(antenna whirs)
- Oh hey baby. (mwah)
(cash register chimes)
Oh, hello.
Rolls-Royce, without a doubt,
builds the most luxurious cars in the entire world.
For decades upon decades, they've been the platinum standard
for luxury by naming their cars after ships from Halo,
the Phantom, the Wraith and the Ghost.
If you're rich and classy AF
and you want the world to know it, you buy a Rolls-Royce.
And now they have a new model.
It's bigger, more powerful
and even more luxurious than ever before.
Ask Jeeves to Bing the car around
because it's time to go Bumper 2 Bumper
on the Rolls-Royce Cullinan.
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Like every other luxury and exotic manufacturer,
Rolls-Royce has decided to build the Cullinan
because the world can't get enough SUVs.
I love them.
Don't hate on them, they're great.
But unlike every other car maker,
it makes 100% sense for Rolls-Royce to build an SUV.
Rolls-Royce has always been about making the most outlandish
and extravagant cars on the road.
So building a taller one is just a no-brainer.
Frankly, they should have been building SUVs since 1903.
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The suggested price for this Cullinan is $400,000.
That's more than my parents paid for their house
and their divorced.
So they have two houses and it's still more.
So what does that kind of cash get you?
Someone pick me up and take me
to the inside of the car please.
(childish giggling) (lively lush music)
This is by far the most luxurious cabin I have ever been to,
and I have been to Joshua Tree, twice.
The first thing you notice is how quiet it is.
Rolls-Royce says the Cullinan has over 200 pounds
of sound insolation built in, even the tires
have sound detainment.
Any other car-maker would rush to show off
how loud their twin turbo, V12 can be,
but Rolls-Royce isn't like other car makers.
The Rolls-Royce buyer is above hearing the engine.
All they wanna hear is their money guy saying,
hey, Bumpy, your money's gettin' bigger.
Good, thank you for calling me, boop.
This Cullinan is fitted with the Launch Edition
package, a $48,000 option.
When I think Launch Edition I'm thinking something like,
(car backfiring pops) (car engine roaring)
But in this case Launch Edition means they're celebrating
this editions launch, the edition includes
lambs wool floor mats,
this is really the softest (bleep) I've ever felt
in my life.
If you wanna drive barefoot, but don't
because rich peoples feet stink 'cause they're
so busy steppin' over the poor.
The iconic R-R logo is monogrammed on the headrests
in a color called Selby Grey.
And these Cullinan tread plates are illuminated.
(tread plates chiming) Fun!
In America we call 'em door seals, but I'm gonna start
calling 'em tread plates.
Tread plates sounds like an evil corporation from
The Bourne Identity.
Hi, I'm Matt Damon, I used to work for tread plate.
Hi-yeah, hi-yeah I'm gonna jump through the dang window.
Karate chop man, bee-oh, bee-oh, pew-pew-pew,
oh, your a pretty girl, hello a bad guy!
Hi-yeah, hi-yeah, hi-yeah, pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew-pew!
Skrrt, skrrt!
- [Man] Alright?
- Yep.
The Launch Edition also comes with the Bespoke Audio Package
which besides using insanely good tweeters, subwoofers,
wooflers, barkers, and growlers,
it also has microphones mounted all around the car.
That automatically adjust the audio levels
to cancel out the outside noise.
The Cullinan is a $400,000 pair of noise canceling
headphones that you can use to run over poor people.
(light swooshes)
Rolls-Royce has seen a trend of younger owners
taking their cars and murdering them out
to make them unique.
Kanye, your Urus looks questionable.
But instead of discouraging customization Rolls-Royce
lets you customize every single aspect of this car!
Whoever ordered this one did a pretty cool job,
with Arctic White seats and Turchese Accents,
which is Italian for turquoise.
And the key is turquoise too, and it looks great
against this beautiful Donut Media lanyard which
you can get at DonutMedia.com.
It also has Open Pore Mimosa Negro wood.
Now, I love a brunch so Open Pore Mimosa
sounds great to big bro.
Anyway, this wood is a $2,700 option plus another $4,500
for the wood on the steering wheel and on the dash.
That's over $7,000 in wood.
For the cost of wood in the Cullinan, you could easily
frame a house, that's over 2,000 studs
and I'm doing the math with 2x6's 'cause I could fit more
insolation, where my contractor bros at?
Your boy knows how to swing a hammer.
The saying goes your not supposed to drive a Rolls'
you're supposed to be driven in one.
That's not the case with the Cullinan.
Rolls-Royce designed the Cullinan
for a younger buyer, remember?
It's for someone who wants practicality and the ability
to take their $400,000 truck off-road.
These seats are ventilated so you don't sweat
like a dirty peasant and the Massagers
have eight different settings.
The Lamborghini Urus we looked at a few weeks ago
only had seven, but seven isn't enough for elites like me.
Rolls-Royce says perfection requires obsession
in every detail, and that isn't just marketing BS.
The reason this car cost 400 grand
is because of that obsession.
Every Rolls' is hand built, and all the interior leather
is stitched by world class tailors.
Like in that movie, Tailor Tinker Toilet Solider.
If you look at the stitching really close you can see
that it's basically perfect and that goes for the rest
of the interior as well, all these dials are machined
aluminum and the fit is immaculate.
Just the the conception of the Little Baby Jesus.
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(car door lightly thuds)
But just because Rolls-Royce wants owners
to drive the Cullinan doesn't mean
that the rear of the car sucks.
In fact, it doesn't suck.
The rear seats get these sweet, sweet, picnic tables
on the front.
And they really are like picnic tables
you can feel the grain, and it's a good grain.
This car also comes with the Rear Theater option,
which includes the 12-inch little screen on the back,
can watch movies, check this out.
I'm 6'3, I'm not even touchin' the table with my knees.
(bleeps) sick!
The rear-seats are higher than the front-seats.
So I can see what my freakin' chauffeur's up to.
What's that Jeeves, no, I'm gonna watch Bad Boys II
back here, and eat this biscotti.
My favorite thing, and I haven't seen this in another car
this is probably a Rolls-Royce thing, is that the lowest
setting on the AC is soft.
In case you wanna hot-soft breeze, or a cool-soft breeze.
Would you like some climate control,
it's not too hard is it?
No, in fact it's quite soft.
If you look up and touch the headliner you feel
that it's leather, just like the seats.
And Rolls' takes huge pride in their leather work.
As they claim to use the best leather in the world.
They get their leather from bulls raised in moist climates.
So their skin doesn't dry out, and they only use bull hides
because cows are girls and they get pregnant,
and pregnant ladies get stretch marks.
Rolls-Royce looks at hundreds of hides just like
Nolan at the beach, but they only choose a handful
for their cars.
They take that leather, and this is bizarre,
they take that leather then they chill it down to
negative 10 degrees fahrenheit, then they jack it
up to 100 degrees fahrenheit, then back down to minus 10.
They do this over, and over for 10 days.
The interior of this car required a dozen bulls.
The leather is so nice it doesn't squeak.
But hey, if bull leather isn't for you,
Rolls-Royce will use any material that you want,
as long as you pay for it.
Aligator skin, done, ostrich skin, no problemo,
human skin, they won't do that, but I got a guy,
hit me up in the comments, I'll hook you up.
You can also get the Cullinan with a fridge in the backseat
it comes with its own champagne flutes, but this one
just has the lounge style back seat.
Which doesn't have a fridge but you can fit more people
and you can fold it down, look.
Cup holders, (scoffs) have to press two buttons.
What am I, poor?
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Excuse me Jessie, can you do me a favor?
Can you zoom out a little bit?
A scooch further, my love.
Further, further, is it as wide as King Henrys Court?
Good, 'cause check this out.
This bad boy has suicide freaking doors!
♪ Yeah-ha-ha-yeah ♪
- Like I mentioned earlier Rolls-Royce names all their cars
after Halo vehicles, but this one got its name from the
Cullinan Diamond, which is not a Halo vehicle
but the largest gem quality rough diamond ever found.
Looking at this Cullinan from the outside
it's pretty imperative why whey chose that name.
There's a reason why we shot this episode at a church
because the first time I saw a picture of the Cullinan
I was like, yo, that thing looks like a freaking cathedral
it's huge!
The grill looks like a pipe organ and it's got an angel
on the hood, the Cullinan is 17.5 feet long
and just over seven feet wide.
That's almost as wide as Shaq.
The styling is unmistakably Rolls-Royce.
Their cars look like Tungsten Ingots with wheels.
No other car has the presence of a Rolls'.
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Much like the diamond that the Cullinan is named after
it's massive, Cullinan weighs over 6,000 LBS,
and to motivate all the weight to move it needs
a proper engine love, what kinda engine
should we put in the Cullinan?
How about proper one?
Maybe we should put in a submarine engine?
No, Ringo, that's why we don't let you design
any of the cars.
I like Ringo's idea, this car is more powerful
than Jesus Christ. (chuckling)
Under the hood, or bonnet, the Cullinan
is powered by a twin-turbo charge, 6.75 liter.
First time I've ever seen this displacement to the hundred.
V12 built by BMW to keep the weight down,
the block and the cylinder heads are aluminum,
this 12 point beast makes 563 HRSPRS and 660 feet of torque.
(car engine purrs) (tires screeching)
Yes, Rolls-Royce is owned by BMW but I don't wanna see
any comments down there that say this thing is just an
X7 with a different face, because it's not!
Not by a long shot!
Unlike other luxury car makers who might borrow a chassis
for the mass market, Rolls-Royce designed
a platform for themselves and only them, for all of
their cars to share.
They call it the Architecture of Luxury.
The chassis can be lengthened or shortened depending
on which car it's gonna be built into.
From the Phantom to the Cullinan.
Since the SUV had to double duty being smooth as a cloud,
and tackle the occasional trail when you're going
fox hunting or whatever, Rolls' outfitted the Cullinan
with double whish bone front suspension and five link
rears, instead of primitive coil springs
ugh, so last century.
Rolls' installed air-ride in every corner.
Dubbers, what's up?
And a camera at the front of the car scans the road ahead
and adjusts the suspension on the fly in anticipation
of lumps and bumps.
If a wheel leaves the ground the suspension will tweak
itself until all four wheels make contact and get traction.
Sick.
Speaking of wheels, the hub has its own
barring mechanism inside and the inner-ring
is weighted at the bottom keeping it upright.
As other car-makers struggle to adapt to changing times
and make their own SUV, the Cullinan feels like a natural
progression of Rolls-Royce's legacy.
It's the car they were always meant to build and it Rolls.
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As my good friend Rihanna says, hey RiRi.
♪ Shine bright like a diamond ♪
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Thanks for watchin' Bumper 2 Bumper every Tuesday
until the day I die.
Thank you so much to Rusnak Auto Group
for letting us borrow this car,
if it weren't for cool people in the community
we wouldn't be able to make any content
because I think this is worth more than Donut.
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Sick!
It's my birthday, I'm goin home!
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