When this specific two-door came out in 1956, the Ford station wagon had become a series of its own. That year, the lineup included three two-door versions and a couple of four-door models.

You've probably seen a station wagon. Some of you may even own one. But have you ever questioned why they're called station wagons to begin with?

A diver in Oregon believes he’s finally found the Ford station wagon belonging to the Martin family, who vanished almost seven decades ago in 1958. Buried under silt and other debris at the ...

Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon for station wagons to have fold-away third-row seats. Ford was the king of this: From their late 1950s Country Squire wagons, up through 1970s Gran Torinos and ...

Then, in 2018, Archer Mayo, a diver from across the river in White Salmon, Wash., who is obsessed with recovering items from rivers and solving mysteries, began searching for the Martins’ Ford.

No plastic framing or vinyl appliqués on these cars. The 3,020 pound wagon had a base price of $670. Calendar year production totalled 791,812, of which 7,044 were station wagons. • ...

FoMoCo ad men proclaimed in their 1970 sales brochure that Ford was the “World leader in station wagon sales,” and I don’t dispute their claim.