Top 10 Pushchairs, Prams & Buggies

The fact that Uppababy is seriously giving Bugaboo a run for best luxury pushchair probably says it all. It gets rave reviews from all the experts that matter, and we have yet to hear a parent say a bad thing about it. The Uppababy Vista is a Which? Best Buy with overall score of 86%, while it has won the Practical Parenting & Pregnancy Gold Award for Best Pushchair £300, Mother and Baby Gold Award for Best Travel System, and is Pushchair Trader’s £400+ Product Winner. The Uppababy Vista is one of the few pushchairs that can be used in all environments – nimble and light around city centre stores and rugged enough for a walk in the countryside. Parents absolutely love the huge and easy to access storage basket, and the full list of key product features includes ventilated mattress and organic cotton / soy fibre mattress cover, ventilated carrycot base, ‘breezy’ carrycot hood, extended, ventilated SPF 50+ drop-down sunshade, removable and easy to wash fabrics, one button telescopic handle-height adjustment...

The Bugaboo Cameleon was the choice of Kate Middleton for Prince George, and if it’s good enough for the future king, it’s good enough for us!!! Bugaboo pushchairs first came to prominence in the UK when Gwyneth Paltrow chose a Bugaboo Frog for her first baby in 2004. The Dutch buggy brand’s bright, easy-to-swap fabrics and stylish design make them a popular choice among fashionable, active parents. The high price of Bugaboo pushchairs makes them an aspirational, luxury choice and they are still the choice of A-listers all over the globe including Elton John, Siena Miller, Victoria Beckham, Miranda Kerr, Orlando Bloom, Chris Hemsworth, Elsa Pataky, and more.

The Baby Jogger City Mini GT is the next generation of the amazing City Mini, with all-terrain capabilities and deluxe standard features in a chic compact package. The Baby Jogger pushchairs are an extremely popular choice among celebrities as well as real world parents – the Baby Jogger City Mini has repeatedly won awards for best lightweight buggy, best pushchair, best 3-wheel pushchair, and features among many top 10 baby product lists as well as design and innovation awards. According to Which? Consumer Ratings, “the Baby Jogger City Mini GT is one of the best pushchairs we’ve ever tested. It takes the elements that have made the City Mini such a popular pushchair – roomy seat, great manoeuvrability and a brilliantly easy and compact fold – and has added an adjustable handlebar, handbrake and air-tyres. These features create a superb ride and make it a Which? Best Buy.”

The UppaBaby Cruz received a Which? score of 89% – rated #1 Overall of all Prams and Pushchairs and given their Best Buy status. According to Which?, it is the best pushchair or travel system they’ve tested. “The smaller wheels make a difference to how it handles rough ground or grass, but our lab experts, who’ve had their hands on hundreds of pushchairs, swooned over how easy it is to use. All the parents who tried it wanted to take it home with them.” It also recently won the Practical Parenting & Pregnancy Magazine Silver Award “Best Pushchairs Over £300″ (2012/2013). The ideal combination of function and style, the Uppababy Cruz delivers a compact stroller solution without compromising on the features of a full-size stroller.

The Mountain Buggy Cosmopolitan is the latest new release from popular buggy brand Mountain Buggy. The seat is quite unique in that it can lie flat or be forward or rear facing without the addition of a carrycot. Delivering the world class engineering that Mountain Buggy is renowned for, this first urban 4 wheel drive buggy offers incredible round house suspension and optimised city performance with perfect weight distribution. Along with the sleek new profile of cosmopolitan™, a new fabric has been introduced. Denim has never looked and felt better, complemented with a soft, 200 denier cotton-like interior. This makes for a comfortable and luxurious ride for your baby, yet maintains the strength and durability that Mountain Buggy is renowned for. While it isn’t as suitable for serious runners or the outdoors as some of the other Mountain Buggy models, it is a seriously great combination of style and engineering that is proving a big hit in initial product reviews.

New to the UK, but super popular in the US, the BOB Revolution is designed for all of your adventures. Perfect for jogging or walking with its front swivel wheel, the all-terrain Revolution SE is the way for families to be active together, no matter where they end up.

Stokke is a Norwegian brand best known for its distinctive looking Stokke Xplory travel system, but they have recently come out with the a more traditional looking pushchair that retains a lot of what Stokke is famous for and provides great flexibility. For those not in the know, Stokke pushchairs are known for their unique chassis and great seat ergonomics which lift baby closer to you, allowing you to communicate and bond with baby more easily – this is something that developmental psychologists rave about. The Stokke Crusi offers safety, comfort and convenience in one durable convertible chassis which transforms into a wide range of options using interchangeable Stokke quality components. Add the carrycot for use from newborn stage, Xplory seat for use from about 4 months and easily add on a Sibling seat to convert into a duo pushchair. The puncture-safe wheels, roomy shopping basket and flat folding mechanism make it an even more road-worthy option.

The Baby Jogger City Versa combines the best features of the multi award winning Baby Jogger City Mini with those of the Baby Jogger City Select to create a truly versatile and compact pushchair. Baby Jogger is famous for their easy-to-use one-handed-fold – if you use a car or travel a lot, you will realise soon that this is a very important and game changing features. The Baby Jogger City Versa is suitable from birth with the addition of the carrycot, has a great canopy, adjustable footrest and handlebar, very large undercarriage basket, and four-wheel suspension. The seat can be either forward or rear facing, and amazingly, the Baby Jogger City Versa folds regardless of the direction the seat is facing. Perhaps most importantly, the Baby Jogger City Versa is affordably priced.

A top of the range travel system which unfolds with just one hand, is exceptionally compact, and has great futuristic looks – that’s what the new Rider from Jané has to offer! An ingenious and innovative patented folding system ensures that when the Rider folds, the unique retractable rear wheels reduces the folded size by an extra 30%. This makes the Rider the most compact of its kind on the market. This exciting new system guarantees maximum comfort for baby with its adjustable rear suspension with shock absorber which can be altered according to the child’s weight – harder or softer.

The Mamas and Papas Sola is an outstanding value pushchair, with a lie flat seat suitable from birth – it has many features that parents rank highly such as reversible seat, excellent handling on all terrains, and one hand seat manoeuvring. The Mamas and Papas Sola receives a Which? score of 84% – giving it the number 4 overall ranking in pushchairs and a Best Buy ranking. It receives 5/5 Stars from Net Mums and won the Practical Parenting and Pregnancy Gold Award for “Best Travel System under £500? in 2011/2012. The Mamas and Papas Sola was the third most popular pushchair on Which? in 2012 (while the Mamas and Papas brand was the most searched for), meaning that they are extremely popular with parents as well as the “experts”.