Abstract: A cascaded overall actuating system for a vehicle motion simulator is divided into an actuating system for small, high-frequency movements and an actuating system for large, low-frequency movements. A manipulator for implementing the low-frequency excitations is itself composed as a cascaded system of a rotary plate, a six-axle movement unit and a horizontal displacement device. To simulate movements which are as low in frequency as possible, the horizontal displacement device spans, as the actuator stage which is arranged at the lowest point in the cascade, a large movement area of 40 m×40 m. The six-axle movement unit with rotary plate and high-frequency actuating system is mounted on a carrier carriage which is supported in a freely displaceable fashion on a planar base surface bounded by the displacement paths of the horizontal displacement device and is pulled and/or pushed with respect to this base surface by means of the horizontal displacement device.