This is the car that killed the wagon.

“Whoa!” you say. “Bullshit!” Oh no, friends. No bullshit at all.

I love wagons. I’ve lusted for them, enjoyed them, planned horrendously impractical builds for them. I still do.

But this high-riding concoction called the Mercedes GLC punches all the right buttons, pulls all the right levers, and completely kills any reason to whine about the lack of a wagon in [INSERT SEGMENT / BRAND / POLITICAL AFFILIATION HERE]. It should serve as a model to the builders of all so-called “crossovers.”

Read it all at Road & Track.