The Ford Maverick adds AWD to its hybrid lineup

The hybrid Maverick primitively lone came with front-wheel drive, truthful you antecedently had to opt for the gas-only mentation if you needed to play unreal F-150 for immoderate tasks (and didn’t privation to alteration your full personality).

The caller hybrid Maverick inactive has the aforesaid powerfulness capabilities arsenic the erstwhile year, adjacent with AWD. It has a 2.5-liter hybrid motor with a 94kW electrical centrifugal that outputs 191 horsepower and 155 lb-ft of torque. The AWD exemplary gets 40 miles per gallon successful the city, portion the FWD mentation gets 42. The motortruck tin clasp 13.8 gallons of fuel.

The cheapest Maverick, the XL, starts astatine $26,295, and the hybrid motor comes standard. If you privation AWD, you’ll person to wage an further $2,220 — but it comes included connected the Lariat trim, which starts astatine $36,735. Both correspond a important markup implicit the 2022 hybrid Maverick, which started astatine conscionable $20,000.

Fans of the Maverick mightiness love oregon hate the caller beforehand fascia compared to the aged crossbar plaque with logo. Whatever the case, it present has a modern Ford SUV-style grille and options for daytime moving lights that look F-150-inspired.

Ford is besides adding a 5G modem and a larger infotainment screen, present 13.2 inches. It’ll tally connected Ford’s latest Sync 4 software, which unluckily is not the caller Android-powered Ford Digital Experience, but it’ll astatine slightest service you wireless Apple Carplay and Android Auto smartphone connectivity. The bigger surface accommodates touchscreen buttons for HVAC, and the caller 360-degree camera view.

If you opt for the Lariat oregon Temor (gas only) models, you volition get Pro Trailer Hitch Assist and Pro Trailer Backup Assist standard, which helps Maverick owners who request to tow stuff.

There’s besides a caller Maverick Lobo model that’s not precisely designed for towing. Instead, it’s a thoroughfare motortruck that rides little and has a performance-tuned suspension. It’s besides got a peculiar interior with Lobo branding connected the seats, a peculiar “lobo mode” for usage connected the track, and Mach-E Rally-style wheels.

Ford says 60 percent of customers buying Maverick trucks are trading successful vehicles from different brands — galore of them from vehicles successful different segments similar tiny cars and SUVs. Since the Maverick isn’t gigantic similar immoderate of its motortruck brethren, yet it is inactive utile and cheap, it’s casual for radical to get behind.