Pram/Stroller for Smart ForTwo
The lady I bought the Smart car baby seat from texted me to say that she’d used an Inglesina Zippy travel system with her Smart ForTwo and that it fit perfectly in the Smart car’s little boot.
In a stroke of luck I found exactly such a buggy/carrycot for sale up in Rochdale which is only half an hour away. I was the only bidder so it only cost me £20. We collected it yesterday, and it came with full instructions and lots of extra accessories. We bought the matching car seat from her too for an extra £15. She promised me faithfully that it’s never been in any sort of accident - in fact she looked horrified that I’d asked the question and said ‘of course not, it would have gone straight in the bin!’.
When we got home the first thing I did was see if it fit in the boot of my Smart car. It’s perfect - it looks like it was made just for the job. Then I took it inside and had a play, putting it up and down, changing it from a buggy to a pram and wheeling it around the room. It’s brilliant, just as the YouTube review said it would be.
It’s really easy to drop down and you can do it one handed. It takes both hands to open it out but it manoeuvres like a dream and you can steer it one handed. You flip the little arm rests out, drop the back and pop the carry cot in to convert it to a pram, or you can pop the car seat in so you don’t have to wake your little one up if you want to wheel them about. And nearly all the fabric bits come off so you can wash them. We haven’t tried the car seat in Mark’s car yet, but it’s a backwards facing one that you secure with the seatbelt so it should fit OK.
All in all it’s got to be about the best £35 I’ve ever spent, and I can’t wait until we can take Pip out in it!