The final off-roader to put on a Scout badge was bought 44 years in the past, however now, almost 5 a long time later, Volkswagen has revived the model and is on the verge of unveiling the primary two fashions to put on the Scout Motors badge – a brand new Scout Pickup and SUV. That reveal is simply two weeks away (44 years to the week that the final Scout II rolled off the manufacturing line), and Scout is kicking up its teaser marketing campaign into excessive gear. In a brand new video posted to the model’s social media platforms, seen under, Scout goals to ramp up pleasure for the brand new fashions by displaying coy glimpses of one of many automobiles whereas trying outward on the design and administration workforce engaged on its design.
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Numerous designers and model CEO Scott Keogh all focus on the model’s heritage, the chance for this as a brand new legacy model, and what might have been if Scout had continued constructing automobiles as a substitute of stopping again in 1980.
Scout Motors is an American automaker that was established in 2022 to supply electrical off-road automobiles. It’s at present owned by Volkswagen Group, which acquired the rights to the model from Worldwide Harvester. The model is a wholly new firm however will construct on the legacy of the unique Scout off-roaders, launching two fashions: an SUV and a pickup truck on a brand new electrical box-frame chassis platform, which shall be produced in Blythewood, South Carolina.
Based Could 2022
Founder Volkswagen Group
Headquarters Detroit, Michigan
Owned By Volkswagen Group
Present CEO Scott Keough
Leaning Into The Heritage Of Scout
All through the video, the voices of all these concerned lean into the heritage of the unique fashions, which have been real rivals to the likes of the Bronco and Wagoneer of the period. “I feel it’s an icon,” says CEO Scott Keogh, persevering with, “It launched America to a sport utility automobile at a time when there [weren’t] many on the market, referred to as it an eight-day-a-week truck – which I beloved. The story was iconic. The design is iconic.”
And it is that iconic design Scout desires to leverage, with designers claiming that “What we have been fascinated with right here at Scout is how do you seize the magic of Scout from the 60s and 70s and the way do you set that into the fashionable day?”
What all of it factors to is 2 new fashions that shall be closely retro of their type and goal, however singular of their focus, to be the perfect electrical off-roaders round, and the muse of what Keogh labels “the following nice, iconic American model.”
“I feel the essence of a Scout is in its definition – it is somebody who goes forth to find, goes forth to strive new issues, goes forth to enhance society, and, heck, get pleasure from your self. I feel we’re trying on the subsequent nice, iconic American model.”
– Scott Keogh, CEO of Scout Motors
Two Fashions, All-Electrical, All Off-Street
The teaser is pure hype for the model and does not actually reveal something we did not already know design-wise. Nevertheless it does present somewhat further element on the liquid-filled compass that has been proven in prior teasers and which shall be a singular design ingredient inside the brand new Scout duo. Talking of the duo, tons nonetheless must be confirmed, however we already know a good quantity.
For starters, each shall be all-electric and hit the street in 2026; the automobiles we’ll see on 24 October shall be ideas or prototypes of these to come back. We additionally know they will not merely be reskinned fashions on current VW underpinnings. No, the Scout SUV and Scout Pickup – with names unconfirmed, though we have found a number of potentials – will make the most of a brand new ladder-frame chassis with built-in traction batteries. We suspected this may be the case after discovering patents for a box-frame electrical pickup again in 2022, however Scout later confirmed this.
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We do not but know what measurement classes the automobiles will sit in, but when we have been to hazard an knowledgeable guess, we might say the midsize phase is the place Scout will pitch them as true rivals to the Ford Bronco, Jeep Wrangler, Rivian R1S, and Rivian R1T. A $50,000 beginning worth is anticipated, too, which tracks for this phase.
We additionally know that regardless of boasting a retro design, it should nonetheless be trendy in look and that inside, it should have a number of “chunky buttons” as a substitute of an interface dominated by screens.
The 2 fashions shall be in-built South Carolina, which means once they arrive in 2026, they will be eligible for as much as $7,500 in federal tax credit.