In a world of increasingly priced rear facing only car seats, we’re pretty excited to see a small trend back towards more budget-friendly seats. The Joie Rue joins that illustrious and growing group. The first Joie seat we spent any real time with is the mint latch baseless carrier. We liked that seat quite a
There’s a small trend towards rear facing only car seats that don’t include the base. The families who use them seem to enjoy the convenience of not having a base. We do want to remind everyone that most rear facing only car seats can already be used without the base (see the “Installation: Without the
Diono is a name most of us know by now, it’s been around for quite some time. Both my college student and my high schooler rode in Diono’s Radian multimode car seat when they were young — we even traveled with our Radians! I know it seems a little unusual to start a review by
Rotating convertible and multimode car seats are taking up an increasing percentage of store shelves. Families seem to like the convenience of loading their child as the child faces them, then rotating the seat into the proper direction. The Maxi-Cosi Peri 180 joins a very small number of rear facing only car seats that also
UPPAbaby’s Mesa rear facing only car seat is a mainstay in our world — in real life, I see so many of these seats during car seat checks. Since the Mesa was introduced, UPPAbaby has gone on to add the Mesa Max and the Mesa V2 to the lineup (I see a lot of those,
Britax first introduced ClickTight technology in 2013 (the same year this website was born!), they added this easy-to-use installation system to convertible car seats fairly soon after the Frontier was launched but didn’t add a rear facing only option to the product line — until now! We do find the non-ClickTight rear facing only Britax
The Cybex family of rear facing only car seats are known for being quite plush, fairly easy to install and use, and fit most babies well, though they do tend to be a bit heavy and not particularly compact. That family of seats has expanded to include the Cloud G LUX, which brings everything we
Orbit Baby is a name that’s been around for some time — when my now-driving teenager was a baby, we strongly considered getting the rotating Orbit G series rear facing only car seat for her (we went with a Graco instead, they’re still around today, too!). Orbit took a break from the market for a
When our friends at Evenflo let us know that there was a new rear facing only car seat on the way, I was definitely ready to take on the challenge of reviewing it. I didn’t know much about what was headed my way, but imagine my great surprise when a car seat that’s also a
Recall Notice Within days of us publishing this review, a recall was issued for this seat’s base. The temporary solution is to use the seat without the base, however, we had a lot of trouble determining where the recline angle indicator is on the carrier portion of this particular car seat. The baseless recline angle
