MG5 and Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo: Which is the most important electric wagon?
There are currently two electric wagons on the market, and they couldn’t be more different from each other.
Expand Expanding CloseThere are currently two electric wagons on the market, and they couldn’t be more different from each other.
Expand Expanding CloseThere was a time when the station wagon was a fixture of American family life, and frequently featured in popular culture. The fashion for bigger, taller vehicles has seen them all but disappear in the US, at around 1-2% of new car sales. In Europe, meanwhile, the “estate car,” as it’s known, remains a competitive segment, and in several Western European companies represents more than a fifth of new cars sold. In Sweden, the home of Volvo, around a third of the market share there belongs to the station wagon. In the US, the inexorable rise of “cool” crossovers — typically depicted devouring rugged terrain — means that almost half of the new car sales there are SUVs.
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