“We’re honored to partner with South Carolina to usher in this new era for Scout,” said Scott Keogh, President and CEO of Scout Motors. “Scout has been an American icon since introducing an SUV in 1960. It’s the vehicle that took your family on a camping trip, that gave access to the great outdoors, and that showed up on the job site every morning. Today, we’re reimagining Scout’s original ingenuity and electrifying its future. We’re bringing the Scout spirit to South Carolina and it’s going to be a hell of a ride.”
The only people that aren’t excited about the Scout brand revival, it appears, are Volkswagen dealers. But, Scout is an independent company that’s backed by the Volkswagen Group and doesn’t answer to the namesake brand. VW dealers have been clamoring for a truck and possibly more SUVs for a few years now. VW is still planning a truck of its own, which will not be fully combustion-powered, as CarBuzz exclusively reported last month. Scout will be an all-electric vehicle-only brand.