In the classifieds why is a 4X4 an estate?

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Dear Classifieds,

I'm looking for an estate car and have set a fairly wide search - simply max price of £5000 and min engine size of 2.9l, Diesel.

Unfortunately this pulls up all sorts of 4X4s - Mitsubishi Shogun, BMW X5, Jeep Cherokee, VW Touareg, Nissan Terrano, Isuzu Trooper - none of which are Estate cars and are clogging up my results.

Is there a way round this?

Cheers

[LordGrover]

There doesn't seem to be a group for SUV/4x4 type vehicles so I guess the vendors select estate or maybe MPV as the closest available.

The only thing I would do is restrict to FWD and/or RWD, but that'll miss some of the interesting AWD estates too.

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LordGrover said:

There doesn't seem to be a group for SUV/4x4 type vehicles so I guess the vendors select estate or maybe MPV as the closest available.

The only thing I would do is restrict to FWD and/or RWD, but that'll miss some of the interesting AWD estates too.

Unfortunately that will remove pretty much every audi as all with the 3.0tdi are AWD.