The Lamborghini Urus in Iceland
Profound tidal ponds, wiped out volcanoes, geothermal pools and cold waterways: Iceland is the perfect place to put the Lamborghini Urus through hell
When you're told you'll be driving a Lamborghini for a two-day excursion, your creative energy goes into overdrive. You consider whipping along the autostrada, dashing through Parma and Milano, before scaling to Courmayeur and the Mont Blanc burrow. You expect dappled light throwing shadows on the dash, Matt Monroe on the stereo and hours that keep going for a considerable length of time. At any rate, I do.
As my plane's wheels contact down on the runway at Reykjavik air terminal, notwithstanding, it's reasonable this isn't to be. Iceland isn't ordinarily showered in rich, warm light, nor does it have streets that flick through valleys or divide towns. This is an intense, unforgiving locale that is battered by the North Atlantic's most noticeably bad climate. It is anything but a place you'd regularly pilot the most recent Lamborghini.
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The vehicle I'm driving is certifiably not a run of the mill Lambo, however. It's the new Urus – and keeping in mind that it might wear the popular brilliant bull shield on the rakish nose and highlight a 640bhp 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, this is no scissor-doored bit of V12-fueled exotica. It's a five-entryway SUV with a major boot and barrel deactivation.
Clearing out of the lodging carport and on to Highway One – the primary street that runs the whole periphery of the nation – I'm welcomed by dark night and substantial rain. With a 600-mile keep running along Iceland's southern external edge in front of me, the Urus' progressively commonsense credits start to bode well. The initial 60 miles or so are tied in with subsiding into the vehicle and familiarizing myself with an alternate sort of Lamborghini. In an Aventador or an increasingly customary model, the beginning periods of an adventure are a blend of rushes and worry. The Urus is totally extraordinary. Here, it's increasingly about exchanging on the warmed seat and setting the atmosphere control just so.
The principal couple of hours sneak past with rain as yet pelting down on the pointed hat, yet early daylight before long gets during that time's thick cloud. A couple of kilometers later sunrise has broken, washing the long, bolt straight thruway in diminish light. The clearing cloudiness uncovers I'm somewhere down in Seltun Geothermal Area, a place so emotional it's outlandish not to pull over and respect the staggering scene.
The overgrown, volcanic land is said a final farewell to profound pools – some foaming without end with thick mud, others steaming extraordinary billows of dampness and sulfur. I haven't halted simply to see the multi-hued geothermal region, however, yet additionally to meet Lamborghini's CEO, Stefano Domenicali. He remains on a wooden stage over an inauspiciously murmuring pool and, with a realistic prosper, pivots with a radiating grin and essentially says: "The ideal place for a Urus, no?"
His presentation might be a touch dramatic, yet Domenicali is completely rational in an easily cool way. He sinks into the traveler situate for the following leg to our inn close Medallandsvegur, 33% of the path along the southern edge of the island. Domenicali touched base at Lamborghini two years prior, broadly changing from being a Ferrari man (he was Scuderia Ferrari's Formula One group central from 2008 to 2014) to joining the opponent brand from Sant'Agata.
Regardless of the Urus being closed down before he arrived, Domenicali adores it – and trusts it ought to be the way to opening an extraordinary time of development and deals accomplishment for Lamborghini. "We are as of now sold out for the main year," he says. "In light of the Urus we have needed to twofold the impression of our production line and increment the span of our workforce. We mean to twofold our aggregate deals in 2019."
A few CEOs would let it be known's discouraging when an extraordinary games vehicle mark needs to swing to SUVs so as to twofold deals, yet not Domenicali. "Discourage isn't the correct word," he says. "I trust the super-sport part can't achieve the quantities of vehicles we intend to manufacture; the best way to remain in the market is to go to SUV." He concedes the Urus' deals will specifically enhance Lamborghini's capacity to fabricate another Huracán and Aventador. Put that way, it's unmistakably a vehicle we ought to be appreciative for.
With Domenicali's telephone pinging like clockwork to show one more E-mail, I focus on getting the Urus to our medium-term stop – and am again happy we're in a SUV. Inside a hour the climate abandons dim skies to whipping precipitation, thick snow to wonderful daylight and back to mizzle; the Urus just disregards each conceivable condition. I'm flicking between Strada (road) and Neve (snow) driving modes, yet as we close to our lodging the climate enhances and I can experiment with the opposite side to the Urus' inclination.
In Sport mode the vehicle hardens, and there's a whiff of Lamborghini's regularly distraught character. Changing to Corsa – which additionally extricates the track control and opens up the depletes to most extreme – discharges the full unhinged Lambo. The Urus turns into a legitimate games SUV, squats into the scarred black-top and runs between summits, its V8 growling at the same time. With the CEO on board, it's an exceptional drive.
Following day, it's a great opportunity to go to Reykjavik – yet not by Highway One. Rather, we float towards Iceland's trademark – yet perilous – rock streets. We stop off at different focuses for pictures, including the icy mass tidal pond at Fjallsarlon and the incredibly remote Dyrholaey Lighthouse. The Urus substantiates itself shockingly capable, drinking up chances to portage frigid waterways and climb slants cut into wiped out volcanoes. It's no Range Rover, however it's seemingly more fit than it should be for its proposed market.
Also, what is that advertise, I consider as we clear into the air terminal vehicle leave? Not commonplace Lambo proprietors, that is without a doubt. Be that as it may, as a vehicle to allure another sort of purchaser, the Urus is a champ. The final word goes to Domenicali: "We were creating 2,000 autos five years prior; presently we are making a beeline for 8,000 out of 2019. We've enlisted in excess of 700 individuals in two years and multiplied the extent of our production line. It's amazing."
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