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Post by racingteatray on Mar 6, 2020 15:07:11 GMT
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Post by johnc on Mar 6, 2020 15:32:42 GMT
When you blank out the false trim on the rear quarter window I think it looks pretty good if not very long. I just wonder what demand there will be for this unless it is priced considerably below a 340i touring.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 15:35:36 GMT
Looks like a hearse.
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Post by Roadrunner on Mar 6, 2020 15:38:54 GMT
I assume the blanked off trim is just a disguise. That aside, I like it.
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Post by Tim on Mar 6, 2020 15:58:36 GMT
That's going to need massive wheels to not look shit.
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Post by racingteatray on Mar 6, 2020 16:31:07 GMT
I expect it makes more sense than a standard Arteon. They are surprisingly big cars - at 4.86m long, an Arteon is fully 22cms longer than my 4GC.
It's also 5cms wider and 5cms taller.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 6, 2020 23:25:50 GMT
I take it you get a free coffin with every purchase.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 12:30:51 GMT
Horrible. And why's it called a shooting brake? It's just an estate car.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 14:39:58 GMT
In a vain attempt to make the insecure think it's posher than it is?
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Post by Martin on Mar 7, 2020 15:44:32 GMT
They’re not the first, shooting brake is one of the worst, but I still refer to Avant/Touring/Sportswagon/Wagon etc are all estates to me. That’s what I always referred to my 5 as.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 15:56:51 GMT
Unlike those though, Shooting Brake has a whiff of old money respectability about it. Or at least that's what I think VW is thinking.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2020 16:48:20 GMT
Is it VW's label or Pistonhead's, though?
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Post by Ben on Mar 7, 2020 17:14:16 GMT
I assume the blanked off trim is just a disguise. That aside, I like it. I like it too. Assuming it will actually look like that. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 7, 2020 18:12:12 GMT
They’re not the first, shooting brake is one of the worst, but I still refer to Avant/Touring/Sportswagon/Wagon etc are all estates to me. That’s what I always referred to my 5 as. Since I don’t have an “estate” it always sounds pretentious to me. I do go Touring though. |
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Post by racingteatray on Mar 7, 2020 18:48:42 GMT
I definitely don't refer to mine as the "gran coupe"...
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 7, 2020 18:53:31 GMT
Seems to have an excessively drooping nose, like the latest Golf, and the rear slopes badly too, affecting practicality.
No thanks
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Post by michael on Mar 7, 2020 19:27:07 GMT
It isn’t designed for outright practicality, there the Passat wagon for that.
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 24, 2020 7:28:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 8:32:15 GMT
Usual inanity in the PH comments, I see. They talk about fast estates not being that rare and completely omit the brand most famous of all for making them. I did like the one with Hitler's Moustache Wax, though.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 24, 2020 8:51:51 GMT
It looks alright, kind of like a Scirocco Estate with that window line. However a Shooting Brake is a 3dr not a 5dr, a 5dr is an estate.
As an aside, I can't think the last time I saw an Arteon on the road.
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 24, 2020 9:06:06 GMT
It looks alright, kind of like a Scirocco Estate with that window line. However a Shooting Brake is a 3dr not a 5dr, a 5dr is an estate. As an aside, I can't think the last time I saw an Arteon on the road. Funnily enough there are at least three parked within a mile of my house. They are quite imposing - big cars. |
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Post by Andy C on Jun 24, 2020 9:59:07 GMT
Big fan of that estate, and I’d take one over any hot suv , But I can’t imagine it’ll be cheap
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Post by michael on Jun 24, 2020 18:17:23 GMT
It looks alright, kind of like a Scirocco Estate with that window line. However a Shooting Brake is a 3dr not a 5dr, a 5dr is an estate. As an aside, I can't think the last time I saw an Arteon on the road. Me neither now you mention it. As nice an idea as this is I can’t imagine it getting people out of their SUVs. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 19:22:01 GMT
I can tell you how many I've seen. Two.
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Post by Tim on Jun 25, 2020 8:33:16 GMT
You've probably all seen a lot more of them but after a quick glance not looked again and assumed it was an Audi A5.
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Post by Alex on Jun 27, 2020 9:58:43 GMT
Horrible. And why's it called a shooting brake? It's just an estate car. Agree, its definitely just an estate. I thought shooting brakes were supposed to be 3 doors not 5. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2020 11:31:53 GMT
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 27, 2020 18:41:46 GMT
A good friend of mine had one of these, except in the really BRIGHT yellow of the era. It looked like a rather large banana blancmange!! |
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 27, 2020 20:28:19 GMT
There was also an Allegro 3-door estate, but I don't think I can ever recall anyone referring to it as a shooting brake
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Post by Roadrunner on Jun 27, 2020 21:28:38 GMT
The original shooting brakes were, unsurprisingly, designed to carry people to a shoot on a country estate, but then were adopted as a utilitarian alternative to the main car for when His Lordship was 'in the country'. Often built on a quality chassis, such as Rolls-Royce, the true originals tended to have a two door body style with a crew bus configuration in the back (sideways facing bench seats), with the later country estate car for use on the country estate being a five door configuration.   |
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