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It's Not a Station Wagon

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Sheesh. Any car guy knows that if ya gotta have the storage and people and dog carrying capacity, a station wagon is better than any sport ute / crossover / minivan any day (for safety, mileage, driveability). All these crossovers get ruined by trying too hard to not look like a station wagon.

IMO, the Ford Flex nails the look, though it's 15% too big. The Outback used to have respectable estate car styling until they over-swooped it to look less like a wagon. The Volvo XC-70 is nice in it's honesty. The BMW 5-series wagon is pretty good looking. That Toyota is, well, ugly. Like most crossovers are.
 
Does anyone know why they are called Station Wagons? Seems a strange term for some reason to me.

Or Estate Car in the British also seems odd, but less odd - why that term too?

This is what Wikipedia had to say:
Station wagon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first station wagons were a product of the age of train travel. They were originally called "depot hacks" because they worked around train depots as hacks (short for hackney carriage, an old name for taxis). They also came to be known as "carryalls" and "suburbans". The name "station wagon" is a derivative of "depot hack"; it was a wagon that carried people and luggage from the train station to various local destinations.