For about two years, we could easily say Lamborghini’s Urus was the world’s best-driving super-SUV. There really wasn’t any competition. With around 100 more horsepower than the Porsche Cayenne Turbo, plus shockingly great on- and off-road performance, the Urus was the king of high-performance SUVs.
Then three things happened.
First, Porsche launched the Cayenne Turbo GT. It’s not a real “GT division” car because it wasn’t fully developed by Porsche’s crack Weissach-based motorsports team. But it does have an ever so slightly different version of the Urus’ 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8, which was in fact developed by the Weissach folks. Confusing, we know. And this Cayenne can boogie, so much so that it still holds the Nürburgring SUV lap record of 7 minutes, 38.9 seconds.
Next came the also unbelievably great-to-drive Aston Martin DBX707, a hopped-up high-po version of the pretty good DBX. What a fantastic three-way comparison this would have been. However, the third thing that transpired is that this past November, Lamborghini shuttered regular Urus production to ready its factory for both the new Urus S and the Urus Performante (page 36), but neither launched in time for our showdown. As such, this
