I haven’t used all of the buttons yet – some are for external lights or accessories I don’t have – but I really like the choices you can make in here. The air vents are controlled by a knob on the actual vents; I can turn the lights on and off; I can lower the headlight beam; and I can change the cabin temperature without looking away from the road.
Making a point of saying these things would have been unimaginable 20 years ago, but I couldn’t do any of the above in the BMW i5 I’ve just stepped out of. I have a lot of goodwill for a car that, compromised or not, treats me like an adult. I have a feeling I’m going to warm to the Grenadier.
Update 2
The Ineos Grenadier has slotted into my daily life as easily as its flat sides and large mirrors help it slot into tighter parking spaces, as seen below in one of Gatwick airport’s short-term car parks.
The Grenadier’s turning circle is large and it is quite a big car, so I was very pleased that with minimal shuffling I eased it gracefully into an end-of-row bay – my favourite kind – before going on my merry travels.
I returned and took this picture because I was so happy about how little space I’d left between the car and the barrier, and drove home.
Imagine my surprise when, a few days later, the good people at Ineos informed me that they’d been sent a parking penalty charge notice by NCP, this car park’s operator, and asked if I could please sort it out.
Perplexed, I looked at NCP’s evidence. It turned out that if I’d walked around the left side of the car, crouched down and squinted, there were some more of the little yellow blobs seen in front of the car, which once, perhaps decades ago, were cross hatchings.
