This is how you do a wagon properly, Acura. People who buy wagons don’t necessarily want to be reminded that they are driving a wagon. You don’t want to make your customer feel like a 70 year old just because they have kids and need more space.
How do you do that? Well, you offer a copious amounts of power. Then you offer a manual transmission (we can’t stress that one enough). Then you make it handle like the dickens and ta da! You have just made a desirable wagon. That’s it. That’s all you need to do to keep performance purists who happen to need room more often than not, happy.
And it just so happens that Cadillac has discovered the uncomplicated formula as they had the bright idea of making a wagon version of the CTS-V sedan. The CTS coupe is also going to be offered in V guise as well. Kudos to Cadillac for making a family car for us performance nuts. The CTS-V wagon will get the same 556 horsepower V8 with 551 pound feet of torque that the sedan gets.
The CTS-V wagon will go on sale in late 2010, expect “limited availability” however.