It was the most mortifying moment in my career as an automotive journalist—so embarrassing that I hesitate to put it on record. I’d flown into Glasgow Airport late one night in early January 2023 and driven north to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands. Snow swirled in the beams of the headlamps, and the pale moonlight hinted at the vast, bleak moors and mountainsides around me. As I arrived at the Kingshouse Hotel, a colossal but curious and gentle red stag emerged from the darkness to greet me. I’d come to test the inaugural Ineos Grenadier for Robb Report, and this seemed the perfect location to finally meet this rugged, idiosyncratic, much-delayed, and very British new off-roader. The full beauty of the landscape was revealed as dawn broke, and as I waited to collect the keys to my test vehicle, one of the other attendees asked me how my journey up had been. I told..
