Wagon Stoke

**refried** · 04-03-2021, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by Core Shot

Not a wagon. IMHO.

I’d call that a hatchback. Or in the waterlogged case, a wetback?

The wagon thread was on this page, I didn't feel like looking for the Volvo thread.
I'd call it a hatchback myself.

**Core Shot** · 04-03-2021, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by refried

The wagon thread was on this page, I didn't feel like looking for the Volvo thread.
I'd call it a hatchback myself.

If only such a consensus could be reached about upstate.

**johnnyg82** · 04-03-2021, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by waveshello

I guess one way to try to define the visual appearance of a wagon is that it should look like a sedan with an added d-pillar and extended roof line.

Which does kind of exclude newer foresters and outbacks. If you were to take away the D-pillar and replace with a trunk that would be seriously fugly sedan. Someone please photoshop this, haha.

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Have you seen the Legacy? I mean, minus some plastic cladding, springs and spacers, the Outback has always been a Legacy.

**Art Shirk** · 04-05-2021, 11:30 PM

Someone touched this car inappropriately and the dealer’s add gave me herpes but it would be a hoot to drive.

https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/c...298834190.html

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**simple** · 04-06-2021, 11:08 AM

Those wagons are only good for scene points. Keep seeing them trade hands in recent years. Depreciation is a bitch

**Art Shirk** · 04-06-2021, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by simple

Those wagons are only good for scene points. Keep seeing them trade hands in recent years. Depreciation is a bitch

I wouldnt say they are only good for scene points because they are absolute rocket ships, but they do depreciate like hell.

**simple** · 04-06-2021, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Art Shirk

I wouldnt say they are only good for scene points because they are absolute rocket ships, but they do depreciate like hell.

Yeah super fast for grocery getting or dropping the kids off at private school. It is a scene Queen.

**PNWbrit** · 04-06-2021, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by simple

Those wagons are only good for scene points. Keep seeing them trade hands in recent years. Depreciation is a bitch

At least you can sell the gear knob to the aftermarket crowd though.

**Art Shirk** · 04-06-2021, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by simple

Yeah super fast for grocery getting or dropping the kids off at private school. It is a scene Queen.

How many people who own any of the wagons in this thread are tracking them? I'd drive an RS6 over an A4, a Caddy V over the CTS, an E63 AMG over an E350, a v70R over a v70 any day while getting groceries or dropping the kids off at private school. Half the horsepower cars have these days isn't "needed," but that's not what this thread it about. And the gear knob is worth the extra 25K.

**simple** · 04-06-2021, 12:43 PM

Doesn't change my opinion but I get what you are saying. Some people like flashy and extravagant versions of boring cars. I would still take a 2002 WRX wagon over having an AMG badge wagon. Horses for courses as they say in the country. You might as well put a 800hp engine in a Ford Country Squire wagon. It is still a land yacht

**BmillsSkier** · 04-06-2021, 12:43 PM

I've got some decent seat time in that gen e63 Wagon lately and I can positively say that the person who molested it completely ruined an already teeth-chattering suspension.

I'd be fun as hell to floor that thing though. Face ripping fast.

And I'm with Art. My future RS6Avant will be used almost exclusively for private school kid dropoff duties and daily driver in areas where I can't tap the full potential of it.

Doesn't matter though, cause much like some other modern day heroes, I'll live my life one dropoff at a time in a rocketship like that.

**Mazderati** · 04-06-2021, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by simple

Doesn't change my opinion but I get what you are saying. Some people like flashy and extravagant versions of boring cars. I would still take a 2002 WRX wagon over having an AMG badge wagon. Horses for courses as they say in the country. You might as well put a 800hp engine in a Ford Country Squire wagon. It is still a land yacht

WRX:Impreza::E63:E450

**Art Shirk** · 04-06-2021, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I've got some decent seat time in that gen e63 Wagon lately and I can positively say that the person who molested it completely ruined an already teeth-chattering suspension.

I'd be fun as hell to floor that thing though. Face ripping fast.

And I'm with Art. My future RS6Avant will be used almost exclusively for private school kid dropoff duties and daily driver in areas where I can't tap the full potential of it.

Doesn't matter though, cause much like some other modern day heroes, I'll live my life one dropoff at a time in a rocketship like that.

It's a shame they slammed it. I know a guy who knows a guy who owned that thing, and well, if that car was a person it would have a few Prosecutors digging into the WA Community Protection Act.

**BmillsSkier** · 04-06-2021, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Art Shirk

It's a shame they slammed it. I know a guy who knows a guy who owned that thing, and well, if that car was a person it would have a few Prosecutors digging into the WA Community Protection Act.

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, this green AMG rapin' errrybody up in here.

**gravitylover** · 04-06-2021, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by simple

Doesn't change my opinion but I get what you are saying. Some people like flashy and extravagant versions of boring cars. I would still take a 2002 WRX wagon over having an AMG badge wagon. Horses for courses as they say in the country. You might as well put a 800hp engine in a Ford Country Squire wagon. It is still a land yacht

You can't honestly say that a supercharged LS motor in a 71 Vista Cruiser with big brakes and a dialed modern suspension doesn't have some potential though. I saw a video the other day where a bunch of guys with crazy wagons were drag racing and that one came in 2nd overall, the thing was pretty awesome.

**johnnyg82** · 04-06-2021, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by simple

Yeah super fast for grocery getting or dropping the kids off at private school. It is a scene Queen.

That’s why I think the E53 AMG would be a more realistic option, plus straight six smoothness.

**carlh** · 04-07-2021, 04:15 PM

Had the e91 in for recall work today and was given a new 228 loaner. New car was quieter, smoother faster and used less gas but was very happy to get back into my na-I6-6mt wagon at the end of the day. Much better connection to the car and sounds incomparably better.
Service advisor said an M3 wagon is in the works but I will believe that when I see one.

**liv2ski** · 04-07-2021, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by carlh

Service advisor said an M3 wagon is in the works but I will believe that when I see one.

Pffft, for Yurp...

**N1CK.** · 04-07-2021, 04:22 PM

forgive me if this was mentioned already, but you generous/gambling types should pry open that wallet for a chance to drive away this bad girl...
https://www.omaze.com/products/2021-audi-rs6

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**simple** · 04-07-2021, 04:34 PM

Saw that exact same RS6 on Sunday. It has a presence for sure. I wonder if it will depreciate like the older RS6 sedan?

**plugboots** · 04-07-2021, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by carlh

Had the e91 in for recall work today and was given a new 228 loaner. New car was quieter, smoother faster and used less gas but was very happy to get back into my na-I6-6mt wagon at the end of the day.

When I got the new 228 demo, I wanted that car, but with the 6mt, and the old steel suspension. I like the new electronic gizmos, and the engine is fine, (we’re never getting the I6 again), but it rattled, and both my e91’s had no rattles over 300K miles.