Factory Town is an industry simulation game where you're like Elon Musk. Human urge to convert raw wood into planks and then into wagons. Find restored, all original and restorable Dodge project trucks for sale. Including a 1955 Dodge 1/2 ton Town panel truck and a 1957 Dodge COE cab-over-engine and a 1977 Dodge W200 4X4 crew cab truck.

Is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week he’s building a giant factory in a 3D landscape, but not in the game you’re thinking of. It’s!Developer: Erik AsmussenPublisher: Erik AsmussenRelease: Out now (early access)On: Windows, Mac OS XFrom:,For: £15.49/$20/€16.79All of human history is just moving stuff from one place to another. We scoop stuff up out of the ground and stack it into great big pyramids to dispose of unwanted mummies and ankhs. We blast stuff out of rocks and turn it into gardening shears and fidget spinners and lamp shades and clothes hangers, before dumping it all back into the sea – nature’s bin – where we can only assume it safely disintegrates back into benign molecules that fish love.So this latest spate of factory games should come as no surprise to anyone, scratching, as they do, our very human urge to convert raw wood into planks and then into wagons. First came the more puzzle-focused, and the addictive, top-down, conveyor belt sandbox game.

More lately there is the three-dee, whose developers were so pleased with their own bad pun that they wilfully called their game something that literally means “good enough I guess”.And now there is this little Early Access boy on the sidelines, plainly named Factory Town, a name I like because it doesn’t try to be too fancy, like calling Doom “Hell Shoot”, or No Man’s Sky “Space Roulette”. It’s a factory, just like in those other games, but this time it’s also a town, set in a bucolic and resource-rich landscape. Your headquarters is a City Hall type building that spits out your first two workers, who you instruct to chop down some trees and convey the resulting materials to your base.

Once you’ve enough stuff to make some houses and increase your population cap, you can begin employing more workers to start hacking away at the environment some more, sucking up stone and grain and coal and hurling it all on top of your ever-growing stockpiles.Buildings insta-drop into the world, appearing on the ground from the tip of your omnipotent cursor rather than sitting around in a ghost-like transparent state while waiting to be constructed by a special class of worker. It’s a small detail, but one that makes Factory Town feel way less like a city builder and way more like the production line game it’s aiming to be. Workers also don’t need to be placed into professions, where they would seek out any jobs to do within that role. Instead they’re defined by (and limited to) the specific job you’ve set them to do. They’re basically mindless cogs, meaty conveyor belts on legs, presumably with surnames like Brian “Carry Water to the Paper Mill” and Sandra “Deliver Everything to the Barn”.And unlike in, say, Banished, a town management game where the population’s sense of self-preservation is so lacking that they’d sooner hurl themselves against the sharp edges of the user interface than spend another second in your thrall, the villagers of Factory Town are entirely willing automatons. Your job is to please the houses themselves, first by having workers drag grain to their doorsteps individually, then by refining that grain into flour and delivering it to a market that serves all nearby houses, and later by more advanced types of refinery that turn lower tier materials into high-value items like socks and shoes.

The collective happiness of your houses is a resource to be topped up like every other, and determines how much you can upgrade certain existing buildings. Levelling up your base is the clearest objective early on and requires that you meet certain thresholds of prosperity.There will always be an efficiency bottleneck somewhere in your factory town, and it’s your job to spot it and alleviate it, which inevitably shifts the bottleneck to somewhere else. Chutes are your earliest method of quickening the pace at which resources are delivered to where they need to be. Place a lumber mill downhill of a forest, for example. And you can simply roll all of the logs to their destination rather than lugging each one down by hand.

When your lumber mill starts spitting out planks faster than you can haul them away, you’ll need to construct wagons, which can carry four times as much stuff as a worker, and stone paths for them to efficiently trundle along. Once you really get going, you can link buildings up with an elaborate marble-run of chutes and belts and remove the human workers from the equation entirely, eventually unlocking more complex machinery like logic blocks and switches. You’re like Elon Musk except with iron ore instead of Tesla SUVs.The procedurally generated environment (is there any other way to generate an environment?) plays a role in how your town shapes up too.

Scaffolding must be used to keep chutes level over uneven terrain, as gravity rudely insists on only going down. Water is vital to the operation of some refineries, and while you can always have a worker manually haul buckets of it from a nearby river like a old-timey fireman in a black and white film, it’s far more efficient to construct certain buildings on the riverbank and connect them up with yet more chutes and conveyor belts.The result is that your constructions are naturally way less organised than in similar factory building games. As you research new technologies that supplant your existing methods, your town becomes a retrofitted rollercoaster mess of intermeshing supply lines, with modern conveyor belts weaving their way through the town’s densest and oldest streets.

This does make it difficult to troubleshoot bottlenecks after just a few hours of play – the game desperately needs a better worker management screen – and so the inclination is to bulldoze your quaint little town centre, crack out the terrain modification tools and strive for a hyper-efficient consumerist utopia.Factory Town is an organic, free range factory sim, which might irritate the part of your brain that likes things being arranged in neat and orderly rows and columns, but that sets it apart from an increasingly busy genre. It’s a relaxing way to satisfy your natural, and catastrophic, human impulse to take things out of the ground and turn them into the various objects that make us briefly happy.

Estate wagon, one of the largest wagons ever madeA station wagon, also called an estate car, estate or wagon, is a car body style which has a, a large cargo area and a rear tailgate that is hinged to open for access to the cargo area. The body style is similar to a, but station wagons are longer and are more likely to have the roof-line extended to the rear of the vehicle body (resulting in a vertical rear surface to the car) to provide ample space for luggage and small cargo.The first station wagons, produced in the United States around 1910, were of an existing passenger car. During the 1930s, car manufacturers in the United States, United Kingdom, and France began to produce similarly-styled models, and by the 1950s the wood rear bodywork had been replaced by an all-steel body. Station wagon and estate models sold well from the 1950s to the 1970s, after which sales declined somewhat as and have increased in popularity. Contents.Name Reflecting the original purpose of transporting people and luggage between and, the body style is called an 'estate car' or 'estate' in, 'station wagon' in, and generally one of these two variants in the rest of the English-speaking world.In the United States, early models with exposed wooden bodies became known as.In Germany, the term 'Kombi' is used, short for Kombinationskraftwagen ('combination motor vehicle').

Station wagons have been marketed using the term 'break de chasse' (sometimes abbreviated to 'break'), which translates as 'hunting break', due to shared ancestry with the body style.Manufacturers may designate station wagons across various model lines with a proprietary nameplate. Examples include 'Avant', 'Caravan', 'Kombi', 'Sports Tourer', 'Sports Wagon, 'Tourer', 'Touring' and 'Variant'.Design characteristics Comparison with hatchbacks. Typical configurations of a sedan, station wagon and hatchback from the same (Mk1 Ford Focus).Station wagons and have in common a configuration, a shared interior volume for passengers and cargo and a rear door (often called a in the case of a wagon) that is hinged at roof level. Folding rear seats (in order to create a larger space for cargo) are also common on both station wagons and hatchbacks.Distinguishing features between hatchbacks and station wagons/estates are:. D-pillar: Station wagons and estates are more likely to have a (hatchbacks and station wagons both have A-, B- and C-pillars).

Cargo volume: Station wagon and estate designs place a priority upon passenger and cargo volume — with windows beside the cargo space. Station wagon 1.5 DCI with dual side-hinged tail gateMany modern station wagons and estates have an upward-swinging, full-width, full-height rear door supported on — often where the rear window can swing up independently. A variety of other designs have been employed in the past.Split gate The earliest common style was an upward-swinging window combined with a downward swinging tailgate. Both were manually operated. This configuration generally prevailed from the earliest origins of the wagon body style in the 1920s through the 1940s. It remained in use through to 1960 on several models offered by Ford, including the 1957-58 Del Rio two-door wagon.

This style was later adopted on aftermarket for and cars, as both already types of vehicle often had a bottom half tailgate as an original feature.Retractable window In the early 1950s, tailgates with hand-cranked roll-down rear windows began to appear. Later in the decade, electric power was applied to the tailgate window—it could be operated from the driver's seat, as well as by the keyhole in the rear door. By the early 1960s, this arrangement was common on both full-size and compact wagons. Side hinge: A side hinged tailgate that opened like a door was offered on some three-seat station wagons to make it easier for the back row passengers to enter and exit their rear-facing seats.

This was later supplanted by the dual-hinged tailgate. 1963 Studebaker Wagonaire with rear roof retracted Retractable roof These have a retractable rear roof section as well as a conventional rear tailgate which folded down to carry tall objects that would not fit otherwise. The configuration appeared on the station wagon and 2003.Dual and tri-operating gates Ford's full-size station wagons for the market introduced a system marketed as 'Magic Doorgate' in 1966 — a conventional tailgate with retracting rear glass, where the tailgate could either fold down or pivot open on a side hinge — with the rear window retracted in either case.

Competitors marketed their versions as a Drop and Swing or Dual Action Tailgate. For 1969, Ford incorporated a design that allowed the rear glass to remain up or down when the door pivoted open on its side hinge, marketing the system, which had been engineered by as the 'Three-Way Magic Doorgate'.

Similar configurations became the standard on full-size and intermediate station wagons from GM, Ford, Chrysler, and AMC. GM added a notch in the rear bumper that acted as a step plate; to fill the gap, a small portion of bumper was attached to the door-gate. When opened as a swinging door, this part of the bumper moved away, allowing the depression in the bumper to provide a 'step' to ease entry; when the gate was opened by being lowered or raised to a closed position, the chrome section remained in place making the bumper 'whole'. 1971 with 'clam shell' tailgate Clam shell Full-size General Motors 1971–1976 wagons — the;;, and the models — featured a 'clam shell' design marketed as the Glide-away tail-gate, also called a 'disappearing' tailgate because when open, the tailgate was completely out of view.

On the clam shell design, the rear power-operated glass slid up into the roof and the lower tailgate (with either manual or optional power operation), lowered completely below the load floor. The manual lower tailgate was counterbalanced by a torque rod similar to the torque rods used in holding a trunk lid open, requiring a 35 lb push to fully lower the gate.

Raising the manual gate required a 5 lb pull via a handhold integral to the top edge of the retractable gate. The power operation of both upper glass and lower tail-gate became standard equipment in later model years. Station wagons with the design featured an optional third row of forward-facing seats accessed by the rear side doors and a folding second-row seat — and could accommodate a 4 x 8' sheet of plywood with rear seats folded. The clam shell design required no increased footprint or operational area to open, allowing a user to stand at the cargo opening without impediment of a door — for example, in a closed garage. Subsequent GM full-size wagons reverted to the door-gate style for its full-size wagons.Lift-gate A simplified, one-piece lift-gate on smaller wagons. Subsequent generation of GM's full-size station wagons returned to the upward-lifting rear window as had been used in the 1940s.

Renault Laguna II Estate with swing-up window. Swing-up window: An upward-lifting, full-height, full-width rear door, where the window on the rear door can be opened independently from the rear door itself. The window is also opened upwards and is held on pneumatic struts. The II estate and wagon featured this arrangement.

Fold-up number plate: Wagons (including the wagon, early models of the Range-Rover, and the ) had an upward folding hinged plate attached to the lower tail-gate of the split rear door. When the tailgate was folded down, the plate hung down and remained readable. The wagon versions of the, variously called the Break, Familiale or Safari, had a different solution: two number plates were fitted to the tailgate at right angles to each other so one would be visible in either position. Steel-bodied station wagon: 1948The first station wagons were built in around 1910, by independent manufacturers producing wooden custom bodies for the Ford Model T chassis. They were originally called 'depot hacks' because they worked around train depots as hacks (short for, as taxicabs were then known).

They also came to be known as 'carryalls' and 'suburbans'.Eventually, car manufacturers began producing their own station wagon and estate designs. In 1923 (a division of ) became the first car company to offer a station wagon assembled on its production line (using a wooden wagon body shipped in from an outside supplier).The framing of the wooden bodies was sheathed in steel and coated with tinted lacquer for protection. These wooden bodies required constant maintenance: varnishes required re-coating and expansion/contraction of the wood meant that bolts and screws required periodic re-tightening. In 1922, the became the first mass-produced car to use a steel body (in this case, a fully enclosed body style). The first all-steel station wagon body was the 1935. As part of the overall trend in the automotive industry, wooden bodies were superseded by all-steel bodies due to their strength, cost, and durability.

By 1951, most station wagons were being produced with all-steel bodies. 1940 Pontiac Special Series 25Station wagons were initially considered (rather than consumer automobiles) and the framing of the early station wagons was left unsheathed, due to the commercial nature of the vehicles. The commercial vehicle status was also reflected on those vehicles' registrations, for example there were special 'Suburban' used well into the 1960s, long after station wagons became car-based.Early station wagons were fixed-roof vehicles, but lacked the glass that would normally enclose the passenger compartment, and had only bench seats. In lieu of glass, side curtains of canvas could be unrolled. More rigid curtains could be snapped in place to protect passengers from the elements outside. The roofs of 'woodie' wagons were usually made of stretched canvas that was treated with a waterproofing dressing.Manufacture of the wooden bodies was initially outsourced to custom body builders, because the production of the all-wood bodies was very time-consuming.

One of the first builders of wagon bodies was the Stoughton Wagon Company from Wisconsin, who begun putting custom wagon bodies on the chassis in 1919 and by 1929 the Ford Motor Company was the biggest producer of chassis' for station wagons. Since Ford owned its own hardwood forest and mills (at the in Michigan) it began supplying the wood components for the station wagon.

Also in 1929, J. Cantrell began supplying woodie bodies for Chrysler vehicles, which continued until 1931. By the 1930s, station wagons had become expensive and well-equipped vehicles.

When it was introduced in 1941 the was the most expensive car in the company's model range.1945 to 1970: Steel-bodied station wagons. 1958 4-door pillarless hardtop station wagonThe first all-steel station wagon was the 1935, which was built on the chassis of a. However, most station wagons were produced with wooden bodies until after World War II.When automobile production resumed after World War II, advances in production techniques made all-steel station wagon bodies more practical, eliminating the cost, noise, and maintenance associated with wood bodies. The first mass-produced steel-bodied station wagon was the 1946, based on the chassis of the. In 1947, Crosley introduced a steel-bodied station wagon version of the.The first postwar station wagon to be based on a passenger car chassis was the 1949, which used a two-door body style.

Several manufacturers produced steel and wooden-bodied station wagons concurrently for several years, for example Plymouth continued production of wooden bodied station wagons until 1950. The final wooden bodied station produced in the United States was the 1953.Station wagons experienced highest production levels in the United States from the 1950s through the 1970s. The late 1950s through the mid-1960s was also the period of greatest variation in body styles, with models available without a (called or pillarless models) or with a B-pillar, both in 2-door and 4-door variants. The pillarless models could be expensive to produce, added wind noise, and created structural issues with body torque. GM eliminated the pillarless wagon from its lineup in 1959, while AMC and Ford exited the field beginning with their 1960 and 1961 vehicles, leaving Chrysler and Dodge with the body style through the 1964 model year. 1986-1988 station wagonThe popularity of the station wagon, particularly full-size station wagons, in the US was blunted by increased fuel prices caused by the. Then in 1983, the market for station wagons was further eroded by the, based on the.

While the K platform was also used for station wagon models (such as the and ), the would soon eclipse them in popularity. The US provided an advantage to minivans (and later SUVs) over station wagons, because the minivans and SUVs were classified as trucks in the United States, and therefore subject to less stringent fuel economy and emissions regulations. Estate cars remained popular in Europe and in locations where emissions and efficiency regulations did not distinguish between cars and light trucks. 1996 Limited WagonThe emergence and popularity of which closely approximate the traditional station wagon / estate body style was a further blow.

After struggling sales, the and the, the last American full-size wagons, were discontinued in 1996. Smaller station wagons remained on sale as cheaper alternatives to SUVs and minivans. Domestic wagons also remained in the Ford, Mercury, and Saturn lines, however after 2004 these station wagons also began to be phased out in the United States. The wagon was discontinued in 2005 and the station wagon was discontinued in 2008. An exception to this trend is the and station wagon models, which continue to be produced at the.

With other brands, the niche previously occupied by station wagons is now primarily filled with the similar style of, which generally has a car underpinning and a wagon body.Imported station wagons, despite remaining popular in other countries, struggled in the United States. European luxury car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz continued to offer station wagons in their North American product ranges (marketed using the labels 'Avant', 'Touring', and 'Estate' respectively). However, these vehicles had fewer trim and power train levels than their 'sedan' counterparts. The in Estate trim is the sole performance station wagon offered in the U.S. The station wagon variants of the smaller line-up were dropped in 2007 and the Touring models were discontinued in 2010, due to slow sales in the United States with only 400 wagons sold in 2009. In 2012, the compact station wagon was withdrawn from the U.S.

Market due to poor sales.The gave rise to a station wagon counterpart, the 2010 CTS Sportwagon, which defied the trend by offering almost as many trim levels as its sedan counterpart. The CTS wagon, particularly in high-performance CTS-V trim, received positive reviews until it was discontinued in 2014.The 2015 was a rare appearance of a sub-compact station wagon in the North American market. In 2016, Volvo re-introduced a large wagon to the US market with the, but only by special order.As of 2019, Volkswagen has announced the cancellation of the Sportwagen in the US market, meaning that not a single non-luxury station wagon will be sold in the US market for the 2020 model year. 1950 Woodie Station WagonAs the wooden bodies were replaced by steel bodies from 1945 to 1953, manufacturers applied wooden decorative trim to the steel-bodied wagons, as a visual link to the previous wooden style. By the late 1950s, the wooden trim was replaced by 'simulated wood' in the form of stick-on vinyl coverings.The is a model that was easily recognized by its simulated wood trim and the 'Squire' trim level was an available option in a few different Ford model ranges, including the, and in the 1970s the. The Squire was always the highest trim level of any Ford Wagon and included the signature wood grain applique, and usually additional exterior chrome, nicer interior trim, special emblems, etc.

The full-size Country Squire model was the produced in much higher quantities than the other Ford models.Other woodie-style wagon models produced in significant numbers include the 1984-1993, 1957-1991, 1968-1998, 1970-1990, 1971-1992 and 1969-1972. 1969From the 1950s to 1990s, many American station wagons could be optioned with a third row of seating in the cargo area (over the rear axle) for a total of nine seats.

Prior to 1956, the third row seats were forward facing.Chrysler's 1957 models had a roof too low to permit a forward-facing seat in the cargo areaso a rear-facing seat was used for the third row.General Motors adopted the rear-facing third row for most models during 1959-1971 and 1977–1996. However the 1964–1972 and 1964–1969 featured raised roof-lines beginning above the second-row seat and continuing all the way to the rear tailgate, resulting in the third row of seats being forward-facing. General Motors also used forward-facing seats for the third row in the 1971–1976.The Ford and Mercury full-size wagons built after 1964 were available with four rows of seats, with the rear two rows in the cargo area and facing each other. The third and fourth rows were design for two people each (although these seats were quite narrow in later models), giving a total seating capacity of ten people.The trend since the 1980s for smaller station wagon bodies has limited the seating to two rows, resulting in a total capacity of five people, or six people if a bench front seat is used. Since the 1990s, full-size station wagons have been largely replaced by SUVs with three-row seating, such as the,. Two-door wagons. 1971 KammbackThe first two-door station wagon was the 1946.

Other early two-door station wagons were the 1951 and the 1954. In 1956, Studebaker introduced three new two-door wagons in Pelham, Parkview, and Pinehurst trims.General Motors began producing two-door station wagons in 1955 with the 'Chevrolet Handyman' and the 'Pontiac Chieftan'. General Motors also introduced the sportier and to their lineup in 1955. Ford began production of steel-bodied two-door station wagons in 1952 with the. In 1956 Ford responded to the Nomad and Safari with its own sporty two-door wagon, The.

The Parklane was a one-year only model, succeeded by the in 1957.After the merger of and, the new company, (AMC) reintroduced the two-door wagon in the 'new' line in 1958. It was 'recycling' with only a few modifications from the original version and targeted buyers looking for 'no-frills' economy. American Motors' strategy of reintroducing an old design made for two distinct model runs, one of few examples where such a strategy has been successful for an automobile manufacturer.The Kammback, introduced in September 1970, was the first U.S.-made four-seat wagon and the first two-door wagon from GM in six years. It shared its wheelbase and length with Vega coupe versions and was produced in the 1971–1977 model years.The last two-door wagon available in America, thewas discontinued in 1991. 1954-1957Early estate cars were after-market conversions, with the new bodywork using a wooden frame and either steel or wooden panels.

These wooden-bodied cars, produced until the 1960s, were amongst the most expensive vehicles at the time. Since the 1930s, the term (originally a term for hunting vehicles) has been an alternative, if now rarely used, term for estate cars in the UK.Later estate cars were produced by vehicle manufacturers and include the 1937 (based on the ), 1952, 1952, 1954, 1954 and 1955.

The majority of these models were two-door wagons and several models were built on the chassis of relatively small cars.Manufacturers often chose a specific model name to apply to all their estate cars as a marketing exercise — for example used the Countryman name and Morris estates were called Travellers. Some estates were closely derived from existing commercial models, such as the and the. Others, such as the Morris Travellers, the and the were bespoke.Rover and Austin produced 4×4 canvas-topped utility vehicles in the 1950s that were available in estate car body styles that were sold as 'Station Wagons'. They incorporated better seating and trim than standard editions with options such as heaters. Early advertising for the Land Rover version took the name literally, showing the vehicle collecting people and goods from a.Despite the popularity of station wagons in America, station wagon offerings in the U.K. From Ford and Vauxhall were limited to factory-approved aftermarket conversions of the and, until the factory-built wagon was introduced in 1958.1960s to present. Ford Granada L EstateOne of the smallest estate cars ever made was the, introduced in 1960.Ford's first factory-built wagon was the 1963.The 1967 station wagon version of the was unusual in being a rear-engined estate car.Ford and Vauxhall produced factory-built estate variants of all three of their respective core models (small-, mid- and large-size cars) by the 1970s.

The - and -Series Vauxhall Victors, built between 1966–78, were very large cars by British standards and featured estate models in the style of an American station wagon with front and rear bench seats and large-capacity petrol engines.Other estate cars sold in the United Kingdom included the (introduced in 1966), (introduced 1967), (introduced in 1968) and (introduced 1976). 2014 station wagonGermany is the largest market for station wagons and estate cars in the world, with some 600–700,000 vehicles sold each year - amounting to 20% of all car sales. German-designed station wagons and estates are currently produced by Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen. Some larger estate models are available with a third row of seats, such as the rear-facing jump seat for two passengers in the cargo area of the wagon.In 1961, Volkswagen introduced the two-door 'Variant' body style of the (also known as the Volkswagen 1500 - later the Volkswagen 1600). The Type 3's rear-engine layout was retained for the estate models, but the engine profile was flattened, resulting in a small car offering interior room, as well as trunk space in the front. The model was offered through the 1973 model year.Estates produced in East Germany include the 1956–1965, the 1963–1990 Universal and the 1966–1988 Tourist.France. 1993 wagonThe first station wagon / estate produced in Sweden was the, introduced in 1953.

The Duett two-door wagon was conceived as a dual-function delivery van and people-carrier, and is based on the chassis of the sedans.Saab began producing estates in 1959, in the form of the two-door wagon, which was based on the sedan.In 1962, the Volvo Duett was replaced by larger, which has a four-door body and a horizontal split. Volvo continued production of station wagons through the (introduced in 1967), then the (introduced in 1974) and the (introduced in 1985). In many markets, the station wagon models of the 700 Series significantly outsold the sedan models. In 1990, the 700 Series was replaced by the, which was sold alongside the smaller wagon that was introduced one year later. The 900 Series ended production in 1998 and its successor (the ) did not include any wagon models. Volvo station wagons produced since the mid 1990s are the, and, with the V40 and V90 models currently in production.Saab — following a hiatus in estate production since the Saab 95 ended production in 1978 — introduced the four-door estate in 1997, which was produced until 2010. Switzerland In 1983, estates represented 15% of the passenger car market, reflecting a trend throughout Europe of increasing popularity through the 1980s, with the vehicles becoming less cargo-oriented.Japan.

2019The first Japanese station wagon was the 1969 four-door wagon, based on a compact sedan chassis. This was followed by the 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974 wagons. However, Japanese manufacturers did not build station wagons in large volume until recently.Models marketed as passenger station wagons in export markets were often sold as utilitarian 'van' models in the home market. Some were not updated for consecutive generations in a model's life in Japan, for example a sedan might have a model life of four years but the wagon was not updated for up to eight years (such as the wagon built from 1979-1987) and the 1987-1996 wagon).

Station wagons remain popular in Japan, although they are in slow decline as the SUVs and have taken over a large portion of this market. 2014 SportwagonThe first Australian-designed car was built in 1948 but locally designed station wagons did not appear until nine years later, when the 1957 was introduced. The Holden's main competitor, the introduced wagon models in 1960.Ford and Holden produced wagon models based on each generation of their large sedan platforms until 2010. Other wagons produced in Australia include the. These cars were usually built on a longer than their sedan counterparts, until the introduction of the which switched to sharing the sedan's shorter wheelbase.Ford ceased production of wagons in Australia when the ended production in 2010, due to the introduction of the SUV.

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