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MAURER X-Car Coaster

MAURER X-Car Coaster
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MAURER X-Car Coaster

Product catalog summary
Introduction to Maurer X-Car Coaster
Maurer Söhne introduces the X-Car Coaster, a revolutionary roller coaster design featuring the innovative X-Seat and X-Car. The design emphasizes freedom of motion, comfort, and a unique ride experience without shoulder restraints, allowing for extreme track figures and vertical seat forces exceeding -1g.
Multimedia X-Seat Features
The X-Seat includes an extended backrest with integrated stereo speakers and a camera for on-ride video capture. Passengers can select music and adjust volume via a control panel. The seat's hydraulic locking system ensures comfort and safety, accommodating passengers from 120 cm to 200 cm in height.
Design and Ergonomics
Developed with expertise from the Technical University of Munich and TÜV Süddeutschland, the X-Seat offers ergonomic design and safety. It features a hip restraint suitable for various body sizes, providing comfort and security. The seat allows full freedom of motion for the legs, head, and upper body.
X-Car Design and Configuration
The X-Car is available in configurations of six seats per car, with options for four seats or tandem setups for higher capacity. It offers ample legroom and visibility, with modular options for enclosed, open, or floorless designs. The compact design supports tight-radius track layouts, enhancing ride excitement.
Technical Specifications
The X-Car is engineered for extreme loads, with vertical positive forces up to 5.5g and negative forces over -1.2g. It supports speeds up to 110 km/h and capacities exceeding 1300 passengers per hour. The LSM drive technology ensures efficient energy use and minimal maintenance.
Special Coaster Variants
  • X-Car Launch Coaster: Features LSM technology for rapid acceleration and reduced wear.
  • X-Car Vertical Coaster: Offers vertical ascents and unique figures like the Humpty Bump Lift.
  • X-Car SkyLoop: Known for the world's highest inversion and compact design, extendable to over 1000 meters.
Conclusion
Maurer Söhne's X-Car Coaster represents a significant advancement in roller coaster design, combining innovative technology, ergonomic comfort, and thrilling ride experiences. The modular and versatile design allows for customization and future upgrades, ensuring a memorable experience for all riders.
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Xtended – simply more Many companies build roller coasters. Only Maurer Rides builds Xtended roller coasters. Xtended means: extraordinary, unique, innovative, technically outstanding, unrivaled…. in short: Xtended roller coasters. The Xtended principle applies to all aspects of our roller coasters: our latest achievement on the Xtended track is the X-Car Coaster with the X-Seat and X-Car. Inverted figures without shoulder restraints, and with vertical seat forces of more than –1g – this is a world first, as you would expect from Xtended. Our track layouts are full of surprises, with ever tighter...

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The new X-Seat concept: Freedom on the tracks No more shoulder restraints Speed and acceleration – the heart and soul of roller coasters. Every roller coaster enthusiast longs for a taste of freedom and the chance to defy gravity. Maurer Rides has succeeded in making this dream come true to a large extent with the development of the X-Seat. The underlying innovation: no more shoulder restraints – and that goes for all possible track figures: extreme curves, camelback with negative vertical seat forces, loop-the-loop….The X-Seat, which can accommodate passengers from 120 cm/47“ (standard) or 110...

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X-Car - Hot curves, endless opportunities Six seats As standard, the X-Car comes with six seats. The seats are arranged in rows of two, with each row positioned higher than the one in front, so that even passengers in the rear two rows have a good view of the tracks. On request, the X-Car can also be four seats and two rows. It is also possible to couple two or three X-Cars to form a 12 seater tandem or a 18 seater train. Ample legroom The X-Car has remarkably generous legroom and copious elbow space, provides maximum ride comfort, opens up an excellent view of the thematic elements and story...

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Spectacular track layouts The X-Car, with its compact design, allows revolutionary, spectacular, tight-radius track layouts. No more boring track elements due to excessive train length; instead, one highlight after another. Conversely, this also allows exciting track layouts, in which the passenger is subjected to fascinating ride sensations, even with relatively small roller coasters or very limited floor space. The Maurer X-Car has been designed for extreme loads in order to give designers and park operators maximum freedom in terms of track design: The limit values: Vertical positive 5.5 g...

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X-Car Launch Coaster With the state-of-the-art LSM drive, the X-Car ensures a fascinating riding experience in an unequalled Launch Coaster. Wear and tear is reduced to an absolute minimum and thanks to the most modern energy storage systems, this coaster system distinguishes itself by its unexpectedly low connected loads, you‘ll be amazed.

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Track length: Height: Base area: Speed vmax: Capacity: Cars: Launch a max: Connected load: 125 kVA same connected load like a chain lift thanks energy storage system high reliability and availability of the installation contact-free LSM technology - saving maintenance costs. LSM technology enables extreme acceleration and travel speed. most up-to-date and efficient drive technology for roller coasters. _OVERJ "banks JCURVE

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X-Car Vertical Coaster The vertical lift offers sheer excitement right at the start of the ride. Given its extreme manoeuvrability, here the X-Car is predestined for use in two great riding situations. Either, the vehicle makes its way up in a vertical ascent, tilts forwards, before racing down on the other side in a plummeting vertical drop. Or, as a worldwide unique figure, the X-Car is carried up in the Humpty Bump Lift. Having reached the top of the lift, riders experience an electrifying backward roll in an inverted position and enjoy –1 g without shoulder harnesses, before plunging down...

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Cars: 2 x 12-seater X-Car tandem

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X-Car SkyLoop SkyLoop offers the highest inversion worldwide. Its unique feature consists of a vertical lift, which takes the passengers into a breathtaking height of 50 m (164 ft), where they are drawn into a gut-wrenchingly slow quarter loop backwards. This is followed instantly by a 360° corkscrew and a plummeting vertical drop at 105 km/h (65 mph). This attraction guarantees extreme thrill in a compact package, a ride to remember.

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world's highest inversion spectacular design very compact layout extendable to a total track length of more Example track length: height: base area: Speed vmax: capacity: Cars:

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Allows totally new track layouts Generous legroom, lots of space between the seats Stadium seating for optimal view from all seats Designed for maximum dynamic forces and the tightest of curves High-quality and maintenance-friendly design No shoulder restraints, and thus full freedom of motion for head and upper body Unrivalled seat comfort meets the highest quality expectations Completely new ride sensation with pull on upper body instead of pressure Technical data X-Car Maximum acceleration Vertical positive Vertical negative Lateral Longitudinal Maximum capacity Passengers height from 120...

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