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  1. The market has never been as truck/SUV oriented, either, though. Plus, Maverick seems like a full effort, not just a bed thrown on a sedan (a la Baja). It 's certainly fair though to question the market size.
    4 points
  2. Unibody doesn’t really matter. Maverick will sell for the same reason the original Ranger sold 400K at one time. It’s cheap and gets great gas mileage. And it’s trendy.
    2 points
  3. Even though it's tough in the current chip climate, I'm liking this drastically compressed reveal to production/sales timeline. The whole "here's the new model XYZ....you have to wait a year for it!" Ford usually goes with is old.
    2 points
  4. Hunter Trump? can you imagine...... There would be grand jury after grand jury, probe after probe and the media.... shit they would be fed intervenously just to stay on the air. Communication is the key to any success, positive results or just being productive. Take it away or scramble it up with half truths or just plain lies and you have what the sheepies are so wrapped up in and bull shitted with, currently. Then the proof of the current bull shit situation our country is in, oh lets see pick just one example Decker... How's this for some in-depth journalism, CNN has an expert anchor interviewing a recently reinstated CNN media expert on the subject of his discharge. Ok... this is a level of stupid and weird that this old long could have ever and mean ever... thought would be a topic of discussion on a "news" cast. The female anchor wanted to know what the male exert was thinking when..... he was rubbin one off during a tele conference? With the audio aaannnd video up and runnin..... Then I was waitin for his response and hoping for just two words "You Baby"..... well that wasn`t his response but a bucket full of shit did jump out his mouth. The down fall of many great nations didn`t take years to happen.. The down fall started in many from with in. Most down fall became successful by using communication as one of the most used weapons. Most sheep will never realize their country is in trouble till it is to late.
    2 points
  5. Price, MPG, and utility. This is why it will be a hit. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand why. I think it will be even more of a hit when they make the inevitable AWD hybrid. Of course we’ll have to wait and see but it’s pretty clear the press seems to understand why this has the makings of a blockbuster vehicle.
    2 points
  6. What I believe is the root of the problem in these times. Media overwhelmingly silent on Hunter Biden's N-word text message scandal Please tell me what we would be hearing if it was Trump and not Biden? Hell it could of been a distant friend of Trump from years ago and we would be hearing about it every 5 seconds wherever you turned. Our current situation in this country is totally sickening.
    2 points
  7. I saw the “thermal nightmare” video. I understand some of what he says but this isn’t the 80s. Constant tension clamps are used on every OEM I’ve ever worked on. They don’t leak until they are moved. They are marked as replace in most manual procedures. Also, so instead of replacing a defective component, making it one unit means you replace the entire assembly. I’m sure Ford did plenty of cost analysis and tried to use stuff they already have on the shelf. It’s always easy to critique someone else’s work.
    2 points
  8. Cant be true, NYT didn't report that.....or CNN...
    2 points
  9. As with most business decisions, they’re influenced by a dozen other things happening at the same time or before most of which have nothing to do with the actual vehicle. It’s usually never a simple answer why something was or wasn’t done. And what made sense at the time the decisions were made may not make sense today. The other big change with pickups is how fuel efficient they’ve become in just the last 15 - 20 years. Going from low to mid teens up to mid 20s and now Maverick at 40 mpg is a game changer. The difference between 25 and 35 mpg at 15k miles/yr is only $600 or $50/month.
    2 points
  10. Ill say it again...and thus my own car will most likely incur further delays as punishment for stating IT WONT HAPPEN....add a couple of months at least, Id guess 4 minimum before they hit lots...all one has to do is look at all the delays across the board and if anyone thinks the Maverick wont incur the same they are dreaming...why would the Maverick be immune?....the telling date will be when they get shipped....someone remind me to eat Crow if Im wrong...
    1 point
  11. Here's the information everyone's been anxious to read... the 2022 Maverick Production Information with the timetable and Job #1 Date! Since there's no Maverick Product Forum set up yet I'll post it here for now. 06/08/2021 - 2022MY Order Bank Open Date 07/15/2021 - 2022MY Scheduling Begins 08/16/2021 - 2022MY Job #1 Date This is a pretty tight timeline for an all-new model that was only just officially announced. I was expecting a late September Job #1 Date.
    1 point
  12. Let’s see what Ford revises on it over time. For as much attention to cost cutting as Ford does, they appear to be missing the things that save money, increase reliability, and won’t be noticed by consumers. Tesla’s have been on the market long enough to tear apart and benchmark. When watching the video I couldn’t stop thinking that there was some German engineering involved in the MAch E. Maybe Ford has learned a thing or two from the Mach E and we'll see the difference in the Lightning and Maverick.
    1 point
  13. Found this over at 6g - the Warthog's grille is at the bottom:
    1 point
  14. I used to own a '68 F100 Ranger. The Ranger was the top of the line in the F100s at the time. Not sure where it landed in the Edsel lineup, though. The guy who sold my dad and me a '37 Ford pickup also had a '68 F100 Ranger with a 427 and four on the floor, black with a vinyl roof. Holy cats, I had it bad for that truck, but being a broke high school student kept me from buying it. Considering how much trouble I managed to find with the gutless wonder I was driving at the time, being broke probably saved my life...
    1 point
  15. Impossible. It can't win that because it doesn't look enough like a minivan.
    1 point
  16. just figured my vin # ends in the 4700's, so maybe one of the first 4700 in MY22. I'm just unsure how many they make a day since it sounds like production starts July 10 and my dealer says its scheduled the week of July 19. Thanks Ice-capades, I'm not surprised sequence is not straight line. thanks.....
    1 point
  17. Agreed. I think the others are getting WAY ahead of themselves talking about the Maverick being a massive hit. Unibody and/or car-based pickups have never been huge sellers.
    1 point
  18. An old subject, but it looks like they are still sourcing the 2.0EB from Spain too,,,, HRG
    1 point
  19. Thanks Ice! I want to clarify my post above, my dealer Jorgensen’s is awesome and felt I needed set the record straight after rereading my post. My quick post made it sound like they don’t know what’s going on and that definitely is not the case. They are a large dealer who also carry all of the powersports & automotive OEM products. In fact, I feel they are one of the best at what they do and that is the main reason why I ordered my Superduty and many, many other products from them. Jorgensen’s goes above & beyond, they bring you into their family with welcome arms. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for the best customer service they have ever experienced. I am a customer for life. Same as CMK, I was being proactive by offering my lic. after reading various posts about this subject. I edited my post above to reflect my positive experience with them, I really do think highly of them. Thank you
    1 point
  20. sounds like you've experienced theexact same issues as we have...everything defers to Zone Reps ….who in my hands on experience are as dumb as a doorknob and are NOTHING more than FORDS buffer between the Dealers and Corporate...Corporate will NOT interact one on one....they utilize "yes men"....and weve had some right doozies! ( barring one who was actually a Ford Relative with the appropriate last name...)
    1 point
  21. Ford's extensive marketing information has already given them the information they need to forecast the planned production mix for the Maverick. Any necessary adjustments will be addressed via commodity restraints until there's enough history to make longer term adjustments.
    1 point
  22. When 1970 Maverick was new, 1930 was closer in time, then 1970 is to 2021!
    1 point
  23. At another job I worked at, we had a plugin for Outlook that you could report phishing emails with. They used to send out fake emails to test employees everyone once in a while. The site I was at did pretty well, but I'd also used to brief new employees and gave Phishing email and other security classes to the people there. Plus we had just under 100 employees, so it was simpler to keep track of them and alot of them (they where assemblers for electronics) didn't even use their emails at their terminals LOL.
    1 point
  24. You can't forget people. Education is key. You can have the most secure infrastructure in place but a phone call or email to a gullible employee can be your weakest link. We have an security team that randomly "tests" people. You fail a few of those tests, you get no bonus. If you get fooled again, out of the job. You would be surprised on how many of these hacks are not buy exploiting infrastructure security, more exploiting the weakness of employees. It's all over once they are in.
    1 point
  25. Perhaps critical infrastructure should not be linked to the internet but to its own intranet with no actual connection to the outside world but the problem remains with need for remote login for employees.
    1 point
  26. Selling a perfectly good car that just doesn't get good gas mileage is one of the worst financal decisions you can make...because that payment is going to be more then what you spend on gas in most cases.
    1 point
  27. Some dealers are just don’t care. I work for a dealer and I know more, and I’m just a tech not a sales man. I ordered a truck 3/15 and week later asked if I can add sun roof. They said fine, so it gets scheduled I ask if they added it and they said oh I forgot but you don’t really need that. I told them to make sure they add it I was told it couldn’t any more. Next thing Is I wanted to be put onto email list for the superduty so I can get updated they had no clue what that was. If I didn’t work for the dealer I would of been to another already.
    1 point
  28. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh man that's a good one. You can't expect the system to change anything when they don't even follow their own rules
    1 point
  29. It helps with reception in remote areas where more folks drive pickups.
    1 point
  30. Ford inventory at the dealership level is going to get a lot worse over the next couple of months. My dealership's inventory is now down 85% from the usual stocking level. And to make matters worse... I just saw the new wholesale numbers for July production... 10 vehicles! 1 Mustang, 5 Bronco Sport's, 3 Ranger's, 1 Transit!
    0 points
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