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station wagons

  • plural
    of station wagon.
    station wagon
    noun
    an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate.

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Lastly, a growing crowd of car enthusiasts is collecting vehicles that are remarkably normal—think Ford Tauruses, Honda Civics and Buick station wagons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

In the 2021 model year, cars and station wagons, the most efficient vehicles, fell to 26% of U.S. new vehicle production, well below the 50% market share as recently as 2013, the EPA said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

What’s more American than muscle cars, pickup trucks and station wagons, and why would anyone want to regulate the way we sit in them?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2022

The team often traveled by station wagons or a van, most trips confined to some nearby destination that would allow them to return immediately after games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

As I approached, a great surf of traffic engulfed me, waves of station wagons, rip tides of roaring trucks.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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