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Ineos Grenadier - DR

Difficult not to see it: the Ineos Grenadier, unveiled in early July, strongly resembles the original Land Rover Defender. And it's not just the look, since its philosophy is also the one we associate with Land Rover: adventure! Jim Ratcliffe, CEO of Ineos, is a car enthusiast who obviously had a little money to spend somewhere. What he did by creating an automotive department within his company. For his first experience, he wanted a pure and hard 4x4, useful and resistant. And marked with Germanic rigor with that, since the mechanics will come from BMW.

Ineos Grenadier - DR

We are already talking about a launch of production at the end of 2021 and for that, Ineos went to see Daimler, a group to which Mercedes and… Smart belong.

Takeover of Smart factories?

We were talking about it recently, the Smart factories in Hambach, in Moselle, are for sale. And as Ineos is the new partner of Mercedes in F1, the petrochemical group quickly became aware. Negotiations regarding the acquisition of the Smart plant by Ineos are therefore in progress. Case to follow…

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