- New EV model Scout launches with Terra pickup and Traveler SUV
- Third mannequin within the works however timing unsure
- Scout spokesman mentioned firm open to two-door SUV with detachable roof
Volkswagen Group’s new U.S.-based rugged EV model Scout Motors confirmed its first merchandise final week within the type of the Terra pickup truck and Traveler SUV, each impressed by the Worldwide Harvester Scout fashions of the identical title bought in the course of the Nineteen Seventies.
Through the presentation, which was held in Nashville, Scout teased a 3rd mannequin by displaying the picture of a shrouded automobile whose silhouette resembled an SUV. A part of the automobile’s entrance aspect part was seen, displaying what gave the impression to be a extra rugged wheel design and a extra pronounced fender flare, suggesting that the automobile could also be an extra-rugged off-roader.
Scout Traveler SUV idea
Whereas Scout is not ready to debate what the automobile may be, or when it is going to be launched, Shaheen Karimian, Scout’s head of product advertising and marketing, hinted at one potential avenue in a press release to fanatic web site The Autopian.
When requested about Scout’s determination to go for a set roof on the Traveler SUV, albeit with the selection of a glass panel or a sliding heart part that opens for an ethereal really feel, Karimian conceded that there is a subset of shoppers that desire a true detachable roof expertise, like what you get within the Jeep Wrangler and Ford Bronco, in addition to some unique Scouts.
Scout Traveler idea
He mentioned Scout would not have been capable of ship a passable design with a automobile the dimensions of the brand new Traveler, however added that Scout hasn’t dominated out providing a real detachable roof possibility sooner or later on a automobile with fewer doorways and a shorter wheelbase.
“On a two row automobile of this dimension, to ship on all the opposite buyer wants, the detachable panels could be massive, heavy, and difficult to supply a top quality expertise with out creating the next buyer worth or an impacted automobile expertise,” he instructed The Autopian. “Doesn’t imply we will’t do one sooner or later, on say a automobile with fewer doorways and a shorter wheelbase.”
Scout Traveler SUV idea
Nevertheless, given the low take charges of the two-door Wranglers and Broncos, it is greater than probably no matter Scout is planning for its third mannequin will nonetheless be an SUV with 4 doorways and a set roof. It is nonetheless good to dream, although.
Reservations for the brand new Scouts are already being accepted and pricing has been confirmed by the corporate to start out beneath $60,000 for each fashions. Vary on electrical energy alone will probably be over 350 miles however a spread extender, on this case a gasoline engine, will probably be obtainable and can take whole vary as much as greater than 500 miles. Manufacturing will begin in 2027 at a plant in South Carolina.
