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VW’s latest electric Scout off-roaders to get their very own platform

Derek FungBy Derek FungDecember 14, 2023No Comments4 Mins Read
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Ever since Volkswagen announced it was reviving Scout as an electric-only brand for pickups and SUVs, people have been wondering what platform the marque will use, and the way it’ll meet its 2024 unveiling deadline.

The brand’s CEO, Scott Keogh, has confirmed the corporate’s first products will likely be a “full-size pickup” and accompanying SUV.

The brand new Scout range subsequently has the Ford F-150 Lightning, Chevrolet Silverado EV, and Ram 1500 REV pickup trucks in its sights.

Aside from their very American-ness, all these vehicles use a rugged body-on-frame architecture. All of Volkswagen’s electric vehicle (EV) platforms are for monocoque cars, and the one body-on-frame passenger vehicle in its sprawling lineup is the Amarok ute, which is predicated on the Ford Ranger.

Mr Keogh, formerly head of Volkswagen in North America, told Automotive News the Scout range will use a “completely unique platform” that’s been engineered and developed from the “ground up”.

Although he didn’t confirm Scout could have a body-on-frame structure, like its competitors, Mr Keogh stated the brand will use a “100 per cent capable, American, robust, full platform”.

He also refuted the concept Scout would use a derivative of the MEB architecture, which underpins the whole lot from Cupra Born to the Volkswagen ID.7.

While Scout will launch with its previously teased pickup and SUV models, Mr Keogh acknowledged that there are “opportunities” in smaller vehicles but that he’s wary of getting “sidetracked”.

For now, he believes “lot of fish to fish for in these two [initial categories] and we would like to succeed there”.

  • VW's new electric Scout off-roaders to get their own platform

When Volkswagen America announced it was reviving the Scout name in late 2022, it set a goal of getting its initial vehicles in production by 2026.

With no engineers on Scout’s payroll, or an acceptable platform to make use of, the nascent marque enlisted the services of Magna, a Canadian automotive supplier that also does design and engineering consulting, and produces cars on contract through its Magna Steyr subsidiary in Austria.

Mr Keogh says having Magna on board “was helpful at that phase to get things moving”, although he claims Scout’s engineers are actually “within the lead”.

In keeping with the CEO, design is “85, 90, 95 percent of the way in which there” with the proportions and exterior styling “dialed in”. Up to now the corporate has hosted clinics in California, Dallas, and Denver, where customers were shown models of the brand new cars and pictures of the cabin.

  • VW's new electric Scout off-roaders to get their own platform
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“Frankly, the clinics were a few of the perfect clinics that the Volkswagen Group has ever had, period, in america,” Mr Keogh claimed.

At present, Scout only has around 300 employees, even though it is currently hiring 50 or so per thirty days. It is ready to interrupt ground on its factory in Blythewood, South Carolina early in 2024 with production prone to begin in late 2026.

The SUV will likely be first model to roll down the road, with the pickup truck set to follow around six months later.

Over the past few many years, Volkswagen America has been struggling to recreate the success it initially enjoyed with the Beetle.

  • VW's new electric Scout off-roaders to get their own platform

Within the 2010s, the corporate launched latest Jetta and Passat models designed expressly for America with greater engines and bodies, in addition to simplified engineering to make pricing competitive with Asian and American brands.

While these cars boosted sales figures initially of their lives, they diluted the Volkswagen brand and got here at a time when Americans were shifting en masse from traditional body styles to crossovers.

Through the use of the Scout to attack the USA’s largest and most profitable market segments, Volkswagen is hoping to sidestep issues related to its core brand and eventually sell around 250,000 vehicles per 12 months.

Volkswagen gained the rights to the Scout badge when it purchased heavy truck manufacturer Navistar, founded in 1986 because the successor to International Harvester.

The Scout name was applied to a Jeep rival from the International Harvester company between 1961 and 1980.


This Article First Appeared At www.carexpert.com.au

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