After 72 years, the Land Rover Defender finally ushered in a new generation. Unfortunately, the style of the new generation of vehicles changed greatly, giving up the non-load-bearing body and even adding independent suspension, which was quite different from the image of a tough guy in the hearts of off-road vehicle fans and suddenly became "not fragrant".
How "alike" is the old Land Rover Defender? You see Queen Elizabeth II is a die-hard, because the Defender accompanied the Queen to the battlefield and took the royal family to the countryside to "run wild", which is one of the very important family members.
and this brother Hao is Jim, the founder of INEOS petrochemical group in Britain? Sir Ratcliffe, with a net worth of 21.5 billion pounds, topped the British wealth list for the first time in 218, and he has a wide range of interests and loves collecting motorcycles. Even Belstaff, who is famous for producing motorcycle leather clothes, has been included in his bag. At the same time, he is also a sports fan, except for taking over Team Sky? Sky), even plans to buy Manchester United, an old football team, but unfortunately the host family is unmoved.
Lu Xun said it well: you can do whatever you want with money. And Jim? Ratcliffe also firmly believes in this truth, thinking of spending huge sums of money to sell the old guard to it, trying to take the old guard's production mold from Land Rover. Unfortunately, Land Rover did not buy his account and refused to sell the old guard's mold. In order to stop my brother's plan to "resurrect" the guards, Land Rover applied for a shape patent for the old guards at the end of last year. Unfortunately, it was hit in the face. The relevant departments rejected the patent application of Land Rover because the appearance of the car did not have a unique style.
Jim? Ratcliffe was overjoyed, but the resurrection of the old guard went smoothly, and now it is very close to mass production. The new car is named Grenadier. Tough and straight lines, small side windows on the roof and other details are all design elements from the old guards. In addition, with round LED heads and taillights, the retro flavor is stronger.
In addition, Grenadier insists on using a non-loaded chassis, equipped with a powerful four-wheel drive system, and hard-core configurations of hard-core off-road vehicles such as front and rear hard axles, part-time 4wd and differential locks.
as for the power, it is not worthwhile to develop the engine by ourselves, so it is better to buy it off-the-shelf. Therefore, INEOS chose BMW's 3.T inline six-cylinder engine as the "heart" of Grenadier. As a golden match, the transmission system naturally comes from ZF gearbox.
It is reported that the investment in the Grenadier project has exceeded 6 million pounds, which is about 6.286 billion RMB. In the future, it will be produced in the original Ford engine factory in South Wales, England, with an annual output of 25, vehicles. How rich and willful!
At present, the car is still in the development stage, and according to the official, Grenadier's prototype test car will start a road test with a total of 1.8 million kilometers in one year. However, when it will be released/listed is still unknown.
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