Posted on 03/18/2022 5:29:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
I have come to believe that there are two separate and distinct markets. Electric Cars for urban areas and electric trucks for work.
It is presently unknown if either will develop into reality
Tesla is by far the leader in cars and will dominate world wide with smaller inexpensive electrics. Ford has gone after trucks and will dominate there until it’s products are surpassed.
Others will develop electrics but will be bit players for reasons not presently apparent
I wonder why they named it the “Maverick”, The Maverick was a little compact sports car in the 70’s. Is Ford out of names?
Because they are cheap!...............
Pickups have soft and hard tonneau covers to protect items from the elements. They have caps also.
Pickups have more tie downs and possibilities to keep cargo from moving around than most CUVs.
Ford’s move is brilliant. The Maverick is an entry level vehicle that will allow owners to remain in the Ford family as their needs and lives change.
Maverick is as much about brand loyalty than capturing first time buyers.
Yes, it is sad that the Big 3 cannot offer a competitive sedan anymore. But that has little to do with offering the Maverick.
Lastly, the author is too consumed with what people really need versus what they want. In a free country, we do not restrain people to only what they need as decided by an outside group.
In an era where rich establishment liberals tell us that we’re bad people if we drive a truck that can do jobs to run our business or passions, many people under 30 have been brainwashed to believe that personal transportation itself is a selfish, environment damaging sin, I think Ford is opening some eyes with realistic solutions for those who do not want to live in a dense, walkable, planned, multi-family home “smart city” that the urban planners and and socialist plotters expect us all to live in. American automakers have to seize on the advantages of an affordable, useful vehicle for all types of families and communities where some are totally fixated on a 20-something brainwash dream of mass transportation, shared vehicles, hourly rentals that really only makes sense in urban theme parks dorm living.
(Ask them where their kids are going to go to school. Stunned silence)
They will sell electrics to those who could afford them but understand that Americans expect to go where they want to go, when they want to go. Hope some politician runs on that. There are more of us.
The press report on pickups like they report guns. Stupidly. It's very easy to cover a pickup bed. They have hard and soft covers and when combined with cargo managment it's simpler for putting your groceries in the bed.
Auto mfrs recycle names a lot.................
As long as you have a tow package on your Jeep, you can get a decent cargo trailer at Lowe's, Home Depot, Tractor Supply, etc. for less than $2,500 and have way more utility than most pick-ups.
Yes, exactly. Where does this person get off thinking it’s his place to say what other people “need”?
Mine too. Back to shifting with my 1974 Fiat (hand me down from my brother) and my first two new cars, 1979 Ford Fairmont and 1984 Renault Alliance, which was the first car in which I installed AC after market. Finally, I got a new 1986 Thunderbird loaded out. Took seven years to pay the lease and purchase payments and kept it 13 years.
Of all the names in all the world.......if Ford was too lazy to come up with a more unique name for a brand new truck line what else were they lazy about I wonder?
Clever it ain’t.
True!
Same here, but I got a E-350XL and if you take the back seats out, holds as much as a truck, sometimes even more.
With five children and on the mission field it was the best purchase I ever made.
And no tracking devices.
“Sold my Tacoma in 2019 and bought a jeep.....I love my jeep but as a home owner boy do I miss my truck bed.”
We bought both. Both are an EcoDiesel with real-world ~29 mpg.
We also bought a Toyota Corolla for the grocery and errand trips so we didn’t wear out the truck and Jeep. The Corolla gets 36+ mpg and is perhaps the highest quality cheap car out there, well equipped too. We’ll put the miles on that thing. It’s practically disposable, but I bet with car prices going up we’ll do well on resale.
We’re afraid that replacing the truck and Jeep won’t be easy in future times as it was hard enough to find the ones we wanted just last year.
Bring back the Ford Escort in the USA. They sure sold a ton of them when they were making them.
I remember when the Mav first came out, 1969?, I was a paper boy, so I saw all the ads.
$1999 was the advertised price..................
Unfortunately I don’t have a place to store a trailer.....best I could do was pick up a cargo carrier that is rated at 400 lbs. And attaches to the receiver.
Better to have it and not need it, than want it and not be able to get it.
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