We’re in the early stages of an exciting project we’re calling “2-Together & 3-Across Recipes”. Rather than telling you to order a bunch of narrow car seats from Amazon and try a dozen out, only to return them in a fit of rage after spending days in your driveway installing and uninstalling car seats with nothing seeming to work for 3-across in your car… we’ve decided to do the leg work for you. Even if you only have one kid, this project can help you choose seats and cars which might fit your growing family’s needs in the future. 

We’re taking late model vehicles (minivans, SUVs, sedans, and wagons) and spending many hours in the back seat trying out several dozen different car seats to give you specific “recipes” for 3-across in these vehicles. We’ll tell you which seats fit where – and even whether you should install with seat belt or lower anchors.

This is a 100% independent project (like everything else that we do). The vehicle and car seat manufacturers have no influence on the vehicles or car seats that we choose, nor have they paid us in any way for the time or effort spent in this 3-across project. We receive the vehicles (for a few days at a time… sadly not to keep) and the car seats (to keep – as we’ll use them in the future for other projects, and when we’re done with them donate to families who can’t afford a seat or to instructors to use for teaching) free from the manufacturers – but all of the vehicles and car seats are received because we have asked for them – not because a manufacturer asks us to highlight their vehicle or car seat.