Looks like the alignment needs checking as your hands never stopped sawing at the steering on my second Grenadier and neither exhibit that characteristic or the other 4 that I have driven for thousands of years of miles. Don’t forget the engineering input from Magna Styer and the other vehicle they make.

Not for everyone, it is for me!

As a car I would maybe give it a 6 out of 10 or maybe a 5.5. As an SUV maybe a 6.5 or a 7 at best. As a robust overlander 4WD it would easily get an 8.5 or maybe a 9. Once again though it doesn't have a steering rack. You can't put rack and pinion steering on a live axle vehicle, unless you remove any type of wheel articulation. For the driving you are talking about an SUV, particularly the new Landrover, will be significantly better. I load mine up with gear for work, drive on motorways, country roads, gravel/dirt roads and forestry trails. It eats up the miles like nothing else. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abB1mrJ_vbmYqo0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdh2mtmWvdi2cqM.html

So how does it compare against the old defender?

It is charming, but it says on the badge on the front “Built On Purpose” - so you should review it against the use case for which it’s built. The steering is not an homage to LR nostalgia - it’s meant not to break and to keep you in one piece when you are doing unnatural things in places you probably shouldn’t be, and the driver of a normal vehicle would never in their right minds even consider. And then yes, despite the fact you are breaking a number of laws of physics, you think to yourself PRECISELY the thing you said it doesn’t deliver - “hmm - this is a nice drive. It’s not supposed to be, but in the Grenadier, it is.” There are two kinds of buyers - those who use it for the purpose for which it’s built, and those who buy it for the nostalgia factor, but are just using it as a “normal vehicle.” The second group say the trade-offs might be too much - the first group think they got exactly what they wanted, with no tradeoffs at all. When owners of the new Defender approach me about mine, and want to see how the seat feels or what the buttons feel like when they push them, and IMMEDIATELY start asking about recentering on turns, I ask them how they are using their Defenders. 9 out of 10 times, what they really want is a certain “look,” but I can tell the Grenadier won’t be right for them. But for the right one, it’s a match made in heaven. Well, in Hambach France, if we’re trying to be geographically accurate.

Great video and funny 👍🏻

You loved the old Defender but you can’t cope with this?

Even that partly panelled version is not classed as a commercial vehicle by HMRC and therefore its VAT is not reclaimable. So forget about it being a serious business truck, it’s just not viable when a Ford Ranger/VW Amarok will do the same work exactly for half the net price or less. Having said that and ignoring the financial aspect and the lack of foresight by Ineos even for the Quartermaster pickup, which doesn’t qualify either, it is a very capable truck that is very capable of hard work for many years. I wonder though whether people will want or be able to afford running these thirsty petrol and diesel versions in even ten year’s time considering the move away from fossil fuels. At the price of these things I cannot see one single reason why they would buy a Grenadier in preference to a much better sorted, comfortable and equally capable LR Defender which will thrash Grenadier on the road, where even a large farmer’s or utility company’s vehicle will spend the majority of its time.

So funny. Whipping the wheel back and forth does nothing… except the camera is showing the vehicle rocking back and forth. When the reviewer is looking down at the console, his hands on the wheel suddenly stay steady… why hasn’t it wandered off the road. Sorry, but I’m not really sure if we are talking about the quality of the steering or the steerer.

You are clearly sitting way too low. Wind the seat up as high as possible so you can rest your elbow down on the windowsill. I am also 5'10" tall and the footrest is not a problem. I now have 17,000 kms of driving across all manner of roads. The steering takes about a week to get used to and you will find if you feed the power in smoothly it will self centre. You mentioned Harry Metcalfe review and I enjoy his reviews, of performance cars, but he was against the Grenadier the moment he got in (or just before) didn't help that he was a paid ambassador and consultant to JLR at the time. This vehicle is a solid live axle vehicle with recirculating ball steering. ie: a truck. This is my Grenadier with zero need to wind the steering wheel from side to side like a fool. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fN1idtGc0Mmnkmg.html

Superficial review; drive it off road then review it.

Handsdown the worst review I’ve seen so far. This guy has absolutely no idea what an Overland four-wheel-drive vehicle is supposed to be. He has, obviously done very little research on the car before doing this video and as a result makes so many inaccurate statements and technical references. Go and watch Ronnie Dahl’s videos from Australia if you want a good review.