CityVille Garage and Cars : Everything you need to know

A few days ago, we learned that Cars would finally make an appearance on the roads of CityVille, but that we'd need to do something to unlock the right to have those vehicles on our streets. Now, we know the full details of the event, as a new Garage building has launched in the game for users level 27 and above.

First things first, you'll need to build this Garage to ever have a chance of spawning cars in your town. The Garage requires building materials to complete:

    10 Engine Hoists
    10 Car Lifts
    10 Emissions Tests
    10 Tool Cabinets
    10 Tire Stacks



These items are of course earned by asking your friends for help. For the Engine Hoists and Emissions Tests, you'll need to send out individual requests to your friends for help, while the other three items are earned via general news items posted to your wall.

Once your Garage is built, you'll be able to see cars driving around, so long as you have businesses and homes connected to roads and that you constantly supply them (or collect your rent, in the case of homes). Businesses appear to spawn more cars than residences, but if you do happen to have either connected to a sidewalk, rather than an actual piece of road, you don't need to worry about missing out, as the cars will simply appear on the nearest section of road.

These cars will sometimes have coins floating above them. Clicking on the car gives you the coins, but doesn't spend any energy to do so, making those coins truly free. The amount of coins you'll receive per car varies depending on the number of buildings attached to that same section of road (including Community Buildings) and on the type of car. The cars that you receive for completing the goals associated with the Garage will be some of those that will appear as you play the game in the future.

There isn't a time limit for when you need to start working on / complete your garage, so feel free to skip this feature for a while if you'd prefer your roads to stay clear.

Will you build a Garage in your town in CityVille? What do you think of this "free coins from cars" feature?

CityVille Garage / Cars Goals: Everything you need to know

To go along with the new Garage feature in CityVille, that allows you to trigger cars on your roads (and to receive free coins when collecting from those cars), there is also a new goal series that will help to introduce you to this new feature, along with stocking your car supply with additional variety. There are just three goals in this entire series, but one involves placing and building and entirely new Community Building, so don't think they're easy. Here's a guide to making your way through.

Start Your Engines

    Place and Complete the Garage
    Supply 30 Businesses
    Collect 15 Car Payouts


For a complete look at how to build your Garage, and collect your free coins from cars afterwards, check out our guide. For finishing this goal, you'll receive 5 Family SUVs. These are simply a type of car that will now begin spawning on your roads when you collect from Businesses.

Artistic License

    Ask for 10 Driver's Manuals
    Collect 5 Car Jacks
    Collect 15 Times from a Gas Station


The Gas Station costs 3,000 coins to build, takes up a 3x3 land space, and requires 75 Goods to operate. You'll receive 375 coins from the Gas Station each time you collect, by default. Your reward for this goal is the DMV, a new Community Building that you'll need to build for our next goal in the series...

Green Light

    Place and Complete DMV
    Place 15 Road Tiles
    Place 1 New Expansion


The DMV requires seven energy to build, and then asks you to add eight friends as staff members to complete its construction. After the DMV is complete, it will raise your town's maximum population by 500 citizens. As for the land expansion, you'll need to go through the basic process of adding citizens to your town and collecting Zoning Permits, but after you place it (and then fill it with those 15 new road tiles), you'll finish this goal and can delete all of the excess road pieces now cluttering your land. Your town will receive 3 Parking Enforcement Vehicles for finishing this final goal in the Garage / Car series.

We'll make sure to let you know as more / different kinds of cars are added to the variety in CityVille, or if / when those vehicles receive any additional purpose other than earning you free coins.

In the meantime, let us know what you think of these Garage / Car goals. What do you think of the overall Car feature in CityVille? Is it everything you had hoped for, or are you left wanting more?