REVIEW: This is a big one: the Ineos Grenadier is an all-new but old-school off-road workhorse, and the firm's first-ever car. Jim_Holder's verdict is in...
But here it is, in shape as much Mercedes G-Wagen as it is British icon, perhaps even with a hint of Land Cruiser at the rear and, frankly, with enough of a backstory – and budget, given the admission that the bill to date for the Ineos Automotive project is around £1.3 billion – to be given a chance to stand on its own merits.
It’s a pity, because it’s a bit of a bodge in an interior that otherwise belies none of Ineos’s ‘new kid on the block’ status. It’s comfortable and practical, if perhaps short on a bit of space for the driver to stow stuff because of all those buttons, but otherwise extremely spacious. Likewise, passengers get a good deal; even tall adults will fit in the back, and there’s a surfeit of USBs in another nod to modernity.
The car’s off-road bias, complemented here by chunky all-terrain tyres, combines with the steering set-up to provide a continuous workout as you see-saw at the wheel to keep everything pointing the right way no matter how smooth the surface. It’s initially quite alarming, but while you do get used to it, there’s no hiding from the fact that the quest for lightness and steering feel off-road comes at a price on it.
And so to the crucial, final part of the jigsaw: what is it like off-road? Alas, I can give only a qualified answer: on the trickiest path I tried – an uphill climb on muddy sludge – I messed up the diff locks and still got to the top. Spectacular though the route was, finding the muscle to engage the stiff low-range selector was probably tougher than the path. Instead, I’ll have to refer you to a colleague who drove it elsewhere a few days later, on slopes in the ice and snow.
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