---
title: "What Car Looks Better as a Wagon?"
date: "2024-02-16"
modified: "2024-02-16"
authors:
  - name: "Andrew P. Collins"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/andrew-p-collins"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/what-car-looks-better-as-a-wagon"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "QOTD"
tags:
  - "Wagon"
---

# What Car Looks Better as a Wagon?

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/16/BMW-wagon-rear-quarter-16x9IMG_9860.jpg>)
*\<em\>Andrew P. Collins\</em\>*

Believe it or not, it took me 30 years as a car enthusiast to come around to "station wagons are good." It's a car-nerd cliché that wagons rule, but typically, I prefer two-door coupes. That is, until I met the BMW F31—the wagon body of the F30 (2010s) 3 Series. What car do you think looks better as a wagon?

I recently [bought a 2017 BMW 330i wagon](<https://www.instagram.com/p/C2Vsii4RLcA/?img_index=1>) after a long and circuitous car search. I'm looking forward to reporting back on that process. But after a few weeks, I'm still completely in love with its long roof design. It almost feels like a four-door version of the iconic BMW "[clownshoe](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/keep-calm-bmw-made-a-modern-clownshoe-from-a-z4>)" (station wagon coupe).

The Mercedes CLS wagon is another modern luxury long-roof car I'd forgotten about until last week, when I saw one slinking its way down a costal road in southwestern Portugal. Man, *that* thing looks like an absolute beast—more specifically, a serpent of some kind.

But really, I might have to give it to Audi for having the biggest lineup of cars that look best as wagons. The Audi fleet, pretty much throughout its entire history, always looks to me as though it's designed for everything to be a wagon. And we haven't even started talking about Swedish automakers.

That's what the comment section's for—I'm really looking forward to reviewing your suggestions for this one.

## Author
As Executive Editor, Andrew touches everything on the site from daily news coverage to feature stories, sponsored content, product reviews, road testing vehicles, ecommerce, and more. He's held pretty much every role there is to have at an automotive news site and has been with The Drive's publisher Recurrent since 2020. Andrew's a lifetime gearhead and longtime writer with a particularly strong penchant for road trips, off-road adventures, and archaic vehicles. His passions outside of the automotive world include skiing, obsolete video games, and his dog Bramble who occationally helps review cars.

### Author social links  
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