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A new interview with Calder

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Kind of a crappy interview, as usual by Scott Brady. Bunch of fluff about sir Jim, safari vehicles, and portal axles (seriously who cares?)

View: https://youtu.be/GSPZPbVmHx4?feature=shared

Some notable take aways ( at the end of the interview)

- she feels 2025 is a year for Ineos to grow up like a mature oem and less like a start up
- 2025 will seee 20k vehicles sold globally, so they need to take care of the vehicles on the road.

Guess we’ll see???
 
Alright, I'm gonna sit thru this and hope it isn't as big a waste of time as a town council meeting. Time for a cookie and coffee.
 
Zimm said:
Alright, I'm gonna sit thru this and hope it isn't as big a waste of time as a town council meeting. Time for a cookie and coffee.
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It was short.. I fast fwd thru lots of stuff.. it’s a really bad interview. Just wanted to hear what signal she projects this time.

There was at least an attempt at calling out taking care of the existing customers
 
Overland Jesus interviews are ho-hum at best. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the one with Duncan Barbour where he tells wonderful tales about the Camel Trophy days.
 
Krabby said:
Overland Jesus interviews are ho-hum at best. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the one with Duncan Barbour where he tells wonderful tales about the Camel Trophy days.
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It's a PR business, not journalism. If he asked tough questions, or slammed a product, he wouldn't make any money. The days where an industry mag like Car and Driver could hammer a product, and still get the ad dollars needed to operate were murdered by standardless social media. Everything is a fluf piece. Think about it. He's telling her how great she is as a captain of industry, meanwhile she just admitted she's never been involved in a consumer product. We're not going to know if she's great or the one to take the fall for years, and, what experience does he have that he can tell great leadership? Oj is a travel ad sheet.
 
I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again, the quality of OJ podcasts just seems to be sinking over the past year or two; both in terms of actual topics discussed and production quality.

This "special edition" style podcast (1/3 the usual length, not in a "trendy" or overland setting, etc) really has the vibe that it was part of the PR contract for him to be given yet another Grenadier...
 
He’s driven it for over 12 months.
He knows the vehicle well.

But he wasted an opportunity to ask intelligent questions of an intelligent person that haven’t already been asked a thousand times and weren’t just fluff.

A waste of 20 minutes Scott.
 
I'm sure Calder is plenty busy but the whole thing seemed hastily thrown together to impress upon hesitant buyers the idea that IA is now legit. A "come on in - the water's fine" kind of thing. I certainly hope it's all true and that Calder is being genuine but, at my age, I get pretty suspicious when the corporate speak flows fast and easy.

Brady will no doubt be heading back to his overland battle barge to hammer out a five thousand word essay on the interview.

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I am surprised someone from here hasn't posted a comment about OJ having missed an opportunity to see how Ineos is progressing on keeping its promises.
 
That intro was 100% paced to get the overall video length to 20+ minutes. This is a total shill job.

If they gave me a truck, I'd do it too, and I've interviewed people a lot cooler than her...
 
Scott Brady is too much of a Grenadier "fan-boy" to give an honest, tough and thorough interview. His praise for the Grenadier he used in Africa was using a pre-production model that probably did not have any of the electronics, save the engine and transmission computers, as all of ours.
The fact that he disabled YouTube comments says it all. He knew it was a puff-piece.
 
Lars said:
Scott Brady is too much of a Grenadier "fan-boy" to give an honest, tough and thorough interview. His praise for the Grenadier he used in Africa was using a pre-production model that probably did not have any of the electronics, save the engine and transmission computers, as all of ours.
The fact that he disabled YouTube comments says it all. He knew it was a puff-piece.
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For what it's worth; his African drive vehicle was a PTO4 that was originally used for the Scotland media drive; other than being "technically" a PTO4, it was effectively a MY23 UK spec vehicle. Even the older PTO2 vehicles were, in terms of functionality, virtually identical to MY23 vehicles, except they did not have working eCall functions

His Quartermaster is a full NA Spec MY24 (I'd imagine 24.2) Quartermaster
 
Lars said:
Scott Brady is too much of a Grenadier "fan-boy" to give an honest, tough and thorough interview. His praise for the Grenadier he used in Africa was using a pre-production model that probably did not have any of the electronics, save the engine and transmission computers, as all of ours.
The fact that he disabled YouTube comments says it all. He knew it was a puff-piece.
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