Meet The Ineos Grenadier Game Viewer: A Safari-Ready 4x4

Ineos has revealed the Grenadier Game Viewer, with sales planned for early next year. The idea comes from a previous concept that drew strong interest from safari lodges, wildlife reserves, and private estates across Africa and beyond.

This new version is a factory-built conversion offered on the long and extra-long Grenadier models. The plan is simple: partially assembled bodies leave the Hambach plant and get shipped to Ineos Kavango in Botswana, where the vehicles are finished specifically for safari duty.

When they arrive, they’re basically blank canvases. No paint, no tailgates, no rear seating, no side windows, no roof skin, no trim, and none of the electronics they don’t need. From there, Kavango turns them into open-air Game Viewers that can seat anywhere between four and nine passengers in the back.

Owners can tailor quite a bit, too. Seating layout, storage solutions, and roof configuration - all of it can be customized to suit whatever operation the vehicle is intended for.

One important detail is that the conversion doesn’t require altering the chassis. That means the Game Viewer still qualifies for the full factory warranty and after-sales support, which gives it a big leg up over typical third-party Safari builds.

Four early examples will start real-world duty next month at Hidden Lodge near Gqeberha in South Africa. These prototypes helped Ineos fine-tune the final production setup.

Performance figures haven’t been released for the Game Viewer specifically, but the regular Grenadier uses BMW’s 3.0-liter inline-six engines. The gas version makes 282 hp and 332 lb-ft of torque, while the diesel delivers 245 hp and 406 lb-ft.

Ineos Automotive CEO Lynn Calder says the Game Viewer brings the Grenadier “full circle,” since the whole idea for the vehicle came from founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s safari trip in Botswana nearly ten years ago. She added that teams in Hambach and Botswana have spent the last year and a half developing the production-ready version, and they’re eager to see it out in the wild - literally!