I never had a junior seat like this when I was young. Come to think of it, I didn’t have any sort of safety seat, at all… Nevertheless, times change and dad even wears a seatbelt nowadays –seriously, I’m not joking! Even if you’re not into bimmers, you have to acknowledge that the BMW Sauber F1 Junior Seat really looks the part (Honda fans should take a look here). According to the German carmaker, the new child seat is homologated for weight classes II and III, which means children weighing between 15 and 36 kg or 33 and 79 lb (approx 3.5 - 12 years of age). -Continued after the jump

Good looks apart, BMW's child seat comes with a height-adjustable backrest including a belt carrier and side support as well as a headrest for extra safety. What’s cool though is the fact that the backrest and side support interact with one another, automatically adjusting the seat width as a function of seat height. As a result, the seat literally "grows" with the child sitting in the seat, the correct position being shown by a centimeter scale on the backrest indicating the body height currently set on the seat. And I though it was just a plain, simple child seat. Silly me…