Rent Rolls Royce Cullinan 2023 in Dubai

Book a Rolls-Royce Cullinan 2023 in Dubai and you get the last one Rolls-Royce built with the original face, the upright grille and round headlights it launched in 2018, before the Series II update redrew the front end for 2024. We deliver it to your hotel, villa or terminal, usually within one to two hours of booking, in black, five seats, all-wheel drive. Nothing mechanical changed for the facelift that followed, so this is not the older, lesser Cullinan. It is the same V12 and air suspension in the shape Rolls-Royce sold for five years before deciding to change it. This page settles whether that is the version worth renting, or whether you should hold out for the newer one.

The last year of the original face

Rolls-Royce launched this face in 2018 and kept it through 2023 without a redesign. The upright grille, the round headlights set high in the bumper and the near-vertical tailgate were the shape that introduced the brand's first SUV, and the 2023 is the final model year it appears on as the standard car. For 2024, Series II swapped the lights and grille, redrew the bumper and moved the dashboard to digital dials with a wider centre screen. None of that touched the machinery underneath. The 2023 carries the same 6.75-litre twin-turbo V12 as every Cullinan built since, 563 hp and 850 Nm sent through an eight-speed automatic to all four wheels, good for 0-100 km/h in 5.2 seconds and limited to 250 km/h. The air suspension reads the road ahead through a camera and softens the body before a bump arrives, which is why this car rides better over Dubai's patched tarmac and expansion joints than anything else we hand over. Renting the 2023 does not cost you any of that engineering. It buys you the design Rolls-Royce sold for five years, right before it changed its mind about the front end.

Seats, boot, and the limit on four adults

Five seats, not seven, and the rear bench sits high enough that passengers look out over the traffic around them rather than into the doors of the car ahead. Two adults in the back get proper legroom and a cushion that does not ask them to slouch on a long airport run. The boot holds 560 litres behind the seats, which covers two large cases and a couple of soft bags without folding anything down, so a couple or a small family travels cleanly. Drop the rear bench and it opens to around 1,930 litres, though most renters never need that much room and loading a Cullinan like a delivery van rather defeats the point of one. Push it to four adults with a full week of luggage between them and the boot is where you run out of space first, well before the cabin feels crowded.

Heat, width, and what the desk asks of you

Dark paint and a Dubai summer do not get along. A cabin this large, under this much glass, finished in black, comes back from a few hours in 45-degree sun genuinely hot inside. The climate system handles it well once it gets going, with cold air reaching the rear seats directly rather than trickling back from the front vents, so give the engine a minute or two running before passengers climb back in after a long park. Size is the other honest part of the conversation. The Cullinan is over 5.3 metres long and two metres wide across the body, wider again with the mirrors out, so a Marina tower's parking levels or a packed mall structure ask for a slow approach and a close eye on the cameras. The air suspension lifts for steep ramps and speed bumps, so ground clearance is not the worry; threading between two support pillars is. Salik tolls and any RTA fines during the rental pass to you as the driver, seat belts are required in every seat, and a child under four needs a proper child seat even in a car this size. The 100-litre tank takes premium fuel and the V12 is thirsty, with an official combined figure around 15 litres per 100 km and real city driving running higher than that, so plan on stopping more than once across a week. Because this sits in our most expensive class, a substantial refundable deposit applies, and you need to be 25 to take the keys.

Book the 2023, or wait for Series II

Book the 2023 if the original grille and headlights are the look you actually want, or if you would rather not pay a premium for screens and dials you will glance at twice a day at most. Mechanically it gives up nothing to a newer plate. The V12, the gearbox, the air suspension and the ride are identical, and for photographs, a wedding arrival or an event where the car itself is part of the picture, the pre-facelift face is the one most people still picture when someone says Rolls-Royce. Wait for a Series II Cullinan if the digital dashboard and the updated front end matter more to you than the saving, or look at a Range Rover if you are driving yourself through a normal week of meetings and errands and want something considerably easier to park and cheaper to feed. The 250-kilometre daily allowance covers occasion driving around the city comfortably, with anything past it billed at AED 0.5 a kilometre. For an arrival that is meant to look like the Cullinan people already know, the 2023 is the one to book.