Vehicles

Dealership

At the dealership, the sales desk sells cars and motorbikes, in 12 colours, pink and hot pink among them:

The Superbike is the fastest motorbike of all. The Roadster has no roof: the driver and the passenger show sitting in its seats. Each person can own as many cars and motorbikes as they want, and only residents buy in their city. You can sell it back for half the price. After your first purchase, a tutorial takes you to the wheel.

Bike & Skate Shop

The Bike & Skate Shop, next to the bar, sells a bicycle (200 Coins), a kick scooter (150), a skateboard (120) and roller skates (100). Each one is bought once and stays in My character > Inventory: tap it to equip it and go faster than on foot, and tap it again to put it away.

Get close and press Drive (or Ride on a motorbike). Drive with W A S D or the arrows, or choose a place on the map and the car takes you there. To honk, press Honk or H: anyone near you on the street hears it, and a motorbike's horn is higher than a car's. The Radio button (or K) opens the phone's Radio app: the station you choose at the wheel plays for everyone in your vehicle, and it turns off when you get out. On the vehicle card, the speedometer shows the km/h and the gear, with the fuel and the body under it (on a phone, a pill by the buttons shows the km/h, the gear and the fuel, and the body only when the vehicle is damaged): cars and motorbikes have 3 gears (the race car, 4), and you hear the engine shift gears as you speed up. Friends can ride with you: up to 4 in a car, 1 on a motorbike.

At the wheel, the traffic light you are about to cross shows next to the city name, in its current colour.

Your car or motorbike is in the inventory too. Tap it to put it away: it goes to your house's garage or leaves the map. Tap it again and it appears in the free painted bay nearest to you. A house's garage only keeps the vehicles of the owner, their spouse and the residents: someone else's vehicle left there goes to the garage of its owner's house or to their inventory. The button next to another player's vehicle shows whose it is, like Ana Souza's motorbike.

Outside, the car button next to the menu shows all your vehicles: tap one to equip it and tap it again to put it away.

In any city

Your vehicles can be used in any city, not only where you live. A vehicle that is in another city shows in the inventory and on the car button with the name of the city it is in: tap it and it comes to the city you are in, in the free painted bay nearest to you. It then stays in that city until you take it to another one the same way. A vehicle at the workshop, at the tuning shop, for sale at a notary's office or seized in another city only comes once it leaves there.

On a friend's player profile, if they added you too, Lend vehicle lets them drive your car and ride your motorbike: near your vehicle they get Drive (or Ride) instead of Steal, so it is never a theft, gives no wanted stars and takes no reputation. You can lend to up to 20 friends, and Stop lending on their profile takes it back. Undoing the friendship stops the lending too.

On a motorbike you always wear a helmet, and so does whoever rides with you. The Classic black helmet is free for everyone; the others are in the Helmets tab of the Ora Store, only in Ora:

Each one is bought once and stays yours: tap Wear to ride with it, and everyone sees it. Gift buys one for a friend.

There are two gas stations: one next to the University and one in Água Doce, at the far end of the village's parking lot, with only the pumps. Stop by a pump and press Refuel: your character gets off, takes the hose and puts it in the tank. Pick how many litres you want, like the quantities at the supermarket, and pay; when they are in, the hose goes back to the pump and you can drive on. A litre costs 1.92 Coins: a full car tank (60 litres) 116, a motorbike's (18 litres) 35. Out of fuel, call the tow truck next to the vehicle (15 Coins) and it takes it to a pump.

Whoever crashes into another vehicle stays where they are until the police arrives and pays a 100 Coins fine. Without the Coins, the balance goes negative and the tow truck takes the vehicle to the impound lot. Crashes damage the body. At a Tuning Shop, the Mechanic repairs it for the price they chose, in proportion to the damage. At the Mechanic's Workshop, park in a bay and call the mechanic: a full repair costs 20 Coins. The Workshop only takes your vehicle while no open Tuning Shop in the city can repair it: with one open, a Mechanic in the city, a free bay and a price you can pay, the repair is done there. If the vehicle breaks down, get out and call the tow truck (15 Coins): it takes the vehicle to a random Tuning Shop with a free bay and a repair price, and orders the repair there at that shop's price, paid when it arrives. With no such Tuning Shop, or no Coins for the repair, it takes it to the Mechanic's Workshop.

Traffic

Cars and motorbikes go round every city's streets all the time, never leaving it. They stop at red lights and behind whoever is in front; if something stands still in their way, they pass it in the other lane going the same way. Nobody gets in them.

Taxi

With no vehicle, call a car on the Taxi app: 3 Coins plus 1 for every 40 m, split among the friends who ride along. The homes where you live and your friends' and family's homes are on the list too, named after their owner. If something stands in its way, the taxi drives around it. During the bar mission your first ride to the bar is free.

Bus

To change cities, go to the bus stop by City Hall square, press Travel, tap the country's flag and pick the city (100 Coins or 50 Ora). The top of the screen shows the city you are in and how many people are in it now. The trip takes 1 minute: on top, how long until you arrive; on one side the world map with the route from your city to the destination, on the other the bus on the highway. If the city is full you wait in line, and VIPs go first, then residents. If your city is offline when you come in, the trip to another city with room is free. Salvador is early access: for 2 weeks after it joined the game, only VIPs can create a character, travel or move there, and the bus stop shows the day and hour it opens to everyone. Your vehicle stays in the city where you live.

At the Bike & Skate Shop, next to the bar, the counter sells:

What you buy goes to your inventory.

To use it, open My character > Inventory and tap the item: outside, you ride it faster than walking. Tap it again, or Unequip (U), to take it off. The car button next to the menu does the same, faster. After your first purchase, a tutorial shows you how.

Mechanics build a Tuning Shop on their plot. The shop has 2 covered bays: drive your car or motorbike into one, stop and press Tuning to choose the parts. The prices below hold at every shop until its Mechanic picks their own.

Car parts

Motorbike parts

Leaving your vehicle

You pay when you leave the vehicle, in Coins or Ora. It stays parked in the bay, and no other vehicle can drive into it: while it is there you can't drive, put away or sell it. The Mechanic accepts it by starting to work on it, or refuses it; refused, or taken back before it was accepted, the money comes back and the vehicle goes to your inventory. When it's done, it waits in the bay with its new parts until the Mechanic taps Deliver vehicle to owner: then it goes to your inventory.

Repairs

With your damaged vehicle stopped in a bay, the shop's window shows the Repair. The Mechanic chooses the price of a full repair for cars and for motorbikes, and you pay the part of the damage: with 35% of the body missing, you pay 35% of that price. Until they choose a price, the shop does no repairs. The Mechanic repairs it with 1 minigame for every 10% of body missing (up to 10 minigames) and keeps the whole price. The tow truck also leaves broken vehicles there, with the repair already ordered at the shop's price.

Working as a Mechanic

Two people work at once, the owner and a guest, one at each bay, and each gets their own City vehicle. The shop's owner presses Tune vehicles, walks up to the car or motorbike in the bay and works on it with the wrench: each minigame won fits a little more, and the whole price of the parts goes to the Mechanic. If there is no vehicle in the bays, a City vehicle (a car or a motorbike) arrives within 10 seconds, driven by its owner, who parks, gets out and waits between the bays while the Mechanic works on it, paid by the game for every minigame won. When it's done, the owner walks back, gets in and drives away, and another one soon comes.

In the Prices tab, the Mechanic chooses what to charge for the repair and for each part, for cars and for motorbikes, in round numbers, typed in. Each part shows in a photo of your own car or motorbike with it fitted (or of a model, when you have none). A part goes from half the table's price up to 100,000 Coins, and the Full repair from 100 to 100,000 Coins. In Parts, they see the prices they chose, the same ones customers see. On their own vehicle, they pay the table's price, and the Mechanic's Workshop's for a repair.

The Skate Park takes the whole half block west of the city, with streets all round it, and is on the map. It has a bowl, two quarter pipes, a fun box, a ledge, two kickers and two rails. Its floor is concrete in big slabs with wheel marks, its walls and the bowl are covered in colourful street graffiti, and the rails are orange. Anyone can go in on foot or riding: the ramps take you up, the bowl takes you down, and only riders get onto the rails. Riding over the top of a ramp gives you a little air, and whoever goes off the end of a kicker, a rail or the top of a quarter pipe drops to the floor.

Tricks

On a skateboard, roller skates or a kick scooter, press Trick (T) inside the park: the skateboard does a kickflip and a shove-it in turns, and the skates and the scooter spin. Everyone nearby sees it.

Across the skate park's street there is a big plot under construction, behind a hoarding, with a crane and machines: new attractions are coming soon there. On the map it shows as New attractions coming soon. During Halloween, the festival takes over this ground.