Where luxury meets utility

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Every time the curtain rises on a motor show these days, it seems a new luxury sports utility vehicle (SUV) is crowding the limelight. A year ago it was the Ferrari FF, four seats, four-wheel drive, a 650 horsepower “family car” targeting the snow-bound vacationer. This spring we got our first glimpse of Bentley’s XP9 concept, the “Queen’s Car” for the super-rich soccer mom, packing both a 12-cylinder engine and a built-in silver-and-Lalique crystal picnic set. A month later, Lamborghini unveiled the Urus at the Beijing motor show, signaling its own entrance into the luxury SUV ring. Three makers, 7,500 miles apart, but as the saying goes: Once is an anomaly, twice is coincidence. But three times makes a trend. The entrance of these ultra-luxury brands solidifies a trend started more than two decades ago. It was 25 years ago, after all, that Lamborghini sortied what many consider the first