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

In 2006, Porsche were awarded the title 'Most Prestigious Automobile Brand' by The Luxury Institute in New York. The Porsche brand has weathered the many changing financial markets, remaining in Germany when other manufacturers have  moved production.

Our gorgeous Porsche ride-ons encapsulate the brand's reputation for prestige and reliability.

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

Click here to see all the licensed Porsche riding toys for children

Please scroll down to see information on the individual kids cars, alternatively you can jump to the following:

Kids Cars Driver's packs

Why should I buy a licensed Porsche ride on?

Age Suitability

After-sales service for your riding toy

Safety

Porsche Cayenne Children's Ride On

This luxury sport utility vehicle has been recreated with precision for your little ones. As Porsche’s first 4X4, the Cayenne was praised for its superb handling both on and off-road – your child will love to recreate sharp turns and speedy driving.
For more on the real Porsche Cayenne, please click here.

Porsche Cayenne Riding Toy - Pedal

Porsche Cayenne Riding Toy - 6V Electric

Porsche Boxster Children's Ride On - LIMITED SUPPLY

This kids Porsche Boxster is a replica of the second generation adult Boxster which made its debut at the 2004 Paris Motor Show. The child's ride on has the same new style headlights as well as the more pronounced horizontal slats.

For more information on the history of the Porsche Boxster, please click here.

The Porsche Boxster is being discontinued in 2010. Once they are gone, they're gone!

Porsche Boxster Riding Toy - Pedal

Porsche Boxster Riding Toy - 6v electric - NOW SOLD OUT

Drivers Packs

All our Porsche 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 Porsche Ride On?

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

All our Porsche 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 Porsche kids cars is based on safety reasons rather than ability or size. Our Porsche 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 Porsche 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.

Please click here for a complete guide to buying a kids car

After-Sales Service

Purchasing one of our licensed Porsche ride-ons gives you exclusive access to TotParts and a 1 year guarantee. Toys Toys build their Porsche 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 Porsche kids car we will sort it out free of charge. Please click here to see more about TotParts.

Safety

A Porsche 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 Porsche riding toy close to parked cars.

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

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

5. Only use your Porsche 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 Porsche.

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

9. Dress properly with appropriate clothing and footwear.

10. Ensure children are supervised at all times.

Porsche Boxster

Article courtesy of How Stuff Works. Please click here for the original.

The Porsche Boxster is proof that adversity can breed success. Born of the most troubled period in modern Porsche history, the Porsche Boxster was an instant hit with the press and public alike upon its introduction as a 1997 model.

That was no surprise. The Porsche Boxster here was not only the first clean-sheet-design Porsche in 20 years (since the Porsche 928), it was a two-seat roadster with looks and road manners recalling the legendary mid-1950s 550 Spyder. Not only that, the engine was a brand-new water-cooled horizontally opposed ("boxer"), six-cylinder, plunked right behind the cockpit. ("Boxer" plus "roadster" equals "Boxster.")

All this for an initial base price of around $40,000, the most affordable Porsche in years. How could it miss?

Yet success was by no means assured. When it debuted during 1996, the Porsche Boxster was viewed by some as just another "retro roadster" like the BMW Z3 and Mercedes-Benz SLK, both recently launched replies to the popular, less-expensive Mazda Miata, then in its seventh season.

The Z3, SLK, and Miata were classic front-engine/rear-drive open sports cars, and thus arguably less "interesting" than the Porsche. But they appealed nonetheless, suggesting the Boxster's success stemmed as much from high style and low price, not to mention the Porsche badge, as any engineering or performance distinctions.

The Porsche Boxster was part of a second-thoughts product plan hatched in the early 1990s after cancellation of the Type 989 luxury-sedan project. Porsche's sales and cash reserves were fast falling toward zero after more than a decade of price escalation from an ever-stronger German mark, plus waning interest in cars that seemed to change too little for too long.

Survival demanded new models that cut costs through greater component sharing, which is why the 989 was intended to parent a new-generation Porsche 911. But Porsche concluded that another high-priced low-volume car wasn't the answer. What it really needed was a low-cost sports car that could sell profitably and in far greater numbers than the 911.

No one understood this better than Wendelin Wiedeking, who took over as Porsche chairman and CEO in late 1992. Though a materials engineer by training and experience, Wiedeking knew his way around factories and balance sheets.

As he told Georg Kacher for the August 1993 issue of Britain's CAR magazine: "We must cultivate the 911 because it is the backbone of our business. At the same time, we must develop an entry-level car priced below [$40,000]. This segment is six times bigger than the one the 911 competes in. As soon as the new baseline Porsche is in the showroom, I guarantee you that our production will double to over 30,000 vehicles a year."

His prediction proved conservative. Just four years after the Boxster's debut, Porsche volume had almost quadrupled to nearly 56,000 units.

Wiedeking took charge as work was starting on the Boxster, designated Type 986, and a related new 911, the eventual 996-series. Though he endorsed the heavy parts sharing involved, he knew Porsche could never build a $40,000 car. As AutoWeek later observed, "Porsche never suffered from a lack of great cars. It was the process of building those cars that nearly killed [them]."

Accordingly, Wiedeking called in a group of retired Toyota executives to teach Porsche about "lean" manufacturing, "constant improvement" and other strategies that had made Toyota a world automotive superpower. It was a brave act in a tradition-bound company ruled by proud engineers, but Wiedeking knew Porsche must modernize or else.

The Germans were shocked and humbled when the Japanese faulted most everything from initial planning to final assembly. When the dust settled, payroll was cut from nearly 9,000 to 6,800, parts inventory slashed by 82 percent, and the Zuffenhausen plant completely reorganized. Another outcome was Porsche's first tear-down shop, where competitive cars could be taken apart and analyzed.

Meantime, Wiedeking ordered "simultaneous engineering" for the Boxster and the 996. That meant designers, engineers, manufacturing experts, supplier representatives, and others working as a team on all aspects of the programs, not just their pieces of it. No more botched communications, no more blame games.

The Boxster was thus "the first Porsche developed with a priority on efficient assembly," as AutoWeek noted. "The car is full of pre-assembled modules including the front and rear suspensions, [where many] components are the same, front and rear, reducing tooling and production costs." And because of its do-or-die importance, the Boxster came together in record time for Porsche, moving from drawing board to assembly line in three-and-a-half years, versus the usual seven or more. As they say, having a gun to your head tends to improve one's concentration.

In a late-1996 assessment for AutoWeek, efficiency guru James P. Womack, author of The Machine That Changed the World, termed the Boxster a "bet-the-company miracle car. Porsche wouldn't be around if they hadn't stared into the abyss and then eaten a lot of crow...They've [got it] in the range where core buyers can afford it. To make any money on the car, the old Porsche would have had to sell it for $80,000."

Base prices for 1997 were half that. This, after all, was a new Porsche from a "New Porsche." Things were looking up.

Porsche Cayenne History

Article courtesy of How Stuff Works. Please click here for the original.

The Porsche Cayenne propelled Porsche into a most unlikely market category for an esteemed sports-car manufacturer: the sport utility vehicle. Check out the article linked below to find out why some auto enthusiasts were outraged about the move, and what Porsche has done to prove them wrong.

Porsche argued that in the garage of the majority of its owners, parked next to the Porsche 911 or Porsche Boxster, was a luxury SUV. It may as well be a Porsche SUV, the automaker reasoned. Besides, an entry into the relatively stable and highly profitable SUV market would enable Porsche to weather the ups and downs of sports car demand. That in turn would permit Porsche to keep producing the very sports cars that earned it that esteem in the first place.