Patent ID: 7150671

Claim:
A toy vehicle comprising: a drive motor fitted with a drive shaft and a driven axle equipped with wheels; and a transmission unit between the drive shaft and the driven axle, the transmission unit including first and second gears of different transmission ratios, the first gear being associated with a first direction of rotation of the drive motor, and the second gear being associated with a second direction of rotation of the drive motor that is opposite the first direction of rotation, wherein the transmission unit comprises: a first pinion non-rotatably affixed to the drive shaft, and a cage rotatably coupled to the drive shaft, the cage keeping a second pinion engaged with the first pinion and jointly with the second pinion being pivotable about the shaft and forming a pivoting axis between two end positions, the first gear being non-rotatably joined to the driven axle, the first and second gears having different numbers of teeth and being configured so that in a first end position of the cage, the second pinion meshes with the first gear and, in a second end position of the cage, the second pinion meshes with the second gear.