RE: Rolls-Royce Cullinan: Driven

[chazwozza]

I like it. And they quote a proper 0-60, not 62, time. Looks quite restrained from outside. Although i'm sure mansory/kahn etc etc will soon spoil that.

[jenkosrugby]

It is absolutly minging....Sorry, I really can't find anything nice to say about it........Simply aweful looking thing that looks like they tried to copy Sangyoung!.

[Frimley111R]

Very nice, very RR. Of course it's heavy and has poor fuel consumption but who cares? Great job RR

[Ursicles]

Look forward to seeing how Mansory bastardise this.

[alorotom]

Love it; it’s ostentatious and gratuitously over the top what’s not to love!

[FerdiZ28]

I’m definitely with the “like” team on this. I think it will be colour sensitive, I’d imagine it’s lovely in that Land Rover grey or black on black/ black on red or black in light interior.

Quintessentially a RR, has heritage and roots in its design and understated, as it should be.

That said, on the right wheels I like the Bentayga too, although I’d have this over that car.

I am naked as a write.

[Dusty964]

J4CKO said:

FWDRacer said:

Mindless, tasteless idiots need only apply.

Taste is subjective I guess and I would feel a bit of a pillock driving it in my normal day to day life, but I am guessing the "idiots" that have 250k plus to spend on one have a different lifestyle than me.

I cant imagine the buyers of this have just one car, or that quarter of a million pounds is raised by selling their 3 bed semi and trading in a 2007 Focus, it will be just another car, possibly one each at their properties around the world, they will probably use it for specific duties, take a Bugatti on a sunny day or a Phantom if they are going into a city.

Its just a different world that I dont understand other than its not top of my next car list.

Exactly that. I have a friend with one on order. It will sit alongside a couple of Ferrari, a viper, a 911 turbo, a Rolls of some sort, a Hurrican...the maid drives one of three Range Rovers. As much as it doesnt sit well with many, the Range Rovers were the best you could buy at the time, now something higher spec is out, so that will be the next purchase. Its perceived that Rolls is the best that can be obtained, so she will. Easy as that.

[Dan the Deck]

Might as well copy and paste the comments from the Overfinch post, will save everyone time

[Ares]

Gameface said:

This is going to be a typically predictable PH thread.

Indeed. Time for Cliche bingo. (and a plethora of people that care so little about the car that they can't stop talking about it)


I know two people who have one on order. One replacing a Bentayga, the replacing a Range Rover SV. They didn't buy their current cars as fashion statements, and aren't buying these for that reason either. It's called choice.

[DonkeyApple]

David87 said:

Why would you buy this over the Phantom? Other than being too poor, obviously.

To get back to RR roots.

[DonkeyApple]

Not sure why it has a V12. Audi said a V8 was the only option when they were flying a Lambo badge onto their van and adding some numbers to the brochure.

[otolith]

I didn't think there were any rich Northern mill owners left.

[Daveyraveygravey]

It looks like one of those pretend Rollers the Chinese used to make a few years ago...

[Ares]

DonkeyApple said:

David87 said:

Why would you buy this over the Phantom? Other than being too poor, obviously.

To get back to RR roots.

And the same reason people by an X5 rather than 5-series (or any X over i/d), Q5 over A4 (ditto), Bentayga rather than Flying Spur, Touareg rather than Passat, Cayenne rather than Panamera,...etc

[Ares]

DonkeyApple said:

Not sure why it has a V12. Audi said a V8 was the only option when they were flying a Lambo badge onto their van and adding some numbers to the brochure.

And PH bhed that the Lambo didn't have a V12....now RR put a V12 in their SUV, and PH question it. <faceplam>

[DonkeyApple]

otolith said:

I didn't think there were any rich Northern mill owners left.

Mills have gone but they’ve got pound shops, IVA consultancies, no win no fee law firms and retirement homes instead.

[MCBrowncoat]

I quite like it. More pleasing than a Bentayga. Looking forward to seeing one on the road.

Genuine question though: with all that weight, and no locking diffs (bingo...) is it quite likely that one could get unwittingly plugged where say another one's 4X4 might not? And wouldn't the embarrassment rather ruin it, what?

(cue: "not likely around around Knightsbridge...")

[Ares]

MCBrowncoat said:

I quite like it. More pleasing than a Bentayga. Looking forward to seeing one on the road.

Genuine question though: with all that weight, and no locking diffs (bingo...) is it quite likely that one could get unwittingly plugged where say another one's 4X4 might not? And wouldn't the embarrassment rather ruin it, what?

(cue: "not likely around around Knightsbridge...")

Aside from jaunting across a field ahead of sitting watching the Point-to-Point, I don't think these are particularly intended for 'mud-plugging'.

[DonkeyApple]

MCBrowncoat said:

I quite like it. More pleasing than a Bentayga. Looking forward to seeing one on the road.

Genuine question though: with all that weight, and no locking diffs (bingo...) is it quite likely that one could get unwittingly plugged where say another one's 4X4 might not? And wouldn't the embarrassment rather ruin it, what?

(cue: "not likely around around Knightsbridge...")

Nice place to sit and have a drink while a beater nips off to get a tractor.

[Crazy Don]

After WW2 a relative of mine bought pre-war Rolls Royces which nobody wanted because of fuel rationing and chopped the back part of the body off and turned them into pickup trucks for his farm. I think this monstrosity costing more than a small farm would have him turning in his grave,