Rolls-Royce Cullinan review _ new Rolls-Royce 4x4 driven _ Autocar

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello you join me inside exciting the first rolls-royce SUV 4x4 call it what you will it's called the Cullinan and from in here I have the benefit of not being able to see the outside is that how she'll get that out the way rolls-royce has gone to try and take rolls-royce cues and apply them to a car that it has never made before it's a little bit Canyon Aero isn't it from the outside but if you like it look fair enough you like it I think it's an unusual looking car what is it then it is Rolls Royces first 4x4 it's the first time rolls-royce has put four wheel drive into a car people have gone and said look I like my rolls-royce I like driving it what I'd really like is a version that I can drive a bit more often maybe I can take the family and maybe I could stick stuff in the boot take shooting take skiing doing all the kinds of things that people would like to do in an expensive car but nobody has ever thought to give them a really practical expensive car they refer to them as high net-worth individuals has been ghastly phrases near but I think the thinking is just because you earn loads of money or you have loads of money you don't necessarily want to spend your every waking hour in a lamborghini aventador you want something practical so here it is it is based on rose was his latest aluminium architecture which is bespoke to the brand that made its debut last year on the new phantom this is not quite such a flagship model as the Phantom as bit cheaper starts from 250 that's cheap starts from 250,000 pounds so it's a bit less flamboyant than the Phantom which course has that big gallery across the dash and mega-mega levels of bespoke personalization options the ghost the rate than the dawn they all sit on a slightly different architecture but they will eventually come on to this bespoke rolls-royce platform so this is the second model on it as a six point seven five litre twin-turbocharged v-12 in the front and it drives through an 8-speed automatic gearbox and - an electronically controlled clutch normally one hundred percent of the power goes to the rear or up to one hundred percent the power goes to the rear but it diverts power forwards when it needs to up to fifty percent can go to the front there are open differentials at the front and rear from the gearbox the shaft goes to a differential which sits underneath the engine and then puts power to left and right there are no locking differentials there's no low ratio like there is in an old-school hardcore 4x4 but what it will do is talk vector by braking so if one wheel starts spinning on that side it'll break the other time so it it'll break that tie so it doesn't so power goes the other way if you like by all accounts it is quite capable I've driven it a bit off-road and it does feel I think that's capable off-road as people will need in - there's no hard set formula is there for what makes a car great off-road as Suzuki Jimny will go some places that a Land Rover Discovery won't but a discovery will go places that a Jimny won't and likewise with this this 570 horsepower v12 makes peak torque from 1600 rpm so if you were on a sand dune and you want loads of talk really quickly and to keep the wheels spinning and to keep the momentum up actually this car is quite good at that but it also weighs 2,700 kilos 2,700 kilos so there are places it won't go very far because it will just sink whereas an old city key s j which is glide over so anyway that's the concept what's it like well it feels beautifully finished in the front here it's priced at a bit more than a Bentley been tiger quite a bit more than a Range Rover but those are probably it's too this rivals in ethos and price immaterial quality it's way above where a Range Rover sits probably a little bit above where a Bentley sits there might be sort of bit nip and tuck in other places but the fact that it's got the BMW sourced iDrive system which is which is brilliant and these dials are really nice it's it's a great driving environment a really nice driving environment and it's also a very quiet one I'm doing about 45 miles an hour and can't hear a lot can you can barely hear the engine at any time unless you go full throttle tiny bit of weird noise tiny bit of road noise but really it's very quiet it's the sort of car that most people will drive themselves but there is the option of having three seats in the back or two seats in the back and if you have the individual rear chairs there is a little glass partition so it's easiest if I hop in the back and tell you what it's like back there so over to Matthew in the rear yes thank you Matthew so welcome to the back of a Cullinan where I get actually quite a lot of legroom there's only one wheelbase in here but there is loads of legroom I got more than a hand worth of Headroom so this is the bench version so you can seat three across and they are electrically operated split now this is where it gets a bit complex because there is not a flat load for me you might like a flat load floor but because I sit higher than the people in the front and these seats are big and big comfy and everything else you can't really give a flat load floor so what there is instead he's a sort of electrical ramp in the back so you can put flows through I think actually it's quite a reasonably practical solution to that I think you can have two individual chairs in which case they recline and electrically do all that sort of thing and they've got like a champagne chiller in the middle there is also then a glass partition so far the split between sales about 70% of people are having this rear bench seat because it's much more practical if you only have the two seats in the rear you can't put the rear seats down in which case you might as well not have an SUV and what's the driving experience like in the front nah let's have a listen to that engine there it is sounds nice how smooth be twelves are really smooth the gear shift is really smooth I don't get a choice about which gear to be in myself but if I put a low button here it kind of holds it in a low gear usually second if I push the off-road button here and if I turn to stability control off - that's when it puts everything in fifty-fifty four-wheel drive it raises the body by about 40 millimetres so it gives you 500 40 mil of way to depth which is not bad rolls does think a lot of its buyers will use these cars off row that go ski resorts they go sound tuning they're towing stuff a lot as well but also quite a lot of people who spend a quarter of a or a third of a million pounds of porn and off-road Oh live in places with quite a lot of grounds and tracks so they might well just tool around their own estates as well but on road it is where it's supposed to be at and the ride quality is very very good it's running on 22 inch wheels in 21s or 22s are the options it's to roll for us at the front to anti-roll bars at the front one of the rear I think they've got this sort of 12-volt not that not the 48 volt active anti-roll bar that Bentley has which which applies a lot of talk to resist roll very quickly these do not resist roll as much so there is a little bit of roll of float to this car you know when you get it when you get it moving and Rose has allowed the suspension debris that hasn't tried to tie it down hasn't tried to be sporty in a way that have been taken ice to be sporty and it is all the better for that I think it's smooth it's relaxed almost really relaxed I think this is a sort of Karla you to drive 800 miles in a day and get out the other end and feel absolutely fine it's that it's that sort of quiet refined car and from that point of view it feels like cliche coming the rolls-royce of SUVshello you join me inside exciting the first rolls-royce SUV 4x4 call it what you will it's called the Cullinan and from in here I have the benefit of not being able to see the outside is that how she'll get that out the way rolls-royce has gone to try and take rolls-royce cues and apply them to a car that it has never made before it's a little bit Canyon Aero isn't it from the outside but if you like it look fair enough you like it I think it's an unusual looking car what is it then it is Rolls Royces first 4x4 it's the first time rolls-royce has put four wheel drive into a car people have gone and said look I like my rolls-royce I like driving it what I'd really like is a version that I can drive a bit more often maybe I can take the family and maybe I could stick stuff in the boot take shooting take skiing doing all the kinds of things that people would like to do in an expensive car but nobody has ever thought to give them a really practical expensive car they refer to them as high net-worth individuals has been ghastly phrases near but I think the thinking is just because you earn loads of money or you have loads of money you don't necessarily want to spend your every waking hour in a lamborghini aventador you want something practical so here it is it is based on rose was his latest aluminium architecture which is bespoke to the brand that made its debut last year on the new phantom this is not quite such a flagship model as the Phantom as bit cheaper starts from 250 that's cheap starts from 250,000 pounds so it's a bit less flamboyant than the Phantom which course has that big gallery across the dash and mega-mega levels of bespoke personalization options the ghost the rate than the dawn they all sit on a slightly different architecture but they will eventually come on to this bespoke rolls-royce platform so this is the second model on it as a six point seven five litre twin-turbocharged v-12 in the front and it drives through an 8-speed automatic gearbox and - an electronically controlled clutch normally one hundred percent of the power goes to the rear or up to one hundred percent the power goes to the rear but it diverts power forwards when it needs to up to fifty percent can go to the front there are open differentials at the front and rear from the gearbox the shaft goes to a differential which sits underneath the engine and then puts power to left and right there are no locking differentials there's no low ratio like there is in an old-school hardcore 4x4 but what it will do is talk vector by braking so if one wheel starts spinning on that side it'll break the other time so it it'll break that tie so it doesn't so power goes the other way if you like by all accounts it is quite capable I've driven it a bit off-road and it does feel I think that's capable off-road as people will need in - there's no hard set formula is there for what makes a car great off-road as Suzuki Jimny will go some places that a Land Rover Discovery won't but a discovery will go places that a Jimny won't and likewise with this this 570 horsepower v12 makes peak torque from 1600 rpm so if you were on a sand dune and you want loads of talk really quickly and to keep the wheels spinning and to keep the momentum up actually this car is quite good at that but it also weighs 2,700 kilos 2,700 kilos so there are places it won't go very far because it will just sink whereas an old city key s j which is glide over so anyway that's the concept what's it like well it feels beautifully finished in the front here it's priced at a bit more than a Bentley been tiger quite a bit more than a Range Rover but those are probably it's too this rivals in ethos and price immaterial quality it's way above where a Range Rover sits probably a little bit above where a Bentley sits there might be sort of bit nip and tuck in other places but the fact that it's got the BMW sourced iDrive system which is which is brilliant and these dials are really nice it's it's a great driving environment a really nice driving environment and it's also a very quiet one I'm doing about 45 miles an hour and can't hear a lot can you can barely hear the engine at any time unless you go full throttle tiny bit of weird noise tiny bit of road noise but really it's very quiet it's the sort of car that most people will drive themselves but there is the option of having three seats in the back or two seats in the back and if you have the individual rear chairs there is a little glass partition so it's easiest if I hop in the back and tell you what it's like back there so over to Matthew in the rear yes thank you Matthew so welcome to the back of a Cullinan where I get actually quite a lot of legroom there's only one wheelbase in here but there is loads of legroom I got more than a hand worth of Headroom so this is the bench version so you can seat three across and they are electrically operated split now this is where it gets a bit complex because there is not a flat load for me you might like a flat load floor but because I sit higher than the people in the front and these seats are big and big comfy and everything else you can't really give a flat load floor so what there is instead he's a sort of electrical ramp in the back so you can put flows through I think actually it's quite a reasonably practical solution to that I think you can have two individual chairs in which case they recline and electrically do all that sort of thing and they've got like a champagne chiller in the middle there is also then a glass partition so far the split between sales about 70% of people are having this rear bench seat because it's much more practical if you only have the two seats in the rear you can't put the rear seats down in which case you might as well not have an SUV and what's the driving experience like in the front nah let's have a listen to that engine there it is sounds nice how smooth be twelves are really smooth the gear shift is really smooth I don't get a choice about which gear to be in myself but if I put a low button here it kind of holds it in a low gear usually second if I push the off-road button here and if I turn to stability control off - that's when it puts everything in fifty-fifty four-wheel drive it raises the body by about 40 millimetres so it gives you 500 40 mil of way to depth which is not bad rolls does think a lot of its buyers will use these cars off row that go ski resorts they go sound tuning they're towing stuff a lot as well but also quite a lot of people who spend a quarter of a or a third of a million pounds of porn and off-road Oh live in places with quite a lot of grounds and tracks so they might well just tool around their own estates as well but on road it is where it's supposed to be at and the ride quality is very very good it's running on 22 inch wheels in 21s or 22s are the options it's to roll for us at the front to anti-roll bars at the front one of the rear I think they've got this sort of 12-volt not that not the 48 volt active anti-roll bar that Bentley has which which applies a lot of talk to resist roll very quickly these do not resist roll as much so there is a little bit of roll of float to this car you know when you get it when you get it moving and Rose has allowed the suspension debris that hasn't tried to tie it down hasn't tried to be sporty in a way that have been taken ice to be sporty and it is all the better for that I think it's smooth it's relaxed almost really relaxed I think this is a sort of Karla you to drive 800 miles in a day and get out the other end and feel absolutely fine it's that it's that sort of quiet refined car and from that point of view it feels like cliche coming the rolls-royce of SUVs\n"