A few years ago my brother found a plastic F1-style pedal car, old, broken and abandoned in the street. We repaired the steering and took it to Stave Hill with his children and had a great time zooming and skidding down the slope, its hard plastic wheels were great for skidding and 4 wheel drifts. Later some kids turned up with a very flash all-metal pedal Go-Kart, rack and pinion steering, suspension, fat knobbly tyres, roll-over bar...the works. They immediately joked about our rubbish thing, and how much better theirs was, and they started taking turns down the hill. It was immediately obvious that their cart was far too heavy, stable and grippy to be any fun at all. After about 10 minutes they became very friendly and started asking for goes on our cheap but great fun plastic tea tray on wheels. The parents who bought that Go-Kart must have spent a fair whack, but it was all pose and little fun.