A new interview with Calder

[HereinDaRockies]

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???

 

[Zimm]

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]

I'll stick to "project farm" for future cookie breaks.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

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.

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

 

[Krabby]

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.

 

[Zimm]

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.

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.

 

[anand]

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...

 

[bigleonski]

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.

 

[DenisM]

No workshop manuals yet...No workshop manuals yet No workshop manuals yet No workshop manuals yet. Still No workshop manuals yet.... No workshop manuals yet??,,

 

[Tazzieman]

A waste of 20 minutes Scott.

Thanks for watching it for me!
Ronnie Dahl for the podcast win every time

 

[Clark Kent]

No workshop manuals yet...No workshop manuals yet No workshop manuals yet No workshop manuals yet. Still No workshop manuals yet.... No workshop manuals yet??,,

Any news on the workshop manuals @DenisM?

 

[Michael_in_Baja]

I was underwhelmed to say the least.

 

[PDX_Keith]

Overland Jesus

This right here is the best and funniest thing I've heard all week. Thanks, I needed the laugh.

 

[255/85]

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.