Pushchairs for small cars?????

[manuka1]

Hi pushchair people,

First time I've posted, so Hi!

I've just reached 20 weeks and have now started looking for a pushchair for my baby due in May. I really like the Uppababy Vista which I've heard (and read on here!) lots of good things about.

The thing is, right now I don't have a car, but plan to buy one. Now, I don't know if this is the right way to be looking at things, but I'm trying to work out what is the minium size car I can buy and still get the Vista in the boot!

Has anyone got any experience of quite small cars (Corsa, Clio etc) with a Vista (or something like a Vista size-wise)? Or has anyone got a Vista and would like to tell me what they drive (or the tpes of car I should look at as a minium)!?

Thanks for any advice! Although I have an Uppababy stockist nearby (with a car showroom next door lol!) I thought it might be a little cheeky to ask to borrow both pushchair and a few cars to try out before I commit!

I have a corsa. I can fit quinny speedi or zapp in the boot. (first is a squeeze.). perhaps get a test drive of the one you want and try it out (or could a friend loan a boot/measure folded pushchair?)

Being honest, the Vista isn't a small fold. If you go onto the green reviews and information tab here then this is the Vista folded in my Megane CC The picture is at the bottom. My boot is pretty large and it fills it. Admittedly the seat is still on, but even so, the Vista chassis is one of the tallest I have tried this year. I am sure the shop would let you take the Vista if you left a credit card? You could always phone them up and ask. Equally although it sounds daft, making a piece of card to the similar 2D size could be useful.

Is there a particular reason you think the vista is the right one? Because there are other decent pushchairs which will fold small, especially if you're able to wait until the new ones come out next year. I'm thinking easy walker June or baby jogger versa?

And are you thinking you may have another dc while you still have this car, and if so would you want a single-double convertible pushchair?

Also is there a reason that you want a very small car?

My mum has a Peugeot 207 which is sort of somehwere between a small car and a family car. It has a bit of a strange shape boot which made it a bit difficult getting a double to fit but there's loads of room for a single. That might be worth considering.

Hi, thanks for your responses!

Twinkle - your photo was very useful, thanks for that link.

Saoirse - the vista was jsut the favourite from reviews and viewing in the shops local to us. My husband was even impressed with it! We had a look at a lot of others but none of the others seemed to tick all of the boxes. Only reason for wanting a smallish car is that we already have one car, which my husband uses during the week, so was looking at something that wouldn't cost too much to run. And I can't switch cars with my husband, he needs to take a lot of stuff to work every day so needs a larger car. Will look at the Peugeot 207, and maybe some other slightly larger cars, focus etc.

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated! x

Quincy is good.

Bugger predictive text, Quinny with one n.

Quinny's look great fold wise, but the only thing that puts me off Quinny's is the non-existent basket. I'm going to need reasonable basket space. I needed it with my first and having the extra stuff of 2 children plus any shopping etc, I don't think I'll get on too well with a Quinny.

I hate all things Quinny Buzz! The Vista s supposed to be very good. Someone's fitted one in a Focus I believe. I bet it'll fit in most cars.

The mothercare spin is a bit smaller than the vista folded, but it can fit in the boot of an older style Ford Ka. It's about 10cm shorter than the vista I think, but a KAs boot isn't very wide, so it should fit in most mid sized cars. I'm not sure it would fit in a Clio though, I don't think they're much bigger than a KA. Maybe a punto, or possibly a peugot 207/207?

Oop, I meant 206 or 207.

I didn't think of that, I had a punto and the boot was surprisingly big. There aren't loads of seemingly useless bits of plastic and bits sticking out into the boot so it's quite spacious. I had a buzz in that car but I would have to take the wheels off or leave the parcel shelf off, but then the Buzz is horrible very wide!

Puntos are good all-rounders I reckon, cheap to run, I rarely had problems with mine despite it being 10 years old when I sold it.

I loved our punto and only sold it when we went from 2 to 3 kids - we fitted phil and ted, maclaren, bugaboo, and all sorts in it, the only thing we couldn't fit was mountain buggy urban double (but phil and ted side by side classic twin fitted fine). What about Micralite superlite? Can fit tons on them and in basket, have carrycot for new bubs and reclines more for the awkward in between stage?

Thanks everyone for all of your advice! Sounds like I may need to consider something a little bigger, maybe I could do that. I think I'll go on a car browse this weekend and maybe see if I can swing by the pushchair shop if I take anything for a test drive! xx