First there was the Grenadier, the simple and affordable off-road utility truck that was going to carry on where the old Land Rover Defender left off. Then there was the Grenadier, the remarkable but not very affordable premium off-roader that came on like the old Defender but picked up where the new one started. And now there’s the Quartermaster, the double-cab that takes the same formula and uses it to create a 4×4 pick-up like no other.
It’s like no other because it has beam axles at both ends. Yet in other ways there are similarities to other pick-ups currently on the market. You can have it with a 3.0-litre petrol engine: the Ford Ranger says hello. Its cabin is taken directly from a station wagon: step up the KGM Musso. The tax man will laugh at your efforts to slip by unnoticed:
soon, everything.
There’s another way in which the Quartermaster differs to the rest of the pickup market, however. The model we drove was a Fieldmaster, which gave it a starting price of £73,730. Add all the options that were on our tester and now it’s standing at £84,028. You can still do an awful lot more on a new Defender but as pick-ups go it’s on its own.
Find out more in the January issue of Overlander 4×4 –
