Scouts common as muck

[Nick_H]

Had to laugh the other day. I thought my arctic green scout would be pretty uncom

mon. Visited the local dealer and they had 6 scouts for sale including 4 arctic green!

[Simon Cobb]

Out here in NZ, I've been conscously looking for other Skodas since placing my order just over a month ago for a new Scout. In that time, I have yet to see a single Skoda, let alone a Scout, either on the road or at my dealer, who currently has zero stock of any model!

[Nick_H]

If you want to nip over here Simon i'll put you up for the weekend and take you on a tour of the local dealers :-)

[curleybar]

Had to laugh the other day. I thought my arctic green scout would be pretty uncom

mon. Visited the local dealer and they had 6 scouts for sale including 4 arctic green!

.....looks better than the dark blue though Nick ?

[dekka48]

I saw two Scouts being driven around in the North East last week - one in the Team Valley and the other just south of Durham. I've only ever seen one on the road before. Dirt common now.

[Nick_H]

.....looks better than the dark blue though Nick ?

whats up with Dark Blue ?

[Nick_H]

A mate of mine is a Paramedic and he drives a 2.0PD Scout. Says it's the best car they have ever had. Thats out of Volvo's and Scoobys. I would certaintly like to have the blue lights he has....

[curleybar]

whats up with Dark Blue ?

.......all of my company's vans were that colour, It would make me feel like I was back on the tools !! :S

[P20]

I'm a Paramedic on rapid response and we're hoping to get Scouts to replace the focus estates we have at the moment. All that weight in the back of a fwd car means no progress in the winter. My own 4x4 Octavia would run rings round the focus

[Richard Loxley]

I've seen a total of 3 Scouts ever - including my own!

I was overtaken by a silver one on the day I ordered mine (4 months ago). And I now find that there's another silver one that regularly parks at my local station. But that's it.

Even the dealer (in London) said they were pretty rare in the south - I think they said that mine was the first one they'd had in.

Still, not as rare as Yetis - I've only seen one of those in the flesh.

[octaviaconvert]

A mate of mine is a Paramedic and he drives a 2.0PD Scout. Says it's the best car they have ever had. Thats out of Volvo's and Scoobys. I would certaintly like to have the blue lights he has....

He's not a HEMS driver is he?

[Captain Kremen]

I have only ever seen five or six in the 3 years/60,000 miles of ownership.

I still feel special!

[skomaz]

I'm a Paramedic on rapid response and we're hoping to get Scouts to replace the focus estates we have at the moment. All that weight in the back of a fwd car means no progress in the winter. My own 4x4 Octavia would run rings round the focus

Quite a few of the paramedic cars in South Yorkshire seem to be Scouts and the car park at the Royal Hallamshire always seems to have a few unmarked 4x4's in staff spaces as well...

[Nick_H]

He's not a HEMS driver is he?

No just a plain old Response driver :-)

[andyjl1968]

Mine's in Athracite, have seen two others in Lincs, one in silver, the other white with usual graphics down at the ambulance station in Lincoln

[No Waiting]

Haven't seen another on the roads for months and months, then saw two last week! One near home and another a mile or so away from a Skoda dealer...

[octaviaconvert]

No just a plain old Response driver :-)

Ok, it just seems that HEMS are replacing their fleet of vRS's with Scouts, you can regularly see them all parked up outside the Royal London Hospital on the Whitechapel Road

[foo]

Saw a paramedic scout today, just outside Midsomer Norton.

I was far more excited than I should have been. Driver of said car also seemed to check mine out, probably wondering where my dayglo paintjob had gone.

Edited 14 September, 2010 by foo

[Stuart_J]

Had to laugh the other day. I thought my arctic green scout would be pretty uncom

mon. Visited the local dealer and they had 6 scouts for sale including 4 arctic green!

Arctic Green is of course the best colour

Ive only ever seen one other of "our" colour on the road but I know a couple of dealers who having seen ours are ordering them in

[andyjl1968]

Spotted another "ambulance" Scout in Scarborough a few weeks back plus another anthracite 57 plate Scout at Horton's last week when mine was there.

[London Les]

I have seen two in 3 years - one on the south circular near where I live, and one in Coniston in the Lakes. I've been driving mine for a couple of weeks and am quite enjoying the quizzical looks.

When I was taking the pics for the forum (see thread My New Scout) a guy came out of his house to ask about the car because he assumed it was a new model on a road test.

Common as rocking horse...

Edited 14 September, 2010 by London Les

[snala]

Seen none in Auckland NZ at all since i ordered mine. Drove Yeti before ordering Scout instead so never saw one up here.

Saw 3 different Scouts in Queenstown in 3 days though...go figure.

[disco-barry]

I don't know if anybody has said it but up here around Huddersfield/Halifax area nearly all the ambulance cars are octavia scouts! we had heavy snow yesterday morning so i guess that is why!!!!

Anybody know where they sell 'em second hand or do they just go to auction?!

[uscouter]

as far as i am aware they go to a company for disposal, who strip them of all the extras that were put on (blue lights, siren and green/yellow check etc) and then they will go to auction.

IMHO Possibly not the best 2nd hand buy as they have a hard life, ours are usually run at least 20hrs a day every day

[dekka48]

Since I last posted on this thread I have seen one other Scout up here in the North East and I was walking around Granada in Spain in January when I saw another.