Ineos chairman hands contract to MBtech to create and produce prototypes of ‘world-lesson 4x4’Jim Ratcliffe,the multibillionaire chemicals tycoon and Brexit supporter, has handed a contract to create a “British” successor to the Land Rover Defender to a company in Germany.
With a fortune estimated at £7bn, and Ratcliffe is the second-richest person in Britain after 27-year-old property heir Hugh Grosvenor. He said on Wednesday his chemicals company Ineos had signed up more than 200 German engineers to create a modern “world-lesson 4x4”,the idea for which he first conceived in a pub near Buckingham Palace. Related: Jaguar Land Rover to do only electric or hybrid cars from 2020 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com