Maverick and Ranchero both ended production in the late 70's (1977 and 1979 respectively) but Ranchero was in production much longer (started in 1957). I'm voting for Ranchero unless Skunk Truck is an option.

You’d think if IIHS was looking to make a true difference for safety, they would be beating down the door on 2nd and 3rd row occupant safety. The results and even seat belts vary wildly between brands. 

Some bad news: https://share.google/z2mbI95K8Ni3kCxBL   And some good: https://share.google/yuBgGAPvBuG8cBFKP :

Some good news: https://share.google/Qa1Owwfnb13GIRz0e

They exited segments where the competition drove down prices on ubiquitous products to the point they aren't profitable enough to bother thanks to Ford's higher than average platform costs.  It's not just competition.  There is huge competition for F series and they compete just fine because F150s are not anonymous blobs and they've optimized the platform costs over multiple decades.   With this truck Ford seems to have the lowest cost outside of the Chinese and it's not a boring blob.  Completely different situation.

Which looks kinda attractive to my eyes.

Ford Thunderbird perhaps? Nah, let's not give them any ideas 😂. 

Sure, in theory that works........except Ford is great at having a plan until they don't have a plan....that's all I'm saying, just one of those back of the mind sort of "what if" things.

I also think this seam in the camo is probably a good representation of the slope of the hood. 

But all of those products your talking about either had cost or other products that never came about that where supposed to replace them.    That is why I'm assuming that the Maverick will stick around-the profitability issues won't be there as much as those other products and I'm going to assume it will be better because they'll apply what they've learned from CE1 to ICE products.