Saw my first, in fact two today ever of the new Ford Maverick.

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What a suck pile of shit looks like! What a liberal, yuppie scum is going to buy, because they got tired of the faggot Subaru Foresters. With only a 4000 pound load and towing, I could fit that in my Chevy bed and tow my travel trailer and still have enough GVWR left for a couple cases of MGD bottles and a taco six pack from Taco Bell and a a supreme burrito. I ain’t buying this abortion! Sorry Leigh, Ford done fucked this up and the Bronco too!

26 thoughts on “Saw my first, in fact two today ever of the new Ford Maverick.”

  1. Maverick? They’re reusing the model name from the ’70s?

    I wanna say I’ve never heard of a car company doing that, but me not knowing something about car company history is pretty meaningless. I’m not the guy for that, I just remember the 70s Maverick as a super-Pinto or budget, low-end, Mustang.

  2. I have one, it rides nice, and I get over 40 miles per gallon. I don’t need a full size pickup truck as my daily driver, with a 60 mile round trip commute daily, so it makes since for me. I’m not a soy drinking, Birkenstock wearing hippie, but it still makes economic sense to get better mpg, and use the full size truck for full sized truck stuff.

  6. They are selling the hell out them. It’s not really a truck, I think it’s a unibody or partial unibody. I see a lot of them around. There is an actual market need for small trucks because most people only need a small truck. I think it’s likely that when the new Toyota Stout gets rolling it will be the end of the Maverick. This is a market that the car companies all abandoned. There is a whole cult of people around here (Texas) that are resto modding the earlier generation of Ford Ranger Pick ups. I drive an 2021 Tacoma but my old 2003 Gen 1 Taco has 300K on the clock and my son is still driving it. It is a damn handy little truck and a kick ass off-roader.

    • I agree all the car companies abandoned the small truck market. I miss my short box Toyota pick ups for that same reason, they had the 22R engine and with a good tuning I got about 24 miles to a gallon. Versatile and easy to drive and I miss my 5 speeds…

        • Those are okay, can’t get into one anymore, they still basically a Jeep. the Maverick looks like a Ranger pick up shit on itself.

    • 10-4 on the old Rangers!! I drove one for years, for a small truck it could do a lot of stuff. My son ended up driving it as his 1st vehicle, too. That Ranger stood up to abuse no truck should ever suffer and still kept running until one night some idiot ran into it while it was parked. My second son also got an old used Ranger and runs the hell out of it.

      Hell, Ford could have just restarted the old Ranger line and slapped a Maverick badge on it and I know lots of people would have lined up for it. Fuck the turbos and electronics and touchscreens and all that modern shit, just make a regular truck for ~$16k with a big 4-cyl engine and a 5-speed manual. Single cab and choice of 6 or 8 ft bed.

      • You me and half of all Midwest Americans wish we could get a basic, no frills, no electronics beyond ignition and a standard carburetor small or mid size truck, with standard 5 speed or a basic vacuum op automatic. Hell, keep hand crank windows and keyed ignition/locks. Would go for that in a heartbeat as the cost could be 60% of what they are now selling for.

        Sadly we will never see those again so long as the EPA, NTSB and a host of other idiot agencies continue to exist. Somehow, that is where this gets fixed – reducing the scope of federal intrusion.

    • i have the army green 2021 tacoma…off road…my third but first one i bought…other 2 were leases…

      the maverick was geared for peeps living in large cities, college kids, older people i think…good gas mileage but don’t need to really tow or haul much…i saw one the other day that someone put a little money in to…actually looked pretty sharp…see lots of them in the dfw area…

  8. It reminds me of the Explorer sport model of the 90’s. Basically a suv with an open bed, the old sport was marketed to people who didn’t want a truck but needed an open bed. The ads were usually showing air tanks for scuba divers strapped in the bed or a family camping with a few propane tanks in the back. I understood back them it was a bit of a niche market thing and sold poorly.

    Now i doubt it would work for ne, our work commute involves 40000km a year of lease and logging roads. I just rebuilt the engine in my pre 2014 f150 rather than upgrade as the new lighter frames tend to warp on these roads, most of the other guys have upgraded to 3/4 or 1 tons because of the new franed.

  9. Easy on the Forestfire, I got an extremely good deal on a 2012 and a new engine (shortblock) in the deal… So what if its a Subaru…….I have an 85 Dodge pickup also so ………bite me.

  10. I’ve been thinking of a Maverick. There’s tons of them on the road here in West Tennessee. I have a 96 Ram 1500 short bed with a 5.9 liter. A Maverick would replace my 10 year old Kia econobox that served as a reliable and efficient commuter vehicle. I used to have a 98 Mazda B2500SE. Great small truck which was.just a nicer equipped Ford Ranger. Drove it for 20 years and 225k miles before giving it to my son. He drove it for a couple of years and sold it. Was still on the road 2 years ago.

  11. I guess I’m one of the few that remembers what a real Maverick was. And it was the grabber….
    CIII

    • The Grabber was actually a decent little car. If it wasn’t for the smog-era engines, it would have been a potent little rig.

      Leigh
      Whitehall, NY

  12. Don’t worry I’ve already seen these. A bastardization of the original’s namesake.
    It’s just a mutated Subaru BRAT, in my lowly opinion. While the original Maverick wasn’t anything special, back in the day, it didn’t pretend to be something it is not.
    That 10000rpm buzzing you hear is Henry spinning in his grave, over what his beloved company has become.

    Leigh
    Whitehall, NY

  13. “4000 pound load and towing,”
    I think the load would be somewhere in the 1500 pound range. A 4000 pound towing rating would be about right. My 04 Ranger had a 4500 pound towing rating and a 1550 load max. The 16 F350 has a 3600 load max. It is rated to pull more than I am comfortable stopping.

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