The Urus Performante raises the bar in sportiness and performance with design emphasis that reflects the new Urus’ prowess on the street, track, and loose surfaces. The Performante boasts 666 horsepower and a weight reduction of 47 kg (103.6 lbs.), earning it a best-in-class weight-to-power ratio of 3.2. The new king of Pikes Peak accelerates from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in just 3.3 seconds (+0.3 seconds faster than the base Urus), with improved braking from 100-0 km/h (62-0 mph) in 32.9 m (107.9 ft) (-0.8 m; -2.6 ft).

“The Urus Performante brings to life the true performance capabilities of our Super SUV, the best-selling model by Lamborghini,” said Stephan Winkelmann, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Automobili Lamborghini. “The Urus greatly contributed to the company’s best half-year sales results in history, and The Quail sets a perfect stage for our customers to see this new masterpiece in person for the first time alongside our exceptional Huracán line-up.”

In addition to the Urus Performante, Lamborghini displayed an array of models at The Quail, including the open-top Huracán EVO RWD Spyder, the race-inspired Huracán STO, and the new Huracán Tecnica – designed to deliver the best experience both on the road and on the track.

Always with an eye to the future, Lamborghini also unveiled the company’s 60th-anniversary logo ahead of the global celebrations that will occur throughout 2023. The largest gathering will take place in May in Sant’Agata Bolognese, the home of Lamborghini, to commemorate “the future that began in 1963”. The logo design is inspired by the brand’s fighting bull heritage, representing the muscular tenacity forever embodied in generations of Lamborghini vehicles and the brand’s DNA.

As a tribute to Lamborghini’s creation of the first super SUV in history and highlighting the car that paved the way for off-road vehicles, a selection of LM 002s from American collectors were showcased. Like the LM 002, which was first unveiled 40 years ago at the Geneva Auto Show, the Urus created a new Super SUV class of its own, reimagining the Lamborghini offering and overall trajectory of the brand.

Stephan Winkelmann talks about the new Lamborghini Urus Performante:

Check out what Mitja Bortkert, Head of Design at Automobili Lamborghini SpA has to say about the new Urus Performante:

A video featuring Federico Foschini, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer:

Rouven Mohr, Chief Technical Officer on the Urus Performante:

Some more photos from The Quail, a Motorsports Gathering:

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The bright yellow Lamborghini Countach was introduced in March 1971, with a massive 5-Liter V12 engine, a digital dashboard, and for the first time on a Lamborghini, upward-opening doors inspired by the Carabo concept at that time, little did people know back in the Seventies, these doors would become a Lamborghini trademark on every single V12 flagship model to be built since then, it would take Automobili Lamborghini SpA another three years to get the Countach ready for production, during which time the engine was downsized to 4-liter which explains the LP400 designation for the 1974 Countach production version.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Countach we will be seeing a new supercar being unveiled at Pebble Beach in a few days, but as usual, Lamborghini has been showing teasers on their social platforms already, from those we already gather the car will be named the Countach LPi800-4, which means we are looking at an Ibrido model (hence the i in the LPi designation) with a power output of 800 hp, and while people mention the Sian underpinnings will be used, it seems they lowered the overall power output for this Countach homage.

As we know, the Lamborghini Sian was the previous ‘few-off’ model based on the Aventador, and the first car from Sant’Agata with a Supercapacitor, making it effectively the first hybrid Lamborghini production model, albeit only 63 coupe and 19 roadsters, but strangely enough, the Sian had a total of 819 hp, 34 hp from the electric motor and 789 hp from the NA V12 engine … so is the engine for the Countach LPi800-4 detuned then?

Perhaps the new Countach LPi800-4 goes with the basic Aventador SVJ engine with 770 hp and adds 30 hp of electric power to get to a total of 800, or it’s just a marketing thing and this new limited edition takes the entire drivetrain from the Sián, with her 819 hp, and they just call it LPi800-4 because 819 would sound strange?

Rumor has it only 112 units of this new Countach LPi800-4 will be made, as a reference to the internal designation of the Countach back in the Seventies, being LP112, and it will only be available as a coupe, no Roadster because there wasn’t a factory-built Countach Spyder or Roadster either … pricing? Expected to be between €2,500,000 and €3,000,000 … I for one can’t wait to see the entire car in a few days when they unveil her officially.

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