MONSTER TRUCK MADNESS

This extraordinary Lambo will go through the dirt and around the track with equal ease and grace

- MERAJ SHAH

It’s a bit like a battle tank in that sense. Take it through the mud, slide over gravel, or stick it to a racetrack, and you can be reasonably sure that the Lamborghini Urus Performante will acquit itself spectacularly. It’s an SUV, but it’s hardly just an SUV: the Performante will go around a racetrack faster than—Lamborghini claims—a hard-nosed supercar; faster than the original Huracan LP6401 (Okay, so that car is almost eight years old, but that doesn’t make the comparison any less preposterous). A supercar’s track time versus an SUV’s? You’ve got to be kidding.

The crucial detail here is track performance, not outright power, or even speed. There are plenty of monster trucks out there, with enough power and torque to twist the planet off its axis. And as drag races go, these performance SUVs will often match, if not outdo, sports cars, but put them on a track and they’ll get lapped by the same car.

Track Record