Little Tikes Cozy Coupe 30th Anniversary Car

Baby loves it! Also I found it not too difficult to put together and I absolutely suck at putting ikea furniture together. Don’t be discouraged by the reviews saying this is hard to put together.

I figured my nephew would like this toy too, after having a similar one as a kid. He got a electric atv for his 1 year birthday a couple months ago but I think he's not ready for the big boy toys just yet. The Cozy Coupe will be a great intermediate for the little guy until he's got the hand-eye coordination thing down to play on the electric atv. Let me just start out by saying this toy took a lot more assembly than I thought it would! I had to bust out a screwdriver and even a hammer (both required). The hammer was for hammering down the wheels so try not to work around your little one if you want it to be a surprise. I learned that the hard way and the nephew came to see what was up, saw the new toy and thought I was breaking it :( Don't be afraid to really hammer in those wheel end-caps because I feel if they come loose, goodbye wheel, hello hospital. Also, be very very sure to follow the instructions. ESPECIALLY following in order the assembly of the yellow canopy pieces. I also learned this the hard way and attached the yellow posts in the wrong order. If you don't you'll have a extremely hard time inserting any of the other yellow posts. Some of the pieces require inserting them in a certain way and then twisting them to get it locked in place. If you do some things out of order, you may end up not being able to pull the piece back out without some serious muscle. In the end, we ended up with a pretty good toy. My nephew loved the Cozy Coupe's face, especially its eyes. He's learning to get in and out of the toy by himself but its hilarious to see him climbing out the passenger side window, where there is no door. I'm just concerned that the toy may tip over if he gets big enough. I don't necessarily want to test this out but it's a concern of mine. The actual door is nice in that you can have it have it latched shut or permanently closed with a screw. The floorboard is nice too when your kid wants to be lazy and let you do all the pushing work! All in all, great toy, great value. This should last years after and bring your child endless entertainment.

As far as ride-ons go, this is the best I've come across! I had a Cozy Coupe in the '80s and was eager checkout how the Cozy Coupe has changed over the decades. I was pleased to find that while going to assemble the Cozy Coupe, Little Tikes provides an online, step-by-step video instruction guide which allowed me to assemble it without any missteps. Aside from the fact that the Cozy Coupe by all outward appearances is adorable, it also has a lot of great functional aspects too. During assembly you can choose to assemble the door in a way that keeps it locked at all times, allows the door to go from locked to unlocked, or have the door always unlocked. The horn actually makes a little beeping noise and there's an ignition with a key that can be turned to make a clack, clack, clack noise. The key can also be "removed" and reinserted, but is always tethered to the ignition itself. And the gas cap opens up, which I think is always a bonus to little ones as they seems thrilled by the notion of repeatedly opening and closing something. The handle in the top of the roof has been my favorite feature of the Cozy Coupe as it allows me to push my son around easily and have pretty good control of it. The floorboard is removable which is always a bonus as it can grow with the child and I imagine my little one will enjoy the Cozy Coupe just as much, if not more so, when he is able to propel himself along. Oh, and how could I forget the cup holders? It's a perfect spot to house sippy cups and a bottle of water for yourself. It's an unnecessary feature, but nonetheless something both my little one and I use when taking the Cozy Coupe out for a spin! The quality of the Cozy Coupe seems great. The body itself is quite sturdy and so is the roof and interior features. The wheels seems pretty solid and in general the Cozy Coupe does not look or appear to be flimsy and I have faith it will hold up for quite some time. While this was purchased in the winter we still make sure to sneak in some Cozy Coupe time on days that permit. I imagine come spring we will be cruising all over the place in the Cozy Coupe! This is really a great, functional rideon that offers a lot of great features at a very reasonable price!

My great grandson went trick-or-treating in this! It worked perfect and the handle on the back made it easy to push!

My son loves this! Super easy use and fun for kids. It is absolutely adorable and isn’t super noisy. Although it was kind of difficult to put together.

My Daughter likes this soo much.. I was hoping I was getting a really cute pinkish-purple car. I was kind of disappointed because it is just dark pink. I also looked at the ones in-store @ ToysRUs. The Amazon version was actually a lighter shade of pink, more of a bubblegum pink or maybe I should say watermelon pink than the one @ ToysRUs. I like this one better. I'm pretty pleased w/it. I paid $44.60 on Amazon (same price as Wmart w/no tax) which beat everyone else. However, if I'd waited a week I could've got it for $30 direct from LittleTikes.com w/free ship. Eversave has a coupon running this week for 25=50 [...] Or you could get the glitter vs from them for $42. It just goes to show you that if they can sell them that cheap and still make a profit, they are WAY over-charging for these toys. I'm ok w/the bubblegum pink. I just wish Amazon would show a pic true to color. I wish they DID make a purple one like they show in the pic but they don't. They are all dark pink at all the retailers. My 2-yr-old daughter loves this car. It was so worth all the pain. She kept saying car beep beep all day after she got sight of it before I took it to Lowes. I put it in the trunk to go to the "shop" but she remembered it all day and hasn't stopped playing w/it ever since. She loves getting in/out and putting her key in/out. She drives and pushes it around the living room. We put the floor board in and drove her around the block outside and she loved it. The plastic tires do get a bit scratched on the road/side-walk but we mostly use it indoors. It's VERY sturdy once put together. This thing may get banged up but it coming apart. The gas cap is cute but she doesn't realize what it's for yet. We didn't get the gas pump and after reading the reviews on that, I probably won't. I may find something similar for her to "fill up" with later. She always plays even in day care.. I would probably give this toy 5 stars but took 1 off because assembly can be a bit of a headache and dis-assembly is not an option. All in all, this is a great toy and I highly recommend it.

After seeing some of the reviews about how hard it is to assemble the roof, I was worried about having problems, but found a couple of hints I would like to share: 1) The instructional video shows the lady pulling up and forward on the roof to latch the front to the window uprights onto the roof. I tried this several times and no luck. Finally, I pushed the back uprights (still attached onto the roof) down into the car a few inches to allow the back prongs of the front uprights to catch in the roof slots. Once they caught, I could then lift the roof and push it forward just like the video shows and that allowed the front uprights to snap into the roof as designed. Bottom line; make sure the back prongs of the front uprights are started into the roof notches before performing the up and forward maneuver. 2) When wiggling the the front driver side upright down into the body, make sure the car door stays is in place. The door post is held in place by a cavity in the upright. After I had the car all together, I noticed the door laying on the floor and had to take the roof back off to re-install the door - ugh. 3) My roof is style 2 which has the two (around 3") plastic pins that you hammer in to hold the back uprights onto the car body. Be careful to align these pins well when hammering them in as they can easily go askew and will miss the inside hole. This unfortunately bends them. I had to take a claw hammer and pull one of them back out, straighten it, re-insert it and carefully align it when hammering it back in. Fortunately it did not break when I bent it. Other than these learning curve issues, I thought the car went together pretty well. If you use the end-cap holders to fasten the end-caps to the axles as shown in the video, you should have no problems with this task. Grandson's birthday party coming up in a couple of days. I hope he likes the car and doesn't just play with the box. If so, I may just keep the car for myself. Gets great gas mileage. ;-) Update 9/14/2013: My grandson LOVES the little car. It is a hit.

Value for money, will help when toddlers are walking lightweight.