Lamborghini Estoque four-door concept leaked
October 2, 2008 by George Skentzos
It’s official, Lamborghini may well have built the worlds best looking four-door concept car but at this stage, it is only a concept and therefore lags behind the Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide.
My bet is though, that Lambo boss, Stephan Winkleman has already given a green light to the Estoque and we can’t wait for it to go into production in Sant’Agata.
Make no mistake, the Estoque is a sports car in true Lamborghini style and DNA: “extreme, uncompromising and unmistakably Italian”
Four seats and ample luggage space, this four door Lamborghini is billed as an “everyday Sports car”.
You’ll have to agree, it’s a superb looking car. Long wheelbase, low profile and a feast of Lamborghini accents, none more obvious than the 23-inch rear wheels.
It’s the first time in the company’s history that they have built a sedan and its fair to say that some diehard supporters of the brand may not like the idea of Lamborghini and four doors in the same sentence. Boo-hoo to them.
Lamborghini haven’t specified a driveline for the Estoque but there are a number of tantalising possibilities. The V-10 from the Gallardo LP 560-4 would be hard to go past, given its significant torque output and permanent all-wheel drive.
There’s is also talk of a turbocharged V8 derived form the Gallardo but even more interesting, is the idea of a V8 hybrid or super high performance turbo diesel. Whatever they choose, you can guarantee it won’t be underpowered.
The design accents are all Lamborghini from the Y-shape LED rear light clusters and hexagonal fuel caps on both sides of the car.
You’ll also notice the the small Italian flag on the front wings. We love that Italian heritage stuff.
Lamborghini are talking about comfort for four people over long distances, so you can assume that there will be plenty of legroom and space with four individual seats, which will be electrically adjustable.
High-end Nappa leather is the upholstery of choice and a large LCD screen will control vehicle and route information. A top shelf audio unit and rear seat entertainment system will be included in the package.
The new category of super sports sedans just got hotter with the Lamborghini Estoque concept. Let’s hope a new production line at Sant’Agata is already busy building it.
Original Article
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After weeks of tantalising teasers and rampant speculation, Lamborghini has finally unintentionally unveiled its latest concept – the Estoque.
Our earlier predictions have been confirmed, with the Estoque boasting a four-door, front-engined layout as Lamborghini’s response to the Rapide and Panamera.
These first official images of the entire concept were leaked earlier today by a French website, much to the dismay of Lamborghini who no doubt had a few more teasers lined up.
Added speculation continues to suggest the Estoque will borrow the 560hp V10 engine from the LP560-4, along with part of its design DNA.
The front splitter is pure LP560-4 whilst the rear tail lights are unmistakably Reventon in origin.
For now this is merely educated speculation; however the full details will be released tomorrow when the Paris Auto Show begins.
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Wow. I like that alot! I think that this, the Rapide or Quattroporte would be the coolest family cars in the world.
On the other hand, I feel that it is a rather bizarre design which looks like the work of a teenage boy with too much time on his hands!
That’s exactly the point. If not flamboyant, what’s the point really? Might as well save your pennies and get a Corolla.
beautiful
i’m always interested in where the Italian makers derive their names from.
It seems though this one ‘Estroque’ is a bit odd and appears firstly as a US-Spanish medical term mean ‘stroke’ or secondly to describe the swing/arc of a bat or racquet.
I would prefer they continue with refs to famous bull fighters or tractor drivers………….
Still, it looks a worthy stablemate to the LP-560.
Definately well done. How to keep th family line but in proportion. Seems you can have a family and a supercar after all.:-)
@WVB
estroque means the sword that kills the bull in a fight
i think its rather cool
TBH I think it’s fugly. Don’t like it at all. The angles just don’t do it for me…
Give me a Rapide over that any day – even a Quattroporte for that matter.
Lambo is going lowbrow…
I might just reserve judgement for a little while yet. From some angles it looks great, from others it looks like the current Dodge Charger, which is hardly a good thing. The teaser images promised so much too. Maybe with a set of larger, more expressive, Reventon-esqe headlights I could be swayed, but even then it’s just an iffy design, better than the Pamamera in proportion, but still a long way from the beauty of the Rapide.
i think its a great idea for lambo to be branching out. i like concept of a four door, supercar derived, family car. so far it seems that only austin martin has got it right. by keeping the parts that we love about A-M’s but adding the practicallity of a four door (without making it just look like a stretched out db9). to me this lambo doesnt scream out supercar bread. the horizontal lights just dont work. lambo has made things to compicated in this car.
Stunning car. I’m sure the Sultan of Brunei will get one for each of his wives.
detailing is very nice, but as a whole it just doesn’t work…looks a hell of a lot better than the panamera, which isn’t hard, but has nothing on the looks of the rapide. not quite sure why lamborghini feel the need to get into this segment though…
They could have made it beautiful, but it looks brutish instead.
My money was on this car to be an Espada or Marzal recreation. I’m wrong, as it turns out. They were beautiful.
They are just seeing the public reaction before making it a production car, so many companies do that with these concepts now.
hmmmmmmm…you beauty……
however in the blink of eyes in front it looks like RX-8 with Lambo Bumper, and rear looks like Alfa 156…
But it is a beauty…..
Too out of proportion for my liking.
The front looks weird, doesn\’t mesh with the rest of the car. The side profile looks good and the rear looks quite good too. Not the prettiest thing in the world though – yet still beautiful.
8/10
This is taking away from the exclusive catagory of “supercar” and merging it with “family sedan”. I dont know of anybody who will throw the kids in the back and go for a fang around the streets. I believe the entire point of owning such an exclusive vehicle is to escape your own reality and just become totally consumed by the experience of you, the road and your own supercar……. then little johnny in the back seat starts crying because he dropped his ice cream all over the Italian leather………… no thanks
Ill wait to the production version is shown to make my verdict, but it doesn’t look too bad. The side profile has a muscle car rear with a supercar front.
Love the wheels though.
To be honest i don’t like it.
it looks as tho they chucked a bunch of parts together to make into a lambo comcept.
its got that bentley feel and look about it “long evil” with “alfa-ish” brakelights Quote: “Edd-rear looks like Alfa 156″
the front is rounded sort of to be like the ferrari, the lights and so on if u compare it to some models of the make.
in all the whole feel about the car just doesnt come together- sleak and long at the front short and round to the back doesnt match
TBH i think it looks gr8, looks mean, and definately is different, has a few angles that may need touching up but still is a new way of going for performance and for lambo too. Oh and its called the “ESTO QUE” not ESTRO QUE like a few here have called it, estroque sounds like its a chick about to have her time of month.
BTW The rapide is just a stretched out AM thats all..nothing new about that design…And dont get me started on the PANAMERA…Shiit dont make me laugh,what an UGLY MOFO car that is….
Id say that it would have the V8, as i don’t think the front is long enough for a V10, but i may be wrong.
Marcos, yes the Rapide is just a stretched out AM but for mine AM has always screamed luxury grand tourer sports cars – a gentlemans supercar if you will, as opposed to the likes of ferrari and lamborghini which are more balls out, hard core supercars. For that reason, the idea of a streched out 4 door AM sits far better with me than a streched out 4 door lamborghini. An UGLY streched out 4 door lamborghini at that. IMO they’re lessening the brand by doing it – they don’t need it. Kind of like when redheads matches started making cleaning products – WTF??? By the way, I think porsche lessened their brand with the Toe Rag and the Panamera, too.
This is what Megatron should look like in the Transformers movie!!
World’s best looking?.. Turd maybe. It looks like ass. Funnily enough it would look better in 2 door form haha.
Firstly for a lambo its too high off the ground to make that Reventon style bumper to look good. And the rear wheel arches have been pumped out to much. Angel lights look awsome and so it the back when you look straight at it. And the rear window makes the roof look suprisingly sleake whilst giving good headroom…clever. It Should be eye wateringly fast but I’d still buy a Aston Rapide or Maserati Quattroporte over that. Sorry Lambo:(
I think the designer forgot to give his first sketches to his 9 year old son so he can add things to it Maybe an Estoque (which means a sword used to kill a bulls) sticking out of the the wheel hub. Because it is surely missing something. Come on Lambo!!!
I’m blown away! Simply stunning!
How long is that front end.