Buy/Drive/Burn: European Luxury Wagons in 2020

Checking through the Buy/Drive/Burn archives, we’ve considered three sets of wagons previously: American wagons of the Seventies, Japanese wagons of the Nineties, and European wagons of 2004.

But Americans have more European luxury wagon choices in this, the Awesome Year of 2020 than in the decade and a half prior. So let’s revisit the discussion.

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Wagon Wonderland: Audi A6 Allroad Practically Confirmed for America

With the Audi RS 6 Avant confirmed for America and the manufacturer teasing wagons via social media throughout the summer, we figured Germany would soon send another wagen our way. And while nothing has been confirmed through official channels, Audi executives are already saying it’s to be the A6 Allroad.

Rumors stated that the model would make its way to the United States ever since the updated A6 premiered at the New York Auto Show in the spring. Audi managed to encourage these rumors without issuing any confirmation — at least until Oliver Hoffmann, managing director of Audi Sport, chimed in earlier this week.

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  • Lou_BC This is less harmful to one's re-election chances than harder driver's licence exams and making people re-test.
  • 28-Cars-Later Probably should investigate the buyers too, maybe a basic psych eval?
  • 28-Cars-Later "Despite nobody really digging the moniker,  Honda has told Autocar that it only plans on changing the name of the model in China (as part of a more comprehensive facelift) because that’s where they’re having the most trouble and anticipated the largest sales volumes.""Customers in China just can’t pronounce it,” explained the source."So the Chinese are class A customers but frack the rest of y'all we don't care what you think or can understand?
  • ToolGuy Is a Tesla store the same as a Tesla gallery? 16955 Chesterfield Airport Road is a gallery. 5711 S Lindbergh Blvd is a store. I wonder if anyone knows how far away those two locations are from each other. I wonder if Tesla's website shows vehicles in inventory. I wonder if there is a distance dropdown. So many questions.
  • 28-Cars-Later Zerohedge reported something similar in Belgium with the reasoning being the Chinese are flooding Europe with EVs in the early innings of a trade war. For Tesla any guess is a good one but my money is on BEV saturation has been reached.