One example is the Ford Freestyle, a cross between a station wagon and an SUV.
Think about it: This is a station wagon that can best many sports cars.
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They own two cars: a station wagon and a compact Ford Focus.
No one needs a station wagon that goes 186 miles per hour.
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If we were spending our own money, we might reasonably ask why a station wagon needs to be faster than a mid-1990s Lamborghini.
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When she was able to be moved, their son from El Paso and his wife drove up in a station wagon and took them back down there with them.
These days, you can buy a family sedan, a station wagon or even an SUV that would blow the doors off a sports car made only a few years ago.
Ivan Drury, a senior analyst at Edmunds, points out the arrival of the four-door Mini Countryman kind of a station wagon, but one with a lot of prestige.
Toyota is making bold moves in this direction by rolling out new hybrid models under its Prius brand: a station wagon called the Prius C and a tiny, ultra high-mileage Prius V, joining the original four-door hatchback later this year.
At last month's auto show in Detroit, Mercedes-Benz showed a vehicle called "Vision-B, " a small but tall five-door cross between a small station wagon, a small minivan and a small SUV.
To researchers, the pursuit of happiness--the decision to buy a Jeep Cherokee over a Chevy station wagon, a Cape Cod house versus a ranch, to chain ourselves to our desks and grind ourselves into wafers--emanates from the most important question human beings can ask themselves: What really makes us happy?
And I was in a 1970s station wagon, orange and white checkered taxi, and I come in from Amman, Jordan, it's about 14 hours.
Unlike the U.S. Accord, which is also offered as a bloated and oddly shaped Crosstour crossover SUV, the TSX takes a straightforward station wagon approach.
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Ms. Cabot, who launched Dansko in 1990 by selling shoes from the back of a Volvo station wagon, says the tax benefits associated with employee stock ownership enabled the S corporation to manage the long-term debt of buying out the couple's ownership stake.
But the big gainers, of course, are vehicles that look--and are--a combination of station wagon, minivan and SUV built on the underpinnings of passenger cars.
We doubt any celebrities ever owned a Chevrolet Celebrity station wagon.
Besides the usual hatchback, sedan and SUV, car shoppers today can consider yet-to-be-categorized cars such as the Mazda5, a micro-minivan, or Mercedes-Benz's R-Class, a maxi-station wagon.
At nine-fifty on a February night in 2001, a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot while driving his Ford Taurus station wagon through a neighborhood on the edge of the Rutgers University campus.
The same woman who at age 34 traded in her wood-paneled station wagon for a Z28 Camaro, with T-tops and four bucket seats despite having a family of five to drive around.
But European manufacturers never gave up on the station wagon, keeping a variant in their lineups throughout the years.
The original station wagons were literally that wagon bodies built on a Ford Model T chassis used to transport people and luggage from a train station.
Lo and behold, with the cyclical nature of popular taste, the station wagon seems to be making a comeback among luxury brands.
The first factory station wagon, according to Stationwagons.com, was a 1937 Ford Model A. Station wagons hit their peak in the 1960s, when it seem like every family had 2.2 children and a big wagon with a stretched wheelbase and hideous fake wood siding.
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