Hiding in Plain Sight: 10 of the Coolest Sleeper Wagons of All Time
'At our test facility, we expected a wagon based on an already great compact sedan to be good, but not this good—nor this close to the sedan,' Walton wrote. 'A 0–60-mph blast takes just 0.2 second longer (at 7.6 seconds), and the quarter-mile run of 15.6 sec at 89.7 mph is closer still. As if that weren't enough, its slalom speed of 66.5 mph is a breath away from the sedan's 67.6-mph best. Brakes? Just 5 feet farther from 60 mph at 118 feet.'
Practically speaking, the SportCross rode and handled like a sports car, which was just an added sleeper bonus.
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