The toy vehicle with a chassis, on which a vertical shaft with a seat is rotatably arranged, wherein the shaft is rigidly connected to a cantilever arm, pivotally connected to which is an end section of a digger arm, which is provided with a handle and whose other end section is connected to a pivotable bucket arm, which carries a pivotable bucket, is characterised in that tensioned between the cantilever arm and the digger arm there is a spring device, which biases the digger arm into a raised position and is increasingly tensioned when the digger arm is lowered.