There are 2 different Armored Cars in game.
The first is an 'armored car' you get by doing the job Invade Tong Controlled Neighborhood under the Hitman tier in New york.
The second one is a 'Armored State Car' which you loot in the Storm The Presidential Palace job under the El Padrino tier in Cuba.
El Padrino mission - Storm the presidential palace
Storm the presidential palace, el padrino tier of cuba
You can get it doing Invade Tong-controlled Neighborhood job in New York as a Hitman
Hitman job Invade Tong-controlled neighborhood drops an Armored Car as loot.
There are many Cuban Loot. But the top 5 are, # TNT (Canonzo since El Cacique Tier) # Gaff Hook # Guerilya Squad # Hu-9 helicopter # Armored State Cars
Some loot you will need are armored town cars, blackmail photos, and night vision goggles.
Loots Cars are the only ones that can be send as a gift in Mafia Wars. The cars that you bought in the Inventory List cannot be send as a gift.
For Attack : Hu-9 Helicopter For Defense : Armored State Cars I don't know about Track Loader from new Cuba Job tier Edit: Alve's Muscle Car: Attack :81 (Ruby) Defense: 105 (Ruby)
For building cars via the chop shop
We all use our own inventories. But we need mafia members to use the stuff in the inventory. For example, a mafia member can only drive a car. So if you have 20 cars but you only have 10 mafia members, you'll only fight with 10 cars. :)
On level 32 in Mafia Wars you unlock some new armor and cars, at level 50 you unlock new cars, and at level 99 you unlock some new items. Also as you keep leveling up you unlock a lot of new jobs.
You get upkeep for buying items such as chain guns or cars which cost money to have them at the end of each hour.
Your upkeep in Mafia Wars is the money it cost to own weapons such as a chain gun and also cars such as a town car. The upkeep is deducted from your cash flow which you get every 54 minutes to an hour.