[PeterPrinciple]

late 1950s, when Ted Ornas, an auto designer for International Harvester, designed the company’s first Scout, a four-wheel-drive recreational vehicle, something that didn’t exist at the time.

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It existed, scout was a late comer.

[DUMBGRUNT]

--"It existed, scout was a late comer."

From the article. The Jeep was for the military, but the Scout was the first civilian SUV,” said John Gunnell, a 75-year-old former editor of Old Cars Weekly.

[Rowdyone]

Yeh, what do they think a Jeep is?