If Mercedes Made A Shooting Brake This Good Looking, Would You Be Interested?

Presented to the public during the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, the Mercedes-AMG GT Concept is one of the best-looking studies made by the German carmaker in recent years.

But the best part is that it won't remain a show car for long, as Mercedes will put it into production in the near future, and sell it alongside the AMG GT coupe and convertible family, as a four-door sedan.

And while this version is around the corner, Aksyonov Nikita put his skills to work and transformed the study into a shooting brake.

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TheSteve - 5/16/2017 2:40:22 PM

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Note:
4 doors + elongated rear with hatch = Station wagon
2 doors + elongated rear with hatch = Shooting brake

cidflekken - 5/16/2017 3:04:48 PM

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As a variant of the AMG GT4, this doesn't do it justice. The rear area needs to be lower profile, similar to the current CLS wagon/shooting brake.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/16/2017 4:21:58 PM

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The modern (Y2000+) take on Shooting Brake nomenclature:

Slow slung, powerful, 4 doors, rear hatch - Shooting Brake
Tall, mid to high riding, 4 doors, rear hatch - Station Wagon

I don't make the rules... I just play to win. :)

TheSteve - 5/16/2017 6:33:51 PM

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According to Wiki (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting-brake) and other sources, a shooting-brake is "essentially a two-door station wagon."

For examples, look back in history to see when the term was first used, and to what it applied. Example: 1910 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Shooting Brake (2-door, even though it was tall and high riding, which according to *your* definition, should have been called a station wagon.)

To cite a "modern (Y2000+)" reference as being the correct one, is like saying that a coupe has either 2 or 4 doors (um, nope... coupe 2, sedan 4) because a few manufacturers make so-called 4-door "coupes" (note the deliberate quotation marks around the word coupe). It's like saying "convertible with non-removable/retractable roof" (AKA contradiction in terms), or saying "literally" when one actually means "figuratively."

It's the incorrect use of a term, usually perpetrated by marketing folks (e.g., "sedan" sounds less sexy than "coupe," so let's call this 4-door car a "4-door coupe", or "station wagon" sounds less sexy than "shooting brake", so let's call this station wagon a shooting brake).

TomM - 5/16/2017 5:19:01 PM

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The TITLE referred to a Mercedes that looked "this" good.
THis is no way good looking to me.

MDarringer - 5/16/2017 9:52:45 PM

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That's a terrible chop (rear view) of the Panamera Country Squire station wagon.

This is a stylistic abomination.

TheSteve - 5/16/2017 10:58:47 PM

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FAQMD wrote "...Based upon that definition: Chevy Nomad = first shooting break. :)"

You must have missed my reference to the 1910 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Shooting Brake. 1910. 45 years before the Nomad's first production.