U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Trevor McKinnon decided to buy a new car slowly and then all at once.

In a matter of days, he had to call on his boyfriend¡¯s parents to shuttle a water heater and he read a review of the Maverick, a pint-size pickup truck ¡ª the newest new thing from Ford Motor Co.

¡°I got on cars.com and saw that there was one Maverick for sale in all of Colorado Springs,¡± he recalled. ¡°I drove over there and bought it that day.¡±