Scout Motors' second-only YouTube video to date has kicked off the teaser campaign for its revival EV models, and the CGI world has responded quickly – but that's the way the imaginative realm of digital car content creators usually works.
As it turns out, Volkswagen doesn't have much news for the North American market – its latest communication from the middle of December 2023 only discussed how the namesake brand, along with Audi, Porsche, and Scout Motors, will align with the rest of their rivals and adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its future electric vehicles.
But that at least bodes well with the company's progressing plans to revive the Scout nameplate – and it turns out that we are about to see the first product or products sooner than anyone expected. We recently heard the rumor mill whisper that the first two models – a pickup truck and an SUV sibling – will be co-developed with Austria's Magna Steyr, and now there's also an official teaser video on social media confirming the introduction or will take place just a few months from now.
The brand kicked off the proceeds with "There Is a Scout in All of Us," a video that's only the second feature on Scout Motors' YouTube account after 'America's next shot' from around nine months ago. There's nothing in it about the actual EV truck – there are many uplifting images with adventurous folks and some beauty shots with old Scout models. In the end, the voiceover also says, "This is the moment, this is the call, this is the truck," and then the fade-out lets slip that the reveal is scheduled for this summer.
Suppose you frowned on the brand because it didn't show anything about its upcoming final production versions or concepts. In that case, the parallel universes of vehicular CGI are always ready to showcase their unofficial visions. More precisely, the good folks over at the Q Cars channel on YouTube want to know if the 2026 VW Scout pickup truck is worth the wait – and their resident pixel master presents us with the hypothetical design interpretation. As per the consensus of the first teaser sketches, Scout is probably bringing to life a boxy SUV with short overhangs and a pickup truck about as modern as a Rivian R1T but also infused with old-school charm.
Naturally, both will take inspiration from the original International Harvester Scout produced between 1960 and 1980 as a competitor for Jeep and the Ford Bronco or Chevy K5 Blazer. However, the main difference between the vintage off-roaders seen in Scout Motors' first teaser and their modern successors is that Volkswagen has ordained a pure electric lifestyle regarding powertrains. As such, it's pretty clear the main target will be Rivian's off-road-oriented R1S (SUV) and R1T (truck) siblings.
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