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[powerslinky]

Just going through some old photographs last night . . .

Found one of my grandad with his then  brand new 1967 Ford Cortina Estate.

He always called estate cars  "Shooting Brakes"  as in "my brand new '67 cortina shooting brake."

Anyone on here know of the term . . .or am I really showing my age here 

[biggriffin]

I do believe it's a phrase from the colonies, mainly America.

[2boxerdogs]

Remember it well from my childhood, yes definitely an American term for an estate.

[RobG]

I do believe it's a phrase from the colonies, mainly America.

British terminology circa 19th century

[Bojan]

That is how two door estate car (station wagon) is called.
Used by gentleman when going into forrest and hunting.

And I think it's first used by British aristocracy (who else would have a car just for hunting  ).
But currently popular phrase in US.

[biggriffin]

I do believe it's a phrase from the colonies, mainly America.

British terminology circa 19th century

D'oh wrong again.

[Mister Rog]

Just going through some old photographs last night . . .

Found one of my grandad with his then  brand new 1967 Ford Cortina Estate.

He always called estate cars  "Shooting Brakes"  as in "my brand new '67 cortina shooting brake."

Anyone on here know of the term . . .or am I really showing my age here 

My Dad also used to call them "Shooting Brakes" and had a series of Vauxhall estates. I've only just twigged that he had a few Victors and I've had a few Omegas.

Anyway for ages I always thought it was about some kind of braking system. Found this which seems to make sense


SHOOTING BRAKE LINK

[BazaJT]

Very first car I can recall[just]my dad having was a Morris Isis "woody" estate and mum always called it the shooting brake.As said I believe it was a term coined for[or by]the landed gentry for the vehicles they used when going shooting-carrying their guns etc.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Just going through some old photographs last night . . .

Found one of my grandad with his then  brand new 1967 Ford Cortina Estate.

He always called estate cars  "Shooting Brakes"  as in "my brand new '67 cortina shooting brake."

Anyone on here know of the term . . .or am I really showing my age here 

Either a very late MK1 or an early MK2.

[Andy B]

Shooting brake sounds more upmarket than estate

Merc make a CLS Shooting Brake

[frostbite]

I thought shooting brakes were fastbacks?

sort of wedge shaped

[Nick W]

Shooting brake sounds more upmarket than estate

Merc make a CLS Shooting Brake

Since when? Shooting brakes are two-door estate cars. The CLS is a (poncy) estate car - so called because the big estates used them for moving stuff and people about.


It's like calling an MX5 a roadster; it can't be as it has wind-up windows and a folding roof.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Isn't the Jaguar XF estate called a Shooting Brake? 

[Andy B]

Shooting brake sounds more upmarket than estate

Merc make a CLS Shooting Brake

Since when? Shooting brakes are two-door estate cars. The CLS is a (poncy) estate car - so called because the big estates used them for moving stuff and people about.


It's like calling an MX5 a roadster; it can't be as it has wind-up windows and a folding roof.

I didn't name it! 

A Coupe should only really have 2 doors ....... but a Rover P5 Coupe had 4

And my Smart Roadster has wind up windows & a folding fabric roof ....... 

[STEMO]

What difference does it actually make? You buy a car because of what it does, not what some wank wordy marketeer calls it.