Let’s tackle the elephant in the room first: yes, it looks quite a bit like a Defender – enough that when it drives towards you, from a distance you’ll think it is one.
But the Grenadier isn’t a straight copy of the Land Rover that went off sale in 2016; it’s a modernised interpretation of that car, compared to the more luxurious direction the Solihull legend went in, and it strikes us as the ultimate adventure vehicle.