Car

Cars are objects introduced in the The Sims 2: Nightlife expansion pack and The Sims 3 to serve as alternative transport to the taxi and the carpool. A Sim who owns a car can drive to work instead of taking the carpool and can drive to community lots whenever they like, or they can just take a spin around the neighborhood to relax. Sims can even woohoo in cars, complete with rocking motion!

They are found in the miscellaneous section of the Buy Mode catalogue. There are five models in Nightlife plus one that can be restored from Junk car in FreeTime, varying in price and specification, and each one comes in several colors. Strangely the carpool event show several vehicles (other than service-themed cars like the police car or fire truck) that never made to the buy mode.

They can only be driven by Sims teenage or older. Children can be driven to school by a teenager or their parents, and teenagers, if there is another teen on the lot, can carpool to school together. All cars can also have an alarm installed in them which will go off when ever a burglar is near even if the car happens to be inside a garage.

A car must be placed on a driveway or driveway extension for Sims to be able to use it. In The Sims 2 the driveway is very large (taking all tiles that a Sim need to enter the car) and must be connected to the street. In The Sims 3 the driveway is small and only (using tiles that the car is keep) and can be placed anywhere in the lot.

The five different models are:

Custom Content
Early The Sims fan made content allowed the player to have a car. Normally the same used by carpool that would never be accessible. Although they would have no use other than a large environment object.

In April 2007 a driveway and garage set was available for download at TheSims2.com allowing players with only the base game to have cars. Over the next year they released 7 download-able cars by Ford: The Ford Mustang GT, The Ford Focus, The Ford Fusion, The Ford Edge, The Ford Escape, and The Ford Escape Hybrid as well as HotRod Hauler Chop Socky Special.


 * The Fiat Punto - Formerly available at http://thesims2.co.uk
 * Modthesims2 has an extensive range of actual cars, Like a Honda Fit and Mazda3.

The Sims 3
Cars play a much important role in The Sims 3, as they are used to travel around places (otherwise the player can use a Taxi). The game comes with 10 cars with cost range from 900 to 100,000.