[2000Z-71]

Well I finally tried fitting the car seat in the Camaro, it only took me a month after our daughter was born to try it, it doesn't fit! In Arizona, kids have to be in a rearward facing car seat until they are past 1 year old. Does anybody know of a rearward facing child seat that will fit in the back seat of an f-body?

[sgarnett]

As you said, it's a temporary situation. Once you get to the one year mark there are options. I wouldn't (and didn't) trade my car in just to get through the first year. It helps that I already have a pickup, but it's a big gas guzzler and not my daily driver, so it didn't do much baby hauling.

Compared to what you are going to spend on trading for something you don't really want, it would be cheaper to just buy a used Asian 4-door beater. You could probably sell it at the end of the year for close to what you paid unless you buy from a dealer.

However, the Pontic Grand Prix might be worth a look. The supercharged GTP version is no slouch, and they can be set up to turn fairly well. There was a guy kicking ass with one in ESP a few years ago here. Of course, the techniques he learned on that barge didn't transfer well to the RX7 twin turbo he bought later. I haven't driven the latest GP body style, but the previous version had a bunch of room. It was just about the only contemporary car I've driven (along with the Camaro) that had enough shoulder room. There's a bunch of leg room in the front and enough in the back (which few other cars can claim). There's also a supercharged Buick Regal version of the same car that I actually prefer the looks of. It hasn't been tarted up as much.