You Can Now Turn Your Ineos Grenadier Into An Epic, Portal-axled, $200,000 Beast

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Billionaire chemic magnate Jim Ratcliffe isn't fooling astir erstwhile it comes to kitting retired his reboot of nan beloved, classical Land Rover Defender. The INEOS Grenadier SUV and its pickup motortruck sibling, nan Quartermaster, are getting typical curen from LETECH, a German off-roading outfitter. Notable is nan summation of portal axles, jacking up nan crushed clearance to 1.5 feet and enabling nan robust vehicles to return connected almost 3.5 feet of water.

But that's conscionable 1 goodie that nan Trialmaster X LETECH package includes. For astir 170,000 EUR (nearly $200,000), LETECH will return your Grenadier wagon aliases Quartermaster from nan mill successful Hambach, France and transportation it to a installation adjacent Stuttgart to beryllium beastified. (The Quartermaster's upgrade is simply a tad much expensive.) The LETECH curen starts pinch nan Trialmaster trim, so-named acknowledgment to INEOS's collaboration pinch Belstaff, nan manner marque that Ratcliffe has owned since 2017.

Honestly, nan full point is alternatively bonkers, but nan package should entreaty to nan astir hardcore off-roaders. For now, it's being offered only successful Europe, but arsenic Grenadier has been reasonably successful successful nan U.S., we should expect it to beryllium an action complete present successful nan future.

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INEOS had already been moving pinch LETECH connected conversions, truthful this task – which Lynn Calder, nan CEO of INEOS Automotive termed "epic" successful a press release – is simply a earthy portion of co-branding. A triple-play, if truth fixed nan inclusion of Belstaff and nan Trialmaster moniker (Trialmaster is simply a celebrated style of motorcycle jacket, by nan way). And epic nan kit is, indeed.

As is nan pricing: nan package makes nan Grenadier wagon much than doubly arsenic costly arsenic nan consecutive Trialmaster. But person a gander astatine what you get: Basic mods dwell of a heavy-duty, five-link beforehand and rear suspension, nan aforementioned portal axles, offset instrumentality hubs, and 37-inch Goodrich Mud Terrain tires connected 18-inch forged alloy wheels, according to nan company. LETECH adds its ain brakes, instrumentality arches and moving boards, beforehand winch, rear ladder and gas-can mount, tile rack, LED lightbar, spare tyre carrier, and "Trialmaster X LETECH" identity. You tin besides propulsion successful a tire-pressure power system, a lockable drawer box, LED rear moving lamps, and a MAXTRAX soil ladder. The results look perfectly stonking successful nan gorgeous property photos, captured successful Iceland.

Powertrains are unchanged: you tin take betwixt a state aliases diesel 3.0-liter, inline six-cylinder turbocharged motor, supplied by BMW. The petrol motor makes 282 horses pinch 332 pound-feet of torque, while nan oil-burner makes 245 hp pinch 406 pound-feet of torque.

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Ratcliffe was famously ticked disconnected erstwhile Jaguar Land Rover wouldn't waste him nan bequest Defender designs to greenlight continued accumulation aft nan company revamped nan fable successful 2019, truthful he stomped disconnected and started INEOS Grenadier to fulfill his 4x4 purist enthusiasm. The body-on-frame SUV has been a deed successful nan U.S., trading astir 8,000 units, reported Automotive News. The institution wants to turn that by 50 percent.

The conception of an improved Defender that still embraces nan rough-and-ready persona of its predecessor evidently appeals to fans of nan platform, which has ever had a cult following. In nan off-roading niche, there's almost nary limit to what you tin connection due devotees, truthful while nan LETECH collab mightiness look excessive, it's really aimed astatine alpha gearheads of precocious nett worthy who clasp a no-compromise lifestyle. Or astatine slightest opportunity they do and tin constitute monolithic checks.

As such, it makes coagulated business consciousness for INEOS, which has an EV incoming successful nan shape of nan Fusilier, unveiled past year, but which has besides validated itself beyond a vanity play by leaning into old-school combustion and really trading vehicles astatine respectable levels. Yes, Ratcliffe is staggeringly rich, but nan car manufacture has a measurement of obliterating fortunes. At this point, his passion task needs each nan other cashflow it tin generate.