Rolls Royce Cullinan : Everything you need to know

Rolls Royce Cullinan 

"Off-roading cannot be done with luxury" was an old myth and it was broke by Land Rover and Bentley with their SUV models Range Rover and Bentayga, now Rolls Royce joins the SUV club with an Ultra Luxury SUV model named the "Cullinan". 3 years ago, Rolls Royce CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos gave an introduction about the new luxury SUV. As said the company started developing the model and took long time for testing the car's stability and capabilities. On 10th May 2018 the company launched the Cullinan. The car looks stunning and it does add cool features of the company's tradition with the new Off-roading capability.

Cullinan is the first SUV from the Rolls Royce brand. Typically Cullinan breaks the company's tradition of manufacturing luxury sedans or saloons, but visually Cullinan resembles the company's traditional look. The Cullinan resembles it's base sedan model phantom in it's front but the rear slips a little in traditional appearance. Cullinan gets a panoramic with active cruise control. Cullinan gets one of the best traditional feature of Rolls Royce, that is the suicide doors. It's true the SUV comes with suicide doors. Cullinan means the largest diamond ever found, that stays true with the Rolls Royce Cullinan, as the car weighs 2660 kg.

Engine and Off-road features

As an SUV Cullinan gets a massive 6.75 litre V12 engine which produces 563 bhp and 850 Nm of torque. Cullinan gets an all wheel drive and with 4-wheel steering.

Cullinan gets single off-road mode, which can be enabled by pressing the "off-road" button on the central console. The off-road or "Everywhere" mode includes six customizations including rough track, gravel, wet grass, snow,sand or mud.The torque gets delivered at 1600 rpm for every wheel to maintain the stability of the car at lower rate. Cullinan's wading depth is 540mm that is 54cm. And it comes with height adjusting system that could lower the car 40mm when leveling is needed.

Features

Cullinan shares the platform of Rolls Royce Phantom, build with full metal body,that is aluminium space-frame. The car can lower itself 40mm for better ingress. The self-leveling air suspensions serves as an epitome in every Rolls Royce models for creating the most comfortable ride feeling, Cullinan is also equipped with same technology. As an all wheel drive car, the suspensions of the car makes number of calculations within milliseconds for adjusting the suspension and providing respective power required for the four wheels. 

Company claims that Cullinan is the World's first 3-box SUV, that is the cargo is separated from the cabin. The rear seats can be folded down for extra cargo room. The standard boot-space is 560 ltrs and can be expanded to 1930 ltrs. In addition Cullinan offers two extra seats in the boot, which is built into it's floor and can be deployed electrically . 

Cullinan includes additional safety features like collision, cross-traffic and lane departure warning systems. Sure the car is loaded with technology stuffs that include Wi-Fi hotspot, pedestrian and wildlife alert, active cruise control, head-up display, touch screens on front and back.

Cullinan comes with lots of cool features and off-roading capability. Sure it does costs a lot, the estimated price of the all new Rolls Royce Cullinan is 5crores in Indian Rupees. I'm not sure that Indian market will get the new SUV in this year. As first SUV of the company, the Cullinan is initially focused on countries with higher demand for SUVs. But yes Indian car market has high demand for SUVs. Another cool feature Cullinan offers is that the spirit of Ecstasy can be customized, either a metal or glass built model can be made for the Cullinan.

2018 Geneva Motor Show

2018 Geneva Motor Show

Geneva Motor Show remains one of the most awaited shows of the year for the petrol heads and for the automobile manufacturers. 2018 Geneva Motor Show is yet to be started on March 8th and the preview show or technically they call as "press days" started on today(6th March to 7th March), the public show is planned to be held from 8th to 18th March. Swiss grounds remain hot when the most awaited European Motor Show is all set to go, we'll see some of the expected show stoppers to be revealed on the Swiss soil.

Jaguar I- Pace 

The British car manufacturer is expected to reveal it's first ever electric car I-Pace to be displayed at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. The electric SUV was revealed at the 2016 Los Angeles Motor Show. The I-Pace produces 395 bhp with the help of two electric motors, one in the front and the other in the rear. The car can do 0-60 mph within 4.5 secs. 

Land Rover Range Rover Coupe SV

The SUV manufacturer is yet to release it's two-door SUV Range Rover Coupe SV on the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Range Rover SV the high-end model of the British manufacturer is yet to reveal it's the new version the Range Rover Coupe SV. The SUV produces a maximum power of 557 bhp with the help of the supercharged engine and can do 0-60 mph within 5 seconds. 

McLaren Senna 

McLaren Senna has been launched already, though the available beast isn't enough to wreck the roads the exotic edition of the car is expected to be revealed by MSO with an extreme carbon theme at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. The stock model produces 789 bhp with the help of the 4.0-liter twin-turbo engine. The beast looks have been modified with cool features, large and stronger wings is also one of the additional features of the car.

Toyota Supra 

Hell Yeah !!! One of the best JDM cars that rocked the streets for years was at rest for some time. Toyota decided on the comeback of the legendary Supra. The new Supra concept remained to surf over the internet for the past days and now the car is expected to be displayed at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Toyota Supra previewed by GR Supra Racing concept comes with a 3.0 ltr turbocharged 6-cylinder engine, that can pump out a maximum power of 330 bhp. The front engine, rear wheel drive car is expected to reach 0-60 mph at 3.8 seconds.

 Ferrari 488 Pista 

Ferrari 488 Pista is the successor of 458 Speciale, 360 Challenge, 430 Scuderia. The Italian manufacturer holds good winning records in racing, 488 Pista is designed as the successor of 488 GTE and 488 Challenge as a racing edition. 488 Pista produces a total of 710 bhp by the twin-turbo V8 engine. The car can reach a maximum speed of 211 mph and can do 0-60 within 2.8 seconds.

More exotic, electric and hybrid cars are yet to be revealed in the upcoming ten days, every year Geneva Motor Show remains one of the best show for revealing new concepts and production models. Swiss hills are going to be too busy for the next ten days.
Stay tuned with the blog for the upcoming launches at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show.

Porsche's Mission-E in India

Porsche's Mission-E in India 

India shows a rapid increase in buying luxury cars and hybrid or fully electric cars are called as Zero-emission Vehicle. Porsche have also joined the electric sports car manufacturer after displaying it's all electric model Mission-E in the 2015 Frankfurt Motor show. Porsche is planning to launch the model officially in the global market in 2019 and planning to launch the model in India in 2020.  

Porsche have seen a good increase in their sales in the Indian sports car market. Earlier the German manufacturer sold almost 400 units in India during the year of 2016, the company had an increase in their sales during the year of 2017 by selling nearly 430 units in the Indian market. Porsche 718 Cayman and 718 Boxster are some of the best selling models of the manufacturer in Indian market.

As India faced series mishaps in pollution issues during the Delhi fog, the country is keen in reducing the pollution in every aspects, buying or producing zero-emission vehicles is one of the ideas in reducing the pollution all over the country luckily Porsche have planned to enter the Zero-Emission Vehicle market in India at the right time.

Porsche has not yet released the full specifications of the car for the Indian market, but it is expected that the car will be delivering high performance level. The general specifications unveiled in the past includes, the model comes with the power of 600 bhp, it can do 0-60 mph within 3.5 seconds. Porsche have planned to produce 15,000 to 20,000 units per year. Porsche Mission-E is powered by two electric motors which can produce up to 440 kw (600 bhp).

It's good to drive an eco-friendly vehicle whether everyone likes it or not, but definitely it will be good for the driver's ears to drive a car which doesn't do a "braapp stutuu". But I love when cars do "braaapp stutu". 

Check out the all new "Terzo Millennio" the electric car that was introduced by Lamborghini during last year in here by clicking the following link :

https://wheelnutofficial.blogspot.in/2018/01/terzo-millennio.html

Tesla Roadster in Space

Tesla Roadster in Space 

Elon Musk proved that he is the man of his word by sending his personal Tesla Roadster to space on Feb 2018. Elon Musk did this through SpaceX or Space Exploration Technologies Corp, the private American aerospace manufacturer and space transport company founded by him. When Elon tweeted about sending a car to space, everyone went crazy and so they did go crazy after seeing Elon did what he said in the past. The Falcon Heavy is the world's most powerful operational rocket ever built. Sure everyone knows about the launch and here I listed some of the facts about Tesla Roadster in space and about the Falcon Heavy. 

Elon Musk planned to shoot the Tesla Roadster to Mars' orbit, but the rocket overshot the trajectory and placed the Roadster in an orbit that extends beyond the Mars' path. Elon's aim is to send people to the Red Planet and to built colonies on Mars. As a test flight, he sent his Tesla Roadster to Mars. His try for sending the Roadster to Mars did break many records in history.

Elon sent his Roadster with a dummy called "Starman". And unfortunately, it looks like Starman did like space and drove the Tesla Roadster in an unplanned path away from the Red Planet's orbit. Elon posted a map describing the change in the path Roadster. It is expected that according to the trajectory of the Roadster, it can come near to the Earth in the year 2021. Either Roadster reaches the Red Planet or comes near to us, Starman is about to remain in the dark.  

• Elon is the first person to send a car to space. 
• The Rocket used to send Tesla Roadster is Falcon Heavy, and yes it is the heaviest rocket ever built in human history.

• Elon planned to reduce the cost of space transportation and he successfully did it in this try.
• Falcon Heavy has 27 engines and three cores, 9 engines per core.
• Elon succeeded in his concept of reusing the rockets. He successfully did a test flight about landing the launched rocket in the past. He made a record by successfully landing all the three rockets from the Falcon Heavy.

• Falcon Heavy is capable of carrying way more weight than a Tesla Roadster. The Falcon Heavy can lift nearly 64 metric tons, which is twice the weight of the next closest operational rocket could lift.
• It took longer than the actual plan for the flight. It was initially planned to make a flight in 2013 or 2014 and later it got shifted to 2015 and later the launch date is pushed to 2016 and when one of the SpaceX's rocket exploded in test flight in 2016 then it was planned to launch on 2017 and there extends the date for another time and finally Falcon made its successful launch on 6th Feb 2018.

 

It's not about sending a car to another planet, Elon made history in his every try, congratulating him for his record and let us hope that Starman would reach Mars or else return to Earth safely by not remaining the dark.

2018 Auto Expo India

2018 Auto Expo India
           

                      

India's largest motor show the Auto Expo started on 8th Feb 2018 and 9th Feb 2018 in two different locations( UP and New Delhi), both the locations end the great event on the same day on 14th Feb 2018. There is no doubt to find love in the show, some of the coolest cars that have been represented in the Auto Expo till today are listed below. Then lets start the list with the nation's own company Tata.

Tata  45X 

Tata's new hatchback 45X displayed on the Auto Expo, there is no question with the looks of the new hatch, it looks way more cooler than the other hatchbacks produced by the automaker.The four door hatch comes with a new slim lights and design representing Tata's next generation design.

Tata Racemo

Tata introduced it's all electric car the Racemo + -. Tha car produces around 200 bhp with the lithium-ion battery. Racemo's old version produces 190 bhp with the help of twin turbos, both versions of Racemo is displayed on the Auto expo 2018. Pray your best for the car to retain it's concept style in the production version.

Tata H5X

Tata unveiled it's another cool concept SUV the H5X. H5X SUV comes with two variations, 5 seater and 7 seater . The H5X produces a maximum power of 140 bhp to the 5 seater and power of 170 bhp to the 7 seater. The car looks no matching to the previous SUVs produced by the manufacturer. The H5X will built on Land Rover's L550 platform. 

Mahindra Stinger 

Mahindra, one of the best SUV maker in Indian market. The automaker doesn't fail it's own fan base in the SUV DNA. This time the automaker brought a new concept of convertible SUV, the Stinger SUV convertible. The two door concept car comes with the front grills resembling the original DNA of it's brand and looks cool with the newly designed front bumper. 

DC TCA 

DC the sports car manufacturer of the Indian soil came up with the new model of it's brand. Followed by Avanti, TCA looks sexier than Avanti in the pale golden color. The TCA was unveiled by bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha. Under the hood TCA gets a petrol engine that  could pump off 320 bhp, and the production rate of the car has been announced and it is limited to 299 units.

BMW i8 Roadster 

BMW is here with the stunning all new i8 Roadster. The drop-top version of i8 looks crazy as hell on looks, under the hood the car gets a new heart with new specifications, that the heart can pump total power of 374 bhp, the hybrid car created a great hype when it was launched in the year 2015, now it did the same thing in the Indian Auto Expo.

Maruti Future S Concept

Maruti did faced a happy results from the previous SUV Vitara Brezza, the automaker follows the same style by introducing a new SUV at the Auto Expo. The Future S Concept, at first the car looks confusing with it's body and the elevated wheel base. Future S Concept is a SUV concept with two door body looks like a hatchback's body and with the elevated wheel base, it proved to be an SUV.

Kia Stinger GT

There comes the other stinger from the Korean automaker. But this Stinger prefers racing than travelling to terrains and mud. The all new Kia Stinger GT is unveiled in the 2018 Auto Expo. Stinger GT produces 370 bhp, the 3.3 litre V6 petrol engine serves as the heart for the car.

Renault Trezor

Renault unveiled it's Trezor GT concept in the 2018 Auto Expo. The all electric futuristic concept car made a remarkable appearance in the Expo. The grand tourer concept looks low in it's design with a top opening door, which makes the concept little uncomfortable to look. Renault also unveiled it's new hybrid car in the Expo.

                                 

Lamborghini Aventador Price and Specifications

Lamborghini Aventador 

                           
Lamborghini launched one of it's flagship model Aventador on 2011 at the Geneva Motor Show. Ferruccio Lamborghini the Italian tractor manufacturer turned car manufacturer wanted his cars to be unique in design and performance, as wished Aventador is unique in it's design and performance. Aventador has a huge fan base by it's looks and yes the fan base goes increasing by it's performance. Aventador is a 2 door coupe model with engine mounted on the middle designed after it's predecessor Lamborghini Murcielago.

Design : 

Ferruccio Lamborghini wanted his cars to be unique, that one could easily identify a Lamborghini in a single site. Design is one of the keystone for Lamborghini cars , everyone who see's the car should get astonished not only the people who notice's the car, driver should also feel the same way, that's what Ferruccio wished. Aventador is successor of the fabulous Lamborghini Murcielago. the car has mid engine and with beautifully positioned vents in the hood and the vent in the door makes the car a way cooler. 

Aventador Editions and Specifications : 

Aventador is a 2 door coupe model produced in 5 main models Aventador coupe, Aventador SV, Aventador SV Roadster, Aventador S, Aventador S Roadster. Roadster is the roofless edition in Lamborghini Avnetador, SV stands for "SUPER VELOCE" which means 'SUPER FAST" in Italian.

Aventador Coupe :

Aventador coupe is the initially launched edition in 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The production of the car was planned to be limited to 4000 units, but it reached 5000 units in the year 2016. The car is powered with naturally aspirated V12 engine producing maximum power  690 bhp @ 8,250 rpm with maximum torque of 690 Nm @ 5,500 rpm. Aventador coupe is priced at $393,695. Aventador can do 0-60 mph in 2.9 secs. 

Aventador SV and SV Roadster :

Lamborghini launched the two new editions of Aventador, Aventador SV and Aventador SV Roadster in the year 2015 at the Geneva Auto Show. Aventador SV produces maximum power of 740 bhp @ 8,400 rpm by the naturally aspirated V12 engine and can produce maximum torque of 509 Nm @ 5,500 rpm. The Aventador SV Roadster coomprises of the same performance of Aventador SV. Aventador SV can do 0-60 mph in 2.8 secs.

Aventador S and Aventador S Roadster : 

The new edition in Aventador was revealed in the year 2016. Aventador S comprises of the same V12 engine with maximum power of 730 bhp @ 8,400 rpm with maximum torque of  690 Nm @ 5,500 rpm. 

Veneno and Centenario :

Both Veneno and Centenario are based on the Aventador's  body with upgraded looks and with changed both power and performance. Veneno was introduced in 2013 Geneva Motor Show. It has a 6.5L V12 engine producing a total of 740 bhp. Veneno is designed with main upgrade in exterior design with minimum changes in the power and performance of the Aventador and costs $4,500,000. It can do 0-60 mph in 2.8 sec.

Centenario was launched in the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. The car cooprises of 6.5L V12 engine with maximum power of 759 bhp, which can do 0-60 in 2.8 sec.   

Ferrari 488 Price and Specifications

Ferrari 488

                       Ferrari the Italian automaker launched one of it's best productions car ever the Ferrari 488, in the year 2015. It is based on the previous model 458. 488 is the update to the 458 with highly noticeable changes in the exterior design and with changes in the performance.

                       Ferrari 488 is assembled in the Maranello, Italy unit. 488 is a 2 door sports car, which comes in two different models the 488 GTB and 488 Spyder. The GTB stands for Gran Turismo Berlinetta. The 488 is designed as a road car that could make near to track level.

                        Ferrari 488 is a Rear Wheel Drive car with a twin turbo V8 engine as under the hood. 488's heart produces a maximum power of 670 bhp  at 8000 rpm with maximum torque capacity of 760 Nm at 3000 rpm. 488 comes with 7 speed transmission with maximum displacement of  3.902cm3.

                                       Model Types              :  488 GTB 

                                                                             488 Spyder

                                      Engine Type               :  Turbocharged V8(twin turbo)

                                      Maximum Power       :  670 bhp  at 8000 rpm

                                      Maximum Torque      :  760 Nm at 3000 rpm

                                      0-100 kmph                :  3.0 sec

                                      0-200 kmph                :  8.3 sec

                                      0-400                          :  10.45 sec

                        Ferrari 488 can do 0-100 kmph in 3.0 sec, 0-200 kmph in 8.3 sec and 0-400 in 10.45 sec. It can reach the maximum speed of 330 kmph with the weight/power ratio 2,04 kg/cv. As mentioned previously 488 is update to the previous model 458, 488 has some changes in it's exterior design and yes 488 comes in two models. The 488 Spyder has the same performance and power that of 488 GTB. Spyder differs in costing the car with additional $30,000. 488 GTB costs $301,000 while the 488 Spyder costs about $334,000.
               

Land Rover Range Rover Velar Launched in India

Range Rover Velar Launched in India

                                        The new Range Rover Velar joins the Range Rover family in India on 20-01-2018. Followed by Lamborghini's Urus, Velar is the second SUV being launched in India in 2018.

Range Rover Velar is one of the most awaited SUV to be launched in India. Range Rover Velar is priced at Rs 78.83 lakhs (ex-showroom, Delhi). 

                                       Land Rover Range Rover Velar comes with the standard reverse cameras and parking sensors. Unlike other Range Rovers, Velar gets a new cool feature to monitor and control the seats with the heating and cooling function and terrain control responses, which is the Velar is the first to get these features in the Range Rover family.

                                        Under the hood, Land Rover Range Rover Velar gets four optional engine with variable capacities. It has a 2.0 ltr diesel engine with either 178 bhp /430 Nm or 237 bhp / 500Nm. It also gets a 3.0 ltr engine that could produce 296 bhp / 700 NM. The variant petrol engine gets two options either 2.0 ltr or 3.0 ltr. The 2.0 ltr engine produces 247 bhp / 365Nm. the 3.0 ltr supercharged V6 petrol engine produces 375 bhp / 450 Nm of torque. All are controlled by a 8 speed ZF automatic gearbox with AWD drive train.

                                        Land Rover Range Rover Velar gets a look of a buffed up Evoque. Range Rover Velar gets the luxury line in its's interior. It comes with automatic climate controls and all leather upholstery. The infotainment system comes with 10 inch display and with the standard information format in the Range Rover Family. The all new  Land Rover Range Rover Velar is priced at Rs 78.83 lakhs to 1.37 crores (ex-showroom, Delhi). 

Check the recently launched Lamborghini Urus by clicking the following link: https://wheelnutofficial.blogspot.in/2018/01/lamborghini-urus-launched-in-india.html  

Lamborghini URUS launched in India

Lamborghini Urus launched in India

                                 Hell yeah!!!!........The most awaited Lamborghini's SSUV Urus was launched in India on today. Andrea Baldi, GM Asia Pacific, Lamborghini launched the URUS on today in India.

Urus is based on the MLB platform that underpins the already existing SUVs of different manufacturers like Bentley Bentagaya, Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7. Lamborghini have already launched it's models in India now Urus joins the league with them in the Indian market. 

                                The all  new Urus is launched at price of Rs.3crore(ex-showroom price in India).

Urus is powered with twin turbo V8 engine which produces 650 bhp which can do 0-60 in 3.6 seconds, which is quicker than it's supercar brother Murcielago does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, and top speed off 305 kmph. which makes Urus the fastest SUV in the world.

                      Urus produces 650 bhp with 850 Nm of torque which is controlled by 8 speed automatic gearbox. And with 4 wheel drivetrain Urus got 6 different driving modes whereas 3 are standard ( Strada, Sports, Corsa) and the other 3 are Neve, Terra, and Sabbia. 

                           Urus is purely performance oriented car. Urus is the first turbo charged vehicle built by the Italian automaker. Urus 100 kmph in 3.6 seconds and 200 kmph in 12.8 seconds which is more quicker for an SUV. Urus comes with the interior design made with fine materials and with the automaker's DNA in their previous model car.  Being in the class of SUV, Urus does weigh a bit, it's actual weight is 2,200kgs. 

  

                            Urus provides three new driving modes in the automaker's usual choice. Whereas Neve driving mode is for snow, Sabbia is for sand and Terra is for offroad. There is no doubt that Urus makes a great mark in SUV production in the world. The auto maker is aiming to increase the production of Urus to 7,000 units.