Lamborghini Calà

The Lamborghini Calà, also known as the Italdesign Calà, was a concept car designed for Lamborghini by Italdesign Giugiaro and first shown at the 1995 Geneva Motor Show. It was a fully functional prototype that never reached production. Italdesign intended it to replace the Jalpa, whose production ended in 1988 under Chrysler, and it was shelved when Megatech sold Lamborghini to the Volkswagen Group in 1998. It had a mid-mounted V10 of 294 kW, a six-speed manual gearbox driving the rear wheels, an aluminium chassis and a hand-built carbon-fibre body, and an estimated top speed of 291 km/h. The Gallardo of 2003 took its principles from the Calà. Its name comes from a Piedmontese word meaning to lower.