The yellow Lamborghini Urus with the black and yellow interior is based in Los Angeles. This is the Lamborghini that seats 5, carries luggage and still gets photographed at a valet stand, so it does the airport pickup, the group dinner and the shoot in a single booking. In Giallo it reads as a Lamborghini first and an SUV second. It delivers across Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire.
The 4.0L twin-turbo V8 is what you feel first. 641 hp in a tall car means the shove arrives mid-range as a wave rather than a scream, and in Strada half the cylinders shut off when you lift, so it goes quiet at a light. Flip the red flap on the drum in the centre console, press, and 2 speakers rise out of the dash while the V8 settles. The 8-speed automatic creeps like any other, the air suspension lifts for a steep driveway, and the rear wheels steer, so it parks like a smaller car. Roll down Sunset Boulevard past the Beverly Hills Hotel in Strada and it is quiet enough for a phone call. Cycle to Corsa at the 405 on-ramp and the exhaust opens, the shifts get hard and it stops pretending to be an SUV.
Giallo over black is the loudest pairing a Urus comes in, and this car keeps the black wheels, black grille and black lower bumper, so the yellow reads as a single block. In direct sun the yellow goes flat and bright and the vents in the hood cast hard shadows. In open shade it warms toward gold and the body lines come back. After dark it holds colour under street light better than any dark Urus. Take the front three-quarter from low with a glass tower behind it, so the yellow cuts against grey. Close detail, the yellow caliper through the black wheel. Shoot it on a rooftop deck in Downtown Los Angeles, or at the Nobu Malibu valet lot.
We base 2 Uruses in Los Angeles, this yellow one and the grey Urus SE. This is the one in a colour, and the only yellow Urus we keep in Los Angeles. At $1,195 a day it is $300 under the SE and the deposit is half. It also includes 100 miles a day where the SE includes 50, which matters on an LAX to Malibu to Beverly Hills day. Book the grey SE to disappear at a client dinner. Book this one to get photographed in the lot.
This is the Urus, the 641 hp twin-turbo V8 SUV with all-wheel drive, rear-wheel steering, adaptive air suspension, carbon ceramic brakes and an 8-speed automatic, with Strada, Sport and Corsa on the drum in the centre console. This car is Giallo over black wheels with yellow brake calipers, a black grille and lower bumper, and vents cut into the hood. Inside it is black leather with yellow leather on the top and sides of the steering wheel rim, yellow stitching on the seats and dash, a yellow strip across the passenger side of the dash and yellow edging on the floor mats. 2 stacked centre screens, the red start flap in the drum, drilled pedals. 5 seats, 4 doors.