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The electric Scout Terra pickup and the Traveler SUV will sound like old-school American-made models. Chris Benjamin, the chief designer of Scout, said that the company’s UX design team collected natural mechanical noises and ambient tones to create over 40 unique sounds for locks, turn signals, warning signals, and startup sequences.
"We want all the sounds in the vehicle to feel authentic and unique to us," Benjamin said in an interview with Automotive News at the Los Angeles auto show, adding that Scout is not aiming to create a completely silent cabin akin to a library.
Of course, the recorded sounds differ significantly from the real ones, but the Scout team wants to do everything possible using the modern technologies at its disposal.
The team even brought a vintage International Harvester Scout with a V8 engine into an anechoic chamber and recorded the sounds in complete silence.
The rough mechanical noises that could be heard in that model—from the door locks to the V8 engine itself—will be present in the new Scout models.
Paying homage to the brand’s agricultural heritage, the team also visited Adairville, Kentucky. There they discovered a farm and recorded the sounds of industrial agricultural equipment inside a grain silo. Other audio tracks for electric vehicles were recorded using an acoustic guitar.
Scout declares that its electric vehicles will not chase sterile, minimalist, and space-themed interior elements. Yes, there is a digital dashboard and a large central screen, but there are also real knobs, toggles, and buttons.
Production of Scout Terra and Scout Traveler will begin in South Carolina in late 2027.
Source: Automotive News
