>>A long long time ago I drove a Chevy Vega and a Ford Pinto. :o) A big car is a rambler. My family had two rambler station wagons when I was young.
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>Ah... Rambler station wagon (I think to remember they were called, at least in Argentina, Rambler Cross-Country) ... Those bring fond memories as when I was a kid my father had first a red one and then a blue one, we used to travel the Patagonia in those cars, my sister and I sleeping in the back-turned bed (not in the rear seats but in the back, do not how it is called.
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There may be a more technical name for it but I have always heard that space called "the wayback."