Nearly 100 years ago, Rolls Royces would regularly going off road because there were no roads on.

Actually, the legend of Rose Rose was built on the fact they were indestructible and they could drive on gravel roads.

Does it feel Rome to be doing this in a Rolls Royce?

And Motion does cars?

The cars?

It's a massive SUV ship.

Refinement in this thing is extraordinary.

Been little 10 minutes, and it is unquestionably the quietest SUV ever built.

I think in engineering terms, this is incredibly impressive.

It's massive, It's quiet.

It's so comfortable.

The right quality is, yeah, it's not being seen in a car.

This type before.

However, on this subject from the rear 3/4 I can live with it from the front.

I think it looks.

It's a technical phrase with this terrible.

It's like dynamic here, 7780 feet bound to in this brand new Rolls Royce.

That's worth as much as a row of houses in, say, on dumb.

That's a big public.

Should you really get a Rolls Royce covered in for want of a better word crap.

Let's plays.

You shouldn't be so its windows up and I'm gonna get much on a road.

Rolls Royce has built an SUV.

It's not much of a surprise, really, is it?

Last night, a man from Rolls Royce told us how the company had agonized for ages about whether it should build an SUV or not.

But I'm not sure I buy into that.

It was a no brainer.

Commercially.

This vic was always going to sell because let's face it, as the world becomes richer, the rich people become more tasteless.

And they want Maura Maura SUVs.

And that's why Lamborghini makes one and Bentley made for an importer.

Makes one, and I can't believe I'm saying this Ferrari is going to make one.

So here we are in a Rolls Royce SUV.

Now I'll lay my cards on the table from the outset.

I don't like you.

I can't think of a single situation which would rather have an SUV in which to live with and use as my everyday spacious car over in a state car state cause a better I'd rather be lowered to the ground and not so heavy and not so ostentatious.

But I have to put myself into someone else's shoes and try and understand why someone might want to buy this car, so I'll treat it objectively.

A promise.

The car is called the Cullen, and that's named after the largest uncut diamond ever taken out of the ground.

I stood there last night as a Rolls Royce of Design Team talked me around The reasons why this line met that line and that's wage did this.

Matt did that, and I thought to myself, It all sounds really clever, but it's a bit gawping.

I've not met a single person who says they think the Cullinan looks good, Officer.

Positive reaction.

Some people will make its features for it.

It was not too bad from this angle or that angle, but for well over £300,000 you shouldn't be justifying yourself by saying it doesn't look too bad, should you?

Now, I normally shy away from discussing subject of matters you know, taste the way things look.

But with the cone, I have to get involved because I just don't think it looks very good.

It looks to me like a Chinese knockoff off what they think a Rolls Royce SUV should look like, You know?

I mean, when you go to a motor show and you see something that looks a bit, yeah, that's it.

That's how this car looks.

That's just terrible.

I think Theo engineering that's gone into this thing is impressive.

They've been doing it for about three or four years.

It's on a bespoke platform.

It's a heightened moved around phantom underneath.

But it is a completely unique platform for this car.

That's critical, because if you go and look at a tourist or a bentayga or a Cayenne or a twi regular, they all share commonality.

This thing doesn't this these a standalone vehicle, and that's very impressive.

And it means it's very, very, very strong indeed.

And when you got a stiff structure, you've got stability.

When you got stability, you can have great suspension.

So from the moment you get in this thing, the ride comfort is different level.

There is no other SUV that gives you the sense of serenity that you have in this car.

The M V H is incredible.

It's got about 100 kilograms of sound deadening material wedged up inside wheel arteries in the floor.

Everything else this is a a silent SUV.

At times, you're not sure if the engine is running.

That's the ultimate accolade for a luxury vehicle.

When you keep trying to start it again, you turn it off.

I've done it three times today in this car, the ride at low speed Very good.

When you get to medium speeds again, it has that slightly magic carpet quality.

But occasionally there's a big trans verse line, a scene between two surfaces that rattles throw their spears a bit and it isn't that dignified.

It could be better, I think.

But all in all, it does that job better than any other car of its type that I've driven.

Well, then Rolls Royce.

So if you want to be silent and be comfortable, that misses the best SUV ever made.

Now the engine, 6.75 liters twin turbo charged more power than the Saturn five rocket.

Yes, this thing weighs, you know, not far short of three tons, but when it picks up its skirt by Alec goes, the old Power reserve needle goes down to north on it, just fires along.

I have no idea how exciting it is, but it's more than enough for something this big.

I tell you why.

Because when you get to the first corner, you've got to stop the bloody thing on.

It does that just about.

But I wouldn't want it to be any more powerful because it's so heavy of the sense of inertia.

Trying to stop all that mass is really tricky.

And then there's the handling.

There's body roll because it needs to be supple to keep that that lovely ride on.

Also, it just starts to understeer.

It's a bit like the Phantom in that respect.

It lulls you into thinking it's Hayden all that mass on the moment at which it goes.

Actually, I was tricking you.

You're in trouble, so don't bounds Going too much.

Don't think for a minute this can compete with the likes of the Earth or the Bentayga or any of those in terms of agility.

It's a much, much bigger beast, but the person who buys it, I suspect, won't care about that.

Does the color and owner drive it themselves will be driven in it unquestionably they drive it.

This is not a phantom.

What's it like to drive its commanding?

The driving position is Yeah, it's imperious.

I'm just looking down on the poor people of the world.

I'm not that comfortable with that.

But I suppose some people are the cabin.

Well, I tell you what, rather than do that on the move, let's go around the cabin now and then we'll come back to some more bits about how it drives and how it makes you feel.

For here is the outside of the Cullinan.

I'm not gonna walk around and describe this styling because you can see it.

But maybe we just leave the outside alone.

I'll go to the rear 3/4 with record.

Now this is the only surprising bit for me the more time I spent with a car bomb or this kind of work for me.

Okay, it's a bit Range Rover.

It's quite bulky.

It's quite powerful on this sort of suggestion that there's a luggage compartment in on the back of it.

It kind of works, but the boot itself is it, in fact, with those massive wheel arch intrusions there because it's got bigger spheres that's a tiny bit.

If you have two Labradors, one will need to be dominant.

So what they've done is they've sacrificed luggage space for Wait for it for really groom on.

There's plenty of that.

Allow me to show you okay and we get It's spacious, but I sense that being a there's been a clash of conscience that Rolls Royces to whether they needed the re Allegra, um, or the boot space.

And they've happened across a solution that isn't necessarily I thought it would be.

But there we go.

They know more about cars than I do.

You've got touch screens here.

You've got a U.

S.

B C down in there to charge your devices.

You control the radio, you've got different Peter functions and you've got a glass roof.

You know what?

It is luxurious, and there are so many different rear seat up.

This is the bench option, so this gives you the proper family roles.

But you can go for individual receipts and you can go for the super luxurious ones which have extra padding and look a bit like a first class aircraft seat.

The all powerful driving seat ahead of me lies a world of four of people that made so Steri Will has got a thicker rim than a phantom.

I quite like thin rim symbols, and Roger was this particular little bacon like one on The Phantom seven.

But this hasn't got it.

This is a rough, leathery substance that looks like rubber.

Don't understand it.

The rest of the materials are beautiful.

I mean, it is.

It's a step above a bentayga in terms of the materials used.

I'll give them that.

The ergonomics poncey word for where stuff is are quite baffling at times.

These little buttons here they control what you see is doing in terms of fans because it will cool your bottom or heating because it'll heat your bottom or you'll hit a student will.

If you want a massage, well, that should be in the same place.

But that's down here that's hidden down there.

What is that down there?

And those of them why they're so small.

I can't see them.

This is the the sort of Rolls Royce control.

Did I drive things?

It all comes from being double ultimately and the stuff on the on the leeward side of where I'm sitting.

I can't see this arm rest here is it feels really cheap.

You know, the rest of it was expensive.

That, to me feels that the whiff of Citrine Picasso about that, um instrument pack pretty this knave screen are quite like that because it's quite small.

However crucially, watch this when the current and driver can't be asked to lean there that I just can't be asked to reach that door can't be asked.

Almost worth 330 grand alone.

Is it again?

What's that?

Yeah, I cannot be.

I can't be asked to move six inches.

It's a mixture.

It's not as expensive as a phantom on.

It doesn't feel it.

It lacks the opulence.

It lacks some of some of the quality.

The seat is really impressive in the front.

It's supportive and it's very comfortable.

And that, coupled with the lack of noise and harshness in the cabin, means this is a very, very relaxing place to be in long journeys and not gonna be fatigue.

This, in many ways, is a car you don't I want to get out off because it's so comfortable.

The seat is so good.

The ride is just so plush on the general sense of silence and of being in something that's engine into perfection is that's just so powerful.

But also you don't look at it because when you get out for me, that illusions shattered.

I just don't want to see it.

I want park it up and walk away from it.

The real three courses getting better for me.

But just look her, is it?

I just feel a bit ashamed to be scene in it, which is I know it's sad, and I'm sure there are lots of you out there.

They think it's gorgeous.

I've never, ever allowed myself tohave.

You have an opinion and overall opinion about the car so fundamentally swayed by the boy It looks, but I just don't wanna be seen in this thing.

I really don't.

However, the new Phantom I have one of those.

So what I say to you is if you can deal with the looks, this is a great car.

If you can't like me, get a phantom any of no, just do the world a favor.