It's Official: A VW Arteon 'Shooting Brake' Is Happening, And It Might Have A VR6
With a massive hatchback boot and plenty of interior space, you could hardly accuse the VW Arteon of being impractical. But if you do want an even more Ikea-friendly take on the car, you’re in luck: VW has confirmed that it’s going to make a ‘shooting brake’ estate version.
As we can see via the render above from X-Tomi Design, it’s set to be a handsome thing. And potentially fast: Car Throttle was told last year that VW has been actively testing a new 3.0-litre, turbocharged VR6 engine with around 400bhp for the Arteon hatch, which - if approved for production - would inevitably end up in this estate version too.
It’s not as far fetched as it sounds, either: VW does already have a 2.5-litre turbocharged VR6 engine in the Teramont - the Chinese market version of the Atlas. A 3.0-litre engine based on VW’s unusual narrow-angle, staggered piston V6 format - which uses a single cylinder bank rather than two - would be a very good thing indeed.
As for the wagon-ified Arteon itself, there’s no indication as to when it’ll come out, but we’d expect to see it in some form before the end of the year.
Source: Auto Express
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Looks great, like all station wagons!
VW’s doing things right…
Hopefully these can kill off crossovers
Gimme gimme gimme
Hope there are no emission problems, cuz these cars are awesome
Woah
Its most pretty vw in last few years. Big fan here.
Im giving my kidney to this guy
Welp, that Kia is there to help…lol
What is the difference between shooting brake and regular wagon?
Marketing
Shooting brake has a more flowing roofline
Automotive designer Peter Horbury described the contemporary three-door shooting-brake, saying
it is not your basic two-door hatchback, a body style with different proportions: the hatchback tends to be squatty, while a shooting brake is sleek and has “a very interesting profile.” It makes use of the road space it covers a little better than a normal coupé, and also helps the rear person with headroom. Especially in America, every member of the family has their own car. The occasional use of the rear seat means you can do one of these cars, even if such a wagon lacks the everyday practicality of four doors
Wagon/Estate = 4 doors (almost always) long roof with big trunk
Shooting Brake = 2 doors (being true to the name) with a similar, long roof line w/ a big trunk.
So Mercedes E63 AMG = wagon/estate, and Ferrari GTC4Lusso = REAL shooting brake.
4 door coupe = NONSENSE. IT’S CALLED A SEDAN. 4 DOORS = SEDAN, 2 DOORS = COUPE.
Mercedes CLS = NONSENSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
A real Passat R36 successor at last
I really wish people would stop calling estates ‘shooting brakes’, its not the same thing…
Agreed, I have an A4 Avant B8 and it looks identical to this side on. In a very broad sense, isn’t a shooting brake essentially a 2 door estate with a lower drop toward the back?
They are called shooting brakes because they’re a mix of estate and “coupe”.. the “coupe part” are the frameless windows, so it’s not just marketing
Oooo