Cars That Looked Best/Worst as an Estate

[r11co]

Seeing as the estate car seems to be a dying product thanks to it being gradually edged out by the oversized SUVs, as the title says - what cars are/were best rendered by their manufacturers* as an estate version, and which were horrid?

(*Means no shooting brake coachwork specials, so anyone posting the Lynx Eventer or that horrid DB5 thing or similar gets a red card!)

Here's my starters for 10...

Best:







Worst:

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 24th February 17:33

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Dave Hedgehog said:

one of the best ever imo

Good shout. Keep 'em coming.

The field is open as even ugly cars that looked best as estates, and great looking cars ruined by having a lardy squareback count!

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 24th February 17:38

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sheepman said:

worst

I might call you on that one as while the hatch was quite pretty the saloon was a minger too..



On second thoughts, the estate edges it.

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The Flying Ox said:

Worst:

Read the OP - no coachbuilt specials. Only cars that came like that from the factory!

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Pobsmate said:

The most beautiful estate surely?

Missed the point of the thread. Not asking if an estate is good looking or not. Instead asking if it shades the other variants of the same car in the looks department or is in fact the minger of the breed, so in the case of the DS I think fail...

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 24th February 23:36

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F1GTRUeno said:

I knew people would post the 159 and they're all wrong because the saloon looks miles, miles better.

But...

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 24th February 23:32

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Mark-C said:

Yeah but the OP used the word "horrible" in front of the words"Lynx Eventer" ... so WTF do they know?

Yeah, and the OP is me so I make the rules

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AKA PABS said:

Best small estate has to be

Again missed the point. Was this really the best looking of the Z3's? Jury's still out on that one...

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 24th February 23:11

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Yiliterate said:

Ugliest and yet easily the coolest:

WTF is that?? And, did it come as a saloon?

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DanielSan said:

F1GTRUeno said:

The Brera is the worst looking of the lot by virtue of the side profile and fat arse.

And the fact it's a coupe not an Estate, like the Z3M.

Whoosh parrot for that man. Is the Brera the best looking of the 159 series?

A repeat of the brief - this is not about the best/worst looking estates. It is a question of whether the estate variant of a car was the best/worst looking of that car range. The Citroen DS for example might have been a good looking estate, but it was not the best looking DS. Gottit?

Pebbles167 said:

Best

Although I do quite like this generation Megane in the sporty Renaultsport trims (especially the R26) it was pretty ugly. The only time it had nice lines was in estate form:



Worst

Whereas this generation Clio looked great as a hatch, but honking as an estate.

This is how the game is played!

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 25th February 07:20

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shake n bake said:

Ugliest estate/saloon of all time

Sorry, are you telling us that variant looks worse than this variant....?

Coatesy351 said:

This looks better than the sedan because the back is the same as the old one.

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Pobsmate said:

No way! The safari DS is so much cooler and better looking than the convertible!

Again, missing the point. Not asking which was the best looking variant, just asking if the estate was at the top or bottom of the pile. If one variant out of a range of three was either better or worse looking than the estate then the entire range does not deserve to be in this thread, which is why this...



and this...



both qualify for being the worst and best of a bad bunch respectively.

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 25th February 12:59

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telecat said:

Surely the V60 should have been included.

As best or worst of the line?

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neil1jnr said:

poing said:

For a mundane modern car from Korea I think this looks pretty good.

+1, probably the nicest estate I've seen on this thread from side profile.

Irrelevant. The question you should be asking is does it look better than this.?



This thread is not about the best/worst looking estate cars. That has been done before and I was trying to give this thread some longevity, so here's the rules explained in a different way. Any car posted is only in competition with its siblings from the same range/generation/manufacturer, so (for example) is the BMW E91 the best/worst of the E9x's? It is irrelevant whether it is better/worse looking than anything else. This is why the Ford Scorpio posted above wins a 'Best' award despite it still being a minger, and why the DS posted previously gets a 'Worst' award despite being quite good looking as it is the least attractive of its family.

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 25th February 14:33

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Pebbles167 said:

Suggest changing the header in first post to read:

Post cars that looked better (or worse) as an estate.

I am not seeing how that is significantly different to the existing title (in fact it is practically identical barring the addition of one word and the use of brackets).

Pebbles167 said:

I think the title causes people to assume you're generally after good looking or horrible estate cars. Hence you're having to patiently explain it ever 5th post.

If you've read any of the 'facelift' threads you will know the issue is more likely to be PEBCAK.

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Pebbles167 said:

Agreed. Although your use of the words 'best' and 'worst' lead people to quickly conclude that you want nice/ugly estates. If a thread title change were an option it would be easier, but it's not, so maybe a bold header would do the trick.

Ah, right - I see where you are going, but I was specifically trying to root out where people thought the stylists of a car did their best work on the estate version, and conversely where it was left to the engineer with not a clue about aesthetics to graft a glass box on the back! This rules out where the estate looks better than the saloon but not as good as the hatch, for example....

Yuk...


Better...


Better stil...

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 25th February 15:02

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SPD14 said:

Bad: B8 A4 Saloon



I've never been a fan of saloon cars, they always look a bit too 'big in the rear' for my liking.

Has no place in this thread based on any interpretation. Frickin' hell. This is either sheer ignorance or illiteracy.

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Rickyy said:

Always quite liked this generation Primera, but someone put zero effort into designing the estate!

Good shout.

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lickatysplit said:

ok ok, I know its an MPV but...................

This wasn't made in any other bodystyle. The Rhodius is becoming the PH version of Godwin's Law.

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Pebbles167 said:

r11co said:

That's been coming out quite a lot over the course of the thread!

And I did say it would in the OP, talking of which..

The Badger said:

Not a factory car so

Edited by r11co on Wednesday 25th February 23:23