Gallery: here are some of the coolest estates

We reckon the new Volvo V90 is one of, if not the, best-looking estate cars of all time. It’s also uniquely cool in the same way a lot of Volvo estates just are, no questions asked. We’ve had an ask around the office and put together a little list of some of the very coolest estate cars, from the new V90 right the way through to an amusingly quirky old Citroen via a Saab that never really happened. There are many more - like every single fast German and most pre-2000 Volvos - so these are just our favourites. Tell us yours in the comments. 

The best of the current crop of AMG estates. Particularly skilled at rolling burnouts, ahem, we're told.

Specced correctly, the RS6 is quite subtle. Add 2.0 TDI badges for maximum effect. 

It's not that the V10 E61 isn't cool, it's that the E34 Touring is somehow cooler. 

A Jaaaaaag. Therefore quite cool.

What happens when Audi and Porsche get together. The first Audi RS and the very definition of a sleeper.

Didn't make into production before Saab died in 2011. A quite average thing, but very cool.

Take one XC90, drop something heavy on it. Results better than we'd hoped. 

Road-going version of the BTCC car. Yellow, limited edition, cool. 

We know it's only an E-Class under there, by my isn't it good-looking. 

Maybe the most advanced car of its day made better by the addition of a boot. Impossible to hate. Maybe.