The new scout is not pretty plus all electric vehicle manufacturers are taking a nose dive. When will people learn from mistakes? https://www.motortrend.com/news/202...yimageid=c389a43f-7a11-4325-b4b1-c871ea38c199
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The article you're referring is not an official render, let alone not even a render teased by Scout Motors. Any opinion about the product is premature at this point as production models have not been produced. Time will tell.
I’ve been out of the loop on announcements and developments - when are they expected to officially announce something?
Fairly short sighted. Terrible EVs are tanking, you can’t attribute that to the entire market. Using current market factors would mean that because no one wanted the Honda insight in 2000, Tesla wouldn’t have come into market in 2003. Even the initial Tesla sales were weak and the pundits have since been proven wrong. The macro market as a whole is having a correction. Typical bull whip effect from the last couple years of booming sales. Let’s assume the charging ecosystem will continue to develop over the next 2-3 years while range anxiety works itself out and provides even more convenience.
Detroit Auto Show is in September - is that the goal? ;-)2024 we will show something...
I bet they'd have something done by then. Thought Jamie said somewhere that 3rd quarter 2024 the design would be finalized? Can't remember if they said anything about having prototypes rolling around. As hard as they are pushing Scout = American I could see a July 4th reveal or at least another video for us to see some Scout 800s & Scout II's playing around across the country
That would be remarkable. Per a podcast on Classic4x4 with Ryan Duvall it was intended that Scout would be revived during Harvestor Homecoming but was leaked before then.
It will be interesting to see how Scout Motors plans to announce it's future concept. In recent history, manufacturers release their models through YouTube or their own release followed by media release soon after. The North American Auto Show (Detroit Auto Show) doesn't seem to be the platform where manufacturers release their concepts any longer. With SM being a new company, it will be interesting to see how they decide to reach a wider audience. If SM decides to go the route of doing a YouTube premier, I think teasers will needed to create excitement.
I think pebble beach would be a cool location as well. YouTube certainly hits the younger generation but I think a live event will be critical-especially for a brand new (kinda 
) vehicle for the market. YouTube is great when you are established and have regular visitors to your site to direct them to online media launch events but since SM isn’t established like Ford or Toyota I fear online will be less successful. I generally would agree about Detroit being a launch venue but maybe in this case as an American made vehicle Detroit would be the place.
) vehicle for the market. YouTube is great when you are established and have regular visitors to your site to direct them to online media launch events but since SM isn’t established like Ford or Toyota I fear online will be less successful. I generally would agree about Detroit being a launch venue but maybe in this case as an American made vehicle Detroit would be the place.
Tesla sales took a long time to take off partly because each vehicle they spit out the door had to go back through assembly.
While high priced EV's may be sliding there is a market for $30,000 family cars and between the government of CA and DC there is expected to come a time when the only new vehicle you can buy in certain places is 100% EV.
There are solutions to ICe mileage waiting to be developed or discovered just as we have been running bandaids (catalytic convertors) on all gas cars since 1975 with zero necessity to actually clean up the bare engines.
For ICE why can't we go back to tge drawing board with Diesel that was originally developed to run on sustainable plant oils and not petroleum. It was Rockefeller and JP Morgan that demanded a fossil fuel for Diesels
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1. you have seen NOTHING....
2. the "all new bronco" leaked since 2004 or something... never looked anything like the rollout... so don't judge what you don't know.
3. what the hell was 3... I need coffee.
Tesla sales took a long time to take off partly because each vehicle they spit out the door had to go back through assembly.
While high priced EV's may be sliding there is a market for $30,000 family cars and between the government of CA and DC there is expected to come a time when the only new vehicle you can buy in certain places is 100% EV.
There are solutions to ICe mileage waiting to be developed or discovered just as we have been running bandaids (catalytic convertors) on all gas cars since 1975 with zero necessity to actually clean up the bare engines.
For ICE why can't we go back to tge drawing board with Diesel that was originally developed to run on sustainable plant oils and not petroleum. It was Rockefeller and JP Morgan that demanded a fossil fuel for Diesels
Diesel was peanut oil!! There is a reason he vanished on the boat...
I had a design idea, that is probably too late given design stages, but who knows...
I was thinking that it would be really interesting (in the spirit of "honoring the Scout heritage") to have something on the new Scout that had the exact same dims or same design or shape. The rear window for example... Sure it could be made out of new glass and have better molding, or whatever would make it safer, but imagine if the new Scout had an IDENTICAL rear window shape? I don't know. Just a thought.
I was thinking that it would be really interesting (in the spirit of "honoring the Scout heritage") to have something on the new Scout that had the exact same dims or same design or shape. The rear window for example... Sure it could be made out of new glass and have better molding, or whatever would make it safer, but imagine if the new Scout had an IDENTICAL rear window shape? I don't know. Just a thought.
