Fancy that. The wagon momentum slowed slightly last year as the newness wore off of some machines. Starting this year, BMW will no longer offer a wagon version of its 3-series sedan in the U. That will be welcome news to Porsche, Volvo and Jaguar, which just started its Sportbrake experiment. Half of the people buying the Regal are opting for the version with the big, boxy back-end. The TourX was also a marketing exercise, a way to fight its stigma as a company that only makes long, soft sedans for seniors.
It also was a tidy way to give Buick a boost in New England and the Pacific Northwest, two wealthy markets where it has historically underperformed. Show caption. Audi does a great job with the A4 and A6 not to include the S and RS and even the Allroad models as well, BMW does a spectacular job with the 3 and 5 series touring now go one and make an M version.
You know you want to and even Ford does a good job with the Focus and Mondeo Fusion in the states estates. I think they just need to get their styling department back in order. Next is performance compared with their sedan counterpart. I mean, the picture above has a combined output of horsepower and enough torque to rip the space time continuum in half.
Then you have that E61 M5 with its outrageous V The sedan Audi S6 does in 3. The Audi S6 Avant does in 4. That is absurd seeing as the latter weighs about pounds more. The main point of a wagon is cargo space. Lots and lots of cargo space. In fact, the V90 you see above has 20 cu.
That shoots to almost 70 with the seats down. By comparison, the S90 has The mass-market guys have bailed. Simple: wagons don't serve their primary market any longer.
That market is families. The decision used to be fundamental. You had some kids, you got a wagon, particularly if you wanted to buck the SUV trend. I did this, in the mids, with a Volvo V It was a nifty car, a peppy ride as many Euro-ish wagons are thanks to its turbocharged engined and sharp handling, and a reasonable family hauler. The thing about kids is that they get bigger. And they have more stuff. And they make friends. Sometimes you have more than two. A wagon can't handle any of this.
The Volvo V60 Polestar we tested recently was a dandy set of wheels, but putting my , , and 6-year-old in there, plus my wife, plus me, wasn't going to happen.
A friend if the family? I don't think they make a roof rack for that. A pet? Not unless he wanted to end up like Dinky, tied to the bumper of the Griswolds' Family Truckster. I owned an Odyssey for about four years, and it was basically ideal. But it was also a minivan. We loved it.
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