This grey Lamborghini Urus with a red interior is a base Urus based in Orange County. Grey reads as an unremarkable, corporate SUV until the red cabin shows itself once a door opens. Book it for an airport run or a business arrival that should not look like one. It carries the higher of our two mileage rates.
Strip away the badge and the Urus is the most usable fast car anybody makes. 641 horsepower, all wheel drive, and air suspension that raises and softens by drive mode. It will do a school run through Costa Mesa in the morning and a run up Ortega Highway in the afternoon without any compromise in either direction. Sixty in 3.6 seconds is the headline number, but the part people talk about is how normal it feels the rest of the time. The steering is light at parking speed and weights up properly as you go, and the cabin stays quiet enough to hold a conversation on the freeway to John Wayne Airport.
Grey over red is the Urus for someone who wants the shape without the noise. The exterior reads as restrained and slightly corporate, which makes it the better choice for a business shoot around Irvine or anything where a bright supercar color would be the wrong signal. Then the red cabin gives you a second, far louder image the moment a door opens. Grey also survives flat overcast light, where black loses its shape and bright colors go dull. It is the easiest Lamborghini in our fleet to photograph badly and still get something usable.
Of our five base Urus this is the most restrained on the outside and the loudest on the inside. Grey bodywork means it does not read as a rental in a business frame around Irvine, and then the red cabin gives a completely different image once a door opens. The white and silver cars are cleaner outside, and the black cars run heavier colors. This one sits between them. It shares the higher of our two Urus mileage rates with the black and orange car, so it is built for a day in Orange County rather than a long trip.
This is a base Lamborghini Urus, which means the 4.0 liter twin turbo V8 makes 641 horsepower and 627 lb-ft rather than the newer S car's 657. All wheel drive and adaptive air suspension come standard, adjusting ride height and damping with drive mode. The exterior is grey paint over a red leather interior. 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.