Best Choice Products 12V Chevy Silverado review

Best Choice Products is the value brand in this category, and the Silverado is its strongest licensed product. The reason to pick it over a car at the same price is not the badge — it is the bed.

A child with a working truck bed loads it, drives somewhere, unloads it, and repeats. A child with a car drives in circles. The second one gets bored considerably faster, and that is the single biggest predictor of whether a ride-on is still in use in six months.

This one opens and holds actual toys, which is the distinction to check: some beds are molded shut and purely cosmetic. “Truck bed storage” in a listing means it opens; “truck styling” may not. See best ride-on trucks.

One caution: a load in the bed counts against the 66 lb weight limit. With a 50 lb child that leaves 16 lb, which is less sand than a four-year-old will want to carry.

2.5 mph, which is at walking pace — the right speed for a three-to-five-year-old, and slow enough that an adult can always reach the vehicle.

66 lb, stated plainly. With an average three-year-old at 31 lb that is about four years of use.

Up to one hour of run time, published — and here is the surprise. The genuine Fisher-Price Power Wheels vehicle in our registry does not publish a run time at all. On this specification the value brand is ahead of the premium one, which is worth knowing before you assume price tracks disclosure. See Power Wheels vs Best Choice Products.

No amp-hour figure is published, which means the one-hour claim cannot be cross-checked. A 12V 4.5Ah pack would manage roughly an hour under light use; a 7Ah pack would manage more. Without the number you are taking the claim on trust.

Nor is there an age range or a charge time. Five of nine specs published is a middling result — better than the Power Wheels and well behind the best generics, which manage eight. See run time and charging.

The remote has forward/reverse and left/right, which is full directional control rather than just a stop button. The listing does not state whether remote mode overrides the pedal, so test that in the driveway before trusting it — on weaker implementations a determined four-year-old can out-pedal your stop command. See how the parent remote works.

A three-to-five-year-old who likes trucks, on pavement or short grass, where the parents want a remote. At this price with a licensed body, a working bed, a published run time and a 66 lb limit, it is a sensible purchase.

Not the right buy for a six-year-old — 2.5 mph is too slow and 66 lb is close to the limit. For that, a 24V truck at 130 lb and 4.3 mph is the step up. See ride-on toys for 6-year-olds.