RE: Behold the limited edition Ineos Grenadier 1924
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
BrownEaredDog said:
Lester H said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
Looking more and more like a Mahindra Bolero every day.
Got me there! I had to look that one up. They’re as cheap as chips and it seems that they do a few variants. I wonder if four of us should meet in a ( suitably expensive) pub and discuss importing them.
smilo996 said:
A special edition pulled straight from a marketing concept workshop.
No heritage, no inherent link between a European vehicle owned by a Monaco based chemical boss and a company making waxed clothing. About as original as the Grenadier itself. Perfect then.
Still a fugly and disingenuous pastiche.
Ratcliffe owns Belstaff No heritage, no inherent link between a European vehicle owned by a Monaco based chemical boss and a company making waxed clothing. About as original as the Grenadier itself. Perfect then.
Still a fugly and disingenuous pastiche.
BrownEaredDog said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
BrownEaredDog said:
Lester H said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
Looking more and more like a Mahindra Bolero every day.
Got me there! I had to look that one up. They’re as cheap as chips and it seems that they do a few variants. I wonder if four of us should meet in a ( suitably expensive) pub and discuss importing them.Cups Renault said:
Ah the Frankenstein box, built on Jim's imagination of the sunlit Brexit could mean but then scrapped on account of it being all bs and built back in the EU where the twonk non domiciles himself; when not trying to mug the government off into getting the tax payer to build him a stadium for the club he definitely always supported, when he wasn't a season ticket holder at another club
The box on wheels has such a post Brexit whiff to it you'd have to be labelled naive (and blind) to drive such a thing built by someone doing so well at being hateful
Don't hold back eh - tell us what you really think!The box on wheels has such a post Brexit whiff to it you'd have to be labelled naive (and blind) to drive such a thing built by someone doing so well at being hateful
It's so odd to me that a man with such a ruthless money making mind chose to burn x hundred million on this thing. Even if he had a longer term plan beyond this model there are so many better options than the one he chose. Why not just license more existing tech like they did with the gearbox and engine? What is the market? Why is it so damned ugly
thargon said:
It's so odd to me that a man with such a ruthless money making mind chose to burn x hundred million on this thing. Even if he had a longer term plan beyond this model there are so many better options than the one he chose. Why not just license more existing tech like they did with the gearbox and engine? What is the market? Why is it so damned ugly
Shifty old geezer used to being given the unwanted assets of successful businesses has a temper tantrum when told to bugger off by JLR and decides to teach them a lesson by building his own Defender absolutely convinced that tens of thousands of people still want old Defenders, not new ones. Spends 5 years learning why JLR were right and he wasn't but not about to consume any humble pie just keeps doubling down until behold!! A Franco German budget G Wagon based on an English Defender sort of thing emerges, bangs in 12 months of deliveries on a 5 year backed up order book and then sees demand drop to the natural level which might be too low for that expensive Merc factory and its very expensive to bin French labour force. In reality it does look like a nice car. A solid, chunky thing that will take decades to rust away and just keep working. The issue is that it was born from a grandpa's little tantrum and became mired in a bucket of old man Brexit/hydrogen/empire bingo bulls
t which will take some years to soften in the U.K. but hopefully in other key markets such as the US, Aus etc it does well enough to keep going and for the negative image Ratboy created for his car in the U.K. to fade. Lotobear said:
Like the car but don't like the whole Belstaff thing.
Belstaff is the middle aged, middle class white blokes idea of a cool brand - it's up there with wearing a replica Steve McQueen Gulf jacket in the coolness (not) stakes.
The precise demographic with the money to purchase a vehicle they don't need for a spot of fun. No point teaming up with Primark or a Kardashian. Belstaff is the middle aged, middle class white blokes idea of a cool brand - it's up there with wearing a replica Steve McQueen Gulf jacket in the coolness (not) stakes.
swisstoni said:
Lotobear said:
Like the car but don't like the whole Belstaff thing.
Belstaff is the middle aged, middle class white blokes idea of a cool brand - it's up there with wearing a replica Steve McQueen Gulf jacket in the coolness (not) stakes.
Alright Gok.Belstaff is the middle aged, middle class white blokes idea of a cool brand - it's up there with wearing a replica Steve McQueen Gulf jacket in the coolness (not) stakes.
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