Abstract: A railborne vehicle, in particular a passenger car, includes an underframe with a trough-like bottom. A car body is disposed on the underframe and has end surfaces, truck regions each being spaced apart from a respective one of the end surfaces, a middle region disposed between the truck regions, end regions each tapering from a respective one of the truck regions to a respective one of the end surfaces, a roof, and a cross section with polygonal long sides and a width being increased from the end surfaces to the truck regions and being narrowed at the middle region. A truck is disposed in each respective one of the truck regions.

Abstract: A drop-frame urban rapid transit car includes passenger cells and travelling mechanism parts having a running gear, which are connected to one another at end surfaces by joint parts. The travelling mechanism parts disposed at ends of the car receive an engineer's cab. The object of the invention was to develop the drop-frame urban rapid transit car in a way which ensured the best possible utilization of the enveloping space and the best possible utilization of the available base area, a concept which makes it possible to construct a vehicle meeting the requirements of a modern urban rapid transit car, and at the same time with the most advantageous utilization of the necessary production devices, a minimum of different structural parts and a simple assembly.