The wagon isn’t dead. It’s just a specialty model mostly limited to luxury car builders.
Mercedes-Benz has an all-new E-class sedan coming for the 2024 model year and will reportedly follow it with an E-Class wagon. Car and Driver reports, “A document submitted by Mercedes to the EPA is giving us a fuller view of the three-pointed star’s plans for its 2024 model line in the United States.” The document includes a 2024 E-Class wagon, listed as the E 450 4matic All-Terrain.
The newest E-Class has one of the most high-tech interiors ever built, including the optional Superscreen that replaces almost the entire dashboard with screen surface, driver-facing cameras for Zoom meetings in the car (while parked), and passenger-side video games.
Mercedes builds the 2023 E-Class in an all-wheel-drive, lifted All-Terrain variant. So it’s not a stretch to imagine the automaker doing the same for 2024. The 2023 E-Class wagon variant starts at $71,250.
But wagons have become rare sightings in the U.S. Even Volvo, arguably the brand most associated with the longroof style, has recently trimmed its wagon lineup. The company kept the Cross Country variants of its two popular wagons but canceled both the V90 full-size and V60 compact wagons in recent years.
