u/FluffyFlamingo444

My name's Riley. I'm part of the team at Ford that's going to be on Reddit regularly specifically for our next-gen electric vehicles, answering what I can, when I can.

Let’s get a few things out of the way first. Yes, this is a real person typing. No, I can’t show you what it looks like… yet. But I can confirm the name: Ford Fathom, Ford’s mid-sized electric truck and the first vehicle produced on the new Universal Electric Vehicle Platform.

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”Fathom" traces back to a nautical unit of measurement, originally defined as the distance between a person's outstretched arms, a fitting metaphor for a truck built to meet people wherever they are in life.​ Fitting, right?

What's confirmed right now:

• Starting MSRP: $28,350, for the standard-range battery. Pre-orders begin early 2027.
• Every Ford Fathom will be BlueCruise-capable. BlueCruise is Ford’s hands-free highway driving assistant.
• Fathom has bidirectional power capability.
• Fathom has a large, high-resolution touchscreen, digital key, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability.
• Fathom will have more passenger volume than a Toyota RAV4, with a frunk and bed for added cargo flexibility. This truck will genuinely useful and fun to drive.
• Fathom will feature Apple Maps embedded directly into the vehicle, not a traditional phone-projection CarPlay setup. The integration also provides the road-level map data used to help enable key pieces of Ford’s next-generation hands-free highway driving capability.

What I can’t share yet: final imagery, fuller specs, full ordering details, and plenty more are still to come. A hot tip - keep a keen eye on the flipbook video we have going around…

If you want to stay up to date with what we have planned for Fathom, you can sign up here.

Ask me anything, and I’ll answer what I can. I'll be in the comments for the next few hours, and I'm not going anywhere after that either.

Riley from Ford

According to the Internet Movie Car Database, Mavericks have been spotted in

• TV
  • 2022: NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service
  • 2022: Ford Maverick in St. Denis Medical,
  • 2022: 9-1-1: Nashville
  • 2022: High Potential
  • 2022: Chicago P.D.
• Movies
  • 2022: The Baltimorons, (2025)
  • 2022: No Negociable (2024)

Note, IMCDB is organized by Make and Model by name only, so you'll see A LOT of the 70s coupe which shared the Maverick name as well as European version of the Escape and probably some of the other vehicles that wore the Maverick name

Disney created 4 attractions for the Worlds Fair, 3 of them ended up at Disneyland after the fair. Ford sold off the 23 convertible Mustangs that made up the ride vehicles in their attraction. There are a few remaining.

• it’s a small world (created for Pepsi Cola)
• Carousel of Progress (created for General Electric)
• Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln (created for the State of Illinois)
• Magic Skyway (created for Ford )

• Orson, Pennsylvania: A tiny village and rural community in Preston Township (Wayne County) in the Poconos Lake Region.
• Orson, Iowa: An unincorporated community and rural hamlet in Harrison County, established in 1899. It is not an incorporated city and does not have its own local government.

Federal Express acquired its first Dassault Falcon 20 aircraft in June 1972, and had to operate as an "air-taxi "operator to get around CAB regulation on aircraft size for cargo carriers until 1977 and deregulation which removed aircraft-size restrictions which prompted and allowed it to purchase larger Boeing 727s.”

One of Costco's founders, Jim Sinegal worked for Sol Price while they were at Price Club's predecessor: FedMart.

FedMart (originally available only to employees of the federal government) had the first in-store pharmacy and optical centers, first to add wholesale gasoline (their first location had underground tanks from its previous use as a warehouse).

This journal article for the San Diego History Center (where FedMart and Price Mart began) was written by Sol Price's son Robert.

Every state has a couple cities named for, or at least match up with cities in Europe or other parts of the world, but Missouri has a lot more than average. They can't all be explained by imigrants from that country.

• Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• Cabool (Kabul, Afghanistan)
• Caledonia (Scotland)
• Cuba
• Glasgow (Scotland)
• Halifax (Canada)
• Iberia (Spain)
• Krakow (Poland)
• Lebanon
• Lisbon (Portugal)
• Manchester (England)
• Milan (Italy)
• Montreal (Canada)
• Moscow Mills (Russia)
• New Madrid (Spain)
• Paris (Fance)
• Venice (Italy)
• Versailles (France)
• Vienna (Austria)
• Warsaw (Poland)

Just over the border is Cairo (Egypt), IL