2018 Lamborghini Urus SUV OFFICIALLY revealed

The Lamborghini Urus finally arrives in production guise as Lamborghini join the luxury performance SUV bandwagon with their new SUV.

The Lamborghini Urus has effectively been teased for more than five years, ever since the Urus was first revealed as a concept. So it’s surprising how little the design has changed in that time.

It’s still definitely the shoutiest SUV to come from VW (think Porsche Cayenne Turbo and Bentley Bentayga as sisters under the skin), but perhaps it could be a little more mad looking, and maybe moved on a bit from a design we assume is probably six or seven years old?

Still, it is what it is, and there are some changes to the look of the Urus, with the jarring angles offset by some rounder looks, and the back end seems to be more accentuated and a bit more shouty than the front. There are also 21″ alloys as standard and you can have up to 23″. Which will make it look aftermarket tweaked.

Under the looks you’ll probably end up loving sits a turbo V8 – sadly no V10 or V12 – with a thumping 641bhp and 627lb/ft of torque, enough to take the Urus and five adults – yep, it has legroom and headroom for five – on to 62mph in 3.6 seconds on the way to 190mph. Well, maybe a bit slower five-up.

Cylinder deactivation promises to turn the Urus in to a four=pot when you’re poodling, and that means official economy of 22.2mpg. But if you play it’ll be half that.

And play you will with four-wheel drive and 641bhp, active torque vectoring, adaptive dampers, active roll system, four wheel steering and ceramic brakes conspiring to make the Urus behave like no SUV can.

Standard going out to play modes are Strada, Sport, Corsa and Neve, but if you want to get your Urus properly dirty you can opt for an extra two – Terra and Sabbia – all of which tweak the diffs, exhaust, suspension, throttle and suspension to deliver optimum delivery of the Urus’s ability, whatever the circumstances.

It’s a very complete package, and what’s most surprising is that it’s such a technological tour de force and yet Lamborghini reckon it’ll cost £165,000 when it arrives in the UK in Spring 2018.

Will the Urus sell? Do bears…?