MUMBAI: Italian supercar manufacturer
Lamborghini
on Thursday launched its sports utility vehicle, the
Urus
, in India with an ex-showroom price tag of Rs 3 crore. The performance luxury SUV took just around a month to enter the Indian market after its global unveiling, creating a new entry point to the brand after the Huracan.
The
Lamborghini Urus
shares the successful MLB Evo platform with the other high-end SUVs of the Volkswagen group including the Porche Cayenne, Bentley Bentayga and the Audi Q7. Over five metres in length, it is a full-size SUV and uses plenty of aluminium alloys in construction to keep the weight under 2.2 tonnes.
The coupe-shaped model shares a few design cues from the other Lamborghini performance cars and a lot from the brand's first SUV, the LM002. The interior gets an ultra-luxury touch with red leather upholstery and use of carbon fibre on the dash and the centre console which comes loaded with techs. The front seats are 12-way adjustable and it offers an ample boot space of 616-litres.
Powering the Lamborghini Urus is a 4.0-litre V8 engine that comes mated to an eight-speed automatic gearbox. The twin-turbo motor delivers 650PS of power and a massive peak torque of 850Nm which is distributed among all the four wheels via a permanent four-wheel-drive with 40:60 front-rear split ratio.
The SUV is capable of doing a sprint from 0-100kmph is mere 3.6 seconds and claims a top speed of 305kmph which makes it one f the fastest utility vehicles on this planet. It comes with six drive modes including the new Neve (snow), Terra (off-road) and Sabbia (sand) along with the usual Strada, Sport and Corsa, and a fully customisable mode - Ego.
The Urus features active torque vectoring and a rear-wheel-steering system borrowed from the Aventador S along with an adaptive suspension system and the largest (440mm) carbon-ceramic front brake discs on any production car as standard.
While it competes with the likes of the Maserati Levante in India, all the allotted units of the Lamborghini Urus to the country have been sold out with advanced bookings.