How Do Car Seats Fit in a 2025 Ford Bronco Sport?
What Car Shoppers Need to Know
- The 2025 Ford Bronco Sport performed fairly well in our Car Seat Check, earning two A grades.
- This compact SUV seats five; we tested a Big Bend 4×4 trim.
- The Bronco Sport easily fits two car seats in the backseat, but this compact SUV is too small to fit three car seats across the second row.
Take a look at how the Latch system and each car seat scored below in our Car Seat Check of the 2025 Ford Bronco Sport.
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Latch: Grade A
Two sets of lower Latch anchors sit just in the seat bight, where the back and bottom seat cushions meet. Three tether anchors are found midway down the rear seatbacks; they’re easy to find and clearly marked for easy connection.
Infant Seat: Grade B
Connecting to the lower Latch anchors was easy with this seat. To fit the rear-facing infant seat, however, our tester moved the front passenger seat forward about an inch. The Bronco Sport has a vertical dashboard and glove box, so our 5-foot-7 tester’s knee room wasn’t impacted, but her legs felt a little cramped.
Rear-Facing Convertible: Grade B
Our tester also had to move the front passenger seat forward about an inch to fit the rear convertible and experienced the same issues with knee- and legroom as she did with the infant seat.
Forward-Facing Convertible: Grade A
Our tester installed the forward convertible with the Bronco Sport’s seat belt. The car seat fit well in the rear seat. Connecting the convertible seat’s tether strap to the car’s tether anchor was easy.
Booster Seat: Grade B
Our high-back booster seat fit well on the Bronco Sport’s flat rear seat, but the seat belt buckle sits low in the seat cushion, making it difficult for younger children to grasp and use independently.
Grading Scale
A: Plenty of room for the car seat and the child; doesn’t impact driver or front-passenger legroom. Easy to find and connect to Latch and tether anchors. No fit issues involving head restraint or seat contouring. Easy access to the third row.
B: One room, fit or connection issue. Some problems accessing the third row when available.
C: Marginal room plus one fit or connection issue. Difficult to access the third row when available.
D: Insufficient room, plus multiple fit or connection issues.
F: Does not fit or is unsafe.
About Cars.com’s Car Seat Checks
Editors Jennifer Geiger and Jennifer Newman are certified child safety seat installation technicians.
For the Car Seat Check, we use a Chicco KeyFit 30 infant-safety seat, a Graco Extend2Fit 3-in-1 convertible seat and Graco TurboBooster seat. The front seats are adjusted for a 6-foot driver and a shorter passenger. The three child seats are installed in the second row. The booster seat sits behind the driver’s seat, and the infant and convertible seats are installed behind the front passenger seat.
We also install the forward-facing convertible in the second row’s middle seat with the booster and infant seat in the outboard seats to see if three car seats will fit; a child sitting in the booster seat must be able to reach the seat belt buckle. If there’s a third row, we install the booster seat and a forward-facing convertible. Learn more about how we conduct our Car Seat Checks.
Parents should also remember that they can use the Latch system or a seat belt to install a car seat, and that Latch anchors have a weight limit of 65 pounds, including the weight of the child and the weight of the seat itself.
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