I think you need to wind your neck in. Calling people fanbois is not much of an argument. This is a marque specific forum, so we are going to have more than the usual quota of disciples and heretics, complicated by confirmation bias and old Land Rover owner's tolerance of "character".
If you want "white goods" with no faults, you need to cancel your Grenadier. At the very least, it drives differently from the usual SUV and it does not have all of the creature comforts of the luxury SUVs most modern drivers seem to want. It is not at it's best on a paved road and as a new entrant to the market, the service network is not fully conversant with the needs of owners.
I have done just over 15,000 miles now; I have issues with the lack of service data and access to spare parts but the faults on delivery have been fixed by my local dealer, (water in the footwells, water between the door seals, water sloshing around in the chassis rail, HVAC not working correctly, flakey software, temporary TPMS error), but the dealer is under pressure as Ineos Automotive is not sufficiently reactive, experience is limited and workshop capacity is scarce. I have had to cut my dealer some slack in terms of time and ignoring issues until we all had the resources to sort them.
No vehicle manufacturer has an unblemished record, most of them depend on the same small pool of suppliers, so if a supplier screws up, many marques are affected, (
https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle-safety/takata-recall-spotlight), so picking a Honda, Lexus or KIA is not a guarantee of a blemish free existence either.
Pre-release testing is not an exact science historically, so the public finding weaknesses that did not crop up in testing is not uncommon. The first issue is that nothing is foolproof, fools are ingenious and find new and interesting ways to break stuff. BMW has an issue in the UK with 4 cylinder Police cars bursting into flames after long periods of idling followed by high speed work. As a consequence, they have withdrawn from the Police market.
So far there have been patterns of failure with the Grenadier that suggest that the basic build is OK, with some detail issues and some systemic problems that Ineos Automotive picked up at an early stage. Mechanically, the only horror show appears to be early transfer boxes, most of which were changed at an early stage, (usually at the factory). The early software load was "immature" and later vehicles seem to be much better. The filling and purging of air from the cooling systems seems to have an issue, giving problems with HVAC. The stuck-on door seals had a nasty habit of falling off, cured by cleaning the door frames before applying the glue. The sun roof drains often were routed wrongly, putting water into the footwells. IA does seem to be OK at correcting issues once they are identified.
Now we seem to have well over 1000 actual owners on the forum, as on 04/01/2024,
@Stu_Barnes said we had 1036 recorded owners. Now I reckon we have about 5 people wanting to/actually rejected vehicles, so let's compare it to the New Defender, which has been a considerable sales success. I suggested to a senior JLR employee that out of 10 New Defender customers, 5 were ecstatic, 4 were mostly happy, with minor issues, usually the infotainment and 1 had major issues and they conceded that was about right. Now, JLR feel that they have a warranty problem, so 1 in 10 is unacceptable, but our 5 in 1000 starts to look miraculous!
Now I accept my numbers are hardly scientific, the new Defender has a 3 year warranty and has been in the market a few years now, the Grenadier is barely out of the box, a number of owners will have done less than 1000 miles and the Grenadier has a 5 year warranty in the UK.
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