Using an ‘edge of space’ theme, the ultra-lux custom car build features a variety of nods to the Karman Line. Apparently this is the mystery boundary between the edge of Earth and the beginning of space. Because of course.
There's a celestially inspired roof lining featuring some 250,000 stitches that make up an embroidered moon – craters and all – while 1,183 white and blue fibre-optic lights make up the headliner’s starscape.
Rolls has also used 75,000 perforations of two different diameters in the leather seating. It’s the first time the brand has done this in a car. RR tells us this ‘earth from space’ impression took two weeks to design and was attempted five times before designers were satisfied with the outcome.
The original Cullinan, launched in 2018, was the world's first super-luxury SUV, fulfilling a unique and exacting brief. From a performance and engineering standpoint, it had to have genuine off-road capabilities equal to the most demanding and hostile environments on Earth. At the same time, it had to deliver the marque's peerless comfort and signature 'magic carpet ride', regardless of the terrain. It had to be nothing less than the definitive super-luxury SUV - rugged yet refined, unstoppable yet serene: effortless, everywhere. Its success exceeded Rolls-Royce's most ambitious expectations around the world, and today Cullinan is the most requested Rolls-Royce in the marque's portfolio.
Given the motor car's extraordinary success, and incredibly positive reception from clients in every region of the world, shaping a new expression of the 'Rolls-Royce of SUVs' was undertaken with meticulous care. The marque's designers, engineers and craftspeople drew on half a decade of detailed client feedback, the brand's own intelligence gathering - including our Private Offices around the world - and a raft of new technologies to advance Cullinan. In its new guise, which represents the most extensive Series II development in Rolls-Royce history, it responds to changing codes of luxury and evolving usage patterns while remaining true to the essential qualities that underpin Cullinan's unprecedented popularity.