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(click here to learn more)| Stria Kavala | |
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| Vehicle in Just Cause 3 | |
| Type | SUV |
| Weapons | None |
| Rarity | Average |
| List of owners | Civilians |
| Top speed (km/h) | >200 |
| Top speed (mph) | >125 |
The Stria Kavala is an SUV in Just Cause 3.
Appearance[]
The Kavala is a mid-sized SUV mostly resembling the facelifted first-generation Renault Koleos. Ambiguities its appearance are taken from various other modern SUVs such as the first generation Lexus RX, and the second generation Mercedes-Benz M-Class. The rear slightly resembles that of the Nissan X-Trail and B9 Subaru Tribeca, with the number plate recess and tailagte design slightly resembling that of the first-generation KE Maxda CX-5.
The car has 4-wheel-drive and a solid rear axle attached to a unibody chassis design. Strangely for an SUV it has massive disc shaped hubcaps like on the Stria Joia.
The Rebel drop description says: "Limited in top speed and acceleration, the Kavala's virtue lies in its handling, whether you're taking the kids to soccer or ramming your enemies off the road."
There's a GPS screen in the dashboard, which depicts city roads. The center console looks like something out of a 2011-2015 Mercedes-Benz M-class.
Performance[]
It's slow to reach higher speeds and understeers when it gets there. On most roads in Insula Fonte, it's difficult to get past about 140 km/h. Given enough space on a railroad it can exceed 200km/h (125mph), but the actual limit is unknown.
Its transmission behaves like a normal automatic, in that it upshifts early when not accelerating hard - however, it does not kick down if you suddenly accelerate. This makes things like overtaking frustrating, as the engine lacks low-down torque and requires hard revving to move quickly. Tapping the handbrake button can force the transmission to kick down.
The steering is also unusually quick off-center, meaning that things like rounding sweeping curves and staying in-lane on highways can be quite difficult, and making smooth steering inputs is unusually hard. This combines with its nose-heavy handling characteristics and breathless engine to make it quite clumsy on back roads.
The Kavala features AWD and does go some way to compensating for its lacklustre on-road performance with strong off-road capability.
Locations[]
- In traffic across Medici.
- Is provided for two races/challenges:
- "Mountain Pass Sprint" in northern Val de Mar.
- "Country Sprint" in north Prima.
- After bringing one to a garage, it can be called in at any time via rebel drop.
Trivia[]
- "Kavala" (Greek: Καβάλα) is a city in northern Greece.
- It's made by the fictional company Stria.
- As an SUV, it's a successor to the Yamada Redwood SUV from Just Cause.
- The car is badged as "LR-V". This might have been a name considered for the car during its development. See more about this at Cut game content from Just Cause 3.
- This sounds similar to the name of another real life SUV, the Honda CR-V.
- There are other vehicles that have a screen in the dashboard ('05 Charmant, '13 Vigueur and Stria Gioco), but they do not display a GPS map. In-universe they probably all have a GPS feature.
- It's the first modern SUV in the Just Cause game series.
- JC4 reuses about half of the JC3 vehicle models with very minimal changes and a different name. The JC4 counterpart to this vehicle is the Prisa Viento SUV.
Glitches[]
Main article: Just Cause 3 Bugs and glitches.
Xbox One PC
The Stria Kavala may occasionally fail to register for Rebel Drop. Although associated audio files still play, it can't be requested. Rebooting the game correctly adds the vehicle to the list.
Gallery[]
.jpg "Renault Koleos (front corner).jpg (189 KB)")
.jpg "Renault Koleos (rear corner).jpg (147 KB)")