Volkswagen is calling time on its US wagons, with the Golf Alltrack and Golf SportWagen both facing the axe by the end of the 2019 model year. As you might expect it’s SUVs that are to blame for the decision, with VW conceding that drivers are voting with their wallets and it’s not in favor of the humble station wagon.
“SUVs have definitely assumed the mantle of family haulers from the station wagons and minivans we remember from our childhoods,” Scott Keogh, President and CEO of Volkswagen of America, said of the decision. In the first half of this year, for example, SUVs counted for more than 50-percent of the automaker’s sales in America.
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