The Porsche Shooting Brake Story: From Lost Prototypes to Production Cars

For several decades, Porsche’s core, like that of many other manufacturers, has constantly lived with the tension of being a sports car maker tempted by practicality or new technologies. If you had asked old-guard Porsche purists thirty or forty years ago whether they thought their beloved marque would produce a water-cooled 911, a family vehicle like the Cayenne, or an all-electric Porsche, they wouldn’t have believed it. These ideas were outrageous to the point of sacrilege, but they happened.

The same goes for the shooting-brake Porsche, a coupe roofline with a hatchback or estate rear. The Porsche shooting brake was an aspirational format that took almost fifty years to materialize, when the Panamera Sport Turismo arrived in 2017, and solidified its position in the market with the arrival of the Taycan Sport Turismo and Cross Turismo variants, part of Porsche’s current lineup. From one-offs to concept cars and production cars, this is the story of the Porsche shooting brake.