Bull Run

The Lamborghini Urus is deeply impressive in every measurable way, but falls short in the charm department.

- Daryl Lee

If we were the sort of people to judge cars off a checklist, we would declare the Urus, the second SUV to issue forth from Automobili Lamborghini of Sant’Agata, Bolognese, a roaring success and be on our merry way.

Then you can be on your merry way and pay SGD798,000—sans COE, sans options—for the privilege of parking one in your driveway next to the Aventador you got last year. In the same color, naturally, because life really isn’t worth living if you can’t color-coordinate your ‘practical’ and ‘fun’ Lamborghinis.

But more about the Urus. Lamborghini looks (read: unabashedly extroverted and unnecessarily dramatic)? Check.

Its bodywork is festooned with all manner of strakes, vents and character lines with razor-sharp creases. Playing peekaboo behind that gargantuan 23iN, two-tone alloys is a pair of equally gargantuan 10-piston brake calipers biting down on 440mm carbon-ceramic rotors. Those brakes, Lamborghini says, are the biggest to have been put onto a production road car.

Which leads us neatly to another very Lamborghini trait: superlatives. And again, a big tick for the Urus in that column.

Those aforementioned brakes are necessary because the Urus weighs in the region of 2,200kg, but more because it has a top speed of 305km/h. Up until three months ago when it lost that title to the Bentayga Speed from VW Group sibling Bentley, the Urus was the world’s fastest SUV. In all fairness, however, the Urus only lost out by 1km/h.

It does, however, still have the edge in power. The four-liter, twin-turbo V8 in the Urus produces 650hp, which is by any measure, sheer lunacy. In addition to that, its maximum torque figure is just as titanic, with 850Nm available from 2,250rpm.