Lamborghini Urus vs Denza B8

What's the difference?

Lamborghini is famous for making glamorous supercars whose pilots seem so carefree they don’t appear to need a boot, or back seats, or even families.

They don’t even seem to mind them being so low they have to get in and out on all fours – well that’s how I need to do it, anyway.

Yup, Lamborghini is famous for these exotic race cars for the road… not SUVs.

But it will be, I know it. 

I know, because the new Lamborghini Urus came to stay with my family and we torture tested it, not on the track or off-road, but in the 'burbs doing the shopping, the school drop-offs, braving multi-storey car parks and the potholed roads daily.

While I never like to give the game away this early in a review, I need to say the Urus is astounding. This is truly a super SUV that is every bit as Lamborghini as I hoped, but with a big difference – you can live with it.

Here’s why.

Large SUVs like the Toyota LandCruiser, Nissan Patrol and Land Rover Defender have dominated in Australia for decades now, however there’s now something new to shake up the segment.

BYD’s luxury spin-off brand, Denza, has launched in Australia with two plug-in hybrid (PHEV) off-road SUVs. The B8, which is the larger of the two, is on test here.

With three rows of seating, a bucketload of standard equipment and a jaw-dropping starting price, the B8 is being pitched as a PHEV alternative to the currently diesel-only LandCruiser 300 Series among other more premium alternatives like the Land Rover Discovery and Mercedes-Benz GLS.

We’ve already driven the B8 over in China and this is the first time we’re getting to test it out on Australian roads, so let’s see how it stacks up.