Saw a Golf R Estate today. Not a fan
Agree, they are hideous. Not seen one in the flesh yet, but lots of pics on another forum confirm my original thoughts about it. The back end is truly horrible and not much better from the side
The problem is, cars of Golf proportions do not suit an Estate shape. I think the Audi A6 and VW Passat are good lookers in estate form (some would say even better looking than their saloon versions). But the Golf looks "wrong" as an estate IMO. It's too narrow, wheelbase too short, it clearly looks like a hatch with a box added onto the back.
You sum it up perfectly Joe.
Agree, the Passat and Audi (and one or two others) look much better in the estate variant. The R estate
is the hatch with a box bolted onto the back, it does not look like a car designed as an estate from the ground up. In short it transforms it into one ugly car.
And away from all that, and I've said it recently I think, as a purist, IMO a hot hatch should NEVER be an estate.