The station wagon’s natural habitat is Germany. After the end of the war, nowhere else did the pack mule among motorized vehicles spread as widely in terraced housing estates and workshop yards as it did here. People buy it because it can swallow everything that needs to get from A to B, whether it’s a stroller or a washing machine. However, over the past ten years, invasive species have invaded the station wagon’s habitat and pushed back the popular country resident. The intruders are called SUVs or crossovers and now dominate large areas of the republic’s cities and countryside.
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