What is a Grenadier?

[Tazzieman]

It's a bit like when you get your DNA analysis. Everybody wants the touch of Viking, but downplay some of the other influences, depending upon which pub they are in.

 

[FlyersFan76]

It’s weird, I think I sometimes associate vehicles with their legacy identity. That is, despite being owned by an Indian corporation, I still think of JLR as British. Oddly though, I don’t think of Mini as being British anymore. Regardless of where they’re made I always consider Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc as Japanese companies and Audi, BMW, VW, and MB as German. I know lots of US big three vehicles aren’t made here (many in CA and MX) but GM & Ford are American in my mind. Chrysler/Dodge and the Stellantis mess - I just don’t know what to make of that.

Which leads back to the OP - Le Germish?

I stopped calling it the big Three when Daimler bought Chrysler decades ago. And has since been passed around like a hot potato.

 

[TNT647]

It’s weird, I think I sometimes associate vehicles with their legacy identity. That is, despite being owned by an Indian corporation, I still think of JLR as British. Oddly though, I don’t think of Mini as being British anymore. Regardless of where they’re made I always consider Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc as Japanese companies and Audi, BMW, VW, and MB as German. I know lots of US big three vehicles aren’t made here (many in CA and MX) but GM & Ford are American in my mind. Chrysler/Dodge and the Stellantis mess - I just don’t know what to make of that.

Which leads back to the OP - Le Germish?

Germish it is!!!

 

[TNT647]

It’s weird, I think I sometimes associate vehicles with their legacy identity. That is, despite being owned by an Indian corporation, I still think of JLR as British. Oddly though, I don’t think of Mini as being British anymore. Regardless of where they’re made I always consider Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc as Japanese companies and Audi, BMW, VW, and MB as German. I know lots of US big three vehicles aren’t made here (many in CA and MX) but GM & Ford are American in my mind. Chrysler/Dodge and the Stellantis mess - I just don’t know what to make of that.

Which leads back to the OP - Le Germish?

U are a wise man Krabby!

 

[Greg]

Here in Townsville it will be dimissed by the land cruiser/ranger/patrol crowd as "Euro Trash"

 

[Catpaw4x4]

It’s weird, I think I sometimes associate vehicles with their legacy identity. That is, despite being owned by an Indian corporation, I still think of JLR as British. Oddly though, I don’t think of Mini as being British anymore. Regardless of where they’re made I always consider Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc as Japanese companies and Audi, BMW, VW, and MB as German. I know lots of US big three vehicles aren’t made here (many in CA and MX) but GM & Ford are American in my mind. Chrysler/Dodge and the Stellantis mess - I just don’t know what to make of that.

Which leads back to the OP - Le Germish?

Its Tata Motors which has done to the LRJ line what has been done

 

[Jean Mercier]

It's a bit like when you get your DNA analysis. Everybody wants the touch of Viking, but downplay some of the other influences, depending upon which pub they are in.

Everybody comes rom Africa according to DNA analysis

Africans Are The Ancestors Of The Human Race; DNA Evidence Proves This

Once upon a time, all humans of our species lived in Africa. Or to put it differently, we are all originally Africans by a long line of descent.

www.linkedin.com

 

[TNT647]

Everybody comes rom Africa according to DNA analysis

Africans Are The Ancestors Of The Human Race; DNA Evidence Proves This

Once upon a time, all humans of our species lived in Africa. Or to put it differently, we are all originally Africans by a long line of descent.

www.linkedin.com

I thought we all came from Genghis Khan…but that‘s straying from the original question, what is a Grenadier?

 

[Jean Mercier]

I thought we are came from Genghis Khan.

That's true, but Genghis Khan his ancestors come from Africa
[EDITED] The Grenadier is therefore 100% African!

 

[TNT647]

That's true, but Genghis Khan his ancestors come from Africa
[EDITED] The Grenadier is therefore 100% African!

I love it!

 

[Max]

It’s weird, I think I sometimes associate vehicles with their legacy identity. That is, despite being owned by an Indian corporation, I still think of JLR as British. Oddly though, I don’t think of Mini as being British anymore. Regardless of where they’re made I always consider Toyota, Honda, Nissan, etc as Japanese companies and Audi, BMW, VW, and MB as German. I know lots of US big three vehicles aren’t made here (many in CA and MX) but GM & Ford are American in my mind. Chrysler/Dodge and the Stellantis mess - I just don’t know what to make of that.

Which leads back to the OP - Le Germish?

Cannot agree more about JLR. nobody but the English can say Jaguar or Land Rover like the POMS.

I think we are showing our age where Heart and Soul were present but IMO today the newbies are, what can I get for the money and what is the warranty...who cares where it came from?...Sad.


If I was conceived in the UK tripped around the world while gathering/growing my parts and delivered in France I would say I am international but what's on the Birth certificate?

The Grenadier carries three Flags one, a token vinyl sticker on a window showing Hambach as the place of birth. Then two others IMO are a graphic birthmark permanently embellished on the skin of this Beast.

 

[Tom109]

It is fitting that a vehicle manufactured built in France was conceived in a British pub named The Grenadier.

 

[AnD3rew]

Here in Townsville it will be dimissed by the land cruiser/ranger/patrol crowd as "Euro Trash"

A large number assume it’s Chinese

 

[Max]

Germish it is!!!

It could also be a Britman?

 

[TNT647]

It could also be a Britman?

That works as well…

 

[Max]

It is fitting that a vehicle manufactured in France was conceived in a British pub named The Grenadier.

Not quite manufactured in France and on this forum it has been discussed at length...sure some parts may be manufactured in France but essentially it is like Lego...put all the pieces in one spot and assemble/build it. Built In Hambach but manufactured parts from all over the world and being conceived in a British pub mightn't say a lot for my mom.