VW reviving Scout as EV sub-brand for off-road pickup and SUV

The Hummer, Bronco and Blazer have all returned in new a long time as a end result of the ongoing SUV growth. The Global Harvester Scout is next—and it’s likely to be electrical.

Citing people today acquainted with the make a difference, The Wall Avenue Journal described on Tuesday that Volkswagen Group’s board is expected to give the environmentally friendly light-weight on Wednesday to a Scout revival.

Afterwards in the working day, VW confirmed the rumor, and verified that there will be both equally an SUV and pickup truck. The automaker also presented teaser sketches of the two cars.

VW Team owns the legal rights to the Scout name via its ownership of Navistar which was formed from International Harvester in the 1980s, and the automaker has presently applied the title in latest heritage on some automobiles from its Skoda brand.

The approach is to have the contemporary Scouts built, engineered and produced in the U.S., with the emphasis to be on the regional sector. A separate firm will be recognized in the U.S. to oversee the Scout revival.

The cars will be dependent on a new platform that VW Team mentioned will convey “new pickup and [rugged utility vehicle] credibility” to the automaker’s current portfolio of platforms.

“The company we will set up this calendar year will be a separate unit and model within the Volkswagen Team to be managed independently,” Arno Antlitz, VW Group’s CFO, claimed in a assertion. “This aligns with the new group steering product: tiny units that act agilely and have entry to our tech platforms to leverage synergies.”

Will not get much too thrilled just however, although. The to start with fashionable Scout is not because of until eventually 2026. Having said that, a prototype will be unveiled as soon as subsequent calendar year.

VW has been teasing the notion of offering a pickup truck in the U.S. for several years and only in April the brand’s regional main, Scott Koegh, mentioned that an electrical pickup truck could be a boon for the manufacturer. There have also been studies of VW launching a reborn VW Issue as an EV. All of the expressive products are part of a wider strategy to launch extra emotive EVs. Remain tuned.