Hi folks
Here's a vid found on another forum of a 10-minute off-road tour from inside the Gren. The driver gives all sorts of good info on how it operates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0usAUV39Yk
A few standouts for me:
- I love the centre diff-lock lever. I like a manual system.
- Being able to kill the front radiator fans with "Wade Mode" is fantastic. I would take that every single day as compared to what the New Defender does. All I need to do is kill the fan so it doesn't break when it hits water; the ND has sensors in the mirrors (meaning they are $$$ when you clip a tree with them) and the front grill/bumper apparently has channels that "vent" water back out. Hyper complex compared to the Gren.
- No Traction Control or throttle interference when the lockers are on.
- Seems to have a pretty intuitive way of "locking" it in a specific gear for hill work; toggle the shifter over and it's in manual mode.
- It was very well controlled in the hill descent without braking. By the looks of it, this was comparable to a manual. Most autos rely on a tricky "Hill Descent" system that modulates the brakes to achieve this.
- It seems like the killed the camera just as they were about to tackle a tricky hill!
Here's a vid found on another forum of a 10-minute off-road tour from inside the Gren. The driver gives all sorts of good info on how it operates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0usAUV39Yk
A few standouts for me:
- I love the centre diff-lock lever. I like a manual system.
- Being able to kill the front radiator fans with "Wade Mode" is fantastic. I would take that every single day as compared to what the New Defender does. All I need to do is kill the fan so it doesn't break when it hits water; the ND has sensors in the mirrors (meaning they are $$$ when you clip a tree with them) and the front grill/bumper apparently has channels that "vent" water back out. Hyper complex compared to the Gren.
- No Traction Control or throttle interference when the lockers are on.
- Seems to have a pretty intuitive way of "locking" it in a specific gear for hill work; toggle the shifter over and it's in manual mode.
- It was very well controlled in the hill descent without braking. By the looks of it, this was comparable to a manual. Most autos rely on a tricky "Hill Descent" system that modulates the brakes to achieve this.
- It seems like the killed the camera just as they were about to tackle a tricky hill!
