A station wagon is entering one of the hardest 24-hour races in the world

It is a strange quirk of fate that the station wagon has morphed from mass-market family transport into something far more esoteric (at least here in the US, a market that once embraced the form factor like no other). Now, wagons come in two flavors. There's the "slightly lifted with some extra protective cladding" kind, designed with forest roads in mind but equally useful if you're surrounded by people who park by sense of smell. The other variety is the one that thinks it's really a supercar...