Mansory Unleashes the Venatus SE in Monaco: When Too Much Is Never Enough
If Lamborghini’s own Urus no longer screams loudly enough, Mansory has the cure. At the Monaco Yacht Show, the tuner rolled out the Venatus SE — a limited-run hybrid Urus so drenched in carbon fiber and excess horsepower that reason doesn’t just take a back seat, it’s left outside the car entirely.
This is the so-called Launch Edition, capped at just seven examples worldwide. Beneath the hood sits a twin-turbo V8 paired with a reworked ECU and a triple-pipe exhaust, boosted from the factory’s already stout 800 horsepower to an outrageous 1,100. The numbers are as theatrical as the car itself: 0 to 100 km/h in 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 332 km/h. Impressive on paper, but in Monaco’s stop-start traffic it is about as useful as bringing an oar from a tender onto a superyacht.
The styling is pure Mansory — and then some. A carbon-fiber hood, a gaping front splitter, a double rear wing and 24-inch wheels that make even the best performance tires look like a punchline. Inside, no whim goes unanswered: seatbelt buckles can be embossed with logos, the starter button can be relocated to the headliner, and virtually every surface can be dressed to order. Subtlety is not invited.
The Venatus SE is less an SUV than a rolling statement piece, designed to amplify bravado rather than aerodynamics. Speed and engineering are almost secondary to spectacle. For Mansory’s select clientele, that is precisely the point: this isn’t about taste, but about making sure no one within eyesight mistakes you for someone ordinary. Whether that crosses the line into parody is left for each passerby to decide.
