Jamie, this is awesome! Glad to see that this treasure will be at home with its distant relatives and soon to be new family members. I think I recall seeing this on Marketplace maybe over the spring of this past year. This will be a treasure and an impressive grab by SM.
Next time y'all meet I'd appreciate you throwing this question to the assembled masses. The Legacy Scouts, particularly the "underpowered" 80s and 800s were known as some of the best snow plow machines you could have. Narrow tires to dig deep, low power so they didn't spin, torque to push big loads, maneuverable, etc. Wherever I show mine people make comments about how great they were as plows. Today all the pickups are too big and high, and too long to do residential plowing, and in fact many now simply cannot have a plow mounted because of the electronics. The guys with plow trucks are mostly driving 20-30 year old vehicles. So what vehicle is coming along that will handle driveways for rural homes, strip malls, gas stations, places too small for the dump truck municipal size plow and too big for suburban solutions like side-by-sides and walk-behinds? Can an electric ever do it. Is it a niche Scout Motors could ever reclaim?Was such a big week traveling and such that I'm writing this update on Saturday...
This week was another milestone at Scout. Chris and I spent most of the week in person with nearly all of our engineers and executives for one of the milestone product forums. These are major milestone meetings where all the various teams working on the new Scout trucks give updates on the current status of the project, have an opportunity to sit in one very large place and compare notes with other team members and receive hands on feedback from leadership. Basically a team huddle to make sure everything is moving along on time, roadblocks are overcome and adjustments to any goals are discussed, debated and adjusted if necessary. To accommodate everyone, this is held in a large industrial building where there typically isn't enough room for everyone, so it creates a great scrum atmosphere where you are working right next to the power train team one minute and walking past our CEO the next. I personally met over a dozen people in person for the first time - people that I've been working with virtually for a year now (yes, it has already been a year for me). The excitement is palpable and literally everyone I talked to intentionally wanted to be part of bringing the new Scout to market and is excited by all the possibilities.
Chris and I finding any space we could to collab on a few things:
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Chris and I met with our new Communications Director and did some long term planning looking at our future factory ground breaking events, unveiling dates and more. Plus mapping out our community upgrades, content plans and much, much more.
In other news, next Tuesday, November 14th is our Scout Community 1st Birthday. Most of you here may have noticed you have a special status as a "1st Year Member". That opportunity to be a first year member expires on November 14th. We will allow a grace period through Friday of next week. If you know anyone interested in the new Scout I would highly (hint, hint) recommend you tell them to register to get 1st Year Member status as it will have perks in the future.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Jamie
That Ford GT wasn't on the transport when it picked up the Scout, but a not inexpensive Audi R8 GT was. The Ford GT was the next to be picked up. The driver said it was special and worth over $1m, if I understood him correctly. (Google says $1.7m each for a production of 67.) Kinda made little old Fire Scout the ugly duckling of that trip. The driver seemed unimpressed with the fancy cars but had a old personal relationship with Scouts so seemed real pleased to deal with it.
Amazing I’ve been on this forum for a full year already. Here’s to another great yearHappy 1st Birthday to the Scout Community!
One year ago today, Christopher Stahl and I launched the Scout Community forums. Getting involved in bringing an icon like the Scout back to market is an opportunity that only comes around once in a great while. It was only natural that Scout wanted to place Community at the forefront of the brand since people are the heart of the brand. I couldn't be happier to be part of it and take our future customers along for the ride as we reimagine the new Scout.
As most of you that have registered here have noticed, you have "1st Year Member" status celebrating Scout Motors first year in business. Along with that status will come special perks in the future. If you know of someone that has even a remote interest in the new Scout, I recommend telling them to register before this coming Saturday to make sure they get 1st Year Member status.
2024 will be a big year. We can't wait to show you what we've been working on.
Baseball and beer. Can’t get much better office space than that. Hope you all get some work done on game days!!!
Welcome aboard! Interesting that Dr. Huhnke was recently with Fisker and that the Ocean is built by Magna.
I recognize that this may be the way of the future, but it sure flies in the face of the legacy of the Scout and earlier statements about honouring that legacy with low priced, rugged, vehicles that would fill the utilitarian niche and be adaptable to serious off-road (off grid, off net) use. We don't all live in the urban/suburban swaths of the coastal states; and even some who do have difficulty staying connected. My road is 4 miles long, it has two areas where there is no internet coverage, and for the rest there is but one provider. Yes, this is less than 20 miles from the capital of the state which if states were viewed as independent nations it would be the 10th largest economy in the world. Sorry Mr. Huhnke, this quote has given me further impetus to keep my real automobiles (Legacy Scouts) fit and running. Your quote aptly describes my new Tundra which I consider to be a 4WD computer with steering wheel, not a valid serviceable pickup; it is as close to your concept as I ever wish to go.
I’m not saying it’s a negative at all. Magna knows their stuff and if that means getting Scouts on the road sooner let’s roll!
I did a test drive in a magna built Jaguar i-pace (I know, not an off road vehicle by any stretch). The ride quality was really nice, left me impressed with magna.
