IG Owners - What did you come from, and what do you think?

[CRH]

Here’s my daily drive.
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What do you do with that, looks like some kind of mini ferry

 

[TJ D]

It's way better than my YUGO. Been waiting ages for the right vehicle to come along so I could finally trade that in. The Gren dealer gave me a surprisingly handsome sum for it as well.

 

[TJ D]

But seriously-

I was driving a 1 ton pickup and a couple of 300tdi Defender 90's.
I sold my workaday defender, kept the restored, nice one.
Also, I realized quite quickly that I really no longer had a need for a truck anymore, my heaviest trailer is 7000 lbs.
So, I bought a small cargo trailer for 3 grand to handle bigger loads and ditched the pickup as well.

Love this thing.

 

[Logsplitter]

What do you do with that, looks like some kind of mini ferry

I manage a private island and use this for general daily use plus a much bigger landing craft for materials and machinery.

 

[Rupert]

I came from a 2012 Nissan Patrol GU. It was a little worse for wear and I had to buy a Grenadier . It was a great upgrade.

The Patrol was a great car for Outback touring and the last thing it did was save my life. The IG is even better.

I found out only this week about the last two injuries, nearly 3 years after the crash - actually 20 days short of 3 years. I have a traumatic brain injury impacting higher brain function and memory formation problems - all of which I knew and live with before the Doctors confirmed it.

From the above disaster to this (and aiming for The Kimberley later this year):

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Holy crapolla Batman, did you hit a Dingo or some idiot on their phone? Glad you are still with ut. That looks like a bad one (the accident). Love the new rig.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Holy crapolla Batman, did you hit a Dingo or some idiot on their phone? Glad you are still with us. That looks like a bad one (the accident). Love the new rig.

Alleged drunk driver crossed the road in 100kph zone, head-on collision (slightly offset). Combined impact speed between 150 to 180 kph. No evidence he braked. Miracle I survived and he did not. His Toyota Troop Carrier was in worse shape than my Patrol.

Around 1.7 seconds between when I saw him start to cross the centre line and it was all over.

Wally The Grenadier has helped my recovery.

 

[Rupert]

We were not injured but almost rolled. Side impact by a ford pickup truck (Lightninng) all electric, about 8000 pounds. My wife (because she is so sweet and tender) was bruised up a little, dog fared well as did I. Frame on the 200 was hammered, Skids and sliders saved it from being even worse. We got up on two wheels but luckily came back down on the tires.

Rupert the Grenandier is a great vehicle, just installed the full metalcloak underbody skids and diff guards last weekend. Already have sliders. Slowly getting it battle ready.

 

[landmannnn]

Alleged drunk driver crossed the road in 100kph zone, head-on collision (slightly offset). Combined impact speed between 150 to 180 kph. No evidence he braked. Miracle I survived and he did not. His Toyota Troop Carrier was in worse shape than my Patrol.

Around 1.7 seconds between when I saw him start to cross the centre line and it was all over.

Wally The Grenadier has helped my recovery.

Either the luckiest day of your life or the unluckiest. Not sure which.

 

[Rupert]

Yep, sucks I lost the LC 200 but good it made me drive Rupert a lot more and I know now it was a good decision to purchase the Grenadier.

 

[TheDocAUS]

Either the luckiest day of your life or the unluckiest. Not sure which.

Both.

 

[abbeyroad]

Traded in a raptor for the ig which I outfitted with ford performance full carbon fiber kit. Rare.

Two very different trucks, as different as they look. Both awesome. Would keep both if I could. Raptor has world class suspension and software tuning. 13.1” of clearance. 37s stock yet still shorter than ig which is a good thing. Insane chassis bracing. Twin turbo v6 especially with the ford performance tune is potent mated with a pretty darn responsive 10 speed trans with auto blipping downshifts. Took if off sweet jumps at Raptor school outside Las Vegas.

It’s good to be a car fan these days.

 

[NSCU_SC]

I came from a LC250. The comfort in the 250 was great, with a quiet cabin, great seats and really good off-road performance, but it was too tech-heavy, the 4-cylinder hybrid didn't grow on me the way I thought it might, and in a lot of ways it felt too "normal." It also didn't feel as sturdy and rugged as the Grenadier. It's still a great vehicle, but I wanted to return to a Grenadier.

 

[Shopkeep]

2018 Mustang GT in Royal Crimson, was my daily driver for five years. Despite a few quality issues kept it longer than other cars I have owned as it made me smile every time I drove it. Very different vehicles but the Grenadier gives me the same feeling.

 

[255/85]

2018 Mustang GT in Royal Crimson, was my daily driver for five years. Despite a few quality issues kept it longer than other cars I have owned as it made me smile every time I drove it. Very different vehicles but the Grenadier gives me the same feeling.
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I've never been much of a sports car guy but that is pretty cool looking. Love the color.

I've mostly owned old pickups as I'm a constitutionally analog driver. Even the last one I bought new ('01 Dodge - ordered from the factory) has manual windows and door locks. Driving these types of vehicles at speed on our nation's increasingly overcrowded highways requires a kind of hyper vigilance that can really take the fun out of longer trips. By comparison the Grenadier is a big leap toward modernity despite it's old school looks. Hopefully the tech - as minimal as it seems to everyone else - will help compensate for my fading reflexes as I age. Or not. I guess I can always call a Waymo.

 

[CRH]

2018 Mustang GT in Royal Crimson, was my daily driver for five years. Despite a few quality issues kept it longer than other cars I have owned as it made me smile every time I drove it. Very different vehicles but the Grenadier gives me the same feeling.
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It's always nice to hear, and feel, a proper car on the odd occasion we have them in the UK. Far better than some 17 year old kid in his grandma's 1.0ltr shopping trolley that he's put a big exhaust on.
I really wanted to get a v8 Mustang just to stick 2 fingers up the the greens, but it wouldn't have been any use for me and I wasn't really sure how my customers would have approved when arriving at some of the businesses

 

[Shopkeep]

It's always nice to hear, and feel, a proper car on the odd occasion we have them in the UK. Far better than some 17 year old kid in his grandma's 1.0ltr shopping trolley that he's put a big exhaust on.
I really wanted to get a v8 Mustang just to stick 2 fingers up the the greens, but it wouldn't have been any use for me and I wasn't really sure how my customers would have approved when arriving at some of the businesses

It was a sweet sounding thing, hard to beat a NA V8 with a decent exhaust (from MY18 on they had an active exhaust and a better interior). I’ve had a E92 M3 V8 which was nice but the Mustang just sounded and looked better.

 

[Tomdoc]

Multiple Land Rovers From a 24V air-portable SWB to 90s, 110s and my final one was a SWB 90 XTech. Loved it and wish I could have kept it. Absolutely love my IG.

 

[skinny_tom]

I came from a 1998 dodge diesel 4x4 pickup. It only had 325,000 miles on it. The engine was so reliable, I only had to change the oil and filters and batteries. Transmission, transfer case and axles were holding in there. The rest of the car was falling apart around the drive train and as with ALL US car manufacturers, they stopped supporting the truck about 3 years after it was built. It wandered the road like a blind person in an empty room (from the factory). It was louder than a rock crusher. But it rode well when it had 1500 pounds of stuff in the bed. I figured I'd sell it while it still had a couple-hundred thousand miles in it so someone else could enjoy the cacophony of mechanically injected diesel.

Also had a 2001 Grand Cherokee Limited with the 4.7 V8. Reliable drive train, unreliable everything else. Multiple water pumps, two radiators, rattles, and the dreaded heater core leak and blend-door failure. Surprisingly good off-road and decent road manners, if not a bit soft in every way. I let this one go with 180,000 miles as the engines weren't known to last this long- or much longer if they made it this far. (I think it was mostly because the cooling system was fragile and the aluminum heads on cast iron block didn't tolerate overheating well.)

Still have the CJ-7 and a variety of motorcycles. My better half drives a nice Audi.

The Grenadier is by far the nicest car I've ever owned. I can't complain at all about the "defects" everyone rants on about. But then again, I haven't had any of them. There are a few "would have been nice to haves" but I'm also happy that they aren't there at the same time. I keep my cars for a long time and didn't see much longevity in most of the vehicles I test drove. We went with the wild card who said they were built for the long haul - most of the things that were failing in my last couple of cars are the things this doesn't have.... I suppose we will find out.

So far, I love it.