The Common Nomenclature
'Station wagon' or 'wagon' commonly use by United States , Australian, Canadian and New Zealand. While Estate is commonly use by British/English. There an archaic term for station wagon is the Australian station sedan. While an early U.S. models often had exposed wood-bodies (and were thus known as woodies).
Specific manufacturers, including Audi, BMW, and Citroën have marketed the body style as "Avant", "Touring", or "Break". Volkswagen's proprietary name for a station wagon is Variant, Opel sometimes uses the word Caravan, BMW uses Touring, Fiat often uses the term Weekend, Alfa Romeo uses Sportwagon and Mazda uses Estate. Some British makes under BMC used Traveller or Countryman for the type. Peugeot and Land Rover have sometimes used "station wagon" even in markets which use British English.
here small pictorial guide
BMC/Mini Traveller or Countryman
Volvo 850 T-5R Estate
BMW (e34) M5 touring
Mercedes Benz (W124) 230TE Station Wagon
Audi A6 Avant
Alfa Romeo 156 GTA Sportwagon
Volkswagen Passat Variant
Opel Omega Caravan
Fiat Marea Weekend
Citroen XM Break
Peugeot 405 Break
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