Shooting Brake

This is one of those rare rides that is cool, while being mostly unattractive. The ride started life as a 1976 Porsche 924 and was put under the knife by Porsche tuners DP Motorsport. This particular car is said to be the only one DP Motorsport built that lacked the 944 bodywork.

The hip-hop group Atmosphere once produced an album entitled “God Loves Ugly,” and the moment we stumbled upon this 1996 Aston Martin V8 Sportsman Estate Car we knew that the title track from that release was destined to be this car’s theme song.

The Callaway AeroWagen C7 Corvette shooting brake conversion kit we heard about a while back is finally here, and it looks fantastic. The kit can be fitted to any C7 version except the convertible. That means you can have a Z06 AeroWagen if you want, and I want.

The Jaguar F-TYPE is one of the most gorgeous cars you can buy. In fact, I was so enamored of Ian Callum’s masterpiece when it first came out, I bought one for myself. I’ve got the convertible in Firesand Orange, which I went with because I like to drive with the top down, but the coupe features an even more refined design.

If you ever need proof that not all Ferrari models were sexy, just take a gander at this 1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona shooting brake. Normally I love the shooting brake, but this one is ugly in a special way.

I really like the Toyota 86 (formerly Scion FR-S) and its Subaru BRZ twin. If I were in the market for a light sport car for the track, it would be in consideration for sure. If Toyota actually built this new concept, I would definitely be in the market.

Way back in the day, my aunt had a station wagon and the only cool thing about it was this seat in the very back of the car that faced the wrong way so we looked out the back of the car.

X-Tomi Design takes a look back at 2014 – a year in which we saw a plethora of shooting brake concepts – and shares 10 of his favorite sports cars rendered as shooting brakes. From the I-can’t-believe-it’s-been-rendered-as-a-shooting-brake Nissan GT-R to the I-could-see-this-going-into-production-soon BMW M4 shown above, X-Tomi has developed some great looking and bizarre shooting brake concepts for consideration.

This custom Virage shooting brake was built through the collaboration of longtime partners Aston Martin and Zagato.The car has a long and lean look to it, and is quite spectacular. It was custom built for a client in Europe, and pays tribute to the Astons of the 1980s while modernizing it.

Volkswagen will be introducing a new concept vehicle at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show that looks to us like a close cousin of the Audi Shooting Brake Concept we saw in Detroit and the sister of VW’s CrossBlue Coupe Concept.