Road transportation ( Final Fantasy VIII ) Using road transportation is an optional method of travel across the world of " Final Fantasy VIII " , mainly used until the party obtains either the mobile Garden or " Ragnarok " . Transport use . The first instance of road transportation use is when the Balamb Garden students are transported to Balamb Town via SeeD Personal Carrier Vehicle s . In Deling City the player can navigate the city by taking a free bus ride . During the assassination attempt upon Sorceress Edea , Squall hijacks a blue Tempest car , and during the escape from D - District Prison the party acquires two Galbadia n APCs . Galbadian motorcycles are seen during the Battle of the Gardens and Laguna Loire is seen using a variety of transports in the dream sequences . Gameplay . When using road transportation the player will experience no monster encounters and they also move faster on the world map ( accumulating more " steps " and thus resulting in being paid more frequently ) . Cars require fuel to run , and once all fuel is gone , the car will cease moving . Renting a car costs 3 , 500 gil , and fuel costs 3 , 000 gil per unit . Fuel can be bought from the shops around the world , and a rented car always starts with one unit of fuel . Transport types . Cars . Cars come in a variety of shapes and models . Accessible to the player via the town / city rental services ( see below ) , cars and trucks can also be seen around towns and cities being used by NPCs . SeeD Personal Carrier Vehicle is used by Balamb Garden for transporting SeeD members and SeeD cadets . A green pickup truck model and backgrounds featuring it have been unearthed from the game code by players . It appeared to have belonged to Laguna Loire during his stay in Winhill , but this car does not feature in the game ; the only vestige of its existence is that the Artisan in Shumi Village shows a model he ' s made of it to Squall ' s party if spoken to . The Tempest . The Tempest is a light blue convertible Cadillac Squall " acquires " during the assassination attempt on Sorceress Edea . The Tempest would appear in Squall ' s possession again in " Chocobo Racing " . APC . Armored Personnel Carriers are used frequently by military forces to transport personnel to locations . Such APCs are seen being used by both the SeeD forces for student transportation and the Galbadian forces for troop transportation . Buses . Used as a public transportation system , the bus service in Deling City allows the player to travel from one end of the city to the other relatively quickly without interference from surrounding obstacles . The buses can be boarded for free simply by talking to a conductor near a relevant bus stop . Unused text entries in the game data suggest there was once a plan for the player to be able to choose a location , but instead the bus goes around the city and the player decides when to get off . Motorcycles . Galbadian soldiers ride motorcycles in the Battle of the Gardens , driving them off ramps to launch onto Balamb Garden from Galbadia Garden . To assist them , the Galbadian motorcycles have rockets strapped to their rear wheels to help propel them . The ramps which they drive off likely have some method of launching the motorcycles as well . Chocobos . Chocobos can be used to travel on the world map on the continents that have no car rentals . Chocobos are free , but require the player to solve a puzzle in a chocobo forest first . Car rental . The player may rent a car to travel on the world map . Every town has a different looking car to rent .