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Written by Tom Harrison
Spoiler alert: none of these SUVs is the winner of Speed Week. Despite their best efforts, no carmaker has yet managed to engineer its way around the laws of physics. A bigger, heavier car is almost always less capable than a smaller, lighter one, and so it will remain until someone figures out how to make a chassis out of antimatter. Or candyfloss. But that"s not to say these three are here merely to make up the numbers (or because we couldn"t fit all of our camera gear in the 488 Pista). While none are quite right for the ultimate award, each is tremendous in its own way, and thoroughly deserving of a place among our favourite performance cars of 2018. Take the Urus. Ignore, for a moment, any philosophical objections you might have to a Lamborghini SUV especially one that borrows so heavily from the VW Group parts bin. You should also ignore the way it looks for it divides opinion like nothing else here and what bystanders will inevitably think of you (and mutter to themselves) when you draw up outside your children"s school or the local supermarket. What you absolutely must not and indeed cannot ignore, however, is the way it goes. Lambo has deployed every last bit of technology at its disposal to make the Urus drive unlike any other 2.2-tonne SUV. The result is perhaps as impressive a technical achievement as any other car here Chiron excepted.
Date written: 9 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13992
Spoiler alert: none of these SUVs is the winner of Speed Week. Despite their best efforts, no carmaker has yet managed to engineer its way around the laws of physics. A bigger, heavier car is almost always less capable than a smaller, lighter one, and so it will remain until someone figures out how to make a chassis out of antimatter. Or candyfloss. But that"s not to say these three are here merely to make up the numbers (or because we couldn"t fit all of our camera gear in the 488 Pista). While none are quite right for the ultimate award, each is tremendous in its own way, and thoroughly deserving of a place among our favourite performance cars of 2018. Take the Urus. Ignore, for a moment, any philosophical objections you might have to a Lamborghini SUV especially one that borrows so heavily from the VW Group parts bin. You should also ignore the way it looks for it divides opinion like nothing else here and what bystanders will inevitably think of you (and mutter to themselves) when you draw up outside your children"s school or the local supermarket. What you absolutely must not and indeed cannot ignore, however, is the way it goes. Lambo has deployed every last bit of technology at its disposal to make the Urus drive unlike any other 2.2-tonne SUV. The result is perhaps as impressive a technical achievement as any other car here Chiron excepted.
Date written: 9 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13992
