New wagons from Volvo and Jaguar offer agile alternatives to the lumbering SUV
by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times
Jun 01, 2018
4 minutes
The station wagon is back!
Supposedly.
A rolling symbol of family mobility in the baby boom years, when Interstate highways and suburban sprawl grew hand in hand, the station wagon has long since faded to irrelevance. Of the 17 million motor vehicles sold in the U.S. each year, wagons account for barely more than 1 percent. Most are Subaru Outbacks.
The first blow to station wagon sales was the capacious minivan in the early 1980s. As unattractive as it was practical, the minivan provided room aplenty for broods of noisy children, with ample storage space for ice chests, soccer balls and baseball bats.
Then came the
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