This one-off Ferrari Daytona shooting brake is the most beautiful estate we've seen all year
Two of our favourite things, a Ferrari and an estate, become one
Two of our favourite things, Ferraris and estates, have collided in the most glorious way. Coachbuilder Niels van Roij Design has created a one-off Daytona Shooting Brake, transforming the classic front-engined V12 Ferrari into a hand-built, aluminium-bodied estate, and it is absolutely spectacular. This is coachbuilding as high art.
An homage to a legend
The car is a modern tribute to one of the most famous coachbuilt Ferraris ever, the Daytona Shooting Brake commissioned by Luigi Chinetti Jr in the 1970s. That original turned a Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona into a rakish estate, and became iconic partly for its clever butterfly-style rear side windows, which let you reach the cargo area even when parallel parked. Niels van Roij's homage faithfully carries that idea forward, but reinterprets it entirely in its own contemporary language.
Hand-formed, and obsessively so
The craftsmanship is extraordinary. The body is fully coachbuilt in aluminium, with every panel except the doors completely redesigned so the roofline flows into one continuous, sculptural shooting-brake volume. There is a carbon-fibre floor structure and diffuser, cognac leather draped over hand-formed aluminium inside, and those signature butterfly side windows now open electrically on precision-machined aluminium hinges. Full-width bespoke headlights use 3D-printed carbon elements to reinterpret the original's amber signature, and four exhausts exit through the carbon diffuser. All told, it took more than 15,000 hours of design and handwork.
The details go deep
It is the little things that seal it. There are hand-engraved aluminium luggage rails, polished wheels referencing 1970s spoke designs, matte silver brake calipers and a central instrument cluster echoing the original. Beneath the reshaped bodywork sits the Daytona's glorious front-mid-mounted Colombo V12, one of the all-time great Ferrari engines. Niels van Roij even had a bespoke three-piece suit made for the studio archive, tailored with cognac leather accents to match the interior, a lovely touch that shows just how total the vision was. The one-off made its public debut on 8 July 2026 at the Royal Automobile Club's Woodcote Park.
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We adore this, unreservedly. A Ferrari Daytona is already one of the most beautiful cars ever made, and turning it into a shooting brake, done this tastefully, somehow makes it even more desirable to our estate-obsessed eyes. What we love most is the restraint: it would have been so easy to overdo a project like this, yet every line, every hand-engraved rail and machined hinge feels considered. This is exactly the kind of pure, artful car-making the world needs more of, and it deserves to stand alongside modern coachbuilt greats like the Automobili Mignatta Rina and the manual Ferrari 599 GT Speciale. And any excuse to celebrate a fast Ferrari estate, from this to BMW's M3 Touring 24H racer, is fine by us. Long live the shooting brake.
