SHOTS FIRED BY THE GRENADIER
Jul 23, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS MATT RAUDONIKIS
IN A WORLD where traditional live-axled, ladder-frame four-wheel drive vehicles are becoming a rare commodity, there’s a new vehicle coming to market in 2021, and it’s coming to Australia. The Ineos Grenadier promises to bring back the old-school offroad traits adventurers appreciate in a vehicle that has up-to-date emissions and safety tech to make it viable in this day and age.
The live-axle Land Rover ceased to exist in 2016, and even the 40-year-old Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen has switched to IFS, leaving the Jeep Wrangler, LandCruiser 70 Series and Suzuki Jimny as the only vehicles to retain the live-axle arrangement both front and rear.
It was Land Rover’s decision to re-invent its Defender as
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