Cars in the Sims4 with the same functionality as Sims2

2d1ba4c0649959b1​, According to my simple research, they looked at Sims 3 analytics and found people did not utilize cars enough. A majority just used taxis. That was the reasoning behind no cars in Sims 4. I know it may not be what anyone wants to hear, but that was the basic answer. I learned that by reading articles that were dev interviews.

At this stage in the Sims 4 life cycle, adding cars with any functionality at all would be unlikely 2d1ba4c0649959b1​ . It would require new game mechanics and given that even bike riding still has it's issues that might be a step too far. But I'd have liked more decorative cars for drives and garages. I think I've used all of the cars from using the debug cheat (bb.showhiddenobjects and bb.showliveeditobjects). I'm hoping someone is currently putting together a maker pack full of sports cars! 🤞

I used cars now and then in Sims 2 but hated them in Sims 3 because my play style usually involves rotating households and due to the game mechanics, I was constantly having to delete cars from my sims' inventories every time I switched to a new household.  Not wanting that to happen again is the biggest reason I'm personally not bothered about cars.  I wouldn't object if cars functioned more like they did in Sims 2, but at the same time I am happy living without them.

I agree with this, making it like sims 2 seems like an easy solution. Other people talking about it being because of people not liking the cars in sims 3 is a bad excuse. Normally if you do something that people don't like you change it so people like it, don't just get rid of it entirely.

tinypolecat​, What you call a "bad excuse" is the devs reading the analytic data. That data is what helps get funding for projects for the game. 

Sorry that this is kinda random but I recently tried both bb.showhiddenobjects and bb.showliveeditobjects cheats but I still couldn’t find the cars. Am I missing a step?

CirceKnight​ you have to manually scroll through the items in Show All. They aren't named as cars or transport, they are named "Unknown". So searching is difficult. I don't know if it's the same on all platforms as I'm on Xbox Series X. Sometimes a few debug items are missing and one trick is to go to the BB Catalogue and use Search, leave the box empty and don't type anything in before hitting enter. The "Blank Search" trick should bring them up in amongst the other debug items. I start at the end of the list of items and scroll upwards. They're not always grouped together, they're scattered through the items. I usually place each one as I find them and then decide which car model I'm going to stick with. You also can't copy debug items so if you want a few of one particular item you have to place more than one when you find them.

Maxis​ Ha, another thread asking for cars...omg go figure. 

To OP I'm 1000 percent with your idea Sims 4 cars would/should work like Sims 2 with a little more added gameplay since the car will not function like the Sims 3.

A lot in the Sims community want cars in the game also the Sims team has been hinting about cars for awhile to point I'm like okay either give us cars or shut up. 

Thanks, I’ll have to try again. I’m all the xbox series x to but after trying all those steps last night cars still didn’t pop up for me and I carefully double checked twice just incase I scrolled past it.

CirceKnight​ if they don't show up for you, if you take a look at the Gallery many of my lots have debug cars. Look for my username from here or on Xbox it's "simsplayr818". The lots were created on Xbox Series X so should hopefully be possible to download without issues (downloading some PC builds has caused error codes for me), but I often use the move objects cheat to place cars so you'd need to enable that. You can spot the cars I've used in the profile image of each lot. I'm just looking through now and the lots with cars/trucks are New Harbor, Horseshoe Barn, Raffia Quinta, Fisher's Horizon, Nookstone, Anchorpoint Abode, Canter Cottage. You could always download them to get all the cars, make a car lot and save it to your library for future use.