VW is bringing back the Scout!

[Midnight Rider]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/vw-resurrecting-scout-as-an-electric-american-truck

Had a ‘78 back in the day, loved it. Hopefully the new ones don’t rust as bad.

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[NachoRuby]

Cool, but it just seems like everyone is jumping on the off-road truck bandwagon now. I like vws, and I like the old scouts though.

 

[Garemlin]

Electric. So this will be in Hummer EV price territory.

 

[JET_83]

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/vw-resurrecting-scout-as-an-electric-american-truck

Had a ‘78 back in the day, loved it. Hopefully the new ones don’t rust as bad.

Saw that a month back, super ecstatic

 

[cmb396]

Need to bring back "the thing"!! lol

 

[Chuck]

Almost everyone I know that has had a newer VW has had electrical problems. Hope they get that figured out

 

[RustySeatbelt]

These off-road EV's are cool and all, but unless it's a PHEV like the 4xe, it's kind of pointless except for the town crowd. You're not going to do any significant off-roading due to horrendous range, and the possibility of being stranded.

 

[DirkG]

Cool: Scout.
Not so cool: VW.

I also kept repeatedly reading "may" in that article as the board has not approved the project yet. Sounds like there are some hurdles there.

 

[ecidiego]

Cool, but it just seems like everyone is jumping on the off-road truck bandwagon now. I like vws, and I like the old scouts though.

Hopefully the competition causes Jeep to provide professional service to attract and keep customers.

 

[BajaTym]

We'll see how it goes.

At this point it's nothing more than the name "Scout", since IH isn't actually building it. I'm a fan of the IH Scout, in fact I used its manual locking hubs on my 51 M38 restoration. Those old Scouts were very functional, I remember being pulled out of a real embarrassing situation by a Scout back in the early 90s (I was driving an 86 Ford Ranger with a 4" lift and 35" tires), I was stuck in the middle of the Mojave river, water up to my doors). The Scout drove a circle around me and then tossed me a line. The dude pulled me out with ease. I also had a buddy that owned one, we lost an axel shaft driving down the I-15 (Cajon Pass) when we were teenagers, scariest thing I'd ever seen, almost crapped by shorts watching the wheel/axel-shaft slide out of the housing.

Anyway, I hope they/it retains the spirit of the original Scout/Scout II.

 

[steve68]

Scout good and IH built some good rough stuff!

But VW, Please, if it's pumping water it sucks!!! Let me tell you 1st gen Passat horror stories, there's a VW Beetle Vert' in front of my house right now, I pray every night it burst into flames!!

Told the wife, Please don't buy that thing!!!

I know mechanics that tell people, Please take it somewhere else!

If isn't air-cooled it isn't worth the hassle !!!!

 

[NachoRuby]

Scout good and IH built some good rough stuff!

But VW, Please, if it's pumping water it sucks!!!

Well this is going to be an ev, so, no pumping water!

I do enjoy an air-cooled VW, though (I don't hate the water-cooled ones either).

 

[Tommyd]

To bad it’s electric! I just can’t get into them yet. Looks cool. Hopefully it not to futuristic looking.

 

[joeym7]

Interesting but not for me...No matter if a person thinks Gladiator is "pretty" or ugly (I'm in the pretty camp ) there is no denying Gladiator is loaded with "Character"...

Unfortunately, this VW offering does not, imo.

 

[SpeedNeed]

FYI I had started a thread:
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/gladiator-vs-scout.58196/

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