"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
03/07/2016 at 09:26 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
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Justin Hughes
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:28 |
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Shooting brake? It’s a 2-door...
MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:29 |
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Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:29 |
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It’s almost cool but kinda lame at the same time.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:35 |
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As long as there’s a duramax diesel in it, I’m okay with this
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:37 |
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It fails the front of door to wheel distance >= back of door to wheel distance test for being a true shooting brake, which makes it more of a two door wagon.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:38 |
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it would be awesome if there was a fifth wheel in the rear and could tow a trailer.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> OPPOsaurus WRX
03/07/2016 at 09:44 |
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There’s a 100% chance this thing is still FWD.
yitznewton
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 09:49 |
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Moar pics:
V6, FWD
http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php…
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/07/2016 at 09:55 |
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I counted; you spent 32 words saying what you should have said in two words: “It fails.”
What is a
shooting brake
?
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/07/2016 at 10:01 |
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Shooting brake, modern terms: a coupe-platform “station wagon”-like setup, which is shorter than a “normal” station wagon. A Callaway Corvette would be an example, as would a Volvo 1800ES:
On Oppo a while back, we tried to develop a dividing line between two door wagons and brakes, and door position was what we came up with.
V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/07/2016 at 11:29 |
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Kill it with fire?????
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/07/2016 at 11:50 |
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How about,
not enough car behind the driver’s door post for another door before you get to the rear wheel
? This is most likely the essence of what you were saying earlier, and the white Buick is
not
a shooting break.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/07/2016 at 11:58 |
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That’s pretty much it. A two-door wagon that has two doors because it *couldn’t* have more. There are those models which engaged in some level of cheating, however. As an example, the two-door Falcon wagon sort of hits your criterion, but only because the doors on two-door models were much longer than on the four door models. The wheelbase and internal layout were identical between the two... With the longer doors, it *almost* hits the criterion of more body space to the wheel than in front, but not quite.
The body distance/door rule is not without its flaws, of course. For one, anything with crazy levels of front end foreshortening gets in trouble, even if it obviously should be called a shooting brake:
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
03/07/2016 at 12:23 |
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I totally get it. My wife and I have always liked wagons (Subaru Outback!) for their obvious utility. However, I prefer sedans because they have a boot where I can secure things. And there is a social element to a four-door sedan: I like the idea of several people sitting comfortably in an automobile, enjoying a ride and each others’ company.
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/07/2016 at 12:41 |
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After renting a modern hatch for a week on a trip to the UK, I can state that I prefer sedans and wagons to them unreservedly. For one, I constantly curb things and turn in if I’m driving something with the wheels all the way at the back corners, and they’re harder to park for a given length. For two, I really am not a fan of having all my storage space vertically arranged, even if it’s more on paper. For three, there’s only so much of the modern short-tail hatch I can stand to look at - after about two days on the road I was holding out hope for the rare German fullsize or Citroen Picasso van to break the tedium.
With a shooting brake, you have something that’s a coupe more or less, with little consideration given to the rear seat if any so the front comfort is optimized, and what storage space there is is not a little tall closet on the tail of the car, but more like a pickup truck. It’s not a sedan, so it’s no good for more than two full grown people, but it has its advantages. I absolutely get the four door sedan idea, but there are so few with enough room for adults these days - it’s one reason I crush on big land-barges and that I bought Jared Rose’s ‘59 Lincoln to get back on the road.