- Black Badge Cullinan Series II, an advanced, extra visceral expression of Rolls-Royce
- Caters to a choose subset of Rolls-Royce purchasers with particular tastes and priorities
- Unique Black Badge exterior coachwork and inside particulars developed for Series II
- More overt and expressive utility of up to date supplies and applied sciences
- Integrates superior digital interface, SPIRIT, and personal members app, Whispers
- New inside Clock Cabinet vitrine incorporates Black Badge Spirit of Ecstasy figurine
- New Duality Twill seating incorporates 2.2 million stitches and as much as 11 miles of thread
- New Placed Perforation seat sample impressed by clouds over the Home of Rolls-Royce and includes as much as 107,000 particular person perforations
- First time a 23-inch wheel is on the market for a Black Badge Rolls-Royce
- Proven efficiency of 600PS and 900Nm torque preserved
- Available from launch, alongside Cullinan Series II
“Black Badge strongly appeals to a distinct group of clients who seek a more visceral interpretation of the Rolls-Royce experience. In its engineering, technology, materials, and design, Black Badge Cullinan Series II satisfies these clients’ keen appetite for innovation and new modes of self-expression. Cullinan’s darker alter ego has always asserted its own unique place in our product portfolio; I’m certain that this new incarnation will build on its predecessor’s success.”
Chris Brownridge, Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
“Black Badge Cullinan Series II reflects the changes we’ve seen in our client profile since we first launched this transformative motor car five years ago. Today, self-expression, individuality and boldness are demanded more than ever before – all attributes that form the core of the Black Badge attitude. Our creative response has matched the daring of those who commission these motor cars. The dark, primal elements that are so essential to the Black Badge character are expressed here in extremis, and are further amplified by dramatic and assertive coachwork reserved for this disruptive expression of the brand.”
Anders Warming, Director of Design, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Rolls-Royce’s disruptive alter ego, Black Badge, reached its apotheosis in Cullinan the place its assertive and uncompromising angle appeals to purchasers who search the boldest types of self-expression. Today, the marque presents a transparent evolution of this subversive motor automobile with Black Badge Cullinan Series II.
BLACK BADGE CULLINAN SERIES II: EXTERIOR
Black Badge Cullinan Series II asserts its presence with an impactful front-end therapy. The principal differentiator is the decrease air consumption design. These geometrical items incorporate widened veins, signalling the motor automobile’s extra pressing dynamic character. Above that is the marque’s iconic Pantheon grille, which has been illuminated for the primary time throughout Cullinan and Black Badge Cullinan Series II. For Black Badge, the grille is completed within the sequence’ hallmark Black, although a silver ‘horizon line’ creates a way of breadth and solidity whereas framing the motor automobile’s vertical daytime working lights. For purchasers wishing to completely cloak their motor automobile in darkness, that is additionally out there in an all-black end.
All exterior physique element parts and brightwork, together with the Spirit of Ecstasy figurine, are additionally completed in Black. For the primary time within the historical past of Black Badge, this now extends from the window surrounds and door spears to the door handles. Each piece is hand-prepared by the marque’s artisans: first, a lightweight abrasive is used throughout the deal with to offer a ‘key’ for a hardwearing primer, onto which 4 coats of Black paint are then utilized. After curing, these items are individually polished to make sure that they match the wealthy, high-gloss coachwork of Black Badge Cullinan Series II.
Other darkened parts, together with the rear tailgate and bumper accents in addition to the motor automobile’s exhausts, are handled with a selected chrome electrolyte to realize the mirror-black impact. This is launched to the standard chrome plating course of and co-deposited on the chrome steel substrate, darkening the end. Its last thickness is only one micrometre – round one-hundredth of the width of a human hair. Each of those elements is precision-polished by hand to realize a mirror-black chrome end earlier than it’s fitted to the motor automobile.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II purchasers are actually capable of prolong exterior colors to all decrease physique surfaces, in addition to the subtly enhanced decrease sill, valances, and decrease entrance bumper – a therapy reserved for Black Badge Cullinan Series II. This visually lowers the motor automobile, making a extra dynamic assertion that additional amplifies its monolithic type.
The exterior therapy is accomplished with 23-inch wheels – the primary time wheels of this dimension have been provided by the marque for a Black Badge motor automobile. From a distance, the design seems to consist of 5 spokes completed in gloss-black and silver. In truth, there are 10 interwoven spokes: the visible impact is created by a carefully-orchestrated interaction between polished, painted and recessed, damaging surfaces. The design additionally permits a transparent view of the Black Badge disc brake callipers, proven in a signature Red, which will also be completed in Black, Turchese, Mandarin, or Forge Yellow.
BLACK BADGE CULLINAN SERIES II: A SUBVERSIVE INTERIOR TREATMENT
Advanced, technical supplies have develop into a trademark of Black Badge Rolls-Royce motor automobiles. For Black Badge Cullinan Series II, this theme continues. Clients expressed their appreciation of the unique Black Badge Cullinan’s Technical Carbon end – on this foundation, this beautiful materials has been retained for Series II. The naked-weave carbon-fibre end has been developed to create a exact repeating sample of geometrical shapes that create a three-dimensional impact. Each leaf of Technical Carbon is completed with six coats of lacquer earlier than being left to treatment for 72 hours then all 23 items are hand-polished to a mirror end. This course of takes 21 days in whole.
If Individual Rear Seats are commissioned, purchasers can embody the Black Badge household motif, often called the infinity image, onto the rear Technical Carbon ‘Waterfall’ part that separates the rear reclining seats and conceals the Cullinan Series II Champagne cooler. This delicate aluminium piece is positioned between the third and fourth layer of six layers of subtly tinted lacquer, creating the phantasm that the image is floating above the Technical Carbon. In Lounge Seat configuration, the infinity image is embroidered.
The seats themselves can be found to fee within the marque’s beautiful new Duality Twill textile, a brand new rayon material constructed from bamboo and impressed by the intensive bamboo grove in Le Jardin des Méditerranées on the Côte d’Azur, which neighbours Sir Henry Royce’s former winter dwelling, Villa Mimosa. The twill textile is embroidered with an inventive ‘Duality’ graphic. Based on an summary interpretation of the 2 interlinked letter R initials of the marque’s founders, the design displays a transparent nautical affect, harking back to the interweaving rope traces discovered on crusing yachts – one other refined allusion to the French Riviera.
A whole Duality Twill inside of the intricately embroidered textile incorporates as much as 2.2 million stitches and 11 miles of thread. This beautiful materials could be additional dramatised with daring Bespoke colourways, additional enhancing this outstanding new end for Black Badge purchasers.
Placed Perforation seating will also be included into this daring expression of Cullinan. Up to 107,000 0.8- and 1.2-millimetre perforations are made onto the seat leather-based, creating an summary sample, impressed by the continuously altering shapes and shadows of the clouds over the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood within the twilight hours.
The darkish atmosphere of Black Badge continues with the inside metals. Air vent surrounds on the dashboard and within the rear cabin are darkened utilizing bodily vapour deposition, a way of colouring metallic that doesn’t discolour or tarnish over time or by repeated use.
The subversive design rules of Black Badge motor automobiles have additionally been utilized to Cullinan Series II’s distinctive Clock Cabinet. This inset vitrine shows each an analogue timepiece and an up-lit Spirit of Ecstasy figurine. The Spirit of Ecstasy is constructed from strong chrome steel and rendered in Black, recalling the determine that sits on the prow of Black Badge Cullinan Series II. The Clock Cabinet is flanked by Cullinan’s new Illuminated Fascia, which shows an ethereal glowing infinity image inside the new vertical Cityscape sample.
Black Badge Cullinan Series II can be the stage for an unique digital Bespoke therapy, with instrument dials now out there in 4 neo-futuristic colourways: Vivid Grellow, Neon Nights, Cyan Fire and the kaleidoscopic-style Synth Wave.
BLACK BADGE CULLINAN SERIES II: PROVEN ENGINEERING
In Black Badge Cullinan’s first guise, purchasers requested that the Black Badge expertise prolonged past the aesthetic therapy of the motor automobile. In the 5 years since its launch, the modifications made by Rolls-Royce engineers for the 2019 motor automobile, which included greater capability air springs to alleviate physique roll and the addition of even better energy reserves, have develop into integral to this daring motor automobile’s attraction. Accordingly, these qualities are preserved for Black Badge Cullinan Series II, together with the twin-turbocharged 6.75-litre V12 engine, which generates a complete output of 600PS, and 900Nm of torque.
To exploit the extra energy, the transmission and throttle stay calibrated for extra rapid acceleration. The ZF eight-speed gearbox and each front- and rear-steered axles work collectively to regulate the degrees of suggestions to the driving force, relying on throttle and steering inputs with out compromising the motor automobile’s easy ‘magic carpet ride’ expertise.
Depressing the ‘Low’ button on the gear choice stalk continues to unlock additional Black Badge applied sciences. When activated, drivers expertise a change in tone and quantity from the Bespoke Black Badge exhaust system, signalling that all the 900Nm torque reserves can be found from 1700rpm – simply 700rpm above tick-over. Low Mode additionally will increase the pace of drugs shifts by 50% when the throttle is depressed to 90%. To absolutely exploit Black Badge Cullinan Series II, the brake pedal journey has been decreased to create a extra rapid response to driver inputs.
A BOLD BESPOKE TREATMENT
Like its predecessor, Black Badge Cullinan Series II defines a definite angle and aesthetic code inside the super-luxury sector. The purchasers who patronise this expression of the model achieve this on their very own phrases – with Black Badge Cullinan Series II, Rolls-Royce indicators its ongoing dedication to those people’ necessities, and their daring appreciation of luxurious.
