GM pickup truck plant announcement yesterday

[two_bit_score]

Now THIS is a station wagon!

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[buckeyefarmer]

Now THIS is a station wagon!





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Yep, got my drivers license in a gran torino stationwagon. Even parallel parking.

Fold down or swing open back door. Back row fold down seats, either on sides facing center, or backwards, we had both.

 

[Citydude]

Yep, got my drivers license in a gran torino stationwagon. Even parallel parking.

Fold down or swing open back door. Back row fold down seats, either on sides facing center, or backwards, we had both.

The backwards rear facing seat probably had more kid puke on the floor from car sickness than a roller coaster in Disney Land.

 

[Jstpssng]

Yep, got my drivers license in a gran torino stationwagon. Even parallel parking.

Fold down or swing open back door. Back row fold down seats, either on sides facing center, or backwards, we had both.

They stopped making them because "certain people" felt that we should be driving smaller cars. People voted with their pocketbooks though, which is why there's been such a demand for truck based vehicles for the past two decades.

 

[Motorboatin]

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40 years of evolution. Even Subaru calls it a wagon

 

[buckeyefarmer]

40 years of evolution. Even Subaru calls it a wagon

I see no such thing on the subaru web site. I know mine is an SUV.

 

[Motorboatin]

I see no such thing on the subaru web site. I know mine is an SUV.

That is because even Subaru hates wagons. They kept it around until the diehards were to old to drive. The wagon has finally been put out to pasture

The North American Legacy Outback wagon was released in July 1994

Subaru Legacy (second generation) - Wikipedia

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My SIL calls all SUVs trucks. Doesnt make it a truck.

 

[two_bit_score]

That is because even Subaru hates wagons. They kept it around until the diehards were to old to drive. The wagon has finally been put out to pasture



Subaru Legacy (second generation) - Wikipedia

Yeah......that’s still a hatchback.




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[Renze]

Apples and oranges. Most European countries are much more urban than the U.S. with narrower streets making large vehicles impractical.
We Americans love our cars to be sure.

I come in narrow streets less than two times a year. For Dutch understandings, my S70 is rather large. Yet it offers more leg room than my Canadian cousins Buick Roadmaster. Its just that North American body-on-frame designs were lightyears behind. Thats why Ford uses the Volvo P3 platform (S80) for the current Crown Victoria, and that nearly all American vans are replaced by European unibody or integrated frame designs. Ford sells the Euro Transit, Mercedes the Sprinter, Ram the Fiat Ducato, GM a Jap Nissan.

The bottom line is that a van is bought for practicality and a truck for bragging rights. Which is why the Sprinter changed an entire vehicle class in the US, with all other manufacturers following.