Either the American public doesn’t get it, or we don’t: The station wagon, beloved by motor journalists and buyers in Europe?where 9 of the 10 bestselling cars in 2014 offered station wagon versions that sold in large numbers?accounts for about 1 percent of the U.S. sales mix. This is, at least partially, a consequence of our bifurcated CAFE fuel-economy standards that treat many crossovers as trucks, subject to less-stringent targets than cars with the same footprint (wheelbase times track width) but less ground clearance. READ MORE ??
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