The 2020 Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge Is a $480,000 Ultra Luxury SUV

This is the

2020

Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge and it is simply the most luxurious SUV ever made. The Cullinan is Rolls-Royce's SUV and I already reviewed a regular Cullinan when it came out about a year and a half ago. The Black Badge takes things even further and today I'm going to review this car and show you what I mean. I borrowed this

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Cullinan

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from oguera san diego which is also

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royce

san diego of course the

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dealership here in san diego area they have all the latest Rolls-Royce models including the new

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Cullinan

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that just arrived to go on sale.

You can visit Oguera San Diego by clicking the link in the description below, so let's talk about the black Cullinan badge. This is essentially a more focused, more luxurious, more refined, more exclusive, version of the standard Cullinan. Replace much of the chrome trim with black, which looks more modern. There is also a power increase on the regular clone and it has 563 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque. It has 600 horsepower. and 664 lb-ft of torque, impressive numbers, although both Colon and models share the same 6.75-liter V12 engine and then there's the

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, the regular Cullinan I reviewed was pretty average, pretty close to its starting price of around 325 000, the black badge starts at 380,000 and this has many options, extras and features that bring that figure up to a sticker price of 480,000 for this one, making it one of the most expensive SUVs ever built and today they I'll show you what makes the Black Cullinan Badge so expensive.

First I will take you on a tour of this culinain and show you all the interesting quirks and features of the world's most expensive SUV and then I will post it. the road and I'll drive it and then I'll give it a Doug rating. I'm going to start the quirks and features of this culinary product with the fact that in the cargo area there is a no dogs warning label, seriously, this warning. The label has a picture of a dog and a line indicating no dogs. This was not posted by the dealer. This is a Rolls-Royce factory warning label.

That's the level of insanity we're dealing with with this vehicle. To explain that there is no dog warning label in a few minutes, but first I want to get into the cullen and I want to talk about the rear end, which is where most of the

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madness is in this car. Now, to get into the back, simply open the door. door that is rear hinged, the door opens backwards compared to a normal car door and inside this rear hinged door is an umbrella, you just press this little button and an umbrella appears which seems like a pretty cool quirk but It's even more interesting if you understand it.

Why they did it is for a driver, you see that the driver reaches the back door, opens it and then presses the button to take out the umbrella, he lifts everything in one fluid movement to be able to let the rich person out from behind and They don't have to rain and that's why the door is hinged on the back and that's why the umbrella is stuck here in the door, but none of that is the craziest thing about the back door, that honor goes to you . You're sitting here, you just spent half a million dollars on an SUV.

You don't want to close your own door, so Rolls Royce makes it easy for you. You see this little button next to the rear door, near the roof. You press that and then the door closes automatically and then you are free from the burdens of the outside world, you must admit that is a pretty cool luxury feature and then we move on to the back seat of the black badge Cullinan where you are in for some real luxury incredible. features to start a moment ago you may have noticed that I wasn't wearing shoes, I have socks on and that's because this vehicle has lambswool floor mats.

Now some very high-end cars do have lamb wool, but these are the fluffiest, softest and prettiest. floor mats that I have ever felt in my entire life I don't have carpets in my house that are as nice as the mats in this car it's like petting the softest, fluffiest little animal you've ever touched really amazing so I felt like I had to take the mats off shoes because I don't want to leave even a speck of dirt on the lamb wall and those formats are just the beginning here this car has a crashed roof if you've seen anything about Rolls-Royce.

In recent years you already know about this: it is a headliner that looks like a starry night sky thanks to the fiber optics throughout the headliner and it is a cool touch and gives you a very luxurious feeling. Now you can turn on the starry night headliner. with this little star button back here, you press it and that turns it on or off. Also in that vicinity you will notice another star button which is the dimmer. You can brighten or dim the starry night ceiling by pressing that button, but now the starry. The nighttime lineup is old news for Rolls-Royce, except this Cullinan adds a pretty cool new feature.

Shooting Stars. There are periodic shooting stars throughout the main poster. Now they do not always occur in the same place and are not very frequent. Real shooting stars, you have to be looking for them, but eventually you will see them shoot through your roof, adding even more ridiculousness to the starry night ceiling in these Rolls-Royces. I love this little touch and it gets so much better than the Cullinan. picnic tables in the back seat, so you're sitting here and want to grab a bite to eat or open your laptop while you're traveling, you have a little table to do that, it's not that unusual, a lot of high-end luxury cars have that, but in this one car are powered, press this little button and the picnic table automatically extends so you can use it.

If you want the picnic table to disappear, no problem. Press the button again and the picnic table automatically folds into place. How difficult was it? old Rolls-Royce models simply folding the picnic table manually is not difficult, but now it is even easier and things get even better from there, press the small button to drop the picnic table and you will notice that behind the picnic table there is a screen, how? Do you access that well? There is a button on the other side of the seat. You press it and the screen automatically extends until it's in front of you and then you have this Rolls Royce screen back here that you can use to control a number of different things now a couple of Highlights of the screen situation back here has seats with heating in the rear, which is pretty standard, but you can also use the screen to turn on the heated armrest in case you're not getting enough heat from your heated seats, that's pretty impressive.

It also has an on-board computer back here and the screen shows various vehicle information. You can see your average fuel economy speed and you can even see your range until you run out of fuel so you can sit here and monitor your driver as he drives you around. Of course you also have other options with this screen, your typical stuff, you can use it to set a navigation destination which will then go to the head up display, the driver can follow it or you can change the radio station here, the media, whatever you are listening. Or you can connect a phone via Bluetooth and that will, of course, go through the speakers so you can make phone calls while you are transported in your Cullinan, but the incredible luxury of this back seat goes far beyond all that.

I want to move on to the center console, there are only two rear seats here, bucket seats, there is no third seat in the middle, instead you have this

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ridiculous center console. I'm going to start from the front if you open this little panel. You will see the controls for the rear screens. Now I showed you that those rear screens are touch screens, but you can also control them with this little wheel and buttons if that's what you choose to do, so you have multiple options for controlling the rear screens that most cars don't have.

It doesn't even give you multiple options to control the front screen, but that's how crazy culinary is now. One of the things you'll notice while controlling the screens with these controls is that when you move the little control wheel in the middle. the steering wheel moves but the spirit of ecstasy rolls-royce logo remains still that's good attention to detail the spirit of ecstasy never turns upside down that just wouldn't be appropriate and then another notable element on this center console along the On the side you have the seat controls, this isn't really that interesting, you can move the seats back, forward, up, down, whatever is pretty standard for luxury cars at this price, but here's a few things that are not so standard: the next element in the center console is this small storage area.

You open it and it reveals drink glasses and a kind of jug that you can fill and pour, all of which have the Rolls-Royce logo stamped on them and all of which have a perfect place to fit. this storage area but that's not enough between the seats in the backrest area you have another panel that can be opened now one to the side here you can see you have the infinity logo on this apparently Rolls Royce uses this for their black badge models because the Infiniti logo was also used on some Rolls-Royce powered boats in the 1930s that set the world water speed record, that's why the Infiniti logo is a bit mysterious here, but that's the explanation , but you open this panel anyway and discover that there is another one. panel you need to open, open that panel and then you get to the refrigerator where you have another jug ​​and some more glasses, all with the Rolls-Royce logo printed on them.

This way you can keep your drinks cold to have two different ones. The options for beverage storage temperature on the back of the culinary are just ridiculous and by the way, if you close the refrigerator you can see there is a little button on the bottom. That button actually turns on the refrigerator and you have the ability to choose how cold you want. I want you to use that button and the luxury doesn't end there in your car. You have headrests in this car. You have pillows mounted on the headrest. Normal headrests are not enough so you have these luxurious Rolls-Royce pillows that make your sitting experience much more comfortable back here you also have cooled seats, you press this little button and then the cooled seats turn on.

That's pretty weird, but even weirder is the fact that you have massaging seats back here, press this little button on the door and it turns on. the massage and if you have the screen open your different massage settings will appear and you can configure how you want to be massaged while you sit in your luxury seat with your head on your rolls-royce pillow, it's crazy and if all those controls the seats were not enough to make you comfortable the rear passengers have their own climate zones back here I say zones because it is plural each seat has its own climate control the controls are on the back of the front center console in the middle of the back here Even more surprising are the air vents just above the climate controls, which are pretty standard for the rear of

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-luxury vehicles, but don't even come close to stopping there, on the pillar next to the front seat in the driver's side.

On the side two more climate vents and in exactly that same position on the passenger side two more climate vents and it also has floor climate vents, on the driver's side it has vents and on the passenger side it has vents, there is a total of eight different climate control vents for the rear seats only in the Cullinan, which is more than there are in the front, so there is a higher priority on the rear climate control than the front climate control. It's incredible and if all that luxury isn't enough, the black badge goes even further.

Behind the rear seats you will see that there is a partition, a piece of glass placed between the seats and the cargo area. It's a little-known fact now, but much of the noise you hear in an SUV, hatchback, or pickup truck comes from the cargo area. So by putting that partition in place you can cancel out a lot of that noise and make your back seat experience even more luxurious and comfortable, but anyway, now is the time to get out of the culinan and when you get out , you will have two options to close the door. door, you can ask your driver to do it or you can close it yourself and by closing it yourself, of course, I mean touch the door handle and the door will close automatically so you don't have to do anything difficult like push it and Next, we move on to the front seats of the Cullinan.

Now, as I mentioned, I've already reviewed a regular Cullinan that was very different in the back than this one, but it had a lot of the same things here. I'll link it. that review in the description below for a more complete walkthrough onthis video, I'm just going to mention some of the highlights up front, like the fact that this culinary has the best backup camera ever, it's not even a backup camera. a total of 360 degrees off the car camera as you can see it shows everything around the car including the car in the picture it's like a little drone is hovering around the car getting this picture for you apparently it does They do it by stitching together various camera angles, but to me it looks like magic and it's amazing to see this on rolls-royce and some new high-end BMW models and then since I'm on that screen, another great feature is the control for the spirit of ecstasy like me.

I mentioned it's the hood ornament on the Rolls-Royce and you can raise it or lower it within the infotainment system, you have the option to do that and whichever you choose, the hood ornament responds immediately. I guess the theory here is that if you're driving down a rough road. area and are afraid of someone stealing it, you can put it down to prevent theft from happening and then once you get back to your luxury gated community, simply pick it up again to remind everyone what you're driving. One item worth noting is that there is a video on YouTube where someone is demonstrating a feature that if you try to steal the hood ornament, it will detect it and automatically retract back inside. car to prevent theft people keep asking me about this.

I've actually never seen this work and tried it. I put these hood ornaments on and nothing happens. I don't know if that feature is only on European models if the car has to be in a certain setting or mode, but either way I've never seen it work except in that video and that's why I don't show it in my videos below. One thing you notice when you get into a cullen is not only how comfortable, luxurious, quiet and refined it is, but also the quality, everything here is incredibly nice, no detail was too small. I give you some examples, the climate control dials, which you can see, there is an aluminum dial that becomes pretty standard, very nice, but the best part is that they are wrapped in leather on the side of this dial is leather so your hands never have to feel or touch plastic or any substandard surface, and then another incredible attention to detail is your car's mirror controls. plastic is always plastic in this car you have this aluminum joystick that you use that allows you to perfectly position the mirrors where you want so even the three times a year when you adjust the mirrors you have a luxurious experience doing it and the incredible quality continues in the roof of most modern cars you have a microphone for the bluetooth system so when you talk it picks up your voice so you can talk on the phone on the roof of the

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that microphone is aluminum it is not plastic like any other car but even that small piece It has to be high quality aluminum, incredible attention to detail and then another great piece of luxury here, even the front seats have power doors, the little switch is mounted under the dash on the driver's side, it says door, You push it and the door automatically closes again so you don't have to engage in the difficult and tiring activity of closing a door and of course the front passenger has the same control also mounted under the trim on top of the dash .

Press that. and the door closes automatically, so the Cullinan has four doors that close automatically so you don't have to close them yourselves. That's what you get for 500,000, and of course there are more interesting quirks and features here besides that: the weather. controls themselves which are pretty strange instead of a dial that shows you what temperature you're setting you have these little dials that have blue and red colors and you just move them when you see everything blue cold air comes out the vents and when you see all red it's warm air this is an old school way of doing it they've been doing it this way for years and they just keep going and the next the culinan is a vehicle meant to float in ultra luxury.

So there's no sport button, but you have a button marked at the bottom of the gear selector and you press it and it acts like a sport button, it holds the gears a little longer and gives you a little better acceleration, but Rolls Royce. You don't put a sport button here because that just wouldn't be appropriate with the character of the vehicle and the next notable item that we have here in front is the window decal and if you look at the window decal you can see the price of some of these features crazy things I've been showing you, for example, the shooting star roof that costs $7,500.

I hope you really enjoy those shooting stars. How about that rear center console with all those fancy drink cup features? it's 18 000 again i hope you actually plan to use your glasses and your refrigerator now surprisingly on this window sticker it shows you that the lambswool mats are only 1 50 for me which seems like a bargain compared to the price of this vehicle. and the price of some of the other things in this window sticker or just fifteen hundred dollars to bathe your feet in this level of fluff, it's a deal anyway if you add up all the crazy luxury items in this window sticker you can see it takes the starting price for a black conan badge from $382k to $479,575 almost half a million dollars for an suv we have certainly come a long way from the chevy k5 blazer and the original jeep cherokee in wagoneer some of the early suvs from the 1970s and 1980s and then we move on to the cargo area in the culinan and I hope you haven't forgotten that there is no dog warning tag, but anyway, the cargo area first coming back here, the tailgate It's at full power, but interestingly, it's split in two, so the top goes up automatically, then you press a button and the bottom goes down automatically.

This allows you to have a picnic in the back of your cullen and you can sit here and enjoy your 500,000 tailgating experience now, one thing I really like about the power tailgate situation on the Cullinan are the buttons which you can see on the button to close the tailgate. You have a picture of the Cullinan, not just a generic SUV. The same on the button to open the. At the bottom of the tailgate you have a culinan there again because when you pay that much money for an SUV nothing is generic, but anyway, next I want to take you back to the no dogs warning.

If you've been paying attention, you can probably figure out why that warning. The label is here and that's because the partition in the rear seats when you put that partition in keeps all the sound out of the cargo area, but it also means that the cargo area is totally and completely enclosed and since there are no climate vents back here or windows opening means no airflow coming into the cargo area so you don't want to put dogs in here again because they will be tremendously uncomfortable to the point of being dangerous now if you are used to putting dogs in your En the cargo area, you might forget about this and put your pet here, and that little warning label is meant to remind you not to.

Needless to say, it's not a warning label you'll find on any normal car because it just goes along with having a glass partition separating the passenger compartment from the cargo area, which is rare now that you go back to the cargo area. , it's worth noting that you have a pretty big space back here that's not for dogs, the culinan is really big. vehicle and that means it has a lot of space in the passenger area and also a lot of cargo space, you can put a lot of things back here, another interesting element related to the cargo area, although these two rear doors are separate, they automatically close together when You press the little electric button to close the tailgate and they automatically join in making sure the tailgate is closed without you having to do anything at all and then move on to other exterior items with the culina.

I want to start with your style. Rolls Royce really tried. Bring the Rolls-Royce sedan look to an SUV and it's gotten mixed reviews, mostly positive, but regardless of your opinion of its styling, the Culinan certainly has presence, it's absolutely huge, the grille is huge, the front end is huge. , the whole vehicle is very long, it looks much more majestic, larger and more massive than any other SUV, which is the next point. Another exterior element I love on modern Rolls-Royce models is the RR badge on the wheels. I've mentioned this in other reviews, but it's always worth repeating that the rr on the wheels is weighted to make sure it always stays upright even when you're driving, so the wheel center cap doesn't tip over and get upside down.

You can see that it always stays straight so everyone knows what you are doing. I have and the next item worth noting on the outside of this culinary product is the black badges, as I mentioned, this one is called the Cullinan black badge and it actually has black badges, the spirit of ecstasy logo is black, as you can see, same deal. Much of the chrome normally seen on grill clones has been removed and the black badges are supposed to give it a more modern look to appeal to younger people. I think overall it looks more modern and cooler than the typical one. old school luxury car chrome and finally we move under the hood of the culinan and you can see its huge engine, this 6.75 liter v12, as I mentioned on the black badge model, there is a small increase in power over the normal culinan , this one has around 600 horsepower. and about 660 pound-feet of torque, of course those are healthy numbers, that's about 30 horsepower and 30 pound-feet more than a regular model.

Lots of power and torque for a large vehicle, so those are the quirks and features of the

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Rolls-Royce. Cullinan Black Badge Now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the Cullinan Black Badge. Now I've driven the regular Cullinan and I really don't expect it to be that different. 40 horsepower, whatever that is. This is a lot, but ultimately this vehicle is huge and you go from 565 to 595, so it really doesn't make much of a difference. I suspect of course the most important thing you notice the moment you get in and start driving it. comfortable car incredibly quiet luxury this is without a doubt the quietest car I have ever been in, with the exception of maybe the Rolls-Royce Phantom, that vehicle of course is something like the sedan version of the Cullinan, uh, and both Cars are just a pillow. smooth ride incredible luxury but what really impresses me is that you don't hear anything I don't hear anything that's happening around me not a single sound not even an iota of sound not even a small potential possibility of sound the cars go the wind doesn't pass I don't hear anything even a little and I'm not exaggerating there is no better way to be pampered while driving than in a culinary restaurant it is the most comfortable just sit back and relax I don't I don't even want to test the acceleration of this vehicle, no I don't care.

I'll do it in the interest of science, okay, okay, I didn't expect it to actually be much faster than I thought. It feels maybe sportier than the other one and it feels a bit quicker, which I didn't think would be given the slight increase in power, but even so it's a pretty quiet experience, you hear the engine, it leans back and starts to push forward. but it's not uncomfortable or disappointing or really breaking your cocoon if you will, it really amazes me how luxurious this vehicle is and you know every time I review one of these people they say, "Well, do you really need to spend the money?" ".

Know the 140,000 for a Range Rover for a really nice one, do you need to spend 300,000 more? And the answer is that the people who own these have had Range Rovers for years, decades, maybe they've had classes, they've had all those things, but they just sold their business or whatever and now they want the next level and this is that and that's the 2020 Rolls-Royce Cullinan Black Badge. This is an ultra-luxury SUV, the most luxurious SUV in the world, frankly, priced to match and it's great. being able to drive this car and see it and spend the day with this car is ridiculously expensive but it's also ridiculously luxurious and the black badge is the best version yet and now it's time to give this Cullinan a Doug Score starting with the categories of weekend and style, the culinan is nice but not perfect at all, it has been a bit controversial and gets a 6 out of 10.

Acceleration from 0 to 60 is 4.9 seconds and gets a 6 out of ten. Handling is pretty much what you would do. What you'd expect from a giant luxury SUV like this that gets a fun factor of four out of ten is fine, the fun really comes fromknow that you are basically the king of the road and not of the driving experience of the Cullinan itself and gets a five out of 10. The cool factor is high, especially right now since it is new and gets a 7 out of 10 for a Total weekend score of 28 out of 50. Next up are the daily categories and features, this is incredibly loaded and realistically I can't.

Imagine having more and you get a 10 out of 10. The comfort is also incredible, probably the best of any new car on sale and you get a 10 out of 10. The quality is also fantastic with the best materials out there, the only downside is the long duration. terms of reliability and gets a 9 out of 10. Practicality is good, although the glass partition at the rear hinders cargo volume because you can't just lower the seats, which means you essentially have a very large trunk and you finally get a 6 out of 10. value and okay, these are incredibly expensive and will depreciate quickly and it gets a 5 out of 10 for a total daily score of 40 out of 50.

Added to the excavated score is 68 out of 100, which puts it here against other ultimate suv, the black badge ties the regular culinan together by adding a point for features as it has more stuff, but losing a point for practicality due to the enclosed cargo area, not that it matters much how you equip a culinan, It is the definitive SUV for sale.