Ford hasn’t offered a real compact truck in the United States since the original Ford Ranger went out of production in 2012. Ford introduced a new Ranger, a mid-size truck, in 2018 but even that is considerably bigger than the Maverick.
The Ford Maverick is revolutionary in ways besides just its size. Most strikingly, the least-expensive base-model version will be a front-wheel-drive hybrid powered by an electric motor as well as a gasoline engine. (It will not be a plug-in hybrid, though, so owners will not be able to charge it up for extra electric-only driving range.) Ford recently…
