What makes a truck necessary? I'm not sure. This is that new segment of trucks that

probably work for most people but they're not really trucks because it's car, SUV,

unibody, architecture, front wheel drive, biased. Welcome to the Ford Maverick. And

it's cute. This is the front wheel drive hybrid Ford Maverick. It is built on

the same chassis as the Escape. Yes, the Escape, the Ford Broncos Ford, Lincoln

Corsair and the two cars that we don't get built in Europe, Fusion and Focus.

So clearly, it's not a chassis designed for fun or driving or truck thing. It's

designed to extract the maximum sales dollars. Yes. That's what the platform is

for. But let's throw all that out right now. Let's talk about, first of all,

the Maverick name. Ford has struggled for years as far as attaching this name

that signifies you contrarian savvy individual going against the grain for

the sake of polarity just to show the world that you are an individual. Never

really worked with those 70s nasty coupe shapes. It was actually two-door and a

four-door in the 70s. Then they brought it back in Australia for a little bit and

then it was something in Europe and then another one in Europe for a little bit

in 05. And now we've got a vehicle worthy of the Maverick name. Okay. All right.

Because of its usefulness, youthfulness, easy, easy. We should stop the

jokes. We really should stop the youth jokes. As you said, it's powered by a

hybrid drive frame. This is an ECBT that's been around in Ford's lineup for quite

a while since 05.06. They've refined it over the years. So what it is is a

hybrid engine combined with an electric motor and the battery pack is on the

passenger side under the under the cabin here and it makes 191 horsepower.

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