Car
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A car contains seats for riders on roller coasters. They are often found in a group of several other conjoined cars called a train. Most wild mouse roller coasters, however, contain only one car per train.
Cars Gallery[edit | edit source]
A Sit-Down car with staggered seating.
- SFDK THBS car.jpg
A skateboard themed Gerstlauer spinning roller coaster car
A 4th Dimension roller coaster car with on board sound system
Types of cars[edit | edit source]
- Bolliger and Mabillard use cars that seat four abreast. They are the only manufacturer who currently do so.
- Intamin, Arrow Dynamics, and many other manufacturers have four-passenger trains that seat riders in two rows of two across.
- In Wing Coasters, the seats on the car lie beside the track, versus the top of it.
- Many Hyper Coasters use staggered seating to help give all riders a good view of the surroundings.
| Roller coaster descriptions | |||||||||
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| Basic elements | Brake run • Station | ||||||||
| Advanced elements | Bunny hill • Headchopper • Inversions • Pre-Drop • Tunnel | ||||||||
| Propulsion | Lift hill (Cable • Catch car • Chain • Electric spiral • Elevator • Ferris wheel • Friction wheel • Spiral)
Powered launch (Counterweight • Friction wheel • Flywheel • Compressed air launch • Electric winch launch • Hydraulic • LIM • LSM) | ||||||||
| Technology | Block brakes • Car • On-ride camera • On-ride soundtrack • Test seat • Train • Track • Transfer track • Wheel assembly | ||||||||
| Other | Chicken exit • Exclusive ride time • POV • Queue line • Rollback • Theming | ||||||||
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