Europe Communication is ZERO! Does anyone know what is going on? (INEOS Automotive)

Eric said:

Ah.. an update by the middle of next month, not a vehicle!
Didn't they say that last month?
Where does that stand with Sir Jim saying customers would start getting their cars at the end of the month....in March

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JOB said:

However, on Facebook this morning someone reports seeing a 23 plate Grenadier on the road. Hopefully soon to be verified.

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marko said:

I read that on fb too, I think it was a forum member that posted about the 23 plate; @Annee, perhaps she could confirm? thank you!

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Annee said:

Hi, so my friend and her partner who works for Mercedes were driving up the M1 near Leicestershire yesterday afternoon and spotted a Grenadier on a 23 plate in green, both know exactly what the Gren looks like as they both drive Gwagons and have followed the Ineos story from the beginning. They are in no doubt that it was a Gren.

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jamesfielding said:

Perhaps is was Sir Jim? His is green from memory.

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DCPU said:

No ~ you're looking for something like this (old Smart):
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Where:
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Annee said:

Hi, so my friend and her partner who works for Mercedes were driving up the M1 near Leicestershire yesterday afternoon and spotted a Grenadier on a 23 plate in green, both know exactly what the Gren looks like as they both drive Gwagons and have followed the Ineos story from the beginning. They are in no doubt that it was a Gren.

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JonSutton said:

A road registered vehicle not being driven/shown by a journalist, broadcaster or Ineos staff. I feel faint or was it trailered to site?

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JOB said:

I called IA on Friday to try and gleam some more information as to when my 'January Build' car will actually roll down the production line. No info given on that but was reassured we would all receive an update 'towards the middle of next month.

Odds are that my car will be a 73 registration, at the earliest. The green oval is calling.

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acwiltshire said:

As i posted , last week I poked the IA cutomer services and discovered that my Jan build was now sitting at my dealer. Went to see it on Friday .... georgeous.

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Tom D said:

What reason did your dealer give for not releasing the car to you? It seems like there are a number of stories doing the rounds.

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Jean Mercier said:

This is the sticker inside the drivers door well:
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Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, am

Regulation (EU) 2018/858 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, amending Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC)...

www.legislation.gov.uk

CountyV8 said:

Yes what was. the reason software, power steering or suspension bushes.

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DCPU said:

So type approval taken out in Spain.

I can see three versions or iterations of it:
00 issued 30th August 2022 for N1
01 issued 25th October 2022 for N1
01 issued 7th November 2022 for N1(?)
02 issued 22nd March 2023 for both N1 & M1

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NorType XML Server

"The NorType project started in the year 2000 and is a cooperation between Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. NorType's main objective is to maintain a database of technical vehicle information. The data is extracted from Whole Vehicle Type Approvals, put in standardized form and uploaded to the NorType database after quality checks. The database is then used for vehicle registration in the NorType countries. NorType is stationed at The Icelandic Transport Authority (ICETRA) in Iceland."

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Bushguide said:

So far Ive seen almost every excuse possible for the situation with the Grenadier except "The Dog Ate my Homework" They drove a million miles to test out the vehicle and now after almost five months of production, not one person has possession of their vehicle. They sit in the car yard of distributers, with the customers, money in hand, looking from outside the fence. There are little glimpses of final production vehicles on loan doing tours of Scotland or being fitted at an aftermarket accessory joint, but nothing with a vehicle in the customers/owners hands. Ineos have vehicles which are registered here in OZ, allowing sporting people to drive "Off Road" but never on the grey matter. Those same vehicles can be driven from town to town by Ineos employees, but not the people who matter. Even vehicles that are coming off the production line today or yesterday fail to get handed over to their respective new owners. There is some legal embargo going on here I suspect and its got zero to do with software upgrades.

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Jean Mercier said:

So, e9 = Spain?
And first "M1" vehicle registered on March 22?
Could this be the reason that they couldn't deliver a customer vehicle yet? (besides the software update)

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