Enter The Maverick

[Jolly]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/04/ford-quietly-begins-production-of-new-small-pickup-in-mexico.html

[Mik]

I suppose they are counting on people to have forgotten the last piece of shit they named Maverick.

[Loki]

@mik said in Enter The Maverick:

I suppose they are counting on people to have forgotten the last piece of shit they named Maverick.

Yo, yu talkin to me?

[LuFins Dad]

@mik said in Enter The Maverick:

I suppose they are counting on people to have forgotten the last piece of shit they named Maverick.

We had one. Well, .859 of one.

[George K]

I don't even remember that one.

But, Wiki says it was built on the Falcon platform? Well, there you go.

[Mik]

I don’t think it was. The Falcon was a pretty good car built on a frame. Maverick was unibody. Aka tinfoil. I wrapped one around a 56 Roadmaster in a perfect L right behind my seat. Didn’t even break the headlight on the Buick.

[Jolly]

Hey, at least it wasn't a Pinto!

[George K]

@mik said in Enter The Maverick:

I don’t think it was. The Falcon was a pretty good car built on a frame. Maverick was unibody

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Maverick_(Americas)

The Ford Maverick is a compact car manufactured and marketed by Ford for model years 1970–1977 in the United States, originally as a two-door sedan employing a rear-wheel drive platform original to the 1960 Falcon — and subsequently as a four-door sedan on the same platform

[Kincaid]

If they made a single cab the size of the old ranger, and made it look like a slightly bigger 1972 Courier, I would sell my '75 F100 to buy it. Maverick looks like just another boring modern pick up.

[Mik]

I stand corrected. Ford introduced Unibody in 1960 with the Falcon.

[Kincaid]

@mik

And then took it to the F100 line in 1961.