The 800bhp Lamborghini Urus That Tows Vintage Race Cars

"To my knowledge, my Urus is the only one in the UK with a towbar," says Rich Briggs-Price. In fact, Uruses have occasionally been spotted here and elsewhere towing trailers, but we won't deny Rich the possibility.

In any case, in April, when he asked to have one fitted to his brand-new Lamborghini Urus SE (the plug-in hybrid replacement for the S and Performante variants), the dealer had to check with the factory that the option was offered.

"I'm glad it was, because we need the Urus to tow our classic cars around the local shows," explains Rich. "For example, last weekend we used it to tow our 1963 Auto Union three-cylinder, two-stroke race car to a show. However, more important than the towbar is that after a lifetime of owning supercars, I wanted a car that wasn't just a two-seater but could accommodate the most important member of the family: our poodle, Dylan."

In case you're wondering, in addition to the Auto Union, Rich's car collection includes another Auto Union, three Bentleys, a Maserati Quattroporte, a Lancia Beta Volumex Coupé and a Triumph Stag, his favourite one of them all. However, for half the year he lives in Florida, so they're rarely driven.

Not so the Urus, which in the few short weeks that he's owned it has covered 500 miles - not a great deal, but they've all been local and, to Rich's delight, in the course of each one the car has definitely been noticed.

"I'm getting to an age when this will be the last time we want something really flashy and so, when we went into the dealership to order it, we thought we'd make it as flash as we could, so it's in two-tone green and orange," says Rich. "Lamborghini offers around 20 greens, I think, and we wanted the brightest and most fluorescent, and then we had all these orange accents put on it and inside it because we wanted it to really stand out.

"Lamborghini dealers know how to load the price, though. Having the door handles in black and the wheel-arch trims in gloss cost extra!" It may be Rich's car, but he has personally driven it only 10 miles.

"It's not many, but it was enough to show me that we had made the right decision," he says. "Despite its SUV proportions, it feels every inch a supercar. And yes, we wanted the badge, but we also wanted the comfort, and it's very comfortable.

"Of course we know that, being a new car, it will probably depreciate heavily. We haven't had a new car for years for exactly that reason. But for us this was our last shot, so we thought 'let's just get a new car, whether we're going to lose loads of money doing so or not'."

I tell Rich that he may be in luck, since, according to the automotive data specialists at Cazana, after three years and 30,000 miles a Urus sells for 10% more than it cost new, making it the slowest-depreciating new car of all.

He's not sure: "Whenever you trade anything, you've always got the worst one, you know? Yours is always the colour that nobody wants, and I can't see many people wanting lime green and orange! Still, at least for the moment, we're enjoying it too much to care – and Dylan wouldn't be seen in anything else."