‘Strapped in?’ I asked my rear passenger as I contemplated the potential carnage ahead.
I was at the wheel of the chunky new Ineos Grenadier 4X4 – brainchild and dream of British billionaire entrepreneur Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who was so upset by Land Rover’s decision to scrap the previous Defender that he decided to create his own back-to-basics rugged rival, much to their annoyance.
It takes its name from the Grenadier pub in London’s Belgravia where in 2017 he conceived