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Totally disagree. My experience with everyone who gets a pickup is that once you go pickup, you never go without one.
IMHO
I loved my S-10. 5 speed manual transmission, a peppy little 4 cylinder, I could toss 800 pounds in the back and still tow a small boat. I pushed the envelope, yea, but it did the job.
It lasted 175,000 miles before it died.
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Old fat people find it very difficult to get up and out of a Ford Fusion.
Full-sized pickups have grown so monstrous that the market is hungry for a smaller version. The new Ford Ranger is the size of an F-150 from 30 years ago.
The author of this piece is an idiot and probably a commie.
Maybe we need to fill out an application and let a new government agency let us know what type of vehicle we can buy…………
The next best thing is a neighbor with a pick up truck you can borrow twice a year. It’s a Ford, I’d wait a couple of years to see what surprises they engineered into it.
And for a few hundred extra, you can put a cover or cap on, and then you have a large cargo space to carry groceries or help your kids move.
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?
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.
Better to have it and not need it, than want it and not be able to get it.
I am sick of sanctimonious jerks telling people what they “need”. Like adults can’t make decisions for themselves.
Bkmk
I had about a half dozen pickups before I realized that I had not had a wet or messy cargo in the bed for years. I switched to vans which allowed for a field warehouse, dry and secure wherever I was. Of course, an empty van is for crap in the rain or snow, but then so is a 2 wheel drive pickup. Hence, the 4WD van. Best choice.
The author is upset that people are buying this vehicle for the wrong reasons. Who cares?
In the 1980s I owned a Datsun 510 station wagon that I also worked on. That was my favorite automobile. Had lots of great adventures in it too.