R2 Launch Watch

[J Alynn]

I caved and reserved one again. Still keeping the Scout. I want the Scout so much more lol I’m just dying to see it in person.

You will be grateful once you do

 

[TigerEyeJazz]

You will be grateful once you do

I wonder when they will announce more spots to showcase it

 

[cyure]

I wonder when they will announce more spots to showcase it

Hopefully soon.

 

[J Alynn]

I wonder when they will announce more spots to showcase it

Any imagine it won’t be soon. I would think they already have dates figured in order to manage the year

 

[jasdeep27b]

In Austin at the Rivian Showroom, pretty cool set up they had along with an off road course, the R2 has great size. What really caught my eye is they had a 2 artist team that was painting one of them from scratch! Following along on social media for the final product.

 

[Logan]

We should be clear that there are big differences between vehicles that are good for highway, off-highway, off-roading, and rock crawling. You don't want excessive articulation when driving on 99.99% of the roads 99.9% of the people in this country drive on. You don't need excessive articulation to off-road. You probably want high articulation to rock crawl. But a good rock crawling machine is, in general, a terrible highway or city driving machine.

Rivian isn't building a rock crawler. Neither is Scout. I wouldn't even consider their vehicles if they were highly articulated. An electric sway bar disconnect is much more than most people will ever even have use for, much less need.

If you have a use for high articulation, great, but it isn't coming from the factory. You're either diy or paying a specialty shop to do it for you.

Perhaps surprisingly, I don't disagree with much of that, and tried to indicate as such in my post.

Its not a problem that the R2 isn't a rock crawler. As you say, 99% of people won't ever be doing this, and a vehicle that could articulate like that, isn't a great daily driver (been there, done that, know it firsthand... although they're not all as bad as you'd think ).

This was more of a gut reaction of how the vehicles handled the offroad experience. It was literally the first thing I noticed. And while I did notice the traction control/etc, my gut takeaway from this was that they're, doing this intentionally to reenforce their "offroad DNA". I get it, the test has some wow factor, and it is a legitimately cool experience, especially if you've never done it before. No shade there.

Also, I've said before, while I have some rock crawling in my past, thats not my thing anymore. So I'm 100% ok with the new scout not articulating like the vehicles I showed (that was more of a general FYI for people if they didn't know about articulation). In fact, due to the layout of IFS/Solid axle rear, I'm not expecting them to be as good as the solid axle vehicles for articulation/offroading. And, I'm ok with that, as a tradeoff for better on road performance, where I spend wayyy more of my time.

That said, I suspect that the Scout will target being better offroad than the R2, even in the "non offroad package". Just based on the fact that they say that the rear locker will come standard for all models from the factory. And I'd love for a swaybar disconnect as well (mechanical, or electronic), but I don't know if we've heard official word on that.