Cavale

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Cavale
Vehicle
Manufacturer	Brubeck Engines
Vehicle Type	Civilian car (Civilian) Public Transport (Taxi)
Category	Budget (WD1) Standard Vehicle (WD2)
Body Style	4-door sedan
Capacity	4 (Driver and three passengers)
Price	Free (WD1) $10,000 (WD2)
Appears in	Watch Dogs Watch Dogs 2

For the police version, see Cruiser.

❝ An everyday American sedan.❞ 

―In-game Description in Watch Dogs.

The Brubeck Cavale is a four-door sedan in Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2.

Design

The Cavale is primarily based on the sixth generation Ford Taurus. The rear lamp units appear to take after the eighth generation Chevrolet Malibu.

The car's front end is dominated by the presence of a large hexagonal grille, with chrome horizontal strips inset. The headlight units that sit nearby the grille are quadrilateral in shape, with edges contoured to the main grille and bumper ducts. Lower down, the front bumper features a wide central duct, with edges that coincide with those of the grille. Either side of the main duct are smaller ducts with foglamps inset. The Side intakes resemble those of the Pontiac G8 GXP.

The car features a greenhouse area and main body similar in shape to the Caprice, the Side intakes resemble those of the Pontiac G8 GXP. The rearmost side windows of this car are heavily tinted, giving them a black appearance. The standard sedan originally featured black steel wheels that without hubcaps, but had subsequently been altered to silver five-spoke wheels.

The rear of this car is more unique however. Inside, at the bottom of the rear windscreen, there is a small brake light strip in the centre. The rear facet of this car is dominated by the appearance of the rear light area. The rear lights are split into three sections, each of which is a quadrilateral whose top and bottom edges form a continuous line spanning the entire rear facet. The area between the lights is covered with a black polymer and the license plate is mounted in the centre of this area. The rear bumper bulges outwards and has two horizontal strips of plastic at mid-height, one in each half of the bumper, whose inner edges are parallel to those of the rear lights. The lower edge of the bumper is where two circular exhaust tips are located; one on either side of the bumper, a short distance in from the edges.

A beta version of the Cavale can be seen in early gameplay footage. Its front end appears to be closer to the real Caprice.

Performance

The Cavale has good performance, durability and handling, however, the vehicle lacks a high top speed, and the braking seems to fail to stop the vehicle in time. The acceleration time is rather quick. The vehicle also has a long lasting deformation rate, as they can take multiple rams from large vans and trucks, and can take many gun shots before they take damage. In the 2012 E3 Gameplay Demo, it was revealed that the car comes with an automatic transmission. In the final game however, there is an H-pattern shift knob on the center console, indicating that the model has been equipped with a manual transmission or a dual-mode transmission.

Overview

General Aspects
Top Speed	Acceleration	Durability	Handling
Technical Aspects
Acceleration	Engine	Drivetrain	Gears
N/A	Transverselly-mounted V8	Front engine, rear wheel drive	5

Variants

• Taxi Cavale: There are taxi cab variants of the Cavale for public transportation. In Watch Dogs, these are available in yellow or white with Rapid Cab signs and in Watch Dogs 2, in red/white, yellow/white or green/white with TV advertising signs, as well as "Rapid Cab" signs on the doors.
• Cruiser: Law enforcement version of the Cavale, used by the Chicago Police Department, San Francisco Police Department, and Oakland Police Department.

Notable Owners

• Rapid Cab

Gallery

Basic

Front quarter view (Watch Dogs)

Side view (Watch Dogs)

Rear quarter view (Watch Dogs)

Interior (Watch Dogs)

Public service

Front view of a Cavale Taxi (Watch Dogs)

A yellow Taxi Cavale. (Watch Dogs)

Render of a Cavale Taxi.

A red/white Taxi Cavale. (Watch Dogs 2)

A yellow/white Taxi Cavale. (Watch Dogs 2)

A green/white Taxi Cavale. (Watch Dogs 2)

Wrecks of the beta Cavale at a junkyard in San Francisco. (Watch Dogs 2)

Wreck of a beta Cavale at a junkyard in San Fransico. (Watch Dogs 2)

Locations

Watch Dogs

• Commonly found in The Loop. 
• May be found driven in Parker Square.
• May be found parked in the Mad Mile area.
• Taxi cab variants of the Cavale can be found driving around The Loop and Mad Mile.
• Can be unlocked at the Car On Demand app, for free.

Watch Dogs 2

• The civilian version is available at the Total Motors car dealership, for $10,000.
• Taxi variants are frequent on urban areas.
• The beta version can be seen as an undrivable demonstration dummy for one of Tidis' riot control robots.

Trivia

• The Cavale and its variants are the only vehicles in the game to have its design changed over the course of development. The entire front fascia and interior were remodeled between the 2012 E3 demo and 2013 E3 demo.
• Due to a modeling error, the third brake light of the Cavale in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Watch Dogs is asymmetrical.
• The car's thumbnail on the Car On Demand app shows a blue example with steel wheels.
• Wrecks of the beta version can be found in parts of the city. One also appears in the Tidis facility in Watch Dogs 2.
  • The beta version can also be found in some maps in Rainbow Six: Siege.