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Station wagon body style

With tens of body styles came station wagon as a mixture between sedan cars (with an extended rear cargo area and similarity in first A, B and C pillars ) and
Hatchback cars with two-box design

Despite station wagon cars classified as a luxury car but earlier were viewed as Commercial Vehicles by the first station wagon in production line named (star) by Durant Motors who added wooden wagon body to compete Ford model T but ford Motors itself enter in this market by Model A in 1929.
General motors make a huge leap by introducing the first all-steel station wagon body in 1935 to replace wooden bodies by 50's.

Wagons remain a strong vehicle of choice in Europe, where narrow streets and small parking spaces also and comparing with SUV cars in available cargo space in his advantage because S.U.V.’s are tall, much of their cargo space may be found in height.

Also has differences with hatchbacks backs like: hatchback car would not enjoy the full height of the passenger cabin all the way to the back Rear glass of a hatchback being sloped further from vertical, and the hatch tending not to reach fully to the rear bumper, as it commonly would in a station wagon. station wagon may organize a fold-flat floor and may have two or three rows of seats while hatchbacks only have one or two.Station wagons also have side windows over the cargo area, whereas some hatchbacks have thick C pillars and no cargo area windows

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