RE: Rolls-Royce Cullinan: Driven

[coppice]

Ares said:

Sweet Jesus, is the primary argument for/against SUVs now the size of wing mirrors?

The FFRR is not too big for UK roads, let alone anywhere else in the world.

If you can't manage a FFRR on UK roads, you should have your licence clipped to allow you only to drive mini-cars. FFS MTFU snowflakes etc.

Well , that has confirmed one suspicion I've long harboured about drivers of gratuitously large SUVs ...

[swisstoni]

Ares said:

Sweet Jesus, is the primary argument for/against SUVs now the size of wing mirrors?

The FFRR is not too big for UK roads, let alone anywhere else in the world.

If you can't manage a FFRR on UK roads, you should have your licence clipped to allow you only to drive mini-cars. FFS MTFU snowflakes etc.

Ooh you big bully.

[PhilboSE]

coppice said:

Ares said:

Sweet Jesus, is the primary argument for/against SUVs now the size of wing mirrors?

The FFRR is not too big for UK roads, let alone anywhere else in the world.

If you can't manage a FFRR on UK roads, you should have your licence clipped to allow you only to drive mini-cars. FFS MTFU snowflakes etc.

Well , that has confirmed one suspicion I've long harboured about drivers of gratuitously large SUVs ...

What, ALL of them?

If you look through this thread (and basically any other thread about big or fast SUVs) you'll see the anti-SUV brigade making far broader (and ridiculous) stereotypes about SUV drivers, and throwing around all kinds of personal insults.

What suspicions do you hold about those drivers?

[coppice]

The acronym is the clue to that one. And not FFS , BTW

[PhilboSE]

coppice said:

The acronym is the clue to that one. And not FFS , BTW

Ah, that confirms my suspicions about the anti-SUV brigade. Thanks for confirming.

[anonymous-user]

coppice said:

Ares said:

Sweet Jesus, is the primary argument for/against SUVs now the size of wing mirrors?

The FFRR is not too big for UK roads, let alone anywhere else in the world.

If you can't manage a FFRR on UK roads, you should have your licence clipped to allow you only to drive mini-cars. FFS MTFU snowflakes etc.

Well , that has confirmed one suspicion I've long harboured about drivers of gratuitously large SUVs ...

And yet Ares drives a very nice and 100% PH friendly saloon car

We have a FFRR. I love it, it’s a rather brilliant vehicle, as enjoyable in the city as it is in the countryside, as good on the motorway as it is in a muddy field. The fact that it causes the small minded such angst is just another bonus

As for the Cullinan, yes please. If my numbers ever came up then there is definitely one of these on the cards on full on “world’s poshest shoot car” spec to keep up at the fantasy Scottish retreat.

[Ares]

Brooking10 said:

coppice said:

Ares said:

Sweet Jesus, is the primary argument for/against SUVs now the size of wing mirrors?

The FFRR is not too big for UK roads, let alone anywhere else in the world.

If you can't manage a FFRR on UK roads, you should have your licence clipped to allow you only to drive mini-cars. FFS MTFU snowflakes etc.

Well , that has confirmed one suspicion I've long harboured about drivers of gratuitously large SUVs ...

And yet Ares drives a very nice and 100% PH friendly saloon car

We have a FFRR. I love it, it’s a rather brilliant vehicle, as enjoyable in the city as it is in the countryside, as good on the motorway as it is in a muddy field. The fact that it causes the small minded such angst is just another bonus

As for the Cullinan, yes please. If my numbers ever came up then there is definitely one of these on the cards on full on “world’s poshest shoot car” spec to keep up at the fantasy Scottish retreat.

In my experience, those harbouring suspicions they seek confirming are actually sitting in blissful, unconscious ignorance

[numtumfutunch]

Saw a Cullinan today heading south on the M1

Initially spotted a long, long way away in my mirrors travelling in a spirited fashion

The closer it got the bigger it became
Coincidentally or not it was in convoy with 2 FF Rangeys and appeared to dwarf them

Without wishing to sound like a design snob apart from the trad RR grille it didnt really say "class" to me, the design completely lacked cohesion in a way that the Phantom and Wraith have just completely nailed. The pearlescent red colour didnt help but it just wasnt something I aspired to ever own (immaterial TBH)

Having petrol running through my veins it did upset me that a V12 powered engineering tour de force upholstered with the skin of 1000 cows with the power to upset every bleeding heart liberal within 100 miles didnt stir me. Dare I say it the Bentayga looks better resolved

Cheers

[toppstuff]

numtumfutunch said:

Dare I say it the Bentayga looks better resolved

Cripes. The Cullinan must be a properly ugly thing in the flesh then. I was parked near a Bentayga at Heathrow recently and that was goppingly ugly. Being brown inside and out didn't help.

[RichB]

toppstuff said:

numtumfutunch said:

Dare I say it the Bentayga looks better resolved

Cripes. The Cullinan must be a properly ugly thing in the flesh then. I was parked near a Bentayga at Heathrow recently and that was goppingly ugly. Being brown inside and out didn't help.

It is...

[Escapegoat]

RichB said:

toppstuff said:

numtumfutunch said:

Dare I say it the Bentayga looks better resolved

Cripes. The Cullinan must be a properly ugly thing in the flesh then. I was parked near a Bentayga at Heathrow recently and that was goppingly ugly. Being brown inside and out didn't help.

It is...

It's a bizarre looking thing - super imposing from the front and the side - a la Phantom - but just far too understated from behind. Almost as homage to the original Range Rover, but that car was totally understated, so the design worked as a whole.

An extra factoid: The bow-wave from a Cullinan at near-100-leptons is pretty impressive. Pushed my old LS400 barge offline on the A1 today. Pushing plebs out of the way must be one of unlisted benefits of the aero package.

(Hope you spotted the Plod on the overhead bridge in time, Mr J55 8OND!)

[anonymous-user]

Has it been mentioned yet this car smells like a steak and seats 35?

[hyphen]

I saw my first Cullinan this morning, in an unglamourous small town rush hour traffic queue.

Couldn't help but snigger at how terrible it looked, it really was awful externally.

I remember years ago when I saw my first Phantom, was gelaming in black, it had presence (this was pre mass wedding cars hires of it), but the Cullinan just looked feeble.

I'm sure it's great inside and all that, but Rolls Royce really should have started with a blank page.

[poo at Paul's]

Kierkegaard said:

Has it been mentioned yet this car smells like a steak and seats 35?

When it goes real slow with the hammer down, Its the country fried truck endorsed by a clown!!

[DonkeyApple]

hyphen said:

I saw my first Cullinan this morning, in an unglamourous small town rush hour traffic queue.

Couldn't help but snigger at how terrible it looked, it really was awful externally.

I remember years ago when I saw my first Phantom, was gelaming in black, it had presence (this was pre mass wedding cars hires of it), but the Cullinan just looked feeble.

I'm sure it's great inside and all that, but Rolls Royce really should have started with a blank page.

Weird. I still remember the first Phantom I saw. That was black and parked up in Sonning by the Bull. It was a big beast and it looked good, as you say. And the other week I saw a Cullinan and it didn’t. It has none of the poise or gravitas that the Phantom had. It doesn’t really work.

[DaveH23]

Just seen one of these parked up outside the Shangri-La in London.

It certainly has presence. Made the Lamborghini next to it seem like a toy Matchbox car.

[anonymous-user]

DaveH23 said:

Just seen one of these parked up outside the Shangri-La in London.

It certainly has presence. Made the Lamborghini next to it seem like a toy Matchbox car.

Liberace had presence, but even he would think the cullinan was too ostentatious...

[Glenn63]

A white one overtook me in the wagon this evening near Poynton didn’t think it looked that bad from behind or overly big.

[TheOrangePeril]

"If you were asked to pick a current production car in which to drive you and your family several hundred miles to your holiday home, the Cullinan would be right up there."

Apart from the swanky carpet and soundproofing, I think that almost everything about a Model X appeals more...

[TyrannosauRoss Lex]

TheOrangePeril said:

"If you were asked to pick a current production car in which to drive you and your family several hundred miles to your holiday home, the Cullinan would be right up there."

Apart from the swanky carpet and soundproofing, I think that almost everything about a Model X appeals more...

Not sure if you're serious? Have you sat inside a Tesla and a RR? I have (a Ghost and a Phantom, admittedly) and they are absolutely worlds apart. I know which I'd rather drive several hundred miles in. I don't like the looks of this, but then the Model X is utterly hideous too.