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VW Kid's Ride Ons - Pedal and 6v Electric

Volkswagen has an interesting history, as it was born in 1930s Germany to create automobiles ordinary German citizens could afford. Incidentally, Volkswagen is translated literally means 'people's car' or 'a car for the people'. Under Hitler's instructions, the famous engineer Ferdinand Porsche was brought in to create an efficient, reliable yet cost effective automobile.

Please click here if you would like more information on the VW Beetle's history.

All our VW riding toys for children are fully licensed by Volkswagen and include all the authentic logos and badges.

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Kids Cars Driver's packs

Why should I buy a licensed Volkswagen ride on?

Age Suitability

After-sales service for your riding toy

Safety

VW Beetle Children's Ride On

The cute new Beetle shape is reproduced in great detail in this fun replica that’s guaranteed to delight any child. Children love dodging the sunflowers in this brilliant yellow and black VW. Its beautifully made and feels really solid, if they should ram into the playhouse the flexible body will take it all in its stride.

This superbly built car always turns heads and is one of our top sellers.

VW Beetle Riding Toy - Pedal

VW Beetle Riding Toy - 6v Electric

Drivers Packs

All our VW kids cars come with a free, personalised driver's pack for your child. This includes a personalised MOT certificate, personalised registration documents, driver's licensed and numberplate sticker pack. Please click here to see more information on your free ride-on driver's pack.

Why Should I Buy a Licensed Volkswagen Ride On?

Licensed VW ride-ons are designed and produced alongside VW themselves, meaning the quality and durability has been well tested.

All our VW riding toys have the same basic features:

• Steel Chassis - can easily withstand a child jumping in and out.

• Tough polyethylene bodywork - flexible and strong, avoids damage to the ride-on or furniture if there is a crash.

• Deep injected paintwork - allows scratches to be buffed away easily.

• Realistic alloy-like wheels.

• UK based service centre and 1 year guarantee.

• Authentic logos, badges and stickers.

• Top quality European construction and design.

Age Suitability

The 3+ rating on VW kids cars is based on safety reasons rather than ability or size. Our VW ride ons are well designed, so will allow many 18 month olds to reach the pedals and steer. They will probably also amaze you with their ability after a short time. However a young child may lack the judgement to avoid a tree or might start chewing small parts and for this reason the manufacturers recommend various age guidelines. The parent ultimately controls the environment the VW riding toy is used in and understands the child better than anyone else. The manufacturers can only offer guidelines and their recommendation is based on the average child.

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After-Sales Service

Purchasing one of our licensed VW ride-ons gives you exclusive access to TotParts and a 1 year guarantee. Toys Toys build their VW riding toys to the highest standards, so we know they will last for years. Therefore we offer a 1 year guarantee, if anything goes wrong with your VW kids car we will sort it out free of charge. Please click here to see more about TotParts.

Safety

A VW riding toy will offer your child years of fun and happy memories, as long as you ensure you follow safety guidance:

1. Choose an area that is wide and clear of obstacles.

2. Do not use your VW riding toy close to parked cars.

3. Avoid using your VW kids car on icy surfaces and avoid using in excessive wet or snowy conditions.

4. Look for a smooth surface for your VW ride on and avoid large holes, ruts, tree roots etc.

5. Only use your VW kids car in day light, or in well lit areas.

6. Make sure you avoid an routes with are near roads, streams or ponds.

7. Stay seated at all times and do not attempt stunts or tricks in your VW.

8. Keep arms and legs well tucked in. Ensure clothing such as scarves, drawstrings etc are kept away from the VW's wheels and other moving parts.

9. Dress properly with appropriate clothing and footwear.

10. Ensure children are supervised at all times.

History of the VW Beetle

Article courtesy of Mad About Kit Cars. Please see here for the original.

The Volkswagen Beetle or Bug is a small family car, the best known car of Volkswagen, of Germany, and almost certainly the world. Thanks to its distinctive shape and sound, and its reliability, it now enjoys a "cult" status.

The Beetle was in production from 1938 until 2003, interrupted only by the Second World War. Over 21 million Beetles were produced.

The "Beetle" name was not originally given to the car. Inside Volkswagen, it was simply the "Type 1" until the 1968 model year (August 1967), when, for the first time, the German brochures used the name "DER KAUFER" on the front cover and inside. The Beetle name was later reused when the New Beetle was introduced in 1998.

The origins of the car date back to 1930s Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler's desire that almost anybody should be able to afford a car fitted with a proposal by car designer Ferdinand Porsche, although Hitler himself played some role in the car's shape and, possibly, nickname. Dissatisfied with the initial design of the car's front end (and perhaps caught up in the 1930s' mania for all things streamlined) Hitler penned a more rounded shape on a napkin and handed it to Porsche with the instructions, "it should look like a beetle, you only have to look to nature to find out what true streamlining is." The intention was that ordinary working Germans would buy the car by means of a savings scheme.

Prototypes of the car called the KdF-Wagen (German: Kraft durch Freude = strength through joy), appeared from 1935 onwards. The first prototypes were produced by Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart. The car already had its distinctive round shape (designed by Erwin Komenda) and air-cooled, flat-four, rear-mounted engine. However, the factory (in the new town of Kdf-Stadt, purpose-built for the factory workers) had only produced a handful of cars by the time war started in 1939. Consequently the first volume-produced versions of the car's chassis (if not body) were military vehicles, the jeep-like Kbelwagen (approx. 52,000 built) and the amphibious Schwimmwagen (approx. 14,000 built).