The INEOS Grenadier has all the components that should make it a real player in the tow-vehicle market. We will look at what makes this new brand, and its vehicle, a challenger to the long-held Toyota dominance in the tow capacity stakes. First, let's identify tow capacity specs and what they mean before we jump into the Grenadier's on-paper credentials and incabin feel to see where it sits in the mix.
THE BASICS
First a bit of refresh on some of the important limits we see and hear about:
• - the combined mass limit of car, payload, and trailer. This is your rig, your trailer, and everything inside and on both • - the mass limit, braked and unbraked, of the trailers you can tow measured as ATM (see below) • - the limit of the mass of your rig alone (no trailer) with everything on it and in it (fuel, bull bars, people etc) • - the minimum mass of your vehicle: what it • - the maximum you can carry in and on your rig (typically the difference between GVM and kerb weight) • - the maximum downforce your trailer can exert on the tow ball of your vehicle • - the maximum downwards mass of the trailer on the ground, unhitched (this is the weight at the tyres of the trailer and at the jockey wheel combined) • - this is the maximum downwards force at the tyres of the trailer when hitched up (the trailer will have passed on some weight to the car via Ball Weight).
