A3: it’s small, it’s a wagon and, as usually happens when I live with an Audi for a spell, it tore at my heartstrings to give it back.

It’s another one hit out of the park for Audi and its A6.

Once again, Audi has made me lust after one of their vehicles.

Earlier this year, I spent a week in an Audi A6 Avant wagon, and was ready to kidnap it and spirit it far, far away where the Audi folks would never find us.

German automaker Audi is famous for making all wheel drive vehicles you can take off-road. They’ve been rally champions and their Allroad models, though not true SUV’s, split the difference between station wagon and SUV very well.

The Allroad has gone to automotive heaven, at least for the present, and now Audi’s SUV standard is carried by the Q7, a fully fledged luxury SUV. It’s a fine vehicle, as I discovered during a week of living with it.