Car Seat Check
Certified child safety seat installation technicians conduct hands-on tests of a car’s Latch system and check the vehicle’s ability to accommodate different types of car seats.
Car Seat Check news
Which minivan, the Chrysler Pacifica or Honda Odyssey, fits car seats best?
Find out here.
By Jennifer Geiger
October 11, 2018
In our latest Car Seat Check head-to-head, we pit the Honda Odyssey
against the Toyota Sienna to see which comes out on top.
By Matt Schmitz
October 11, 2018
The 2017 Jeep Compass had a little trouble finding its way when it comes
to accommodating car seats. Little has changed for 2018.
By Jennifer Geiger
October 11, 2018
Chevrolet's largest SUV, the Suburban, has up to eight seats across three
rows and ample room for car seats. For this Car Seat Check, we tested a
2019 RST model with the Performance Package and seating for seven.
By Jennifer Geiger
October 5, 2018
By Jennifer Geiger
October 4, 2018
By Jennifer Newman
October 4, 2018
Stingy backseat legroom plagued the 2017 Mazda3's Car Seat Check. Little
has changed for the 2018 model year.
By Matt Schmitz
October 4, 2018
For 2018, Lexus added a third-row option to its popular RX 350. It makes
sense that adding more available seats would only widen its appeal with
families, right? Not so fast.
By Jennifer Geiger
October 3, 2018
Our annual Car Seat Check Honor Roll recognizes cars that earned all A's in
our child-safety-seat inspections published between September 2017 and
August 2018.
By Jennifer Newman
September 28, 2018
Jeep's 2017 Compass has no trouble slotting in between the Renegade and Cherokee, but we had some trouble when it came to car seats.
By Matt Schmitz
September 28, 2018