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NEED MORE BENTLEY? VGD is the one to see.(News)(the Von Genaddi Design Shooting Brake)(Brief Article)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
What's the difference between a shooting brake, an estate wagon and a station wagon? Price, naturally. Any ramble through your local paper's automobile classifieds will return any number of Olds Vista Cruiser station wagons priced in the hundreds of dollars. But why spend hundreds on a wagon when you can spend hundreds of thousands on a shooting brake?
For those willing to spend, consider the Von Genaddi Design (VGD) Shooting Brake, a customized Bentley with a little more "Ar'' in the Arnage.
"Why move down, or I should say, why move over to a Mercedes or an Audi (wagon) when this is the vehicle you're accustomed to,'' asked VGD founder Mark Gerisch rhetorically.
Gerisch, who has been in the ...
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