THE mighty Ineos Grenadier will soldier on in Australia with out the most recent lively security tech now widespread throughout the brand new automotive market.
Whereas the likes of autonomous emergency braking, blind spot warning and lane hold help methods can be found within the ladder body off-roader in worldwide markets, Ineos Australia is in no hurry so as to add complexity to a automotive that has a singular give attention to tackling powerful terrain.
It’s all about listening to clients, in line with the model’s head of the Asia Pacific area Justin Hocevar.
He says so-called superior driver help methods (ADAS) will not be on the want listing of householders.
“We haven’t launched these options on the Australian fashions but,” says Hocevar, saying that patrons merely don’t need the kind of options that some see as an pointless hindrance.
“We’re most likely discovering extra folks come to the model going ‘I just like the car with out ADAS options’ than folks turning round and saying ‘I wouldn’t take that for lack of ADAS options’.
He added that many Ineos homeowners are skilled drivers who don’t need the automotive telling them what to do.
“They’re fanatics, they’ve pushed quite a lot of automobiles. They’ve advanced as drivers in an period with out quite a lot of units that must help their driving. They’re assured, they’re succesful, they’re skilled, they know what they’re doing they usually’re probably not searching for digital intervention of their driving.”
Driver help methods are more and more a requirement from a regulatory perspective and to realize the utmost five-star score in impartial ANCAP crash testing.
However as a result of the Grenadier receives NB1 car classification in Australia – successfully classifying it as a lightweight truck – it has lesser necessities relating to security.
In addition to, Hocevar argues the Grenadier and the Quartermaster dual-cab ute spin-off present good occupant safety.
“It’s a secure car and it’s a crash examined car; it’s handed the European passenger automotive security necessities,” he says, including that having a secure car remains to be a precedence for homeowners.
“They nonetheless need security options … and a car that’s been crash examined and secure,” says Hocevar. “However they don’t essentially need an digital system tapping them on the shoulder each 5 minutes and saying do that or do this.”
Finally Hocevar says such security methods will probably discover their method into Australian-delivered Grenadiers, particularly because the market evolves and the client demographic probably adjustments.
“I believe that we could must introduce it in some unspecified time in the future in time to open it as much as different clients,” he says, including that for now it’s a “watch and act” on the tech.
“To date that hasn’t been a compelling purpose to introduce it.”
