Rolls-Royce is constructing a limited-edition Cullinan with an aeronautic theme, and it is referred to as the Blue Shadow.

In response to the automaker, the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan Blue Shadow was impressed by the Kármán Line, a theoretical boundary 62 miles above the Earth’s floor and thought of by many to be the place the ambiance ends and area begins. Named after physicist Theodore von Kármán, the road is not universally acknowledged as the sting of area, however has been handled as such by numerous companies concerned with spaceflight.

On the Kármán Line’s altitude, the blue sky of Earth’s ambiance fades into the blackness of area, which is mirrored within the Blue Shadow’s colour palette. The paint colour is a bespoke shade referred to as “Stardust Blue,” whereas the grille and front-bumper trim are blackened, with a satin end meant to recall the thermal tiles of the House Shuttle’s warmth defend.

In one other spacecraft-inspired contact, the Spirit of Ecstasy hood decoration is 3D printed from titanium—a cloth used within the aerospace business. It additionally will get a blue-tinted lacquer end, whereas the wheels are completed in translucent lacquer.

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan Blue Shadow

Persevering with the theme, the dashboard and door panels have a painted fade impact that begins out as gentle blue on the backside and step by step darkens towards the highest. This impact is created utilizing six layers of paint, together with 5 shades of blue and one shade of black, in accordance with Rolls. It is topped with a transparent coat incorporating blue and clear-glass particles.

Every seat has leather-based upholstery with over 75,000 perforations that collectively create a picture of the Earth as considered from area. Smaller perforations (0.8 millimeters in diameter) signify land, bigger perforations (1.2 mm) signify the ocean, and clean area signify the clouds.

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan Blue Shadow

The Blue Shadow additionally will get its personal model of Rolls-Royce’s Starlight Headliner. As an alternative of simply stars, it additionally incorporates an embroidered picture of the Moon. It is created from 250,000 separate stitches and takes two days to finish. That is along with putting in the 1,183 “star” lighting parts that shine by means of the headliner.

Every Blue Shadow additionally comes with an identical baggage set and a 1:8 scale mannequin of the SUV, full with working lights, opening and shutting doorways, and even illuminated kick plates.

Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan Blue Shadow

Rolls-Royce will construct simply 62 copies of the Blue Shadow, one for each mile from Earth’s floor to the Kármán Line. All have been spoken for.

Pricing data hasn’t been introduced.