So, considering the new Urus doesn’t have an offroad bodykit, I accepted as headcanon that it was fully intended to be driven mostly on tarmac, so I set out to build mine for road races. And I was surprised by the result.
Considering it’s one of the sister cars of the Bentley Bentayga, the high quality of the chassis was expected. But the Urus has something else. You feel the weight, but it drives pretty well. Not only that, the Race suspension allows you to drop it a lot, not as much as the Stelvio, but enough to make it look less truckish. And the engine is adequate enough to push the car to speeds other SUVs could only dream of hitting.
Other SUVs aren’t much different. Granted, the Urus is the lightest and sportiest of the lot, but the aforementioned Bentayga, the Range Rover SVR, the Cayenne and even the X6M are a hoot to drive. The heavy, 7-seating Dodge Durango was one of the more nimble SUVs in Cross Country, so I wonder if it’d make the list, along with the Jeep Trackhawk, which is the track counterpart of the Trailhawk and thus designed for actual tarmac roads as opposed to dirt trails.
Classic muscle cars are more sluggish in the corners than these SUVs, even with full Race suspension and a healthy dose of weight reduction. Now I’m hoping they bring the Levante to FH4 as they should have, lol.