Since Ohai missed this one … 2019 LAMBORGHINI URUS FIRST DRIVE: THE SUV FOR SUPERCAR DRIVERS
How the Urus is a first for Lamborghini
Angus MacKenzie Words, Manufacturer May 1, 2018
Remember the opening scene from The Italian Job? The 1969 original, not that turgid 2003 remake. The Roger Beckermann character, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, hustles a red Lamborghini Miura up and over a snaking Alpine pass as Matt Monro’s silvery baritone lounges over Quincy Jones’ lush strings, tinkling piano, and muted trumpets: On d-a-a-y-s like these, dee-dah, dee-dah, dee-da-da-dah … The 2019 Lamborghini Urus has almost twice the horsepower of that Miura, and with a top speed of 189 mph, it’s faster. It’s also a 4,900-pound, four-door SUV you can powerslide down a gravel road. Forget Matt Monro. We’re talking Sex Pistols meets Nine Inch Nails, with a dash of Devo thrown in for good measure, right?
The Urus feels casually fast. Lamborghini claims a 0–60 time of under 3.5 seconds, with 124 mph arriving in 12.8 seconds, but it all happens without the hair-on-fire shriek of an Aventador V-12 or barrel-chested boom of a Huracán V-10. Oh, there’s engine noise, and progressively more when you switch through Sport and into Corsa modes, but it’s mostly artificial and all rather mellow by comparison. What impresses more is the Urus’ cool composure as it monsters a winding road—or, as we did on the launch program, the quick and technical 2.5-mile Autodromo Vallelunga, 20 miles north of Rome.
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