I recently purchased a Recaro Profi Plus car seat for our future daughter. The reason for this choice is that it marries up with the Maclaren Techno XLR which, after lengthy research will be our buggy of choice.
I contacted Maclaren to purchase the relevant clips required to marry the two together and was shocked by their reply. They said that they no longer mate baby seats to their systems and have discontinued their travel system (XLR with Recaro seat).
They are seemingly concerned with the health of the baby, saying that travel systems that utilise the car baby seat, only encourage exceeding the recommended time spent in a car seat position.
On average a car journey lasts 1 hour, a shopping trip 3 hours and then return 1 hour this is a total of 4 hours which is twice the recommended time.
At first I thought, OK I will buy a different stroller that meets my demands but then had second thoughts, Maclaren is a business and would not take a decision like this lightly there must be more to this than meets the eye. I do commend them for this stance and just for that, will still buy their stroller.
I'm interested to hear anyone's thoughts on this, and don't you think it is worrying when a manufacturer excludes themselves from a huge market share of the travel system.
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siamese · 07/10/2013 13:50
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