Modern cars are faking boring. Every single sharp edge has been rounded and
everything has been sacrificed for comfort and convenience until you get to
something like this. Meet the Indios Grenadier. This absolute beauty right
here does not care if you want a push button start or for it to be comfortable
or anything like that. It just wants you to go from point A to point B and it'll
do it. I freaking love this thing. Let's have a look. Looking at the Indios
Grenadier, it's pretty easy to tell that it is quite a rugged machine. But it
isn't just rugged. I think it is also
beautiful. Like this silver blue that they have it in. Wonderful. This little
LED halo around the headlights. Fantastic. And the overall look, even
though it is very, very rugged, is also very Land Rover Defender. That's exactly
what this thing is. Inos, if you don't know, is an absolutely massive chemical
company, and their CEO just simply decided that he wanted the old Land
Rover Defender, and the new one is too soft and way too comfortable. So, this
is what we have got right here. Inside of it is a BMW 6cylinder, the B-58 to be
exact, which you'll find in the Supra, the Z4, and many other BMWs. It's been
proven to be an exceptional engine. If you look it up on YouTube, everyone says
it's BMW's best ever. And I tend to
agree. It is pretty silly driving around with this cuz it sounds very
turbocharged given the type of vehicle. But at the same time, it should be
pretty decent, even if it is very D-tuned compared to some of the other
models that it comes in. The whole thing's a bit of a mish mash. As you can
see from this little badge right here, it was designed in Britain. has a bunch
of German parts and it's assembled in France, but the German part of France.
Moving along the side, we have doors. Shocking, I know. But the surprising bit
is that they don't unlock themselves. For a modern car, you actually need to
go in here and unlock it just like that, which I would be sad about, except that
this thing doesn't want fancy stuff like that. And also, they're damn satisfying
doors to close. Along all of the side are these little pickup points so that
you can attach kind of whatever you want. Apparently, this is so if you have
a whole bunch of gear and it gets all wet or your gas or whatever, you can
attach it to the side of the car and you don't have to worry about it making all
of the interior stuff all messy. Also, we have BFG Goodrich Allterrain TA KO2s,
which are fantastic in my opinion because you can take them off-road, but
also they're not super duper loud on the highway.
This is a full gas vehicle and full all-wheel drive all the time. So, expect
to be opening this door up quite a bit. But, as you can see, it's really, really
large. And that's because in some other markets, you can get a diesel engine
from BMW. But in North America, we only get the gas. Around the rear, we have
this massive full-size spare as well as
a ladder. And as you might have suspected, that is a lot of weight on
the back of your car. So, you're not going to be having a traditional lift
gate. So instead, we get a door. And not just a door, but we get doors.
Ha. In the back, we have an absolutely
massive area for cargo. You don't have any of those fancy swooping backs or
anything trying to be aerodynamic. Nope. She's just a box, and you benefit
greatly in terms of space. Also, all of this is plastic, which is really good if
your stuff is wet and really bad if you want your stuff to stay in one place.
Fortunately though, there's eight tie down points back here, so it should be
easy enough to make it not go
too often. Also back here, if you happen to be stranded on the side of the road,
we have a couple of little safety vests. How fashionable. And also in here, we
have first aid supplies, which will be really good if you have a bit of a tumble. As you probably guessed from the
intro of this video, the roof up here is actually loadbearing. So, you can put
yourself up here or more likely you can put all of your supplies up on top or
tents or anything that you would like. Also, the safari Windows that are up
here are actually removable. So, if you
want to get into the passenger seat, you can do so just like this.
But once in here, we find our first really big problem. The wife approval
factor of this car is basically zero because there is nothing right here. Not
a single mirror. I went downtown to have a nice dinner with the misses. And when
she flipped this thing down and saw just nothing there, man, banned. Not allowed
to have this vehicle ever. Cannot do it. Indios, very, very pleased. Put a mirror
here. You will sell more. Moving around
to the back, there's pretty decent room. It isn't
luxuriously large, but if you're tall,
you are not going to have any issues. And also, as long as the passenger or
driver isn't all the way back, you're going to have plenty of leg room. Back
here, we also have USBC and type A for charging and some vents. And uh that's
about all that you get for comfort, but at least the seats feel pretty good. One
party trick for this seat in particular is it vibrates a lot. And that's because
if you option the subwoofer, it's right under your ars. This right here is just
a JBL sub. It's a tiny little powered guy that you can buy off of Crutchfield.
And it delivers a surprising amount of bass. Not just to this person in
particular, but it puts a lot of vibration through the chassis. So even
though it doesn't go super low, you can feel the bass and it's pretty enjoyable.
Hopping into the driver's seat, this is a very comfortable spot to be. The seats
are Ricaros. You can just buy them and put them into any car. So, they decided
to buy them and put them into this. And they are fully manual. You don't get any
power seats, no massages or anything like that, which for the price you might
want, but for the design goals of this, you do not. This is clearly a nononsense
vehicle, as you can tell by every single switch. You can kind of appreciate why a
lot of manufacturers might be taking many of the functions of a car and
putting them into a touchscreen. When you see what happens when you take all
the functions of a car and turn them into buttons. So there's your standard
stuff like your climate control, which you expect. These are incredibly
satisfying buttons. Like give give this a listen.
They are all incredibly satisfying to play with. We have auxiliary power right
here that you can turn on and get all the functions of the vehicle without the
engine being turned on. Again, incredibly satisfying. And also, we have
pre-wired auxiliary circuits. So, if you want to put lights on the roof or an air
compressor around the back, you can do just that.
But unfortunately, we don't have some of the more fun options, which would give
us even more switches up here. in particular. If I was optioning one, I
would make sure to get a winch and some lockers for the differentials. But that
said, this is still an incredibly capable machine without them. We have
solid front axles. We have fulltime all the time all-wheel drive. And also, we
have four low if you need to get out of somewhere really nasty.
That's a satisfying onto. My favorite button though in a car with all of the
best buttons has to be this one right here. So, we have our typical horn,
loud, unpleasant, but also we have toot,
which is really nice if you just want to get someone's attention, but you don't
feel like actually. It's more like, hey, really, the only
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Vancouver reached out to us asking what type of a press vehicle we wanted, I
said that I did not care at all as long as it came with the Safari Windows
because these things are sick. First of all, you can just open them up super
easy like that. But also, if you push this little clip up and out, you can
lift the entire thing and then just
bring down the whole little sunroof bit. This gives you a bunch of fresh air. And
also, I don't know where to put these once I have it like this. I've just been
throwing them in the back. It's kind of weird. One thing that I don't like about the Grenadier, though, is turning it on.
You have to use a physical key, which honestly I am totally okay with. But
this key itself with its little flippadoodle do here does not feel
satisfying in the slightest to turn. It feels like it was really meant to only
be in your pocket. But that said,
once it's on, she's a beauty to drive. Throwing the Grenadier in drive and
using the actual handbrake, we're able
to set off and it is at home back in the
woods like this. We haven't been doing any particularly difficult off-roading,
but like that right there was one hell of a bump and this thing could not care
less. On dirt roads like this, the
handling is really great. Like I am not
pushing it, but on these bumpy, dirty
back roads, it absolutely loves it. This
thing is a dream if you want to do overlanding or camping or stuff like
that. And like, let's be honest, unless you're intentionally trying to get into
trouble, most of what you're doing if you're going over landing is
ripping along forest roads like this one. All right, I want to do a little
bit of a launch. Here we go. Oh, the whole thing moves when you rev it. Oh,
there we go. This thing has 282 horsepower, 332 foot-lbs of torque
delivered to the ground through an 8-speed setup transmission. This thing
right here also does 0 to 60 in eight seconds, which I will not be doing
because that'll be pretty scary on a dirt road like this one. But that said
though, the handling back on these dirt roads is fantastic. All of the
suspension and all of their decisions make so much sense and it feels so good
going around the corners and stuff like that on the dirt. It is an absolute
dream. On pavement though, things aren't quite
as good. And a lot of that comes down to the caster. Now, the caster is basically
the angle that your suspension steers through. And the effect that has is it
very slightly lifts the front of your car when you turn the steering wheel.
Now, most cars have four to five degrees of caster. The ones that are handling
Legends have more like seven. This right here has two. And from the forums that I
have seen, a lot of them come with more like 1 and a half or 1.5°.
Now, the problem that that has is it does not want to center itself very
much. So, when you're going around a corner, you kind of, you know, you turn
your wheel, but then you physically have to turn it back, which is uh not the
greatest. Also, when you're going around corners on pavement, uh I don't do it
particularly fast. Up here on the visor,
it says that uh it has a tipover risk, and I believe them. I really think on
most roads at highway speeds, if you really wanted to, you could flip this
thing no problem. Winging done though,
overall given its capabilities, this is
a really nice car to drive around if you're just ripping through the city. It
does have the problem that the uh turning radius is an abomination,
but that can very simply be solved by
ignoring curbs, which this thing loves to do. Overall, it's quite a comfortable
spot to be, and it's shockingly quiet
given the size of those tires. And as a bonus, the sound system rocks pretty
good. Play Crab Rave on Apple Music. In
here, we have five speakers. And I believe that they have coaxials in the
doors here cuz they do sound quite good.
I get nice highs, plenty of bass from
that little sub. Even if it doesn't go super low, it gets a lot of vibrations
in your ars, which is a whole load of fun. And I think it sounds pretty darn
good.
That said, it is not perfect because all of the speakers are down in the doors.
You can hear it being down in the doors. Instead of having a sound stage that is
up and around you, it's more down below
you, unless you get it loud enough for it to just sort of spray sound all over
the place. And also, because they have just a JBL subwoofer in the back, it
doesn't perfectly integrate into the front. If you have a really, really good
sound system, the sound of your subwoofer will join up with your door
speakers and tweeters, and it all sounds like it's coming from one coherent
place. where in this you can you can kind of tell they just threw a sub in
the back. Overall though, very enjoyable
sound system. As for the infotainment itself, it is perfectly fine. You get
Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, so you'll probably just end up using that most of
the time, but it is a little bit disappointing that the important things
that you normally have on your dash are located over in this area. As for the
dash itself, you just get a whole load of warning lights and nothing else. Even
just adding a speedometer right in front of you would be a gamecher. I would love
it if they had that right there. And then I wouldn't even care that the fuel
and the temp and stuff is all over here. That said though, if you're actually
off-roading, they have a bunch of really nice stats
just like tire pressures, temperatures of your gear box, transfer case, all of
that sort of stuff. Also, if you want, you can look at your elevation gain. So,
you can see that we actually did go up into the hills quite a bit there. What's
our max? We hit 820 ft above elevation.
Not too bad. We can also see that uh it's not the
most fuel efficient. Our drive, even though I have been kind of bashing on
it, so far is 27.4 L per 100 miles. Oh,
that's per 100 miles. What the is that? So, we have kilome/ hour, liters,
feet, and miles. Sure. Either way, these
screens are really cool and fun to look at. One thing I do wish that was spec is
you can get a compass and a temperature gauge instead of the Grenadier logo
right here, but also whatever. This is fine. As for other assists, uh there
aren't any. The cruise control is just
straight up cruise. You don't get any fancy adaptive stuff, which does make
this a little bit more fatiguing on the highway, but also, oh well. Also, you
don't get any sort of lane centering or assists like that. It just gets mad at
you if you start to depart your lane. And otherwise, you drive the car. You're
you're in control, which honestly, I kind of appreciate after how poorly so
many manufacturers have done assists in some of the other cars. It's just
incredibly refreshing to get into something that kind of just treats you
like an adult. Speed warnings aside, you
want to change the temperature, freaking turn a dial. You want to go faster, use
your foot. You want to not hurt the person in front of you, use your foot,
but on the other pedal. That's that's all there is. And I freaking love it.
This thing right here is very far from a
perfect vehicle, but also it's interesting. and I adore that. If you're
not a vehicle enthusiast, I do not think that you should get this. This right
here is a vehicle that is made for a purpose and makes sacrifices in order to
fill its goals. So, if all that you want
is a comfy thing for going and getting groceries or looking freaking sick
around town, okay, well, maybe you still want to get it, but it's not the best
car for that job. But if you want something that is durable, will last a
long time, probably. We'll see how their support actually is,
this is the car for you. Man, I cannot believe that this was made in
2025. Just look, I can't believe that you watched this video in 2025. So, huge
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