# Another Brit Q: What's a "shooting brake"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-brit-q-whats-a-shooting-brake/66537 "2001-05-26T02:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-brit-q-whats-a-shooting-brake/66537/1 "2001-05-26T02:24:34Z")
I’ve seen pictures of cars in British car magazines that refer to the model as being a “shooting brake”. What the heck is that? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-brit-q-whats-a-shooting-brake/66537/2 "2001-05-26T02:45:42Z")
The Shooting Break, or _Break de Chasse_ as the French tend to call them, is a type of station wagon, but usually a three door design. Its purpose (well, allegedly) is to serve as some sort of fancy vehicle to take to a hunt. Mind you, just to GET there, and carry the assorted guns and whatnot. The [Lynx Eventer](http://www.lynxmotors.co.uk/eventer.htm), based on the Jaguar XJ, is a particularly nice example. ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-brit-q-whats-a-shooting-brake/66537/3 "2001-05-26T07:19:21Z")
Shooting Break- very sixties, very middle class; quite quaint. Haven’t heard it used for years. Brits tend to call station wagons ‘Estate Cars’ or ‘Estates’- one assumes again as a middle class affection- a car to travel round an estate- a large country section of land. Of course, one tends to find them more on ‘Estates’ - a large collection of public housing.