“This gave us our engineering blueprint for a capable, durable and reliable 4x4 built to handle the world’s harshest environments.”. IN A world where traditional live-axled, ladder-frame four-wheel drive vehicles are becoming a rare commodity, there’s a new vehicle coming to market in 2021 and it’s coming to Australia. With a final weight expected to be around 2500kg, the wagon will have around a one-tonne payload, and it's being designed to accommodate a Euro pallet between the wheel arches in the cargo area. The troll gets fed when watching 4x4 videos on Youtube and Instagram mostly these days, as a busy work and family life has curtailed a lot of my own four-wheel-driving opportunities. And while the feats of technology and engineering in the new Defender need to be celebrated, there is something to be said for something inherently simple.

Ineos plans to build the Grenadier up for use on the harshest conditions the world can throw at it, Ineos gives a first look at its Grenadier 4x4, We see mostly Defender, but also a touch of G-Class in the face, Ineos gives the Grenadier a set of asymmetrical rear doors, Ineos builds the Grenadier on a ladder chassis and equips it with beam axles, Ineos peeks at the Defender-inspired hood, Ineos imagines its 4x4 being popular with both the recreational and work crowds. You can buy them for a song anywhere. There’s a very good reason why Nissan GQ Patrols are so prevalent in places like the Outback Challenge. You’ll notice the sills of the Grenadier are of a different colour (and presumably material) to the rest of the panel work. While other manufacturers try to build in some kind of genuine-only accessory ethos in their vehicles, Ineos is going in with their eyes and arms wide open, just like Creed in 1999, with aftermarket accessory and modification pollination at the ready.

Not old, slow, leaky and characterful enough, I don’t like it”. That face is underpinned by the sturdy chin of a more modern, styled bumper and a skid plate.

Take just about every dual-cab ute, for example. When Land Rover retired the original Defender back in 2016, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a self-described adventurer and Land Rover fan, tried to buy Defender tooling to keep the Defender tradition alive with hardly a hiccup. However, there’s a disruptor amongst the ranks. I’d prefer to pay $60,000 for a 2005 model with 250,000km already on the clock”. While the inspiration was clearly to build the off-Land-Rover-brand Defender, we didn't expect it to look quite so much like the old Defender raised from the dead.

Transmission will be a ZF automatic, and it will have a dual-range transfer case. This vehicle standing here definitely appears like it could be the latest Land Rover Defender restomod from a shop like East Coast Defender or Kahn Design, but it is not.

Unfortunately, that’s never going to happen. However, that lack of stability is the trade-off at the end of the day. Someone else might have patted himself on the back for the effort and walked back to the auction circuit to add to his own Defender collection, perhaps even commissioned one of those aforementioned restomods.

Nissan’s new Y62 Patrol is seriously good off-road, and has benefits of improved ground clearance that an old Nissan Patrol (for example) cannot match unless it’s heavily modified. They just work. A lot. But not completely. Can’t trust this new one, even though I've never seen (let alone driven) one". I noticed big, progressive-style bump stops on the Grenadier, along with big rubber suspension bushings, good-sized twin-tube shock absorbers, and other stuff that you don’t really see anymore on 4WDs. INEOS Automotive’s CEO, Dirk Heilmann, said, “We are delighted to be able to share the design of the Grenadier so early in the process. The flat-panel sides are just a touch more three-dimensional with the addition of a chiseled channel just below the window line. And when Land Rover makes a song and dance about fitting 18-inch wheels on the new Defender, it’s great to see a new vehicle manufacturer not going as big as possible.

When asked if the Grenadier would be equipped with portal axles, an Ineos spokesperson said that it won’t have them at launch as the vehicle has to be affordable. Often, if there is something modern and comfortable sitting in the driveway, I’ll often cook up some lame excuse to get behind the wheel of my old, unsafe and exciting Defender. Yes, you can build something good off-road with improved on-road characteristics if you don’t use this old-school base. It expects the Grenadier to find an audience with farmers, explorers, aid workers and other customers around the globe who would traditionally be shopping for something like a Defender or 70 Series Toyota Land Cruiser.

Not with absolute conviction, in my opinion.

Guzmanchinky makes a good point. Looks a bit weird, can’t believe they killed the GU. It's actually easier to point out what doesn't look quite like an actual Land Rover Defender when eyeing over Ineos' design. The live-axle Land Rover ceased to exist in 2016, and even the 40-year-old Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen switched to IFS, leaving the Jeep Wrangler, LandCruiser 70 Series and Suzuki Jimny as the only vehicles to retail the live-axle arrangement both front and rear. Common rail can get stuffed, and what’s the bloody go with this wheel track? Ineos Grenadier is set to bring back the simple, durable 4x4 vehicle that adventurers and organisations want for off-road travel. The years since have brought location and partnership updates here and there, but this week's reveal is the first real look at the Grenadier itself. This is the Ineos Grenadier, the real Land Rover Defender redux the world was waiting, hoping and yearning for when Land Rover instead dropped this $50K luxury overlander on us. Tellingly, Ineos has dusted off a classic recipe for its first foray into the automotive world: live axles, coil springs, all held together by very familiar links and designs. These will be the initial models, with Ineos not ruling out more in the future, including a single-cab pick-up. Suspension and geometry, however, set the tone for how good an off-roader is and what it will be capable of. Ineos displayed the Grenadier next to the 4x4s that inspired it at a car show in England. Something that could win, and keep, the attention of modern SUV detractors. It’s called the Ineos Grenadier, and might just be the first new 4x4 that the haters might love.

It's not even a Land Rover. Following a six-month feasibility study, Ineos Automotive got to work in early 2017, about a year after Land Rover stopped rolling Defenders off the lines.

When a live front axle was replaced with independent front suspension in 1998, the new HiLux was not as good off-road.

It's an exciting prospect for me, and this is what I’ve found so far. For a petrol V8, that is. At least that's what you do if you're Jim Ratcliffe and you see a need in the market.

Final pricing is a long way off, but don’t expect it to be as cheap as an old Defender. With testing ramping up we expect to see a lot more of the Grenadier over the next 18 months, and we look forward to sampling the final product. All Grenadiers will be built on a bespoke ladder-frame chassis with the aforementioned Carraro live axles riding on long travel coil springs, with sway bars front and rear.
It also secured BMW six-cylinder engines, both diesel and petrol, to power the vehicle. You can lift wheels like crazy, especially when your front and rear suspension designs aren’t very balanced. Why bother with this thing. "Showing the design now allows us to focus on the critical next phase of the vehicle’s development, testing its capability and durability," explains Ineos Automotive CEO Dirk Heilmann, adding that the company plans to rack up 1.8 million kilometers during the next year of prototype testing. From today the covers are off. Jeep turns the Gladiator into a go-anywhere hot dog cart, Review: Oft-overlooked 2020 Honda Ridgeline hits so many marks, Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara's 316-mph speed record, Westfalia's latest VW camper van works as holiday RV and everyday MPV, Review: Chromecast with Google TV boosts your streaming options, Klein Vision celebrates maiden flight of its transforming AirCar, Weird molecule found in Titan's atmosphere hints at complex chemistry, Researchers discover how gut bacteria can protect from radiation damage. THE name Grenadier was chosen as it was the name of the pub in London where Ineos boss, Jim Ratcliffe came up with the plan to create his own uncompromising vehicle back in 2017. Like all good ideas it happened over a pint of beer with the plan to build a stripped back, utilitarian, hard-working 4x4 engineered for modern day compliance and reliability.

Not as basic and archaic.
The production chassis will be manufactured for Ineos in Portugal and the live axles will come from Italian manufacturer, Carraro.

These guys are serious in their beliefs, and would only seemingly be happy with something archaically old, with simple suspension, big tyres and an underpowered, emissions-belching diesel engine. JLR didn’t want a bar of that, so Ratcliffe decided to do it on his own and created Ineos Automotive to build the Grenadier. Ineos plans to begin production in late 2021 at its facility in Bridgend, South Wales. With the design reveal in July, testing of the vehicle now gets underway with plans for a 2021 release date. This needs to be set aside at work, when I’m going about my job of assessing and comparing new cars. Finally! While the latest Land Rover Defender may have disappointed some die-hard fans, the Ineos Grenadier looks set to wow the off-roading crowd. I know passengers in the rear, who will actually have head room and a window bigger than a dinner plate to look out of, will appreciate it. Initially, Ineos is planning to make 25,000 to 30,000 Grenadiers per year, but it will have the ability to produce more in the future. Can you say that? Power will come from a range of BMW gas and diesel engines, with alternative powertrains possible down the line. We have a very challenging programme ahead, as we put prototypes through their paces in all conditions, on the way to accumulating some 1.8 million test kilometres over the coming year.

We set out to design a modern, functional and highly capable 4x4 vehicle with utility at its core.” If you are looking to modify your vehicle for better off-road ability, then it’s probably mostly true. Ineos spokesman said it “won’t be a cheap vehicle but it won’t be priced like G-Wagen”. The components will all find their way to the new ‘greenfield’ factory in Bridgend, Wales, where Ineos expects to employ up to 500 staff to build the Grenadier. Antoni Skwirczynski, from the engineering team, says that the Grenadier will be at least as good as the best in class for axle articulation. The idea is to keep the Grenadier simple and affordable enough for global work markets, so Ineos is not following Bollinger into the six-figure all-electric boutique builder end of the market. Love it! This is the Ineos Grenadier, the real Land Rover Defender redux the world was waiting, hoping and yearning for when Land Rover instead dropped this $50K luxury overlander on us. Ineos says that the Grenadier will undergo several phases of testing to get it market-ready by the end of 2021.

Ineos reveals its Grenadier - an 'uncompromising 4x4' where form follows function • Land Rover will launch its new Defender later in July.


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