Good point on the height. The thought of needing step ladder and an articulated rear rack for bikes makes me crazy.
I checked with VW, btw. The Passat has already been discontinued. I should also note that both Audi and BMW still offer their full size wagons to the European markets. Heck, even Mercedes Benz offers *three* engine packages to the Canadian market for their E450 wagon. We're nutty here in the USA. On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 8:41:48 AM UTC-4, David Bivins wrote: > > Hear hear on station wagons. When our son was born 11 years ago, I did the > research and ended up choosing a used 2004 VW Passat Wagon. It has a > ridiculous amount of cargo space. My Clem slides in fairly easily with the > rear seats down, and I also bring my Clem to my VW mechanic's when I need > to leave the car for service. It's just such a practical vehicle. > Apparently it has some sort of cachet with the young folks, too. I was > outside near my car one day recently (we park on the street in Brooklyn) > and there was a trio of stylish young men admiring the car. I went to open > the door and one of them said "Is this your car? Niiiiice. 2004, right?" > They all nodded their approval. It made me feel better about the "beausage" > which is more like "abusage" that the body's taken from being on the street > all these years. > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 8:01 AM 'jeffrey kane' via RBW Owners Bunch < > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Personally, I LOVE station wagons .... and I think, cool is what you make >> it. We've been in various V-Series Volvo wagons for the past 22 years. The >> only bike that doesn't slide in whole into the back with the rear seats >> folded down is my wife's ridiculously long Cheviot. For that land yacht, I >> have to use the roof rack. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/02642e70-f494-4ab5-9ece-104db1ba2496%40googlegroups.com.
