How the heck did we get here? Most best selling "cars" are now superzied pickups and SUVs.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/5736634

How the heck did we get here? Most best selling "cars" are now superzied pickups and SUVs. - sh.itjust.works

And I hate their blue-rich eye searing headlights to.

Stop buying bigger and bigger cars.

I drive a station wagon because I need to fit two dogs in the booth plus and entire family in the same car. But this is a transitory need. At some point I’ll either get a small van, for carrying the dogs, or a small hatchback and have the backseats always folded down.

You should buy according to your true needs not market pressure.

There are like 2 station wagons on the US market. I'd love one, but I'm not into VWs and the Volvo PHEV wagon is only available as a $75,000 performance wagon and no one makes an EV wagon.
The Audi A6, Mercedes E class and VW Passat are available I believe. I have seen A6es and E classes in the USA.
The Passat is discontinued in the US and I don’t think they ever had a wagon version of it here. Not recently at least.

The newest Passats I’ve seen in Canada are mk5s I think (2005-2010 or something like that). Most common is the previous gens, which is not common at all.

It’s much, much easier to find and afford a small SUV/crossover than a station wagon body style in North America.