This black Lamborghini Urus with an orange interior is a base Urus based in Orange County. The black exterior arrives quiet outside dinner in Newport Beach, then the orange cabin becomes the reveal once the doors open. Book it for a night out rather than a long trip, since it carries the higher of our two Urus mileage rates.
A 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 making 641 horsepower sits in a five seat SUV riding on air, and that combination is the entire idea of this Urus. Cylinder deactivation keeps it quiet in Strada, so the shove is a mid range wave rather than a top end scream, letting you carry passengers in comfort until you decide otherwise. Push the tamburo lever to Sport on the drive out of Newport Beach along Pacific Coast Highway and the exhaust valves open, the eight speed gearbox holds gears longer, and the same seats that were quiet a minute ago are bracing against them. Rear wheel steering shrinks it in a parking structure. Sixty arrives in 3.6 seconds, quicker than most sports cars, from something you sit high inside.
Black outside with an orange cabin is the pairing that makes this Urus worth shooting from inside as much as outside. Closed up in a parking structure near South Coast Plaza it reads as a dark, angular mass, and the shape carries the frame better than color would, which suits evening light or a lit garage far more than midday sun. Open a door and the orange leather becomes the entire picture, hot against the black sills and pillars. Shoot the two as separate images rather than one. Of the five base Urus we run, this is the only one with an orange interior, and it is the one most people book for content.
Five base Urus in our fleet, all at the same daily rate, so the choice between them comes down to how each one looks and how far you are driving. This is the only one with an orange interior, which makes it the strongest of the five for a doors open shot. Two of the others, white and silver, run black interiors and read as more corporate. Grey pairs a quiet exterior with a red cabin, and the other black car in the group runs red rather than orange inside. This one also sits in the higher of our two Urus mileage tiers, at $5 a mile over the included 100, so it is the right pick for a night in Orange County rather than a week on the road.
This is a base Lamborghini Urus, not the S or the Performante, which means the 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 makes 641 horsepower and 627 lb-ft rather than the newer car's 657. All wheel drive and adaptive air suspension come standard, so the ride height and the dampers adjust with the drive mode rather than staying fixed. The cabin runs orange leather on the seats and door inserts against black paintwork outside. Five seats and four doors, a torque converter automatic rather than a dual clutch, and the tamburo drive selector with its red flip cover over the start button, standard across the Urus range.