Bold, fresh look for updated Cullinan

Revised SUV majors on bluff proportions as Rolls-Royce ramps up tech and options

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Rolls-Royce has updated its best-selling Cullinan SUV, six years after launch, with new styling, an overhauled interior, updated technology and a wealth of new options.

The updated Cullinan is expected to raise the base price slightly to around £330,000 by introducing new technology and evolved styling while offering ever more extensive personalisation options.

Rolls-Royce design chief Anders Warming said he focused on emphasising the "verticality" of the high-sided luxury SUV for the facelift, with the company drawing a link between the Cullinan's bluff, towering proportions and the "illuminated skyscrapers in the megacities where Cullinan is increasingly at home".

Warming told Autocar: "We wanted to have a more sheer aesthetic, a more modern, monolithic appearance in the front. That being said, we didn't want it to be like a wall either."

To that end, the LED daytime running lights now run down the edges of the fascia, joining with a new lower bumper arrangement that's angled up at the sides to give the effect of a yacht breaking through water.