8 American Performance Station Wagons That Had No Business Being This Fast!

Detroit never intended to build a performance wagon. It just kept happening anyway. A fuel-injected Nomad that could hit 120 mph in 1957. A Buick with the Corvette's engine hidden under woodgrain decals. A Cadillac that ran the quarter mile in 12.3 seconds and carried a trunk full of luggage doing it. And at number one — two factory-assembled Oldsmobile Vista Cruisers with the most aggressive W-30 performance package Oldsmobile offered, built in an edition of exactly two, in a body with a panoramic skylight roof and a third-row seat. These are 8 American performance wagons that had no business being this fast — and at least one of them may never have been officially offered to the public at all.