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MINXD · Jan 2nd, 2002, 06:49 AM

We've got a sprog (2.5) and she goes to nursery every weekday in MINXD.

The child-seat is a Britax jobby and sits reasonably well in the N/S/R passenger seat. Getting her in and out is a bit of an art form but goes something like this.

Open door, push front seat all the way forward, place sprog standing in the footwell, facing forward. Kneal left knee in foot well and lift sprog backwards into seat etc etc...

Not the easiest, but much better than the G60 Corrado we used to have. In the G60, the seat *had* to go in the front as the buckets were too low/tight. Still miss that car, but we traded cars soon after sprog was born for a "familly" car - Impreza Turbo Wagon

Needless to say, no side airbags for us in MINXD & we find that we need to keep the front passenger seat quite well forward, to avoid trapping sprog's legs

For her part, sprog loves her "mimi"

Buggys are a pain in the proverbial with MINXD

We have a McClaren foldable jobby, but its either jammed in behind the driver's seat facing backwards, or its split fold the other passenger seat

In this respect, the mini is not a good car

Result is that if we're going somewhere as a familly & know we'll need the buggy, then we generally take either the scoob or my Vectra

However, manage to not take the buggy most of the time

TLC is a no brainer - just get it.

Jan 2nd, 2002, 06:49 AM	#6
MINXD AKA Puff The Magic Wagon! Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Suffolk Local Time: 02:05 PM Posts: 49 Offline	We've got a sprog (2.5) and she goes to nursery every weekday in MINXD. The child-seat is a Britax jobby and sits reasonably well in the N/S/R passenger seat. Getting her in and out is a bit of an art form but goes something like this. Open door, push front seat all the way forward, place sprog standing in the footwell, facing forward. Kneal left knee in foot well and lift sprog backwards into seat etc etc... Not the easiest, but much better than the G60 Corrado we used to have. In the G60, the seat had to go in the front as the buckets were too low/tight. Still miss that car, but we traded cars soon after sprog was born for a "familly" car - Impreza Turbo Wagon Needless to say, no side airbags for us in MINXD & we find that we need to keep the front passenger seat quite well forward, to avoid trapping sprog's legs For her part, sprog loves her "mimi" Buggys are a pain in the proverbial with MINXD We have a McClaren foldable jobby, but its either jammed in behind the driver's seat facing backwards, or its split fold the other passenger seat In this respect, the mini is not a good car Result is that if we're going somewhere as a familly & know we'll need the buggy, then we generally take either the scoob or my Vectra However, manage to not take the buggy most of the time TLC is a no brainer - just get it.