With Ineos Grenadiers slowly beginning to make their means onto South African roads, Ian McLaren had a sit down with their head honchos after visiting their spectacular Cape City dealership on the V&A Waterfront.
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South Africans love off-roading. Our month-to-month new automobile gross sales numbers don’t lie – SUVs and bakkies rule the roost. Granted, most hardly ever enterprise off of the overwhelmed path however there are nonetheless a sure few that cater to essentially the most hardcore of adventurers. The place the unique Land Rover Defender left off, the Ineos Grenadier hopes to forge ahead.
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Now, the model has emerged in South Africa, with a powerful Cape City dealership adjoining to a helipad on the Waterfront. George Ratcliffe, Industrial Director of Ineos Automotive says: “We haven’t completed the [test] observe utterly, go up into Cape City and a route as much as Desk Mountain on gravel so it reveals the automobile’s capabilities on and off-road.” Their dealership course has been purpose-built for the Grenadier with wading, departure and entry angles all centred across the versatile mannequin.
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Extra impressively, the journey to get the Grenadier right here has taken appreciable effort and time with the justification behind the 6-month delay being the pursuit of improved high quality and reliability. Lynne Calder, CEO of Ineos Automotive added that they’ve put the mannequin via over 2 million km price of testing and have had beneficial outcomes, jokingly stating “we haven’t damaged it but although we’ve tried very onerous.”
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Regardless of this, Calder added that they’ve constructed the Grenadier beneath the ideology that it may be repaired shortly and simply.
Now we have executed over 2 million km price of testing and we haven’t damaged it but although we’ve tried very onerous and that doesn’t imply that folks arent going to have issues with autos and that talks to how shortly we are able to repair it. You possibly can have a automobile you could repair that you just don’t must plug into one million totally different diagnostic machines so we have now considerably much less digital management items than most autos available on the market right this moment.
Ineos can have full gross sales service operations out there in Durban, Gauteng and Cape City inside the subsequent few months.
