A station wagon in American, Australian and New Zealand usage and an estate car or just estate in British usage is an automobile with a body style similar to a sedan (saloon in British usage) but with an extended rear cargo area.
2008 Volvo XC70
Certain cars with this body style have historically been called a shooting brake, a British term. A few models are referred to as a break, using the French term; and kombi or combi, from the German language term for this type, is also sometimes used (VW’s name for a Kombi is
[edit] History
1926 York bodied open air Ford station wagon
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 […]
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