I have been holding on to review this seat but now that my little guy is 4 months old, I feel it's time to do this review.

Firstly, it's a great looking car seat and I get many compliments on it - women frequently ask me where I got it. It has a decent canopy on it for shade and it can be adjusted backwards to various positions, each side independently. On a recent trip I was able to max it out to full shade on the car window side and have it clicked back on the inner side so that baby's older siblings could see him and keep an eye on him. Out of the base, the gentle curve on the bottom can act as a rocker, if you wish. Out and about, I use this seat with Kolcraft's black Universal 2 Infant Car Seat Carrier and it makes a wonderful travel system and back saver.

The seat comes with various padded inserts for a newborn or preemie, they can be removed or kept in. A head support and bottom support - in all there are two or three adjustable/removable supports... Read more

Is this the safest infant seat on the market? Who knows, but it may well be. Perhaps the
"air-protect" is a gimmick, but it makes seems like a considerable advance in safety. Airbags in cars are particularly effective, and the use of passive airbags for head protection in a carseat sounds great to me.

What isn't a gimmick is that this car seat fits up to 35 lbs - which is more than any other infant seat. Plus, it isn't any heavier than a normal infant seat - the carrier weighs just 8 or 9 lbs.

The materials feel top notch, and look snazzy... Well, it looks about as cool as a carseat can look, which isn't saying much. The seat is very deep, which means true side-impact protection (airbags nonwithstanding) and more leg room for the little ones. The harness is very adjustable, and the single pull tensioner makes securing the child very easy. (The straps can be nice and loose to put the kid in, and with one tug on the tensioner, all the straps tighten... Read more

I bought this infant seat for my daughter. She is my 3rd child and I felt like I should buy her a new one and not use the one that my sons were in. Well, I am not all that impressed. The seat is able to hold a child as they grow larger (the reason they call it the 35...) so I was totally ok with it being heavier than my other seat that will only hold a child up to 22 pounds. What I am disappointed in #1) The sun shade it very small. If you look at the picture, you are seeing it fully extended. It covers no more and it cannot be removed from the back and pulled the other way. It has Velcro release but it just flops down and hangs in the babies face or on their legs with it not being attached.
#2) The car seat releases from behind the head but the latch is at the feet so you are really lifting straight up and it is hard to do. You have to be in the car and with your right hand reach around and pull the latch, at the same time you need to be lifting with your left hand at the feet,... Read more