Yahoo Autos Lamborghini Urus S adds Performante power and new styling
The Lamborghini Urus just got a new performance variant in the Performante, but now the standard Urus is going through a mid-cycle upgrade of sorts and being renamed the Urus S. So, for the time being there won’t be any Urus models beyond the S and Performante.
The Urus S is being treated to the same power upgrade and powertrain calibration as the Performante. That means it’ll have the more potent 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 that produces 657 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque — that is 16 ponies more than the base Urus it’s replacing. The 0-62 mph time lags behind that of the Performante’s by a couple tenths at 3.5 seconds. However, that’s 0.1 second quicker than the old Urus. The S gets a re-tuned exhaust system that Lamborghini says is “more distinct” at startup and has a “sharper note” in each drive mode. And speaking of drive modes, you get seven in the Urus, including four on-road modes and three off-road modes for any possible scenario.
What the Urus S doesn’t get from the Performante is that model’s fixed suspension. Instead, Lamborghini carries over its air suspension from the pre-refresh Urus that allows for a wider breadth of use cases than the singular-minded Performante.
