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Thread created in advance for the upcoming Roller SUV. RR's first attempt at one. Undergoing lots of testing including the 'Ring.


Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV on course to rival Bentayga in 2018

New sightings of Rolls-Royce's first SUV testing flat out at the Nürburgring show soft suspension; it will get an all-wheel-drive system and rival the Bentley Bentayga

A Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV has been spotted at the Nürburgring, with the car's body leaning around a corner as it tests flat out.

Its Nürburgring appearance, along with the fact that the car was previously sighted parked outside of a crash test site, suggests that the model is entering the latter stages of pre-production development.

This supports information that the brand's first all-wheel-drive model will make it to market in early 2018, when it will rival the Bentley Bentayga in the highest ranks of the luxury SUV segment.

The car, which has yet to be officially named but is referred to internally as Project Cullinan, will likely use a developed version of the Phantom’s 6.8-litre V12 engine. A plug-in hybrid powertrain could also be offered at a later stage, using technology from parent company the BMW Group. Rolls-Royce has dismissed the idea of a diesel option, due to the comparative lack of refinement offered by such units.

Rolls-Royce describes its future model as an ‘all-terrain, high-sided vehicle’. It will lend its aluminium architecture to all other Rolls-Royce models from 2018.

The Cullinan's boxy design takes after Rolls-Royce's flagship Phantom, as opposed to the smoother-looking Ghost. Recent spy shots also show that the rear doors of the Cullinan are rear-hinged, as seen on the Ghost and Phantom.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/rolls-royce-cullinan-suv-course-rival-bentayga-2018

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Rolls-Royce CEO On The Bentley Bentayga: Nice Audi, Peasant

Whether you like it or not, the Rolls-Royce Cullinan is coming. Just don’t call it an SUV. And don’t compare it to a (gross and lowly) Bentley Bentayga.

At least, not when Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes is standing next to you. The Cullinan will be built on the new aluminum platform that debuted with the new Phantom, instead of sharing one with BMW.

While at the European Phantom launch, Automotive News reported Mueller-Oetvoes throwing some serious shade Bentley’s way:

“We are not using mass-manufactured body shells. That limits what you can do on the design side, and it undermines exclusivity massively. You don’t want a camouflaged [Audi] Q7 in that segment. You want to have a true Rolls-Royce.”
Daaaang.


The thing is, the camouflaged mules kind of look like Bentaygas? And honestly, who cares what platform it’s riding on as long as it’s good?

http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/rolls-royce-ceo-on-the-bentley-bentayga-nice-audi-pea-1797655857
 
ROLLS-ROYCE CEO CALLS BENTAYGA A ‘CAMOUFLAGED Q7’

As Rolls-Royce prepares to brings its first crossover vehicle to market, the British brand’s CEO has taken a potshot at what will likely be the new vehicle’s closest rival, the Bentley Bentayga, branding it a “camouflaged Q7”.

Project Cullinan, which Rolls-Royce would prefer you describe as an “all-terrain, high-sided vehicle” as opposed to a crossover or SUV, is expected to be fully revealed in 2018, with deliveries kicking off the following year.

CEO Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes told Automotive News that the Cullinan would ride on the same aluminium platform that underpins the recently revealed Phantom, rather than borrowing its architecture from elsewhere within the BMW Group.

“We are not using mass-manufactured body shells,” Mueller-Oetvoes told the publication.

“That limits what you can do on the design side, and it undermines exclusivity massively. You don’t want a camouflaged [Audi] Q7 in that segment. You want to have a true Rolls-Royce,” he said.

The Bentagya, of course, shares its underpinnings with the Q7, with next-generation versions of the Volkswagen Touareg and Porsche Cayenne (along with the upcoming Lamborghini Urus) also set to inherit the platform.

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/rolls-royce-ceo-calls-bentayga-a-camouflaged-q7/
 
2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan Rendered From Latest Spyshots

The Rolls-Royce Cullinan has been spotted testing all over the world even in our own South Africa but thanks to some more recent shots, the digital artists have given a rendering a go which will probably turn out to be very accurate.

Thanks to Jan Peisert photoshop skills, we can see what the upcoming SUV will likely look like in white and ‘Black Badge’ guise.

Power is likely to come from the brands twin-turbo 6.75-litre mill, which means the driver (should we say chauffeur) will get to use about 600 hp.

http://www.zero2turbo.com/2017/11/2019-rolls-royce-cullinan-rendered-latest-spyshots.html

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Rolls-Royce SUV won’t be called ‘Cullinan’ after all

Rolls-Royce has been hard at work developing its first SUV for some time now, and it’s generally become accepted that the production vehicle will bear the “Cullinan” badge (the brand has been referring to it as “Project Cullinan” all along, after all). But a fresh report suggests that this may not actually be the case.

Hal Serudin, the corporate communications manager for Rolls-Royce Asia Pacific, told SUV Authority that the Cullinan moniker was “just a working project title”.

He hinted that an announcement early in 2018 would serve to clear up any confusion over the name.

“We hope to be able to give you a little more news on this in the coming year,” Serudin told the publication.

Of course, the British automaker prefers not to refer to the vehicle as an SUV (saying it’s “not necessarily sports, not necessarily utility”), opting to call it an “all-terrain, high-sided vehicle” instead.

The production version of Project Cullinan – which is set to compete with the Bentley Bentayga – will probably be powered by the hefty V12 engine used in the latest Phantom (with which the SUV will share its platform).

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/rolls-royce-suv-wont-be-called-cullinan-after-all/
 
I would take this over the fugly Bentley ANY day of the week...
 
Get Ready To See Leaked Photos Of The New Rolls-Royce SUV This Summer

Rolls-Royce, when not content making gargantuan, hulking sedans and coupes for today’s plutocrats, is now busying itself with making gargantuan, hulking SUVs as well. While we’ve seen prototypes of the vehicle, RR will soon be revealing the Cullinan in full in private showings this summer. This only means one thing: leaks.

These will be “closed-room” events starting late summer, as Automotive News Europe reports. Rolls-Royce will deem us plebes entitled to see the not-a-truck sometime after, with sales getting going towards the end of the year and deliveries once the calendar turns over.

At least, that’s the way Rolls-Royce sees it. The problem is that the company has left out something important: the vanity of the nouveau riche.

Yes, nothing is more likely to guarantee the leaking of images of a car before its public launch like a private unveiling of a new-money automobile. No matter what Rolls-Royce does to try to confiscate everyone’s cell phone (Bah! Taking one cell phone per person? Who do they think we are?) to making people sign confidentiality agreements (Bah! A little NDA to scare us? Who do they think we are?), nothing is going to stop the idle rich from sneaking a photo to send to their buddy with the caption “Saw this before you, your pull up game weak.”

https://jalopnik.com/get-ready-to-see-leaked-photos-of-the-new-rolls-royce-s-1822380082
 
thechamp said:
That looks like a station wagon to me.
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Most SUVs are really station wagons. It’s a triumph of marketing. Station wagons became seriously uncool in the 90’s but they figured out that if you slap on slightly bigger wheels and jack up the suspension a few centimeters you can call them SUVs and market them as rugged “go anywhere” vehicles (even though they usually aren’t) instead of boring defeated corporate family man cars of misery. And best of all you can charge more than you would have for a mere “station wagon”.
 
garp said:
Most SUVs are really station wagons. It’s a triumph of marketing. Station wagons became seriously uncool in the 90’s but they figured out that if you slap on slightly bigger wheels and jack up the suspension a few centimeters you can call them SUVs and market them as rugged “go anywhere” vehicles (even though they usually aren’t) instead of boring defeated corporate family man cars of misery. And best of all you can charge more than you would have for a mere “station wagon”.
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I agree.
 
Cullinan you say? Does it perform quite spectacularly for a brief period and then dwindle off to make racist remarks from time to time? Do you get a complimentary cricket bat at least?
 
Why send it around the 'Ring though? What do you hope to achieve? The 'Ring is for testing performance cars and their handling. Is handling really going to the top of the priority list for this new Roller? *



* God, I sound like James May now
 
Agent_Smith said:
Why send it around the 'Ring though? What do you hope to achieve? The 'Ring is for testing performance cars and their handling. Is handling really going to the top of the priority list for this new Roller? *



* God, I sound like James May now
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Yeah they should just test that it can go up a grassy wet hill without slipping an that's it.
 
FiestaST said:
for saying "Roller".
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You can sound like James May for all you want, I'm with you brother.

No Roller should ever be on a track, have the word sport mentioned anywhere near it or have anything sporty in it's design. Old school luxury and wafting is what a Roller should be about, not laptimes and handling. Luxury and Sportiness is Bentley's game.
 
bheinche said:
You can sound like James May for all you want, I'm with you brother.

No Roller should ever be on a track, have the word sport mentioned anywhere near it or have anything sporty in it's design. Old school luxury and wafting is what a Roller should be about, not laptimes and handling. Luxury and Sportiness is Bentley's game.
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Amen brother, let's all unite and reject whatever this is with the contempt it deserves. / spits :mad:
 
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