I would say that a station wagon also called an estate is a passenger car with a greater emphasis
on transporting cargo than a sedan.
Wagons consists of three (3) main compartments:-
- The front of the car with the bonnet or hood and the engine compartment.
- The passenger area with four doors and two rows of seats which accommodates five(5) or six (6) averaged sized passengers including the driver.
- An extended rear compartment with the roofline that goes straight back to the rear of the car which provides more space for cargo.
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In a wagon the extended roofline has the tailgate connected to it which replaces a trunk as the access
point to the cargo area.
Most station wagons are built from a sedan model and usually using the sedan's
platform so the first two compartments will be similar to their sedan model and the cargo area will be different factor in
the bodystyle and they will also be compared to the model.
High end estates can and usually entail many of the luxuries of the sedan and the engineering benefits such as
all wheel drive and fairly good aerodynamics.
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The rear passenger seats can fold down whenever they are not occupied to create even more cargo space bringing the wagon
close to the cargo capacity of a small pick up truck or van.
I see the station wagon or saloon as a very practical vehicle, as a matter of fact more practical than
the sedan but the sedan usually has more style and prestige attached to it, think about it, if the wagon was as
good as the sedan with more practicality then why are not as sought after as much but I love them still as I'm
seeing some appealing wagons these days.
The price of a wagon may be a little more expensive than it's sedan counterpart and it should be noted that
flagship sedans generally don't have a station wagon model.
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