Rolls Royce to produce an SUV - Cullinan
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Rolls Royce Cullinan to be unveiled without camouflage this summer, at a private event for Rolls Royce owners.
https://uk.motor1.com/news/228476/rolls-royce-suv-customer-preview/
https://uk.motor1.com/news/228476/rolls-royce-suv-customer-preview/
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Actually I don't understand why Rolls doesn't go entirely big with their vehicles. Cars are just not as nice a platform for what a rolls is. You want to be able to get in without having to stoop down or bend down. Your 80 year old gazillionaire wants to be able to sit in it with ease. Also, you'd like to be able to practically conduct a business meeting in the back of one. Larger is better. It's better for potholes, dirt roads, and other rough conditions as well. More is better for throwing parties in it too.
Rolls should be going for something like a low-slung suburban profile. Maybe suicide doors in the back so that you could fit 4 in the back facing each other.
Rolls should be going for something like a low-slung suburban profile. Maybe suicide doors in the back so that you could fit 4 in the back facing each other.
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The average Rolls Royce owner is 45, apparently... so ease of access is perhaps not that much of an issue.. though I don't disagree with you, there are elements of what a Rolls Royce should be that are better served by this type of vehicle. I saw it testing in Munich last year alongside the now revealed Phantom, and I have to say, I'm surprised how big the Cullinan isn't compared to the Phantom.
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What the Cullinan loses in sheer size (assuming this is shorter than the Phantom) it makes up for in a higher seating position. You can truly feel as though you are looking down at peasants sat inside one.
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You're totally right about this.
It looks exactly like a Rolls Royce SUV should look. From 1995.
I actually *hate* how the front wheels aren't right at the front corners as is tradition. And I hate how the rear doesn't hang far past the wheels as is tradition. And I hate how the rear doesn't taper to a boattail as is tradition. Frankly it looks like a knockoff. It doesn't have those classic Rolls proportions.
They could've done it. Hell, the Lincoln Aviator concept has those classic Rolls proportions, except silky smooth instead of square.
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It's weird isn't it, its like it's been on the road for decades. Because it looks so much like how you would expect it to look, it doesn't even look new. Personally I wish it had looked like this, a bit more of the modern Rolls Royce.
The Lincoln Aviator and Navigator concepts looked great, I just hope they don't suffer the fate the Bentley EXP 9F did (also great looking) when they got scared and reigned it in for the production model.
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It's weird isn't it, its like it's been on the road for decades. Because it looks so much like how you would expect it to look, it doesn't even look new. Personally I wish it had looked like this, a bit more of the modern Rolls Royce.
The Lincoln Aviator and Navigator concepts looked great, I just hope they don't suffer the fate the Bentley EXP 9F did (also great looking) when they got scared and reigned it in for the production model.
That is so much more of what an RR SUV should look like.
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It's an incredibly safe and dull design isn't it. It suffers, just as the Bentayga does, with trying to be elegant on a shape that doesn't lend itself to being so. A large SUV shape is really like a scaled up hatchback. You can get away with Golf or A3 styling and detailing on a Touareg or Q7 but contemporary RR or Bentley styling just doesn't look suitably elegant when pasted onto that kind of shape.
Porsche had the same issue when they tried to stick bits of 996 onto a Touareg to make the first gen Cayenne, which was a unhappy, badly proportioned design. With the second generation model they learnt from their mistakes and made the 958 design a much more cohesive one. Range Rover manages to make the tall two-box shape pretty elegant, but they've been at it for the best part of 50 years and are not hampered by trying to force a design language onto a fresh shape.
Porsche had the same issue when they tried to stick bits of 996 onto a Touareg to make the first gen Cayenne, which was a unhappy, badly proportioned design. With the second generation model they learnt from their mistakes and made the 958 design a much more cohesive one. Range Rover manages to make the tall two-box shape pretty elegant, but they've been at it for the best part of 50 years and are not hampered by trying to force a design language onto a fresh shape.
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I'm most curious to see where it's priced. £280,000 maybe, a small premium over the EWB Ghost? Or maybe £300,000+ to reflect the carry over chassis from the Phantom... It might make sense.. or perhaps they'll go the other way and try and start it around £200,000 to get it closer to some of its rivals?
I agree with this, I don't mind the principle of a Rolls-Royce high sided vehicle, but I don't think styling wise it was ever going to work that well, it's just not a good looking segment overall. I'm sure in a more fitting colour with more flattering photography it will look a bit better.
I disagree with earlier posts that it should have looked anything like any of the earlier renders though, it looks better as it does than as a badly proportion photoshop mash-up.
I agree with this, I don't mind the principle of a Rolls-Royce high sided vehicle, but I don't think styling wise it was ever going to work that well, it's just not a good looking segment overall. I'm sure in a more fitting colour with more flattering photography it will look a bit better.
I disagree with earlier posts that it should have looked anything like any of the earlier renders though, it looks better as it does than as a badly proportion photoshop mash-up.
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I reckon £300k+
I think the Bentley SUV is c.£250k, and I'd expect it to be more expensive.
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I looked at a Bentayga in the Bentley next to OPC Colchester last year... it was registered, and was £200k... must have had some rich options!
