Yes, this really is a Porsche 944 Shooting Brake

CarPoint founder once drove a 924 wagon; now he's offering the GT-K44 as an incredible conversion

By Matt Bird / Wednesday, 30 September 2026 / Loading comments

While the Shooting Brake name has been sullied of late with the badge on four-door estates - looking at you, Mercedes - a true SB remains a thing of wonder. A two-door estate is such a bizarre idea, but a compelling one in reality: long and low like a coupe, with space for a dog. See the Lynx Eventer and Aston Martin DB5 for proof.

Now there’s another, the CarPoint GT-K44. Which sounds like a finance agreement, but is actually a Porsche 944 Shooting Brake. Looks as cool as it sounds, too. It represents the realisation of a dream held by CarPoint founder Andreas Freund for 40 years, having driven a similarly specified 924 Turbo in the mid-80s converted by Günter Artz. Freund shared the memory and the idea with designer friend Michael Söhngen; he came up with a design study for Freund’s birthday, an Oak Green 944 Shooting Brake with Pasha upholstery. Totally beguiled by what his pal had created, Freund set about making the real thing - and now it will be offered to paying customers.

To create a 944 Shooting Brake ‘almost as though it could have been an unrealised factory derivative’ requires plenty of work. The B-pillars have to be modified to accommodate the much larger windows and much longer roof, the rear wings are rebuilt and the boot glass is obviously different. Indeed it’s unsurprisingly suggested that the rear treatment is ‘particularly complex’, making an estate tailgate work with the new metalwork - and keeping it looking like a 944. But it certainly seems successful from here, even if a 944 estate (with a hatch opening a long way back in the roof) might take some getting used to. Those unmistakable lights and not too much glass make the CarPoint very convincing. It’s several hundred hours of work well spent.

And while this is a bold new direction for the company, it’s well-versed in classic car conversion; alongside a catalogue of classic car parts made in-house, CarPoint previously built an air-conditioned, V8-powered Jaguar MkII, a Sebring-spec MG B and even an Austin Healey 3000 estate. The difference now is the ambition to build a few, rather than a one-off.

For €100,000 plus taxes (and a donor car), CarPoint will build a 944 Shooting Brake just like this one. Or however you’d like it: “We can’t make it fly - but almost anything else is possible” added Freund. So if you want an automatic (and can find a donor), then that’s fine; ditto a Turbo, or presumably a 924 as well. While CarPoint says that the 944 coupe ‘should already correspond as closely as possible to the desired final specification in terms of engine, transmission, colour and equipment’, there’s a whole lot of personalisation possibilities on offer as well. The company can sort suspension upgrades, more performance, sat nav, better sound systems, all the way to an ‘extensive redesign of the interior’ - Pepita or tartan can be had, for example, though you know everyone will go for Pasha (with matching luggage)…

This is a German restomod, too, so it’s done very properly indeed. This two-door, two-plus-two 944 Shooting Brake (note the rear bench) has already been inspected by ‘an officially recognised expert’ to ensure the conversion is ‘in accordance with Section 21 of the German Road Traffic Licensing Regulations.’ It’s legitimate alright, not a nice render with vague plans and a need for deposits. Of course the idea of a six-figure 944 estate is going to be extremely niche interest, but look at where the restomod scene has ended up: those willing to pay their money can have pretty much anything they want, from Diablo to Datsun. So there’ll surely be one or two takers for the CarPoint GT-K44. Donor cars are still from £10k, too…