Renting the Lamborghini Urus Performante: Fast, Loud, and Surprisingly Specific By Ovidio Lanteri - Dubai-based automotive expert with a motorsport background. I rent and test cars through DCR and write about what they are actually like on Dubai roads. Dubai has a particular relationship with excess. Height is normal. Gold is normal. A V8 echoing between glass towers at 11 pm is, frankly, background noise. So when something manages to stand out here, it has to try quite hard. The Lamborghini Urus Performante does not try. It simply arrives. In a city built around valet ramps, hotel forecourts, and long arterial highways where 80-160 km/h is the natural rhythm of traffic flow, the Performante makes an unusual kind of sense. It looks like a supercar that swallowed a gym membership and never stopped training. Lower than the standard Urus, wider by a measurable margin, and visibly angrier, it does not pretend to be subtle. That would be dishonest. Underneath the carbon fib...