Thread: Ineos Grenadier, do you reckon it'll take off?

I like the concept, I’m just not convinced it can be done legally if the intention is to be off grid.

Do you think the track correction makes that much difference? Really? It's only a factor when you are going absoluely dead straight. if there is even a hint of not straight it's irrelevant. Most sand tracks I drive on are anything but straight, or a heavily rutted. If I bought one I'd save the 50 and keep it pretty stock.

BTW if you bought your grenadier for 20k more than a LC - then that's probably a totally different equation. My main issue with them is they are over priced.[/QUOTE]

Agreed - i would not have bought one at full retail price.

I was lucky with the price i paid - it was even my colour choice.

I test drove mine with just the intent of test driving one & then about three weeks later the dealer messaged me with an offer i could not refuse.

The deal was that good i took a gamble on selling the Defender (P300 110) post purchase which luckily worked out.

BTW - the LC track correction makes a huge difference both on & off road.

Having driven all derivatives of the 7x on stock suspension and modified…

You’d likely hate every minute of it when it’s stock. They’re terrible. And the tracking in ruts and sand is terrible - the back end walks up and down the created hump- it’s very noticeable.

Originally Posted by ozscott

The older work utes tended to be oversprung and some had torsion bar front suspension and the early ones had gutless engines. Any Thai made ute in the last 10 years should have romped it in. The best vehicle I have driven in sand is my 2.4 diesel Triton (Super Select II with Terrain Response but honestly I dont need to switch to sand mode and even in high range it is remarkably capable). They are very capable 4wd out of the box but decent bigger bore shocks, a modest lift, good AT tyres and they are really very good. Mind you Mitsubishi traction control has been far better than the other Thai built utes for a long time and it is a number of times better than the traction control in my D2 (admittedly the ute is 20 years newer but Land Rover always had great ETC). Cheers.

The 2 Isuzus and the Ranger were all less than 5 years old and the older one (Isuzu or Colorado.... had an Isuzu engine) was about 10 years old.

I've driven various company Tritons and Rangers (and Luxes) over the years for work purposes doing a lot of off road or no road doing fish surveys, remote launches and retrievals, etc and to me they're like driving a work truck compared with a RRC in those situations.

One mob had an ongoing job on the Yarra that involved launch and retrieval from what could loosely termed a ramp and we would use my RRC for that because it was the most capable to get it done without things going pear shaped, really pear shaped.

Drove one of the Isuzus (18 months old) for a lot of the Border Track trip that also included Mungo and the Grampians. It belonged to a really good mate of mine who had MND and was happy to ride shotgun. It had the best engine / power delivery of any twin cab I've been in...........just effortless.

I think the biggest difference is having beam axles, better articulation, maybe shorter wheelbase, maybe less weight.

I also prefer Tritons over Rangers by a big margin.

cheers, DL

Originally Posted by Tombie

Having driven all derivatives of the 7x on stock suspension and modified…

You’d likely hate every minute of it when it’s stock. They’re terrible. And the tracking in ruts and sand is terrible - the back end walks up and down the created hump- it’s very noticeable.

Thank you both. Ive never driven one off road.

Fitting wheels with different offset on the back seems pretty common.

In the other thread I was comparing values of various cars from 2010. All were a similar price new. The disco was about 15k now, and this morning I noted that the landcruiser from 2015 is around 80k. The grenadier is also a resale risk, but then this is a landrover forum.

Originally Posted by TonyC

Headspace campers are developing a roof conversion camper for the Grenadier.
No info on when it might be in production.

They released a video on youtube of the pre-production version and it looks great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOyQL7Q6ddc

2026 Ineos Grenadier update brings revised steering, special Black Edition | CarExpert

They've upgraded the steering and a/c, so it shows that they are listening to customer feedback.