THIS week I discovered I have owned not one, but two of the world’s best-selling cars.

And while the motor industry the world over faces a drop in sales of nearly 40 per cent over the last year, this particular car is reporting record sales.

The Cozy Coupe sold more than 457,000 units last year (compared to America’s second bestselling car, the Ford F series pickup, which registered barely a third of that number with 143,717).

What’s more, the car is stunningly ugly and only comes in one colour: red with a yellow roof.

And its top speed is only as fast as your little legs can power you (unless you happen to push it down your steeply sloping driveway, as my girls did on many occasions).

My older two had something similar (see pic atttached) which used to spend far too much of the year getting in the way indoors, crashing up and down the hallway. I was glad when they grew too big and I could finally ditch it.

But because of my spectacularly bad family planning, I found myself buying another one 10 years later for my son. Maybe because he didn’t have a little sibling to push around, he never seemed to have quite so many near-fatal adventures (or as much fun) as his big sisters did.

Sales of the Cozy Coupe in the UK have been holding up as well as in the States, with some four million shifted off the shelves since it went into production 30 years ago.

“We’re delighted to be at the top of the UK car sales league table in our 30th anniversary year,” says Ron Brawer, managing director of MGA’s Little Tikes.

“Cozy Coupe delivers on design, fuel consumption, safety and fun.”

In common with today’s trends, the Cozy Coupe also comes ready-pimped in bright pink for Barbie lovers.