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A horse-drawn shooting brake was a variation of the break (also spelled brake).Originally built as a simple but heavy frame for breaking in young horses to drive, over time it became a gentleman-driven vehicle and was popular for such aristocratic sports as shooting parties.
The brake was a four-wheel hydraulically operated drum brake. The front suspension was a coil spring with Houdaille hydraulic shock absorbers and a stabilizer bar. The rear ones with transverse leaf springs, Houdaille hydraulic shock absorbers, and a stabilizer bar. [5] A trellis structure was used for the frame. The body was made of aluminum. [6]
At the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Touring Bentley Continental Flying Star premiered: a shooting-brake model based on the Bentley Continental GTC, [8] coach built in limited series, with the endorsement of Bentley. [9] In 2011, it was followed by Gumpert Tornante by Touring, [10] a superfast Grand Tourer commissioned by the German sports car ...
A driver who responded to being cut off by shooting at a woman’s car and then turning and firing at bystanders in Washington, D.C., was sentenced Monday to over 32 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Similar shooting brake designs were used on later Ferrari concept cars and production cars such as the 456 GT Venice and the Ferrari FF. In 2018, Niels van Roij, car designer and coachbuilder, was commissioned to create an homage vehicle. A Ferrari 550 Maranello was the base vehicle. The design and realisation of the vehicle was documented and ...
The Maserati Bora (Tipo AM117) is a two-seat, rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car and grand tourer, manufactured by Maserati from 1971 to 1978. In common with other Maserati cars of the era, it is named after a wind, Bora being the wind of Trieste .
Maserati GranTurismo, a 2007–2019 Italian sports car, abbreviated as Maserati GT; ATS GT, a 2019-present Italian sports car; McLaren GT, a 2019-present British sports car; Jensen GT, a 1975-1976 British sports shooting brake; Hennessey Venom GT, a 2011-2017 American sports car; Dino 206 GT and 246 GT, 1967-1974 Italian sports cars
The shooting brake design, with its folding rear seats, gives the Ferrari FF a boot capacity of 450 litres (16 cu ft), which can be expanded to 800 litres (28 cu ft) when the rear seats are lowered. [36] The car's suspension is known as the "SCM3", a magnetorheological self-adjusting damping system. The FF includes Brembo's carbon ceramic brakes.