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" Where are the great American wagons? Why have the Country Squire and the Vista Cruiser gone the way of the prairie schooner? Christos Roustemis, who dreamed up the new Nomad concept vehicle for Chevrolet, has a theory: He believes wagons disappeared because grown-up boomers associated them with Ozzie-and-Harriet-era memories of being trapped in the backseat. And he guarantees that&amp;#039;ll happen to minivans, too, now that the First generation to grow up trapped inside them is buying cars. He thinks it&amp;#039;ll want something sportier. He thinks that&amp;#039;ll be the Nomad. The Nomad looks like a station wagon, all right, but thanks to a small-block V-8 and budding tail Fins, it&amp;#039;s also a crossover. &amp;quot;If you put a Corvette and a minivan in a blender,&amp;quot; he says, &amp;quot;what you&amp;#039;d get is the Nomad.&amp;quot; Roustemis&amp;#039;s car echoes the 1954 Motorama Nomad show car, a Corvette made into a two-door wagon that reached production a few years later. And like that vehicle, the new Nomad is a mix of desire and sensibility--in this case, the need to haul old furniture or young kids. It&amp;#039;s as affectionately and effectively retro (or, as Detroit now puts it, &amp;quot;heritage&amp;quot;) as the Thunderbird and the New Beetle. And should it ever find its way to the showroom, it will leave all that sissy soccer-mom baggage in the dust. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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