Ford to reveal Maverick small pickup June 8; actress Gabrielle Union will preside via social media and on Hulu

An image of a prototype on the assembly line at Ford’s Hermosillo, Mexico, plant, leaked this calendar year, and the business unintentionally reported setting up 21 designs of a “C pickup” there on a production chart sent to buyers and the media in February.

The truck has been engineered on the similar unibody entrance-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive C2 system that underpins the Lincoln Corsair and Ford Escape and Bronco Sport crossovers. Automotive Information reported in March that the automaker had reached out to suppliers about setting up a small van at the plant in which it builds the Bronco Sport and, soon, the Maverick.

The compact pickup proceeds a latest streak of Ford reviving traditional names, this kind of as the F-one hundred fifty Lightning and Bronco. The automaker formerly used the Maverick moniker on a small car sold in the 1970s. It most lately was used on a European edition of the Escape crossover from 2001 to 2005, in advance of it was replaced there by the Kuga.