Maverick is a Failure Article

[WNCdriver]

Check out this article. It makes a good point about Ford not really wanting to produce more Mavericks. The rest is mostly hyperbole.

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/ford-maverick-colossal-failure-170000586.html

I wanted a Maverick because I wanted better mileage than 19 mpg in the city, think its absurd to spend 50K-higher on a truck, and the smaller version would take care of all my needs. Had a 2007 Nissan Frontier before that I loved. Love this more.

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[LAClippers420]

We are pretty hypersensitive bunch though . We ride and die for our mavericks. God forbid someone say a Santa Cruz is nicer looking or that the Toyota stout will be reliable cause we will come after you lol!

 

[taylore90]

Check out this article. It makes a good point about Ford not really wanting to produce more Mavericks. The rest is mostly hyperbole.

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/ford-maverick-colossal-failure-170000586.html

Spoken like a true Santa Cruz owner

 

[taylore90]

We are pretty hypersensitive bunch though . We ride and die for our mavericks. God forbid someone say a Santa Cruz is nicer looking or that the Toyota stout will be reliable cause we will come after you lol!

Well, the Santa Cruz is objectively worse looking any way it’s a Hyundai Tucson with a 4 foot bed. Ain’t no Toyota Stout either

 

[Skyline]

We are pretty hypersensitive bunch though . We ride and die for our mavericks. God forbid someone say a Santa Cruz is nicer looking or that the Toyota stout will be reliable cause we will come after you lol!

So, the the writer had been right about two things at least by page-5 of this thread. Ford does not want to increase the production much for the Maverick and its fans are hyper sensitive.

Maybe on page-10 of this thread we can all agree that he's not wrong at all?

Say it ain't so!!!!!

 

[MtcARK]

To the author of the article I say: boy you must have been having a bad day when you wrote this, and you did not have anything better to write about. The fact is that if I want to use an SUV to haul stuff around I can just use my wife's Rogue Sport. And the fact is that while he is complaining in the article about a vehicle that he probably does not own and perhaps has never even driven, I am driving around in my great and fun Ford Maverick Hybrid getting 46mpg almost exclusively in Sport Mode. This guy has no idea what he is talking about!

 

[AHarris67]

Ridiculous article written by a moron who proved by his words that he probably couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with the directions written on the heel

 

[JEMiculka]

He’s about as credible as Tucker. What an idiot

 

[mspmms]

He’s about as credible as Tucker. What an idiot

Living apparently rent free =>

 

[JEMiculka]

Living apparently rent free =>

No credibility…out the door. Stick with good journalism. That’s what got me interested in the Maverick

 

[Ferroplasm]

It’s poorly written rage bait. Don’t give them clicks.

 

[WNYEscapee]

This guy seems like just another big truck tool. If it can't tow my house, doesn't have a full frame, it's not a truck, and nobody has a use for it. Well, it can do all that my previous full-sized trucks have done for me -- which is what 80% of the other trucks purchased in this country are used for; and while doing so, provides better handling than most of them, better fuel mileage than all of them, is more maneuverable than all of them, and costs tens of thousands less. So, if this tool needs to stoke his manhood by spending an additional $20k on a full-sized truck to haul mulch, lumber, and dump double on gas, more power to him -- it was proclaimed decades ago, there's a sucker born every....
Let it be known, we're not thin-skinned or overly sensitive people, we're just sick and tired of those narrow-minded idiots who judge what constitutes a truck according to their preferences and needs. Yeah, Ford doesn't want to produce Mavericks because they don't make enough money on them.... Terribly flawed logic. If I can make 150,000 Mavericks a year and make $1,000 on average without rebates or special incentives, why wouldn't I? They don't have to run a single ad for the Maverick, there's no incentives being offered, no special finance rates, and unless the dealership is trying to bilk an absurd markup out of their potential customers, they aren't sitting on the lots. The same cannot be said for many other vehicles; especially this tool's preferred choice of what constitutes a real truck.

Hmmm, I wonder how much money Ford made on those first few years of the Mustang compared to some other models which may have had a higher higher profit margin? Yet, they moved heaven and earth to increase production in order to churn out every one that someone was willing to buy. If supply issues weren't a real thing, it wouldn't surprise me if Ford wouldn't have been willing to have done the same with Maverick.
After all, if you had people wanting to hand you their hard-earned money for a product, would you care if it was really bringing in less profit than another model without as high of a demand; heck no, you'd want to satisfy the demand and keep that money from going to your competitors, even if they didn't have a competing vehicle.

End of my rant....

 

[uh50]

Check out this article. It makes a good point about Ford not really wanting to produce more Mavericks. The rest is mostly hyperbole.

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/ford-maverick-colossal-failure-170000586.html

I posted the following to accompany the article when it showed up on Yahoo News.

Failure. No, I doubt that Ford considers it a failure, and most likely, sales performance is exactly what Ford expects considering the material constraints the industry has experienced.

Yes, I own a Maverick. I ordered one in October of 2021 and received it 35 days later on November 10, 2021. I looked at the constraints at the time and ordered what Ford would build, including the 2.0 Ecoboost engine.

The Maverick is the right truck for me at the right time. I'm retired and do not need a $70,000 truck these days. I haul cleared brush to the burn pile in our rural community and trash to the landfill a couple of times a month. How could the truck be a failure when it does exactly what I need it to do and at a much lower cost.

We were without power for six days last week and the little Maverick with its 400W inverter kept our 18V Ryobi batteries and 56V EGO batteries for a 2000W inverter charged. It just sat there in the Texas heat and purred all day long for 5+ days. Again, it does what I need.

I've had my Maverick for 19 months and the new has not worn off. Somewhat of a change from. I still enjoy driving it, using it to haul my mundane things, and tinkering with it. It still holds my excitement at owning one. Although excitement about much of anything is probably a concept Mr. Steven Symes doesn't get. For that, I feel sorry for him.

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