Car

Cars are objects introduced in the Nightlife expansion pack 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!

A car must be placed on a driveway or driveway extension for Sims to be able to use it. They can only be driven by Sims teenaged or older. They are found in the miscellaneous section of the Buy Mode catalogue. There are five models varying in price and specification, and each one comes in several colors. 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.

The five different models are:

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 or a Mazda3.