VW: Scout EV SUV and Pickup

[solaskaze]

VW is reviving the Scout brand. They have ... a drawing!
So ..... a smushed Rivian?

Volkswagen Group to launch all-electric pick-up and rugged SUV in the United States -- Scoutevforum.com

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[Jacopa]

This is not a new announcement, it's been at least 2 years....

 

[moosetags]

It is very interesting that VW plans to revive the Scout as an EV offering. Scout is a very storied brand. Fifty years ago Scouts were the primary vehicles used by the US Border Patrol in all of their enforcement activities on both the Northern and Southern Borders. Those Scouts could make it through about anything. Of course, in those days, they were a product of International Harvester.

I guess we'll see how good a job VW does with the new Scout. I hope that VW will include some styling cues from the old Scout.

Brian

 

[Jacopa]

Styling is one thing, and they are probably gonna look really cool. But the battery pack, BMS, software, engineering, charging stats are totally another case, which, I for one hope VW gets right. The first swing of the bat with the ID's has been a swing and a miss for the most part.

Most everyone here should realize now how important the engineering really is in the BEV world. I definitely would not be first in line to buy one of these just on sheet metal.

 

[2or4Wheels]

Styling is one thing, and they are probably gonna look really cool. But the battery pack, BMS, software, engineering, charging stats are totally another case, which, I for one hope VW gets right. The first swing of the bat with the ID's has been a swing and a miss for the most part.

Most everyone here should realize now how important the engineering really is in the BEV world. I definitely would not be first in line to buy one of these just on sheet metal.

As a 2021 ID 4 owner I can attest to the swing and a miss, if not a strikeout.

 

[IHScout]

I am hopeful, but not optimistic. I am a little biased though. My understanding is that the truck will be a full size pickup and the SUV will be midsize.

 

[lefkonj]

While I love my Rivian, this is where a company like VW is making a mistake. They should buy Rivian, let RJ continue with the funding they can provide and pull his tech into the Audi/VWs. Imagine a company like Rivian with the guidance of a company that builds that many cars.

 

[NorCalRivianFan]

While I love my Rivian, this is where a company like VW is making a mistake. They should buy Rivian, let RJ continue with the funding they can provide and pull his tech into the Audi/VWs. Imagine a company like Rivian with the guidance of a company that builds that many cars.

VW would just slow down Rivian on anything which matters. They are a slow moving dinosaur when it comes to creating technologically advanced cars. I can only imagine that VW would get in the way of any big decision making.

 

[Dustyshades]

As a 2021 ID 4 owner I can attest to the swing and a miss, if not a strikeout.

Let me chime in here as another former ID.4 owner to say VW is trash and I will never buy anything they make ever again

 

[emoore]

While I love my Rivian, this is where a company like VW is making a mistake. They should buy Rivian, let RJ continue with the funding they can provide and pull his tech into the Audi/VWs. Imagine a company like Rivian with the guidance of a company that builds that many cars.

Ugh. No.

 

[UnsungZero_OldTimeAdMan]

VW is reviving the Scout brand. They have ... a drawing!
So ..... a smushed Rivian?

Volkswagen Group to launch all-electric pick-up and rugged SUV in the United States -- Scoutevforum.com

Did you just wake up from a coma? Welcome back. The year is 2024.

 

[R1 EVY]

This is not a new announcement, it's been at least 2 years....

Article reads 2022

 

[WorldComposting]

While I love my Rivian, this is where a company like VW is making a mistake. They should buy Rivian, let RJ continue with the funding they can provide and pull his tech into the Audi/VWs. Imagine a company like Rivian with the guidance of a company that builds that many cars.

While I'm not opposed to Rivian being bought out VW is one of the few companies I don't want to purchase them. VW is slow to change and would focus on cutting costs instead of building better products. I know a lot of people who love VWs but I also know a lot who had nothing but issues.

In the end if VW bought them they would meddle to much with the product and Rivian would become another VW derivative instead of being different.

As much as VW keeps talking about Scout I see it being a shell of what it once was and being essentially an ID4 with a few offroad upgrades. But nothing that would be a real contender.

 

[lefkonj]

VW would just slow down Rivian on anything which matters. They are a slow moving dinosaur when it comes to creating technologically advanced cars. I can only imagine that VW would get in the way of any big decision making.

Ugh. No.

While I'm not opposed to Rivian being bought out VW is one of the few companies I don't want to purchase them. VW is slow to change and would focus on cutting costs instead of building better products. I know a lot of people who love VWs but I also know a lot who had nothing but issues.

In the end if VW bought them they would meddle to much with the product and Rivian would become another VW derivative instead of being different.

As much as VW keeps talking about Scout I see it being a shell of what it once was and being essentially an ID4 with a few offroad upgrades. But nothing that would be a real contender.

I am not saying I want this just stating VW shouldn't start a new brand, it will take too much time. VW is an odd company. Keep in mind they own Porsche, Lambo, Audi, VW, Ducati, Bugatti, SEAT, Skoda. Look at the evolution of the Taycan, the one that was just released, I believe 3 years after the initial release. It is way faster, has a nice range boost. That isn't VW it is Porsche, being allowed to do what they do best. Not saying VW is perfect at all, just with all their other brands don't make a new one, fix VWs and Audi EVs, adding Rivian to the mix would help them do that.

Once again; I do not want VW to buy Rivian.

 

[Bob Steele]

Sadly, VW swings and misses on a lot of their line, not just EV. They do have the pinache of the bus and the bug that pull at certain heart strings though. And to think they have a link to Porsche - the engineering of the Taycan and soon to come Macan EV's are notable. 800 volt architecture allows me to charge my Taycan in ridiculously short times compared to my R1T. I sense that IF Rivian can bring the R2 and R3 to market before a lot of these other EV prototypes, many other brands will shelve plans. Consider Land Rover beating the INEOS to market by 3 years - the sales figures speak to the need to beat your competition to market.

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