Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo Activity vs Lamborghini Urus

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Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo Activity
Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo Activity

2018 price

Lamborghini Urus
Lamborghini Urus

2019 price

Summary

2018 Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo Activity
2019 Lamborghini Urus
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Diesel Turbo 4, 2.1L

Twin Turbo V8, 4.0L
Fuel Type
Diesel

Premium Unleaded Petrol
Fuel Efficiency
6.3L/100km (combined)

12.7L/100km (combined)
Seating
5

5
Dislikes

  • Value for money isn't great
  • Standard warranty is short
  • Thirsty
2018 Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo Activity Summary

Mercedes-Benz is having a crack at the camper van market with its luxury recreational vehicle, the Marco Polo Activity. Not quite a van, not quite a camper van, this compact pop-top is aimed at appealing to those members of the ever-growing van-life sub-culture who prefer clamping over camping. 

We put an Activity through its paces on daily family duties for a week, as well as a 200km loop of bitumen and dirt roads, in order to see how well it fared as an Adventure mobile.

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2019 Lamborghini Urus Summary

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.

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2018 Mercedes-Benz Marco Polo Activity 2019 Lamborghini Urus

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