The Rolls Royce Cullinan Black Badge in black with an orange and black interior is one of three Black Badge Cullinans in our Orange County fleet, the more restrained of two black cars. Blacked out chrome and a split cabin read as a warning, not a wedding car. Book this one over our other black Black Badge when the arrival should read quiet, not bold.
The ride is the product on this Cullinan Black Badge. Rolls Royce uses air suspension with cameras reading the road ahead and a system that adjusts each corner before the wheel reaches the surface, so the car seems to travel slightly above the pavement rather than on it. Expansion joints and the speed bumps into a Newport Beach parking structure all arrive as information rather than impact. This is the Black Badge specification, so 592 horsepower from the twin turbo V12 and a sharper throttle sit underneath all of that calm, with sixty in 4.9 seconds whenever you decide to interrupt the serenity.
Black on black with orange accents in the cabin is the most restrained of our three Black Badge Cullinans, and on Black Badge cars the darkened grille and badging mean there is no bright work anywhere to catch a light. That makes it a silhouette car along the harbor in Newport Beach. Shoot it at night, in a lit parking structure, or against a bright sky where the outline is the subject, and avoid flat daylight where it simply goes shapeless. The orange interior accents are the only colour in the vehicle and they earn tight frames with a coach door open.
The darkest vehicle in our Orange County Rolls Royce fleet, black paint, blacked out chrome and an orange and black cabin that keeps the interior restrained rather than making it the whole subject. Our other black Black Badge runs a full orange interior and reads far more theatrical when a coach door opens. If you want the Rolls Royce to arrive without announcing anything until somebody looks closely, this is the one of the three. It carries the same rate and deposit as the fully orange black car, so the choice comes down to how loud you want the interior to be.
This is the Cullinan Black Badge trim, black exterior over an orange and black interior, all-wheel drive with rear steer, powered by a 6.75 liter twin turbo V12 making 592 horsepower and 664 lb-ft of torque. Black Badge darkens the chrome, the grille surround, the window trim and the Spirit of Ecstasy, and pairs it with colour-split leather and Technical Fibre trim, here run in orange and black rather than the full orange cabin our other black car carries. Air suspension with camera-read road scanning keeps it level. Zero to sixty comes in 4.9 seconds and it seats five across four doors.