Scout Motors' Ryan Decker on the Brand's Plan to use Legacy to Redefine the Future

Scout Motors is building something genuinely unusual: an all-American electric truck brand, owned by Volkswagen Group but completely independent from it, with no dealerships, no franchise agreements, and a gas engine hiding in the back of the truck bed. Craig Cole and co-host Sam Abuelsamid sit down with Ryan Decker, VP of Strategy and Brand at Scout, to get into the details behind the Traveler SUV and Terra pickup truck. The big questions are all here — will the rear-mounted Harvester range extender compromise towing capability? Where do you go when something breaks if there are no dealers? And how exactly do you buy a Scout? Ryan addresses the skeptics directly, and the answers are more interesting than you might expect.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction

3:02 What Is Scout Motors?

6:26 Scout's Status Update

15:30 Servicing Scouts Without a Dealership

19:00 Scout & Volkswagen: What's the Relationship?

28:19 How to Buy: Direct Sales & Delivery

34:09 Reservations, Factory Capacity & Future Models

43:47 Conclusions

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