Shooting car gas tanks to leak fuel over the road, sticky bomb cars with TNT and customise cars with over 1,000 options are just a number of the new additions that will be available in Grand Theft Auto 5 according to CVG's recent interview with Rockstar's Imran Sarwar (via NeoGAF).

With the recent gameplay trailer still fresh in our minds, Sarwar has revealed a number of new details about the upcoming open-world sandbox title, one that will be taking on a different approach with three main protagonists to control instead of the usual one.

According to Sarwar, enemy AI has been improved to be smarter and more aggressive, cars with customisations left on the street can be impounded instead of simply deleted (a handy change for those spending a fair amount of cash on customisations), weapons will be persistent throughout the game (if you run out of ammo you don't lose it) and a change to the previous static melee combat to be more free flowing. NeoGAF user shinobi602 has dotted out a quick overview of some of the new additions mentioned:

• Gas tanks from cars can be shot and leak and cause a gas trail that can be ignited (useful against enemies like rolling them into a group and blowing it up)
  
• Sticky bomb cars with TNT into enemies
  
• Of the over 1000 car customization options, include bulletproof tires, engine tuning, roll cages, armor, turbos, strange sounding horns etc
  
• These modifications can change the flow of a mission (bulletproof tires protects against bullets, more powerful armor against gangs/cops, etc)
  
• Customized cars can end up impounded if left on the street; pay a fine to retrieve it
  
• Less static melee fights, more of a free flowing system, lots of ways to approach enemies (behind, front, sides, etc), don't need to lock on
  
• Hits are much more satisfying using melee weapons, great crunch to them
  
• Destruction has been improved a lot
  
• Much more advanced enemy AI, won't remain idle but will be dynamic and navigate the environment in combat to flank you
  
• SWAT is very organized, focused, aggressive, gang members would be more gung ho
  
• Your guns stay with you throughout the whole game, if you run out of ammo you don't lose it
  
• Spent a lot of time on improving cover mechanics, much more responsive, jump over cover, move around, blind fire, much smoother

Many other details are also discussed in CVG's interview, which you can check out in the embed link below. For those who may have missed the first gameplay trailer you can check out the HD version over here.

Grand Theft Auto V is due on September 17th 2013 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and there's still no word on other potential platforms.