Even the world’s most luxurious SUV wants a facelift every so often. Almost six years after its debut, the Cullinan is making ready to obtain a nip and tuck. New spy photographs from Germany present a purple prototype that includes an oddly disguised entrance finish. It doesn’t have the same old camouflage however plastic panels concealing the actual entrance bumper.

The again is even weirder for the reason that Cullinan was carrying round a conveyable emission measurement system (PEMS) from AIP Automotive. The additional {hardware} protruding from the stately SUV is connected to the exhaust system to quantify how dangerous the venerable V12 engine is to the atmosphere. It’s unclear whether or not Rolls-Royce needs to extract extra energy or it’s tweaking the 6.75-liter twin-turbo unit to decrease its emissions.

Alongside the Ferrari Purosangue, the Cullinan is among the many final twelve-cylinder SUVs contemplating the Bentayga W12 is useless. The nice ol’ days of the AMG G65, Volkswagen Touareg W12, or the Audi Q7 V12 TDI are lengthy gone, to not point out the Lamborghini LM002 from the Eighties. Beneath the stately hood of Rolls-Royce’s SUV is the BMW N74 engine that additionally goes contained in the Phantom and Ghost. It used to energy the M760i as effectively.

Rolls-Royce has pledged to go purely electrical by the top of the last decade, so the V12’s days are numbered. It means a follow-up to the Cullinan will probably be an EV, however prosperous consumers nonetheless have a number of years left to order the luxobarge with a combustion engine. In its present kind, the massive engine makes 591 hp and 664 lb-ft (900 Nm) within the Black Badge variant.

RR fashions don’t undergo the same old Life Cycle Impulse carried out by BMW for the reason that adjustments are fairly minor. The 2025 Cullinan is more likely to obtain solely refined adjustments in and out. The V12 SUV is already in a league of its personal, so the components is unlikely to vary considerably.

An official reveal is more likely to happen later this 12 months.

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