1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
Cars and Transportation

Compact: Mercedes CLA Shooting Brake

03:09

This browser does not support the video element.

November 11, 2015

Compared to Mercedes’ classic station wagon range the Shooting Brake is a more stylish affair, combining design and practical transportation.

Unlike the car maker's classic estate car, known internally as the T-Model, the Shooting Brake is clearly more a Lifestyle station wagon that fuses design and roomy practicality. Visually, it inherits the contours of the coupé and lets them flow gracefully into the hatch of a station wagon's rear. But is the design as practical as it is striking? Drive It! tested the compact with the curvaceous rear for its handling and spaciousness.

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW