04-20-2014, 01:02 PM
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I am kind of in love with that car, but in reality AWD is not necessary enough for me to take an everyday economy hit.
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My parents live in the mountains and when my mother told my brother's Speech-Language Pathologist that I was pursuing her field, knowing that I had a Subaru, she said that all of her SLPs (apparently, she had others working for her) drove Foresters and she used to.
Unfortunately, I am not able to visit my parents as often as I would like, and I have never been in that car when I needed to drive through bad weather, there was just the time that I tried to pull off the highway to relieve myself and I got Bacon stuck in snow.
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04-20-2014, 07:56 PM
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It's all about Diesel
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Every SUV is a wagon, they just renamed them for marketing!
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04-20-2014, 09:17 PM
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I've always liked the non-American-style wagons... Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW, Subaru. Aside from the relatively poor FE of my Subaru Wagon (no, it's NOT an Outback!), it is the best all-around vehicle I've ever had... able to haul, tow, and keep up with the M3s on the track. The Golf Sportwagen TDI would be an awesome upgrade.
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04-21-2014, 06:06 PM
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I've always enjoyed wagons too, initially because I liked their style more than the sedans, but also considering that a hatch is always more practical to load and unload than a trunk lid. Even considering that, let's say, a Focus sedan, would have more luggage space, it seems easier to arrange the stuff in the hatchback. Too bad the Focus wagon was never available in my country...
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04-21-2014, 11:56 PM
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Too bad the Focus wagon was never available in my country...
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Too bad they've killed it in this country too. And no, I do not consider a 4 door hatch back a wagon. Still VW is keeping the wagon alive, if they ax the AWD it might be worth looking into in a few years...
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04-23-2014, 05:13 PM
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I do not consider a 4 door hatch back a wagon
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Neither do I actually. Just compared the access to the luggage compartment, which is an advantage of the wagons over the sedans. Well, maybe you have even seen pictures of European sedans with a rear hatch, that sounds as a good solution, but still doesn't look as cool as a wagon with its hearse-like profile
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