Why should we have them? All of the things listed are CHOICES the driver has made.
It is ABSOLUTELY an attack on our freedoms. implementing thicker steel, not an attack on freedom. Making better crash structures, not an attack. Forcing people that make good choices or have made peace with the risks and consequences of…

No, it boils down to “This won’t let me completely recreate my past in a way that satisfies by unquenchable nostalgia”.

While I get the forces behind this article - and the widespread rejection of the new trilogy, I never quite get the anger and indignation that comes with it.

Or maybe wait and see? Maybe VW hires a really good team and releases an affordable, fun, and capable EV offroaders? I guess the alternative would be to resurrect the Scout brand as a UTV in the same vein as the Roxor.

Half the people reading this blog weren’t even alive when the last Scout rolled off the assembly line, and the ones who were probably remember them as crap, like every other car of the Malaise era.

This sort of rant-writing of highly suspect opinions is as jalopnik as brown station wagons, scraped knuckles, and empty wallets.

I have owned and very much LOVED two Scouts.

Volkswagen definitely knows how to build a good off-road vehicle.

Here’s my off-the-wall take:

Scouts were huge piles of shit. Compared to the Jeep CJs and Broncos of the late 1960s a Scout was a bloated over weight under-powered bad joke. VW can’t miss on improving the Scout.

No more of a joke than the original. Perhaps the new one won’t come pre-rusted direct from the factory . . . At least it will not have a 4 cylinder engine that was actually half of a V-8

It’s just words. It’s not the international scout you knew. I’d suggest reconciling with that instead of being disappointed over semantics. No sense in being disappointed that an arrangement of letter don’t meet your desires.

There is no vehicle that VW could put out with the Scout name that would make Scout enthusiasts happy.

The passage of time alone guarantees that the new Scout will be way better than the original in every single way.

Mother in law is retired and not using her plug in so now I am using it for work on the days I actually drive in, 54 miles round trip in often heavy LA traffic. The other days, I work from home or take the train. I know everyone is not able to do this, but trying to do my part to use less, pay less.

I’ll throw in that had there been a red flag to allow for the race to finish under green, how great it would be to have refueling as part of the race. Then we could have have an exception to finishing races under yellow in the case of an incident that would prevent a racing finish. Red flag race, all cars can pit for…

The problem with your option c is that the rules stipulate that the safety car is to make one more lap after the back markers un-lapped themselves. That didn’t happen. Masi arbitrarily overrode the rules and called the safety car in early. Had he followed the rules, the race would have ended under the yellow.

The only problem was that Masi went insane and decided to give the title to Mercedes with that ‘no unlapping’ rule. By the time he came to his senses and did the right thing, it was too late to do it by the letter of the rule, so rather than have his screw-up determine it, he fudged the letter to maintain the spirit…

Why cant we make a clear cut rule that a race CANNOT end under a yellow flag. Every car is allowed to unlap themselves, and once they’ve done that, there is a minimum of 1 lap to go.  In this case, Lewis would know he can pit to get fresh tires, and Max and Red Bull can decide whether they want to pit for fresh tires,…

Here’s my pipe dream solution. Lewis makes the following statement: