Child Seat/Carrier for Compact Car

Could you contact the dealer or the corporation? Maybe they would have a suggestion. Seems odd that a standard infant car seat wouldn't fit into the seat appropriately.

Try http://www.carseatdata.org/

They have a database of which carseats fit into which cars. Enter the make model and year of your car and they'll tell you which seats will fit.

Thanks, the website is awesome! Thanks so much... we're knew to this parenting thing!... Any other tips like that would be great. Is there anywhere else you can find safety ratings n-such?

We just recently bought a larger car seat for our 6 month old (the infant car seats are usually only rated for kids up to 22 pounds). My online research into different models seemed to indicate that all commercial car seats must meet the federal safety requirements, but apart from that there aren't any rating systems for individual models. A few websites state that the "safest" car seat is simply the one that fits your child best, but that's pretty much useless information since you need to have the car seat before you have the child.
You can at least see which car seats have been recalled on this website:

Child Seat Recalls

If, for example, you notice that a particular mfr has a very high proportion of safety recalls, you would of course be wise to avoid that mfr.

(Our infant car seat was a Graco Metrolite; the new one is a Cosco 3-in-1. We weren't dealing with much of a space restriction--we have a Subaru Forester)

We've narrowed our search down to three and Graco is one of them... so is a Britrax(sp?)... thanks!

Check out this forum: http://www.car-seat.org/ these people have all the answers on anything having to do with children & car safety