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Give Me a Shooting Brake
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Edward Niedermeyer
(IC: employee)
Published: August 13th, 2009
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At the risk of some unseemly self-congratulation, this is why you didn’t catch the hot Cayman Shooting Brake rumor here at TTAC: it’s a fake. The New York Times reveals that the hoax was perpetrated by a Top Gear USA summer intern using 3-D graphics software and a lot of spare time. And the job was well enough done to make a number of well-known car blogs look a bit foolish. Enthusiasts are such suckers!
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Published August 13th, 2009 2:28 PM
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It reminds me a bit of the Jaguar hearse "conversion" in the movie Harold and Maude.
I guess its somewhat believable since they've built a four door Porsche, and this fake brake is better looking.
@26theone : Lucky them, just have them ask BMW how well those sell. The 1-series hatch sells like hotcakes, and the 3-door version is as "shooting brake" as it gets.
I'm not sure why versus some of the other stuff that gets posted on the internet, but I knew that was a fake when I first saw it. Nice photochop though.