The 2019 Lamborhini Urus, fastest SUV in the world

Lamborghini has finally introduced a supercar that you can drive every day without fretting about damaging the super-expensive bodywork on every other speed hump.

Yes, the Lambo SUV is finally here and it looks just as sharp and crazy as all the supercars the Italian marque has ever built. Called the Lamborghini Urus, it’s named after a whole breed of bulls instead of a particular fighting bull like most Lamborghinis. The Urus was first showcased in its concept form at the 2012 Beijing auto show and its incredible Lamborghini hasn’t changed much in terms of design on the production version. All the striking design features of the concept have been retained and it’s unmistakably a Lamborghini.

The Urus is powered by a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that delivers 650 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque. Lamborghini claims the Urus has the best weight-to-power ratio of any SUV on the market which has helped it to become the fastest production SUV in the world. The Italian carmaker quotes a 0-62 mph (Kmh 100) time of 3.6 seconds, a 0-124 mph (kmh 200) time of 12.8 seconds and a top speed of 190 mph (Kmh 305) for the Urus, which can put many modern sport cars to shame. The largest carbon-ceramic brakes ever to be fitted on a production car, adaptive air suspension, active roll stabilization, and 4-wheel steering are also part of the package. Lamborghini plans to build about 1,000 units of the SUV next year then increase the volume to 3,500 annually starting in 2019 which will double the company’s production. There is no word on the pricing as of yet but it is expected to start below $200,000. (Euros 169.800).

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Lamborghini has revealed the Terzo Millennio, a concept supercar

A little over a year ago, Lamborghini announced that it was collaborating with students and professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on future car technologies.

The first fruit of their collaboration has been revealed in concept form today, and boy, it's something else. It's an all-electric hypercar called the Terzo Millennio—Italian for "Third Millennium"—and it's packed with all sorts of wild tech.

With the Terzo Millennio, Lamborghini is attempting to answer a seemingly simple question asked by the company's chief technical officer, Marurizio Reggiani—"what is the super sports car of the future?" For Lamborghini, that means an electric car, but one unlike anything else we've ever seen.

Lamborghini wants an electric car that can run three or four laps of the Nurburgring Nordschleife in a row at full tilt, then completely recharge within a few minutes. And all the while, it has to provide the performance and emotional experience you expect from a Lamborghini.

Lamborghini's collaboration with MIT is focused in two areas—energy-storage systems, and material science. The results are as crazy-futuristic as you'd expect from MIT professors and their PhD. students.

Prof. Mircea Dinca of MIT's chemistry department, and his laboratory, the Dinca Research Lab, worked on the energy-storage system for the Terzo Millennio. Instead of conventional batteries, the Terzo Millenio uses supercapacitors, which can provide great power and recover and harvest kinetic energy at the same time. On top of that, supercapacitors don't age as quickly batteries, making them ideal for car use.

Supercapacitors don't yet have quite the same level energy density as the batteries used in electric cars, though, so that's where Prof. Dinca comes in. His lab is working towards creating parity between supercapacitors and batteries.

These supercapacitors will drive four wheel-mounted electric motors, that give the Terzo Millennio all-wheel drive, and wild torque vectoring capabilities. Lamborghini will soon debut a conventional plug-in hybrid drivetrain for the Urus, but this concept shows where the company really wants to head with electrification.

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