Posted on 05/12/2022 6:27:15 AM PDT by mylife
Scout will become a new company under the VW Group conglomerate, with pickup and SUV prototypes to be revealed next year ahead of production in 2026.
BY CALEB MILLER MAY 11, 2022
Volkswagen will join the electric off-road market by creating a new company with the long defunct Scout nameplate, once used by International Harvester. The Scout brand will begin production in 2026, with an electric pickup truck and SUV duo. Prototypes will be revealed next year, and the vehicles will be based on a new platform and designed specifically for the U.S. market. Volkswagen is entering the electric off-roader scene, and in doing so will revive a legendary nameplate: the Scout. Made famous by truck and tractor maker International Harvester in the 1960s and 1970s, the Scout moniker will return on an electric SUV and pickup truck designed for the American market, with production planned for 2026.
The Scout name will be bestowed upon a new company under the Volkswagen Group umbrella, which will be established this year with the first prototypes unveiled in 2023. Along with the announcement, Volkswagen provided sketches of a rugged, boxy SUV and pickup truck duo, with an upturned window line that recalls the rear glass from the ‘60s original. VW says the new Scouts will be based on a new EV platform, and more details will presumably arrive next year when the sketches come to life.
The return of the Scout name had been rumored recently in a report from the Wall Street Journal, which hints at other details of the Scout’s rebirth. According to the report, VW is aiming to ultimately end up selling 250,000 Scout-branded vehicles per year in America. Volkswagen came by the Scout moniker when its Traton truck division took control of Navistar International, the descendant of International Harvester, in 2020.
The report also suggested that the Scout brand will have its own factories and that these are likely to be in the United States. A separate listing on a stock exchange for the new company is also rumored. By the time the Scout duo arrive, the electric off-roader space will be fairly crowded, with the current players—the GMC Hummer EV and Rivian R1T—set to be joined by an electric Jeep Wrangler and others.
Those look cool. Too bad they’re electric and too bad they’re VWs.
Is there enough room to carry the generator and fuel to recharge the vehicle when it gets stranded out in the boonies?
Stupid,
Those are the original IH Scouts…a vehicle that felt like it was built by a tractor company, only with more oil leaks.
My IH Scout combined a frame that would never rust, with bodywork that rusted as if never painted.
I learned to drive on an International Travelall. It drove very similar to the IH Super H tractor we also owned.
It was a step up from the Cub Cadet we used to mow the lawn. Needless to say, my Dad was an IH man. No John Deere’s or Massey’s on his property.
The Travelall also had horrible brakes. Touch them and they would lock up. However, it was a tank. My oldest brother rolled it with a couple buddies riding with him. Literally 360 degrees. My father/brother pounded out the dents and it was just fine. He then hit a deer with it. Killed the deer, broke the head light and bent the grill a little.
and where in the forest can I plug them in when I go off-road? sarc
You act like people actually drive off-road vehicles off road. The only people who do that are suburban moms that have no clue how to drive in snow, thinking that 4-wheel drive means they can brake on any surface. They go off road though, usually on the berm of road.
no kidding.
I wonder if these will have the wide variety of leftover parts where any particular year and model might have any one of a dozen different makes of _________ part installed.
we had a couple with the 345 and they’d crawl of climb through impossible situations only to break down or have a part just fall off a few minutes later
Every prepper should be familiar with the trees that carry 120V outlets.
We had an IH Scout for our house in Maine. It was rigged with a snow plow. Can one of these VW Scouts handle a snow plow?
Eh, FWIW Bugatti, Lamborghini, and Bentley are technically all “VW” as well...
Well, I won’t be buying one of them either. Their loss, I suppose lol
-——The Scout brand will begin production in 2026-—
It is reported that VW will not be around in 2026
Like GM, VW will be gone or a mere shadow
The new Bronco looks like the old Scout.
Volkswagen can call these things Scouts but in my book, the real Scouts were made by International Harvester.
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