Rolls Royce

​As successful as the Rolls-Royce name has been in luxury cars, it's been far bigger in aeronautics. So when these guys announce a four- to five-passenger hybrid electric/turbine VTOL aircraft with a 250-mph top speed and a 500-mile range, it's worth listening.

We've now had our first chance to take an up-close look at Rolls-Royce's most fascinating car in a long time. An ambitious and almost self-contradictory attempt to blend rugged off-road capability with uncompromising luxury, the Cullinan is a muscular tank full of technology and creature comforts.

The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este has been an annual event for 91 years. Across that time, it has been the home of automotive passion in the most passionate automotive country.

Designed from the ground up to give jet-setters a taste of visceral adventure without requiring them to give up the ice-cold champagne, the new Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV brings ultra-premium comfort to rough, distant earth. And it should get you noticed in the spa parking lot, too.

​As anticipation builds for the release of Rolls-Royce's upcoming "high bodied" SUV, the company has been putting out a series of videos documenting its final stages of testing. And while it's still covered in ugly camouflage, the videos do give a sense of its capabilities.

Hypersonic travel, and even a new type of orbital launcher, has come closer to reality after Boeing and Rolls-Royce today announced substantial investments in the British advanced propulsion systems company Reaction Engines Limited.

The 23rd annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance takes place on March 11, 2018.​​ We'll have a full coverage of the concours next week, but the subject of this article is the auction cluster which surrounds this prestigious classic car event.

We're not sure Rolls-Royce's Cullinan SUV will be a frequent visitor at many campsites or football tailgates, but it will have a special feature that could prove perfect for either of those locations. The tailgate area will transform into a proper lounge, with two seats and a small table.

Rétromobile has been running since 1976, when the most expensive car in the world cost less than $100,000 and long before the term retro had become fashionable. It is one of those places where auctions truly can throw up some remarkable objets d'automotive art. This year it did not disappoint.

Rolls-Royce​ launched IntelligentEngine, a new initiative aimed at developing intelligent aircraft engines that are safer or more efficient. The engines would learn from their own previous experience and the experience of other engines, and may one day even be able to repair themselves.

Good corporate citizenship is becoming an important factor in the annual report and this is now evident on the auction block where the additional value of milestone models is being retained for the benefit of charity, while creating value to the donating company via advanced public relations.

At the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Siemens announced that they are pooling their resources to build the near-term E-Fan X hybrid-electric technology demonstrator based on a BAE Systems 146 flying testbed and slated to fly in 2020.