This lore friendly police car for FiveM delivers a vanilla-edited 1985 Declasse Merit Classic Interceptor with non-ELS lighting, 200+ tuning options, and full LSPD, LSSD and SAHP department coverage out of the box. The boxy, square-jawed early-80s patrol character is preserved exactly — unmistakably American, unmistakably GTA V lore. Vanilla-edited by Dayashii with contributions from WiseGuy, Tidemo and JunkyWRX, every panel and prop was tuned to slot cleanly alongside the wider ONX EVP fleet so it never breaks visual consistency across your patrol roster. For roleplay servers that value dispatch-era flavor and clean technical execution in equal measure, this is the cruiser to build a classic-era department around.

🏙️ A Classic-Era Cruiser Engineered for Modern Roleplay

The Merit Classic fills a gap most fleets ignore: a properly built, server-friendly classic interceptor that doesn’t feel like a downgrade from your modern units. Server owners get a full police asset that doubles as LEO, EMS, DOC, Federal, Unmarked and Decommissioned — one vehicle model, many roles, no spawner spam. The two-tone paint system runs independently of the livery so departments can rebrand without re-baking textures. Universal parts shared with the wider ONX EVP and Gabz-compatible ecosystem mean lightbars, antennas, consoles, cages and unit tags stay visually consistent across every car in your patrol garage. The end result is a classic-era cruiser that looks the part on the side of the freeway and behaves the part in dispatch chatter.

🚨 Highlights at a Glance

Every feature below was built to make the Merit Classic genuinely usable on a live RP server — not just pretty in a showcase video.

• 🚨 Non-ELS lighting — server-friendly with no client ELS dependency
• 🏙️ Lore-friendly vanilla-edit model that respects the GTA V aesthetic
• 🎨 2K liveries balanced for visual quality without tanking performance
• 🛞 Custom wheels — RWD Classic Steelie Declasse for a period-correct stance
• 🔧 200+ customization options exposed through modkit and extras — no custom menus required
• ⚙️ Universal consistent parts that match the ONX EVP and Gabz fleet (lightbars, antennas, consoles, cages, tags)
• ⚡ Optimized assets with full LODs, tuned polycounts and compressed textures
• 💥 Rockstar-style dirt and crash mapping plus custom handling tuned for an RP realism and arcade balance blend

🚓 What Makes This Lore Friendly Police Car FiveM-Ready

The major features below are where the depth lives — the kind of detail that holds up over hours of patrol roleplay.

• 🔢 5-digit editable, colorable callsign system for clean unit identification
• 🚦 Configurable lightbar with ALPR attachments plus slicktop and undercover variants
• 🔀 One vehicle model that doubles as LEO, EMS, DOC, Federal, Unmarked and Decommissioned
• 🎨 Two-tone paint that operates independently of the livery (single and two-tone supported)
• 🛡️ Departments and liveries covering LSPD, LSSD and SAHP
• 🏷️ 16 unit tags — Supervisor, Command, Warden, Paramedic, SWAT, Gang Unit, K9, Caution K9 — with colorable and red reflective variants
• 🚔 Jurisdiction-specific ram bars and player-controlled spotlights
• 💻 50+ interior loadouts including consoles, radios, siren controllers, laptops, dash radar, divider/roof/trunk gun racks
• 📡 Antenna arrays — regular, specialist and tactical wobble variants for city, county and state
• 🧰 Trunks with animated lockboxes, drawers and organized or messy layouts
• 🎛️ Native UX through labeled extras and mod categories for fast in-game toggling
• 👮 Matching uniforms aligned to the ONX EUP Clothing Pack for cohesive officer-and-vehicle visuals
• 📚 Livery templates and install guides included so you can brand it for your own departments

⚙️ Performance and Server Integration

Built as a FiveM non-ELS police interceptor that’s safe to drop into a busy RP server without burning frames.

• 🚨 Non-ELS with synced patterns and no duplicate model spam
• 🗜️ Full LODs and optimized textures (YTD ≤ 1024; embedded liveries ≤ 2048)
• 🏁 Realism and arcade handling blend — realistic feel with arcade balance and personality
• 🧩 Drag-and-drop add-on resource structure, standard start order, works with common frameworks

📦 What’s Included

• 🚓 Vanilla-modified Declasse Merit Classic with city, county and state liveries
• 🧰 Universal parts library shared across other ONX standalone models for optimized, fast, consistent builds
• 📘 Support and documentation including templates, install tutorials and best practices

📊 Developer Specs — Shared Mod Parts

Performance numbers are exact, not rounded — so you can plan your fleet load with confidence.

• 227 YFT mod parts: 35.21MB total
• L0: Max 9,451 polys per part
• L0–L2 LODs included for all mod parts

📊 Declasse Merit Classic (1977–1985) — onx_polmerit3

File sizes:

• onx_polmerit3_hi.yft: 2.8MB
• onx_polmerit3.yft: 2.1MB
• onx_polmerit3.ytd: 2.1MB
• 111 YFT mod parts: < 0.5MB

Model polycount:

• L0: 132,062
• L1: 45,073
• L2: 21,170
• L3: 11,788
• L4: 1,624

Textures:

• YTD resolution: Max 1024×1024
• YTD texture count: 43
• YFT resolution for embedded liveries: Max 2048×2048

🛠️ Quick Install

1. Add the ONX vehicle resources to your server’s resources folder and create a folder called [onx_vehicles].
2. Add ensure [onx_vehicles] to your server.cfg.
3. Use a customization menu to configure lightbars, liveries, ALPR, cages, consoles, antennas, trunks and tags in-game.
4. Add the VMT_LIGHTBAR category to your customization menu (introduced in build 3095) to access custom ALPR and lightbar options.

🔌 Compatibility and Framework Notes

The Merit Classic ships as a drag-and-drop add-on resource — a lore friendly police car for FiveM that works with common frameworks, with no encryption and no hard framework lock. Game build 3095 is required for the full VMT_LIGHTBAR ALPR and lightbar feature set; the core vehicle still runs on standard builds. Universal parts are shared across the ONX standalone lineup, so adding more cars later means consistent props across your entire patrol fleet rather than mismatched assets. This is a standalone product — no subscription required to run it on your server.

📜 License Terms

• For use on licensed subscriber servers only, with assets granted in your Cfx Keymaster portal.
• No reuploading, resale or rebranding of assets other than liveries and textures.
• Redistribution outside your subscribed server(s) is prohibited.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this fully non-ELS or does it require an ELS install?

A: It’s fully non-ELS with synced lighting patterns and no client ELS dependency. Every player on your server sees the same lights without anyone needing to install ELS on their end, which keeps things smooth for public RP communities.

Q: Which departments and liveries are included out of the box?

A: LSPD, LSSD and SAHP are all included with city, county and state liveries. Livery templates and install guides also ship with the product so you can rebrand the cruiser for your own custom departments without starting from scratch.

Q: Do I need a specific FiveM game build to access every feature?

A: The core vehicle runs on standard builds, but the custom ALPR and lightbar options via VMT_LIGHTBAR require game build 3095. All other features — callsigns, two-tone paint, antennas, trunks, unit tags and the 200+ modkit options — are accessible regardless of build.

Q: Do I need a custom menu script to drive the 200+ customizations?

A: No custom menus are required. Every option is exposed through standard modkit and extras with labeled categories, so any customization menu your server already runs can drive lightbars, liveries, cages, consoles, antennas, trunks and tags directly.

Q: Does the Merit Classic share parts with other ONX vehicles?

A: Yes — it uses the universal ONX parts library, so lightbars, antennas, consoles, cages and unit tags stay visually consistent across every ONX standalone you install. Building a full classic-era or mixed-era fleet later becomes a much faster job because the parts already match.

🚔 Build the Classic-Era Department Your Server Has Been Missing

The Merit Classic Interceptor isn’t a recolored vanilla cruiser — it’s a properly engineered period-correct patrol car with the modular depth modern RP servers expect. Drop it into your fleet and you give your officers a vehicle they’ll actually want to spawn, your traffic stops a flavor they didn’t have before, and your server a visual identity that stands apart from the same handful of modern Stanier and Buffalo packs everyone else runs. This is the cruiser that anchors a classic-era roster.