Rolls-Royce Cullinan Series II

Rolls-Royce quotes the Cullinan at 1.835 m unladen, and that single figure organises everything about how we deliver it. At Nice, P2 against Terminal 1 is capped at 1.85 m — a centimetre and a half of margin before anyone mentions air suspension — while P5 against Terminal 2 takes 2.10 m. So with this car we settle the terminal side after the car, never before. It is the only vehicle on our pages whose height we hold from the manufacturer, which is why we can write this paragraph about it and only about it.

Five seats and four bags rated make it the luggage carrier among the Rolls-Royce cards — the Dawn and the Spectre rate two bags, the Ghost three. If one car is meeting a family and a week of cases at an airport, it is this one. 571 hp moves it without ceremony, which is rather the point.

In winter it is delivered in Courchevel, Megève and Val d'Isère. Courchevel's published ceilings start at 2.00 m at the Croisette, which the Cullinan clears on the manufacturer's figure — until a roof box enters the calculation, at which point the named car parks that take the result shrink to a short list. How many pairs of skis is therefore part of the booking conversation, not a discovery at the barrier. And the equipment standard holds to the lifts' closing day, not to the legal obligation's end in March: spring snow does not read the calendar.