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I chimed in on a post here where someone started a thread about how they got tired of waiting on their Maverick order and went off and bought a new Toyota Corolla, then shared his experiences with how smoothly the process was to buy the corolla and the perks and merits of the car itself.
Reading through the comments, a lot of people made claims that the maverick is a truck and the corolla is a car and they can't be compared, that the car can't do everything the Maverick can do...
And while this is true, a small car CAN do most of what the maverick can do.
See, to me one of the biggest perks of the maverick over a car is having the truck bed and being able to haul bigger things than you would ever fit in a cars trunk.
But this is the food for thought thing that prompted me to make this post...
Do you realize you can buy a trailer hitch for almost any car out there? You can certainly get a hitch for a Toyota Corolla! And you can buy a small lightweight trailer fairly cheap. Check out these links
https://www.harborfreight.com/autom...x-96-in-super-duty-folding-trailer-62671.html
https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Hi...jTiGdKbDydokxWE81t-6whj7Z-FVnK0caAoVSEALw_wcB
For about $900 you can buy a trailer hitch for a corolla.... takes all of about 15 minutes to bolt on.... And a 4x8 folding trailer, and some plywood and lumber to build sides, plus this covers taxes... And you have MORE space to put things or haul things behind your Corolla than you can in the bed of a Maverick. Trailer easily folds and has built in rollers and can be folded and slid into your garage and stored up against a wall, then pulled out and hitched up within a few minutes for that run you need to make to Home Depot to get some mulch or to Best buy to pick up a new dishwasher etc....
I have had a slew of cars over the years, everything from a honda accord, to multiple toyotas ( echo, corolla, several camrys ) and most recently a Ford Fusion, and all have had hitches installed on them. Ive towed smaller trailers behind my cars for years to tow my motorcycles or jet skis or pick up things from the store etc.... and never had a issue.
Now I will admit, one of the reasons I have a maverick on order is to be able to NOT have to tow as much. I like the idea of not having to slide a bike rack into the hitch behind a car and just being able to throw my mtn bike in the bed of the truck... I like the idea of being able to load my dirtbike into the bed and not have to tow the bike on a small trailer behind my car.... But Ive used a car with a hitch for the last 15 plus years and not really had any issues.
Like I said in the other post, I think there are a lot of people who have been attracted to the maverick that really don't need a truck and will rarely ever use it as a truck. I think many people just wanted a semi cheap affordable 5 person vehicle that gets decent gas milage, and saw the maverick and thought wow this would be cool. I think that many of the canceled orders show that people really didn't need a truck, and I predict that over the next year or two you will see plenty of people trade out of their mavericks once the new wears off and they realize that for the same money they could have got a better car ( I will argue that a Corolla IS a better vehicle than a Maverick for sure )
I am not trying to make a sales pitch that anyone should cancel their order today and run to toyota to order a corolla and pick up a hitch and trailer..... But I am making a point that doing that would likely serve many people well that want a new affordable vehicle and still give them the option to " haul " larger or bulky items.
What is your thoughts?
Reading through the comments, a lot of people made claims that the maverick is a truck and the corolla is a car and they can't be compared, that the car can't do everything the Maverick can do...
And while this is true, a small car CAN do most of what the maverick can do.
See, to me one of the biggest perks of the maverick over a car is having the truck bed and being able to haul bigger things than you would ever fit in a cars trunk.
But this is the food for thought thing that prompted me to make this post...
Do you realize you can buy a trailer hitch for almost any car out there? You can certainly get a hitch for a Toyota Corolla! And you can buy a small lightweight trailer fairly cheap. Check out these links
https://www.harborfreight.com/autom...x-96-in-super-duty-folding-trailer-62671.html
https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Hi...jTiGdKbDydokxWE81t-6whj7Z-FVnK0caAoVSEALw_wcB
For about $900 you can buy a trailer hitch for a corolla.... takes all of about 15 minutes to bolt on.... And a 4x8 folding trailer, and some plywood and lumber to build sides, plus this covers taxes... And you have MORE space to put things or haul things behind your Corolla than you can in the bed of a Maverick. Trailer easily folds and has built in rollers and can be folded and slid into your garage and stored up against a wall, then pulled out and hitched up within a few minutes for that run you need to make to Home Depot to get some mulch or to Best buy to pick up a new dishwasher etc....
I have had a slew of cars over the years, everything from a honda accord, to multiple toyotas ( echo, corolla, several camrys ) and most recently a Ford Fusion, and all have had hitches installed on them. Ive towed smaller trailers behind my cars for years to tow my motorcycles or jet skis or pick up things from the store etc.... and never had a issue.
Now I will admit, one of the reasons I have a maverick on order is to be able to NOT have to tow as much. I like the idea of not having to slide a bike rack into the hitch behind a car and just being able to throw my mtn bike in the bed of the truck... I like the idea of being able to load my dirtbike into the bed and not have to tow the bike on a small trailer behind my car.... But Ive used a car with a hitch for the last 15 plus years and not really had any issues.
Like I said in the other post, I think there are a lot of people who have been attracted to the maverick that really don't need a truck and will rarely ever use it as a truck. I think many people just wanted a semi cheap affordable 5 person vehicle that gets decent gas milage, and saw the maverick and thought wow this would be cool. I think that many of the canceled orders show that people really didn't need a truck, and I predict that over the next year or two you will see plenty of people trade out of their mavericks once the new wears off and they realize that for the same money they could have got a better car ( I will argue that a Corolla IS a better vehicle than a Maverick for sure )
I am not trying to make a sales pitch that anyone should cancel their order today and run to toyota to order a corolla and pick up a hitch and trailer..... But I am making a point that doing that would likely serve many people well that want a new affordable vehicle and still give them the option to " haul " larger or bulky items.
What is your thoughts?
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