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• Six station wagons ideal for summer road trips
• Americans have long had a love affair with station wagons, even though most of us don't drive them these days. Still, they are ideal for summer road trips. They conjure fond images of growing up with your parents (or grandparents) in the front seat, heading somewhere fun and relaxing during the warmer months. With that in mind, we offer six of our favorite stations wagons for sale today. Depending on where you're going, each one is ideal in its own way for a summer road trip.
• 2015 Audi Allroad

• The Audi Allroad is a longtime favorite of ours. We’ll admit, this is a little more of a crossover than a traditional wagon, but it still checks enough of the boxes to make our list. Look at it. If the Allroad can’t at least be considered a wagon, what can? The Allroad name has great tradition at Audi, and this latest iteration blends traits of the sporty Audi A4 and some of the company’s capable crossovers into a well-tailored wagon. The Allroad offers 50.5 cubic feet of cargo room with the power tailgate and seven inches of ground clearance, which means you can go places and haul plenty of stuff in style. It runs an inline four-cylinder rated at 220 hp paired with an eight-speed automatic gearbox. Audi made xenon headlights, LED taillights, and the power tailgate standard equipment for the 2015 model year, but otherwise the Allroad has been on the road for several years in its current form. That’s fine with us.

  • 2016 BMW 3 Series Sports Wagon

  • Props to BMW for making a legitimate station wagon and labeling it as such. The station wagon moniker is taboo in our current automotive society, so it’s refreshing for an automaker to build a car-based people hauler and bake in some sporting attributes. (We’ll overlook the fact that BMW is guilty of calling the hatchback variant of the 5 Series a ‘GT.’) The 3 Series wagon is longtime fav, and it has been on sale in the US market since 2000. The car has evolved along with its other 3 Series siblings during the last decade and a half, and BMW revealed a refreshed line in May for 2016, which naturally includes the wagon. The changes feature updated design and retuned steering and chassis dynamics. The engine range offers gasoline mills with 180-hp to 320-hp-ratings and a diesel option. At the end of the day, if you require a station wagon in your life, why not make it a 3 Series?