Chris Harris vs the £250k Rolls-Royce Cullinan | Top Gear: Series 27

It's called Cullen, it costs a quarter of a million pounds and although it might look like an SUV depending on the versions, it's not an SUV, no, this is a tall body all-terrain car, so it's an SUV, then and for all Those people who say I should. Rolls-Royce really builds a huge SUV I say, why not? If anyone has the right to build a huge off-road tank, it's them. It's not that your normal cars are small and delicate. Also, 100 years ago, Rosa's image of the best car in the world was based on the construction of off-road vehicles because there were no roads, ask Lawrence of Arabia and the Cullinan is a true off-roader, it has four-wheel drive, it will weigh half meter of water and realistically it will go anywhere.

I'd expect your

250k

pound SUV to go away, but let's face it, the owner of the Cullinan isn't going to do any of that, they're going to drive down the road from this high driving position, wondering why everyone else is looking a little poor. and on the road, the Cullinan is as refined and imperious as you'd expect from the world's most expensive SUV. Listen the silence is simply glorious. This is the most refined SUV ever made. You really don't even know the engine. on, I mean driving on this road now, there is no suspension or tire noise and the ride is just extraordinary, it's so supple it's like the road in front of you has just been repaved with marshmallows and like any other SUV luxury, the Cullinan not only offers comfort, it also offers power and is really powerful enough.

It has a six-point seven-five-liter V12 biturbo engine with 560 horsepower. I'm not sure anyone would be brave enough to push one of these, even if it works. really very fast and does a great job of hiding all of its weight until you hit a corner like that and you're very aware of how heavy it is. Let's be honest, this is not an SUV to drive hard, it's an SUV to float. It

rolls

along in glorious, relaxing silence and that's why the Cullinan is in a class of its own, however it does have one small problem, it is to use an automotive technical term, completely hideous to look at.

I mean, it's a bit of a new London taxi. a bit of Chinese knockoff, it's all wrong, I mean look at the grill, all that money the design team made, but that's the best they could come up with, it looks like they took any old boxy SUV and just slapped it on a grill and a flying lady where you have to gut it and I know that appearances are subjective, but this is wrong if I'm going to enter because it's safer for my eyes, it really is a great achievement. Rolls has somehow managed to build two hundred and fifty. thousand pound car that turns heads for all the wrong reasons.

I'm sorry. Sorry, it's not my car, but something much worse is happening here. The Cullinan should feel like the pinnacle of British engineering but it's actually cynical, it doesn't look like it was created through passion or love or innovation it just feels like it was created to make money pure greed because let's face it there is Too many rich people on this planet for this tacky car to not exist. I am an apologist for the fast, large, inefficient automobile. I'll defend them because I love cars and I'm passionate about them, but I can't build a defense for this car.

I'm the standard bearer of British engineering, a Rolls Royce, and I'm embarrassed to be in it, so if you want to experience a world... class piece of British engineering that doesn't make you know yourself you don't want one of these oh no you want one of these now that's british engineering what is this? the Brompton folding bike what a machine, frankly, it is a blessed relief