Title: Extra Rare And Unusual Shooting Brake Cars Source:
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Shooting brake (sometimes mis-identified as "shooting break") is a car body style which originated in the 1890s as a horse-drawn wagon used to transport shooting parties with their equipment and game.
The first automotive shooting brakes were manufactured in the early 1900s in the United Kingdom. The vehicle style became popular in England during the 1920s and 1930s. They were produced by vehicle manufacturers or as conversions by coachbuilders. The term was used in Britain interchangeably with estate car from the 1930s but has not been in general use for many years and has been more or less superseded by the latter term.
The term has evolved to describe cars combining elements of both station wagon (estate) and coupé body styles, with or without reference to the historical usage for shooting parties. The main difference between station wagons and shooting brakes is the number of side doors for passenger egress: with four for the more practical wagons and two on the typically more luxurious coupe-like shooting brakes. Marketers mis- identify their models such as the four-door Mercedes-Benz CLA "because shooting brake sounds sexier than estate."
There is no universally agreed definition of a shooting brake; however the common themes are the coupé and station wagon body styles, and the historical usage of the vehicle for hunting trips. Descriptions of the body style and usage of the term include:
"A sleek wagon with two doors and sports-car panache, its image entangled with European aristocracy, fox hunts and baying hounds". "A cross between an estate and a coupé". "Essentially a two-door station wagon". An interchangeable term for estate car (station wagon). In France, a station wagon is marketed as a break, once having been called a break de chasse, which translates as "hunting break". A body style with "a very interesting profile. It makes use of the road space it covers a little better than a normal coupé, and also helps the rear person with headroom... The occasional use of the rear seat means you can do one of these cars, even if such a wagon lacks the everyday practicality of four doors." A vehicle conceived "to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs... and "although [its] glory days came before World War II, and it has faded from the scene in recent decades, the body style is showing signs of a renaissance" (as of 2006). "The most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars".