As types of automobile go, you can’t get much more sensible than a station wagon. Roomier than a coupe or a sedan but more agile and efficient than a crossover or SUV, the noble station...
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The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray – the fastest, most powerful and most technologically-advanced base Corvette in history – is just now starting to show up at dealers. And while we would be quite satisfied with...
![Estates of the Art: The Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG S-Model Wagon Battles…the Icon Derelict?! [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/video_still_164.jpg)
Fewer contradictions in the automotive world (or the world, period) are as intriguing as the high performance station wagon. They manage to be commodious enough to handle the spoils of a victorious Costco run and...
![Shamu at the Strip: Big Muscle Drag Races a Chevy Caprice Wagon [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/video_still_161.jpg)
“The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry.” It is a rather well known line from the Robert Burns poem “To a Mouse,” and did in fact inspire the title of the...
![Friday Matinee: MotorTrend Best Driver’s Car 2013 [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/video_still_149.jpg)
There are numerous things that go into making a car a good “driver’s car”: Engine response. Steering feel. Braking ability. And good old fashioned confidence that you won’t go sailing into trees when you hot...
![Rubbing It In: Chris Harris Drives Two Badass Super Station Wagons We’ll Never Get [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/video_still_138.jpg)
We said it on Wednesday, and we’ll say it again: High performance station wagons are pretty much the best idea ever. However, there is a problem with them: They’re seldom offered to U.S. buyers. Yes,...
![Bad Family Mother Truckster: Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Edition 507 Wagon is Our New Forbidden Fantasy [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/video_still_136.jpg)
We love station wagons, though not quite as much as we love high performance station wagons. And one of the first modern hot wagons was the AMG “Hammer,” a stupendously sinister take on Mercedes-Benz’s W124-derived...
![Wagon Pr0n Wednesday: Audi A6 Avant Looks Delish on Vossen Wheels [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/video_still_107.jpg)
There’s an unspoken rule in automotive journalism circles (Okay, fine, it’s pretty-damn-widely spoken…) that if you want to get anywhere in this business, you have to be a fan of station wagons. And if you...
When Mercedes-Benz released its first factory-built station wagon (the W123-based “T-Modell,” the “T” standing for touring and transport) in 1978, it probably didn’t know just how big a hit it would be. But as the...
![Rocket Chip: Chris Harris Discovers What an ECU Tune Can Do for His Audi S4 Avant [Video]](https://www.sub5zero.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/video_still_052.jpg)
One of the virtues of owning a modern car is the fact that, if you want extra power under the hood, you might not even have to open the hood to add some. Re-flashing a...