What is the Grenadier sold as? It's easy to mistake it, as many have here, that it's sold as an offroader. It's not. It's sold as a reliable, capable vehicle built to a higher standard of specification.
Which in turn means you can do more stressful things and get away with it. This includes 4x4, offroading, mud plugging, over landing, long distance travel, self supported off-road long distance travel etc. But the underlying thing is, it's just a durable vehicle that gets you from here to there, with minimal fuss, more times than not.
It's also supposed to have been, but been comprehensive proven not to, be be be easily diy'd. They also built a message and a look to talk to the 'heritage' mindset. A promise of 'simpler' was attached to it.
Many people will buy it for many uses, derived from or misunderstood from the above. And everyone is welcome, not just the one who goto great lengths to live life like homeless people ( only kidding....)
Now all that is the narrative.
The durable question is still to be answered. What's been delivered is still on shaky ground, and the message has been largely hot-air.
For example: we were told Ricarco seats, we understood- comfortable, easy replaced for taste, established. What was delivered was custom built in small numbers seats that come off the cheapest line. Similarly, we were told big buttons on the front console, over built, easily adapted. Delivered was plastics, feels cheap, only works at some angles, and the entire freaking cluster is one unit and has no maintenance capacity.
Anyway, my flight is about to start boarding.
I whole heartedly welcome every consumer and fellow owner of the Grenadier. Those that bought into the look, those that bought into the message, those that use it till they break it, fix it and try again, those that garage queen it, those that use it to move sheep, those that use it to get kids to school. And even those that work to make it.
The only static I carry is against Ineos not getting on with makeing it the vehicle it should be, could be.
