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America's Best Selling Car: The Cozy Coupe!
Chicago Tribune

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With all the bad news coming out of Detroit, perhaps we shouldn't have been so surprised to read that Little Tikes' Cozy Coupe is the best selling car in America. At a rate of one made a minute, almost half a million were sold in 2008 and ten million since the iconic little car was introduced in 1979. To honor this achievement, guess which museum is adding it to its collection?

 
 

Answer: the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

Do you own one of the ten million Cozy Coupes? If you're a fan, don't forget about our post on DIY Cozy Coupe makeovers from last year.

(Via The Chicago Tribune)

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OM! I had one as a kid!I loved it so much. It doesn't surprise that it is selling so much.

posted by zigzag on June 16th 2009 at 12:39pm
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oh my gosh, my boys got one to share for their birthday and they fight over it so much...i need to get two more, but then our yard will look like a parking lot for cozy coupes. :)

posted by pyjammy on June 16th 2009 at 12:49pm
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I had one and when our real car died, my dad bolted a real seat belt onto it because I never understood why, since it was a car afterall, it didn't have a seatbelt!

posted by Enamorada on June 16th 2009 at 3:14pm
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My daughter has a pre-owned one. She loves that thing.

posted by orngpikkle on June 16th 2009 at 4:59pm
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I got one at a thrift store a few years ago, it was beat up, but my boys loved it and my younger son uses it still.

I got married at the Crawford!

posted by donnafergie on June 16th 2009 at 6:39pm
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SOMEWHERE I saw this coupe "hacked" with black paint and some jazzy details and LOVED it!

posted by wendy sue on June 16th 2009 at 8:13pm
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I found one of these on the curb with the garbage a few years ago. Because my sister and I loved ours so much as kids, I snatched it up and am storing it until I have a kid of my own that can use it!

posted by HeatherAB on June 16th 2009 at 8:46pm
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I have also seen some ditched on the curb with the trash. I recently bought one. It was the hardest thing I have ever put together. I am usually excited about putting three D puzzles together also known as every toy ever bought. but this one needed some muscles to put together. I love the make overs for these cars btw.

posted by jackied302 on June 16th 2009 at 9:00pm
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I recently had to buy one off of Craigslist for my 14 month old son....he saw one at another kid's house and I literally had to pry his fingers off of the steering wheel!

posted by ophelia on June 16th 2009 at 9:49pm
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We got one for my daughter when she was 18 months old. She loved it, had trouble getting her to go to sleep the day we bought it, she ended up throwing herself out of her cot late in the evening because she wanted to play in it. She's nearly 6 and still plays with it. We even found some names plates that look like miniature car plates. I think we will keep it for a while. One of the best toys we have ever purchased.

posted by HereOrOverThere on June 17th 2009 at 1:45am
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