Pram experts, your opinions please. Something to keep in the car...

[ceolas]

I have a big Bebecar Stylo but need something smaller to keep in the car.

This is my 4th baby and I have a Vauxhall Zafira. Ideally it will fit in the boot (!) with all the seats up.

Maclaren Techno or M&P Pliko Pramette?

i'd go for the maclaren - folds up really small and can still get shopping in the boot!

I am having my 4th baby too, and have a zafira. I went for the m&p pliko p3 pramette

I tried the pramette in my boot today. It just fits with all the seats up.

It seems 'cosier' for a newborn though

chicco caddy

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I have to have the lasts seat down though, as DS has a wheelchair I hope it will fit in with the wheelchair

For my 4th I used an old style Silver Cross Wayfarer combo, and bought a Techno when he was about 4 months. I think the Pramette looks cosy and can face you, but ds3 was always perfectly cosy (and FLAT !) in the Techno. It's lighter than the Pramette and although I kept it for 2+ years it cleaned up well and I recently sold it on eBay to a very satisfied customer for around £100.

I can reccomend the M&P's prammete. I have one and i think they are brill!

It looked as though it would be a bit difficult to get much in the shopping basket of the pramette. Is it?

You can get a fair bit in the basket but you can hang loads on the handles! There isn't much out there with a large basket unless you go down the graco route

Ceolas have you not sorted this yet
Get a Techno. It only matters for 6mo anyway then you'll wish you'd got a Triumph.

(deep envy of the Stylo btw, veeery nice)

The maxi-cosi car seat/buggaboo wheels combo works really well.

?? trippleshot

it doesn't lie flat and she hasn't got a Bugaboo...

I know, Mrs B

I don't know if I can cope with lugging the Stylo in and out of the car for 6 months, otherwise I'd get a Triumph for sure.

get the techno or ryder and sell it after 6 months or swap for a triumph!

There's a lovely pramette on ebay ending tonight. Smoke/pet free home. Have checked this time!

Misdee, you're a bad influence on me

techno xt here (well, in car)

canm't be faulted

ps have had pramette and techno xt

mclaren folds much smaller

I've got a pramette and a techno XT. Both are excellent.
Pramette - only used mine for first 6 months, it's got a big basket, brilliant change from new born to toddler, looks really sleek (mine was a city scape), cup holder and the bar at the front swings open, so you don't have to lift the tot over all the time.
XT - use it daily, it's really narrow but roomy for tot, taller than average handles, extendable hood - which is brill for sun glare and a sleeping tot, shame the shopping basket is so tiny. Both are light and manoeverable. XT folds a bit smaller, but it's taller, so you have to be careful about it fitting in a small boot.

I have to say goodbye to the pramette though, as i need a double now. Ebay, here i come...

Well the pramette just fitted in terms of length.

From what I can see online Pramette is 103cm and Techno 110cm. It might not fit.

It would have to be a Quest or Triumph, but these aren't suitable from birth.