Avant, Station Wagon, Estate?

[Eric.]

It's as purple as Famine's font.

Indigo!

 

[GameBoyFX]

^ Unfortunately no, not till 2008 officials said.

liek omgawd! we get alphas again? yay!



well i was looking for a raised dodge station wagon, didnt find an image of one on goole, but i came across this... sorry i have to post it.

 

[Tornado]

liek omgawd! we get alphas again? yay!

And for spelling the word Alfa the way it is spelled in every other application, they will now not sell them here until 2043.
Also, Sport Tourer: Chrysler
As far as I know, Volvo is the only manafacturer that still sell "station wagons" in the U.S.
And estates make people think of big Ford Estate wagons with big blocks or Buick Roadmaster's.

 

[Flerbizky]

Alfas are Sport Wagons... And, IMHO, even more beautiful than their sedan counterparts... Not too happy about the new 159s (?) though...

 

[Sniffs]

get ALPHAS in the US??!
not bloody likely mate...unless that idiot Briklin tries again.

britan and italy gave up on the US market in the early eighties, and most of france in the late eighties...as accord and camry swallowed the buyers they needed.

if Fiat group wants to try again, they have to do it themselves...and not sent a 5 pot over here under the hood of colorado/canyon (unless they swiped it from Saab)

the term "station wagon" brings up visions of gigantic 20 foot land yaghts, big enough to make american's wince and europeans faint at how many tens of thousands of euros they'd have to spend poking in petrol every five seconds that's why minivans and crossovers were invented...coi get around the stigma and still keep all the necessary room

 

[Jondot]

Estate. Everything else is either american or only used by audi.

 

[Danny]

Alfas are Sport Wagons... And, IMHO, even more beautiful than their sedan counterparts... Not too happy about the new 159s (?) though...

Why not?
They're damn near identical.

 

[RouWa]

And in turn, Wagen means car.

"Wagen" is a german word for a vehicle with four wheels which purpose is transport. You can use "wagon" for "car", but the german word for "car" is "Auto". The german word for "wagon/estate" is "Kombi", the short form of "Kombinationskraftwagen". http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombinationskraftwagen

 

[Danny]

Wie gehts?

 

[FastEddie12]

Es geht mir gut, danke. (That's enough german)

Just to confuse you, the first Audi 100 Avants were hatchbacks, very similar to (late 70s) Passats.

And I recently saw a 40s film (it had Lawrence Tierney off of Pulp Fiction in it) in which the "Station Wagon" was a large wooded saloon (sedan) with a full length roof rack. In fact the rack was soo full length, it even ran down the back of the car!!!

 

[Danny]

But confusingly, now the Hatchbacks are "Sportbacks", which I think used to be a name given to small Fiat Estates, or that might even be something else entirely.

 

[RouWa]

You two did probably not klick on my link because it is german, so here is the interesting part:

Aerodeck (Honda)
Avant (Audi)
Break (French, Citroën, Peugeot, Renault)
Caravan (Opel)
Combi (Škoda, Toyota)
Elba (Fiat)
Estate (British Englisch, Jaguar, Rover; only Austin Montego series)
Familiale (French, Citroën)
Forman (Škoda)
Grandtour (Renault)
Marengo (Fiat)
Nevada (Renault, only Modell R21)
Parati (Volkswagen, only Brasil)
Rural (Spanish, South America)
Shooting Break (Aston Martin)
Sportwagon (Alfa Romeo)
Station Wagon (American English, Lancia, Daewoo, Fiat; only Fiat Regata and Fiat Tempra, Subaru)
SW (Peugeot)
T-Modell (Mercedes-Benz)
Tourer (Honda, Rover)
Touring (BMW)
Tourist (Wartburg)
Traveller (Nissan, Ford; only in Austria)
Turnier (Ford, only in Germany)
Universal (Trabant)
V (Volvo)
Variant (Audi (Audi F103, Volkswagen)
Vario (Seat)
Wagon (Australian English, Holden)
Weekend (Fiat)

 

[FastEddie12]

Yeah, but if you take out the words that are merely model designations, you're left with this:

Break (French)
Caravan (Not an estate car)
Estate (British English)
Shooting Break (British English)
Station Wagon (American English)
SW (Peugeot)(ie Station wagon)
Wagon (Australian English, Holden)