I'm not one to even admit wagons are useful...

"Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben) 08/13/2015 at 17:15 • Filed to: None

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...but goddamn the ‘59 Rambler Ambassador was pretty.

Luc - The Acadian Oppo > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:17

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Caddy Wagons are the best wagons.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:19

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This is one of the cases where it’s cool for a wagon to use the slanted off rear doors of the sedan - having a rear roofline that’s not just a draft from the main one. None of that Volvo 240-style BS.

Your boy, BJR > Luc - The Acadian Oppo 08/13/2015 at 17:20

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Ew fuck no. I think a Cadillac wagon was a mistake.

That said, I really appreciate why they made it and what it did for their image.

traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:21

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What about a 1972 Wagon deVille?

X37.9XXS > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:21

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I realize that I am supposed to be tolerant of others, but, for pity’s sake, you need esthetic help. Perhaps a Design 101 class at your local community college

Rambler<> pretty and never did

Your boy, BJR > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/13/2015 at 17:22

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they literally just tacked the back onto the end of the sedan, it was that way to save on tooling costs.

Your boy, BJR > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/13/2015 at 17:23

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FUUUUUCK NO.

It tarnishes the coolness that is the ‘72 Coupe deVille.

Your boy, BJR > X37.9XXS 08/13/2015 at 17:24

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It’s okay to be wrong sometimes.

Example: you in this case.

Frank Grimes > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:24

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dies ist beste

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:25

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The 240 is all “Oh, hey, we made a long swept roof on the wagon, but doors that match the roofline? You noticed? Fuck you”. This is more “Hey, we heard you wanted a big trunk. So, we spent $1.50 and added some roof, yo.”

Your boy, BJR > Frank Grimes 08/13/2015 at 17:26

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Nope. For a few reasons, Fordness and having B-Pillars being 2 of them.

bob and john > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 17:34

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and you on wagons :D. Deny it as much as you want, wagon are more useful then cars. period.


now, do they LOOK as good? not always. but a good chunk does

Your boy, BJR > bob and john 08/13/2015 at 17:38

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I’ve literally never been in a situation where I’ve thought “shit I wish my car were a wagon”. Hell I fit a bicycle, a BMW 2002 door, and a Honda Civic exhaust system in the trunk of my Cadillac all at once one time.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > bob and john 08/13/2015 at 17:45

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Part of it depends on whether the wagon is on the same body plan as the car version, and how much typical use can stand having stuff stacked to the roofline in the back. My Ranchero (and by extension, pun intended, a Falcon wagon) is about 8” more useful lengthwise than a sedan. However, the floor is slightly higher. Going camping - hell yeah, bring on the wagon. Commuting and grocery-getting, not so much necessarily. The popular thing with hatches in the UK I have now encountered on going there - once was enough - is to have the absolute shortest plan possible in a hatch so that cargo room looks good on a spec sheet and it can still be parked. Um, no me gusta. None of the sleekness of a trunk, none of the space-hauling glory of a wagon, just basically a trunk size space tipped up on end.

There are hatches that aren’t that bad in that respect, but those hatches and any Eurotrash wagons that emulate them are not axiomatically better.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 19:08

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I think the guy across from me has a couole buried under a few years of horder shit

bob and john > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 19:09

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And if it where a wagon ud have even more room and less swearing and tetrising to get it in

Frank Grimes > Your boy, BJR 08/13/2015 at 21:02

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wood grain and not rambler are two reasons for a yes. but if we cant agree all that can solve it is a road war in the suburbs to the death.

Your boy, BJR > bob and john 08/13/2015 at 23:54

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But there was literally none of that. I just threw it in, turned the key, let CVRSS do its thing, and went off to the scrapyard. Wagon would actually be worse, because I’d have to duck under the hatch and prolly hit my head.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Your boy, BJR 08/14/2015 at 18:24

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Holy shit it’s a Nissan Armada.

TheHondaBro > Your boy, BJR 08/17/2015 at 14:34

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Odd. I like the CTS wagon and you don’t.

Tohru > Your boy, BJR 08/18/2015 at 01:51

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Fuck you, B-body and D-body wagons are awesome.

Your boy, BJR > Tohru 08/18/2015 at 08:55

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there was no D-Body wagon.

And I've always preferred the B-Body sedans.