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Price: R1 862 100 0–100 km/h: 10.00 seconds Top speed: 160 km/h Power: 183 kW Torque: 550 N.m CAR Fuel index: 11.16 L/100km CO2 : 247 g/km
Loads of character and all-conquering off-road ability. Small changes for an updated future model would realise significant all-round improvements
Ian McLaren
Lots to like and very capable off-road, but local pricing does place it perilously close to proven products like the Land Cruiser 300
Gareth Dean
It’s an enviable position to be in: the ability to decide to start a car company while enjoying a few beers with your friends. Yet, seven years after this well-documented gathering at The Grenadier pub outside London, British billionaire and chairman of multinational chemicals company Ineos Sir Jim Ratcliffe now has an automotive brand to add to his growing portfolio.
Set to be joined soon by the Quartermaster double-cab and a chassis-cab offering, as well as a forthcoming all-electric Fusilier compact SUV (see page 25), the first product to arrive courtesy of Ineos Automotive’s headquarters for its sub-Saharan operations, in Cape Town, is the
