So why would I bring it up? These are, in my opinion, the two best-looking wagons available just about anywhere, and to be
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| The Magnum is one of the best-looking wagons available just about anywhere. (Photo: Jonathan Yarkony, Canadian Auto Press) |
able get into the Magnum at a fraction of the cost of an Avant means wagon madness for the masses.
The seats are your basic armchair expanse of padded foam with 8-way power adjustability (an optional Convenience Group feature), and they thankfully included an adjustable lumbar support, which comes even without the seat upgrade. I'm not a very big guy, so I kind of felt lost wobbling around in them during some of my more spirited maneuvers, but I have to say, the Magnum SE is not meant for much in the way of spirited driving.
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| The Magnum's true aim is to provide the means of relaxed and accommodating transportation to the guitar-and-amp-haulin' and ladder-toting-on-a-budget community. (Photo: Jonathan Yarkony, Canadian Auto Press) |
that is where this Magnum, at least in base trim, fell short. In the objective category of bang-for-buck ratio, it came back at a somewhat anemic, "I could feel every pound of that wagon I was draggin'" measurement on the Yarkony scale of wahoo (taking into account the inverse proportion of haulage capacity to parallel parkability). It's a slug.
Of course, I'm being a little harsh on a car that's true aim is to provide the means of relaxed and accommodating transportation to the guitar-and-amp-haulin' and ladder-toting-on-a-budget community. But harsh is often funny, and I'll stop at nothing to be funny so I'll just carry on being a mean-spirited grouch.
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