Driven: 2025 Lamborghini Urus SE – Raging Bull By Day, Stealth Bomber By Night

We needn’t break this to you gently as a result of the Lamborghini Urus remains to be a official raging bull of a car that may delight even probably the most ardent of high-performance SUV skeptics: Transferring into 2025, Lamborghini has embraced plug-in hybrid energy for its high-performance SUV. The brand new-for-2025 Lamborghini Urus SE can begin up and drive off in a stealthy electrical mode with a Lamborghini-quoted 37 miles of vary. That electrical energy additionally aids the twin-turbo V8 when it fires as much as ship a complete of 789 horsepower to all 4 wheels.

For these nonetheless unconvinced, the Urus S and Urus Performante proceed as gas-only SUVs for the 2025 mannequin 12 months, however then they will be gone. The Urus SE is a glimpse into Lamborghini’s future, and it appears simply as wild as ever.

What’s Modified For This Mannequin 12 months?

The SE trim is new to the Urus lineup for 2025 and, in addition to the brand new hybrid powertrain, comes with some beauty and aerodynamic-based exterior modifications together with tech updates and a barely up to date inside. Nevertheless, earlier than getting too excited in regards to the energy replace, the SE’s zero to sixty time is 3.4 seconds. That is 0.2 seconds slower than the usual Urus and 0.3 seconds slower than the Performante mannequin.

Exterior Design: Updates And Choices

From the facet, the Lamborghini Urus nonetheless appears extra like a stretched sizzling hatchback then a low-slung SUV. In keeping with Lamborghini, the SE has a brand new floating hood, which implies the entrance of the hood is longer and the grill is lifted so there is no longer a physique panel line. The bumper is nicely disguised, so the entrance appears prefer it’s all grille and air ducts, with the edges lifted increased in direction of the brand new and commonplace LED Matrix adaptive headlights. Now, the entrance finish appears meaner and prefer it’s ready to suck up something in entrance of it.

Lamborghini is embracing the concept of spaceships on the skin of its new vehicles, and paying homage to the enduring Countach whereas additionally infusing callbacks to different legendary Lambos. The brand new headlights are styled to remind us of the bull brand’s tail whereas the tail lamps have Y-style lighting particulars impressed by the Gallardo. On the again, you will additionally discover that the tailgate sports activities a extra pronounced middle crease than earlier than and an up to date spoiler and diffuser.

The outside of our check mannequin reveals simply how a lot you possibly can add to the bottom worth of $258,636. The gorgeous Blu Uranus paint is $13,384, the improve from 21- to 23-inch wheels prices $5,837, the black brake calipers are $1,314, the high-gloss black type package deal provides $3,752, the panoramic roof provides $3,354. Strap in, although, as a result of the wiper blades with built-in nozzles add $884, the black tailpipe ideas $921, sunblinds package deal for the rear home windows $1,713, and hands-free tailgate $860.

Inside: Carrying On The Cliché

Lamborghini doesn’t do minimalism. Sit within the entrance of the Urus, and also you’re handled to 3 screens and numerous geometric shapes. On the middle console, there is a chunky cluster of three pull switches for drive choose and drive modes, which additionally homes the fully pointless crimson flip cowl for the beginning button. The design motif is jet fighter cockpit, which was cool within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, solely cool for youngsters within the Nineteen Nineties, and only a cliché now.

As soon as you’ve got rolled your eyes at that, you have to observe the Lamborghini method of beginning and driving a automobile, which is to flip the crimson cowl to press begin, pull the suitable paddle to place it into drive, use the drive change for reverse, and while you park, do your finest to recollect that there is a little park button subsequent to the drive lever. Toggling each paddle shifters on the identical time places it in impartial.

Not like an actual jet fighter, the seats are superbly lined and stitched in the event you go for the Sportivo Leather-based Inside as optioned on our tester for $6,082 – non-compulsory distinction stitching is $939 additional. Our tester additionally had the total electrical entrance seats choice ticked for $3,381, and discovering the proper driving place took seconds. Ahead and facet visibility is great, however the view utilizing the rearview mirror is not best for recognizing lurking cops while you need to benefit from the energy on supply. It is a automobile that may profit from a digital rearview.

Within the again, you possibly can select from a bench seat to suit three individuals or bucket seats. Both method, there’s sufficient legroom for a few adults and, surprisingly, sufficient headroom for taller adults. Select the bucket seats, although, and rear cargo house drops from 22 cubic toes to twenty. Talking of cargo house, our tester was fitted with the Cargo Administration System for $657, and it is price each penny to cease baggage sliding round and organizing correctly.

Infotainment & Usability: Remodeling A Traditional

There is not any hiding that the Urus’ infotainment is a reworked tackle Audi’s system utilizing the 12.3-inch instrument cluster, 12.3-inch predominant display, and a separate display for environmental controls. Largely, the system is crisp and intuitive, though there are small points with discovering issues that must be easy and prime layer – like turning off lane hold help in a efficiency automobile. The gauge cluster is, dare we are saying it, prettier and feels extra helpful than the Audi RS Q8’s take, and telemetry system is great, albeit extra of a novelty outdoors the monitor.

Powertrain & Driving: Nothing Left On The Desk

The Lamborghini Urus begins in electrical mode because the default and is sweet for, so far as we will inform, round 20 miles of silent operation. Nevertheless, go for non-silent operation, and the twin-turbo V8 fires as much as ship its aggressive rumble and creates a complete of 789 hp and 701 lb-ft of torque. In EV mode, the Urus is blissful to roam round quietly with the adaptable suspension absorbing the highway to create a beautiful, peaceable journey. In Strada (avenue) mode, the Urus begins to come back to life and is able to hustle. Once more, Strada mode is usually a good docile setting for getting round, however the sound and response is sitting there, ready to be urged on.

There are 5 fundamental drive modes (Anima in Lamborghini converse) selectable on the left of the drive lever, consisting of Strada, Sport, and Corsa for the highway. Our mortgage got here with situations of no off-roading by any means, so we did not get to play with Neva, Sabbia, and Terra, which is a disgrace as Johnson Valley and its dry lake mattress was calling. EV mode stands alone, however the driver can even interact the hybrid techniques Efficiency or Recharge mode. Mix modes, and there is a whole of 11 accessible.

In actuality, Strada is sufficient to impress, or terrify, a passenger on a again highway. When kicked, the engine is forceful and the chassis desires to haul you thru corners with little drama and far tempo. Change to Sport, although, and the Urus begins to change into ferocious. The suspension toughens up, throttle response tightens, the exhaust growls, driver aids are much less eager to leap in, and the again finish out of the blue desires to rotate.

The place the again was beforehand glued to the tarmac, the brand new centrally positioned electrical torque vectoring system loosens the rear to assist flip in and create on-demand oversteer – but it stays extremely controllable, feeling just like the a number of techniques are in a position to anticipate intention and set issues up accordingly. Corsa amps the whole lot up with the monitor in thoughts, however we discovered ourselves greater than entertained and with a supercar quantity of confidence on the highway.

The general tuning and cohesiveness of the Urus SE’s chassis is rattling close to chic, however the exhaust sound is the icing on the cake. It growls, it booms, it winds up right into a howl, and pops and crackles because it winds down. If we had a DrivingOnRoad Award for exhaust sounds, we’d be handing it reverentially to whoever invented that. Audi must take some notes for the RS Q8. In the meantime, the transmission does an incredible job of being forgotten about as a result of it is at all times hitting on the proper second in Sport mode and settling all the way down to at all times be in the suitable place in Strada.

We solely had a number of days with the Urus SE, nevertheless it did not take lengthy for it to make absolute sense. In Sport mode, feeding in throttle out of a nook is clean and extra linear than remembered from the non-hybrid RS Q8. It is an SUV, so there’s weight, nevertheless it’s factored into the equation and does not really feel prefer it’s hampering the chassis. The brakes, carbon ceramic as commonplace, need to be known as anchors – in any case, many clichés are clichés for a cause. The suspension is its personal revelation because the chassis stays flat however lumps and bumps within the highway aren’t allowed to distract from driving. Then, it is again to being an attentive cruiser behind a few slowpokes main the way in which again into town. Then, EV mode is the cherry on prime with sufficient for brief, quiet journeys throughout city or to work and again.

Verdict & Pricing: Too Good To Ignore

The Urus is constructed on the identical platform because the Audi Q8 and Porsche Cayenne, however the Urus SE separates itself in a method you would not anticipate from Lamborghini. Just like the RS Q8 and Cayenne Turbo GT, the Lamborghini Urus has its personal character, stuffed with the supercar maker’s drama and bombast. The nice shock with the Urus SE is that it has all of that exuberance and wild efficiency, however its default mode isn’t just that it is calm and civilized, however that it is calm and civilized in a classy method.

Nevertheless, the Urus SE instructions one hell of a worth. For $258,636, you can, as a substitute, purchase your self an Audi RS Q8 Performance for the weekend and a modest Porsche Cayenne as a runabout automobile and never cease smiling in regards to the pairing. Nevertheless, the Lamborghini Urus SE is probably the most multi-talented and each day drivable super-SUV in the marketplace. Its skill to go from a wonderfully civilized luxurious journey to doing issues on a again highway no SUV has the suitable to have the ability to is breathtaking.