Mark Your Calendars: New Scout Debuts October 24

Here comes the newest off-road contender. In a Facebook post earlier this week, Scout Motors announced the reveal date for its first vehicle: October 24.

It's hard to glean much from the image, but that hanging compass looks delightfully retro. (We'd bet that retro themes will carry on throughout this vehicle; nostalgia around a revised nameplate is precious-so long as the engineers and designers don't abuse it.)

Along with the announcement image, the Scout Motors Facebook page had this to say:

"The time is right. On October 24, 2024 - 44 years to the week after the last Scout II™ rolled off the line - we'll officially reveal the next generation of Scout vehicles to the world.

To the makers, doers and everyday explorers, and our loyal Scout community, we look forward to showing you our new SUV and truck concepts we've been hard at work crafting behind the scenes."

Let's quickly recap: Scout Motors is now under the Volkswagen umbrella, following the latter's purchase of Navistar International in 2021. We're expecting a truck and an SUV from Scout, both to be built at a $2 billion facility in Blythewood, South Carolina.

A while back, we even got the distinct pleasure of joining a convoy of vintage scouts heading from Fort Wayne, Indiana, down to the nameplate's future home. You can read the three-part series here, here, and here.

The new Scouts will reportedly be all-electric. Given that an automaker walking back its ambitious electrification goals seems to be a weekly occurrence these days, we're curious whether the chassis could accommodate a hybrid powertrain. That said, with production slated to begin in 2026, the Scout Motors team is likely deep into the development cycle already, and that ship may have sailed by now.

We've just a few short weeks to wait until more details arrive. We'll be at the live reveal, so stay tuned.