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  1. Artoo

    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    Oh yes, that must have been at Moffett Field, I used to live near that hangar 20 years ago. Went there once during an airshow. To say it was cavernous would be like saying Ton 618 is a large black hole 😆
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    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    Ooh, thanks for the heads up! I live about 25 miles from Pasadena and have the ticket date in my calendar now. Can’t wait!
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    (Planned) Route 66 Centennial Road Trip (Ended up being Great Lakes/Niagara Falls Trip)

    Just found this thread but am commenting to get updates and see how this trip goes. My wife and I decided it would be fun*, since we live a mere 40 miles north of the western terminus of this world famous route, to do a partial Route 66 drive from Santa Monica to Arizona. I had no idea til...
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    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    If you already don’t fit in the frunk, how on earth are you supposed to fit in with a bone saw too? 😆
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    How did you find out about the new Scouts?

    Thanks! I was trying to come up with something that wouldn’t look like some of those custom-painted cars with actual star wars artwork - don’t get me wrong I’ve seen some that are incredible - but I want something that I won’t be afraid to drive onto a forest road or across sandy dunes. And I...
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    How did you find out about the new Scouts?

    It’s my avatar pic, which admittedly is a bit small so here’s a bigger version. The wheels are from a Bronco Heritage and the bumpers, tires, and roof rack were taken from that green off-road kitted mockup ‘photo’ Scout put out awhile back. The ‘photos’ themselves were from that…other…. Scout...
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    How did you find out about the new Scouts?

    We bought a mach-e a year and a half ago and immediately loved having an ev. Our Civic hybrid is almost 13 years old now and I’ve long wanted to replace it with an off-road suv now that we have practicality covered with the Mustang (never thought I’d put those two words in the same sentence!)...
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    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    Yeah that’s kind of where I’ve landed. I was looking at a used jeep for awhile (don’t need a daily driver and I don’t really want to wait 2+ years for an off-road capable car), but what I don’t want more than the civic is another car payment. 140,000 miles on it, still gets about 40mpg (I gas it...
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    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    Oh that’s good to know. Admittedly I gave up on it awhile ago and haven’t looked at it recently. Also, @SpaceEVDriver if your job ever has a take-a-forum-buddy-to-work-day-so-they-can-drive-a-mars-rover (or something) let me know lol…
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    Shopping for a “new” BEV while waiting for the Scout Traveler BEV.

    This has me curious as to how other carmakers handle these settings. Apologies for the long setup here… Like SpaceEVDriver we have a Mach-E and love it. I don’t share their couple issues with it as detailed in the initial post, and while I wait for Scout I’ve (slightly) toyed with replacing our...
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    What do you all do? Curious about Scout buyers occupations, or former occupations.

    This crawler model was my 3rd attempt. First one was 25 years ago and looked…absolutely awful lol. I didn’t know what I was doing and didn’t have good reference material. Second attempt was about 20 years ago…and looked even worse. This attempt…I started it in 2007, had it finished enough for an...
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    What do you all do? Curious about Scout buyers occupations, or former occupations.

    Thanks! Here’s another couple shots - unlike the film model which only has the right hand side finished (and the top and back but those weren’t ever visible til the Special Edition films), mine is the whole thing, with an interior. That second shot was when I pulled out the old 120+ LEDs I’d...
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    What do you all do? Curious about Scout buyers occupations, or former occupations.

    Ooh now there’s a Pandora’s box lol - here are a few 😊 The TARDIS photos are a few years old, it’s not water cooled anymore so those hoses and copper colored radiator are gone but otherwise still looks similar.
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    What do you all do? Curious about Scout buyers occupations, or former occupations.

    Wow a lot of cool careers here. I bounced around in retail jobs for a few years out of college after studying music and 3d art/animation and deciding on both fronts I’d rather keep them as hobbies than turn them into work and end up hating them. So, passions first - 40 year ‘amateur’ classical...
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    Is there anything SM could offer to get you to switch from EREV to BEV?

    If scout can come up with a battery that gets 350-400 or more real world miles I’ll switch to BEV. We love our RWD Mach-e that we bought a year and a half ago with the extended range battery (320 mile) but using it real world we’re lucky to get 250-270 miles on the highway. I absolutely love...
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