A different world
Rolls-Royce visited Portugal to showcase the Cullinan Series II and Spectre, offering the national press a new opportunity to drive its most discussed cars right now.
First launched in 2018, the Cullinan is already the second best-selling Rolls-Royce ever – just behind the Silver Shadow – and the range’s current best-seller. It has been a huge commercial success since its launch.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II
Naturally, the brand set out to revamp the model, with the Cullinan Series II hitting the market at the end of last year. The front end has a new visual signature, including a fresh design for the daytime running lights and an illuminated version of the iconic front grille.
Between the headlights and extending the daytime running lights, the horizontal LED bar creates a natural visual connection with the Phantom, establishing the necessary product family image.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II
At the rear, the new exhaust outlets give the car an extra touch of aggressiveness, whilst the new 23-inch wheels are the largest in the brand’s history.
The 6.75cc V12 remains unchanged, with 570 horsepower in the base version – if you can call any version of an RR that – whilst the Cullinan Black Badge option delivers the same 600 horsepower as its predecessor.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II
Performance is always impressive, and on the road, the Cullinan Series II is as majestic as one could imagine, offering an onboard experience that is unmatched by any other car.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II
The Spirit operating system previewed in the Spectre debuts in combustion RRs and includes a 100% digital instrument panel that allows you to customise the features and colours.
The Whispers app, developed by the brand exclusively for its customers, makes it even easier to connect passenger and vehicle via any smartphone. The icing on the cake is the 1400w sound system with 18 speakers and an 18-channel amplifier.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II
Beyond technology, the Cullinan’s interior offers a parallel reality that only Rolls-Royce can offer its clientele. For example, the Duality Twill interior can contain up to 2.2 million stitches, which equals almost 18km of thread. On the other hand, the level of detail and customisation means that the twill fabric, which has ‘only’ three base shades – lilac, black and chocolate – can be combined with 51 different thread colours. You read that right, fifty-one!
The pattern on the seats and door panels is a combination inspired by the sky and clouds of Goodwood, the birthplace of Rolls-Royce, and can feature more than 100,000 hand-punched holes.
Rolls-Royce Spectre
Stepping out of the Cullinan and into the Spectre is like entering a whole new world, but with a permanent sense of déjà vu.
Rolls-Royce Spectre
The refinement, quality and uniqueness of every Rolls-Royce is perpetuated in its first electric car, but with one fundamental difference: the Spectre is even more impressive in the way it transforms the on-board experience into something sensory and emotional.
The absence of noise, the isolation from the rest of the world and the ease with which the 585-horsepower engine propels this 5.5m-long car is disconcerting.
Rolls-Royce Spectre
Experiencing the Rolls-Royce Spectre is to experience something unique, in what is, in many ways, the best car in the world.
With its sensual fastback silhouette, the Spectre is the car that Rolls-Royce was destined to make from the moment the brand was born. A spaceship that has permission to travel among millions of ordinary vehicles and that shows what can be achieved when there are no limits.
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