WHEN LAMBORGHINI HIT ON ITS BEST-SELLING FORMULA

The V8-powered Urus is a seriously quick, seriously capable luxury SUV

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When the Lamborghini Urus was launched in 2018 there was incredulity: a pure-blooded raging bull that shared its basic underpinnings with a Volkswagen SUV? Surely not!

It wasn't VW-priced, though, costing from around £160,000 when new. Not cheap, but a bargain route into Lambo ownership, and a lot less than the related Bentley Bentayga. Lamborghini's first SUV was all about selling in volumes its supercars never could, and it quickly became the brand's best-seller: so far, more than 35,000 have been sold - more cars than the Sant'Agata firm made in the first 50 years of its existence.

Despite this, the market has yet to be saturated. The cheapest Urus on sale is still more than £130,000, even accounting for those that have previously been written off. That is remarkably low depreciation for an eight-year-old model, and when you consider that the value of a similar-vintage Bentayga has tumbled to £50,000, the Urus looks like a comparatively smart buy.