8 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Two downsides of the hybrid version is the 50 litre fuel tank (from the Octavia) and only 485litre boot in the hatch or 510litre in the estate suggesting it will be quite shallow to make room for the battery pack. They are quoting only 850km range including 55km on electric power whereas my 2016 Superb with the same 1.4TSi engine but bigger standard 66litre fuel tank managed 1,120km range.

 

Have you posted this on the wrong thread ?

Anyone find a pic of the orange Scout please post 🙂

11 minutes ago, Nick_H said:

Anyone find a pic of the orange Scout please post 🙂

Wasn't the orange used on the Fabia and Yeti of the same name? e.g; 

 

I dunno but I like it ! That Scout also looks fantastic in the blue.... Even if it came over here though I would lust after it but not buy.... Love current motor and now it's not costing me anything... Well apart from deprecation haha !

 

Love having a new motor but when mines clean it looks brand new. Taxi driver asked me if I had just picked it when stationary on a duel carriageway the other week  ( then  said from the scrappers the cheeky bas#### ! )

 

 

 

 

Edited 24 May, 20197 yr by Nick_H

I've also noticed from the press release the car is fitted with P7's   They can't cope on a wet road, how will they ever cope with all the green-laning Scout owners no doubt partake in, every w'end 

 

Can't fathom why they just don't fit all-season tyres from the factory to cars that are meant to be a little more tougher than their on road siblings.  Fitting 3PMS tyres would help when journalists no doubt do the obligatory "how does the Scout compare to a Land Rover?" segment. 🙄

Well I would be interested in one, especially if it were to come in plug-in hybrid form.  The price of Audi allroads wouldn't make me want one if it even comes in C8 format, but this would fit the bill nicely and I'd even get used to the 2-tone roof rails and wood trim.

 

The Outdoor (even TdF version) didn't quite cut it for me, but this looks good. I'll wait as long as it takes as my 3.0 TDi drives like a dream and still does what I bought it for nearly 6 years ago - I just find I only use it for journeys of 10 miles plus now.

So.. whats the difference between this and a Superb with rough road package? Except for cosmetic stuff that is..

30 minutes ago, pjkw said:

So.. whats the difference between this and a Superb with rough road package? Except for cosmetic stuff that is..

Slightly better ground clearance and by the looks of it, colours other than grey. 

7 hours ago, penguin17 said:

Wasn't the orange used on the Fabia and Yeti of the same name? e.g; 

 

In 2007 we had the 1.4TDi Fabia in that colour, can't remember what is was called. Bit like the Samoa on Audi's.

18 minutes ago, penguin17 said:

Slightly better ground clearance and by the looks of it, colours other than grey. 

 

The ground clearance seems to be the same as with with rough road package.

 

"ŠKODA is offering its flagship model for the first time as a rugged SCOUT variant. Elegant design and off-road virtues are perfectly combined into one multifunctional and robust lifestyle car – the new SUPERB SCOUT. Standard equipment for the SUPERB SCOUT, which is exclusively available as an all-wheel-drive estate, includes rugged body enhancements, 18-inch Braga alloy wheels, a Rough-Road package featuring an added 15 mm of ground clearance, and a special SCOUT look in the interior. The new metallic Tangerine Orange finish is also exclusive to the SCOUT."

8 hours ago, Nick_H said:

Anyone find a pic of the orange Scout please post

-> https://www.drive2.ru/l/531727672556913868/

Edited 24 May, 20197 yr by MartiniB

25 minutes ago, MartiniB said:

-> https://www.drive2.ru/l/531727672556913868/

SCOUT with no mud flaps? wtf  

1 hour ago, MartiniB said:

-> https://www.drive2.ru/l/531727672556913868/

What color is that you think, lava blue?

3 hours ago, MartiniB said:

-> https://www.drive2.ru/l/531727672556913868/

 

I'll Photoshop it ;-) That looks bloody good doesn't it ?

Let's take the one model in the range aimed at spending at least a small part of its life offroad... and fit the lowest profile tyres known to man 

 

Let's also not learn from any of the mistakes we made with the Octavia Scout models, i.e. have it as the only model in the range that the mudflaps won't fit to 

 

Even the show car in the photo's has mud splattered up the stills. Doh!

 

16 hours ago, Nick_H said:

 

I'll Photoshop it 😉 That looks bloody good doesn't it ?

 

Bet you to it, albeit a bit of a crap PS job if you ask me. Also included a candy red and what I guess Tangerine Orange would look like.

 

Edited 25 May, 20197 yr by ZacDaMan72
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I bet our local Ambulance service will buy the Scout. They have always bought slightly jacked up Superb 4wd estates by the bucketload, so this is bound to be up their alley. Skoda are so keen on that particular market that there is a special part of their UK fleet website dedicated to emergency service vehicles.

On 24/05/2019 at 21:00, silver1011 said:

Let's take the one model in the range aimed at spending at least a small part of its life offroad... and fit the lowest profile tyres known to man 

 

Let's also not learn from any of the mistakes we made with the Octavia Scout models, i.e. have it as the only model in the range that the mudflaps won't fit to 

 

Even the show car in the photo's has mud splattered up the stills. Doh!

Don't forget that if you go wider, the tyre wall increases a bit for the same profile tyre; but I take your point.  I have some 45 profile off-road tyres and have never seen any others with such a low profile.  These have replaced the OE 55 profile tyres on smaller wheels.

 

As for mudguards:  Never fitted them because the mud and snow can pull them off, and the car looks proper with some spatters up the side - but it's a pig to clean.

 

The car looks "right" to me but then I'd use one of my library of wheels for something suitable for winter with flooded pot holes etc.

The wheels and tyres are right, because Skoda have correctly identified that very few of their Scout buyers ever take their vehicles off road, including me.

 

I'm on my third Scout - MkII Octavia > MkIII Octavia > Kodiaq. The appeal for me is aesthetics, plus the improved under-body protection, but more for the prevention of corrosion than from jagged rocks!

55 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

The wheels and tyres are right, because Skoda have correctly identified that very few of their Scout buyers ever take their vehicles off road, including me.

 

I'm on my third Scout - MkII Octavia > MkIII Octavia > Kodiaq. The appeal for me is aesthetics, plus the improved under-body protection, but more for the prevention of corrosion than from jagged rocks!

Ive never looked underneath any Skoda, or any other vehicle with SUV tendencies for that matter, but Ive been thinking about this under-body protection, no risk of salty water getting in under the shields and rather causing more corrosion than without? I mean without the shields the muck would just wash away eventually but with them it might trap it?

I've had quite a few Scout and non-Scout models over the years, and the Scout versions have been much cleaner, drier and with less corrosion than those without the underbody protection.

 

You also get plastic shields over the leading edges of some of the exposed metal suspension components and brake pipes, reducing the likelihood of stone chips taking chunks out of the protective paint.

 

I'm sure if you spent quite a lot of time driving or wading through deep water and thick mud that you may end up trapping more debris than if you didn't have it, plus not having the underbody protection means there is less plastic to get snagged, caught and ripped off etc.

 

The Scouts also tend to get the plastic cladding along the sills. Your line of thinking makes sense here. They're great for protecting the exposed paint from stuff being flicked up, but if they trap water behind them then this is potentially worse. Saying that I tend to keep my cars for a while, and whilst the early MkII Octavia's were renowned for corrosion along the sills I saw no evidence of this on my Scout when having a good look from underneath.

 

The sump guard on my MkII Octavia Scout was metal, bloody heavy too. Those days are over though, it's plastic from here on in.

 

I'm a fan which is why the Superb Scout appeals.

27 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

I've had quite a few Scout and non-Scout models over the years, and the Scout versions have been much cleaner, drier and with less corrosion than those without the underbody protection.

 

You also get plastic shields over the leading edges of some of the exposed metal suspension components and brake pipes, reducing the likelihood of stone chips taking chunks out of the protective paint.

 

I'm sure if you spent quite a lot of time driving or wading through deep water and thick mud that you may end up trapping more debris than if you didn't have it, plus not having the underbody protection means there is less plastic to get snagged, caught and ripped off etc.

 

The Scouts also tend to get the plastic cladding along the sills. Your line of thinking makes sense here. They're great for protecting the exposed paint from stuff being flicked up, but if they trap water behind them then this is potentially worse. Saying that I tend to keep my cars for a while, and whilst the early MkII Octavia's were renowned for corrosion along the sills I saw no evidence of this on my Scout when having a good look from underneath.

 

The sump guard on my MkII Octavia Scout was metal, bloody heavy too. Those days are over though, it's plastic from here on in.

 

I'm a fan which is why the Superb Scout appeals.

Thanks for the input, Ive been a bit concerned with this since I have a superb on order with the rough road package (or offroad package as its called in Sweden). So maybe I get the best of two worlds then, underbody protection but nothing around the sills. Heres hoping 😀

On 25/05/2019 at 14:38, Pesmog said:

I bet our local Ambulance service will buy the Scout. They have always bought slightly jacked up Superb 4wd estates by the bucketload, so this is bound to be up their alley. Skoda are so keen on that particular market that there is a special part of their UK fleet website dedicated to emergency service vehicles.

 

Don’t think the Scout’s coming to the UK, Pesmog. Market for jacked-up cars has been filleted by the SUV tsunami.

10 hours ago, MorrisOx said:

 

Don’t think the Scout’s coming to the UK, Pesmog. Market for jacked-up cars has been filleted by the SUV tsunami.

 

Spoken to my dealer and he seems to think it is do you have any evidence apart from a snippet on a website ? Fingers crossed.