Ineos Fire 100s Of Staffs To Cut Cost

Gloomy financial times did not bypass the British car company Ineos, whose founder and owner (Jim Ratcliffe) once decided to offer customers his version of an uncompromising off-road car whose shape was inspired by the previous generation of Land Rover’s Defender model.

According to the British press, due to the current financial situation contributed to by the latest American tariffs, because the largest number of Ineos cars end up in the United States of America, Ratcliffe will have to cut several hundred jobs, which is not a large number in the case of large car companies, but it is in the case of Ineos, which currently employs a little more than 1,700 people.

Ineos will primarily reduce the number of administrative staff in Great Britain, but also in several locations in Europe, while the number of workers in production facilities in France will remain the same. Insiders claim that the unwanted move by Ineos was also helped by the amount of debt in which Ratcliff’s petrochemical company is involved.

Behind the names Grenadier and Quartermaster hide two body versions (two-volume and pickup) of uncompromising “old school” SUVs powered by BMW 3.0-litre 6-cylinder engines whose power is transmitted to both axles by means of a ZF 8-speed automatic transmission.

Diesel fans can count on 249 hp and 550 Nm of maximum torque, which is enough for the 4.9-meter-long and 2.7-ton Grenadier to reach 100 km/h in 9.9 seconds and develop an electronically limited 160 km/h. With BMW’s turbo gasoline option comes 286 “horses” and 450 Nm of torque, and thus the motorized Grenadier reaches 0 to 100 km/h in 8.6 seconds and also develops 160 km/h.

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