yea understood........maybe they should have built them more rugged then,its not helping the cause....
Poll: Would you use a Scout configurator tool if pricing and details are not finalized yet?
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Honestly, I’m fairly surprised by this. I would expect test drives in pre-production vehicles to be limited to press. As far as I’m aware, if they allow pre-production vehicles to be test-driven, that will be a departure from the norm in the industry. A welcome departure, but still. Pretty cool. Way more open and welcoming to the community than many manufacturers.
Well, like I said, I’m not trying to take what was said too far out of context, but I think the general sentiment is that at the very least once preproduction vehicles are being shown at events they will be more ready for the public to interact with even if we can’t necessarily test drive them, which would still be amazing if we could, even if it was on some sort of closed course, but only time will tell
Fair enough. I would expect pre-production to be available for climbing into, etc., by the general public, but driving seems a little more surprising.
Just the opposite. Each phase of development is intentionally designed to "help the cause". Scout needed to have early, physical representations of their 2 vehicles that could be seen, visualized and used at key events (like their LAUNCH EVENT) - it is certainly helping their cause.
There are clear and intentional phases required to launch an entirely new vehicle, and also understand that if you have the general public jumping in and out of your only physical representations (and potentially breaking things that have not yet been fully hardened for production), then you could have a problem. You could also spend more money unnecessarily.
Scout is in the process of what looks similar to any phased deployment, and are clearly working toward eventual production. If you expect them to go from a Buck to a production vehicle, then your expectations are out of whack.
Rivian provides a similar case study to Scout's possible intent, but this could vary of course:
1. Mules ↓
2. Early Prototypes (A-Samples) ↓
3. Durability Prototypes (the Long Way Up Trucks or "B-Samples") ↓
4. Pre‑Production Vehicles (C-Samples / PPVs / Built on "close" to final tooling with a VIN even) ↓
5. Start of Production (Job‑1 vehicles that are ready for delivery to first customers and have a warranty)
