Our group test winner, the Maxi-Cosi Noa will be released in mid-August, so we thought we better put it under the Pushchair Expert spotlight to examine every nut and bolt in better detail.
When we previewed the Maxi-Cosi Noa, back in March, it became our most shared article we have ever posted receiving 235 Facebook shares! It is due to be released in mid August fuelling the anticipation of keen parents, dying to get their hands on this pushchair prodigy.
The Maxi-Cosi Noa, the ideal holiday pushchair, may have missed the majority of the season this year but is set to become a stroller template to which others will conform. The Noa won our stroller group test earlier this year, when compared alongside conventional, umbrella fold buggies. As you are about to learn, the Noa has torn up the rulebook when it comes to strollers and started back at square one.
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Travelling with children is only getting easier and easier with buggies getting lighter and more transportable. The Maxi-Cosi Noa is the embodiment of evolution in this field, just when you thought strollers could not get more portable, the Noa storms in to start the party going again.
Break the tension in the frame by releasing the hinged strut that spans the width in-between the handles. Then press the button on the right of the punch grip handles and fold forwards, aiding its collapse by gently squeezing the handles together at the same time...sooo easy, sooo uncomplicated.
The fabric that makes up the seat is suspended between the width of the handles, all the way down to the footrest. If you can imagine the hands of a clock, the frame, from the side, makes up the shape of ‘five-to-nine', with no other struts or supports getting in the way. This design gives the passenger lots of natural suspension. Some of the mums in our stroller test expressed scepticism over how comfortable the seat may be, however they were silenced when their children fell asleep almost instantaneously!
Without dwelling on the obvious brilliance of the fold, the day-to-day use of the Noa stroller is poetry. Despite its small 12cm wheels, it has nippy manoeuvrability .
The swivel front wheels can be locked off to stop them rotating which aids manouevrability on rougher terrain.
Conclusion
If I was really trying to find a negative point about the Noa, for me, it would be the zip recline but even they work well and are not stiff in their operation.
It's not surprising that the Maxi-Cosi Noa won our stroller group test 2011 and fully deserves to be our very first 5 star pushchair. In it's class, and for the price, it's the best you can buy. Try it – you won't be disappointed.
We give the Maxi-Cosi Noa
5 out of 5 stars
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