Key takeaways
- The Abandoned Parking Lot is in the Biotechnica Flats, within the southern Badlands.
- It is a small outdoor parking area rather than a full-sized building or settlement.
- Its confirmed fixed feature is a fast-travel Dataterm.
- The location is used during “Shape of a Pony”, when V investigates a missing Porsche connected to Muamar “El Capitan” Reyes.
- The lot lies near the Satwave Power Plant and the wider Biotechnica Farms area, but those places are separate locations.
- Do not confuse it with the abandoned parking structure in Dogtown, which contains a Phantom Liberty Militech Restricted Data Terminal and belongs to a different map region and expansion continuity.
About this guide
Scope: Base game, including the post-launch 2.0-era version of Cyberpunk 2077. The similarly named Dogtown parking structure added with Phantom Liberty is treated separately below and is not part of this location.
Overview
Abandoned Parking Lot is a small named location in the Biotechnica Flats, a subregion of the southern Badlands outside Night City. It is one of the least developed named locations in Cyberpunk 2077: there is no substantial building, permanent resident, shop or combat arena here. Its importance comes instead from three things: it is a marked fast-travel point, it is used during the vehicle-recovery activity “Shape of a Pony”, and it sits among the wider Biotechnica Farms landscape, close to several more substantial Badlands locations.
The site is easy to overlook because the game’s regional map gives the impression of a broader rural-industrial area rather than a sharply enclosed compound. For wiki purposes, the Abandoned Parking Lot should be understood as the small open parking area around its dedicated Dataterm, not as the whole Biotechnica Flats, the nearby Satwave Power Plant, or the surrounding roads and farm installations.
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Geography
The Abandoned Parking Lot occupies a small, isolated patch of developed ground amid the flatter agricultural and industrial landscape of the southern Badlands. The surrounding Biotechnica Flats are dominated by protein-farming infrastructure, access roads, utility installations and scattered roadside sites. The parking lot itself is much more modest: a paved area with empty spaces, a lone vehicle and the fast-travel Dataterm associated with the location.
The lot is described as being north-west of the Satwave Power Plant. It is also close to the boundary between the Badlands and the city-side industrial districts, although the parking lot is not part of Santo Domingo proper. Treat “outskirts of Santo Domingo” as a geographic description, not as evidence that the lot belongs to the Santo Domingo district hierarchy.
Nearby but separate
The following places should not be folded into the lot’s directory:
The wider Biotechnica Flats directory identifies the Abandoned Parking Lot as one of several distinct places outside the main Biotechnica compound. This is important because “Biotechnica Flats” is a broad subregion, not simply another name for the parking lot.
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Nearby but separate
Reaching the lot during free exploration
The easiest way to reach the location is through the southern Badlands road network. From the Biotechnica Farms area, follow the nearby roads towards the Satwave Power Plant and search the surrounding open ground to the north-west. The Abandoned Parking Lot is marked by its own fast-travel point once discovered.
Because the site is in an open area, it does not have a conventional interior entrance, security checkpoint or loading bay. V can drive directly into the lot or approach on foot from the surrounding roads.
Practical route
The lot is most useful as a navigation anchor when crossing the southern Badlands. It provides a reliable fast-travel destination between the Biotechnica Farms sites and other Badlands markers.
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The Abandoned Parking Lot has its own fast-travel Dataterm. This is the location’s main permanent gameplay function outside its associated activity. The Dataterm is included in lists of Badlands and Biotechnica Flats fast-travel destinations.
Practical route
- 01Travel to the southern Badlands.
- 02Head towards the Biotechnica Flats.
- 03Use the Satwave Power Plant as a visual reference.
- 04Search north-west of the plant for the small paved lot.
- 05Activate the Dataterm when you arrive so the location becomes available for fast travel.
How to unlock it
Fast travel does not require completion of “Shape of a Pony”. The location can be discovered independently during exploration.
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How to unlock it: steps
- 01Approach the Dataterm at the parking lot.
- 02Interact with it when prompted.
- 03The Abandoned Parking Lot will then appear as a usable fast-travel destination.
Location
Named nearby places
These are associated with the surrounding Biotechnica Flats but are not part of the lot itself:
The wider subregion contains additional roads and installations, but the sources reviewed do not establish them as subareas of the Abandoned Parking Lot.
Named nearby places
Shops and services
No shop, vendor, ripperdoc, weapon dealer, vehicle dealership or food service is verified at the Abandoned Parking Lot.
The presence of a vehicle or roadside props should not be treated as evidence of a purchasable vehicle service, repair facility or business. The only confirmed permanent service at the site is fast travel.
About this guide
Spoilers for the associated activity
Residents and named characters
No permanent resident is verified at the lot.
The location is associated with Muamar “El Capitan” Reyes through the activity “Shape of a Pony”, but Reyes is not a resident of the parking lot. He contacts V remotely and directs the recovery operation.
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The Abandoned Parking Lot is the opening investigation site for “Shape of a Pony”, a vehicle-recovery Mini-World Story connected to Muamar “El Capitan” Reyes. V receives a message from Reyes about a vehicle that has gone missing. After responding, V is given the last known location, which is the abandoned parking lot in the southern Badlands.
When V arrives, the Porsche is not waiting in the lot. Instead, V finds the body of a man. Johnny Silverhand appears and comments on the dead man’s resemblance to Johnny, leading to the joke that the victim was an impersonator known as Johnny Silverman.
The body contains clues, including conversations involving Reyes and coordinates pointing towards the vehicle’s actual location. The mission therefore uses the parking lot as an investigation and hand-off point rather than as the final combat location.
Walkthrough
- 01Read and answer Muamar Reyes’s message. The activity begins through Reyes’s communication.
Walkthrough
- 01Travel to the Abandoned Parking Lot. The objective points V to the vehicle’s last known location.
Walkthrough
- 01Inspect the body. There is no Porsche waiting in the marked lot. Search the body for the mission clues and shards.
Walkthrough
- 01Review the coordinates. The evidence identifies the next search area, near a makeshift garage south of the EBM Petrochem Stadium.
Walkthrough
- 01Travel to the second location. The actual vehicle is surrounded by Wraiths in the next area.
Walkthrough
- 01Defeat the Wraiths. One of the enemies carries the car keys.
Walkthrough
- 01Recover the Porsche. Loot the key, unlock the vehicle and get inside.
Walkthrough
- 01Contact Reyes. Send the message confirming that the vehicle has been recovered.
Walkthrough
- 01Collect the reimbursement. After the message is sent, Reyes deposits half of the original purchase price back to V.
What can be obtained
The parking lot itself is not the reward location. Its principal mission value is the evidence found on the body, which advances the activity.
The sources reviewed describe the car, keys, clues and refund, but do not establish a unique weapon, clothing item, cyberware item or permanent stash specifically placed at the Abandoned Parking Lot.
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Enemies at the lot
No fixed enemy group or boss is verified as belonging to the Abandoned Parking Lot.
During “Shape of a Pony”, the lot is primarily an investigation site. The combat encounter occurs later, at the vehicle’s recovered location, where Wraiths are guarding the Porsche. Those Wraiths should not be listed as permanent inhabitants of the parking lot.
Environmental hazards
The main risks are practical rather than mechanical:
No unique trap, environmental kill zone, scripted police response or special security system is verified at the location.
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Directly at the parking lot
The reviewed location references confirm the mission body and related clues during “Shape of a Pony”, but they do not provide evidence for a permanent collectible set, iconic weapon, cyberpsycho encounter or hidden stash inside the lot itself.
Do not confuse the parking lot with nearby Badlands discoveries. For example, the Earl Conway body and its archived conversation are described as being south-west of the Abandoned Parking Lot, not inside it.
Nearby mission material
The Earl Conway shard is useful regional context, but it belongs in the surrounding Biotechnica Flats directory rather than the parking-lot inventory. This distinction matters for completion guides because nearby shard placements can otherwise be incorrectly attributed to the nearest named fast-travel point.
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No permanent police station, NCPD facility, corporate checkpoint or gang-controlled security post is verified at the Abandoned Parking Lot.
The location is near Biotechnica-operated territory and infrastructure, but proximity to Biotechnica Farms does not establish that the lot itself is an active Biotechnica facility. The surrounding Badlands can contain hostile encounters and corporate or gang-associated locations, yet the parking lot is presented as a neglected roadside site rather than a guarded installation.
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Base-game access
The lot is available as an open-world location during ordinary exploration. It is not described as requiring a particular life path, main-job decision or relationship outcome.
Activity timing
“Shape of a Pony” is the location’s principal named activity. If the activity is active, inspect the body carefully before leaving, as the clues are used to identify the next objective. The parking lot itself is not the final vehicle location, so simply finding the Dataterm does not complete the activity.
Missability
The sources reviewed do not establish a unique permanently missable item at the lot. The mission can be advanced by examining the body and following the supplied coordinates. No separate one-time boss, exclusive parking-lot weapon or permanently missable collectible is verified.
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This route treats the parking lot as a transport and orientation point rather than pretending it contains the full Biotechnica Flats content.
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Phantom Liberty contains another place commonly described in guides as an abandoned parking lot, abandoned parking garage or abandoned parking structure. That location is in Dogtown, not the southern Badlands. It is a substantially different place: a multi-level structure associated with a Militech Restricted Data Terminal that awards a Relic Point after the Relic system is unlocked.
This distinction prevents two common errors: assigning the Dogtown Relic terminal to the Badlands location, or treating the base-game parking lot as a sizeable explorable garage.
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For a compact southern Badlands sweep
- 01Start at the Abandoned Parking Lot and activate its Dataterm.
- 02Travel through the nearby Biotechnica Flats roads.
- 03Visit the Fuel Station and Las Palapas Motel as separate roadside locations.
- 04Continue towards the Protein Farm and the wider Biotechnica Farms area.
- 05Check the roads south-west of the lot for nearby bodies, shards and random encounters.
- 06Use the parking lot Dataterm as a return point before continuing towards the Satwave Power Plant or other southern Badlands destinations.
The two locations differ as follows
| Feature | Abandoned Parking Lot | Dogtown abandoned parking structure |
|---|---|---|
| Continuity | Base game | Phantom Liberty |
| Region | Badlands | Dogtown |
| Subregion | Biotechnica Flats | Kress Street/Golden Pacific area |
| Structure | Small outdoor lot | Multi-level parking structure |
| Fast travel | Yes | Separate Dogtown context |
| Relic terminal | Not verified | Yes |
| Associated content | “Shape of a Pony” | Relic Point exploration |
| Main reward | Mission clues and vehicle-recovery progression | Relic Point |
Is the Abandoned Parking Lot in Santo Domingo?
It is in the southern Badlands, close to Santo Domingo and described in some location references as being on Santo Domingo’s outskirts. It should not be classified as an ordinary Santo Domingo district location.
Is it part of Biotechnica Farms?
It belongs to the wider Biotechnica Flats area, but it is listed as a separate outside location rather than as part of the main Biotechnica compound.
Is there a shop or vendor there?
No verified shop or vendor is recorded at the parking lot. Its permanent functional feature is the fast-travel Dataterm.
Is Johnny Silverhand at the lot?
Johnny appears during “Shape of a Pony” after V discovers the body. He is a story-associated apparition, not a resident or permanent NPC.
Where is the Porsche?
It is not at the abandoned parking lot. The clues found at the lot lead V to a second location near a makeshift garage south of EBM Petrochem Stadium, where Wraiths are guarding the car.
Does the lot contain a Relic terminal?
Not the base-game Abandoned Parking Lot. The Relic terminal belongs to the similarly named Dogtown parking structure added with Phantom Liberty.
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This guide is suitable as a researched base-game location entry, but the Abandoned Parking Lot is only lightly documented in available sources. The following details should not be treated as confirmed without direct game-file or first-party map evidence:
The available evidence consistently supports the location’s hierarchy, fast-travel function, Biotechnica Flats setting and connection to “Shape of a Pony”. It does not support expanding the parking lot into the wider Biotechnica Farms area or adding undocumented shops, residents, enemies or collectibles.
Sources
- Abandoned Parking Lot | Cyberpunk Wiki | Fandom — cyberpunk.fandom.com
- Biotechnica Flats | Cyberpunk Wiki | Fandom — cyberpunk.fandom.com
- Заброшенная парковка | Cyberpunk Wiki | Fandom — cyberpunk.fandom.com
- Shape of a Pony | Cyberpunk Wiki | Fandom — cyberpunk.fandom.com
- Archived Conversation: Earl Conway and Kathy Conway | Cyberpunk Wiki | Fandom — cyberpunk.fandom.com
- All Relic Terminals And Locations In Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty - GameSpot — gamespot.com