1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,000 Modern cars are frigging boring. Every single sharp edge has been rounded 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,920 and everything has been sacrificed for comfort and convenience 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,280 until you get to something like this. Meet the Ineos Grenadier. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,520 This absolute beauty right here does not care if you want to push button start 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,720 or for it to be comfortable or anything like that. It just wants you to go from point A to point B 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,000 and it'll do it. I friggin' love this thing. Let's have a look. 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,560 Looking at the Ineos Grenadier, it's pretty easy to tell that it is quite a rugged machine, 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,840 but it isn't just rugged. I think it is also beautiful. 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,720 Like this silver blue that they have it in, wonderful. 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,640 This little LED halo around the headlights, fantastic. 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,360 And the overall look, even though it is very, very rugged, 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,720 is also very Land Rover Defender. That's exactly what this thing is. 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:56,240 Ineos, if you don't know, is an absolutely massive chemical company 14 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,200 and their CEO just simply decided that he wanted the old Land Rover Defender 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:06,560 and the new one is too soft and way too comfortable. So this is what we have got right here. 16 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,560 Inside of it is a BMW 6-cylinder, the B58 to be exact, 17 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:16,200 which you'll find in the Supra, the Z4, and many other BMWs. 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,200 It's been proven to be an exceptional engine. If you look it up on YouTube, 19 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,320 everyone says it's BMW's best ever. 20 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:28,040 And I tend to agree. It is pretty silly driving around with this 21 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,240 because it sounds very turbo charged, given the type of vehicle. 22 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:35,840 But at the same time, it should be pretty decent, 23 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:41,140 even if it is very detuned compared to some of the other models that it comes in. 24 00:01:41,140 --> 00:01:45,920 The whole thing's a bit of a mishmash. As you can see from this little badge right here, 25 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,480 it was designed in Britain. It has a bunch of German parts 26 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,360 and it's assembled in France, but the German part of France. 27 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,400 Moving along the side, we have doors. Shocking, I know. 28 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,040 But the surprising bit is that they don't unlock themselves. 29 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,640 For a modern car, you actually need to go in here and unlock it just like that, 30 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,280 which I would be sad about, except that this thing doesn't want fancy stuff like that. 31 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,160 And also, they're damn satisfying doors to close. 32 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,240 Along all of the side are these little pickup points 33 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,440 so that you can attach kind of whatever you want. 34 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,560 Apparently this is so if you have a whole bunch of gear and it gets all wet or your gas or whatever, 35 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,760 you can attach it to the side of the car and you don't have to worry about it, 36 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:35,840 making all of the interior stuff all messy. Also, we have BF Goodrich All Terrain TA KO2s, 37 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,360 which are fantastic in my opinion because you can take them off road, 38 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,880 but also they're not super duper loud on the highway. 39 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:48,040 This is a full gas vehicle and full all-wheel drive all the time. 40 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:53,320 So expect to be opening this door up quite a bit. But as you can see, it's really, really large 41 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,280 and that's because in some other markets, you can get a diesel engine from BMW, 42 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:03,720 but in North America, we only get the gas. Around the rear, we have this massive full-size spare, 43 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:09,320 as well as a ladder. And as you might have suspected, that is a lot of weight on the back of your car, 44 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:15,280 so you're not going to be having a traditional lift gate. So instead, we get a door, not just a door, 45 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,740 but we get doors. Ha-ha! 46 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:24,580 In the back, we have an absolutely massive area for cargo. 47 00:03:24,580 --> 00:03:29,460 You don't have any of those fancy swooping backs or anything trying to be aerodynamic. 48 00:03:29,460 --> 00:03:34,000 Nope, she's just a box and you benefit greatly in terms of space. 49 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,620 Also, all of this is plastic, which is really good if your stuff is wet 50 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:40,700 and really bad if you want your stuff to stay in one place. 51 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:46,260 Fortunately though, there's eight tie-down points back here, so it should be easy enough to make it not go 52 00:03:47,260 --> 00:03:51,500 too often. Also back here, if you happen to be stranded 53 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:55,460 on the side of the road, we have a couple of little safety vests. 54 00:03:55,460 --> 00:03:59,540 How fashionable. And also in here, we have first aid supplies, 55 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:05,020 which will be really good if you have a bit of a tumble. As you probably guessed from the intro of this video, 56 00:04:05,020 --> 00:04:10,020 the roof up here is actually load-bearing, so you can put yourself up here, 57 00:04:10,020 --> 00:04:13,460 or more likely, you can put all of your supplies up on top 58 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:19,060 or tents or anything that you would like. Also, the safari Windows that are up here 59 00:04:19,060 --> 00:04:23,700 are actually removable, so if you want to get into the passenger seat, 60 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:25,980 you can do so just like this. 61 00:04:30,580 --> 00:04:34,380 But once in here, we find our first really big problem. 62 00:04:34,380 --> 00:04:38,020 The wife approval factor of this car is basically zero 63 00:04:38,020 --> 00:04:41,860 because there is nothing right here, not a single mirror. 64 00:04:41,860 --> 00:04:45,060 I went downtown to have a nice dinner with the Mrs. 65 00:04:45,060 --> 00:04:50,060 And when she flipped this thing down and saw just nothing there, man, banned, 66 00:04:50,060 --> 00:04:55,620 not allowed to have this vehicle ever, cannot do it. Ineos, very, very please. 67 00:04:55,620 --> 00:05:03,420 Put a mirror here, you will sell more. Moving around to the back, there's pretty decent room. 68 00:05:03,420 --> 00:05:09,260 It isn't luxuriously large, but if you're tall, you are not going to have any issues. 69 00:05:09,260 --> 00:05:12,940 And also as long as the passenger or driver isn't all the way back, 70 00:05:12,940 --> 00:05:18,300 you're going to have plenty of leg room. Back here, we also have USB-C and Type A for charging 71 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:22,860 and some vents and that's about all that you get for comforts, 72 00:05:22,860 --> 00:05:28,060 but at least the seats feel pretty good. One party trick for this seat in particular 73 00:05:28,060 --> 00:05:32,980 is it vibrates a lot. And that's because if you option the subwoofer, 74 00:05:32,980 --> 00:05:36,900 it's right under your arse. This right here is just a JBL sub. 75 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:40,140 It's a tiny little powered guy that you can buy off of Crutchfield. 76 00:05:40,140 --> 00:05:44,740 And it delivers a surprising amount of bass, not just to this person in particular, 77 00:05:44,740 --> 00:05:49,900 but it puts a lot of vibration through the chassis. So even though it doesn't go super low, 78 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:52,220 you can feel the bass and it's pretty enjoyable. 79 00:05:54,220 --> 00:05:58,060 Hopping into the driver's seat, this is a very comfortable spot to be. 80 00:05:58,060 --> 00:06:01,780 The seats are racharros. You can just buy them and put them into any car. 81 00:06:01,780 --> 00:06:06,020 So they decided to buy them and put them into this. And they are fully manual. 82 00:06:06,020 --> 00:06:12,100 You don't get any power seats, no massages or anything like that, which for the price you might want, 83 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,300 but for the design goals of this, you do not. 84 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:20,780 This is clearly a no-nonsense vehicle, as you can tell by every single switch. 85 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:26,020 You can kind of appreciate why a lot of manufacturers might be taking many of the functions of a car 86 00:06:26,020 --> 00:06:29,860 and putting them into a touchscreen when you see what happens when you take all the functions 87 00:06:29,860 --> 00:06:32,860 of a car and turn them into buttons. 88 00:06:32,860 --> 00:06:35,980 So there's your standard stuff like your climate control 89 00:06:35,980 --> 00:06:39,740 which you expect. These are incredibly satisfying buttons. 90 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:40,980 Like give this a listen. 91 00:06:42,980 --> 00:06:46,660 They are all incredibly satisfying to play with. 92 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:51,340 We have auxiliary power right here that you can turn on and get all the functions of the vehicle 93 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:56,380 without the engine being turned on. Again, incredibly satisfying. 94 00:06:56,380 --> 00:06:59,420 And also we have pre-wired auxiliary circuits. 95 00:06:59,420 --> 00:07:04,900 So if you want to put lights on the roof or an air compressor around the back, you can do just that. 96 00:07:06,140 --> 00:07:11,300 Oh. But unfortunately, we don't have some of the more fun options 97 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:16,180 which would give us even more switches up here. In particular, if I was optioning one, 98 00:07:16,180 --> 00:07:20,220 I would make sure to get a winch and some lockers for the differentials. 99 00:07:20,220 --> 00:07:24,220 But that said, this is still an incredibly capable machine without them. 100 00:07:24,220 --> 00:07:29,220 We have solid front axles. We have full time, all the time, all wheel drive. 101 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:33,980 And also we have four low if you need to get out of somewhere really nasty. 102 00:07:33,980 --> 00:07:37,460 That's what's satisfying Tom too. My favorite button though, 103 00:07:37,460 --> 00:07:42,620 in a car with all of the best buttons has to be this one right here. 104 00:07:42,620 --> 00:07:48,300 So we have our typical horn. Loud, unpleasant, but also we have toot. 105 00:07:49,620 --> 00:07:54,060 Which is really nice if you just want to get someone's attention but you don't feel like actually, 106 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:58,060 ah, I'm like, hey. Really the only thing in here 107 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:03,860 that doesn't feel rugged or premium is this little bit of piano black that's on the door. 108 00:08:03,940 --> 00:08:07,820 But I really don't think that will prevent you from getting to your location. 109 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:12,900 Now on WISAC in EOS in Vancouver reached out to us asking what type of a press vehicle we wanted. 110 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:17,060 I said that I did not care at all as long as it came with the safari Windows 111 00:08:17,060 --> 00:08:21,260 because these things are sick. First of all, you can just open them up 112 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:26,180 super easy like that. But also if you push this little clip up and out, 113 00:08:26,180 --> 00:08:29,260 you can lift the entire thing 114 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:33,260 and then just bring down the whole little sunroof bit. 115 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:37,460 This gives you a bunch of fresh air and also I don't know where to put these 116 00:08:37,460 --> 00:08:40,700 once I have it like this. I've just been throwing them in the back, it's kind of weird. 117 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,940 One thing that I don't like about the Grenadier though is turning it on. 118 00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:47,580 You have to use a physical key which honestly I am totally okay with 119 00:08:47,580 --> 00:08:51,540 but this key itself with its little flippadoodle do here 120 00:08:51,540 --> 00:08:57,020 does not feel satisfying in the slightest to turn. It feels like it was really meant to only be in your pocket. 121 00:08:57,020 --> 00:09:03,260 But that said, once it's on, she's a beauty drive. 122 00:09:03,260 --> 00:09:08,980 Throwing the Grenadier in drive and using the actual handbrake we're able to set off 123 00:09:08,980 --> 00:09:12,620 and it is at home back in the woods like this. 124 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:16,660 We haven't been doing any particularly difficult off-roading 125 00:09:16,660 --> 00:09:19,660 but like that right there was one hell of a bump 126 00:09:19,660 --> 00:09:26,460 and this thing could not care less. On dirt roads like this, the handling is really great. 127 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:31,780 Like I am not pushing it but on these bumpy dirty back roads, 128 00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:38,500 it absolutely loves it. This thing is a dream if you wanna do overlanding 129 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:42,020 or camping or stuff like that. And like let's be honest, 130 00:09:42,020 --> 00:09:45,060 unless you're intentionally trying to get into trouble, 131 00:09:45,060 --> 00:09:52,020 most of what you're doing if you're going overlanding is ripping along forest roads like this one. 132 00:09:52,020 --> 00:09:57,580 All right, I wanna do a little bit of a launch. Here we go, all the whole thing moves when you're revving. 133 00:09:57,580 --> 00:10:01,220 Oh, there we go. This thing has 282 horsepower, 134 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:05,180 332 foot pounds of torque delivered to the ground 135 00:10:05,180 --> 00:10:11,340 through an eight speed ZF transmission. This thing right here also does zero to 60 in eight seconds 136 00:10:11,340 --> 00:10:16,300 which I will not be doing cause that'll be pretty scary on a dirt road like this one. 137 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:21,420 But that said though, the handling back on these dirt roads is fantastic. 138 00:10:21,420 --> 00:10:25,460 All of the suspension and all of their decisions make so much sense 139 00:10:25,460 --> 00:10:28,540 and it feels so good going around the corners 140 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:33,780 and stuff like that on the dirt. It is an absolute dream. 141 00:10:33,780 --> 00:10:37,420 On pavement though, things aren't quite as good 142 00:10:37,420 --> 00:10:42,200 and a lot of that comes down to the caster. Now the caster is basically the angle 143 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:48,220 that your suspension steers through and the effect that has is it very slightly lifts 144 00:10:48,220 --> 00:10:51,600 the front of your car when you turn the steering wheel. 145 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,860 Now most cars have four to five degrees of caster. 146 00:10:54,860 --> 00:10:58,560 The ones that are handling legends have more like seven. 147 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,840 This right here has two. And from the forums that I have seen, 148 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,840 a lot of them come with more like one and a half or 1.5 degrees. 149 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:13,560 Now the problem that that has is it does not want to center itself very much. 150 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:17,560 So when you're going around a corner, you kind of, you know, you turn your wheel 151 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:21,000 but then you physically have to turn it back 152 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,560 which is not the greatest. 153 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,360 Also, when you're going around corners on pavement, 154 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:34,800 I don't do it particularly fast. Up here on the visor, it says that it has a tip over risk 155 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:40,180 and I believe them. I really think on most roads at highway speeds, 156 00:11:40,180 --> 00:11:45,180 if you really wanted to, you could flip this thing no problem. 157 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:50,560 Winging done though, overall, given its capabilities, 158 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:53,800 this is a really nice car to drive around. 159 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:59,360 If you're just ripping through the city, it does have the problem that the turning radius 160 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,800 is an abomination but that can very simply be solved 161 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,940 by ignoring curves, which this thing loves to do. 162 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:11,480 Overall, it's quite a comfortable spot to be 163 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:16,480 and it's shockingly quiet given the size of those tires. 164 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,600 And as a bonus, the sound system rocks pretty good. 165 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:25,400 Play Crab Rave on Apple Music. In here, we have five speakers and I believe 166 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:30,520 that they have coaxials in the doors here because they do sound quite good. 167 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,600 I get nice highs, plenty of bass from that little sub. 168 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,720 Even if it doesn't go super low, it gets a lot of vibrations in your arse 169 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,200 which is a whole load of fun and I think it sounds pretty darn good. 170 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:49,760 That said, it is not perfect 171 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,880 because all of the speakers are down in the doors. 172 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:59,240 You can hear it being down in the doors. Instead of having a sound stage that is up and around you, 173 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,040 it's more down below you unless you get it loud enough 174 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,440 for it to just sort of spray sound all over the place. 175 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,760 And also because they have just a JBL subwoofer in the back, 176 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,080 it doesn't perfectly integrate into the front. 177 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,360 If you have a really, really good sound system, the sound of your subwoofer will join up 178 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,040 with your door speakers and tweeters and it all sounds like it's coming 179 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,640 from one coherent place where in this you can kind of tell 180 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:32,360 they just threw a sub in the back. Overall though, very enjoyable sound system. 181 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:36,240 As for the infotainment itself, it is perfectly fine. 182 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:41,680 You get Android Auto or Apple CarPlay so you'll probably just end up using that most of the time 183 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:46,520 but it is a little bit disappointing that the important things that you normally have on your dash 184 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,640 are located over in this area. 185 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,120 As for the dash itself, you just get a whole shitload of warning lights 186 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,680 and nothing else. Even just adding a speedometer right in front of you 187 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:02,760 would be a game changer. I would love it if they had that right there 188 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,760 and then I wouldn't even care that the fuel and the temp and stuff is all over here. 189 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,880 That said though, if you're actually off-roading, 190 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:15,920 they have a bunch of really nice stats, just like tire pressures, temperatures of your gearbox, 191 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:22,040 transfer case, all of that sort of stuff. Also, if you want, you can look at your elevation gain 192 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,800 so you can see that we actually did go up into the hills quite a bit there. 193 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:30,040 Once our max, we hit 820 feet above elevation, 194 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:36,640 not too bad. We can also see that it's not the most fuel efficient. 195 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,360 Our drive, even though I have been kind of bashing on it, 196 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,920 so far is 27.4 liters per 100 miles. 197 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:51,720 Oh, that's per 100 miles, what the fuck is that? So we have kilometers per hour, liters, feet and miles, sure. 198 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:57,720 Either way, these screens are really cool and fun to look at. One thing I do wish that was specced 199 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:02,200 is you can get a compass and a temperature gauge instead of the Grenadier logo right here, 200 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:08,440 but also whatever, this is fine. As for other assists, there aren't any. 201 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,520 The cruise control is just straight up cruise. 202 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,520 You don't get any fancy adaptive stuff, which does make this a little bit more fatiguing 203 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,720 on the highway, but also, oh well. 204 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,960 Also, you don't get any sort of lane centering or assists like that, it just gets mad at you 205 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:29,800 if you start to depart your lane. And otherwise, you drive the car, you're in control, 206 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:35,520 which honestly, I kind of appreciate after how poorly so many manufacturers 207 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:41,760 have done assists in some of the other cars. It's just incredibly refreshing to get into something 208 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,040 that kind of just treats you like an adult 209 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:50,400 speed warning is aside. You want to change the temperature, fricking, turn a dial. 210 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:55,000 You want to go faster, use your foot. You want to not hurt the person in front of you, 211 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,920 use your foot, but on the other pedal. That's all there is and I friggin' love it. 212 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:04,440 This thing right here is very far from a perfect vehicle, 213 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:09,000 but also, it's interesting and I adore that. 214 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,820 If you're not a vehicle enthusiast, I do not think that you should get this. 215 00:16:13,820 --> 00:16:17,000 This right here is a vehicle that is made for a purpose 216 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,480 and makes sacrifices in order to fill its goals. 217 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,600 So, if all that you want is a comfy thing 218 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,560 for going and getting groceries or looking fricking sick 219 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,200 around town, okay, well, maybe you still want to get it, 220 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,480 but it's not the best car for that job. 221 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,960 But if you want something that is durable, will last a long time, probably, 222 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,040 we'll see how their support actually is. This is the car for you. 223 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,640 Man, I cannot believe that this was made in 2025. 224 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,880 Just like I can't believe that you watched this video in 2025, so huge thanks for watching. 225 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,600 Hit like, get subscribed and have a great old day. I'll see you later.