Breadvan!!??!!

[mahesket]

I just fancied a little rant, why all of a sudden have people started reffering to every car with a squarish rear as a "Breadvan" first three threads i read this morning i have seen, EP3 CTR, 145 Cloverleaf and even a Z3M called "Breadvan"

Its similar to when everyone was calling thie estate car a "Wagon".

Sorry just need to vent a bit on a friday morn.

Matt

Edited by mahesket on Friday 13th January 09:31

[Hartge210]

My dad usd to call estate cars a 'shooting brake'

[Codswallop]

I thought that the Z3M Coupe was the car that originially made the 'breadvan' term a popular descriptive for some cars. But yes, it's a daft trend when applied to many cars (although I find it endearing when enthusiasts use it to refer to the Z3M).

[mahesket]

Hartge210 said:

My dad usd to call estate cars a 'shooting brake'

Nice, i like that one.

[crofty1984]

Because they look like a breadvan?
Apart from hearses, then the term is "Deadvan".

I like the Mk2 Polo Breadvan.

[p4cks]

mahesket said:

I just fancied a little rant, why all of a sudden have people started reffering to every car with a squarish rear as a "Breadvan" first three threads i read this morning i have seen, EP3 CTR, 145 Cloverleaf and even a Z3M called "Breadvan"

Although the term breadvan was originally coined for the Ferrari 250GT, it has been used more recently to describe similar looking cars.



The Z3MC couldn't be any more of a 'breadvan' if it tried.

[mahesket]

Codswallop said:

I thought that the Z3M Coupe was the car that originially made the 'breadvan' term a popular descriptive for some cars. But yes, it's a daft trend when applied to many cars (although I find it endearing when enthusiasts use it to refer to the Z3M).

I just thought that the most bizare one of all? i really like the Z3M and think that its a cracking looking car for a BMW, just "Breadvan" WTF??

I remeber the old VW Polo from the 80's used to be called a "Breadvan" i can understand that.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Hartge210 said:

My dad usd to call estate cars a 'shooting brake'

shooting brake normally refers to expensive, fast cars that have had an estate like bit bolted on the back, something you can get the guns, a few bottles of shampas and the pheasants in

this is the very definition of a shooting brake

http://www.ferrari.com/English/GT_Sport%20Cars/Cur...

[Hartge210]

[bebee]

They've been using that term for years!

[El Capitano]

Its nothing new....... 250 GT Drogo I have always known as the 250 'bread van'



edit - Damn definately took too long to write that post!

[mahesket]

El Capitano said:

Its nothing new....... 250 GT Drogo I have always known as the 250 'bread van'



edit - Damn definately took too long to write that post!

I undersatnd this one but the CTR and Z3M? really CTR just a hatch not completely square backed and the Z3M? don't see it at all!

Plus love the pic above with the baker and bread.

[JAHetfield]

I have a little Mk2 Polo Breadvan, love it.

Never understood how the term came about though. I just assumed bakerys used them for deliveries at a time?

[DanDC5]

The CTR has been called the breadvan pretty much since it came out for some reason. Just one of those things, it's certainly not a new nickname.

[hornetrider]

mahesket said:

I just thought that the most bizare one of all? i really like the Z3M and think that its a cracking looking car for a BMW, just "Breadvan" WTF??

Z3M Coupe has been called the Breadvan since the dawn of time. Get over it.

[Rude-boy]

mahesket said:

I undersatnd this one but the CTR and Z3M? really CTR just a hatch not completely square backed and the Z3M? don't see it at all!

Plus love the pic above with the baker and bread.

I don't see the CTR one at all.

Z3M Coupes will always be breadvans to me, just like CSL's will always be Batmobiles.

[mahesket]

DanDC5 said:

The CTR has been called the breadvan pretty much since it came out for some reason. Just one of those things, it's certainly not a new nickname.

It does seem i'm a little late to the party with all the Breadvan nick names being kicked about. Ah Well got something of my chest

[The Black Flash]

mahesket said:

Hartge210 said:

My dad usd to call estate cars a 'shooting brake'

Nice, i like that one.

A very old term that's been around since the begining of cars. Though seems to mean different things to different people.

[900T-R]

mahesket said:

I just fancied a little rant, why all of a sudden have people started reffering to every car with a squarish rear as a "Breadvan" first three threads i read this morning i have seen, EP3 CTR, 145 Cloverleaf and even a Z3M called "Breadvan"

Its similar to when everyone was calling thie estate car a "Wagon".

In my book, a wagon/estate has four doors and a tailgate, the above have 2 doors (which would indicate hatchback/coupé) and a square box from the B-post rearwards.

Calling the 145 and EP3 'breadvans' is stretching it IMO, they're just hatchbacks with the Honda suffering the additional indignity of being of OAP-friendly height.

[Hoofy]

mahesket said:

even a Z3M

Amusingly, the first time I discovered the phrase was in Car magazine's review of the Z3M vs the Cerbera Speed 6 back in 1865.