Items17The creator’s order
  1. 1Chevrolet NomadChevrolet NomadChevrolet Nomad, 1955–1957 The American take on the idea, and still one of the best-looking. The Nomad grew out of a 1954 show car styled under Harley Earl that put the Corvette's face on a two-door wagon body, and Chevrolet turned it into a two-door "sport wagon" for the showroom. At $2,571 in…0
  2. 2Aston Martin DB5Aston Martin DB5Aston Martin DB5 Shooting Brake by Radford, 1965 The car that made the shooting brake a grand tourer. Aston Martin's owner David Brown wanted a DB5 his hunting dog could ride in, and the coachbuilder Harold Radford rebuilt the car from the windshield back with a long roof and a rear door. Only 12…0
  3. 3Reliant ScimitarReliant ScimitarReliant Scimitar GTE, 1968–1986 The car that turned the shooting brake from a coachbuilt luxury into something you could order from a dealer. Tom Karen of Ogle Design drew the GTE, which was conceived and ready for the 1968 Motor Show in under a year, with a fiberglass body on a steel box-section…0
  4. 4Volvo P1800Volvo P1800Volvo P1800 ES, 1972–1973 model years The one with the glass tailgate. Volvo turned its P1800 coupe into a two-door wagon with a frameless, all-glass rear hatch, drawn by in-house designer Jan Wilsgaard, and in Germany and Switzerland it earned the nickname Snow White's coffin. Only 8,077 were…0
  5. 5Lotus EliteLotus EliteLotus Elite Type 75, 1974–1982 Not the 1950s Elite coupe but its very different successor: proof that a shooting brake can come from a company famous for featherweight two-seaters. Oliver Winterbottom designed the striking wedge, a four-seater with a glass rear hatch over the cargo area and the…0
  6. 6Lancia BetaLancia BetaLancia Beta HPE, 1975–1984 The most realistic classic buy here for someone who will actually load the back. Lancia combined the Beta Coupe's front end and doors with the longer floorpan of the Beta sedan to make a three-door sporting wagon, and the initials stood first for High Performance Estate…0
  7. 7Jensen GTJensen GTJensen GT, 1975–1976 A short-lived British rival to the Scimitar. Jensen turned its Jensen-Healey roadster into a shooting brake with a fixed roof and a hatch, keeping the 1,973 cc Lotus 907 engine. Only 511 were built between September 1975 and May 1976, before Jensen Motors went into…0
  8. 8Jaguar XJSJaguar XJSLynx Eventer, 1982–2002 The Jaguar XJS as a shooting brake, rebuilt by the British coachbuilder Lynx Engineering with a long roof and a tailgate. Lynx offered the conversion for two decades, from a prototype shown to the press in August 1982 to the last car in 2002, yet only about 67 were made,…0
  9. 9BMW Z3BMW Z3BMW Z3 Coupé and M Coupé, 1998–2002 The small, sharp one, and a cult classic. BMW grafted a long hatchback roof onto its Z3 roadster, a project a group of its engineers developed in their own time, and critics promptly called it a clown shoe or a bread van. That odd profile is the reason to buy…0
  10. 10Ferrari FFFerrari FFFerrari FF, 2011–2016 The car that put the shooting brake back at the top of the market. Ferrari unveiled the FF at the 2011 Geneva show as a three-door, four-seat grand tourer whose name points to its four-wheel drive, with a 6.3-liter V12 making 650 hp. The cargo area holds 450 liters and grows…0