It helps if you get the "Infant Only" rear-facing car seat (up to 20 lbs or one year) as opposed to the Convertible car seats where it goes from 5 to 20lbs rear-facing/21 to 40 lbs forward-facing. The Convertible ones are much longer and higher.
"Always do the cheap and easy ones first."
1996 V6 ATX 96K miles