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[Worf]

It's hinges stand proud so is it one of our crowd?!

 

More so than the latest offerings from JLR

[582LTR]

I’m not sure about the lights but it’s a bit like putting a party hat in a defender and saying it is a different design. I do like it - a lot.

Martin

[Wittsend]

.... and here's some pictures of what it might look like:-

[oddjob]

More so than the latest offerings from JLR

Very true.
It’s much more of a Defender than the new Defender.

[Craig T]

Just watched the video on the webpage,

I like it, not a copy of the Land Rover but close enough to make me like it. I prefer it over Land Rovers vehicles anyway.

Nice to see they are building multiple bodies and wheelbases too, they mentioned a double-cab pickup that looked more like a 130 wheelbase Land Rover. Wonder if they will make a short one more like a 90?

Not sure about BMW engines, I've never liked BMW as a company or anything they have produced, didn't do a great job of the L322 Range Rover. I was almost expecting a Ford engine from the transit to be in there?

Craig.

[Worf]

Must be a lot of interest on their own website. Video keeps crashing.
Wonder if there will be a SWB?

[TJRL]

Just watched the video on the webpage,

I like it, not a copy of the Land Rover but close enough to make me like it. I prefer it over Land Rovers vehicles anyway.

Agreed

Nice to see they are building multiple bodies and wheelbases too, they mentioned a double-cab pickup that looked more like a 130 wheelbase Land Rover. Wonder if they will make a short one more like a 90?

SWB, yes please!

Not sure about BMW engines, I've never liked BMW as a company or anything they have produced, didn't do a great job of the L322 Range Rover. I was almost expecting a Ford engine from the transit to be in there?

Craig.

Each to their own, I have 2x BMW motorbikes and an L322.   

[Gertie]

Must be a lot of interest on their own website. Video keeps crashing.
Wonder if there will be a SWB?

Yep, for me too.  But the same video is on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZVYpdoqFow and plays just fine.

It maybe my poor eyesight but isn't it a proper i.e. not the new, Defender?  Looks good to me.  I want one.  And I might just try and find a way to treat myself before I'm too old! 

Paul

[vod80]

Well, I loved my Defender but, in reality, it was pretty *&%^$.

You'd freeze from the cold inside in the winter, fry from the heat in the summer, seats up or down there was precious little storage space inside and removing the seats was an exercise of a thousand super long bolts, all with their threads exposed to the elements... and let's not talk about the fun of stripping out the dash to get to the windscreen washer jet.

I wonder if this is all still in the Grenadier's genes...

For the Grenadier, it looks OK. I like the full width rear door. I don't particularly like the (I guess) rub-strips on the doors, between the handles, it looks a bit contrived.

I'd like to see it in the flesh - it's streets ahead of the current tat offered by Land Rover themselves!

[Marky Harvey]

I think the idea of the rub strips is that they’re for mounting accessories. Have you seen the interview with the chief engineer?

[vod80]

I haven't seen the interview, I'll look it up.

Cheers  Tony

[w3526602]

Hi,

Co-incidentally, lying in bed last night, Barbara playing with her Kindle ...

"What's this Grenadier?"

Looks OK .. for a new truck ... but if I could afford it, I think I'd go for a S1 88", and a Jensen 541. (One to pull a trailer, the other to pull the birds)  I mean, why pay VED when you don't have to. A neighbour has a RAV ... VED costs him £600pa.

602

[genocache]

It's hinges stand proud so is it one of our crowd?!

 

I think we have to wait for the Grenadier 2 or 2a?

[geoff]

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53317740

[Genem]

Jim whatshisname, ardent Brexiteer, moving this operation to France?

Wonderful.