LARGE Australian passenger station wagons were the default family car in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, the SUV fascination began to take hold, and cars like the Falcon Wagon became marginalised, assuming the role of the sales rep’s fleet hack. When Ford signed cheques for millions on the FG sedan and ute upgrade last year, it seems as if they peeled off a few fifties and told the engineers to go buy the BF Mark II Falcon Wagon something nice. The result is the BF Mark III – a car that features useful changes over the Mark II but nothing like the upgrades that the FG received. You can only ask if the changes are enough for the wagon to avoid withering on the vine.