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    Don't let the Scout become a status symbol; why $60k misses the point of the Revival

    I have not looked into the new Jeep market since we purchased ours - which was about as fully loaded of Rubicon as you can get without having the dealer do modifications. That was 3 years and about 65k ago. I suspect that you could still order a stripped Jeep, it might be in the 40k range -...
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    Home Charger Reviews and FAQs

    V2H does not interest me all that much. It could be useful I guess in limited situations, but I have not heard of many that can push all that many amps. I guess 10amps at 240 is better than nothing, but I better shut down every significant load first - it will power the fridge and lights. Of...
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    New Years Resolutions 2025

    Fish more - make that one every year, generally fail, or technically succeed in a very unspectacular fashion. Fished once 2 years ago (caught 2 1/2 fish - shark got the other 1/2). Took my kayak and boat out a lot more this last year, but technically only had lines in the water for 2hrs (and...
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    Scout Supply Merchandise Live

    They look nice, but I got a bunch of 6 gallon milk crates on clearance. $7 beats starting at $40 (other than that random accident, 6 gallons usually start about $15). When I saw the price, I bought a truck bed (and back seat) full - and tried to go back for more because friends wanted some...
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    Are you OK with Scout vehicles starting under $60K?

    For a truck with 35" tires and a lift, it does not have all that impressive ground clearance. Looks like they just bolted 4" of battery under an ICE vehicle.
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    Joining the EV gang while waiting for Scout!

    House has been a VERY long time in coming. Made a deal with my wife 4-5 years ago to do it. Took us till about this time last year to remotely agree on a design (after going with an architect who would not listen, just browsed 100's of plans online, then customized from there. Then 6 months to...
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    Joining the EV gang while waiting for Scout!

    Have to say I am tempted as well - but it is a temptation I am going to do my best to supress. Building a new house and until that is done, an EV would not be a good fit. By the time the house is done, well it will not be that much more of a wait anyway.
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    Are you OK with Scout vehicles starting under $60K?

    Had to google Trailboss. Various posts said the Trailboss is closer to a 4x4 WT (they mentioned things like too much plastic). Lots of the purchasers were saying they had wished they spent the money and gotten the Z71. Z71 looses out just a little on off road, but is a lot nicer everyday...
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    Do You Want Your Scout To Have A Hands-Free Driving System?

    Just looked at the Ford BlueCruise map. Looks like about 5 roads in Texas allow it. While not completely useless to me - would be very hard to warrant a subscription when I generally use only one of those roads, and it is often less than 1 trip a month. So sure, if you commute on one of those...
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    Happy Holidays!

    For most of America, Christmas has become more of a secular holiday than a religious one. Being with family has totally eclipsed going to Church. I know this year, when I asked my wife - mass or sleep, she chose sleep. But the alarm went off in the morning and we went to Church anyway (so we...
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    Concern about the complexity and cost of repairs/maintenance for EREV

    Scout's design is a small generator and frunk. Dodge and now Ford are planning on a large generator and no frunk. There is room for both designs in the world - hell at some point there will probably be room for both designs from Scout. If enough buyers say they want to tow more and the market...
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    Do You Want Your Scout To Have A Hands-Free Driving System?

    I don't always HATE subscriptions - sometimes it is easy to see that the feature has an ongoing operational cost. Take a cell phone. There is a ton of infrastructure that must be maintained to keep it operating, and there are use costs on top of that - more use requires more infrastructure to...
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    Do You Want Your Scout To Have A Hands-Free Driving System?

    No monthly subscription? Was bored so I was looking at used Lightning prices - guess I did not realize that after spending a ton upfront, after 3 years Ford wanted an additional $50/month. Then googled... Tesla-$100 monthly, GMC-$25, Mercedes-$2500/year.
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    Don't let the Scout become a status symbol; why $60k misses the point of the Revival

    I am not overly worried about it being as wide of body as the F150. Scout is not putting on huge fender flares and probably not towing mirrors (although I do enjoy towing mirrors). I had an F150 before my F250, and it felted almost dainty in comparison (the F150 was my 3rd 1/2 ton). Moving to...
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    Are you OK with Scout vehicles starting under $60K?

    I had a couple Christmas discussions about the Lightning. One person had apparently been shopping used, and said $30k used Lightnings were common. While I could not find that online, I did see one for $35k - it had an MSRP over $90k from it sticker. 55k depreciation in 3 years is kind of...
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    Concern about the complexity and cost of repairs/maintenance for EREV

    Have a whole house propane generator at a rent house. I guess it has about 200hrs on it - 3 service calls, with one main circuit board failure (2 other failures cost a lot less to fix). So it has failed 3 times in the equivalent of a little more than 10k miles. Now in all fairness, the engine...
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    Possible competition?

    Well this will do nothing good to resale value of Lightnings - so they will undercut some of the Scout market I guess. Kind of competition. Talked with 2 people today considering used Lightnings if the price goes low enough.
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Googled Cybertrucks for sale a couple days ago. While there will always be specific vehicles that sell low and motivated sellers that want a vehicle gone yesterday - most are still asking close to $80k. The used market is mostly Founders Editions. Sure they have taken a hit from the new...
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    Scoutmas?

    Merry Christmas.
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    EV reservation holders, would you consider the Harvester

    I'm fairly patient. Started looking about 15 years ago. First 2 options were stalling, so got a different commuter car while I was waiting (it needs work now, but it is still a great vehicle that is currently not really replaceable). Then a couple years latter I really wanted the Buzz to...
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