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Here's the Grenadier Enhanced Protection Vehicle

Enough with the Land Rover already - here's how Ineos aims to woo the MOD

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Anything Land Rover can do, Ineos can do… well, better is unclear for the moment, but it can certainly do as well. Just a weekend after the reveal of the Defender Wolf, there’s confirmation from Ineos that its ranks are being bolstered in its attempts to get the MOD Light Mobility Vehicle programme. 

The Team Grenadier consortium now has Hobson Industries and TVS Supply Chain Solutions onboard; hardly romantic household names, but then that’s not really what making these machines is about. If they get the job done better, they’re in, with Team Grenadier suggesting the new recruits ‘bolster in-service vehicle management, maintenance and support capability.’ They join SMT Defender, NMS UK and, of course, Ineos Automotive in the consortium. 

That’s the important bit for the bid to be the MOD’s next Light Mobility Vehicle. The important bit for us is a first look at the Grenadier in Enhanced Protection Vehicle spec; we’d seen the Multi-Role Light Vehicle before - now it’s time to get serious. This thing looks like it’s just driven off a Fast and Furious set, all winches, rivets and snorkels. The windows seem to have come straight from a prison van. When they say enhanced protection, they mean enhanced protection alright. Like the Wolf, the EPV will be on show at the DVD 2026 military event at Millbrook later in September; the General Purpose Vehicle Grenadier and MRLV will also be in attendance. 

Ineos Automotive’s CCO Mike Whittington said: “Both Hobsons and TVS SCS bring considerable military understanding, commercial best practice, and proven programme delivery to the Team Grenadier consortium. Together we can deliver operational resilience, scalability and exceptional in-service support required by the MoD throughout the operational lifetime of the Grenadiers, while backing domestic industry and creating and supporting UK jobs.” 

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• Ineos officially launches new Grenadier MLRV
• All-new Defender Wolf Series II breaks cover

[Bluehorseshoe]

As JLR annouce 4000 job cuts this seems awfully prophetic about the UK. A company that looks British but is based over seas making kit for our armed forces.

[Bernt Tuakrisp]

Small company that’s never turned a profit operating a single factory making a small volume parts bin car with a very limited track record and limited support and service network, that’s expensive and poorly designed. They’re a shoe in for the MOD with those credentials. Who needs Toyota, Ford or Mercedes anyway, or even JLR.

[Thornberry78]

Armoured version looks cool as fluke in my opinion! They should spec the civilian version like this, perfect protection for a late night milk run to the dodgy Spar.

[dxg]

Bluehorseshoe said:

As JLR annouce 4000 job cuts this seems awfully prophetic about the UK. A company that looks British but is based over seas making kit for our armed forces.

You know, war - or the real threat of it - really does expose the folly of letting our industrial base whither away over the last fifty years...

[Lester H]

Thornberry78 said:

Armoured version looks cool as fluke in my opinion! They should spec the civilian version like this, perfect protection for a late night milk run to the dodgy Spar.

. And no one would argue with that on the school run, nor in the pub would anyone dare to accuse you of spilling their pint.

[_Rodders_]

From purely a looks perspective it beats the JLR entrant.

[Lefty]

Bluehorseshoe said:

As JLR annouce 4000 job cuts this seems awfully prophetic about the UK. A company that looks British but is based over seas making kit for our armed forces.

It is a British company that have a factory overseas. Not too dissimilar to how the Defender is made in Slovakia.