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Alfa Romeo Kids Ride-Ons - Pedal and 6V Electric

Alfa Romeo have always produced innovative and aesthetically stunning vehicles. From the traditional motor racing of the 1920s to concept cars that push the boundaries of technology, Alfa Romeo are a staple part of the vehicle industry. Please click here for more information on Alfa Romeo.

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

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Why should I buy a licensed Alfa Romeo ride on?

Age Suitability

After-sales service for your riding toy

Safety

Alfa Romeo 8C Children's Ride on

The production Alfa Romeo 8C was based on the 8C Competizione concept car introduced at the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show. Alfa Romeo only produced 500 8C's, which were very similar to the Competizione with the largest different to the design being the rear-hinged hood.

The child's version of the Alfa 8C is based on the Competizione design rather than the mainstream production design. As a result this kids ride on has an air of uniqueness about it, something that is sure to make your child feel very special.

Alfa Romeo 8C Riding Toy - Pedal

Alfa Romeo 8C Riding Toy - 6v Electric

Alfa Romeo Brera Children's Ride On

The Alfa Brera encapsulates the soul of Alfa Romeo and arouses great emotion, guaranteeing to provide amazing driving satisfaction since its launch.

Alfa Romeo Brera Riding Toy - Pedal

Alfa Romeo Brera Riding Toy - 6v Electric

Drivers Packs

All our Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo Ride On?

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

All our Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo kids cars is based on safety reasons rather than ability or size. Our Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo ride-ons gives you exclusive access to TotParts and a 1 year guarantee. Toys Toys build their Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo kids car we will sort it out free of charge. Please click here to see more about TotParts.

Safety

A Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo riding toy close to parked cars.

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

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

5. Only use your Alfa Romeo 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 Alfa Romeo.

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

9. Dress properly with appropriate clothing and footwear.

10. Ensure children are supervised at all times.

About Alfa Romeo

Article courtesy of Wikipedia, please click here for the original.

Foundation and the early years

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors. One of them, Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan, became chairman of the SAID in 1909. The firm's initial location was in Naples, but even before the construction of the planned factory had started, Darracq decided late in 1906 that Milan would be a more suitable location and accordingly a tract of land was acquired in the Milan suburb of Portello, where a new factory of 6,700 square metres (8,000 sq yd) was erected. Late 1909, the Italian Darracq cars were selling slowly and Stella, with the other Italian co-investors, founded a new company named A.L.F.A. (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili), initially still in partnership with Darracq. The first non-Darracq car produced by company was the 1910 24 HP, designed by Giuseppe Merosi, hired in 1909 for designing new cars more suitable to the Italian market. Merosi would go on to design a series of new A.L.F.A. cars, with more powerful engines (40-60 HP). A.L.F.A. also ventured into motor racing, drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24 HP models. In 1914, an advanced Grand Prix car was designed and built, the GP1914 which featured a four cylinder, double overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder and twin ignition. However, the onset of World War I halted automobile production at A.L.F.A. for three years.

In August 1915 the company came under the direction of Neapolitan entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, who converted the factory to produce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war efforts. Munitions, aircraft engines and other components, compressors and generators based on the company's existing car engines were produced in a vastly enlarged factory during the war. When the war was over, Romeo invested his war profits in acquiring locomotive and railways carriage plants in Saronno (Costruzioni Meccaniche di Saronno), Rome (Officine Meccaniche di Roma) and Naples (Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali), which were added to his A.L.F.A. ownership. Car production had not been considered at first, but resumed in 1919 since parts for the completion of 105 cars were still lying at the A.L.F.A. factory since 1915. In 1920, the name of the company was changed to Alfa Romeo with the Torpedo 20-30 HP becoming the first car to be badged as such. Their first success came in 1920 when Giuseppe Campari won at Mugello and continued with second place in the Targa Florio driven by Enzo Ferrari. Giuseppe Merosi continued as head designer, and the company continued to produce solid road cars as well as successful race cars (including the 40-60 HP and the RL Targa Florio).

In 1923 Vittorio Jano was lured away from Fiat, partly thanks to the persuasion of a young Alfa racing driver named Enzo Ferrari, to replace Merosi as chief designer at Alfa Romeo. The first Alfa Romeo under Jano was the P2 Grand Prix car, which won Alfa Romeo the inaugural world championship for Grand Prix cars in 1925. For Alfa road cars Jano developed a series of small-to-medium-displacement 4, 6, and 8 cylinder inline power plants based on the P2 unit that established the classic architecture of Alfa engines, with light alloy construction, hemispherical combustion chambers, centrally-located plugs, two rows of overhead valves per cylinder bank and dual overhead cams. Jano's designs proved to be both reliable and powerful.

Enzo Ferrari proved to be a better team manager than driver, and when the factory team was privatised, it then became Scuderia Ferrari. When Ferrari left Alfa Romeo, he went on to build his own cars. Tazio Nuvolari often drove for Alfa, winning many races prior to World War II.

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa going broke after defense contracts ended, and in the end of 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by the government, which then had effective control. Alfa became an instrument of Mussolini's Italy, a national emblem. During this period Alfa Romeo built bespoke vehicles for the wealthy, with the bodies normally built by Touring of Milan or Pinin Farina. This was the era that peaked with the legendary Alfa Romeo 2900B Type 35 racers.

The Alfa factory (converted during wartime to the production of Macchi C.202 Folgore engines) was bombed during World War II, and struggled to return to profitability after the war. The luxury vehicles were out. Smaller mass-produced vehicles began to be produced in Alfa's factories beginning with the 1954 model year, with the introduction of the Giulietta series of berline (saloons/sedans), coupes and open two-seaters. All three varieties shared what would become the classic Alfa Romeo overhead Twin Cam four cylinder engine, initially in 1300 cc form. This engine would eventually be enlarged to 2 liters (2000 cc) and would remain in production through 1995.

Post War

Once motorsports resumed after World War II, Alfa Romeo proved to be the car to beat in Grand Prix events. The introduction of the new formula (Formula One) for single-seat racing cars provided an ideal setting for Alfa Romeo's tipo 158 Alfetta, adapted from a pre-war voiturette, and Giuseppe Farina won the first Formula One World Championship in 1950 in the 158. Juan Manuel Fangio secured Alfa's second consecutive championship in 1951.

In 1952, Alfa-Romeo had experimented with its first front-wheel drive compact car named "Project 13-61". It had the same transverse-mounted, forward-motor layout as the modern front-wheel drive automobiles. Alfa-Romeo made a second attempt toward the late 1950s based on Project 13-61. It was to be called Tipo 103. It even resembled the smaller version of its popular Alfa-Romeo Giulia. However, due to the financial difficulties in post-war Italy, the Tipo 103 never saw the production. Had Alfa-Romeo succeed in producing Tipo 103, it would precede the Mini as the first "modern" front-wheel drive compact car.

During the 1960s, Alfa concentrated on competition using production-based cars, including the GTA (standing for Gran Turismo Allegerita), an aluminium-bodied version of the Bertone-designed coupe with a powerful twin-plug engine. Among other victories, the GTA won the inaugural Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am championship in 1966. In the 1970s, Alfa concentrated on prototype sports car racing with the Tipo 33, with early victories in 1971. Eventually the Tipo 33TT12 gained the World Championship for Makes for Alfa Romeo in 1975 and the Tipo 33SC12 won the World Championship for Sports Cars in 1977.

By the 1970s Alfa was again in financial trouble. The Italian government company Finmeccanica bowed out in 1986 as Fiat Group bought in, creating a new group, Alfa Lancia Industriale S.p.A., to manufacture Alfas and Lancias. Models produced subsequent to the 1990s combined Alfa's traditional virtues of avant-garde styling and sporting panache with the economic benefits of product rationalisation, and include a "GTA" version of the 147 hatchback, the Giugiaro-designed Brera, and a high-performance exotic called the 8C Competizione (named after one of Alfa's most successful prewar sports and racing cars, the 8C of the 1930s).

In 2005 Maserati was bought back from Ferrari and brought under Fiat's full control. The Fiat Group plans to create a sports and luxury division from Maserati and Alfa Romeo. There is a planned strategic relationship between these two; engines, platforms and possibly dealers will be shared in some market areas.

In the beginning of 2007, Fiat Auto S.p.A. was reorganized and four new automobile companies were created; Fiat Automobiles S.p.A., Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A., Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. and Fiat Light Commercial Vehicles S.p.A. These companies are fully owned by Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.