Is the Station Wagon Officially Dead?

Volvo has announced that they are going to stop selling station wagons in the U.S. because there's no market for them anymore.  Last year, they only sold 480 V50 station wagons.  Total.  In the entire country.

The website Edmunds.com still lists 31 station wagons, but the classification they use is pretty fuzzy…very few of the wagons on their list remotely resemble the classic station wagon from "National Lampoon's Vacation":

Most of them are more like minivans that are sort of shaped like the older wagons, or family vehicles like the Dodge Caliber that are in between a car and a van.

Volvo says that between minivans, crossovers, and SUVs, families just aren't interested in the more old-fashioned station wagons anymore.