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A digital design exercise called the Estocada takes the sharp lines of Lamborghini’s past four-door experiments and stretches them into wagon form. The project draws directly from the 1968 Espada, the long low grand tourer that once carried four people in relative comfort, and the 2008 Estoque concept, the sleek sedan that never reached production. The result is a rendering that asks what a modern Lamborghini shooting brake might look like if the company ever decided to build one.
The Estocada maintains the strong aggressive seen in the Sant’Agata designs. Its design remains rather low and wide, with a long snout and a roof that gently slopes down to a convenient hatch that allows you to just dump your stuff in the rear without forcing others to jam into the back seats. It, like its predecessor, has a standard trunk lid rather than the rear hatch found on this model. The overall design remains true to the name, with sharp creases, hefty wheel arches, and a snout that appears to be ready to charge.
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The Estocada is based on ideas from two separate eras. The Espada demonstrated decades ago that Lamborghini could create a functional 4-seater without sacrificing drama. Its sleek design suggested at wagon possibilities, since it was a fastback style that provided more capacity than a standard two-seater while maintaining all of the visual drama. The Estoque eventually upgraded that concept for the twenty-first century by putting a Gallardo-derived V10 up front, powering all four wheels via a dual-clutch transmission, and enveloping it all in Audi-lent aluminum space-frame design. That was a gigantic 5 meters long, 1.35 meters tall, and promised to be a true rocket ship before the global economic crisis and corporate objectives derailed the project.
The Estocada takes the greatest features of the Estoque, such as its low silhouette and precise details, and expands the roof and rear out into a shooting brake form while retaining the big haunches and enormous wheels. From the side, it appears to be a real performance car with a cargo hatch, the type of design that can still give the zero to sixty and presence that the badge is known for while also being something you could live with on a daily basis. There are no official power statistics or specs to accompany these renders, but given the impact of the Espada and Estoque, you can bet your house that it will be a front-engine beast with four wheel drive.
This is a rarefied space because the majority of Lamborghinis available today are mid-engined two-seaters focused on speed and spectacle. The Urus has already demonstrated that driving about in a more expensive SUV can sell in large numbers. A shooting brake would sit exactly in the midst between the two, four doors, a hatch, and all that aggressive attitude without the bulk of a crossover, but whether Lamborghini ever chooses to go that path remains to be seen. For the time being, the Estocada lives on in pixels, demonstrating that combining some Espada and Estoque DNA and developing it still has plenty of room to run.
