With borrowed hardware and a boorish attitude, Lamborghini’s super-SUV lacks sophistication, and it might have something of an image problem...
respectively. Peak torque is rated at 627lb ft between 2250rpm and 4500rpm – the most its eight-speed automatic transmission can handle. The all-wheel-drive system has a typical torque split of 40:60 front/rear in normal driving, with up to 70 per cent able to be sent to the front axle or 87 per cent to the rear.
On the road, all this feels, well… it’s a lot. Because all the bits of hardware are derived from lesser cars, Lamborghini’s desire to instil a different feel in the Urus has pushed them up to and over their limits. Press the engine start button and the revs flare with a heavily augmented whip up the rev range, gurgling away for a few unsubtle seconds before settling into a typical indistinct burble.
The ride is also pretty appalling, as while the air springs seem quite capable of controlling larger bumps just like any other large SUV from the group the secondary ride and wheel control is a bit all over the place, as those huge 23-inch wheels and tyres seem able to sniff out every crevice and crack in any road surface, transmitting some pretty serious road noise along the way.
Turn up the driver mode to Corsa and much of the exhaust noise is then drowned out by the augmented engine noise coming from the speakers. In this mode the transmission is at its most aggressive, with superquick shifts and a less than subtle torque burst on upchanges. This doesn’t so much make the car feel quicker, just more unruly, especially as shifts are generally joined by an almightyfrom the exhaust pipes.
But let’s be honest. No Lamborghini Urus owner is taking their 2.2-ton SUV on track, especially if they have a garage with ‘real’ performance cars sitting alongside it. It feels like the Urus has been developed to be all the wrong things: unnaturally aggressive, and for the lack of a better term, more Lamborghini-like. What’s worse, underpinning this character is a chassis that’s unable to deliver in any metric aside from outright speed.
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