If you still think station wagons are clunky and boring and old-fashioned, then you haven't been in an Audi showroom lately. If you had, you would have seen the A4 Avant, which is how you say station wagon at Audi, and your opinion of wagons would have undergone some major revisions.Whether you like wagons, you've got to admit this is just about the slickest small hauler ever conceived. In some ways we think it's even more of an eye-grabber than the A4 sedan, which we think is an elegant piece of work.
The Avant is the latest addition to the front-drive A4 lineup and it shows, once again, that the folks in Audi's design studios have been taking plenty of Vitamin I, for Imagination. In an era when U.S. manufacturers have all but abandoned wagons, Audi is demonstrating that light cargo capability and svelte sheetmetal are not mutually exclusive concepts.Click here to read more