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Originally Posted by Cyberdemon
As someone who studied car design in school this always annoyed me - a shooting brake is intended to be a long roof 2 door, think Ferrari FF or M Coupe. At some point in time people decided they would try to steal that fancy term and replace it because "Wagon" was bad marketing and American's don't know what an estate is.
If it has 4 doors and a big hatch it's a wagon.
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+1, good history.
Here's another one: The word "Coupe" originally meant
2-door instead of "sedan with not enough rear head room."
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I love a wagon, but the extra ground clearance on an SUV is handy, so it just makes more sense.
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I dunno man.
I love an SUV, but the lower center of gravity and load floor on a wagon is handy, so it just makes more sense. I do after all, go around corners more often than I go offroad.