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Old 10-17-2012, 12:22 AM
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RX-8 Shooting Brake
Picture attached. This would be my dream build, as I love the shooting brake style. Any feedback is appreciated, but please don't eat my alive.
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Old 10-17-2012, 12:57 AM
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kinda looks like a honda hatch....
maybe with some eye squinting... mazda 3
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Any feedback is appreciated, but please don't eat me alive.
But you look so delicious, flame grilled baby!!!!
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Reminds me of both the mazda 6 and the alfa 159sw.
Buy them since you'd be cutting some structural chassis parts to achieve that look.
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Kinda reminds me of a Subaru hatch back
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I kinda like it!
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It looks like the front of the rx8 and the back of a Mazda 3...lol

Anyway, I think it looks good though...
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2/10. would not bang
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Reminds me of the old 70's era Reliant Scimitar or the Lotus Elite from the same era
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Shooting Brake? Is that a cool way of saying hatch back? No bueno.
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Shooting Brake? Is that a cool way of saying hatch back? No bueno.
I agree what the hell is shooting brake? Also nay on the idea but to each your own
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Yeah i was really hoping that that this was gonna be like the rx8 chuck norris would be driving in delta force. Greatly disappointed. Just buy a 3 or 6 hatch and put a rotary in it.
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a shooting brake is a term used for a 2 door station wagon

originally refers to a car that would take hunting parties around hunting estates

The Ferrari FF is a "Shooting Brake"

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Its been bugging me since Wednesday which car this reminds me of then it dawned on me today:

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Isn't that the Velocitor 3 Door?

I have a soft spot for those i think they are really cool
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Originally Posted by Slidin8
a shooting brake is a term used for a 2 door station wagon

originally refers to a car that would take hunting parties around hunting estates

The Ferrari FF is a "Shooting Brake"

I never heard of it since now. I wonder why they called it "Shooting Brake"?
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i dunno, i watched a documentary on the Ferrari FF called "Supercars" on Nat Geo and i just wrote what they said on that doco word for word
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Yup... Velociter ... doesn't look all that bad in person either... far better than the stretched eggish look of the FF.
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Back in the day, the British term 'Shooting Brake' meant a car which one could literally shoot at wildlife.
The back seat could be flipped or likewise reversed, such that one could sit facing the open tailgate ( which also formed a defacto canopy for deflecting the notoriously crappy fall /winter weather) and remain warm & comfortable ( nursing an irish coffee ofrflask) whilst blasting away at hapless waterfowl. ;^))

The MGB GT was a 'Shooting Brake' design. If you look at the vestigial backseat is mounted, you'll see what I mean.
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Shooting Brake to me is a device to keep the muzzle from climbing after a round is expelled.
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Shooting Brake to me is a device to keep the muzzle from climbing after a round is expelled.
I expelled a round for this design. Love it.
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That's a pretty decent Photochop but I'm not a huge fan of the idea of an RX8 Shooting Brake. The Ferrari FF is a much better design and even then I'm not fussed on it.
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