Police need fast cars. This is quite obvious – suspects might have extremely powerful vehicles and letting them run away with them sometimes is not an option. However, the police also need cheaper cars because taxpayer’s money needs to be respected. So how come that Italian police are riding in Lamborghinis? Recently Italy’s police got a brand new Lamborghini Urus Performante.
It is actually a tradition of Lamborghini to provide supercars to the Italian State Police. Soon this collaboration is going to celebrate its 20th birthday.
Lamborghini Urus Performante, which will begin its police duties in Italy in 2024. Image credit: Lamborghini
It started in 2004, when Automobili Lamborghini and the Italian State Police agreed to field some extreme supercars to aid the Highway Police. While many stereotypes can be hurtful, Italians probably won’t mind us saying that speeding in the beautiful Italian autostradas is not an uncommon occurrence.
Italy is the land of supercars and catching them is not always easy. And so the Italian police back then got a Lamborghini Gallardo to patrol the country’s highways and perform other important duties.
Now the Italian “Polizia Stradale” will enjoy a more practical car – a Lamborghini Urus Performante, which will enter into service in 2024. In these 20 years this Urus Performante SUV is the sixth Lamborghini model to enter into the Highway Police fleet.
Urus Performante. Image credit: Lamborghini
Of course, it was customised to fit the needs of the police better. This Urus Performante received the appropriate paint job, lights, armoured weapon box, a flip-down message display and a special compartment in the trunk for stowing service equipment and a defibrillator for first aid response.
And that is a good indication of what is one of the expected duties of this vehicle. The Urus Performante in the police force may have to perform special services including the urgent medical transport of organs and plasma.
Other Lamborghini vehicles, such as the Lamborghini Huracán, have already performed such missions. This Urus Performante even has a portable fridge for the transportation of organs.
The Lamborghini Urus Performante is a big, but extremely powerful car. It has a twin-turbo V8 engine, pushing out 490 kW of power and 850 Nm of torque. It can accelerate to 100 km/h in just 3.3 seconds and has a top speed of 306 km/h.
Stephan Winkelmann, Chairman and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, said: “Knowing that our cars are used for public duties and, above all, for crucial operations to save human lives, can only make me and the whole company proud. These initiatives, which bring us great satisfaction, demonstrate our innate close ties with Italy.”
Who knows how long this partnership will go on. But it is cool to know that police in Italy have access to Italian supercars and use them to save lives.
Urus Performante. Image credit: Lamborghini
Written by Povilas M.
Source: Lamborghini