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I love station wagons and you should too.

Station wagons. I love 'em. I bet a bunch of you right now are saying to yourselves "OH HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU MAN, STATION WAGONS ARE FOR OLD PEOPLE 'CAUSE THEY'RE SO SLOW AND UGLY AND OH SHIT I FORGOT MY LAUNDRY HOLD ON A MINUTE WHILE I PUT MY WHITES IN THE DRYER OKAY?" Well, I guess I can wait. In the meantime, I'll tell you why station wagons (aka. estate, aka. shooting brake) are awesome.

1) They're cars. I'll use a sweeping generalization here that is pretty much true across the board and flat out tell you that they're safer than any full-size SUV could ever be.

2) Again, cars. Agility is key. You'll be able to avoid accidents with their car-like handling, while ol' Cletus and the gang in their lifted Ford F350 will plow right into Ethel's 1993 Buick Century after she runs a stopsign because she forgot her medication. Old bitch shouldn't be driving anyway.

3) You can load them up with people. Many station wagons still today have "rumble seats," that being, in the "trunk" or "cargo area" or "place where you put your shit" in the car folds over into the floor to create another seat where 2 of your hellspawn (or friends, if they're small) can fit in there facing backward and make faces at disgruntled truck drivers on the 401 as you careen through traffic, undoubtedly drunk and/or high.

4) You don't have to look like a douchebag in the Ikea parking lot as you load a single side table into the back of your station wagon. Imagine if you had a Jeep Commander or Grand Cherokee and you're putting a 2x2 foot box into the cavernous gaping maw of that useless machine and you shut the gate which is akin to the bay doors of a nuclear missile silo somewhere in Utah, and you turn around and oh look there's a row of people with station wagons laughing at your wretched excess. Trail-rated 4x4? More like mall-parking-lot-rated.

5) They look awesome and many have monstrous power and are really quite fast. Examples:

'95-97 Volvo 850 T5-R Wagon. 240bhp out of a turbocharged inline-5 cylinder engine. Capable of 170mph, claimed Volvo back in the day. It seems to have the aerodynamic properties of your house, but hey, it's fast. The Swedish drug-runner car of choice.



Here is a BTCC (British Touring Car Championship) 850 T5-R waving at everybody. Say hi!




Here's the 850's younger, faster brother. The '02+ Volvo V70R. With 300hp, all wheel drive, and a smooth like buttah 6-spd manual gearbox, it's no slouch.






Up next is Audi's venerable RS4 Avant. 380hp, you say? 2.7L twin-turbo V6. Quattro all wheel drive. Fast. Awesome. Red. Different. Okay so not all of them are red.






This is the RS4 Avant's big brother, the new RS6 Avant. It churns out 480hp and also has Quattro all wheel drive. Slow station wagons, hah!






Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG Wagon. 476hp supercharged 5.5L V8.






BMW M5 Touring. HOT. Oh yes this is where it's at, folks. 507hp from a 5.0L V10 engine, 7-spd sequential gearbox, ohh excuse me I have to go and uhhhh umm



It's just so at home on the Nurburgring.




Oh yeah, this one. Ferrari 456GTA Estate. Custom built for some prince in Saudi Arabia, if I recall correctly.




For all you HI-REV TUNAS out there, a Subaru Impreza WRX Wagon. I like these too, but specifically this bug-eyed specimen from '02-03.





So uh yeah, I have an unhealthy love for these, all my friends around here think I'm nuts. Eh.

SPORTAGONS are the best!

I want a Sportagon.

Either a Volvo V50 or an Audi A3.

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker SPORTAGONS are the best! I want a Sportagon. Either a Volvo V50 or an Audi A3.

HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN THESE

Volvo V50 T5


Audi A3 3.2 DSG Quattro (with some ABT aero and go-fast bits on it)




SPORTAGONS WOOOO

cale you need some serious help!

station wagons?? come on dude, you are still young and dont have a family. what happened to you dude?

ill pass still..

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Originally posted by trancechaos cale you need some serious help! station wagons?? come on dude, you are still young and dont have a family. what happened to you dude?

Nobody suspects the station wagon, man. Fun, utility, and social invisibility from the police is awesome in my books.

You're all just insecure. Except RJ. He's got taste in this matter.

What's up with the Ferrari's plate #?!
lol!

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Originally posted by Shaya007 What's up with the Ferrari's plate #?! lol!

It was actually custom built (i think 3 or 4..not sure) for the Sultan of Brunei. (Its based on the 456 platform). I would take one for sure!

WoW!

This guy has Warehouses Full of Cars...!LOL!

I could get used to sitting behind the wheel of a V70R every day. Oh yes. Very easily.



The shifter area is really neat. It doesn't have a leather boot like most, and what you're seeing in this picture is actually one equipped with the manual gearbox. It has a slat that moves across the top, with the shifter itself. It's so awesome to see in person.

Cale you rock.. wikkid post..

our '98 subaru legacy wagon is pretty sweet.. she can move.

+ the # of times the rumble seats have saved the day FTW!

VERTIGO, if you were a girl, I'd fuck your brains out.

Wagons are like the quintissential better alternative to both vans and SUVs. If everyone had a wagon instead of a SUv or a Caravan, North America would be a much happier place.

The Audi wagons are sooo fucking tight. And you're 100% right about them being complete sleepers. The RS6 Avant is a fucking monster. It'll shove your kids into the backseat so hard they won't even be able to open their mouths. I think it's the fastest production wagon available on the market today. And at a 4.5 second 0-60 time, it's damn fast.

My mom would post in this thread if she was TOTA..but she's not, she's a 55 yr old librarian. I had to drive her station wagons around for years, thank God I have my own car now. I used to look around before getting out of my car when I was going to school.

Re: I love station wagons and you should too.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0

That's just wrong on so many levels...poor Enzo

And srsly, Cale, station wagons?

P.S. Dodge Magnum Hemi

you gotta go with the classics

^ those ..things.. are exactly the reason that wagons are getting such a bad rep today. I have no idea what the designers were smoking when they came up with those things. It hurts to look at them. The rear overhang on the Chevy must be close to 2 feet. American design at its best for ya.

DODGE MAGNUM HEMI

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Originally posted by techead DODGE MAGNUM HEMI

LOL no quote this time?

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Originally posted by techead DODGE MAGNUM HEMI

RS6 > even the Magnum SRT-8

Re: Re: I love station wagons and you should too.

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Originally posted by fayraree That's just wrong on so many levels...poor Enzo

ENZO?


im with you CALE! ive ALWAYS had a soft spot for wagons

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur ^ those ..things.. are exactly the reason that wagons are getting such a bad rep today. I have no idea what the designers were smoking when they came up with those things. It hurts to look at them. The rear overhang on the Chevy must be close to 2 feet. American design at its best for ya.

Yeah, how dare they make a large car that can hold alot of cargo


Wagons dont have a bad 'rap'. They are simply looked at as grocery getters for middle aged folk. And guess what! Thats what most of them are marketed as! It's only recent that they are being pushed toward a younger market as something sporty. And its working! There were very few wagons in the 90's. Now there's a ton.

I remember my parents' friends had an '82 Parisienne wagon. There was seating for 8 in there!

My dad tells me back in the 60's if you wanted a fast car that was cheap to insure, you'd get a station wagon and throw in a big block. Best sleeper ever.


Big ups to the Volvos! The only true Volvo is a wagon!

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Originally posted by fayraree LOL no quote this time?

LOL Fayree I just saw the Hemi at the bottom of your post
serves my right for only scanning the post
once again proof , great minds think alike

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Originally posted by malek

Ford SAV! Heheh, the concept had an orange outline around the front grille. It looked like lipstick.

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