The stigma associated with wagons is evaporating. Most SUVs — the form factor's unfortunate replacement — are becoming more wagonlike. Let's just skip a step: Wagons aren't the past, they're the better, sexier future.

Conventional wisdom is Americans don't like wagons, imagining them as transportation for unwashed masses of rugrats driven by people who've given up being cool. The Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon resoundingly shreds that stereotype.