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My dear friends, I have finally made it. It has been 6 months since I've placed my order!
To mark this special occasion, I had a cake decorated by a local bakery to commemorate this incredible milestone.
I want to thank each and every one of you for making this important time in my life so memorable. One of the greatest highlights of my week is to come right here to Maverick Truck Club, and see the latest zany high jinx that the MTC community has gotten up to. That craveable camaraderie of all my fellow orderees who are waiting for Hermosillo to rain compact pickups like manna from heaven. That seething jealousy of people with identical builds ordered months after your own who get their vehicles scheduled, built, and delivered. And most of all, the utter and abject silence of the Ford Motor Company to provide any meaningful updates, insights, forecasts, or otherwise useful information regarding their truck-makery.
Now folks, I don't want you to get the wrong idea here. I would quite frankly be ecstatic if I were driving a new Maverick right now. Relying on my aging and previous-owner-redneckified '97 F-150 has brought on some personal hardships. It's current inability to shift into park combined with the steadily failing parking brake has me resorting to jamming random chunks of wood beneath tires. And then there's the fuel economy differential between a 2.5L hybrid and a 5.4L Triton V8 during a time when a vile, soulless Russian autocrat is busily conducting crimes against humanity and in the process making gasoline about as expensive as scalped Clorox wipes in 2020. Each 100 mile round-trip pilgrimage I make to my saint of a girlfriend's house now costs me roughly an entire mortgage downpayment. Not that she has any love for my current whip either. Or as she calls it "that awful deathtrap." When I picked up her son from school, he asked "Why is your engine making terrible noises?!" ("Because it's awesome!") No, I am entirely certain I would rather be driving something 25 years newer.
But this is a special era we are all living through. When else are you going to sit staring intently at your inbox every Thursday, waiting for that fateful email to come, simultaneously enrapt in hope and despair? When else will you go run through each of the add-ons you requested for the 3,500th time and wonder exactly how many blueberry sized silicon wafers there could possibly be hiding inside there? When else are you going to lie awake at night contemplating if somehow your dealership might have gotten its grimy claws on your much anticipated car without your knowledge and already sold it for blow? That's right. You won't. (God, I hope we won't.)
So I pray for the next 6 months of waiting for my Maverick to be just as much fun as the first 6 months of waiting for my Maverick. Keep posting! Keep debating! Keep noting the dearth of clarity Ford offers about its business plan!
Above all- stay the course, fellow Maverickians.
Stay the course.
To mark this special occasion, I had a cake decorated by a local bakery to commemorate this incredible milestone.
I want to thank each and every one of you for making this important time in my life so memorable. One of the greatest highlights of my week is to come right here to Maverick Truck Club, and see the latest zany high jinx that the MTC community has gotten up to. That craveable camaraderie of all my fellow orderees who are waiting for Hermosillo to rain compact pickups like manna from heaven. That seething jealousy of people with identical builds ordered months after your own who get their vehicles scheduled, built, and delivered. And most of all, the utter and abject silence of the Ford Motor Company to provide any meaningful updates, insights, forecasts, or otherwise useful information regarding their truck-makery.
Now folks, I don't want you to get the wrong idea here. I would quite frankly be ecstatic if I were driving a new Maverick right now. Relying on my aging and previous-owner-redneckified '97 F-150 has brought on some personal hardships. It's current inability to shift into park combined with the steadily failing parking brake has me resorting to jamming random chunks of wood beneath tires. And then there's the fuel economy differential between a 2.5L hybrid and a 5.4L Triton V8 during a time when a vile, soulless Russian autocrat is busily conducting crimes against humanity and in the process making gasoline about as expensive as scalped Clorox wipes in 2020. Each 100 mile round-trip pilgrimage I make to my saint of a girlfriend's house now costs me roughly an entire mortgage downpayment. Not that she has any love for my current whip either. Or as she calls it "that awful deathtrap." When I picked up her son from school, he asked "Why is your engine making terrible noises?!" ("Because it's awesome!") No, I am entirely certain I would rather be driving something 25 years newer.
But this is a special era we are all living through. When else are you going to sit staring intently at your inbox every Thursday, waiting for that fateful email to come, simultaneously enrapt in hope and despair? When else will you go run through each of the add-ons you requested for the 3,500th time and wonder exactly how many blueberry sized silicon wafers there could possibly be hiding inside there? When else are you going to lie awake at night contemplating if somehow your dealership might have gotten its grimy claws on your much anticipated car without your knowledge and already sold it for blow? That's right. You won't. (God, I hope we won't.)
So I pray for the next 6 months of waiting for my Maverick to be just as much fun as the first 6 months of waiting for my Maverick. Keep posting! Keep debating! Keep noting the dearth of clarity Ford offers about its business plan!
Above all- stay the course, fellow Maverickians.
Stay the course.
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