Speaking of the Ford Maverick.
I'm just still blown away by the concept of a front-wheel drive truck.... and the fact that a sizeable amount of people are buying it.
I'm crushed that you don't see the benefit of a front-wheel drive truck? Especially since you live in the NE where there is snow each and every winter.
For a few years my brother and I owned a Dodge Dakota rear wheel drive pick up. It couldn't get out of its way on wet pavement when it had an empty bed. The few FWD vehicles I had, did not have that problem. Buick Century, Ford taurus, Ford Windstar, each had front wheel drive, and I never got stuck in the snow, and you know what snowed in conditions can be like in the NYC metropolitan area can be like when they have no place to put the snow.
For those of you don't don't know: they plow the snow out of the center of the road into the sides of the street where the cars are parked. The owner's need to dig their cars out, and often throw the snow back into the street, where it is plowed back into the spot just ahead of them. This is where one gets lots of practice of rocking a car back and forth, to try to get the car out of a plowed in spot. FWD works much better that RWD.