50 years of the Bobby-Car
50 years ago, the toy manufacturer "Big" presented the small car for the first time at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, which can be found in almost every household with children today. The "Big" plant in Burghaslach, which is located between Nuremberg and Würzburg on the A3, still produces 2000 of these little speedsters made of polyethylene granulate every day.
More than 20 million Bobby-Cars have now been sold worldwide. This puts it in the slipstream of the VW Beetle and Golf. The VW Group therefore also congratulated its "competitor" on Twitter. Volkswagen is celebrating "Big" as the first CO2-free vehicle producer in mobile history.
As is the case with car manufacturers, who today have an x-fold range of models, over the course of time "Big" has also developed a wide variety to choose from, from the Porsche in different colors to the ADAC emergency service or police car, everything is available in the product range.
At home, the children practise their powerslide on the so-called slide car and sometimes crash into the barrier, i.e. the freshly painted plaster wall, much to the delight of their parents and landlords. But this is the only way to grow the racing drivers of tomorrow.
I'm far too old to have ever tested one of these cars myself, but my children did countless laps of the living room, where there are still traces of the crashes that remind us of the search for the limit.
My daughter, born in 1999, emulated our mutual idol, Michael Schumacher, from an early age. Unfortunately, unlike Michael's son Mick, she never made it into F1. Well, the reasons were not just talent, but also financial, because a bobby car (approx. EUR 45) was just about affordable for the "average earner", which unfortunately can no longer be said of all the formula racing cars.
But at least she managed to get an autograph from the seven-time world champion at the young age of 2!
