Rolls Royce or Bentley? That’s the question that every uber-rich person needs to answer when they go to buy their luxury land yacht. When answering this question, they consider things like luxury, build quality, technology, ride comfort and style. However, they typically overlook the most important of factors — straight-line speed. So which is faster in a drag race, the Rolls Royce Cullinan or Bentley Bentayga? Carfections finds out in this new video.
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Neither the Rolls Royce Cullinan nor the Bentley Bentayga were designed for straight-line speed. They’re both ultra-expensive luxury SUVs that are both about as heavy as dwarf stars. So speed isn’t their primary objective. However, they both have twelve-cylinder engines and two turbochargers. So which one is actually faster for when you have to run away from an SEC investigation?
At the drag strip, we see Top Gear’s Rory Reid in the Rolls Royce Cullinan and Carfection’s Drew Stearne in the Bentley Bentayga to find out which is fastest. Under the hood of the Rolls is a 6.75 liter twin-turbocharged V12 that makes a very healthy 563 hp and 627 lb-ft of torque. Powering the Bentley is a 6.0 liter twin-turbocharged W12 that makes a flat 600 hp and 664 lb-ft of torque. So both have about enough power to tow the moon out of orbit.
Though, the Bentley is both more powerful and lighter, weighing in at around 5,700 lbs and the Rolls tipping the scales at around 6,100 lbs. So it’s pretty easy to figure out which is going to be faster.
Once they launch off the line, it isn’t even close, the Bentley lunches the Rolls. In fact, it takes a second run with Rory Reid cheating a bit for him to win. Though, that’s not much of a surprise, as Bentley has always had a bit of a performance edge, while Rolls Royce has always strictly been about luxury. Still, it’s funny to watch these two sprinting elephants take each other on.
As expected, the Bentley was/is faster.
That orange Bentayga looks hot. Maybe it is the angle of the shot but, wow, it looks really beautiful… scary thought that I think the Bentayga looks beautiful.
There’s never a hurry when you’re quite accomplished in life and place yourself above the rat race other humans subject themselves to. The Rolls Royce concerns itself with wafting in luxurious comfort from one point to another.
I don’t know from which angle you are responding to my post but my point was that of the two, Bentley has always been the “racer boy” kind of a car or manufacturer.
Quite right.
Since the Bentley is the same VAG corporate platform used on the Audi A4 & Q5, I’ll pay the premium for the elevated Phantom, even if when stuck in gridlock I’ll have to live with the knowledge I’m in the slower drag race vehicle. Which one was quieter?
Too right. Poor rich people buying a rebadged VW. At least it’s quicker to 100…
$100 million?
Wait for the Black Badge Cullinan! It will have smokescreen generators and EMF warfare modules to stop those revenuers in their tracks.
Both are not really beauties. But the Bentley is much more ugly than the Rolls.
The Bentley may get to the destination sooner but everyone will wait until the Rolls Royce arrives before the event begins.
Anyone got a link for this video? Seems the original youtube source was shut down (probably by Rolls Royce).
I’ve also been searching for it. I wonder why they pulled it. It’s quite strange that there’s no other copy of it on Youtube. If anyone has a copy, I would love to watch it.
Please who has a copy of this video? Surely, someone downloaded it before it was pulled.
@Waleesa1 I miss the video but seems it must be interesting to watch Bentley winning the race.