Hard-grafting and capable off-roader gains a longer, pick-up truck variant
Some cars’ personalities take a while to decipher, though that has never been the case with the towering Ineos Grenadier Quartermaster. The pick-up variant of Ineos’s core station wagon offering sits in the N1 commercial vehicle class and is designed to be immensely tough, immensely useful and rich in the kind of old-world character the Land Rover Defender has relinquished.At a glance, there’s nothing to suggest it can’t heartily tick all of those boxes, and indeed when we first drove one of these cars in 2024, we liked it, though our praise was qualified. We are returning to the Quartermaster now firstly because Ineos has introduced a number of improvements for the 2026 model year, as well as a £72,000 Black Edition trim level, as seen and tested here. There is also the fact that the diesel engine has yet to go under the road test microscope (it was a petrol we previously tested), which feels like an omission for a car of this ilk.
