Here's Why the Rolls-Royce Cullinan Is the World's Most Expensive SUV

This is the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan and it is literally the Rolls-Royce of SUVs. It is Rolls-Royce's first attempt at the SUV

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which already includes models from brands such as Lamborghini and Bentley, Alfa Romeo and Maserati, but t

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are two key differences. between this and those vehicles, namely this one is more luxurious and this one is more

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we don't really know, the Cullinan won't go on sale for a few more months, so the official price isn't out yet. has announced, but rumors suggest it will be priced between the Ghost and the Phantom, meaning it will be in the 300-400k range, that's a lot of money, but the Cullinan is a car that rides on the Phantom platform and uses the Phantom's engine, a biturbo. v12 with 570 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque i borrowed this culinan from oguera coach

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dealership here in the san diego area among other brands and their showroom is truly a site to behold now oguera I temporarily have this culinary product from Rolls-Royce Corporate and it's not on sale yet, which means I can't drive it yet, but I'll have a full drive review when the Conan officially goes on sale in coming months, but just because I can't drive, that doesn't mean I can't show you around, so today I'm taking you on a full tour of the Cullinan, which will al

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I'm going to show you all the quirks and features of the latest ultra suv and for more of my thoughts on the Cullinan, click the link below to visit autotrader.com oversteer, where I've also compiled a list of my favorite cheap used ones from high performance. SUVs that are currently for sale on Autotrader. Now I'm going to start on the exterior with the doors and a quick note. I recently reviewed the new Rolls Royce Phantom luxury sedan and obviously this car shares a lot of things with the Phantom so some things will be duplicated but in order to be as complete as possible I want to show everything so I start with the doors Now when you want to get in you just pull the door handle and the door opens like a normal car door, but when you want to close the door it's anything but normal, you put your finger here, touch it and then the door opens.

It closes automatically so you don't have to expel power, closing the door to your kitchen and keeping the door out of the way. Now we enter, but we are not done with the door yet. First, it's worth noting that on the dashboard to the left of the steering wheel are two small, unlabeled buttons. Those buttons close the doors, the one on the left obviously closes the door. on the left side, the one on the right closes the door on the right side and that means you don't have to be outside the culina to close the doors automatically.

You can also do it from here, which means you never have to. If you don't use power to close a door anymore, you'll now notice that the doors don't open automatically and I'm sure that's by design. I think Rolls-Royce is afraid that someone will park it too close to something and then open it automatically. the door and then it hits something and the person is very angry and will never buy a Rolls Royce again anyway, moving on to another interesting part of the door, on the door panel, you can see that it is obviously a nice leather, very well executed, but the best thing is that little spirit of ecstasy, the logo engraved in the leather of the door panel, very high quality, very exclusive, and then moving on from the doors, obviously we must talk about the thresholds of the doors, why you pass to enter.

You can see that it is very pretty. aluminum finish and says culinan and very nice high quality moldings, of course it is also illuminated now, interestingly, the door threshold says to knock on the four doors, they were not cheap and they did not put colon or door cells on the part rear, it's very high quality and looks really great regardless of where you're sitting now, interestingly, that's one of the only two places that says culinan in this entire interior. I'll get to the other one in just a second, but I should probably do it first. Mention why it's called Cullinan, which is a bit of a strange name.

It's called the Cullinan after the Cullinan diamond, which is apparently the largest flawless diamond in the world and was discovered in 1905. I suppose it's an appropriate name to give to the largest Rolls-Royce we now have. The next cool feature comes right on the other side of the door cell and that would be the mats, look at these things, they are absolutely beautiful, they are these nice thick mats that you just want to take off your shoes and just stick on. feet directly or just put your face down and curl up and the formats are not the only ultra high quality element in this interior, obviously I'm going to mention a couple of other really high-end things that only the top level of luxury cars You have, for example, the joystick to change the position of the mirrors and your car is probably a small plastic dial.

You just move it and change the mirrors on this car. It's this fancy heavy aluminum joystick and you move it to move the mirrors in a finer way than a normal car and how about the storage area right behind the center controls? You push the aluminum part down, but when you want it back up you don't have to manually move it up, just press Enter and then it automatically slides back into place so you don't have to do any work yourself. Another incredibly high end detail on this car, like most cars, this one has dials for the climate control, you can change it to set the amount of air.

It's coming out what most cars don't have though, it's leather on the dials, this car has leather wrapped climate control dials so every surface you touch is opulent and if the leather on the climate control dials weather wasn't enough, how about words? used to describe the speed of the fan, it is not low or high or one, two, three, four, instead, it is maximum high, medium and soft in the two points and you do not lower the air to low, you put it in soft. Another interesting element is the lighting binnacle in the roof up here which is quite luxurious, there are four different silver switches that turn on various things, the ones on the left and right turn on the individual map lights which brighten and dim slightly when the You press instead of turning them all on at once, but the middle ones are even more impressive, one of them turns on the entire lighting binnacle and this nice ambient lighting and the other turns on just the front half again.

This is not a bright direct light, but a kind of soft, quiet and tempered light so that In order not to disturb the pleasant atmosphere of the cabin, another high-end luxury touch in this car is the clock. There is no digital clock that sits right in the middle of the dash and is functional. Instead, there is a beautiful analog clock that at the bottom says Cullinan, that's where the other one is. place where Cullinan appears in the cabin now strangely placing it completely there, it's actually hard to read from the driver's seat which is one of the few mistakes, I think within this interior, the other mistake is the gear selector transmission I complained about.

In the Phantom, the transmission selector feels too flimsy and cheap to be on an incredibly high-end luxury vehicle like the Cullinan. Now, the next step is to move away from all the luxury touches and opt for some more unusual buttons and switches in this interior. One thing worth noting is that this is the first Rolls-Royce with all-wheel drive and, because it is an SUV, it is designed to perform well at least a little off-road. One thing I like is that there is a giant button on the center console that says off-road instead of six different menu options for the type of terrain you are on in this vehicle, it makes it simple: are you on the road or are you off the road?

If you're outside, press that button with what it says there. There are three different suspension modes on this car, you can set it to high, medium or low, low is designed for easier entry or exit while high is what you would use if you want to drive your Cullinan off-road, our next article interesting thing about this vehicle. a panoramic sunroof, which is no surprise that most high-end SUVs do. What's interesting about this one is that it opens incredibly far; It probably has the largest opening of any panoramic sunroof I've seen, in fact I imagine when you drive it it probably feels a bit like a convertible with the sunroof fully open, another interesting element on this car, if you want to change the temperature in virtually any other car, you set a certain degree of temperature that you want the temperature to be in this vehicle, it still has these old school blue and red sliders, if you want more heat, you slide it to make it look redder and then expels more hot air.

If you want cooler, you slide it over a little bit more blue so it's visible and then you cool down. air, it's a very strange way of doing it, it's a throwback to the old Rolls-Royce models that used to do it this way and Rolls-Royce still does it this way even though virtually every other luxury car has reached real temperatures that can be set. Now our next interesting article on this vehicle, obviously the culinary has heated seats but it also has massaging seats. Now many luxury vehicles have massaging seats, but this one has eight different modes of massaging seats that can come in three different intensities, so there are 24 different types of massage.

You can get it while driving down the road or while riding in the front passenger seat as there is a massage for this seat and another interesting element: there are eight silver buttons below the infotainment screen and normally those would be the eight radio presets for practically any other car, but in this vehicle there are eight buttons that can do almost anything; You can set them to do all sorts of things, including turning up the climate controls if you want to open the navigation map, but that's not the case. The best thing about them, check this out, you don't even have to touch these buttons to see what they do, just slide your finger over each one and the center screen will give you a preview of what is assigned to that button in case you have it. made.

I forgot that it's incredibly cool. The number eight opens the menu for the spirit of ecstasy. That's the hood ornament on the front, the Rolls-Royce logo and using this menu you can automatically lower it if you want and then it enters your home if, for example, you're driving through a high-crime neighborhood and you're worried about someone I can steal it. Once you return to your own gated community, you return to the infotainment system's spirit of ecstasy menu and you can automatically bring the spirit back up so that Now everyone knows you're in a Rolls Royce, since we've already started to talk about that screen.

It's worth noting that there are a couple of interesting quirks to the Rolls Royce's infotainment system, one of which is that you can adjust the height of the tailgate a few. Cars have this, it's usually a small manual dial on the back of the tailgate and it's in the infotainment system if, for example, you park it in a low garage and don't want the tailgate to open fully every time. Once you park you can set it to open lower so it doesn't hit your garage roof, that's a really good idea. Next, if you go into the security features settings, I really like the graphics that they show because they all show a culinary person doing something. for pedestrian detection, it shows a

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as approaching a pedestrian which is also like a strange ghost, I don't know it's a bit strange, then you have your traditional lane departure warning, forward collision warning and then you go to detection blind spot detection, which is my favorite because the little graphic that tries to explain blind spot detection to you has the Cullinan signaling a lane change and it keeps signaling and signaling as long as you stay in that menu which is unusually good attention to detail, it's very impressive now .

A slightly stranger thing that this car has is a mode that it has in the infotainment system that would be the tire chain mode. If you have put chains on your culinan, you can get in and tell the infotainment system that the vehicle has tire chains. Then they are limited to 30 miles per hour and maybe the transmission behaves differently or sends power differently. The strange thing is who will ever put chains on a Cullinan, the driver, that's next. We move on to the camera system, now the Cullinan. It has its traditional reversing camera, its traditional 360 top-down camera and it also allows you to zoom in on any area and shows an image of the culinary when you do so, butlook at this, you can also select the panoramic view and then I can actually see the Cullinan as you move.

I have highlighted this feature on several different luxury cars. However, it's still worth mentioning because it's just one of the craziest features in the car business. Now follow the Cullinan. It has heated seats of course, but it's worth noting that it also has another heated element which would be heated armrests. You can go to the infotainment system and select heated front armrests and have them turn on with the heated seat on the passenger side or on the driver's side and even in the rear, you can choose to have the rear armrest with Heating turns on when you turn on the heated seats so your butt and back don't have to be the only ones that get warm while you drive your Culinan.

Next we move on to the volume settings of the culinary infotainment system, nothing particularly interesting here, except that it allows you to change the ringer volume. That's not so strange. Many cars allow you to do that, but the strange thing is that in this car it is called. The gong volume is a little unusual, but what I like most about the gong volume setting is when you actually get in there to hear how loud or soft you want the gong or chime to sound and it's just the wonderful chime sound. most pleasant, that is the sound you hear when the door is open or when the seat belt is not fastened and it is as pleasant and serene as the culinan and then we move on to the state of the vehicle and here is my favorite item, you can measure the oil level from inside the car, you can see right now, it says the oil level is ok, but that's not good enough to I want to measure it, so I click on measure oil level and then you wait and wait and you wait and you wait.

The whole process takes about two minutes to get to 100, but when it finally gets to 100 you can see. which says very clearly that the oil level in the well is fine exactly the same as it said before, however at least now we can be sure. The other interesting thing in this infotainment system is the owner's manual and that is because it has animations that you will remember. from my ghost video if you saw it, but the strange thing is that in this car the animations still show a ghost, they don't show the culinan, which is tremendously disappointing, come on Rolls Royce, if you're going to show properly animated animations right now.

I'm watching the cruise control animation and we're passing a mini ah, we're passing a x5 Good job, ghost, okay, oh wait, they're passing us a series seven, what is this? We can't stand that. oh look, there's a 5 series going too slow in the passing lane, move, x5 wants to pass, come on, obviously I don't care what the guy is actually saying, but this is a good animation, it would be better if it had the Cullinan, next we move on to the rear and we must start by simply entering the rear, so the first peculiarity of the rear is the fact that the doors are rear hinged and that allows for easier access when your driver open the door to Now you like the front doors, the back doors are automatic, so you touch the door handle and then the door closes automatically.

Another interesting quirk of the rear door, something that many Rolls-Royce models have, there is an umbrella mounted here, you push. this little button, the umbrella is revealed and then you can just put it on now. The theory put here is that a good driver can in one motion simply open the door, press the umbrella button, and then have the umbrella ready before the door opens. open so that the chauffeured passenger never has to get wet now when moving to the back seat there are some interesting elements, one is again the fact that you can close the door automatically from the back here you do not need to be outside the car press a small button on the side from your head, next to the rear window, marked as door and the door simply closes automatically, so once again you don't have to put any effort or energy into it.

Another interesting element next to that door button, there is another small button. there that controls the electric headrest, you can push it up or down and the headrest will automatically raise to the desired position because of course it will now when you get up here one of the first things you'll notice is that there are no screens on the back part. the passenger is supposed to sit here, well that's where you're wrong, if you press a small button to the left of the seat in front of you, a small tray table automatically folds up and reveals behind it a small screen, the screen it is off. but if you press a small button to the right on the right side of the seat, the screen not only turns on but automatically fades to the perfect viewing angle, so now you can use the screen in front of you.

There is one of those. screens on both sides of the back of this car, so what exactly is on those screens? Well, pretty much everything, pretty much everything the driver has in the infotainment system, he can change the radio, he can read the owner's manual and look at those ridiculous illustrations, he can even get a navigation destination and then send it to the front and Send the driver there while they drive you into your kitchen. It also has my favorite feature on those screens which would be your own personal analog clock because from this position I can't see the Cullinan clock on the dash so you have your own clock on the screen.

They could have given you a digital clock so it was much easier to tell the time, but this is a Rolls Royce, even the screens now have analogue clocks. When you're done with the screen, just press those two buttons again, press the right one, the screen turns off and folds back, press the left one and the tray folds back into the seat so it looks like the screen It wasn't even there in case you want an easier trip in your kitchen. Now there are a couple of interesting things back here, one is the rear quarter window, which is absolutely huge, this vehicle is a little strange because it doesn't have a window over the cargo area, like most SUVs, instead , Rolls-Royce has moved that window forward so that it's directly next to you when you're sitting here.

The strange thing about this is that when you roll down the rear window, it's more or less in front of you. It almost has the profile or roofline of a London taxi, it's a bit strange, and then there's the fact that Rolls-Royce has gone to great lengths to make everything luxurious back here, as they did up front, so For example, even the vents that blow air at your feet when you're sitting here behind the climate controls are even finished in aluminum, although with the seats in their normal position you'll probably never see them, but in case you do, they roll . -

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Here's a really strange feature of the kitchen. While sitting in the rear seat, you can automatically fold the other rear seat. There are two small buttons. Hidden in each rear door panel, you push the one corresponding to the seat you want to fold and then it folds automatically, so if you're sitting here and want to grab something from the cargo area, you can't reach it. we just push so the seat folds down and suddenly you can grab it and you can even pull it back up, you push the little button again, the seat goes back up and back into place.

I've never seen any other car that allows it. You can do that from the seating area just from the back, that's cool. Now I tried lowering the seat I was sitting on and unfortunately the Cullinan won't let you do that. Instead, the gong rings. Now, next, we move. at the rear of the car, where there are a couple of interesting quirks and features, as you'd expect considering Rolls Royce doesn't traditionally make hatchbacks. Now for starters the tailgate opens in an unusual way, the top part opens and then you press a small button and the bottom part opens separately so it's a split tailgate.

The theory here is that you can have a nice picnic on the back of the tailgate if you want the Range Rover to be the same way. Now there are a couple of interesting elements. of the tailgate is how you can open it. You can do what I just did and press the buttons back here, but there's also a button on the front of the driver's door panel that you can pull that will open the tailgate. Now, the crazy thing. The thing about that button is that if you press it in the other direction it will also close the tailgate, which is unusual, most cars have electric trunk opening, but for liability reasons, car manufacturers are afraid to close it, but apparently Rolls-Royce wasn't worried about that.

The interesting thing with the hatchback is that there is a thirty thousand dollar option to have two seats back here, two types of rear-facing seats so you can have a picnic in your Rolls-Royce with luxury seats, obviously you can't sit in the seats while you are driving but they are there for picnics or perhaps fox hunting. I'm not so sure. Now there are a couple of interesting quirks about the cargo area worth mentioning. The most interesting is the fact that the load floor can change its shape, I'm serious at this point, it's slightly angled up in the back, but if you have a particularly large item, you can press this little button on the top of the bottom of the tailgate and the cargo floor automatically flattens, which is really impressive. and something unusual, another interesting element, obviously, you can lower the rear seats from back here, most luxury SUVs have that feature.

This one is unique in that it also allows you to put the rear seats back into place, they automatically return. where they belong if you press the button in the other direction, which is a nice little feature, but let's go back to the seats folding for a second. Now, when they're down, you can use that button that changes the shape of the charge. floor to raise it so that the cargo floor is now flush with the rear seats and that way if you try to put some large object back here, it won't get caught or something will be left on the back of the rear seats. and what that means is basically that the cargo area can transform from being completely flat to being at a certain angle with the rear seats depending on what you need for your specific piece of cargo and I've never seen that in any other luxury SUV before. .

A couple more interesting elements in the tailgate and cargo area are that if you lift the floor in the cargo area, you can see that there is a little hidden compartment back here, like a trunk in the cargo area, that hides things if I don't want anyone to see it when they look, in fact, I would hide it from almost anyone, even if you come back here, unless you know it's there basically, unless you've seen this video now. The other interesting thing is Because the tailgate is a clam shell, if you want to close it, you press a little button and then both pieces close themselves and then come together in the middle to close completely.

Now, next, we move on to the curve. signals, they are great both in the front and the rear, in the front it is just this LED line that lights up just below the headlights and while we are talking about the highlights of the front, we might as well show what this car looks like with its handling . The lights have the unmistakable Rolls-Royce look with these LEDs adding a nice accent and speaking of lighting, the turn signals at the rear also look very interesting, they are upright and very stately and luxurious. They are the Rolls-Royce of turn signals.

Now next up we move under the hood and there's nothing particularly peculiar under here, but I will say that it's not often that you open the hood of an SUV to reveal a giant 570 horsepower, 627 pound turbocharged V12. -ft torque, this thing is a monster, a very nice majestic monster. The next one, another interesting detail, is between the doors, it is this plate that says

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-royce goodwood and it has some designs and the serial number of the vehicle when the doors are closed you cannot see this plate, but when both doors are open you can see it in its entirety as it is now supposed to mean and helps you remember that all Rolls-Royce vehicles are built by hand in Goodwood, England and finally two more interesting ones.

The outer corks one is the RR badge and the wheels. I have mentioned this in every Rolls Royce review I have done, but you have to because it is so cool that it has weight so that when the car drives down the road, the rr is always watching. the correct direction forall passersby know exactly what you are driving. The other interesting exterior element of this car is the key, which looks pretty normal, like a pretty standard key, except it has leather on the back, so it's a little bit higher quality, which I like. The most important thing about this key though is that to lock the car you press the Rolls-Royce logo, which is a nice little touch, but it must be very satisfying to press Rolls-Royce and just walk away, so it's a complete tour of Rolls 2019.

Royce Cullinan is probably the most expensive and luxurious SUV in the world. Like I said, I can't drive it, but I will drive it soon and report back, but given the incredible level of features and incredible amenities, if you drive something like the Phantom I think it's safe to say that Rolls-Royce has really succeeded in creating the luxury SUV. most impressive in the culinan world tour, which is uncertain characteristics of the culinan world tour, which is undoubtedly the most productive culinan that will certainly be the most expensive. One of my favorite things to do with the Cullinan is that the seats are split and fold down.

There is one button for the left side and one for the right side. You can hold both buttons at the same time and play seat. drag race, are you ready, okay, here we go and they go oh, the left one is slightly, very slight, maybe a centimeter in total, come on, oh, the left one is slower, the right one is tickling, oh, the left is the way back, oh wow, it looks like left has down maybe a quarter of a second early, well played guys, well played.