Ineos Grenadier (10 Viewers)

[Pighead]

If offered the option of a set of cup holders or a fire extinguisher I think most Americans would take the cup holders.

Well sure. We would probably use a cup holder more often than a fire extinguisher. Except in a car with British wiring...

 

[thatcabledude]

I keep reading “Grenade(r)”

 

[CJF]

I keep reading “Grenade(r)”

If you work with grenades, you're a grenadier.

Hence, you're a cablier*.




*pronounced "cable-ee-air"

 

[dieseldog]

If you work with grenades, you're a grenadier.

Hence, you're a cablier*.




*pronounced "cable-ee-air"

The lonely wives & widow wimmins just call him "swordsman" . . .

 

[thatcabledude]

If you work with grenades, you're a grenadier.

Hence, you're a cablier*.




*pronounced "cable-ee-air"

Exactly.

Maybe Bombardier should manufacturer this.

 

[thatcabledude]

The lonely wives & widow wimmins just call him "swordsman" . . .

And in my early days I was the "Snowman"

 

[BMThiker]

Exactly.

Maybe Bombardier should manufacturer this.

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When I think of bombardier. . .

 

[mudgudgeon]

It really only shares a Defender's dimensions approximately and the longer you drink while looking at the Ineos, the less it looks like a Defender

Fixd

 

[thatcabledude]

When I think of bombardier. . .
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That makes me want a Boddington’s

 

[dieseldog]

That makes me want a Boddington’s

It's all about the Young's Double Chocolate Stout, mate.

 

[thatcabledude]

It's all about the Young's Double Chocolate Stout, mate.

Yes, but I'm going there I'll go a little further and grab a Samuel Smith's

 

[thatcabledude]

This vehicle's name/thread title got me like

 

[300blk]

So now it looks like it’s going to be made in France, but it still has every bit of the flavor of a kit car built in a shed in Surrey by two men with hammers.

I don’t know if any of you have ever had the pleasure of driving a TVR, but that embodies quaint British characteristics like not a single body panel being aligned with the one next to it, windshield wipers lifting off or flying off at 45 miles an hour, and leaky seals everywhere.

Since the engine is presumably made in Germany, it will probably be the only reliable component of this vehicle.

As we all know, the biggest downfall of boutique cars is a dealer support network.

How would you even have one of these serviced in the US?

I assume they will have three convenient locations in Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles

 

[thatcabledude]

So now it looks like it’s going to be made in France, but it still has every bit of the flavor of a kit car built in a shed in Surrey by two men with hammers.

I don’t know if any of you have ever had the pleasure of driving a TVR, but that embodies quaint British characteristics like not a single body panel being aligned with the one next to it, windshield wipers lifting off or flying off at 45 miles an hour, and leaky seals everywhere.

Since the engine is presumably made in Germany, it will probably be the only reliable component of this vehicle.

As we all know, the biggest downfall of boutique cars is a dealer support network.

How would you even have one of these serviced in the US?

I assume they will have three convenient locations in Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles

I ain’t sure what @Pura Vida is looking at, but all I see is a chintzy POS

 

[thatcabledude]

Reminds me of a 80s super car.

 

[thatcabledude]

Or DeLorean.

 

[Pighead]

How would you even have one of these serviced in the US?

Same as with most real LandCruisers here. With a decently sized toolbox, an FSM (or just a general idea of what you're doing), maybe a Grenader forum, a buddy or two and a cooler of Barley Pops...

 

[Pura Vida]

Same as with most real LandCruisers here. With a decently sized toolbox, an FSM (or just a general idea of what you're doing), maybe a Grenader forum, a buddy or two and a cooler of Barley Pops...

I would bet you could take it to a BMW dealer. The bmw engine is in it, and BMWs have ZF gearboxes too. The rest of the truck is supposed to be easy to fix

 

[Pighead]

Well, maybe you (or Bounder) could take it to a BMW dealer. I'm putting mine up on cinder blocks in the front yard...

 

[300blk]

Same as with most real LandCruisers here. With a decently sized toolbox, an FSM (or just a general idea of what you're doing), maybe a Grenader forum, a buddy or two and a cooler of Barley Pops...

I don’t think real land cruisers have a quarter-mile of wiring harness and half a dozen computers that have been tricked to think that the 21st-century engine and transmission are no longer in a BMW.