How Many Child Car Seats Fit in a Mitsubishi Outlander?
For parents and families with small children, how easy it is to install child car seats and booster seats becomes one of the most important considerations when you’re shopping for a new car. Because it’s one of very few small SUVs on the market with a third row of seats, the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander is a popular choice. How many kids can you really fit in it, though? How many child car seats fit in a Mitsubishi Outlander? Let’s find out.
Installing Child Car Seats in the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander
For the smallest babies and children, a rear-facing car seat is the safest option. For installing rear-facing child seats, the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander has two sets of lower Latch anchor systems, located in the second row of seating. There are three tether anchors at the top of the second row. So you should be able to fit two rear-facing child car seats of any kind comfortably in the second row. According to car seat checks conducted by cars.com, this should also leave you enough room for a booster seat in the third second row seat, in most cases, depending on how big the kid is.
The 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander does not have Latch and tether anchors in the third row, so you’ll only be able to use booster seats or forward-facing seats that attach using the seatbelt.
Read More: How safe is the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander?
But What if I’m Expecting Triplets?
Well, first of all, congratulations! First, the bad news: not every rear-facing car seat will fit three-across in the 2016 Mitsubishi Outlander. It’s still a small SUV, after all. Here’s the good news, though: lots of them will! The Car Crash Detective blog has a convenient list of the best, safest child seats that are guaranteed to fit 3-across in the Mitsubishi Outlander. Although these were tested in a 2015 model, the backseat width hasn’t significantly changed, so his recommendations should still apply:
Guaranteed 3 across installations:
Clek Fllo (x3).
Clek Foonf (x3).
Chicco KeyFIt 30 (x3).
Diono Radian RXT (x3).
Diono Radian R120 (x3).
Diono Radian R100 (x3).
Combi Coccoro (x3).
Clek Fllo, Diono Radian / RXT, Diono Radian / RXT.
If you already own car seats for all your kids, and you’re wondering whether they’ll all fit, we’d suggest test driving a new Mitsubishi Outlander so you can try out the fit for yourself.
