Coaster with the most seats

Definately not the full 60 of that Illusion ride, but the Beaver Land Mine Train at Geauga Lake holds 40 in one train.

And MOST of those Zierer/Vekoma *kiddie* coasters COULD go faster, if not for the fact that the long LONG train means one section of coaster is *almost always* going uphill while another part is coasting happily downhill...I'd like to ride Poison Ivy from SFNE, or esp. Jaguar!, with a short train, even JUST once...:)

It's just the Zierer kiddie/family coasters with the really long trains. The Vekoma rollerskaters have pretty normal 2-passenger, 8-car trains.

-Nate

Nate, you got me thinking about the Vekomas, and you're totally right...I think I've been riding too many of those "family inverts" lately, and they DO carry a few more rows...

But as I got looking around at the "Tivoli" coasters by Zierer, I have to admit enjoying the FEW of those I've been able to ride...I'd like to ride more (there seem to be PLENTY in Europe)...if ONLY they'd do *something* about those awfully hard seats...;)

edit: almost forgot to add....SHORTEN those trains...:)
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"I'd like to ride more (there seem to be PLENTY in Europe)..."

PLENTY is not the right word. During the seventies and eighties people over here thought ZIERER when they heard the word "coaster". Especially in Germany, every park used to have one but mostly nothing else which could qualify as a coaster.
Thats why Zierer got in financial trouble a few years ago. They had literally saturated the market with their Ladybugs, Flying carpets and Waveswingers. Apparantly their solid design and construction didn´t help them to sell many spareparts. Many of their rides are said to still operating with original parts for 25 to 30 years now.