[Closed] Shooting brakes, which floats your boat?

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Is it any different to an estate?

Mine would be this, just cos of the painting:

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Flying Star 2. Beautiful.

Or a Lambo.

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Cortina 😀

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A8 Avant
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Or what about this beauty:

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and how could I forget:

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Daytona?

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A Shooting Brake would traditionally have been a custom convertion from a saloon to take shooting parties to the hills.

In contemporary usage, the term shooting-brake has broadened to include a range of vehicles from five-door station wagons — to three-door models combining features of a wagon and a coupé.

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cheaper to run that that ^ lot:

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Is it any different to an estate?

If you have to ask.......

merc are making one out of the new cls, but it's a 4 door

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Thats the best collection of shooting breaks ive seen, the aston would be my choice who said a job as a spy and family / bike carrying convenience should mutualy exclusive

wwaswas - I was going to post taht Vox 🙂

Needs a Lynx Eventer in the thread....

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does the 3 door evoke count?

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new merc is pretty good but as above it has too many doors:

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does the 3 door evoke count?

No, it fails by being hideously ugly, a hatchback and 'cheep'.

I always thought a shooting brake was a sort of coach built type thing, something like this
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Although, I also thought it was used in Britain as a general term for similar designs, up until at some point in the 70s the Americanism 'Estate' became the norm. Might be completely wrong tho.

The americans refer to them as station waggons don't they?

I've only ever heard shooting break used to refer to luxuary/sports cars coachbuilt with estate back ends.

ir_bandito - good innit 🙂

hoping to get my Amazon saloon back on the road in the near future...

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944 with an Audi roof apparently. Looks nicer than the standard car
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I'd be much more likely to buy a TT if they had made it like this.

Some of these new Mercedes 'shooting brake' photos in the car press recently are pretty hideous to my eyes.

I like the look of the 944. Here's a 928.

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EDIT - It does look like an Austin Allegro Estate on steroids.

Ferrari 250GT?

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Rover V8

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2cv/Ami 8

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I'd be much more likely to buy a TT if they had made it like this.

isn't that just a scirocco with a different nose on it?

not quite a shooting brake but a nice twist on an awesome car that should appeal to people on here!

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Ferrari 330 GT

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Ferrari Daytona

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The GTO Breadvan! It would certainly get you to the pub first at the end of the day's shooting! 🙂

You can buy these, 270Kw V8:

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[url= http://www.themotorreport.com.au/50972/holden-ve-series-ii-ssv-ute-review ]Review here[/url]

isn't that just a scirocco with a different nose on it?

You might be on to something - I do own a Scirocco. 🙂

Rocco is a good bit bigger than that old TT concept though.

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Wow!

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5lab, you beat me to it. However, and sorry to be a pedant (but this is STW), you have posted a pic of a 2.8 euro/us spec one. Not the 3.2 M-power version like the one in my garage. Very practical small estate car.

Loving the Astons and the Jaaaaaaag.

The title got me. We use the term regularly at work much to the amusement of our younger collegues.

couple of Citroens
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/4701469916/ ]1989 Citroen CX 28 TRi Safari Estate 6 Wheel[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/triggerscarstuff/ ]Trigger's Retro Road Tests![/url], on Flickr
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Some great cars here, but I've always had a desire for one of these:
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RR Silver Ghost

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Standard 12

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French "break de chasse"

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Too many doors to be a true shooting brake, but a damn fine looking eastate.
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slainte 😀 rob

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