2025 Lamborghini Urus Performante - The Amazing Exotic Monster SUV!

Thanks: EUROLUXX GmbH   / euroluxxgmbh   https://home.mobile.de/EUROLUXXGMBH Urus Performante Energy consumption (combined): 14.1 l/100km CO₂ emissions (combined): 320 g/km CO₂ class (combined): G Yep, pretty punchy. We’re at Vallelunga, the mellifluous-sounding circuit located about 20 miles north of Rome. It’s a tight and technical track, and the fact that we’re here at all in the new Lamborghini Urus Performante – all 2,150kg of it – is a testament to the company’s belief in its fast-selling super-SUV. But on the periphery of it you’ll find an old Roman road, beyond which is a makeshift dirt track/rally stage (not built by the ancient Romans). The Urus Performante’s drivetrain now features a fourth setting on its ‘Tamburo’ drive controller, in addition to the familiar Strada, Sport and Corsa modes, called Rally. This reduces the ESP threshold and uses the torque-biasing rear differential to fire more drive to the fun part of the car. The results are predictably slidey. We’re not saying the Urus Performante is suddenly transformed into a Lancia Delta S4, but you can hoof it around in a manner that baits physics. It runs a little bit wide in the tighter turns, but that’s more driver error than vehicle ineptitude. And yes, while power-sliding a £209,000, 657bhp, two-tonne-plus SUV round a muddy, rutted track might seem, at best, indulgent, it’s also fun. It even manages to land securely after what our Finnish friends still call a ‘yomp’. One of the Performante’s major changes is the fitment of steel springs instead of the standard air suspension, for more linear responses. Along with the 48 volt anti-roll bar, it conjures a level of body control that’s faintly spooky in a car of this type. Well done you. Dare we suggest that the Urus Performante is reading the room even less astutely than the regular car? As it happens, we passed four plucky souls blocking one of Rome’s arterial roads on the way to the circuit. Imagine what they’d make of a purple Performante slewing sideways? Lamborghini’s suave CEO Stephan Winkelmann acknowledges that the company’s drive towards carbon neutrality via a 50 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2025 is partly down to perception and growing issues around social acceptability. Lamborghini’s commitment to making dream cars is being suitably adjusted. Nonetheless, the Urus has been a smash hit for the company, with 21,000 delivered since its arrival in 2018, 84 per cent of which are conquest sales. The company is in the midst of a €1.8bn investment programme, which will yield 2023’s hybridised Aventador replacement, 2024’s Huracán successor, and 2028’s fully electric car. The revenues have to come from somewhere, and the Urus continues to top up Sant’Agata’s coffers. Read More https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/l...