Mini-Porsche

January 27, 2004 1:57 PM

Filthy rich, but don't feel like buying your 5-year old a real Porsche just yet? Perhaps one of these will suffice for now. Vroooooomm...
posted by Witty (8 comments total)

Somehow giving your child a minature replica of the car James Dean died in seems like bad parenting.
posted by machaus at 1:59 PM on January 27, 2004

Yeah, but does it *vibrate*?
posted by junkbox at 2:11 PM on January 27, 2004

sweet. very nice.
posted by tomplus2 at 2:18 PM on January 27, 2004

It's gorgeous - and machaus, quite the opposite; it seems like a good way to start scaring a young driver straight long before the teen years.
posted by jalexei at 2:58 PM on January 27, 2004

Somehow giving your child a minature replica of the car James Dean died in seems like bad parenting.
iirc, In recreating his crash, it showed he was traveling at the posted speed. He was t-boned by a young driver that appered drunk. The teen whom hit Dean, blew the yeild sign that crossed Dean's way, hittting head on.

[dressed in levi's & white t-shirt] My distaste with the electic cars was the speed: m/hr (km/h) 2.5 (4) to a max. 5 (8), too slow. When you can out run it, what's the use.
posted by thomcatspike at 3:37 PM on January 27, 2004

t-boned : the roads when conected, almost form a "Y", maybe bad description.
posted by thomcatspike at 4:44 PM on January 27, 2004

It's really a neat way to commemorate a certain car.

A guy I dated I had spent part of his childhood in Germany - and apparently it was the thing there for small children to commute to school in their pedal cars. So picture it - all these kindergarten kids driving off to school and parking in a special parking lot. The school was at the bottom of a long hill that the kids couldn't drive up, so their mothers would appear at the close of the school day and tow them home. I couldn't stop laughing when he told me about it. It was so surreal and yet so cute.
posted by orange swan at 7:25 AM on January 28, 2004

Knowing there are people who'll buy these sorts of things for their children makes me want to become a Communist.
posted by drstrangelove at 5:41 PM on January 28, 2004