Posted on 02/16/2011 1:53:13 AM PST by Daffynition
The news came like a blow to the gut for this child of 1950s suburbia:
Volvo, the company most associated with station wagons for the last 20 years, will stop selling wagons in the U.S. The market is drying up.
The Volvo wagon had been on life support for months. After dropping the larger V70 Volvo in 2010, Doug Speck, CEO of Volvo Cars of North America, told Automotive News he was giving the V50 another year because there "is a bit more energy in the small wagon segment."
Not enough, apparently. Volvo, which was sold to China's Geely in 2010, sold just 480 V50s last year, about two per dealer.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Yeah. So did my 67 Olds F-85. Every once in awhile the left foot “looks” for it ;-)
IIRC the floor mat had a little *hole* to accommodate the button. Life was good then. ;D
The good ones did. The cheap ones scooted around it and sometimes interfered with it working. I like my Audi but I'd love to have my 67 again.
Put a catback exhaust on it like a Borla, get an aftermarket ECM tune from Cobb and you can get that 0-60 down into the low-mid 4’s. In a station wagon, lol.
That’s not a station wagon, that is a shooting break. Ferrari just introduced a new one:
http://wot.motortrend.com/four-2012-ferrari-ff-unveiled-before-geneva-launch-25225.html
Vista Cruisers are cool.
We had our share of station wagons growing up:
‘63 Ford Country Sedan station wagon (with a 260 CID V8)
‘73 Mazda RX3 “Woody” wagon (only got 16 mpg)
‘77 Chevy Impala wagon (with a 150 HP 350 CID V8 - gotta love smog control back then).
I’d like to get an older GM station wagon with a 455 V8 - that would be fun.
Driver was a soccermom blabbing on a cellphone, I can tell by that lane change. Kids screaming louder than usual, though.
Driver was a soccermom blabbing on a cellphone, I can tell by that lane change. Kids screaming louder than usual, though.
???Wait what???
My dad’s was a ‘71, I believe. Only 2 made. His and one for Evil Knievel.
I used to think Ferrari could do nothing wrong...
...but that just ain’t right!
Volvo station wagon is an oxymoron. Volvo? No wonder the market has been on life support.
The station wagon died out because of the Chrysler minivan, and to All — no, I’m not interested in how station wagons continued to be made after “Mopar” came out with the minivan. That’s like saying buggy whips continued to be made after Henry Ford started building autos on an assembly line.
Thanks Daffynition.
LOVED our Escort wagon, which met its end in an accident. There are no good, new models out there, and that's a pity. JMO
I once drove a bright yellow Matador wagon.
Harold and Maude
I think of wagons in that space as Sport Utility Sports Cars and wish we had more choices. There are plenty in Europe that don’t make it across the pond because idiot soccer moms have to have SUVs.
We always had wagons as kids growing up. Used to lay the seats down and bounce all over the place. We even used to put the back tailgate down and sit on it with cans on our feet and drag um on the street as dad drove. Ah the good old days before seat belt laws and parents just picking you up of the street and telling you to shake it off after you fell out the back.
No they didn't, that's Chrysler propaganda...
But they did build a pretty good late model station wagon...the Dodge Magnum.
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