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What is Shooting-Brake?

By JCT TeamMay 26, 2022Updated:October 31, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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What is Shooting-Brake?

Shooting-Brake:

Shooting-brake is a car body style that originated within the 1890s as a horse-drawn wagon wont to transport shooting parties with their equipment and game. The first automotive shooting brakes were manufactured within the early 1900s within the UK. 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 utilized in Britain interchangeably with wagon from the 1930s but has not been normally using for several years and has been more or less superseded by the latter term. The term has evolved to explain cars combining elements of both station wagon and coupé body styles, with or without relevance to the historical usage for shooting parties.  

Definition:

There is no universally agreed definition of a shooting-brake, however, the common themes are the coupé and car body styles, and therefore the historical usage of the vehicle for hunting trips. Descriptions of the body style and usage of the term include:

  1. “A sleek wagon with two doors and sports-car panache, its image entangled with European aristocracy, fox hunts and baying hounds”.
  2. “A cross between an estate and a coupé”.
  3. “Essentially a two-door station wagon”.
  4. An interchangeable term for shooting brake (station wagon). In France, an auto is marketed as a chance, once having been called an opening de chasse, which translates as “hunting break”.
  5. A body style with “a very interesting profile. It makes use of the road space it covers a touch better than a standard coupé and also helps the rear person with headroom. The occasional use of the rear seat means you’ll do one among these cars, whether or not such a wagon lacks the everyday practicality of 4 doors.”
  6. A vehicle conceived “to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs… and “although [its] glory days came before war II, and it’s 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”.
What is Shooting-Brake?
Shooting-Brake

Why are cars called shooting brake?

Historically, the term comes from the vehicle that shooting parties would use on hunts. The vehicle had to be practical to hold the rifles, marksmen and shooting game while out and about. It’s called a ‘brake’ because this described the carriage used to train and break in young horses.

How many doors does a shooting brake have?

Well, the answer is fairly simple: a station wagon has four doors, whereas a shooting brake has two. While Car wow says that shooting brakes also have more sweeping rooflines, it all boils down to the number of side doors the vehicle has.

Why are cars called shooting brake?
Doors does a shooting brake have

What’s the best shooting brake?

Gallery: 13 of the best Shooting Brakes

  • Aston once built a DB5 Shooting Brake. It looks good. …
  • 1972 Volvo 1800ES. …
  • 1972 Volvo 1800ES. …
  • 1968 Reliant Scimitar. …
  • 1968 Reliant Scimitar. …
  • 1999 BMW Z3M Coupe. …
  • 1999 BMW Z3M Coupe. …
  • 2011 Ferrari FF.

What is a CLA shooting brake?

The Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake is one of the most stylish-looking small estate cars on sale. It blends the roomy cabin and high-tech interior of the standard A-Class hatchback with the swoopy looks of the sportier, but more cramped CLA Coupe.

What is a CLA shooting brake?
CLA shooting brake

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