Cavën Hommage 26 Reimagines the Lamborghini Gallardo With Its Original Design Lineage

The Lamborghini Gallardo has reached the age where nostalgia, engineering and collector appetite start to overlap.

Cavën Atelier’s Hommage 26 steps directly into that space, not as a simple tribute but as a deeply reworked version of the car that helped define Lamborghini’s modern Audi-era identity.

Its most interesting detail isn’t just the carbon fibre bodywork or the limited production run, but the involvement of Fabrizio Giugiaro, whose Lamborghini Calà concept helped inform the original Gallardo story.

At a glance

• Cavën Atelier has revealed the Hommage 26, a limited reimagining of the Lamborghini Gallardo.
• The project uses carbon fibre body panels, rear-wheel drive, a gated six-speed manual and a tuned V10 with an 8,500rpm redline.
• Production is limited to 25 cars, with pricing from EUR 900,000 before the donor car and options.

A modern restomod built around the Gallardo

The Hommage 26 is based on the Lamborghini Gallardo, though it no longer wears Lamborghini branding.

That donor choice matters because the Gallardo was one of the most commercially important cars in Lamborghini’s history, with more than 14,000 examples built between 2003 and 2013.

After Audi’s 1998 takeover of Lamborghini, the brand needed more than the V12 Murciélago to broaden its footing, and the smaller V10 Gallardo became the answer.

Cavën Atelier is based in Marbella, Spain, and describes itself as a multidisciplinary creative engineering studio working across automotive design, technological innovation and special manufacturing processes.

The Hommage 26 is the company’s first full car project and the first product in its Designer Series, a programme intended to revisit relatively modern supercars with input from designers connected to their origins.

Fabrizio Giugiaro closes the design loop

The Giugiaro name gives this project much of its context.

Giorgetto Giugiaro’s Italdesign helped shape some of the most recognisable production and concept cars of the late 20th century, from the Lotus Esprit and Volkswagen Golf to the DeLorean DMC-12 and Lancia Delta.

The Gallardo thread runs through Fabrizio Giugiaro, Giorgetto’s son, who penned the Lamborghini Calà concept shown in 1995.

The Calà was conceived as a compact Lamborghini sports car and used a 4.0-litre V10 with a six-speed manual gearbox.

Although the production Gallardo was developed under Lamborghini lead designer Luc Donckerwolke and emerged with sharper Audi-era surfacing, the Calà remains part of the car’s visual and conceptual ancestry.

For the Hommage 26, Fabrizio Giugiaro’s GFG Style design firm has been involved in reshaping the Gallardo into something that reads as contemporary without severing the link to the original.

Carbon fibre, cleaner surfacing and active aero

The Hommage 26 keeps the basic Gallardo silhouette, but replaces the original aluminium body panels with carbon fibre.

Cavën says the change improves structural rigidity and reduces weight.

The front end has been sharpened with redesigned air intakes and a new splitter, while the headlight treatment now includes a drop-down panel covering the main lamps, with daytime running lights positioned below.

In profile, the changes are more discreet but still deliberate.

There’s a new air vent behind the front wheel, the door handles have been removed, and the upper air intakes appear to cut more assertively into the roofline.

At the rear, Cavën has redesigned the engine cover, taillights, exhaust outlets and diffuser.

The most distinctive functional detail is a pair of active aerodynamic flaps integrated into the bodywork above the rear lights, intended to improve aerodynamic performance without disturbing the car’s clean outline.

Inside, the original layout remains recognisable, but the cabin has been refreshed with newly designed seats and bespoke configuration options.

One particularly analogue touch is a new drop-down window behind the seats, designed to bring more of the V10 soundtrack into the cabin.

The V10 stays, the manual becomes central

The Hommage 26 can use either the 5.0-litre or 5.2-litre Lamborghini V10, depending on whether the donor car is a pre-facelift or post-facelift Gallardo.

Cavën raises the redline from 8,000rpm to 8,500rpm.

Output is listed at 540bhp in GT specification and 560bhp in Performance specification.

Rather than chasing extreme power figures, the specification points toward a more mechanical kind of appeal.

All power goes to the rear wheels through a gated six-speed manual gearbox, a configuration that places the Hommage 26 firmly in the driver-focused corner of the restomod market.

Details & Specifications

The Hommage 26 is not a mass-market revival of the Gallardo, and it doesn’t try to be.

It’s a highly limited, expensive and design-led reinterpretation of a modern Lamborghini landmark, aimed at collectors who want the V10 era filtered through contemporary craftsmanship without losing the mechanical character that made the original car matter.