on the back of your car — see fishing.

A note on stolen cars

“Can you keep stolen cars” is one of the most common searches attached to this game, and we are not going to answer it with a guess. The official notes do not address vehicle theft ownership rules, and we could not verify a claim either way from a source worth citing. If Hotta Studio documents it — or we can verify it from an official channel — this section gets updated rather than filled with speculation.

Priorities

1. Complete deliveries and cab runs early — they are income and they teach the map
2. Do not buy a livery before you own a car worth putting it on
3. Time big Fons purchases around Gold Clash windows, when Pink Paws Heist pays double — see the events guide