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I am sure they want a version that has more hp and torque than the Santa Cruz turbo. I think half the point of coming out with these different versions is so they have something new every year to put in front of the automotive press to keep up interest while the regular trims have no changes...

PCM losing communication with BCM is probably a wiring issue. The other thing you posted about the exhaust "Exhaust Heat Exchanger Exhaust Bypass Valve "A" Control Circuit/Open", circuit open could also just be a wiring issue. That's telling you that the PCM cannot see this valve. It could...

The previous generation Frontier is the closest midsize competition as far as size and price. The new gen got bigger and pricey like the rest of them. You at least have the option of a 6 ft bed there. The Santa Cruz has some nice little touches that I prefer over the Maverick. The option for...

I hadn't noticed before, but they are ditching the extended cab/long box option entirely on the Colorado. Yuck! I guess that reduces the already slim chances of any potential direct competitor to the Mav from Chevy having a long bed option to zero if it doesn't even exist in the mid-size anymore.

They said the tailgate compartment is 4" deep and then show it being used as a cooler with soda cans standing up in it. Soda cans are 4-1/2" tall. So, did they saw off the bottom of the cans to fake that picture? "Much wider stance." Even more bloated than it already was, of course. Wake...

I will just point out the multitude of tie down locations a loaded Mav will have in the bed for the son if he complains about the back seat.

Interesting that they left open the possibility of body on frame. That likely wouldn't be price competitive with the Mav but would make it more likely there could be an extended cab/long bed option, which is completely absent from the compact truck market at this point and probably never going...

I'm glad the Maverick doesn't have this already been t-boned from the factory dent in the door that is so popular with designers these days but has generally been absent from trucks... until now.

Are you telling me that Ford has a way for dealers to make it so if the buyer doesn't want the vehicle or can't get financing then it doesn't count against the dealer but ON TOP OF THAT right now almost a THIRD of the orders can not end up with the person who ordered it but they are going to...

Well sure, but once the full size trucks are the size of super duty, and the mid-size are the size of full size, they'll need a larger Maverick to sell to the mid-size buyers. 100 years from now the F-150 will be an 18 wheeler that half the country drives around to get groceries and the...

What features would I give up? Heck, give me crank windows and all manual HVAC controls. It's what I have now so it's not like I'd be missing anything. I'd like to see the car reviewers that whine about undamped tailgates lose their minds. I doubt there's anybody left at Ford that knows how...

You can get the SC with factory roof rails which you cannot get on a Mav. That gives you better options for overcoming the shortcomings of the small bed. Unfortunately you have to go up a trim level and get a $3k package to get them, or go up to the 3rd trim level where they become standard...

While there may be some of the same chips in different modules, those chips are soldered onto different circuit boards to do different things. It's further up the supply chain than the factory building the truck that you have to direct the chips to the right places to keep everything moving.

Those are gigantic parking spaces...

If you swapped out the bulbs so they were all yellow/orange/red lights then I would think you'd be pretty safe. Blue would be the one that would get some cops into a twist. Green is often reserved for funeral processions. White lights can only face forward. I don't see how it could be...

Depending on what the cops are like in your area and local laws about what types and colors of lights you can have, you may get pulled over if you have those on while driving.

No argument about the size of vehicles coming from environmental regs, but the extended cabs won over regular cabs on their own right. The 6.5' bed does just about everything an 8' bed can do, plus gives you a waterproof, locked storage area in the cab. The seats back there might be useless...

There's a big difference between supply chain problems that affect every manufacturer and every manufacturer just deciding to reduce supply. The latter requires every car manufacturer to collude together to raise prices. Toyota can't just decide on their own to raise the price of the RAV4...

I don't know why they would try to make a work van "cool" by branding it Maverick. It would just weaken the branding of the truck. I would really love to see an extended cab version of the Mav, but it doesn't seem likely. Maybe a larger unibody truck more like the Ridgeline? Doesn't really...

Of course the Maverick is just the excuse Ford needed to make the Ranger even fatter than it already was. Give it 10 years and the Maverick will be the size the Ranger is now and we'll be wondering when they'll start making a small truck again.