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The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« on: May 12, 2022, 12:26:07 PM »
I always liked the International Harvester Scout II vehicle.  VW owns the rights to "Scout" and they are bringing it back as an EV in SUV and pickup configurations by 2026.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/usa-scout-suv-pickup
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2022, 12:36:17 PM »
Hhh, I hope it isn't as sparse austere as the old IH Scouts.   

I was just looking at a Scout in pretty good shape a few weeks ago.  I did like them ...kinda reminded me of the Series II Land Rovers as "utility first" vehicles.
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2022, 01:10:32 PM »
>austere

Heh. It will have cup holders. (My Subaru has 19 cup holders.)

I saw a fully restored Scout II here awhile back.  It was beautiful  I told someone at the time that if somebody brought it back like Ford was doing with the Bronco that it would sell.  They are rare up North because of salt/rust plus everyone drove theirs into the ground.
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2022, 01:52:23 PM »
>everyone drove theirs into the ground.

Yeah, Scout I only had about 3 moving parts.  Farmers just repaired them in the tractor shed.
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2023, 11:10:11 PM »
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2023, 11:23:26 AM »
Sounds like they are firmly targeting the Jeep models.

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First will be a small, off-road focused SUV that Keogh calls an RUV: a "rugged utility vehicle." The second is a larger truck, which will "lean a little bit more on-road" in terms of its driving characteristics.

https://news.yahoo.com/scout-motors-plans-bring-rugged-165226388.html

Chrysler/Jeep is doing okay in the ICE market but I've not heard any big plans from Jeep about going EV.

I'm glad a major car company is going to try and bring the Scout back, as long as they don't make it too goofy looking.
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2023, 02:15:21 PM »
> targeting the Jeep models

And Rivian, which is getting good reviews for off-road.  (But Rivian is showing signs of trouble scaling production.)
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2023, 11:05:00 PM »
South Carolina offers $1.3B to new Scout electric SUV maker - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/south-carolina-offers-13b-new-scout-electric-suv-97659911
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2024, 01:32:49 PM »


https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/cars/vw-scout-american-electric-suvs/index.html

VW is reviving a storied American brand to sell electric SUVs | CNN Business
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2024, 03:21:01 PM »
I wonder what the balance sheet looks like for these deals.

David Kay Johnston, Free Lunch, shows that a lot of retailers get them and they are universally bad (getting these deals is the basic business mode for Cabelas). The stadium deals are also usually horrible for the communities in the long term and good for the team owners and sometimes the local construction industry in the short term.

But a car plant just might pencil out. Unlike Cabelas which mostly displaces local existing employers, these at least seem like net new jobs even after the construction phase.
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Re: The IH Scout SUV Coming Back as an EV
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2024, 03:34:48 PM »
Style wise, the boxier the better but not too big.  We have enough monster pickups and SUV's on the road as it is.

It's hard to thread that needle on design between retro and modern but SUV's like the Land Rover and the Bronco just have not excited me.  Just a bit too modern.
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