If there’s one notable absentee within the present Land Rover Defender line, it’s a pickup truck. The unique Defender, and the even older Land Rover Sequence vehicles it was based mostly on, have been all obtainable with a mattress, however the fashionable Land Rover firm doesn’t appear that concerned with constructing one.

However Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos crew are. Ratcliffe created the Grenadier Station Wagon to fill what he perceived as a niche left by the demise of the previous Defender and Ineos has confirmed a pickup variant, the Grenadier Quartermaster Double-Cab, is coming to July’s Goodwood Pageant of Pace.

Ineos’s teaser launch and sole accompanying picture of the truck don’t give away a lot concerning the spec of the pickup, just like the wheelbase, however happily, we’ve already seen spy pictures of the prototype testing, they usually’re much more revealing. These photographs present the Quartermaster is similar to the Station Wagon as much as the B-pillars, however considerably totally different thereafter. The wheelbase is for much longer than the SUV’s 115-in (2,922 mm) chassis and the rear overhang is much better to permit a usefully massive mattress.

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The Quartermaster has the Grenadier identify stamped into the rear gate and the identical round LED lights as its SUV brother. And in a single additional change, the spare wheel – positioned on the rear door of the SUV – now stands upright, contained in the pickup mattress. As for engines, Ineos isn’t saying at this stage, however they’ll nearly definitely be the very same 3.0-liter, six-cylinder petrol and diesel engines supplied within the passenger truck, not less than initially.

We are saying initially as a result of Ineos is lifeless critical about hydrogen energy, which it views as a much more appropriate energy supply for a working truck than batteries. We’ve recognized for some time that Ineos was engaged on bringing the tech to the Grenadier and this 12 months it’s bringing a prototype to Goodwood for the world to see. The Grenadier Hydrogen Gas Cell (FCEV) Expertise Demonstrator and Quartermaster will each be on show within the First Look Paddock and also will be pushed up the hillclimb route on every of the 4 days of the Pageant.

In the meantime, anybody desirous to get extra intently acquainted with the Grenadier will have the ability to get behind the wheel of the unique Station Wagon mannequin and take it round an off-road course.