Best "small truck" insults!?

[fossil]

I'll tell them, I traded in a Raptor

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[StillWaiting]

It’s weird because it doesn’t feel small. Only when you park next to a f250 that’s lifted 12 inches with an 8 foot bed. Haven’t had any trucklet comments, more like people asking me about MPG

 

[OceanMan]

Not wrong, either! That's literally how Ford is marketing it.

I've had a couple larger trucks peel out at traffic lights while next to me. Problem is I don't care; I stopped racing to the next red light when I figured that little problem out at 19.

Friend of mine asked why I didn't get a "real truck" and I told him I could buy two of these for the price of one of those. That was pretty much the end of that line of query.

You could likely outrun them all anyway, this thing is FAST.

 

[OceanMan]

I have yet to get any "Maverick" banter.
When I got my first Ranger, the most common one was..
"When it grows up. Will it be an F-150??"

Jerry

It's honestly weird... those full size trucks make sense for about 10% of owners. I'd feel really strange turning over an f-150 to drive 1/2 mile dropping my kids off at school and back. If you have a full size, you basically need a 2nd vehicle for short hops. It cannot be good to drive such big vehicles short distances. They are nice, don't get me wrong, but overkill for almost all driving. The mav just makes sense. And it's fast AF.

 

[boatman]

In a parking lot of bro-dozers, soccer mom Volvos and generic SUV blobs, my Maverick draws attention and comments quite frequently. I enjoy the jabs and don't hesitate to have some friendly banter with friends and colleagues. I did not expect it would be my 14 year old niece to take the award for best Maverick insult to date.

While taking my daughter and niece on a short shopping trip in the Mav, my niece remarked that it was quite nice and was "kind of like a beginner truck."

A beginner truck...like I'm just learning to truck!

So funny!

Anyone else with clever Mav insults?

Of course this is nothing new! Compact trucks started way back, probably before I was born. Then when the gas crunch began in the 70's the compact truck started to take off and became the norm!

 

[Deleted member 14823]

I try to intentionally park next to the big trucks. I believe most people get a kick out of the Mav, even if they wouldn't buy one.

Where I live, people tend not to say nasty stuff to strangers. If they did, I'd probably just shrug my shoulders and drive off.

 

[Deleted member 5352]

Exactly! It's an Escape with a bed. Duh!

But an Escape is not a minivan. Huge difference.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

Not to get too serious, but the one that gets me is when people call the Maverick a "cheap piece of Mexican trash":. Like somehow A) Mexico or Mexicans would be responsible for the materials chooses to make the truck out of, and B) that for some reason because it's made in Mexico, It's worse. Like somehow Mexican folks can't make cars, or Ford just threw open the factory doors and put people on the line (which I can kinda see them doing, but not exclusively to Mexico). Meanwhile, almost all the Maverick recalls include another Ford model, most often from the US. The Escape shares about half of them, and they make that in Kentucky, so the common denominator seems to be Ford, not the country of origin.

The funny part about this is the maverick has better quality/reliability ratings than many trucks, beating out things like the Tacoma. The factory in Mexico that makes them is extremely well regarded for the quality of products it makes.

 

[Bob The Builder]

Not long ago at a restaurant with an extremely tight parking area in Maine I helped an 80+ year old gentleman get his giant GMC Denali out of the lot. The truck was gigantic, he was small and he obviously did not believe his back up camera or had it off or had no idea how to turn it on.

See, I told my wife, this is why we buy Mavericks.

 

[OneAlienBoi]

I got a strange insult from a coworkers boyfriend last year. She asked him if he wanted to go for a ride in it, he said no because it's "essentially a minivan with a bed." WTF? That doesn't even make sense! Of course he's one of those deep south lifted F-150 proud boys who doesn't think the Maverick is a real truck. In my book, there's truly no real definition of what a "true truck" is. As long as it has a pickup bed with respectable cargo capacity, it's a truck. It doesn't have to be body-on-frame, powered by a V6 or V8, offer a manual, have several bed and cab configurations, etc. Does it have a bed? Then it's a truck. However, I will say it doesn't drive like a truck. It very much drives like a car since the C2 platform underneath is car based, off of the Focus that we don't get as well as the Escape and Bronco Sport. But to me this is a two-for-one. You have the comfort of a car with the practicality of a pickup bed. The best of both worlds.

Guys like that are braindead "What?!?! You're truck doesn't drive and ride like a moldy mattress with dried cement in its springs? It actually handles and rides well for a truck? Guess that means it's not a real truck". They're basically saying, this truck is too good to be a truck and it's hilarious to me. Like there's an inherent later of crappiness and lack of refinement a truck has to have before it becomes a "real" truck.

 

[Tterrag]

Had my Maverick for a few months now and only had one person make _any_ kind of comment (he said "Oh, is that one of the new Mavericks? Cool."). Other than that, not even really any head turns or stares or anything. And I'm in Home Depot what feels like twice a week. Can't help but park next to a big truck there.

 

[SR-71]

I haven't received any negative comments on my Mav, but if I did, a good response might be to smile and say:

"Well I hope we might chat again at the gas station when you'll need a third fill-up after today".

 

[winterlong]

I refer to mine as The El Camino.

Not the Ranchero?

 

[snowcatxx87]

Friend of mine asked why I didn't get a "real truck" and I told him I could buy two of these for the price of one of those.

 

[Dslaughterbeck]

Overcompensating for my enormous penis.

This is kinda what I say, I'm blessed with with a big one so I figured I'd get the smallest truck Ford makes. Honestly though more people ask me how long I had to wait for that

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