Using the Graco SlimFit3 LX in the center seating position should allow you to fold the driver side section of the rear seat or allow an adult or almost any other car seat to fit on the driver side.
The difficulty will be the loss of space on the passenger side that may only leave enough room for another very narrow adjacent car seat or a pre-teen or slender teen in that seat. Anything other than the narrowest boosters like the BubbleBum shown below or a travel vest may not leave enough room to buckle on the passenger side.
For more information on using car seats in the , and RAV4, please see our reviews that focus on kids, car seats and safety:. The generation Toyota Rav4 began an unfortunate step backwards in car seat compatibility in this generation, due to the ridiculously overlapping seat belts in the back seat.
The generation of the Toyota Rav4 is inches long and 71 inches wide, which gives you slightly less room for 2 across than in the current generation. If you find my information on best practices in car and car seat safety helpful, you can buy my books here or do your shopping through this Amazon link. Canadians can shop here for Canadian purchases.
Have a question or want to discuss best practices? Send me an email at carcrashdetective [at] gmail [dot] com. Clek Oobr x3. You don't have to be one of them. The RAV4 was redesigned for … and it was not a good redesign. There is NO way to safely fit 3-across in this vehicle if there are 2, or more, children in car seats or boosters.
The center head restraint must be moved up when someone is sitting there — in order to provide whiplash protection. The Rav4's new chiselled features make it look rugged and give it that capable off-road appearance. I tested the GX Hybrid model and also had a drive of the Edge top spec model too. The top spec model only comes with a petrol engine whereas the other models are available as a hybrid.
The interior of the new Rav4 is a little more modern, with a slightly larger media screen, digital aircon display and cordless phone charging well. Gone is the previous model Rav4's cup holder complete with handle space for your mug! It's replaced by two more conventional shaped ones. The Rav4 has kept its shelf in the dash on the passenger side, which is perfect for collecting toddlers' trinkets or anything passed forward from the back while you drive along!
Storage throughout the Rav4 was minimal but functional, with small door bins in the front and back that will hold a large refillable water bottle. Interior space is good in the new RAV4.
In the back, there are two sets of ISOFix points and three top tether anchorages. Good news: I could fit three child seats in the rear seats. It was a bit tight but I could fit either three forward-facing child seats or two forward-facing and one rear-facing.
I found the rear quite spacious when I was installing the three child seats and the legroom inside was good enough for a cm driver in front of a rear-facing child seat. The boot is a good size in here too and Toyota has done away with its previous awful roller blind, which is good to see!
I could get fourteen shopping bags in the boot from empty, which is one less than the previous model RAV4, one less than the Subaru Forester and two more than the Kia Sportage. All sizes of strollers fitted in the boot with good amounts of shopping bags around them too. The boot floor of the new Rav4 has a removable panel that can be dropped down a couple of inches, which I found useful for the tandem stroller because the extra depth meant I could fit all the components into the boot all on top of each other and still be able to pull the roller blind across.
It's rare for a boot to be deep enough for this task, so well done Toyota! You can also turn the boot floor panel over to reveal a plastic-coated side, which is perfect for when your stroller wheels are dirty or you are coming back from a muddy walk or the beach.
It's as simple as flipping the floor over and then washing it off when you get home! The media system in the Rav4 lets it down for me. This is an all-new car with the same old-fashioned media system as before. I m told that later this year the new Rav4 will be the first Toyota to have these systems available, and like Mazda will make them available as a retrofit upgrade.
The reversing camera fills the whole screen so is slightly bigger and not a bad quality image, but I was expecting better. The parking sensor sound can be turned on and off easily by pressing the OK button on the steering wheel and this shows up in the display in front of the steering wheel too. I found the transition to petrol engine a bit revvy, especially when going up hills. From empty, I could fit 14 shopping bags in the boot, which is one less than the previous model Rav4 and new Subaru Forester but two more than the Kia Sportage that held twelve.
The boot has definitely been made deeper in the new Rav4 and you can flip the boot floor over for a choice between easy-clean plastic or traditional carpet. This means you can use the plastic side when carrying wet or muddy things, plants, muddy dogs or strollers! It's a genius solution! The Britax Flexx tandem stroller fits with six shopping bags underneath the retractable roller blind height. The boot space and its functionality are really important.
I like to have a big boot space and little side wells or areas I can divide things into. I measure the boot space in freezer shopping bags, prams and dogs. Although it can feel like it sometimes!!
But because these are visually mesurable items we can all associate with. For me, the car company boot measurement of litres is not an amount I can easily visualise and L in one car may differ in usability to that in another due to the configuration or shape of the space. The boot floor is flat so it's good for an emergency nappy change.
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