Before the world went SUV-mad, every growing family (and, if you believed the adverts, every antique dealer) wanted an estate car. Commodious, often more serious-looking than their saloon counterparts and definitely more useful, they were a staple of life in Britain. And, it seemed, they were usually Volvos, whether long-in-the-tooth old ones, or new.
Today estate cars are almost an endangered species, with most families wanting a higher-riding sports utility vehicle instead and the market adjusting accordingly. Heck, Volvo even deleted its estates from the UK market in 2023 but un-deleted them the following year because, well, because the people demanded it.
