"I forgot a moment that I'll tell you, Kevin. Jesteś dobrym kierowcą. (You are a good driver)" -Tommi in a phone-call with Kevin.
Tommi Terreno is a racing driver who is voiced by Tommi Mäkinen. He appears in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Living, who speaks Finnish-English, Polish and Rally Finnish.
Biography[]
Tommi is born in 1968 at Finland with his loving-Finnish mother and his English-father. When he was a kid at the age of 6, his mother protected him from an arguement with her husband due to being drunk and smoking cigarettes. After the arguement, his mother takes Tommi to his grandmother and his grandfather in 1976. After the parents apologized, Tommi have returned to his home with his grandparents, until his brother, Eric Terreno is born in 1978. In 1984, he in the age of 16, used to race in motorbike racing championships. In 1989, he started working for the Triakis Motor Tuning to upgrade and repair the vehicles, before his brother started working at Zyro Sportswear at the age of 16. He was once started competing rally championships in the Karin Rally Team in 1995. He moved out to Los Santos in June 1997, where he meets Kevin Johnson for finishing street and offroad races. He started to design weapons to take down the Karin Crime Family with the help of the OPT company.
Vehicles[]
His first vehicle was a blue Dinka Blista RS with his license plate "TT68" on the front. He calls this car "a boiled egg", which it may consider that it is a prototype or a concept compact. His rally car was a Karin sponsored Kuruma, that was used in rally championships, before transporting it into a T-45 truck. His bike was a black-red Dinka Hakuchou Sport in order to start bike races. His last vehicle was a T-45, a transport truck manufactured by Vulcar, in order to defeat the Karin Crime Family and transporting his race vehicles in the truck.
Personality[]
Tommi is a professional driver, who is calm, proud and sometimes nervous. He sometimes gets mad when someone does anything bad to him like (if shoots him for example).
Mission Appearances[]
- Street Races
- Offroad Races
- Touring (phone-call)
- Sultan's Complex (voice)
- Val-ctory
- Try a Second (phone-call)
- Disgrace of LSPD
- The l' Accident (phone-call)
- Gran Tour-ismo
- You're Mine Now!
- The Last Helper
Trivia[]
- Tommi is based on Tommi Mäkinen, due to their similar driving skills of rallies, and even their speaking of Finnish-English. The driver, Mäkinen wanted to voice Terreno with Finnish-English in the missions and friend activities.
- Terreno is also a undercover, who helps the OPT to defeat the Karin Crime Family boss and the members.
- Blake Schumacher is also a helper of Terreno for working in OPT, in order to design weapons.
- A fact is that his one of the business, the Triakis Motor Tuning, has the name "Triakis", which was a reference to a team in WipEout.
- Another fact is that his brother working for the clothes company, Zyro Sportswear, is a reference to this sponsor billboard of it in BallisticNG, that was inspired by WipEout.
- When often driving with him, he will say "I used to test in Formula R tracks in 1994", that he is also based on Mika Häkkinen.
- He also speaks Polish language.