Need Help - Why does a NA build vehicle have a UK/Germany Flag emblem??

[FlyersFan76]

I agree with you @Coullabus There was discussion of the origin of the vehicle and I happened to have my Monroney sticker handy which shows it's a pretty diversely sourced vehicle. No one country can truly claim the Grenadier. UK maybe if it was built there but Sir Jim passed on the opportunity.

And as a result, the Grenadier made it to market 1 or 2 years ahead of schedule if I recall.

 

[Jeffrey]

Well, in the rear left window there is a sticker saying Made in Hambach and a French flag

That'll do fine. What if a vehicle has that AND the Brit/German one too? Does that mean war?

 

[Catpaw4x4]

Seriously weird it's the whole panel - I figured the flag was just attached with adhesive and could be popped out. Seems inefficient to stock different plates for every offered flag option.

I too thought it simply an "insert". Haven't laid hands on so wasn't aware it was an entire panel.

 

[Catpaw4x4]

I ordered panels instead of side windows to avoid the French flag - some bstard just stuck it on my rear door window instead!!

Photo??

 

[ECrider]

Photo??

It was located on the spare wheel door along the top. No photo as I razored it as soon as I got the Gren home.

 

[Steve.B]

The Ineos Grenadier is an automobile.
On January 29 1886 Carl Benz received patent number 37435 for the invention of the automobile.
Bertha Benz did the first long distance trip in an automobile in August 1888.
Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach designed the first car from the ground up, so it actually looked like a car in 1889.
The production of approximately 50% of the world's cars from the 1890's to early 1900's were by Panyard-Levassor, and Peugeot, Both French.
Wilhelm Maybach invented water cooling, the honeycomb radiator, increasing motor output many fold.
In 1929 a 550 hp V12 was made by Maybach, mainly used in aircraft.
Grand Prix racing started in France, and Louis Rigolly a French man was the first to reach 100 mph in an automobile (103.561 mph) on the 21st July 1904
A Brit in a Sunbeam was the first car to reach 200 mph.
So in short I am OK with their flags.

 

[Zorro]

The IG factory is in France! No French flag on the rig...

Same colours in the UK/Frog flags... so maybe if you squint....

 

[nuclearbeef]

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I'll report back when it arrives.

Finally got around to sticking it on the RAI.
Looks pretty good, I think.
Good quality. Enameled metal.

 

[Krabby]

Finally got around to sticking it on the RAI.
Looks pretty good, I think.
Good quality. Enameled metal.

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Seem to adhere well to the textured plastic?

 

[nuclearbeef]

Seem to adhere well to the textured plastic?

The adhesive backing was 3M and is a foam backing, so I think it might adhere well.
Haven't even driven with it on yet, so no test results.
I put it where I did so that it was kinda protected from spray and debris coming up from the front tire.

Just have to see if it's still there after awhile.

 

[TRAILMASTER]

British company, ergo a British vehicle. German engineering. But built in France, albeit in a former Mercedes factory. QED.

It's a hat-trick (hat trick) for me:
German family ancestry since mid-1600's is from a small village in central Hesse (relatives still present);
United States my birthplace and current residence; and
UK naturalized citizen (dual citizenship / passport) since 2018

The Hambach window sticker may get removed (no offense to France) once delivered.

 

[Tom109]

Ha - I bought the Gren for the Hambach sticker!

 

[Tazzieman]

Ha - I bought the Gren for the Hambach sticker!

Sometimes, depending upon the person , I tell people it's a French car. It's got a French name , if you are into etymology. And the sticker "proves" it

 

[Coullabus]

It's a hat-trick (hat trick) for me:
German family ancestry since mid-1600's is from a small village in central Hesse (relatives still present);
United States my birthplace and current residence; and
UK naturalized citizen (dual citizenships and passports) since 2018

The Hamburg sticker may need to be removed (no offense to France) once delivered.

Hamburg? or Hambach?

As soon as I find the right one there'll be a Scottish Saltire on mine - and I was born/brought up in England! (Much happier here!)

 

[Tom109]

Sometimes, depending upon the person , I tell people it's a French car. It's got a French name , if you are into etymology. And the sticker "proves" it

I was also thinking - vehicle conceived in a British pub named The Grenadier, before the plant in Hambach was known. So, sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Tazzieman]

I was also thinking - vehicle conceived in a British pub named The Grenadier, before the plant in Hambach was known. So, sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It could so easily have been a French pub, and we'd all be pulling on Napoleon boots on wet and muddy days

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[Max]

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I am going to have another pint at the Gren and sort this out...cheers

 

[TRAILMASTER]

Hamburg? or Hambach?

As soon as I find the right one there'll be a Scottish Saltire on mine - and I was born/brought up in England! (Much happier here!)

Thx - edited my post!

 

[Gaffer]

Perhaps the flag is aspirational. Wasn't Hambach part of the German Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine until 1918?

 

[FlyersFan76]

Perhaps the flag is aspirational. Wasn't Hambach part of the German Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine until 1918?

I think Hambach has changed countries more times that Chrysler Dodge Jeep has changed parent companies/owners.