Indian's Best Seller of 2025: The All-New Scout
Updated: Sep 2
The 2025 Scout is the first genuinely new Scout since the platform launched. New engine, new frame, more power, more torque, more variants and a second family underneath it at a lower price. After five model years of carryover, Indian replaced essentially all of it at once.
The sourcing caveat that has followed every post in this series still applies here, with one wrinkle. Polaris does not release model-level unit sales, so the Scout's position remains a consensus call supported by the company's own description of it as its top-selling platform. And in 2025 the word platform is doing more work than ever: there are five Scout variants, each in three trims, plus a separate Scout Sixty family. No source separates any of them.
The Scout in 2025
The engine is the SpeedPlus 1250, a 1250cc unit rated at 105 hp at 6,300 rpm and 82 lb-ft at 6,300 rpm. Against the 1133 it replaced, that is 11 percent more power and 14 percent more torque, and the peaks arrive lower in the rev range. The frame is new as well, a steel-tube design rather than the previous cast structure. Seat height stayed at 25.6 inches, and Indian claims the lowest seat height in the industry.
The Scout Bobber lists at $12,999 and weighs 522 lb. That weight figure needs a note: it is Indian's “as shipped” number, which is neither a strict dry weight nor a fully fueled wet weight. It is not directly comparable to a wet figure from another manufacturer, and it is the reason we can finally print a weight for a Scout after five years of declining to.
The full lineup runs Scout Bobber at $12,999 and 522 lb, Sport Scout at $13,499 and 528 lb, Scout Classic at $13,999 and 536 lb, Super Scout at $16,499 and 571 lb, and the 101 Scout at $16,999 and 529 lb with 111 hp. Each is offered in Standard, Limited and Limited plus Tech trims, which is how five motorcycles become fifteen configurations.
Below all of that sits a separate family. The SpeedPlus 999cc Scout Sixty makes 85 hp and 65 lb-ft through a five-speed gearbox, in three variants starting at $9,999. That is Indian's most accessible motorcycle.
What a Ground-Up Redesign Actually Changed
The headline is the engine, but the more telling change is the structure of the lineup. The old platform grew to seven SKUs by adding trim and bodywork to one motorcycle. The new one starts from five distinct variants and layers three equipment trims on each, then puts a smaller-displacement family underneath at a lower entry price. That is a different way of thinking about a model range.
The 101 Scout is the clearest signal. At $16,999 and 111 hp it sits above every other Scout in both price and output, which the 1133 platform never attempted. At the other end, the Scout Sixty at $9,999 holds a price point Indian clearly did not want to give up. The range now runs from $9,999 to $16,999 under a single name.
The power and torque gains, 11 percent and 14 percent, are real but not the point on their own. A 100 hp Scout was never short of engine. What the SpeedPlus 1250 buys is torque arriving lower down, which is what a cruiser rider actually notices, alongside the freedom to spread the family across a wider price range without the small bikes feeling starved.
How to Read the 2025 Lineup Before You Shop
Fifteen configurations plus a three-variant Sixty family is a lot of choices, and most of them are not engine choices. Work out the variant first, because that determines riding position, bodywork and weight, which range from 522 lb on the Bobber to 571 lb on the Super Scout. Only then pick a trim, because the trims add equipment and cost rather than capability.
The weight spread across the family matters more than the price spread suggests. The Bobber's 522 lb against the Super Scout's 571 lb is felt at parking-lot speed far more than the 82 lb-ft figure is. Anyone moving up from a smaller bike should treat the heavier variants as a separate decision rather than a trim upgrade.
The exception is the 101 Scout, which is a different proposition at 111 hp, and the Scout Sixty, which is a different engine entirely at 999cc, 85 hp and 65 lb-ft with one fewer gear. Those two are genuine forks in the road. The rest of the range is one motorcycle wearing different clothes, in the same way the 1133 family was.
If you are cross-shopping a new 2025 against a used 1133, the honest framing is that the older bike is not obsolete, it is cheaper. What owners report about living with the platform over time is in our Indian Scout owner reports, and the 2025 best sellers roundup covers what the other three brands led with.
2025 closes this series by replacing the thing the series was about. The Scout kept its position through six model years and then arrived at the far end as a different motorcycle with the same job. Our 2025 four-brand comparison sets the new Scout against the year's other category leaders.
Cover photo: "Indian Scout (20938880732)" by Bob Adams from Amanzimtoti, South Africa, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
