New CLS Shooting Brake or XF Sportbrake? And is either really any better than a regular estate from Audi or BMW? Andrew Frankel finds the answers in Wales. 'Shooting Brake' is one of those terms that won't sit still. Its origins lie in a form of wagon tied to young horses in order to 'break' them but was then adopted by the infant motor industry to describe the kind of conveyance that might take parties game hunting on their land. It was then cast out to market niches because it was less of a mouthful just to use the word for that land and call them 'estates' instead. And there the term sat, describing a curious and scarce breed of three-door estates such as the Volvo 1800ES and Reliant Scimitar. Not that Ferrari would, but it would be historically accurate to call the FF a Shooting Brake.
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