Plymouth

In 1949, Plymouth revolutionized the US station wagon market by introducing the industry's second all-steel body station wagon, following the Willy’s Overland “Jeep Station Wagon”, which was its direct competition. Prior to 1949, Plymouth had offered only a four-door "woodie" station wagon, which was expensive to build and to buy. In addition, for the first time in a low-priced car, automatic "turn-the-key" ignition/starter combination was introduced. The Suburban continued to 1955 with few changes other than annual styling applications. 

For model year 1956 the Plymouth station wagons were grouped in their own separate series, instead of being a part of the standard range of models. Tail fins featured for the first time, in what was called the "Forward Look". The separate Suburban series was discontinued for 1962, and the new and now smaller Plymouth station wagon models were instead included within the Savoy, Belvedere and Fury lines.