The Urus’s inside is comfy, accommodating, tech-laden and versatile. It has nice visibility, a yawning boot with greater than 600 litres of space for storing, and might carry 5 adults and not using a severe squeeze. Actually, it has all the sensible, handy qualities you’d count on of a giant SUV – and which, till this automotive, you’d have anticipated to seek out in a Lamborghini about as a lot as a flight yoke and rudder pedals.
If the automotive’s cabin has a failing, it could solely be that Sant’Agata has underestimated the type of detailed materials richness that it wanted to place right into a £160,000 luxurious automotive with the intention to lure folks out of sure rivals and maintain onto their deposits. Or maybe it overestimated the lengths to which it wanted to go to make the Urus really feel like an genuine, thrilling Lamborghini on the expense of different elements.
You’ll be able to select between electrical reminiscence sports activities seats (normal and 12-way adjustable), as fitted to our take a look at automotive, and extra luxurious 18-way-adjustable entrance chairs as an choice. Even the previous supply an efficient mix of consolation and assist, though one tester famous that slightly bit extra lumbar assist wouldn’t have gone amiss.
A skinny-spoked, flat-bottomed steering wheel sits in entrance of a driving place that, although clearly a lot greater and fewer recumbent than the Italian agency’s norm, nonetheless feels extra swept again and sporting than you count on it to. A comparatively slim glasshouse, a lowish roofline and ‘quick’ A-pillars additionally let you know that this isn’t the common utility automotive. Simply in case you miss any of the above, although, the automotive’s dashboard has the identical Lamborghini-trademark hexagonal design motif recurring from its air vents and cupholders to its instrument binnacle – all there simply so as to add supercar flavour.
The range and sensory enchantment of the trim supplies to be discovered on the automotive’s numerous consoles may each be barely higher. Our take a look at automotive’s mixture of black leather-based with piano black and brushed aluminium trim was nice sufficient however little completely different than you would possibly discover on an Audi at half the worth. Different materials choices can be found, however Lamborghini clearly doesn’t have the in-house experience in color and trim of its sister model Bentley – and, in this sort of automotive, you’ll be able to inform.
That the Urus makes use of what’s successfully a reskinned model of Audi’s newest MMI Navigation Plus infotainment system will come as no disappointment to anybody who occurs to already personal certainly one of Lamborghini’s extra ‘conventional’ fashions.
The Lamborghini Infotainment System III (LIS III) is made up of two high-resolution touchscreens, one positioned immediately above the opposite. The highest display screen is used to function the overwhelming majority of the system’s options – suppose sat-nav, radio, automobile settings, phone and many others – whereas the secondary display screen predominantly controls the local weather settings and a handful of different shortcuts.
Whereas the system would possibly profit from the identical slick software program and sharp graphics (albeit in a special model) because the Audi set-up, it additionally comes with the identical pitfalls – specifically {that a} lack of bodily buttons could make it a contact difficult to work together with on the transfer. Nonetheless, it’s gentle years forward of the system you’ll proceed to seek out Lamborghini in an Aventador.
