Launching a car company without an electric vehicle these days is nigh on impossible, given the tight rules surrounding average CO2 emissions in the UK and European Union, but that’s exactly what Ineos Automotive hopes to do when it begins deliveries of the Grenadier off-roader in July/August. But how?
The answer: study the rules extremely carefully and exploit the grey area between cars and commercial vehicles.
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The latest Puma engines were awful and thirsty also, the've got loads of other poor engines like their V6 that break crankshafts.
Will be good to see a proper 4x4 being sold with a proper straight 6 engine, I hope they do a straight 5 too
It will be good to see Ineos introduce proper Watt's link suspension instead of the LR A frame thing.
Glad there's going to be a tough chassis motor on the roads again
Wow a business plan in Europe based on cheating emissions rules in the "Grey Area" between cars and commercials. INEOS management showing its moral leadership once again...but then again they have shamelessly used the design and heritage of Land Rover's Defender for the car so that shouldn't really be a shock.
The only real shock is that the media - Autocar especially - haven't stood up and called it out. If this were a Land Wind it would go into the long list of shameless Chinese knock-offs. But as it's a British billionaire with a good PR team it's to be applauded. We're confused by the double standard.
Just how much does Ineos pay Autocar? This article celebrate Ineos for bending the rules, same as VW did!! I really wanted to admire Ineos but the more I read the more I feel it's a tax dodge run by some old dinosaurs. Looks at the accounts, it's already lost £243 MILLION ! Allowing for £5K profit (?) per vehicle that's nearly 50,000 sales to just to break even so far.