Station Wagons Are Back to Cure SUV Fatigue

And they’re drawing the best customers in the car-selling business.
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This week in Geneva, the world’s blue-blooded European carmakers showed off their newest creations in a parade of carbon-fiber reptiles that command six-figure sums.

The annual menagerie included a huge Mercedes truck that will cost $500,000, the most powerful Ferrari ever made, and a tangerine McLaren that tops 212 miles per hour. But here and there across the floor, an even stranger beast appeared—one many thought to be extinct: the station wagon.