Car Snobs Once Mocked This ’90s Wagon. Now They Love It
The Buick Roadmaster Estate, with its Corvette engine, gives a lot more than it costs. (And it costs very, very little.)
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There’s a way to get a Corvette inside a station wagon. Just buy a Buick Roadmaster Estate wagon.
You remember them. These are the long, eight-passenger, wooden-sided wagons that General Motors Co. produced from 1991 to 1996. They were the reimagined versions of the angular “estate” cars (precursors to what we’d call station wagons) that Buick made in the late 1970s and, before that, in the ’50s and early ’60s. Supersized and all-American, the cars were used by families on summer road trips and camping expeditions. Like the older station wagons, the ’90s-era ones were so lengthy they might as well have been powerboats—but they added such finery as sunroofs, climate control, and those signature, simulated wood-grain sides.