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Ineos Grenadier gets torture tested ahead of 2022 launch
Inspired by the previous Defender, the British 4x4 goes back to rugged basics
20 May 2021 - 05:09
When the new-generation Land Rover Defender was reinvented in 2019 as a slick, hi-tech version of its original self, off-roading traditionalists decried it for selling its soul to modernity.
Enter Ineos chair Jim Ratcliffe, a British billionaire car enthusiast and adventurer who conceived the Ineos Grenadier as a stripped-back 4x4 heavily inspired by the iconic, utilitarian Land Rover that started its lineage in 1948 and was discontinued in 2016...
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