I found this car it's a "Protomotors Spirra" Doesn't the angle and shape of the back C pillar (I think it's the C pillar) look similar to the Gallardo in the way it joins the lower body? The shape of the wing mirror looks familiar too, don't you think? If you cover the front and side of the car it looks really like a Gallardo.

http://www.fast-autos.net/protomotors/spirra9.jpg

I'm afraid to say it, nut I don't think Lamborghini thought about the gallardo enough. Usually the lines are absolutely fresh and unique, and the square back should have been revised to look more sporty and lambo like. Don't get me wrong it is beautiful. But from some angles the square shape at the back and the wedge that jerks out from beneath the windows look quite non artistic.

I suppose that the car does resemble the back of the Gallardo in the sense that it does have clean sharp lines that run over the back wheels. Still, this is a pretty vague similarity, increasingly less distinct with newer styling. Do you know where I can find any pictures specifically of the back of this car?

And this is very subjective, but I think that the angular appearance of the Gallardo is what sets it above the murcielago IMO in terms of appearance. It just looks more menacing and bull-like.

Back photo:

http://www.fast-autos.net/protomotors/spirra12.html

Gallardo back

http://www.lambocars.com/framed/highres/gallardo4.htm

compare these. The way the back is divided up, at the bottom, those 3 sections, the two at the left and right don't have exhausts in them like the Gallardo but the main shape is there. The little mini spoiler. Follow the line down the side of the car and as it picks up just before it gets to the front wheel. The back brake light above the windscreen!!! Come to think about it the door air in takes are similar.

For a Lambo isn't this car a bit too similar to a previous model. They're usually more fresh and unique.

no i dont see much in common, its like comparing a honda to a corvette...

The angular design of the car (specifically the line that starts over the front wheel and carries over to the brake lights) is similar. And the side mirrors do bear a semblance. Beyond that however, they are two very different looking cars. But still more similar than a civic and vette.

More photos:

http://www.fast-autos.net/protomotors/protomotorsspirra.html

sorry, i can't see any resemblance

but i'll agree with you, i see cars that i think are another, and then people tell me they don't see it, but i do, so yeah.

man the more I look at that car, the more I dislike it. It looks like someone did take a hint from the gallardo but then shoved a MR2 spider front on it. What an absolutely foul idea.

i read somewhere that some of the shapes of the gallardo were determined by the structural properties/qualities of aluminium.
also, about the square rear, you have to remember that most of the time, you are not going to looking at the rear at the angle of the pictures.
in reality, it isn't that noticable and personally, as an architect, i like the way the lines flow: from front wing, through the arches, becoming the rear haunches, flowing into vents, then lights then lights, then finally enclosing the exhaust.
it's very neat.

as for the designs being simliar.
well, apart from the proportions being different, angles being different, lines different...

if anything, the spirra looks like an old mr-2 with few stolen ferrari, murcielago and nsx lines.