FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW: A Lamborghini Urus, but faster
Urus not fast enough for you? Novitec has the answerRight, enough of all that electric car business. It’s time for some proper motor show craziness, with the Novitec-tuned version of the hot-selling Lamborghini Urus.
The tuning house has taken the Italian super-SUV up from 478kW of power from its 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 to 575kW – almost a 25 per cent power hike for the already-brutally quick two-tonner.
It’s also ramped up the torque from 850Nm to 1032Nm, and the big Urus now tops out at an astonishingly energetic 310km/h (up from 305km/h).
With a 3.3-second sprint to 100km/h, the Novitec Urus also has a wider body to accommodate the 23-inch tyres and forged alloy wheels.
It’s not Novitec’s first attack on a Lamborghini, because it has also cranked out faster versions of the Huracan and the Aventador.
It uses a plug-and-play tuning module installed on each of the cylinder banks to control the recalibrated mapping for the fuel-injection, turbo boost pressure and the ignition.
There is an all-new exhaust system and a host of other changes to hit the torque peak at 2900rpm and the power peak at 6200.
The eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive systems have been only mildly upgraded, though it claims the widebody Esteso bodywork does most of the work to improve the handling.
The 14-part body kit can be installed at Novitec partners around the world, taking the rear axle out 120mm to 2.13 metres wide and it lowers the ride height by 25mm.
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