Rolls Royce

Which Rolls Royce to Pick

A Rolls Royce rental is a choice between 3 cars and 2 moods. Rent a Rolls Royce to be seen arriving and to drive it yourself, and the Cullinan is the car. Rent one to be seen arriving with the roof down and 4 people in frame, and the Dawn is the car. Rent one for a music video, a nightlife arrival or anything blacked out, and the Cullinan Black Badge is the car. It is the luxury car rental that needs no explaining.

The Cullinan is the Rolls Royce an owner is happy to be seen driving. It kneels 40 mm when you touch the handle and rises 40 mm when you press start. It is the Rolls with a real tailgate, so it is the airport and group car. A glass partition separates the cabin from the boot, so the cabin holds its temperature with the tailgate open, and a Viewing Suite of 2 rear-facing leather seats and a cocktail table folds out of the back for a sunset. On the highway it is close to silent, 61 decibels at 70 mph. On broken city pavement at 25 mph you will feel the wheels.

The Cullinan Black Badge is the same car with the chrome darkened and the attitude turned up. It is the one to book when a silver Cullinan looks like a wedding car and that is not the brief. The brakes bite higher, so the low-speed stops take a few tries to make smooth.

The Dawn is the convertible, the last open-top combustion Rolls Royce ever built. Coach doors, 4 true seats that fit adults over 6 feet in the back, a roof that folds under a wooden deck in around 20 seconds at up to 30 mph, and a body roll in corners that quietly asks what your hurry is. It is not the airport car, because the folded roof eats the trunk.

What a Rolls Royce Says

Nobody argues with a Rolls Royce. Every other badge on this site is making a case for its driver. This one has stopped needing to. Strangers assume old money and a chauffeur, and both assumptions are out of date, because the average Rolls Royce buyer is now in his early 40s, down from the mid 50s a generation ago, and the Cullinan is the car that made that happen. What strangers actually do is approach. A park ranger once held up a line of traffic to look inside one. Eye level does part of the work, since in a Cullinan you sit above nearly everyone, and the coach doors do the rest. You step out forwards, standing, facing whoever is watching, instead of climbing sideways out of a normal door.

The unflattering read exists. Rented, not owned. A rapper's car. A blacked-out Cullinan on a Saturday night in Hollywood is aware of both and does not care, which is the entire point of the car.

Where the Silence Comes From

The mechanism is weight and deliberate action. The doors are heavy to pull and then close themselves at a button in the pillar. There is no rev counter, only a Power Reserve gauge that quivers under hard acceleration, and there are no paddles, because a Rolls Royce does not ask you to shift. The gearbox reads the sat-nav and holds a gear before a corner it knows is coming. A stereo camera in the windscreen reads the road ahead and pre-loads the suspension. The tires are foam-lined inside the carcass and worth up to 9 decibels of quiet on their own. Umbrellas live in the doors. Stars live in the headliner. Acceleration does not hit, it gathers, and the V12 under light load is so quiet that the car glides like an electric one.

Rolls Royce Rentals Across Southern California

A Rolls Royce belongs at the places in Southern California where the arrival is the event. The porte-cochere of the Beverly Hills Hotel, the valet at Nobu Malibu, the front of a Newport Coast wedding venue, the drive up to the Parker in Palm Springs. A Dawn with the roof down on Pacific Coast Highway at 6 pm through Laguna Beach is a specific kind of afternoon, and a Cullinan on the 10 out to the desert is 2 hours of near silence. Chauffeur service is available on request.

We deliver Rolls Royces across Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, the Inland Empire and Palm Springs, to hotels, residences, venues and the curb at LAX, SNA, BUR, LGB, ONT, SAN and PSP. Rolls Royce rentals run from $1,195 to $1,595 a day depending on the car, with the Dawn at the lower end and the Cullinan Black Badge at the top. Weekly and multi-day rates bring the daily price down.

Drive a Rolls Royce

The wheel is thin and the car steers from your fingertips. Then you learn that the throttle needs 2 or 3 times as much pedal as you think, and that a Cullinan gathers pace like an airliner rather than a sports car. Road testers say driving it is like steering a pier with only the Spirit of Ecstasy at the far end. The rear wheels steer at parking speed, so a car this long turns tighter than it should. On the Black Badge the brake bite point sits higher, so the first few stops take practice.

The Dawn is different. It rolls in corners on purpose. Push it and it asks what your hurry is. At the pace of the coast, roof folded away, 4 people aboard, it is exactly what it was built for. Public roads only. Track use is not permitted.