Rolls-Royce regulars will witness private debut of Cullinan SUV

I hope this is just a bad "artist's deception," as it looks like a Hearse.

Dear Rolls Royce - Please do not use the Cullinan name for your new SUV. The name "Camargue" is much better and it will all remind us of the fabulous 70's. The SUV is even likely to be kind of ugly, just like the Camargue was.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/rolls-royce/camargue/1971617.html

I find associating a very expensive car - with the LARGEST gem quality diamond ever found - seems appropriate to me. I cannot how Camargue is better - just another area of France that surrendered to the Nazis.

Diamond story somewhat misleading..here are the facts..

The Cullinan diamond was found 18 feet (5.5 m) below the surface at Premier Mine in Cullinan, Transvaal Colony, by Frederick Wells, surface manager at the mine, on 26 January 1905. It weighed 3,106 carats (621.2 grams). Newspapers called it the "Cullinan Diamond", a reference to Sir Thomas Cullinan, who opened the mine in 1902. It was three times the size of the Excelsior Diamond, found in 1893 at Jagersfontein Mine, weighing 972 carats (194.4 g). Four of its eight surfaces were smooth, indicating that it once had been part of a much larger stone broken up by natural forces. It had a blue-white hue and contained a small pocket of air, which at certain angles produced a rainbow, or Newton's rings.

Shortly after its discovery, Cullinan went on public display at the Standard Bank in Johannesburg, where it was seen by an estimated 8,000–9,000 visitors. In April 1905, the rough gem was deposited with Premier Mining Co.'s London sales agent, S. Neumann & Co. Due to its immense value, detectives were assigned to a steamboat that was rumoured to be carrying the stone, and a parcel was ceremoniously locked in the captain's safe and guarded on the entire journey. It was a diversionary tactic – the stone on that ship was fake, meant to attract those who would be interested in stealing it. Cullinan was sent to the United Kingdom in a plain box via registered post.

On arriving in London, it was conveyed to Buckingham Palace for inspection by King Edward VII. It drew considerable interest from potential buyers, but Cullinan went unsold for two years.

...Some would argue that the colonialist (i.e. white, non-native) Brits looted the diamond from South Africa. Its possible the diamond was mined using slave labor. Anyway, the optics of a bunch of Anglo's taking a diamond out of an African country and selling it, keeping the money, do not come across so good in 2018.

Camargue is a better name.

Looks like the truck the Culligan man used to deliver my white appliances!

I wonder if the Rolls Royce Cunanan will have a Versace edition.

Yes, that will also be known as the Kardashian spec

The Kardashians are in to serial killers and dead gay designers?