Lamborghini Urus SUV

Lamborghini Urus Performante review: 657bhp SUV unleashed (with a Rally mode)

 
The Lamborghini Urus Performante Delivers on the Track or in the Dirt

How many people will actually take their $260,000 SUV to the track or to a rallcross? Not many, but that doesn't really matter.

 
Lamborghini Urus S first drive

Same goes for the ride quality. Disclaimer alert: the roads in Qatar are incredibly smooth. So despite our car’s whopping 23in wheels and low-profile tyres, I never felt a whisper of suspension wobble. I had a brief go in the Performante and that was much stiffer (coil springs versus the S’s standard adaptive air suspension) so the S is probably the one to go for in the UK. It feels like it could be better at the dual-purpose role of the everyday sports SUV, albeit if it’s only really in Qatar that it could be classified as ‘everyday’.

 
Mansory Venatus Coupe Evo C Turns Lamborghini Urus Into A Two-Door

If you fancy a two-door Lamborghini Urus don’t hold your breath for something to come from Sant’Agata Bolognese as this will not happen. Luckily for some individuals, Mansory has decided to do it themselves with the Venatus Coupe Evo C.

It took the aftermarket specialist a year and a half to turn the idea into reality, with the final product, undergoing extensive modifications to complete the conversion.

Significant changes include the B-pillar moving back by 200 mm resulting in longer front doors to match. New body side panels that were welded into the existing body structure, an arrow-shaped 3D style for the doors, and a new side air duct made from carbon are some of the other changes. Crucially, Mansory says that the car’s existing safety technologies were retained.


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This Two-Door Lamborghini Urus Abomination Might Be the Least Blasphemous Mansory Creation

Like everything Mansory touches, it's awful. But it started out as a Urus, so...
If you’ve been reading Jalopnik for more than a couple of weeks, you probably know that we don’t exactly have a friendly relationship with Mansory. I won’t go so far as to say that new hires are told on their first day to dislike the affronts to God that they call cars, but somehow, everyone manages to pick up on our institutional position pretty quickly. And yet, looking at the terrible things Mansory did to this Lamborghini Urus, I can’t help but think it’s not completely blasphemous. In its own way, it actually kind of works?

To be clear, I don’t like the Mansory Venatus Coupé EVO C. I hate that it exists. Even if I were the world’s first trillionaire, the only way you’d catch me behind the wheel of this abomination is if some Russian gangster had me killed and dumped my body in the front seat as one final insult after I bought Mansory specifically to shut it down and punish its executives to their crimes against my eyeballs.

 
Lamborghini Urus Performante 2023 UK first drive

Lamborghini would argue that anything wearing the ‘Performante’ name needs to be an unapologetic, all-out dynamo, as was the case with the superb, tarmac-scraping Huracán Performante. Fair point, but you could more easily argue that, even in this age of wild chimaera creations, infusing the Urus with Performante DNA is probably a gene-edit too far.

 
Tesla Model X Plaid v Lamborghini Urus Performante v Porsche Cayenne GT Turbo v BMW X5 M Competition v Mercedes-AMG GLE 63: Drag Race - Carwow

 
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