Various hurdles and set-backs are expected, especially when dealing with a vehicle segment that sits well outside the standard SUV or sedan arena. The Ineos Grendier is a brand-new product from a brand-new company,

Output of the Grenadier and its derivative is being stopped at the off-road vehicle maker's French factory until it can regain access to a key component.

The Ineos Grenadier may be virtually unstoppable off-road, but it’s hit a roadblock in production thanks to a missing trim piece that a supplier cannot provide due to what has been described as “a pre-insolvency situation”. Neither the supplier, nor the trim piece, has been named.

The news comes from Ineos Automotive CEO Lynn Calder in an interview with Automotive News Europe. The supplier issue affects Grenadier and Quartermaster models. "I know that the [supplier] is working really hard to try and turn around their business and I want to give them every opportunity to do that”, she said.

An Ineos representative told Automotive News Europe that the problematic supplier was "in a pre-insolvency situation." Recaro Aut