Urus vs. Grand Cherokee Trackhawk: Closer Than You Think

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Performance: Draw

On paper the Trackhawk tops the Urus in straight-up horsepower, but the Jeep also checks in with roughly 600 more pounds to lug around. Both send power to all-four wheels through an eight-speed automatic transmission, both have massive brakes, and both claim 0-60 times of 3.5 seconds. While Lamborghini technically publishes a top speed six mph higher than the Jeep (186 versus 180), we can’t imagine any owner taking either vehicle to such extremes. Our feelings on the matter might shift once we get some seat time in the Urus and see how it gets along on a track, but as it stacks up now, these mental machines deliver surprisingly equal punches.

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Practicality: Jeep

Practicality and Lamborghini are terms that don’t really go together, but in the SUV world such things do matter. The Urus is set up to transport four adults with some additional cargo space in back, which admittedly is two more people and a lot more space than you find in a traditional Lambo. But the Trackhawk delivers more room for five along with copious space behind the fold-down back seats, and the Jeep is also rated to tow 7,200 pounds, The Urus does beat the Trackhawk in fuel economy though, claiming 22 MPG versus the Trackhawk’s 17 highway and 13 combined MPG ratings.

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Styling: Jeep

This is, of course, a completely subjective metric but at the end of the day we’re favoring the brawny lines of the Trackhawk versus the edgy design from Lamborghini. It’s moderately aggressive look isn’t completely unappealing, but we were hoping for something a bit more radical. Throwing a quick glance to the Urus on the highway you might not even realize you’re looking at a Lamborghini, which is pretty much the opposite of every other Lambo, ever.

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Price: Jeep

A fully-loaded Grand Cherokee Trackhawk retails for just over $100,000, which is half the cost of a new Urus. That alone doesn’t give the win to Jeep because let’s face it – people shopping for Lamborghinis are looking at pedigree and exclusivity as much as they are performance. Still, we can’t overlook the fact that these two sport-utility vehicles are exceedingly close in so many categories, not the least of which is performance. With that said, is the Lamborghini twice the SUV for the price? In our mind, that could be a very difficult leap to justify. We’ll reserve further judgement until we get some Urus seat time.

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Dec 04, 2017 at 3:42pm

By: Christopher Smith

These crazy supercar-killing SUVs from Lamborghini and Jeep are surprisingly comparable in pretty much all aspects – except one.

The 2019 Lamborghini Urus isn’t the first time the storied supercar manufacturer has affixed the Raging Bull to a sport-utility vehicle. We all remember the bonkers LM002 from 1990, flaunting its chunky styling and bonkers V12 for the off-road community. But that machine was introduced into a sedan-dominated world where the term sport-utility vehicle hadn’t even entered mainstream vocabulary, so already the Urus has significantly more potential simply because of the times in which we live.

It also has significantly more competition, though its 650-horsepower biturbo V8 does place it in rare company. Our minds immediately click to the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk with its 707-horsepower Hellcat V8, and while the notion of a Lamborghini-versus-Jeep comparison threatens to tear apart the very fabric of existence, these two pumped-up people movers are surprisingly well matched, like it or not.

Let’s take a look at how these super-SUVs stack up against one another.

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