
Estate cars, avants, touring cars, long-roofs, and shooting brakes are several of the ways to describe the god-tier automotive body style known as the station wagon. Sadly, wagons are suffering a slow and consistent decline—both here in the United States and elsewhere in the world—but we aren’t here to lament about their impending doom. Instead, we’re here to yap about the coolest sleeper wagons offered this century. Once upon a time, station wagons were the humdrum cars our uncool grandparents drove, though they get a bit more respect today—even if fewer people than ever are buying them. The fact that some folks still think they’re uncool is why stuffing high-horsepower engines into them and fitting them with performance components is the perfect sports car disguise, with practicality as an added bonus. It’s the winningest win-win situation, the very definition of a sleeper, something that flies under the radar. Below you’ll find 10 of our favorite sleeper wagons from the past quarter-century that leave us dreaming of an overall wagon resurgence.