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When Lamborghini launches the Urus in 2018, this will not be the company’s first SUV, but it will probably debut as the Raging Bull’s first turbocharged model.
So far, Lamborghini has kept a short leash on the Urus powerplant topic, but Stephan Winkelmann, Lamborghini CEO, has recently told AutoExpress that the SUV will probably bring forced induction to the game.
The CEO explained the ever growing emission constraints mean that the Urus will most likely drop the naturally-aspirated V10 or V12 route, going down the turbocharged V8 road instead. Not exactly unexpected. That’s how this piece of news can be labeled - it is not difficult to imagine the Lamborghini Urus adopting the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 currently used on multiple Audi and Bentley models.
In its current forms, the V8 climbs up to 560 hp (on the Audi RS7, for example), but the powerplant could be tweaked for the Urus. Thus, it wouldn’t surprise us to see the unit taken past the 600 hp mark.
We’ll remind you the Urus is set to be underpinned by the VW Group’s third-generation SUV platform. The architecture will make its debut on the second-generation Audi Q7, in 2015, while it will also be used by the Bentley SUV, which is scheduled to arrive in 2016. Subsequently, we’ll also see it on other VW Group SUVs, such as the third-generation Porsche Cayenne.
Rupert Stadler, Audi CEO, previously assured us that the Urus will be the wildest of the lot. This means that, as you are reading this, engineers are working at full throttle to make sure Lambo’s SUV mixes the promised ferocity with the required usability.
The CEO explained the ever growing emission constraints mean that the Urus will most likely drop the naturally-aspirated V10 or V12 route, going down the turbocharged V8 road instead. Not exactly unexpected. That’s how this piece of news can be labeled - it is not difficult to imagine the Lamborghini Urus adopting the 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 currently used on multiple Audi and Bentley models.
In its current forms, the V8 climbs up to 560 hp (on the Audi RS7, for example), but the powerplant could be tweaked for the Urus. Thus, it wouldn’t surprise us to see the unit taken past the 600 hp mark.
We’ll remind you the Urus is set to be underpinned by the VW Group’s third-generation SUV platform. The architecture will make its debut on the second-generation Audi Q7, in 2015, while it will also be used by the Bentley SUV, which is scheduled to arrive in 2016. Subsequently, we’ll also see it on other VW Group SUVs, such as the third-generation Porsche Cayenne.
Rupert Stadler, Audi CEO, previously assured us that the Urus will be the wildest of the lot. This means that, as you are reading this, engineers are working at full throttle to make sure Lambo’s SUV mixes the promised ferocity with the required usability.
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