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  1. Ecca

    Compact pickup

    Long enough to sleep in!
  2. Ecca

    Scout Motors - who are your competitors?

    Along with the Land Cruiser reveal, there was the little baby Land Cruiser silhouette teased in the background, likely the 'compact cruiser' EV from before.
  3. Ecca

    Compact pickup

    Your daydream is my daydream too! I want a compact pickup, or a compact 2-door SUV, or a compact anything to be honest. I think the best thing to realistically hope for is that the expected Scout SUV is as compact as it seems in the concept sketch next to the pickup, or that Scout will continue...
  4. Ecca

    Compact pickup

    You're right about the market trend existing, but I think Scout is purposely not using VW platforms as a rule for a whole slew of reasons. For example, the loss of focus may impact many of the potential benefits from building the other two models from the ground-up, and would erode all of the...
  5. Ecca

    Scout Motors - who are your competitors?

    Also that the throwback trim avoided having a bunch of unneeded frills. I want a level that looks like it has nothing on paper but doesn't cut corners where it matters. The type of trim that comes with small plain steel wheels and high profile, not super wide A/T tires that you'd see on an old...
  6. Ecca

    Article on Ford electric vehicles

    It's incredibly difficult to manufacture a vehicle with a specialized use case without the price shooting through the roof from low volume production. The only way to make an accessibly priced but capable off-road vehicle is by making one that hits the wide 90%+ market share SUV/pickup classes...
  7. Ecca

    Scout Motors at the 100-employee milestone? Lots of openings!

    Yeah, I noticed a ton of senior management hires in a short time, and that approach does make sense. I do have my eyes on the openings every day and I was probably among the very first applicants to their project management analyst role at Tysons, and re-applied within a few hours of the...
  8. Ecca

    So what does everyone think of the first new Scout designs...

    It's not just the visuals but the functionality. Visibility is the obvious one, and then there's the nausea as well. Has anyone been a passenger of a new Camaro? The more external environment that is in your field of view, the less motion sick you'll get. The more interior you see, the more...
  9. Ecca

    Scout Motors at the 100-employee milestone? Lots of openings!

    Given that an automotive manufacturer requires significant technical and professional expertise for a large portion of their openings and that basically everyone uses LinkedIn nowadays, I'd estimate the ratio of representation on LinkedIn vs unlisted employees is pretty high. There's just under...
  10. Ecca

    Scout Motors - who are your competitors?

    I guess the idea there was that yes, the low and heavy batteries do make it incredibly unlikely to roll over. However, in some odd edge case where it does somehow roll over anyway, there would need to be a very sturdy rollbar engineered to prevent the occupants getting squished from all that...
  11. Ecca

    Scout reposted the job I applied to a couple weeks back, so I reposted my application ?

    Scout reposted the job I applied to a couple weeks back, so I reposted my application ?
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  12. Ecca

    Scout Motors Appoints Chief Design Officer

    I would think so, he posted this on Instagram back in September of last year. I imagine we'll never know what kind of input it was. A quick Chris Benjamin AMA or design Q&A would be cool and could give all kinds of other insight into his work in general.
  13. Ecca

    2 Door

    I feel like I've said this elsewhere, but based on the concept sketches it seems like either the pickup version is huge or the SUV is surprisingly compact despite being a 4-door, or it is somewhere between those two possibilities. I might still get a 4-door if it is small enough even though I...
  14. Ecca

    2 Door

    For solid-state cells, everyone has their eyes on the wearable and IoT space: tiny trackers, sensors, earbuds, smartwatches, etc. That's where they should show up first, right? Then seeing what transpires means how the sizing increases and the pricing drops from there with advancements, I...
  15. Ecca

    What kind of tech do you expect enabled in the car or interface?

    You're not the only one for this! It might not be too niche to add, especially given how many dark sky sites must be accessed through unpaved roads. Astrophotography in particular went mainstream when Google added it to their Pixel phones. Not to mention all the outdoor activities that aren't...
  16. Ecca

    Scout Swag

    As someone who only speaks English, I'm pretty sure I can work out most of the meaning just from similarities in etymology, and assuming no false cognates. Practically English your comment ... the tuque reveals my preoccupation ... something Scout Motors something north climate something...
  17. Ecca

    Service America, an Independent EV Service Center

    If you want a more specific indicator than the vague idea of respect and long-term considerations, I believe there was community staff talking about pushing for easily removable/replaceable wheel arch cladding since it always gets beat up over time. I'll need to double check. Whether that type...
  18. Ecca

    Service America, an Independent EV Service Center

    Is that an all-night pub crawl with the flu? More seriously, fundamental engineering considerations like repairability that go beyond just showroom features to move units are what makes a revitalized classic continue on as a classic. If the long term isn't prioritized, that's how people get...
  19. Ecca

    Scout Swag

    I like just using the forum logo itself: Keeps the shirt from feeling too busy, and it's the most direct reference possible. You can tell it's Scout Motors and not SCOUT Bags because of the typography anyway. Alternatively, there's a fairly common design I've seen on car t-shirts, where you...
  20. Ecca

    Do you enjoy going topless

    I'm picturing separate panels over the driver side, passenger side, and rear area that can either be individually removed or the whole top can be easily removed as one large piece. Too bad with only 8 votes and no ranking of preferences there's not a whole lot of info here other than 'different...
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