Ford Maverick (Europe)

The Ford Maverick was a compact SUV that Ford sold in Europe from spring 1993 to mid 2007. The first generation, launched in March 1993, was a badge-engineered twin of the Nissan Terrano II built by Nissan Motor Iberica in Barcelona, offered as a three or five-door with a 2.4 litre petrol or a 2.7 litre diesel four-cylinder engine. It received a light facelift in October 1996 and production ended in March 1998. After a pause of more than two years the second generation arrived in October 2000, built on the same design as the Mazda Tribute and Mercury Mariner and sold in the United States as the Ford Escape, with production now in the American Ford plants. It was facelifted in August 2004 and dropped from the European range in June 2007, with the Kuga introduced in 2008 as its comparable successor. Between 2002 and 2008 a total of 9,746 Mavericks were newly registered in Germany. The name was also used for an American compact car of 1969 to 1977 and for a Nissan Patrol sold in Australia from 1988 to 1994.