If this was a real car your mates would be sucking their bottom lip trying hard not to say "eeehh mucker, you've been sold a lemon our kid".
Downsides
*Hose on ladder comes off easily and should be removed, lost within a day.
*Side hose that unwinds isn't long enough for firemen to hold and is too hard to be wound back in by a child.
*Doors sag and need lifting up to close them properly.
*Passenger compartment is too short for the figures legs so you cant actually sit them in place, waste of a fiver for the extra figures.
*Side door comes off, lost on day 2.
*Made of cheap shoddy plastic.
Upsides.
*Sings the fireman Sam tune and has you saying "JUPITER TO BASE" a lot like it was some old acid house song.
*My kid adores it, thus making all the bad points null and void.
If cheaply made toys and the BBC CGI'ing childhood classics make you angry nowadays, welcome to parenthood.