Shooting-brake originated as an early 19th century British term for a vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game.

** Shooting-brake, originally a brake ( as above ) pressed into temporary service for transporting shooting parties and their equipment, later purpose built-see wagonette and later still a station wagon and currently also used ( originally as an absurdity ) for a high speed variant of a station wagon.

The BMW M Coupe is a Shooting-brake styled high-performance automobile produced by BMW.

In addition to the roadster version of the Z3, BMW also released a coupé featuring a chassis-stiffening rear hatch area, though the Shooting-brake styling this gave was controversial.

This evolved in the late 1990s into the treatment of other parts ( that did more than just increase the life of a product ) such as amplifier valves ( improved sound quality ), baseball bats ( greater sweet spot ), golf clubs ( greater sweet spot ), racing engines ( greater performance under stress ), firearms ( less warping after continuous shooting ), knives, razor blades, brake rotors and even pantyhose.

According to the DVD extras documentary for the movie The Shooting Party ( 1985 ), in the very first shot of the very first day of filming, all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield who was playing Sir Randolph Nettleby, were to come into shot on a horse-drawn shooting brake driven by the well-known film horse-master George Mossman.

Now out of control, the horses turned to the right when confronted by a stone wall causing the shooting brake to roll completely, catapulting the actors into a pile of scaffolding that had been stacked next to the wall.

Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie stated in his history of James's reign that " as the King stood near a piece of artillery, his thigh bone was dug in two with a piece of misframed gun that brake in shooting, by which he was stricken to the ground and died hastily.

In France almost all station wagon models are called the Break ( note the different spelling from the English shooting brake ).

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Daimler Motor Company # Motors, launches, cars | Daimler shooting brake 6 hp, twin-cylinder, 1526 cc engine, mounted at the front of the car, four-speed gearbox and chain drive manufactured Coventry 1897 in Britain's first series production run Louwman Museum

Daimler 6 hp twin-cylinder shooting brake 1897 example

Healey Westland shooting brake, about 1950.

The Vanquish was the basis of two concept cars, both shown at the International Geneva Motor Show in 2004, the Zagato Roadster ( a 2-seat convertible ) and the Bertone Jet 2 ( a 2-door shooting brake ).

The 2006 Renault Altica concept was described as a shooting brake, and in 2010, Mercedes presented its concept Shooting Brake.

At the time of its introduction, a journalist commented that the Magnum looked " like a European ' shooting brake ' custom fabricated for a car nut like the Sultan of Brunei ’ s kid brother.

Lynx also produced 67 hand-built two-door estate / shooting brake / station wagon versions of the XJS marketed under the name of " Lynx Eventer ".

* Website about XJS Eventer, shooting brake by Lynx.

From 1991 to 1992, Subaru displayed the Amadeus, a prototype shooting brake variation on the SVX, in both two-and four-door versions, which was considered for production.

DB5 shooting brake

A prototype DB5 shooting brake was custom produced by the factory for David Brown, an avid hunter and dog owner, and 11-12 more coupés were custom modified for Aston Martin by independent coachbuilder, Harold Radford.

Wolseley 25 shooting brake 1937 Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California

The 250 GT Drogo's unusual shooting brake design was used on some concept cars and limited production cars such as 365 GTC / 4 and 456 GT Venice.

The Ferrari FF, the company's first full production shooting brake, also uses this design.

The ideal pattern would be a circle with an even distribution of shot throughout, with a density sufficient to ensure enough pellets will intersect the target to achieve the desired result, such as a kill when hunting or a break when shooting clay targets.

His methods encouraged many future television comedians to break away from conventional studio-bound shooting styles, as demonstrated by shows such as Green Wing, Little Britain and The League of Gentlemen.

During a break in filming in 1990, Binoche spent five days shooting Mara for Mike Figgis, based on Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy.

On many of his appearances on the show, Willis stages elaborate jokes, such as wearing a day-glo orange suit in honor of the Central Park gates, having one side of his face made up with simulated buckshot wounds after the Harry Whittington shooting, or trying to break a record ( parody of David Blaine ) of staying underwater for only twenty seconds.

Because the yumi is a very strong bow, and repeated usage tends to weaken the tsuru ( bowstring ), it is not uncommon for a tsuru to break during shooting.

Cronkite had been standing at the United Press International wire machine in the CBS newsroom as the bulletin of the President's shooting broke and he clamored to get on the air to break the news.

Having shared antecedents with the British shooting-brake ( originally a wooden-bodied vehicle used to carry shooting parties with their equipment and game ), station wagons have been marketed as breaks, using the French term ( which is sometimes given fully as break de chasse, literally " hunting break.

During the eight-month shoot he learned Czech and first began to refuse to break character on or off the set for the entire shooting schedule.

Skeet shooting is a recreational and competitive activity where participants, using shotguns, attempt to break clay disks automatically flung into the air from two fixed stations at high speed from a variety of angles.

Bohemund's knights were impetuous-although ordered to stand ground, small groups of knights would periodically break ranks and charge, only to be slaughtered or forced back as the Turkish horses fell back beyond range of their swords and arrows, while still shooting at them with arrows, killing many of the knights ' horses out from under them.

As this happened on a Friday, the weekend break allowed time for the swelling to go down ; Shatner, however, required additional makeup to hide the stings during shooting the following Monday.

In the extreme peculiarity that the final shot leaves only the cue ball on the table ( i. e. a player has pocketed his opponent's ball and inadvertently his own ball in a single shot ) 1 ball of each set will be placed at the break mark and the shooting player continues.

During shooting, the best boy may also cover for the key grip or gaffer when he / she is on break or otherwise away from set.

With its cover-plate removed during a shooting break, double-amputee actor Mark Persons is visible inside the tiny Drone 1 ( Dewey ) costume

As part of the Warriors ' attack, Hardaway was responsible for leading Run TMC's fast break, displaying his excellent passing and one-on-one skills to complement Richmond's slashing and Mullin's shooting.

To break the deadlock, the " Bullets and Bracelets " event is decided as the tiebreaker, where each of the women take turns shooting at the other ; the one being shot at must deflect the bullets with their bulletproof bracelets.

Pininfarina extended the Fiat 130 Coupé line with two proposals that were rejected by Fiat: the Maremma in 1974 ( 2-door shooting break ) and the Opera in 1975 ( 4-door saloon ).

The Golden Dragon Chinese restaurant at the Taj, those days, was quite famous for pork delicacies and every time I got a break from shooting, I would rush off to the Golden Dragon.

For example, if Player A breaks and makes two balls on the break ( not including the 9 ball ), that player would have 2 points for the rack and continue shooting.

He was desperate to put some of his ideas on film and with the collaboration of his friend and partner Sean Stanek, the two embarked on shooting a short film to break the ice and display some of their talents.

At the All-Star break, Lee had averaged 11. 1 points on 61. 05 % shooting ( first in the league ), an 80. 0 % free throw percentage, 10. 8 rebounds ( 8th in NBA ) and 1. 8 assists in 30. 9 minutes a game. On February 16, 2007, Lee, playing for the Sophomores, was named the Most Valuable Player in the Rookie Challenge, finishing with 30 points on 14 of 14 shooting from the field and 11 rebounds.