A heavily modified Lamborghini Urus leaves a stock Ferrari Purosangue in the dust during a series of high-speed drag races.
In a head-to-head drag race between two of Italy’s most exclusive performance SUVs, a modified Lamborghini Urus soundly defeated Ferrari’s stock Purosangue in a series of straight-line battles conducted at a Bavarian airstrip.
The matchup, staged by YouTube personality and former Formula E driver Daniel Abt, saw his tuned Lamborghini Urus Performante—upgraded by German tuning firm ABT Sportsline—go up against fellow enthusiast Joerg Kintzel’s naturally aspirated Ferrari Purosangue. The results weren’t even close.
Despite the Ferrari’s 6.5-liter V12 and lighter frame, the Urus—rebadged by ABT as the “Scatenato,” Italian for “Unchained”—proved far quicker thanks to extensive modifications. The ABT Urus boasts up to 829 horsepower on high-octane fuel and 738 lb-ft of torque, outmuscling the Purosangue’s 715 hp and 528 lb-ft.
Over the course of three quarter-mile races on the Mindelheim-Mattsies Airfield, the Ferrari’s best time was 12.13 seconds, reaching 62 mph in 4.2 seconds. The Urus, by contrast, clocked a blistering 10.60-second quarter mile and hit 62 mph in just 3.47 seconds—performance figures that edge into supercar territory.
Abt’s tuned SUV also topped 140 mph before lifting off the throttle, while the Purosangue fell behind with a peak of just over 226 km/h (140.4 mph) but struggled to match the Urus’s acceleration and torque-rich launches.
Both vehicles are high-water marks of luxury performance, but the race underscored how tuning can significantly alter a vehicle’s performance envelope. With Lamborghini planning a hybrid successor to the Urus and Ferrari expected to electrify future Purosangue models, this showdown may mark one of the last great V8 vs. V12 matchups of the combustion era.
