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8:41am on Monday, 17th August, 2026:
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We got this driving toy for our grandson to play with in the back of the car.

The layout is that of an automatic transmission vehicle in the pre-digital age, and it calls petrol "gas" so is from North America. If it were from the UK, it would have an ejector seat button and something for forward-pointing machine guns and rocket launchers.
My main complaint about it is that the steering wheel doesn't line up with the road. You turn the wheel and the road turns, but the starting position is to be turning left. This is not how it's supposed to be, according to the picture on the box. No matter how many times you rotate the wheel, it never lines up properly. I can't dismantle it to fix it, because it's a toy for younsgters and uses special screws that can't be unscrewed
None of this makes any difference to our grandson. It accomplishes it task of staving off in-car boredom for something like five or ten minutes, so we count its purchase as a success.
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