- Ineos is a private chemicals company headquartered in Lyndhurst, UK, founded in 1998 by Sir James Arthur Ratcliffe, who get two-thirds of the company’s shares. The group has a turnover estimated at 80 billion dollars per year.

- The British billionaire recently announced that he wanted to expanded into the automotive industry by producing an SUV inspired by the old Land Rover Defenders marketed between 1948 and 2016, SUV that he has just unveiled to the press. Looking at the model more closely, it can be argued that the Grenadier is almost a carbon copy of the old Defender.

- Sir Ratcliffe asserts that the new Defender has lost its rustic side of an old-fashioned 4x4 and that it is necessary to design a model capable of succeeding the real Defender, meaning capable of being capable on the most difficult terrain. Consequently, the Grenadier takes us ten years back… On the other hand, the chosen engines are modern, sourced at BMW, with six-cylinder 3-liter petrol and 3-liter diesel engines developing respectively 340hp and 265hp. "in order to be up to speed. 'at ease in all circumstances'.

- Ineos initially planned to build a small plant in Wales to produce this model, but the sale of the Smart Hambachplant by Daimler changed the initial plans, and Ineosproposed to buy this plant to produce the Grenadier. The expected production volume will certainly not be on par with the Smart volumes achieved between 2000 and 2019, but it could nonetheless reach between 15,000 and 25,000 units per year if the model succeeds to find its market.

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